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I use to never think about this but recently i've taken to checking my machine whenever i move it. I guess with a slot based drive it should be okay *shrug* with with tray loading I have noticed with some that when moving the machine ..or tipping at certain angles the cd in the tray would become dislodged .. I came clsoe to probably wrecking a cd or two when i ejected the tray and was almost ready to insert when i noticed a cd just floating inside. So i guess never leave your cd in when moving

Are we talking about Shadow Warriors?? The arcade game? The one also known as Ninja Gaiden elsewhere? The one where you can toss guys ..kick ...and sumos at the end of a level, punks etc Is that the one???? I had no idea it had been released as a PC game .. HOWEVER I have played it using MAME and the sounds ..graphics all work fine in XP.

My vote too for 12.41

Okay after some testing there is some sort of bug with the new XP drivers; the official ones. It appears to me that they work fantastic with the newer cards but there is a slight issue with the TNT2 Ultra and perhaps others. I was running a dual card setup with the Geforce2MX and TNT2 Ultra. Geforce2 MX crapped out and I was forced to use hte TNT2 Ultra. Everything was crapped out, screen savers ..games ..Direct3d wouldn't detect, OpenGL..etc So I thought ..a clean install was needed but nope it was still the same. Instead I went and got the official win2k 1 release back. They are working beautiful. I was getting strange results with the official xp drivers.. For instance when I started dxdiag and conducted the direct3d test it would work ..but a second time round and it would fail. The same evreywhere ..things would run once if I was lucky. ITs like a register was not reset properly or something. Anyohw ..thought you might like to know ..i spent a frustrated 4 days.

but it will be back eventually .. you should have tracked down the memory leak. For instance ... Next time it says that .. check your task manager. Close ALL the tasks down and if your memory is still high ..that means one of the apps is unstable or poorly written.

You should be able to ..i used it once or twice ..and went back to my editor and the suns jdk. For me the GUI is neither her or there ..

Have you guys played around with the settings at all in Xp? The network connection no longer comes up automatically. Neither does your 'precious' volume control You can to go to the control panel ..do volume properties ..and then on one of the tabs ..there is an option to make it appear in your task bar. The same for showing your network connection ie. the network card versus an ADSL auntheticated connection which is shown on the taskbar anyway. No doubt some other things dont appear on the bar anymore which is good. IT was getting too crowded anyway.

ATI also have dual mon capability ... If you were to rank in terms of IMAGE quality it would be (TOP to bottom) Matrox ATI Nvidia If you were interested in GAMES with ImAGE quality in mine than ATI is probably the medium. I dont know if DUAL AGP is the solution. Given that at the moment anything aside from the primary monitor in win2k/XP is more of a helper screen. A place to dump your tool bars ..palettes etc etc. The Nvidia drivers are suppose to give OPENGL accelerated performance IF both cards are Nvidia on every screen for work stuff like maya ..3dstudio. Which is hardly games type stuff ..meaning you craft models ..than render ..so we are talking about realtime generation most of the time.

Scuse me? All Nvidia cards support dual monitor in that if you add another NVIDIA card the driver will detect it and you will get two screens. IF you are referring to DUAL monitor OUTPUT from ONE card then only the Geforce2MX offers thsi solution. As far as I know ...I have tried ..TNT2 Ultra, TNT2 M64, Geforce2MX 400 and in all combinations I was able to get a dual screen setup going. Again it is the driver that you use that will depend on the features. For example some drivers will allow you to play games without needing to disable the second monitor ..although this is typically a OPENGL problem ..hope this clears up some things.

really? i haven't seen XP but i thought 30-35 secs was great in win2k mine might even be lower ..25 perhaps. the thing that helped me speed up was allocating a static ip address to my nic .. i have a via chipset so i got all the proper stuff correct ata100 drivers and that was what sped it up.

oops ..doh .. yeah ..mistake by me .. i gotten use to people talking about driver version = this frame rate type of stuff

no offence intended but 1 fps difference? do you even notice?

which games did you have trouble running?

hmm tough question. The answer is MAYBE but the hassle is just too great and you can never recover it completely. If you were running Norton Undelete monitor (whatever its called now) you might be able to. I guess u want a plausible solution. First you need a DISK explorer editor .. this will look at the information on the drive. The odds of finding all that info relies on two things 1) other data has not overwritten your area. 2) other data has not overwritten your area. The odds of data NOT overwritting those clusters is very rare in NT since the page file grows ..internet explorer writes temp files. The same applies in 9x. Even uisng a DISK tool you are just hoping to retrieve addresses because anything else other than text is abit more complicated. If you feel the data is too precious there are firms who go the next level.

I am only going to say this based on what other people here have said with regards to D2; regarding the creation of keys. IF THIS is the case then..it is relatively simple. Give your brother ADMIN rights (wait till i finish) Log in as him ...play diablo2 ...that should create the keys quit game. log off ..remove his admin rights and IF d2 works that way it should then find the keys next time..provided it does not modify anything else. I have not tried this since i am the only one on my computer.