DJ_VuDuu

The only error message I get is the standard XP error message: "blah, blah, blah, has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." That one. Thats all I get from games like Planetside, others just blank and return to the desktop without it ever making it to the game. Others, like Rollercoaster tycoon 2, just flat out don't start.

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I just formatted both my hard disks, installed WinXP Pro, none of my newer games ie:Unreal Tournament 2k3, Planetside, Rollercoaster Tycoon 2, Jedi Knight 2, and newer Demos ie: Ghost Master, Chaser. Yet, my older games, ie: Starcraft work fine. Before the re-install, all my games worked fine. I've installed all available updates, including sp1. I have the latest drivers for my video card(ATI Radeon 8500 LE), sound card(Soundblaster Live! Series), and my mobo(Crappy crap brand, w/via chipset). Now, I know all of these games work, so why am I having problems? I have a picture of the error message that comes up when I run the Planetside launcher, it's similar to all the others, but I don't know how, or where to post it, ask me and I can e-mail it to you or something. Thanks in advance.

Looks too much like one of those failed Mac-In-The-Box's (Mac's G4 Cube)to me. the window is neat, but thats pretty much it

Downloading Blubster now, thanks for recommending it, Kazaa was getting a little long in the tooth. I just love my downloads cancelling half way through because some yokel decides he doesn't want to share anymore

w00t Nice

A cheap water cooling system sounds a little fishy to me. I think FthrJACK is right, if you are going to go the route of watercooling, you may want to invest more than 90 bucks, just seems like something you wouldn't want to skimp out on and risk drowning your computer. Knowing my luck, that'd probably happen to me if I tried it

I completely agree, I have been building my own computers for myself and a couple here and there for friends, for about 5+ years now, it's really easy to learn, and it's a much better alternative than going through a big named company, if you build your own computer, you get to choose what goes on it and what doesn't. Here is one guide that may be helpful, http://www.daileyint.com/build/ , it's got pretty clear pictures on how to install the basic stuff. Hope it helps anyone who is interested in building their own comptuers.

I was in Best Buy a few days before X-Mas and saw it for 69.95, I want it, but I've already got the logitech wireless Keyboard Mouse Combo with rechargeable batteries, so I'm fine for now. BTW, the keyboard and mouse are great for gaming in bed when your just too **** lazy to get up and game at the desk

There are too many sensitive people out there who just don't want to have their feeling hurt by "Offensive" material, be it video games(ie. Hitman 2), music(ie. Eminem) etc, It's pretty astounding but then again, I don't really care about 99 percent of the population on this planet, so why am I worried? They are just games!! They don't translate to real life!! if they do, it's in miniscule amounts, by stupid people who really should know better!! There we go, I've ranted, I feel better.

HeeHeeHee, planes make people go boom! Thank god they put more anti tank weapons in, now I might be able to actually stop my friend who likes to go on tank rampages FthrJack, how often do you play online, and what game types do you favor?

Well that was before they started getting all these cool games Although I still don't like the small child-sized controllers they have Hey dood, let me know when you have some free time, I need to come bug you or something. It's entirely too boring down here.

Congrats you two! Thats a hell of an X-mas present!! w00t Didn't get much, but I liked/needed what I got Braun Electric self cleaning razor, Gift Certificates, candy, George Carlin Desk Calendar and some other trinkets. Candy almost gone

Splinter Cell Definetly looks pretty cool, I'd probably only rent it if I got an X-Box though, right now I'm deciding on whether I should buy a PS2 or an X-Box, the X-Box comes with 2 games and PS2 doesn't so X-Box is winning my vote for now, but barely.

While I do agree on Shogun being the worst choice there, I don't see how so few people liked Total Annihilation the least out of the 3 (Shogun not being a real choice) Boggles the mind. vuduu

I know many of you probably have UT2k3 already, but one thing I can't find online yet is any decent mods, maybe I haven't been looking hard enuf, if anyone of you knows of a place where I can find some decent mods, please help me out, I need more UT tweakage!!! It's also astounding how easy the new editor is :will be making many maps in the future, or at least attempting to vuduu

Not sure how to upgrade the DVD Firmware, is it messy? As for the drivers, I've the got the newest, I thought that might help, no such luck, and ram, I've got 850 mb, and how would I change my page file size? And my DVD shouldn't be dying, I bought it not even 6 months ago, maybe around June or July, but just barely out of warranty. For now I'll download the other player, PowerDVD is getting annoying too. Thanks man. -Ian

I'm running Win XP, with a Radeon 8500 le, and Sony DVD drive, it was running fine for a while, now it done went and got all choppy on me, messed around with all the settings in PowerDVD, messed with the video card, defragged my hd, cleaned my cache, everything but a fresh XP install, should I try that?

20? ****, I guess we are gonna be 20 this year drew, ****, I feel so old now, **** you and your making me feel old-ness!!! Heh, Happy B-day bro.

WooooHooooo! I got 113 second try! Hahahaha, they think the crosswalk is safe, hahahahah! I feel like playing carmageddon now...

I can't agree more! Easy cd Creator just doesn't like XP, I've been using Nero for about 4 maybe 5 months now and I've had no problems with it. Good luck with it either way!

I've broken 3 so far, one even started to vibrate, cause I left it on and didn't know it was broken(a cable tie got at it) and it shook my whole **** desk. Will probably break more in future.

I just can't imagine going from filling my car with anti-freeze, to filling a laptop with anti-freeze.

Drools..... Why didn't I wait for this one! damnit... I suppose my 8500 will still last me a while...

Good cpu coolers, other case and hd coolers, case mods, many things to waste money on for my computer... ati cards, turtle beach and creative sound cards.