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Actually, a "movie" version of Shenmue 1 came out with Shenmue II (which I got bundled with my Xbox 1). Yep, Shenmue II came with an extra DVD where the whole of the first game was played through filmed as a movie.

SC is another example of Ubi trying to improve a franchise that doesn't need to be improved, and breaking it in the process. Where do people go for any new SC news these days? There's been nary a peep out of Ubi

Congratulations guys! Those signed games look awesome!

Lots of chatter on the 'net about Bill Gates saying the successor to Vista will be out next year, not in 2010 as originally planned. Code named Windows 7, it looks like they are trying to avoid the booboos of Vista's launch and anti-climactic SP1 release. Personally, I am enjoying using Vista, lots of good features, but it looks like Vista may not even last another year - although you can hardly compare it to the piece of junk that was Windows Me, Vista likely will last just as long. In the meantime, XP is getting a 2nd life as the OS of choice on all these low-cost low-power 'net laptop

I use both Vista Home Premium (wife and kids) and Ultimate (for myself) on a regular basis, and I've had SP1 installed on the Home Premium for a week (used the standalone installer). Honestly, I can't tell any difference for what I do since SP1 was installed Funny enough, we were having probs with one of my kids' games (Lego Star Wars) in Vista (crashing), and since SP1 there was one software compatibility update that came out that fixed compatiblity with a whole bunch of software including that one! I agree that for ease of viewing/organizing photos/video etc, Vista beats XP in terms of

The phenomenon that is the spontaneous outpouring of support everytime one of our fallen soldiers comes home along this stretch of Highway 401 (recently officially adopting the name "Highway of Heroes") definitely shows the average Canadian holds our Armed Forces in high esteem. It's really the least we can do to honor their sacrifice. Although I am not an expert by any means regarding Canada's military affairs, and I don't mean to start any political discussion, but I figured I'd type up a little editorial: Canada's military definitely has had its share of troubles before our deploymen

Thing is, I think Lockdown was a good game and would have had a lot of potential if the multiplayer wasn't broken (ie. they didn't force us to use Ubi.com - by the time the patch came out that fixed it no one was playing it anymore) and if they opened it up to modding I guess the new RSE site only lists their games that sold well.

LOL!!! Maybe consider letting your your daughter have her own user account?

Not sure if this has been posted anywhere else, but RSE has a Facebook page. I found it after a fan pointed out to me that a link at R6 Retreat to the official R6 Lockdown site is now dead. Ubi has pulled all traces of Lockdown from their R6 site, and strangely there is not even a mention that RSE worked on Lockdown on RSE's official new site. Are they that embarassed about it? Anyways, that's where I found their link to their Facebook site, as well as a good interview here: http://www.wral.com/business/local_tech_wi.../story/2547483/

Actually, that SiS mobo doesn't do dual-channel. So the P4 will be "supported" at 533FSB, but in actuality the real FSB will be 266MHz. That was the case with most early P4s. Even though they could run at 400FSB with Rambus RDRAM, only DDR266/333 was available early on for the majority of folks who used DDR RAM with the Intel 845D motherboards. So in the end, when upgrading old systems, you have to be pretty careful and do your homework (e.g. if the voltage of your RAM doesn't work with the motherboard etc). Hopefully where-ever you buy stuff will take returns. Personally, I find Cruc

A ha, I see what you mean now. I checked this page and it appears that your mom's SiS chipset does NOT support Dual Channel http://www.asisupport.com/p4_chipset_info.htm So ... basically what that means is that even though your P4 2.8 CPU could run at 533FSB, you will never be able to run the CPU at its full potential as the max FSB you can run it at is limited to 333MHz because your motherboard's chipset that only supports up to 333MHz FSB as below: If I were you, I'd get DDR266 memory if possible, as it runs at half the FSB speed of the CPU. There is a chance that the mix of timing

I see - looks like the only games that will make your new system work hard at all would be GB or FSX. For all the other games you listed, is your current system already adequate to run them at highest image quality settings with a decent (>60fps) framerate?

I can answer your question. Last year, I installed OneCare v1.5 on both my home network (with XP and Vista) and a charitable organization's network (XP only) which I maintain. I also installed it on 2 friend's home systems. I previously had been using MacAfee but with v10 they started to sell VirusScan as a "suite" with other components which I really didn't want. I thought the benefits of OneCare would be that it's made by MS so it should run well with XP (haha, should have known better than to trust anything by MS). I even stuck it out until it upgraded to v2.0 earlier this year. After

Actually, SP3 does not install IE7. I really wish it did. (Also wish SP3 would have auto-installed WMP11 and updated DX9c) From what I have read, SP3 has patches for both IE6 and IE7, so if you are still running IE6, it will patch your IE6. If you have upgraded to IE7, it will patch your IE7, but it will not install IE7.

$2000 can go a long way these days, the reason I say that is I have the parts for a high-end system that is still waiting in my living room waiting to be built that including a quad-core Q6600 CPU, P35 mobo, Lian-Li aluminum case, 8800GTX and it cost me $1600 A few points: - I'd suggest a quad-core CPU as you will benefit from one playing upcoming games such as those based on the Unreal Engine that will use all 4 cores. The Q6600 costs actually less than some of the new E8xxx series dual-cores - Go for a SATA DVD burner. No point going with any IDE-based drives anymore these days - M

I believe Intel Northwoods (I own two: a 2.5GHz @400MHz FSB and 3.4GHz @800MHz FSB) maxed out at dual-channel DDR400 = 800MHz FSB So I'm not sure if you mean your mobo supports total 533FSB (i.e. dual channel DDR266) or total 1066FSB (i.e. dual channel DDR533) I would suggest you download the Intel CPU identifier program and it will tell you the FSB of your CPU. http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Product_Fi...41&lang=eng

Exactly, if you want quiet, then you need a bigger fan. If that is not physically possible for your case, then see if your mobo supports setting the speed of the fans and get 80mm fans that connect directly to your mobo (instead of the fans with the molex connector that attach to your PSU)

Wow, the above link was really busy this weekend. I had to wait a long time for that page to load Also, SP3 is starting to show up as an option for XP auto-updates Anyways, I downloaded the full install .exe and installed it on a two computers that I regularly maintain for other people, and installation went fine, and no obv. performance probs/driver issues etc. I think the security updates in SP3 (that are not otherwise available in the auto-update patches) are pretty small improvements, and won't be obvious to most folks

Yup, that's what I did on 2 systems so far and no unwanted toolbar Have you guys noticed that AVG 8 scans all the links in a Google search result webpage and tells you if the link is safe? I wonder how it manages to incorporate that into the webpages source code.

Congrats on finding GR1 steveo10o! Nope, you didn't misunderstand me. GR1 was only on CD in N. America, but thanks to you and Rocky for letting me know that there is indeed a DVD version of GR1 available in Europe

Oh yeah! I just saw some at Future Shop, so yes, you can still get brand-new GR1 in Canada. Here's the online link, but like pagey said, they can't get rid of their stock so look for discounts http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetai...test%5Fcookie=1 BTW, there is NO DVD edition of GR1. The original game and 2 expansion packs all shipped on CDs. GRAW1 came out on DVD though.

Unfortunately, no stores carry the original GR now, unless you get it 2nd hand. You can also get it online these days, likely used. Try Amazon.ca http://www.amazon.ca/gp/offer-listing/B000...4458&sr=8-5

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;DisplayLang=en

Well, the SP3 launch sure was anti-climactic with MS finding that last minute glitch. I've downloaded a copy of it yet but not used it as I just haven't had time to do any reformating. Anyone here use SP3 yet? I wonder if after they fix the glitch if they will they call it SP3a or what?

I still have very fond memories playing MGS1 on the PSX with my cousins, then finally completing the whole thing in the Microsoft published PC version (which I actually wrote a review for way back when) I am now kicking myself for not getting the Twin Snakes version for NGC I haven't got a PS3 (yet ... it's looking like a sound investment to me now that Blu-Ray has won the HD war). If there's any game I would purchase the system for, it's MGS4.