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I read somewhere there are 3 new games that Crytek are working on which will probably be using that engine. And yeah they are going to have all sorts of different environments in there Looking forward to it!

I highly recommend the Witcher EE. I personally played it twice and got all the quests and its quite an awesome game. Right now I got the Last Remnant and COD5 that are coming with my GTX 285 purchases. I also have Oblivion 4 coming in the pipeline from Amazon since i am interested in what all the hype is about for tha game. But yeah the Witcher hands down is the best RPG I have played.

So for the uninitiated, this is something like using a VM...like Virtualbox and running the OS in it except you dont need to use a VM like Virtualbox?

What OS are you trying to run?

Care to post your session.ini file? Also is that the x64 version? The gentleman with the celeron sure would have liked to have that iso

I think the people who complain most things are racist are probably racist themselves since they actually notice those things...either that or I am just dumb and I overlook all that.

That is a very interesting chart. Wonder where you got it from. Obviously someone spent a lot of time running all those tests and on all those different OS platforms as well!

You are welcome. That said I have yet to try it myself. I just have too many games lined up for completion to bother with anything else right now lol. I will wait after some more optimizations with regards to Physx gets put in the drivers. ITs definitely impressive but for people who push really high resolutions and settings like me question is will it allow me all the eye candy and still work at those settings? And speaking of eye candy thats all Physx has brought so far methinks. I just am not seeing any practical benefits to gameplay as of yet.

TBH I have not downloaded this myself. I heard that if you have a 9 series and above it works wonder. I guess I am a bit out of luck. Perhaps over the weekend I will check it out. Still I guess this is one way Nvidia can try and redeem itself a bit what with them getting their rears handed to them by ATI

I think if you are doing 64 bit nLite you gotta do it on a 64 bit OS. At least that was the message I got the last time when I used nLite Jan this year.

http://www.nvidia.com/content/forcewithin/us/download.asp

Wow now thats an awesome number!

Yes I have heard really good things with server. I think in general server OSes make a better OS because of all the xtra tuning and effort the companies will put in for the enterprises where performance is paramount. That is why I am using XP x64 which is based on WS2003. IMHO it is the best balance in performance and lightweightness.

So based on your annecdode shahed if it IS sluggish why would one want to use it?

I do not deny that drivers for Vista have gotten better. Its still slower compared to XP. Until that gets fixed I for sure and I am sure many others will just refuse to upgrade. And for those who say good drives make the difference give me some examples of good drivers that are NOT from the manufacturers since thats where I got all my drivers from!

Thanks man I will give it a shot. Cheers.

Drivers causing slowness overall? Well if I got the manufacturers drivers so if that is the root cause of the problem well then I would blame it on the drivers but that is not the case. Its still sluggish no matter what way you slice it. I am sure it will get better. SP1 was prob a step in the right direction and I am thinking by the time Windows 7 comes out a lot of fixes and stuff going into that next OS will be put into Vista as well. I am not saying it wont get better it will but its not worth the hassle for me to be beta testing an OS. I have better things to do than hack registries and vlite and hunt for the 'right' drivers.

Well the nforce drivers are usually a driver bundle with mobo, network, raid drivers in there. So since I installed the OS on my system on Jan 1st, I used the latest and greatest nforce drivers at that time and I slipstreamed the nvidia raid drivers in there so that everything would run smoothly. I now notice that a driver update got released in MArch of this year and was considering installing that. My question is do I need to uninstall the nvidia drivers and then reboot and try to install the newer drivers? If I do that would not that uninstall the raid drivers as well and thus make it nearly impossible for me to get back into Windows? Is it also possible to just run the new driver installer and it will overwrite the existing drivers? Anyone have any knowledge on this and care to share?

Well you may have a point there subzero BUT if a well endowed system runs XP just fine and then you slap Vista on it with right drivers etc etc and SP1 before installing any other software and it is still sluggish and slow would it not imply something is wrong with the system? I think and dont take this as flaming or badmouthing or anything bad at all but people always tend to think newer equals better especially when it comes to software and more often than not unfortunately that is not the case. That is just the unfortunate reality of software.

I am ok with a new OS taking up more ram and stuff and more hard drive space as well as long as it is doing SOMETHING beneficial that I can see or ntoice. Yet pretty much everyone even the Vista fans I am sure have had smoe negative experience adn then they did all these tweaks and fixes adn vlite and all that to get it to perform better. Sure there is nothign wrong with modding to get more performance. But even then its not quick enough. THe price is outrageous. There is absolutely no reason to use Vista right now. Someone may say DX 10 and I say show me benefits and advantages of it. Once again just because something is new does not make it better.

Seriously not everything new is supposed to be the greatest. There are lots of examples that can be given but I am not going to waste my time. I just dotn see anythign in Vista that requires me to lose that much hdd space adn that much performance. You can see my specs below and I am using XP x64 and the system flies. I tried Vista and it was just too slow and sluggish and I had those copying issues as well. It would just sit there like a jackass copying small files! WTF!

I use Foxit almsot exclusively on all my machines. Its light and light in my book rules.

I just installed the demo and ran the benchmarks. Pretty awesome looking game really. Here are my runs: THis is my first run everything maxed out without SLI This is with SLI: I love SLI!

You did go into the themes and look for it there right?

Agree wholeheartedly with that post.