Posts by D3ads

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Doesn't matter

Unfortunately for you, yes, yes I am.

Fantastic, can't wait to see that bitch skinned up

Is this thread for real?

Oh of course MOH:AA was fucking great too, Omahah is one of the most memorable set pieces of any game full stop.

COD just had that excellent section where you have to escape from Germans in an old car

Your music taste sucks.

Fuck and I forgot Call Of Duty.. so did everyone else for that matter

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When I get Q4 I can ;D.

I did a quick photoshop job of your door with the combined layers but I left it on my home PC which is currently being redone It looked good though, should work fine in-game although maybe not as a door...

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It's not like Half-Life 2 doesn't quite clearly have "requires internet connection" on the back of the box, anyway. Why did you buy it if you're still living in the 1990s? That's six years ago, just to remind you. As of last year, over 55% of households in the UK alone have internet access, with three fifths of them on broadband -- I'd imagine that pretty much all gamers fall into that percentage. Complaining about things requiring net access is a "little" outdated my friend.

I do have Internet Access on both computers, but as I've stated many times I'd prefer to keep one PC for games and modding and the other for the Internet! Steam is a great idea don't get me wrong, I just feel that it's a bit too soon for that kind of platform, games should be instant install and if I want any updates I just hop on fileshack or whatever..

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Kingpin : Life of crime

Fuck, just fuck. I can't believe I forgot that one

Blood 2 was also rather fun

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That system seems generally fine, although the video card may prove to be somewhat of a bottleneck. I got a 6600GT when HL2 came out, and although it was fine for that period it started to struggle soon after. That is, a lot of games which came out during 2005 have not ran particularly smoothly on the highest settings, including Battlefield 2, Black & White 2 and F.E.A.R. They will run, but thanks to the 6600GT only having 128mb of memory onboard in most cases, it seems to cause a slowdown when processing higher resolution textures and such.So for example, you will be able to run BF2, but if you move to high textures it will start to stutter. This goes for pretty much all games at the moment. In short, it's not a very future-proof card at all and even for today's games you will have to turn settings down -- that is not what I'd personally look for when upgrading. It's basically a card at the end of its life.

If you can, get the 6800GT, which has an extra 128mb and generally runs games a hell of a lot more efficiently. The only thing much better than that is crossing into the Geforce 7 range, but they are for the most part extremely expensive right now and additionally require PCI-E as opposed to AGP.

Your processor is a bit better than mine and may be able to help, but I cannot see it being sufficient to balance out the 6600GT's inherent limits. I'm on an AMD Athlon XP 2800+ with 1GB of DDRAM and a Geforce 6600GT, for comparison.

Fuck, it's all ordered now so I can't change the video card, I was afraid something like this would happen.. I'm not going to be playing BF2 as it's not really my thing so I'm not going to run into any problems there..

On a somewhat offtopic note: Are the forum server problems fixed now or is just that work loads this fine like a few other people?

Ok I had a conversation with him again and what he says is that the high-end machines will run on a 32bit XP but they'll be slower than they should be, thus I'm better off running an Intel P4 3.2 machine, which should be just as fast as any of the 64bit chips...

So final system is:

Intel 3.2GHZ and new Gigabyte motherboard.

120GB HDD.

1024GB RAM.

GeForce 6600 GT

New DVD re-writer

That looks fucking awesome imho

Well done

Awesome

Ok so it turned out it was the BIOS that needed flashing, which meant killing the machine off..

Good news is I've set the ball rolling for an upgrade

I wanted to go for a 3.8GHZ machine but I'm told that you need a 64bit version of XP, yet that is only in beta format, so my question is how the hell do you run these high-end machines?

With this in mind, I've had to stick with a backup plan, this is what I have so far:

Intel 3.2GHZ and new Gigabyte motherboard.

120GB HDD.

1024GB RAM.

GeForce 6600 GT

Any advice you can give me on achieving a decent setup? I'd like to be able to run say F.E.A.R. on the full settings if possible..

Also what are the benefits of going to a bigger monitor? I've had a 15 " screen for years and it only goes upto a 1024x768 resolution and I want to go higher possibly, but is it worth it and why?

Thanks in advance..

PS: I'd like answers to these ASAP please as I need to know by the end of today what I'm doing...

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To be fair, I'd rather be abusing my body with assorted toxins than sitting at my PC

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Everyone who mentioned 'System Shock 2' in here gets my instant respect, everyone who didn't can go fuck themselves

Favourite games in general:

Quake I / II

Doom I / II

Half-Life

System Shock 2

Blood

Max Payne 1 / 2

Aliens Vs Predator

GTA III / VC

Fave game of the moment: F.E.A.R.

Overall favourite game: System Shock 2

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Hi, I'm a model in the Source Engine. Look how shiny I am.

All the car skins I've seen in that game look terrible...