well i was faced with this same decision, and i chose the evga 7900gs ko, i'm building a new rig got new mobo, cpu, everything. i decided to stay with a low budget option for now, the 7900gs ko, and then if the price drops much on the 8800 i can do the step up program that evga has and get one...
you would need to reverse engineer the xbox and code a piece of software that emulated the xbox hardware and interpreted the .xbx executable the way an xbox does, it's quite a task, and it would run the game reallly really slowly.
just recently this started happening, basically if i right click on any file, or highlight a file and try to do any type of action like ctrl+c, shift+del, del, etc i get an error that says
now i can still copy the files or delete or whatever, i just have to click OK on that error message...
deathmatch and cs:s are online games, if you disable your network how do you expect to play them?.....and in most cases if you try to play on a lan without updating and the server has been updated then it wont work because the version is different, same for deathmatch and cs:s, but yes you can...
1. go to control panel > system > advanced tab > startup and recovery settings > uncheck "automatically restart"
2. gather bluescreen info
3. .......
4. Profit!
valve sent out the gold packages before the game was released, check halflife2.net forums there are threads about people receiving their gold package via fedex, and those threads predate hl2's rls. and theres no need to call someone a tard, especially when you're the one mistaken.
i still run Nero 6.0.0.11 on WinXP SP2 without problems....and it was a really stupid move to just throw the cd out, like seriously WTF? just download the update.
you have all the data, its a steam bug where if you haven't payed for hl2 it shows 88% even though it's all preloaded, they should be updating steam at some point to fix it.