ghost gamer

I recently installed GR (DS AND IT) on my new pc. I am a veteran player and have played through the campaigns/mods countless times. Here is my problem and I have never seen anything like it: I noticed on mission 3, the one where you have to prevent NATO casualities, the tanks never come down the road. They just sit there at the edge of the map. Then on mission 8, the battlefield one where you have to protect the friendly tank, it also never goes down the road. The friendly soldiers are all standing around at the edge of the map. The friendly tank is there,off the map but never moves. Further,

@matt03-I respect your opinion, but I must disagree. If we apply that logic, questions would follow such as : Does watching violent tv do the same thing? How about violent music? If a kid plays football, does that make them violent? Does watching the evening news make them violent? How about violent cartoons? I remember reading about a guy who beat his girlfriend to death with a coffee mug. Does drinking from a coffee mug make people violent? I hope not or I am as crazy as anyone! My point is that things like video games,coffee mugs, cartoons and anything else you care to mention are not

this is stupid......a country is upset over a game?! Well, that must mean that they have nothing more important to worry about.....I swear, at times I question whether or not the human animal is the most intelligent...

people need to take responsibility for their own actions/decisions.....stop blaming video games, society,music and so on......imho......

I know something even more terrible and violent than video games...its called the evening news.....

I got GR a few months after it came out. At the time I was going through a divorce, so I spent many a night playing GR till the sun came up. I only have read bits and pieces of what appears to be going on with GR2. I think UBI/RedStorm believe that if they dumb down GR2 they can increase its appeal to a larger market and get more $$$$ put in the piggy bank. While dumbing it down may in fact increase its appeal to the casual gamer / console type gamer, it will ###### off the hard core players like us. Corporations have a way for fudging up the simpliest, most obvious things....****cough****Rave

@chems...understood.....damn....guess I'll just have to spend the $540 on the x800xt platinum edition!!!!!

@chems....man, if you do...please, please,please pass on how you did it!!!!

crap ...why don't they ask for your right arm and first born too?....check out hardcorecooling.com...great price on xp home edition-full version.....$74.99 / US dollars.....

let us know how it plays.....now if I can just figure out how to get a copy

sounds like there is still a trace of your previous install somewhere in the registry.......I have a program called registry first aid that helps me keep my registry clean and correct with out me having to go in and manually tweak it....it costs like $20......maybe someone else here with more knowledge than me can shed some light on it.....

thanks!!!!...this is the last tweak I need to do and I can actually spend a day playing instead of tweaking things!!!!!

all the stuff running in the background, what can I shut down and what do I need to leave on? I was, ****cough*****,running ME and it was easy to do that. I would just run msconfig and uncheck the bottom two boxes on the first tab and all the stupid crap would not load at startup. XP is a little different and I don't want to screw anything up.

I have just installed XP Home Edition on my pc. I thought I recalled there being an issue where the refresh rate was capped. Is this true and how do I get around it? Is this something fixed in a service pack (ordered the cd from microsoft) or is it a tweak I can do in Windows?

any idea on what the reccomended specs are gonna be?

I have to say I stumbled across stalker and outside of GR2 and Band of Brothers, I have not been this excited about a game release since RTCW....the screenshots were incredible as is the storyline and gameplay....I don't know anything about the studios developing/publishing the game.....but I will be getting this one....its been in development for a while so hopefully the game will be polished upon release....heck we may have this game in hand before hl2 and doom III.....

I would like to think, if anything, that they would make it where you could toggle it between 1st and 3rd views..or just 1st person would be fine...hope they don't fubar and make it strictly 3rd person.....

thanks!!!!!...I am sure I'll have more questions as I get into this!!!!

I finally bit the bullet and decided to upgrade to XP...anyway..I know I wanna do fdisk...what type of file format should I do with XP Home edition?...I know that XP has a refresh rate cap issue....how do I fix that?.....and finally, what is the most current service pack I should install?..thanks.....

I got everything installed last night and took a crack at afrika korps desert rats mission....WOW!!!....beautiful map...I was amazed at the beauty of the German airplanes (ME 109's, I think)...this mission was tricky...you are riding in the back of a jeep to start and have to use a "bazooka" to nail two fighters tring to take off...actually the first flies right over your head and then there is one on your left...its tricky getting the first and then swinging around to get the one going down the runway on your left...damn reticles! ......great mission/map..can't wait to play the rest...guess

do you have a backup?....sounds like your hard drive is about ready to die....

Band of Brothers...not special forces ...but awesome anyway......

if you can, get a hand built pc....if you don't know how...ask a friend...its really not that hard if you have some basic computer knowledge and the willingness to learn...companies like dell, gateway are good for non gamers because of their support...however for the dollar spent, the hardware one gets is laughable....as far as parts, I would go AMD....you can a good xp 2500(barton core) for like $75 and a good asus mb for around $100-$120........this will give you the foundation for a solid and reliable performer for the least money.... ..oh...Newegg.com is the best place to buy computer part

Collector*AFZ*.....my first pc was a HP Pavilion...1 gig anthlon cpu and a VIA chipset based MB....I stuck in a Geforce mx 420/64 mb, 512 mb of PNY ram and a sound blaster 512....it runs most stuff well and thats with high settings....pick up something similiar to what I have.....it will be "cheap"....heck I'd crank up your ram to 512 too....that won't cost alot either....as far as the onboard video...no problema...simply go into your BIOS(or CMOS, same thing)....not sure what key you hit to get into BIOS...F1..I think..at bootup...and disable the onboard video....carefully install your new PC

thanks...just don't wanna screw up a $460 card....