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Last year November, with a 9800 Pro that I bought the year before. Macs have always been more efficient in the way they use RAM and processor power. They have always been faster when it comes to graphics. The PPC architecture has always been faster. The Mac's problems were always with it's proprietary nature. The same thing with ATI's drivers.

And the best part? It's only 178.00 ! ! And it's a real video card, an NVIDIA ! ! ! Sorry. Couldn't let that get by me. ROFLMFAO ! !

Welcome to the Ubi marketing and business model. They do this alot.

pfft shove that in your a.rse. Just because yours broke and you kept going back to that sheltered workshop computer store doesnt mean all the cards are crap. ← One, I think that comment was a bit uncalled for. Two, I think ATI sucks as well, but it isn't because of the hardware. The cards themselves are great. ATI just needs to get off their ass, and write some decent software and firmware for them. In the 16 years I have been in this profession, ATI has never written a decent driver, let alone one that wasn't bloated all to hell with unnecessary BS. Also, their compatabili

Just a note: The three names in red are all the same person. Just thought I'd throw that in there.

Response times only really apply to LCD's. The CRT's have the refresh rate that deals with that issue. One other major thing thta you may want ot look into, is what latency some of your hardware is installed at by default. For instance, I was having some trouble with BF2 with my 6800GT, and we couldn't figure out why. A buddy of mine turned me on to this Latency config tool, it's in a thread here somewhere, and I found out tht the default latency was set to 248ms ! ! I cranked that baby, my NIC, and my AGP/PCI bridges down to 32ms, and voila ! ! Problems disappeared. The too

Let's hope not, but they have done it with some of their other titles, so if they do, don't be surprised. And we have all seen games get bumped back, sometimes so much that we thought they would never come out. Harpoon 2(?) I believe is one title that Ubi did this with.(I believe that is the name of their sub game. I think it was 2 years coming in release date after release date before it finally hit the shelves, and I remeber friends of mine at the time being just totally frosted about it. Anyway, here's hoping for March ! !

I wouldn't worry about getting a sound card either. Go for the good video card. The days of onboard sound being the resource hog that it used to be in days of old are over. And in alot of cases, such as with the NForce sound, the quality is every bit a match for Sound Blaster. When you're thinking about performance, think Video Card and RAM. They are the 2 heavy hitters on the team, and will make or break your game. Whether you're using onboard sound or not, won't. It just doesn't use that many resources anymore, especially considering the speed of RAM and processors these days, and

Happy Birthday, NYR ! !

Careful, your tinfoil hat is showing. Beretta got the M9 contract because their gun was cheaper than the Sig P226. As to the discussion at hand: 6.8 is a very nice round. Without further field testing, I wouldn't just come out and say that it's better than the 5.56, because I don't know that, but it is a nice round. However, we've got billions of rounds of 5.56 in stock right now, not to mention all the ammo that our NATO allies have. Changing caliber would entail more than just buying new guns, we'd have to screw around with our ammo production, too, and then we'd be forcing it on the

Leadtek GeForce 6800GT/256.

I always liked being able to get the redistributables. Then I don't have to do web installs and such. And since directx should be installed before drivers are, it's nice to have the files to do so right on your drive.

There are programs like DOSBOX Other than that, you're probably out of luck. XP has absolutely no version of DOS with it at all, unlike ME/98/95. They were still DOS -based OS's. But with XP having no legacy system at all, most games from the good ol' days just won't run. I have however downloaded DOSBOX for both XP and for Linux as well, and will be trying them out very soon, as I have a few vintage favorites of my own.

A better link.

I think that would depend on who you ask. As far as I know, the R6 series is alive and well, and far from being coasters anywhere. But I guess it depends on who you ask.

It was that, or be unable to operate in China in any way. ← Right. Sometimes the best way to win a fight is to give in a little. You can't really win anything if you aren't around. In this case, Google was right. Better to give in sometimes and live to fight another day, than fight at the wrong time, and lose everything.

You're right on that release date, bro. But, the fact remains that those two particular game titles were inspired by the novels. I also understand that there are Splinter Cell Novels out there, although carrying Clancy's name, are not written by Clancy, but are however based on the 4 games. Clancy probably owns less of his own name now than anybody. It seems that way, anyway. But the point is, in the Clancy Franchise, the books do inspire games, and the games do in fact, inspire novels. And you forgot Sum of All Fears, which released in 2002, and is part of the same "Universe",

Surely you jest.

Actually, there are 2 books that match his games: Rainbow Six, and Sum of All Fears. Rainbow Six was published in 1998(The book). Rainbow Six and Eagle Watch(the games) published in 2000. The Sum of All Fears(the book) was published in 1991, and the game and movie done in 2002. So, as you can see, both games and the Exp. for R^ were based on the books, written several years earlier in one case, and 2-3 years earlier in the other. So, as you can see, you do see games about his books.

With all of the things that were supposed to make Vista different removed becuawe MS couldn't nail them down over the past 5 years, it is in NO WAY going to be worth what they're talking about charging. I sure won't pay what they are charging for XP's version of the ME fiasco with Vista. XP is going to be supported at least 2 more years. So guess what? That gives MS 2 more years to see if they can iron out what were Vista's biggest selling points were, the filesystem, IE7, which the reviews are so mixed on, that I won't even try it, just because I no longer have any crashboxes. What w

Yeah...everything that put Vista 2 years behind has been taken out...all the things that MIGHT have made it a halfway bearable Microsoft product. This already smells to high heaven of being a realllllly, reealllllllllllllllllllllllllllly expensive repeat of the ME fiasco. LINUX ! ! LINUX ! ! LINUX ! ! LINUX ! ! LINUX ! ! LINUX ! ! LINUX ! ! LINUX ! !

OMG ! ! ROFLMFAOPIMPBAGLFISH ! !

"JULY"... i hope not, i'm gonna stay with optimism and say a graw pc one single player map and one multiplayer map demo release mid march. Don't let us down UBI/GRIN.... err plz n thx. ← Didn't someone say it's supposed to be released to stores in the US on March 7th? Losing faith already?

Is there supposed to be a demo? I haven't heard anything about this? Is the release date still scheduled for the beginning of March? When is the demo supposed to come out? ← Yeah...In July. ROFL ! ! I wouldn't buy a directx 10 card until at least mid year next year, especially an ATI DirectX 10 card, with all the driver problems they have, and if you run other OS's, that could be a total disaster compatability-wise., as directx 10 won't even be released until Vista is, and we have no idea how it will act with games that are currently available. And we have no idea when Vista