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Stupid company and I've officially become a hater... I'm tired of dealing with that company, the long waits on the phone and the reluctance to back their products up. Anyways, I guess I'm in the market for a new video card. Does anybody have any recommendations for a company that isn't going...

I'm not sure what exactly you're trying to do but you may want to try Gamedev.net Directx forums.

Thank you very much.

It'll be a voodo 3 (I'm not really sure if it'll be 2000-4000). My nephew is discovering the joys of gaming (HL1 style) and I've come across a card, real cheap.

I think we're in for a short run if power limitations aren't overcome first (kilowatt power supplies are not unheard of today). Assuming that power consumption isn't a limit, I'd guess 7-15 years on the rendering side of things (when texture quality, map sizes and all the bells and whistles are...

<inappropriate paranoid rant> Dumb.... (the claims too easily dismissed to take serious) Why not study the link between ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and TV, especially prevalent with children under five... a commercial break ever 12 minutes? Guess what? I blame...

I kinda can't wait to see that at eighty frames per second... I noticed in a movie that was coined actual gameplay, there were facial expressions, defensive posture, etc... that seemed to be almost controlled by an AI. In other words, the AI wasn't controlling the player, just certain...

You're right, what I was describing was the easiest way to do it. It's been a while since I've been to tweak guides, thanks for the pointer. On a side note, a lot of people here have reported the game looking much better at 1024 then higher resolutions. If you've got the extra fps at 1024...

I'd give general setting a try. I haven't always gotten consistent results from nVidia's game profile settings. I don't have Quake installed right now, this is by memory and the directory structure may be a little off. I haven't heard of Q4 problems with nVidia video cards. The easiest way...

Driver setting can over ride in game settings. First off make sure that your drivers Opengl texture quality setting is set to Performance or Quality... The image_downsize setting is a culprit in Q4's config file or console. The problem was related to newer ATI cards at the time and Q4's...

For the record, PHCP doesn't exist and Take Two isn't being sued by hookers. It was meant to be a sarcastic joke. Sex Workers Outreach Project USA publicly denounced the GTA franchise and ask for a boycott.Gamespot's title of the article is slightly misleading. From their homepage...

I've got nothing against sex workers personally. I did find the announcement a bit humorist and completely unexpected. Now they seem to be getting sued by shareholders claiming impropriety. I'm kinda hoping the judge will allow for an immediate dismissal to end the persecution. It's truly...

The lobby group PHCP (Prostitutes for Hilary Clinton as President) files suit against Take Two for defamation of character... link...(bit of satire, sorry) This one is for real. "Sex workers cry foul, say game "accrues points to players for the depiction of rape and murder of prostitutes."...

Perhaps and more... I take the old WWII adage of "loose lips" because you never really know. Games are fun, are not used to train killers, encourage parents to be included in their childrens lives like never before, seem to do more to stifle violent acts then contribute to them, etc... I...

Without line of site, signals get jammed to easily. A handheld directed at the crafts general direction would be enough. Does make for an interesting study in how to circumvent judicial rulings and how certain less then reputable groups operate. To bad the meaning of NO is lost to them.

Just need to keep up with things and the obvious corrections. Here's the link The article itself is poorly written and implies that Halo 2-like games are used to train serving members of the Armed Forces. I'd like someone to ask Jose Antonio Vargas if he received any money for writing such...

I guess what I was leading to is lowered expectations in regards to the new media standards (and gaming-->DX10<--DX9 wrapper, new licensing technology, old fashioned paranoia). I'm not against copyright protection (the good stuff) but I guess I'm worried that this is setting up the ground...

I'm really getting discouraged at this kind of stuff. Probably inappropriate to say, but Linux is looking more and more attractive. New monitor, new motherboard, new video card, new OS, more restrictions, higher costs for quality, so on... Only way I can think of getting around this kind of...

I appear to be eating it all the way around, eh? I guess I'll keep quiet for awhile before I get spanked anymore. There is a concern of liability and false advertising, plus possibly slander if someone could prove that that he/she was collecting an income for promoting a product. For the...

Obvious and nasty, eh? Jeez... Still comes off as the rantings of a fan with a new card then a professional pusher. (fan boy is bad language? Trolling?)

I understand and I'm sorry if I misrepresented what you said. Check out the history of some of the squeakiest wheels, I don't want to be part of this witch hunt but dang, some things do look suspiciously like there's some organizational thought spanning several forums. None of it seems to be...

AEG does not promote products in public forums. AEG has already stated that they don't do this (see here, link from Hardocp's main page), the people continuing with this accusation are either misinformed or "other". AEG collects consumer sentiment in public forums about a product or service...

I can sympathize with both camps in this area. 3dmark does not always represent the average real world gaming experience because of physics, AI, audio, etc,.... and why when real world data can be used in place of 3dmark. On top of that, certain benchmarks (not Futuremark) do exercise bias...

The story behind AEG seems to be that they search forums and compile a general public opinion that they sell to nVidia. If this is all it is then good nVidia and AEG. heh, probably crap like: “BFG return policy sucks, they ought to take a credit card number and mail the replacement product...

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Science, the good kind takes nothing for granted. You could say that the moon orbits around the earth but in fact the earth and moon orbit around a common center point. Declaring stuff with all certainty is a violation of valid principle standing for thousands of years and keeping an open...

I believe your wrong and the end run tactics used by special interests, imo proves this. In typical and entirely precedented fashion, I believe the demographic is the biggest offense and is the sole reason for the stigma. I do think the gamespot article was written with the intent to...

It doesn't seem right that our tax dollars go into repeatedly taking the industry into courts while the industry increases expenditures defending itself. I wonder what would happen if games came with a postage paid (or not) form card that we could fire off to our governor, for the heck of it.

Heh, 10,000 to the first person who can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they received monies or gifts from ATI for promoting their products in a less the reputable manner...If they offer more, "we'll" beat it. jk/jk/jk Edit: It's likely an effective way to promote a product. The...

Exactly, things become unsustatinably corrupt when the pointing of fingers becomes policy, sympathy and social standing (because of credibility) will have a greater bearing in civil suits and convictions then the crime itself.

I bet I could produce a more violent reaction from a person playing tetris then the most violent FPS'er out there. Simply by controlling what blocks are given you could easily work someone into a frenzy so long as you could keep them playing. The more I think about it, the more I believe...

Nice thing to know and thanks for reply.

Premium services likely mean a higher priority, gamers would get probably get hit second hardest (just behind dvd quality streaming video) My average pings are between 15 and 40 in counterstrike with 16-25 players. I kinda expect that if they get what they want, gaming will be impossible at...

Obviously bad if there's no improvement over Internet play today. In other countries, the Internet gets faster, less congested, cheaper and more reliable, here it seems to work in reverse with the three main providers attempting an underhanded price fixing scheme (rather then see the baby bells...

The gaming community is unique in it's organization and the ability to spread the word. Access to gamers ranges from hardcore clan web sites, hosting, and extending to your favorite gaming forum. The likely spread of population by hitting less then 100 sites could very easily cover 50-100,000...

Kinda disappointing. At least two of those games use the Ageia physics engine (probably more), time to rethink things while I still have a choice. For now, at least, we have a choice because M$ is kinda and sorta implementing standards that can be used for physics processing in the new dx's...

I've noticed that new releases of starforce will last 3 days after the initial game release before being cracked. There is no discernible difference or benifit for the copyright holders (other then the extra cost). Starforce is a root kit, it installs without my direct consent and...

link For something marketed and sold to adults (originally 17 year-olds anyways), there is an extraordinary amount of persons in authority acting on behalf of us, attempting to protect us.... hmmmm. What do you guys think? The Xbox and PS2 argument will likely fail because of the...

Firing Squad has a fairly indepth article on getting a better picture from DVD's on the computer.