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I received this warning from a friend via email. I can't vouch for it's validity, but thought I'd share it anyway. It sounds plausible.

Ok if this is true, was the hack complet or just a partial hack? ← I wouldn't have posted it if it wasn't true, full working versions of R6:LD on P2P networks on the day of release. ← So the question that would come from this is: Why put so much extra software on a computer that does not seem to do the job it was designed for.?????? And how much money could be saved by the consumer if no protection was included.?????? I take it the end game is to protect the product and its makers, but if the software does not do this then why bother?????? Colin ← Som

But we haven't linked to anything in this thread. No need to assume anything. And people link to other sites all the time to provide sources for where they got their information, so that it can be verified and shared. Complete crack. It allows the game to be played without the CD. Most all games have cracks released within days of their release, even to include serial numbers so that they can be played, even if it's only single-player. Happens all the time, and it takes nowhere near months to see them pop-up on the internet. So, someone makes an ISO of the game, it doesn't need t

I think the term from back in the day is "Jailbait." She looks like jailbait. Penelope who? Hey budgie, I only ever heard of Lucy Liu on that list. ROFL Good to see ya again.

The second link in your last post is a copy of the first link in your first post.

What is the point of this post? It seems more like it's just a post complaining about people's concerns. The people who have posted in this thread so far are long-time, respected members of the community. So why this "dressing-down" post? It seems to me anyway, like this post was made more to put people on notice than anything else. And it seems like it's a discussion of admin problems from another forum. Why is it here? It really doesn't pertain to the software. It seems to me that gr.net already has a good set of forum rules, and so far they have been followed by everyone, inc

The statement I bolded up says it all. Also, that was my point. Vista is using an updated version of NTFS. One they are still thinking about, or were, releasing for XP. Vista was supposed to have a new, high performance journaling filesystem like Linux and Unix uses, but MS decided to leave it out. I read his page. I will dig up the links from tech republic Will take me a bit though. I have 3500 of them to go through. A few of the big things like that filesystem we were promised, and have been waiting years for were left out. No surprise that, really. What really frost

Why did you have to roll back the OS? Most of the time, when not a patch or GR issue, it would have to be video or sound drivers. It looks like you have an nForce based mobo. Have you tried installing the latest Forceware drivers from nVidia? And get the latest, updated version of DirectX here.

No biggie. I'm sure they will get it fixed. Afterall, Microsoft releases entire OS's with security risks all the time and has to constantly patch them. I'm sure Google will get the problem solved ASAP.

... I didn't read any further I am afraid, because the highlighted bit simply is not true, so how could I be sure anything in that piece is true. ← I totally agree with you. Not just because it's Ubi that wrote it, but because it's a fact. It just isn't worth reading, when they can't even print the truth, and that clearly isn't the truth, and I'm sorry, but you can't tell me either that they don't know it's not the truth. I think the truth is, they don't want to admit that the protection scheme that they paid big bucks for just isn't that effective. And while it's a noble effo

No, you're right. But is that really surprising, seeing as how Microsoft owns a big chunk of Apple? I still can't believe the way the are going to rob us, when they left out all of the things that were supposed to make Vista a decent OS. They could have at least come up with an original look, since they left out little minor things like the FILESYSTEM. .

Only if the app that you're running is written to take advantage of more than one core. Otherwise, it can't.

He's right, Papa. Our system processors are designed to do everything, but nothing efficiently. Graphics are all math, too. Everything in a computer is all math, so if what you were saying were true, we wouldn't need GPU's either. However, we still need GPU's, processors that are designed to do that math needed for graphics in a way that is most efficient. I read an article a few years ago by a processor engineer where he talked about exactly this. He said that it would be simple to design a processor to do video encoding at the same rate as our system processors but at 10% of the

Ya know, I have seen some really dumb things in my life...hell, I have done some really dumb things in my life. But damn.

The problem with going this route would be that you would end up with a dog that you will never be able to house train. We know you still struggle with that aspect, and a dog dumber than you will never be able to grasp the concept. ← Damn ! ! p0wned ! !

No offense, but the reason why not is the exact same reason why you arent going to use the second core instead of a graphics card. Because it cant do it. A CPU isnt optomized for graphics processing, or physics processing. Besides games with multithreading (most new games will have it) are doing something even better. Rather than just using one core for stuff and one for physics, they use both for everything. More efficient use of space that way. The simple fact is that without this card you wont get what you will have with this card. Not for a long long time anyway. Thats not even up for

Hmm. Never installed that stuff for me. I wonder if there is a difference between the European versions and the US versions and what they install. It always gives me a choice of what I want to install, and what not. I uncheck everything but the player, and I have never had it install the stuff anyway, after I have told it not to. This is weird. But I now use Acrobat 7 Professional, as I need it for school, so I don't use the reader DL anymore, since January. And I might add also that when in Linux(most of the time for everything but games), I don't need Adober at all.

It's really hard to say. Believe it or not, there are a great deal of people out there that don't even know what it is. Their game or app may not run, but they don't know why, and may not have the inclination or know-how to pursue it and find out why, so they take it back, or throw it away. This would be a topic that mostly enthusiasts and hardcore tech freaks would talk about. Joe Public for the most part doesn't even realize that this could be the issue they are having. The majority of folks don't really pursue boards like this, and spend hours reading up on this stuff.

That's true, and I can see that point of view. But I got to thinking about what Papa6 said about CPU's, and how now that we have gotten to dual core, that is just the beginning. I think we're going to see a point now where alot of this extra stuff, especially physics, can be and will start being handles by a core on the processor. Afterall, that's what multiple cores are designed for. I think in the next 2-4 years, video aside, you are going to see where just about everything is handles by the CPU, and functions are split up amongst the cores. Look at dual core now. For the most

I don't think that this board will be around long, actually. Remember the 3D add-on boards, The Monster3D and 3D2? Then here comes the video cards, and the accelerators no longer needed. With processors making the advances they are, especially AMD, and physics software, I'm with Papa6. I'll bet that withing 2 years, the proc handles it all. Especially now with multi-cores being the common tool. I think this Aegia thing is going to be short lived, and therefore not worth the 300.00.

Greeeeeeeat. 6 versions right out of the gate. Gee, what will Microsoft think of next? I hope everyone has deep pockets. Paying for this POS will rival buying a new coe PC. And the bad thing is, the things that were supposed to make this OS good were left out. Gamers will have to run out and pay 500.00 or more for the Ultimate Edition, and pay that for a version of XP with make-up. What a rip-off.

Stranglehold by Ted Nugent, and Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap by AC/DC.

Where would you find repair current installation? Are talking about booting with xp cd then having repair current installation. ← Yeah. Boot to the XP CD. It will do it's thing, installing sdrivers and such. Then it will ask if you want to repair an XP install using the Repair Console. Say no. It will go onto the regular install menu. Select the partition that you currently have windows on, and tell it to install there. Don't repartition unless you want to, and do NOT format. Just tell it you want to install Winblows on the Winblows partition. It will tell you that there is

Spectre's Driver Install/Uninstall Guide Here's what I do, and it never fails. 1) Add/Remove Programs, and remove the driver. 2) Go to your C: drive, and either in the root, or in Program Files, delete any folders there that pertain to your drivers. ATI is particularly sticky about leaving the folder there, even after Driver Cleaner. Doesn't happen every time, but it does happen. I haven't had that happen with Nvidia yet. (3) Run Driver Cleaner, and very importantly, only delete the files that have to do with the hardware you are changing. Nothing else. This is especially impo