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Sounds like you had an exciting time! Take your time to share your impressions ... you must be pretty tired after the long trip. Since most of us will hopefully be able to play the actual game next week, I'm more interested to hear whatever you can tell us about who you met from RSE, what they did, behind the scenes info about the development of the game, which other fans you met, how the party was, etc.

56k all the way...........errrrrrr.....baby ← Hmmm ... I wonder if it's your modem or your ISP then ... something is cutting off the image from downloading fully. Any chance you got an old modem (even a 33.6) around to test if it's a modem problem? Also give FireFox a try and let us know what happens. It's amazingly only 4.7MB.

GameSpot has posted a HUGE article about all the trials and tribulations behind the HL2 dev process. It's a facinating read ... might even try out the game http://www.gamespot.com/features/6112889/index.html I bought the first HL to play Counter-Strike, but never completed the SP campaign after finishing the first few levels.

What kind of connection do you have? Dial-up or broadband (DSL/Cable)?

I think blistr is right on the money with this issue. DS: I'm guessing it may be a problem with how your browser is caching the pictures. Here's a few things to try: 1) Try right-clicking on a blurry high res pic and chose "Save Picture As" and download the file onto your desktop. Open up the pic in Windows Picture Viewer and see if it looks normal 2) Go to the tool bar in IE and pick Tools-> Internet Options -> Settings ... and then tell us how big the size of your Temporary Internet Files folder is. I would suggest you expand it to 256MB 3) Try a different browser like Fir

Bob, my best advice is that if you are just getting a PC for GR2, then do NOT purchase it until Red Storm/Ubi finalizes the minimum/recommended system specs for the game sometime early next year. Why? - Even if you wait 3 months, you will get better technology for the same price as now - You will not be disappointed when you find out GR2 exceeds your new system specs, or that it runs at a slower framerate than you would have liked. Right now, no one outside of RSE can predict what the minimum system requirements you will need for GR2. When GR1 came out for the PC, it taxed even high-

I must admit that I wasn't too excited about Halo when I first saw it on the Xbox. I played a couple levels of the single player campaign and thought it was a solid shooter, but not something I wanted to pursue playing. Two years later, when the Halo PC demo came out, I played multiplayer CTF at a LAN party with a bunch of friends and that really sold me on buying the PC version. Personally, I'm obviously more into tacsim shooters and not FPS's like Unreal, Quake etc, but Halo's combination of vehicles (including co-op use), good weapons balance, and crazy physics was just plain fun in MP.

I said I would look into this ages ago eh? ← I'm guessing that it is a setting on the particular PC he is using, for the text is right on the money for me, and I have to say, this is an awesome browser. If he has a scroll wheel, hold down the control button and use your scroll wheel to adjust your text size. ← The text in the forums looks perfect. What I meant was the text on the default GR.net news page is still smaller than in IE, even in the v1.0 release today. (You can see what the "normal" text size is in FireFox by hitting Ctrl+0) I've confirmed this on mu

I've had generally good experiences with Dell machines - I still run one Dell Pentium II desktop and laptop. The default Dimension 3000 is pretty poor - although it's a P4/533FSB, it really runs at 333MHz FSB because of the memory. It's worth it to pay a bit extra to get a 800FSB CPU with dual-channel DDR400 RAM - that's the equivalent to speeding up your system a couple hundred MHz in this case. It's cheap because it has an integrated Intel® Extreme Graphics 2 video chip, an that will NOT run GR2 or other current well. It will run games from 2 years ago well. You would be better off pu

I know what you mean with problems with Creative's cards. However, support has improved a lot with their Audigy line. It used to be that they would release drivers for the first year of the card and that was it, but I was pleasantly surprised they updated my Audigy 1 drivers 2 years after release, although I wasn't having any problems with it If you are still using an old Creative card (i.e. Sound Blaster 16, 32, Live! series), your best bet is to use the default drivers that come with WinXP. They are very stable and I have not run into any problems with Microsoft's version of the old Soun

Unfortunately, the population taking this poll is most likely comprised of PC users, so the results are naturally skewed towards more PC purchases. Most of my friends that play GR casually on the Xbox and PC (and really like it and have heard about GR2) NEVER visit the official GR site or GR fansites. The reality is that consoles sell WAY more than PC. Check out this quote here: http://www.ghostrecon.net/forums/index.php...19entry215119 As of summer 2004, GR for the PC (GR/DS/IT, GR Gold pack, GR Platinum Pack) approx a combined total of 500,000 units since GR was released 3 years a

I tried it out last week and if I recall correctly, the only two race modes available in the demo are circuit and drift races. You cannot unlock any new areas or shops. The drift race down the moutain side road is a blast! It would be cool if people wanted to post their high scores here, and I think there may even be a way to save replays ...

Links: http://theinquirer.net/?article=19535 http://us.creative.com/products/product.as...1&product=10853 Wow, THX and Dolby Digital?

Wow, very interesting article! Although generally I don't overclock (except old rigs that are "expendable" er ... I mean not mission critical ) I am very particular about the memory I buy, as I have noticed it does make a difference. My latest rig I got Corsair XMS 3200LL at 2-3-2-6 timings earlier this year. Just months later, they came out with the 2-2-2-5 ones that are shown in the review.

The simple answer is that it's darn near impossible unless the graphics chip in the laptop was made to be upgraded (and I don't think those are available widely yet) Read this thread here for a previous discussion on this matter http://www.ghostrecon.net/forums/index.php...topic=20195&hl=

Hey WK, check your e-mail - I think I may have solved how to get your site looking the same in both IE and FireFox using tables. Now if we can only figure out why GR.net shows up with such small text in FireFox

Rocky, Sony came out with the Digital 8 format as a "stepping stone" between Hi 8 and DV formats. The benefit of a Sony Digital 8 is that it should still play your old tapes (analog though) and use Hi 8 tapes to record digital video which is the SAME quality as the video taped on smaller DV tapes. However, a 2 hour Hi 8 tape will only store 1 hour of DV video If you have a large collection of old Hi 8 tapes, I would suggest a Sony Digital 8 camcorder. I've been very happy with mine, but it's not as sleek as those new palm-sized DV recorders. Best thing is to go down to the electron

Yup, you need to put both HD's on 2 different IDE cables. If you have an optical drive installed (CD burner etc), that optical drive is likely already being used by your 2nd IDE cable, so you just have to remove it from your optical drive and plug it into your new HD. WK brought up a great point that people often forget to set their jumpers on the back of their HD's - ideally, I'd make both HD's master (plugged into the end of the IDE cable) when backing up info. You will see that both are confirmed as being on master settings when you boot your system or in your BIOS. If you want to

I think this competition is a great idea to have before GR2 PC is released. There are a number of older and new maps made by the community that don't have any mission scripting done for them, so this might be a good way to get some new missions made for these mission-less maps.

Hey DS, you can likely bet that the storyline for PC will be the same as the Xbox version. There's no way RSE could/would/should port over stuff from the PS2 version made by Ubisoft Shanghai on the Unreal engine within the next few months. My question is whether the story in the Xbox or PC versions will bother to even mention or reference the events portrayed in the PS2 version. Note that in the PC and Xbox "Ghost Recon Story Universe" Jungle Storm for PS2 will unlikely be referenced either.

As long as HT is turned on the BIOS, you don't need to do anything else. I use Easy CD creator, and I just hit the "record" button and went merrily on my way doing other stuff. I tend to burn at slower speeds 16-24x) for data CDs (as less risk of error), but for music CDs, I burn full speed. I turned on the Windows Task Manager to monitor the CPU while burning, and you could see the activity

Outstanding report NYR! Glad you had a great time at the demo! Very cool to hear that the PC version will be unique - I think the main fear originally was that the PC version was going to be a port coming out the same time as the Xbox version. Now with a few extra months that RSE has to spend on it, GR2 can only get even better! BTW, I think it's kinda cool how there's a bit of a WolfServers connection here - Anubis brought us the first fan report about GR2, and now NYR is giving us probably what is one of the last major fan-written previews of the game

First, if they are IDE (PATA) HDDs, make sure you have them on two seperate IDE channels (i.e. make sure they are not master and slave on the same channel). If one or both are SATA drives, then no probs. If you're using WinXP, it should be easy to transfer info. I would unplug your original HD, then do a fresh install of WinXP on your new HD. After that's done, plug in your old HD and set the BIOS to boot into WinXP on your new HD. Then just go to WinXP's disk management tool, and it should automatically detect your old HD. Then just drag and drop your old data into your new HD.

Dude, I wouldn't play around with that system any more until you backup any precious data off that HD and remove it

I personally have a Sony Digital 8 camcorder from a few years back. It is a little bulky, but cheaper. Also uses cheaper Hi8 tapes. I use the FireWire connection to easily transfer video to my computer for editing, and transfer it back onto tape for storage (until I get my DVD burner). I've got a friend with a Sony DV camera - very nice and small. The best thing about it is that it can act as a "pass through" so it can take in a video signal and digitally encode it on the fly straight to your computer without having to record it on tape first. It's a handy little feature if you have some vi