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I am not getting music when I play HL2. Playing through it again on Oculus. It's incredible. But I'd like to hear the music. Audio sliders definitely turned up. Any ideas?

The maximum distance in Creative's THX control panel set at something like 7 and half feet. This seems stupid to me. Is there any way to make this distance larger? Does this affect the sound when I'm using Dolby Digital Live? I assume it does since DDL's output seems to take on all control panel...

I have been using high end Logitech wireless mice for years, and I'm noticing a pattern. After about 2-3 years, the mouse starts issuing false double-clicks, or letting go when I'm drag-and-dropping. It's now happening with my G700, after it happened with my G7 and one other mouse. It's really...

The learning curve of BF3 and my continuing trouble with figuring out simple things has me feeling sort of gaming-impaired. It's also reminding me of some of the dumber stuff I've done in games over the years. Some recent examples: 1. Playing 180 hours of BFBC2 before realizing I'm equipped...

Many people are having problems with periodic image scramble watching the new Star Wars blu-ray release in Arcsoft Total Media Theatre 3 or 5 under Windows 7, The fix for now is to remove Security Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2657680). Removing that update and rebooting...

I play ESDF. My middle finger goes on E. When you play using WASD, which finger is used for W? The ring finger? Or the middle finger? For years I have assumed that people moved over from the home row by one key when playing WASD, to have their middle finger used for forward. But I guess you...

Well my bluetooth Logitech diNovo keyboard started to become a bit of a pain with the constant dropping of connections, always sliding around, etc. so I started thinking about a new keyboard. Picked up a Logitech G510 for the LCD display and because I've been really impressed with the two...

I was happily playing New Vegas a few hours here and there on Vista. Then I built a Win 7 system. Every so often I try to play New Vegas on Win 7 and loading a game or starting a new game causes a CTD 100% of the time, at the moment it starts to initialize the engine. I've tried a few things...

I installed Cat 11.3 hoping to find a fix for Crysis 2 flashing... now I want to turn off Catalyst AI but the setting seems to have disappeared. I know where it's supposed to be Advanced > 3D... .but all I see under Catalyst AI is "TExture Quality: Performance > Quality > High Quality". There...

I'm currently very happy with my P5Q Deluxe + Core2Duo E8600 system for games, Flash, Photoshop, etc.. However I think I need more cores as I'm doing increasing amounts of video work with the system as well. Can someone recommend a CPU upgrade that would allow me to keep my current mobo? I've...

They just changed the release time to 1PM Pacific on the 28TH!!!! I have been sitting here for the past 3 hours killing time waiting for 2AM... I did have some breakthroughs in what I was coding, but still, that's time I could have spent doing something else than feeling annoyed and unsure...

I just played through Batman: Arkham Asylum over the weekend. Usually takes me a couple weeks to finish a game like that, but it was so fun I gorged on it, playing in huge 2 and 3 hour chunks. I had to do a major face-palm upon completing the game, as I didn't notice until the final boss...

Just a little heads up... at my local Future Shop they had several copies of the special edition of BIA: Hell's Highway on sale for $10. They were right next to copies of the non-special edition selling for $30. Special edition comes with a Matt Baker action figure, a comic book, and a map...

Please look at the system in my sig and let me know if there are any major problems I should expect in adding two more 2GB sticks to my system for a total of 4X2 = 8GB RAM. I recently purchased 3D Studio MAX and so need to get as much RAM going as possible within a reasonable budget. If...

If you turn up the AA settings through the game's settings.ini file there is a massive performance hit. Instead, leave those settings at 1 and rename the game's EXE to ut3.exe Then you can force AA and anisotropy through your video driver control panel. The game looks bloody amazing with 4XAA...

It has developed quite a bit since moving into this place a couple years ago. Starting with this, which was actually quite nice for what it was: I recently got a second system, extra-large LCD, and most importantly, a new desk. I feel about 90% settled in, just gotta move some stuff...

Holy crap. I just bought Dead Space retail for $39.99 this afternoon. This is the most impressed I've been with the opening of a game since Half-Life 2. In the first half hour I've seen some of the best real-time graphics ever done in a game, seen a few interesting sci-fi concepts, oodles of...

Babylon A.D. blu-ray won't play on my PC. Pressing play causes WinDVD9 to crash and PowerDVD8 to just sit there like a dumb fuck. I have the LG GC-H20L Blu-ray drive with copies of WinDVD9 Plus and PowerDVD8 Ultra running on Vista 64. I have updated the firmware on my drive to 1.03 which is...

Why do 90% of people who play Left 4 Dead insist on meleeing a mounted Hunter? If there's any action going on, the hunter inevitably get away to come back and leap on me or my rescuer again two seconds later. So many times, I'm on the ground with a hunter on me, then a teammate will come melee...

I found Vault 112 and my father. Now he's taking me across the wasteland to work on Project Purity. How far away from the end of the game is this? Can I just wander off and do some more side quests? I don't want the game to end but I also don't want to miss anything. I'm not sure how...

I enjoyed my first few sessions with FC2. Now when I fire it up it's in a window. I have gone into users/documents/my games/far cry 2/gamerprofile.xml and changed "maximized" to 1. No effect. Does anyone know of a way to get Far Cry 2 back to full screen mode?

Well, I've had my new rig for a full month now. It performs like a dream and is rock stable. Lots of detail below the pictures. Please forgive the photo quality, I need a good book on photography. Full system details are in my signature. Here’s the master shot. Look at the reflection of...

I'm so jazzed about all the great games coming out for PC this fall. I've got a brand new system and most of what I intend to do when I'm not working for the next few months is play all the great games coming out: October 21 Far Cry 2 October 28 Fallout 3 November 11 COD 5: World at...

I am THIS CLOSE to pulling the trigger on this 46 incher as my primary display from a 4870X2. I actually just removed my coat and shoes and put the car keys down in order to do some more research. I figure about four and a half to five feet is enough viewing distance that the pixels will not...

Can you guys please tell me what you know about the following monitor's suitability for gaming and Windows use? FIRST CHOICE: Sharp Aquos 1080p 46" LCD HDTV** (LC46D82U) http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0770HDS0010085433&catid= SECOND CHOICE...

Thermaltake Toughpower 1000W with P5Q Deluxe? Is anyone using this combination without problems? I had a major problem with my new build. We had it pegged down to the PSU being incompatiable, but now I'm wondering if it wasn't simply damaged by being plugged into a majorly underpowered UPS.

Specs in sig. Well, I was very satisfied with myself up until yesterday evening, as I had assembled my own computer from the ground up for the very first time. Everything was fine for the first 36 hours, until I decided to flash my BIOS on Sunday morning. I upgraded to the latest BIOS and...

Here are the exact specs for my new, first-self-built rig, as I post from it: Vista HP 64 Cooler Master Cosmos 1000 Thermaltake Toughpower 1000W Asus P5Q Deluxe Core2 Duo E8600 (stock right now) Zerotherm Nirvana (full-time 100% fan 'til I flash mobo BIOS) 2x2GB OCZ Reaper HPC PC2 8500...

SPOILERS FOR STALKER I recently made my third attempt to play through STALKER. This time I got all the way through to an actual ending and developer credits. My style of play was to mainly stick to the core plot. I never joined Duty or Freedom. I only took one or two quests outside of the...

Intended use is 50% gaming, 50% fairly undemanding web production.That's why I'm sticking with dual core for now. Sometime in the new year, depending on perormance reports and prices, I might add a second 4870X2, get Vista, a new PSU, and a Cosmos case, and also another 4GB of RAM if the DIMMs...

I'm about to give up on FF and go back to IE. They have ruined the new Firefox for me with the changes to the address bar. The way it used to work was the address bar would remember what you typed, and suggest what you've typed before as autocompletes for what you're typing now. The way...

I have an Enermax Liberty 500W powering an Asus A8RMVP with X24400+, 4X1GB PC3200 @ 400MHZ, and a HD4870X2. It's powering everything just fine, the system is nice and stable. I want to upgrade to an Asus P5Q Deluxe with E8600, 2X2GB PC8500 @ 1066, and the same Radeon 4870X2. Do you guys...

Adding the 4870X2 to my Wave Master seemed to throw off the airflow. I had been running with an thermaltake PCI slot exhaust blower, passive air intake in one of the 5.25 bays, and the top port modded to an intake to compensate for the poor airflow through the front grille. The blower on the...

Hi guys. I'm a full-time independent website designer and hardcore PC Gamer. I like to go for the high end video subsystem, and then the optimal price\performance\upgradeability on other components. The use of the system is production in Flash/Photoshop/Premiere/MAX and 3D gaming at 2560x1600...

Installing SP3 causes my GPU activity to be stuck at 99%, and my CPU activity to be stuck at 50% (100% of one core). Games perform like shit, for instance TF2 gets stuck below 20FPS. I just did a complete fresh install of XP onto a brand new hard drive. The first thing I did after installing...

CAN$245+shipping for my Radeon 4870. Mint condition, gonna upgrade to X2 since I'm at 2560x1600. Will consider delivering in person in the GTA.

I just dropped the LG Super Multi Blue combo drive in my box yesterday. It was on sale for $140 at Future Shop, I suppose so cheap because it still says "HD-DVD" on the drive. Anyhow, I watched Sunshine, and 1080p upscaled to 1600p is a beautiful thing.

I have played about three hours today with Alone in the Dark. This game has the single worst controls of any game I've played on PC. I'm really pissed off at myself for buying this game when I could clearly see it was a piece of shit Games For Windows console port. The game is pretty...

Are there any 2560 x 1600 panels larger than 30 inches?

Just fired up Gears of War after a hard day dealing with work and computer problems (either my x-Fi spontaneously fried itself after a Gears crash, or this game has also fucked my sound card). I click through as usual to continue my single player campaign... "Sorry, no progress is saved on the...