CR6
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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.
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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.
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What kind of connection do you have? Dial-up or broadband (DSL/Cable)?
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It sounds as though the picture isn't fully downloaded at your end. Right click the image. Is the Show Picture option available to select?
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 FireFox v1.0. See if you still have the blurry picture problem with that browser. If you don't, then it's just an IE problem.
Let us know how it goes
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I'm not sure I need it to be terribly upgradable because of the kind of gamer I am. I bet I'll only play gr2 on there. I usually only ever really get into one game at a time and it's for fun at that.
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-end systems (everyone remember having to turn off shadows?)
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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.
If you haven't ever tried the Halo PC demo, it is definitely worth a download to play through the SP mission and get online for a few rounds of MP action.
I actually finished the Halo PC single player campaign over the course of a few sittings. It did get kinda repetitive towards the end, but there's no wonder why it was the best selling game for the Xbox.
As I've mentioned before, I picked up Halo 2 for the Xbox to "warm up" for GR2 (getting used to the gamepad) and after finishing the first 2 levels, I'm very impressed. Like GR2, this game is part of the recent generation of games that pushes the Xbox to the limit, and it's great to see what Bungie can make the Xbox do.
People shouldn't expect anything revolutionary with Halo 2, and to me it's more than enough that Bungie has made a solid fun game that builds logically on its predecessor to take the Halo franchise successfully to the next level.
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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 multiple PC's.
BTW, thanks for the cool tip about the scroll wheel to adjust your text size.
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I'm not sure I need it to be terribly upgradable because of the kind of gamer I am. I bet I'll only play gr2 on there. I usually only ever really get into one game at a time and it's for fun at that. I'm really trying to keep it as inexpensive as possible (since I'm not working right now) and the Dell package I set up has a monitor and speakers (which I'll need) as well as 512RAM and an Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor w/ HT Technology (3GHz, 800 FSB). I could upgrade the graphics card to something good for about $125 (additional) to the $750 package price. What do you think (for me) would be best. I'm no technophile about having the most versatile/powerful machine around.
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 putting together a system with a GeForce FX 5500 or Radeon 9600 which have gone down in price lately.
In the end you get what you pay for. Best thing is to set a budget and try to get your best bang for your buck
If you like, list your final choices for your specs here for us to comment on, especially what video card you decide on.
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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 Sound Blaster drivers - even for my old SB 16 ISA card!
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2 polls so far
Ghostrecon.com says 53% PC only version to 37% Xbox
Ghostrecon.net says 64% PC only version. to 30% Multiple versions.
Who did Ubi Market research? cus it looks to me hard core GR gamers are PC users in the majority and yet we have no news on the PC version.
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 ago.
As of summer 2004, Xbox titles: GR Xbox, Island thunder total number of sales combined were 1.2 million units over the course of 1.5 years.
Xbox titles are also harder to pirate. It totally makes sense to make and market the Xbox version first.
Let's be patient, PC news will likely trickle out in the next month or so ...
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ok, i'm completely new at the NFS:UG series. so...what do i do here exaclty? all these shops listed, you can find them on the demo map yes? i've found one, but most of the stuff in it seems to be locked. Do i have to race/drift to get it? what places do i need to come in? or are these features not in the demo? can someone please fill me in here
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 ...
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Links:
http://theinquirer.net/?article=19535
http://us.creative.com/products/product.as...1&product=10853
Wow, THX and Dolby Digital?
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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.
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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=
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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
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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 electronics store and try out a bunch for yourself. Maybe bring one of your Hi 8 tapes to see if it works in the Digital 8 camcorder.
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How would I go about seperating them? Do I just need two different IDE cables?
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.
My HDD hasn't made the noise in over a day... hopefully I can keep it.If you want to try keeping it, just make sure you don't have any mission critical info on it. I'd put WinXP and any critical data on your new HD, and after you transfer your info over, you can make your old HD the slave drive on the same IDE channel (since you'll likely want to hook your optical drive back on the other IDE channel). You can install games, apps or anything else you have hard backups on CD on your old HD, and if it fails, nothing critical is lost.
When a HD fail, it tends to be quite sudden and "catastrophic" (especially if you didn't back up your data
)Drill a hole through it. Seriously.LOL, I've heard that one too. FYI, I did read in PC World magazine (or one of those PC mags) that the FBI advises to overwrite data on a HD something like 7 times when discarding a HD, because even if you drill a hole through it, data can be recovered on the platters if you really want to (e.g. by those companies that can recover data from HD's damaged in floods etc.)
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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.
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Good write up there NYR. After knowing what we do about the storylines of both the PS2 and the XBox versions, are we all assuming here that the PC version will be the XBox storyline, or a new one!?
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.
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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
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Outstanding report NYR! Glad you had a great time at the demo!
The PC crowd here needs to know that they will get a game designed for their platform, not a direct port. If RSE wanted to they could port it, but do they want to? No. After playing the game today and chatting with people I personally would be happy with the XBOX version I kid you not, it was that good.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
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I just thought of something else. How should I transfer everything over from my old hard drive to the new Seagate on the way?
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.
Before you discard your old HD, it's best to erase any sensitive data on it by overwriting it rather than just deleting it or reformatting the HD. There some simple programs on the 'net to overwrite whole HDs, or do a low level format of the HD.
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When you can hear it over your 5.1 speakers... yes!
Dude, I wouldn't play around with that system any more until you backup any precious data off that HD and remove it
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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 video on old VHS tapes you need to transfer to DVD.
THANK YOU, RSE!!!
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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.