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This might not help but I have a G4 and if I use any drivers higher than 44.03 there is no Pixel Shadeing. If I use 44.03 its all there and Morrwind looks great.

Go for it! Now on my computer is way faster then XP. To buy it for a gaming pc would be stupid. As for games running test it for your self, so far I have read about alot of games not running yet the ONLY one that quits is FOR ME is Vietcong, which runs fine just quits about 20min in the game. Like BF, I just play it and it played fine. Me I got WinNet free.

Sorry guys but this game sucks. Why? well we went in to this house and my buddy starts shoting while the getting shot at. So I'm standing there watching as they get shot about 150 times yet no one dies. This was not the 1st time. Some expansion.

Quote: I usually like TDK as well, but I would like to throw out a warning - their newer drives (48x and 40x) are not nearly as good as the old ones. My roommate bought a 48x, and about every third disc he burned was bad. Also, my 12x TDK was ripping cd audio literally five times faster. It's no wonder then that you can find the TDK 40x and 48x drives for around $100, yet the 32x still costs $150... lol I should have put that in there that mine is 16x.... Thanks I will remember what you said about there newest ones..

OMG I can almost see it.....the bsod, it was caused by just one thing Now if someone could help me and find out what that one thing is..

Pop-up stopper. Its the best. I have never had ONE ad slip by. I also use Fast Browser which has a ad stopper with it.

Quote: Hi, I have Windows XP Pro installed on my computer and just now I've reinstalled my NFS games (3, 4, and 5). None of those seem to work, are there any patches available for this problem? Thanks in advance BaRaBaS For Need for speed high staks I found a "nfshspatch450" and the it worked great. And PORSCHE just works great. At 1st I tried compatibility and it worked but man it was slow. I turned if off and now every thing works...

Well I'll put my 2 cents in, I love the TDK. Never ever had a problem burning anything.

I was just reading somthing about the new NV30 http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=5833 I am not sure how ture it is but wow..

A good place to try is http://www.3dsoundsurge.com/drivers.html#Recent%20additions They keep it real good...

Well I have Nvidia GF2 and GF3 and VIA and Radeon and all work great. You need to look into it your self. Your always going to find someone for and against.

Sorry but it is not DirectX. I'v got a Geforce3 and a SB Audigy and Nascar 4 runs super fast. I know for a fact its the Sound card because philips, Herc, and a old SB live. When the SB live is in everything goes slow. The others work great.

WOW

Sorry bud, {Geforce} For WinME and now WinXP with 3d glasses. I should have put that in there. 3D Glasses.

I did that first before I posted. So I looked to see whats been updated and all I have there is Windows XP Compatibility Windows XP Hotfix (SP1) x4 I dont think its the compatibility is it? Anyway let know if you find out or anything...

Hay dood where did you get this patch??

Yep I did the VIA bus thing and now my burner does not work right at all. Nero and fireburner work great but just reading a CD is very hard..

Try VDMSound sorry dont have a link but I just did it for my kids (dos game) ren great...

You know I have on the other computer a Radeon 64 and with XP I had SO many problems with d3d and opengl. Now the drivers that came with XP worked but had tarring. So I downloaded the new drivers for the 8500 and yes it would not install so I went the temp dir and installed it the manual way and every thing works great.

I have the Asus G3 and the TV-in works great. I do not like the ATI's.

LOL, well since you just asked a ?. Neather ONE gets to MS. Theres programs around the can tell you what/where is getting sent out. Theres nothing wrong in wondering if MS is getting info.........

Hay try here.. http://www.3dsoundsurge.com/ubb/Forum13/HTML/000145.html

At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated "if GM had kept up with the technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon." In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: "If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics: 1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day. 2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car. 3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull over to the side of the road, close all of the car windows, shut it off, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this. 4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine. 5. Only one person at a time could use the car unless you bought "CarNT", but then you would have to buy more seats. 6. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive-but would only run on five percent of the roads. 7. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "General Protection Fault" warning light. 8. New seats would force everyone to have the same sized butt. 9. The airbag system would ask "are you SURE?" before deploying. 10. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna. 11. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of Rand McNally Road maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though they neither need nor want them. Attempting to delete this option would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50% or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Dept. 12. Every time GM introduced a new car, car buyers would have to learn to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car. 13. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off.

Hay don't be sorry. Some of us (me) must not get out much..

You know with 2600 I still get the same msg"could not be restored to an earlier date"