Mr.Guvernment

question, what does IIRC stand for..LOL - been wondering for a while.....

tell the people to use kazaa lite,. as we all know how much spyware kazaa has in it! could be very well these people are clicking any and every window that pop's up saying "download and installl blah blah - like C2 media" when they browse the web. this is new to me, but i will keep an eye out for anything on it.

SATA - one device per channel - Price - it is not worth the high price / performance ratio. for the price of an 80g SATA - i can get a 160g WD. - and the performace tests i have seen only show that it keep's a more high end speed when transfering files unlike ata which tends to slow down near the end of transfering files.

Supposedly new nvidia drivers are not certified because they do not contain full instrcutions for Dx9 or something, and most of the new drivers are for tyhe FX series cards - so certified drivers above 41.09 may not been seen for a while..... but ic ould be wrong!

the name with the date - it is the releases information for the "w@rez" version, thas all. as for the chipset - have you looked for updates for your motherboard and sounds card? Do you have a PCI sound card you could try out and disable the onboard sound?

Quote: For the same reason people used to post "Gaming on Win2k Advanced Server" threads. If somebody is going to download something they shouldn't rather than just ripping off a workstation OS they go and rip-off a massive server one instead. and the funny part is, you could of downloaded it for free anyways!! well, upto RC2. but yeah, if your gonna go, go big!

Quote: I just carry around my swiss army Imax Theatre . You just never know when you're going to need some 360 degree television. BUAHHAHAHAHAHHAHH!!! thas classic!

^^^^ Yes very true, the increase from 9700 to 9800 is minimal - for me it is more the 256mb that has me interested i am not sure if it will be called the 9800 (as that is out already) as the 256mb is to have DDRII, so it maybe called something else... guess i shall have to wait and see. hopefully the next AIW in wil have the same clocks' as the pro card , as the 9700 AIW does, but i beleive it uses a slower ramdac chip? like 4ns instead of 3ns found on the pro card. either way as said - got to wait for reviews.

Quote: Jokes are funnier with facts. Sorry you had to make things up. Anyways it'll be more fun for me to debunk. Please take no offense b. thank you very much! - u just saved me alot of typing and searching! Facts always are si much better!

Hey all. i formated my system today - well lastnight - Xp - SP1 - office XP - Sp2 a few other small apps in so far. and i can not run any .msi installers!! all i get is: i have tried a dozen fixes from the web i could find but none are working!! HELPPPPPPPPPPPPP!

So simply go into my lef tover drive (e) and set permission again?

lol okay, was to be a joke, or that is how i took it at least. canada is the US's larges supplier of imports - to my knowledge.?? but yeah - this goes into why should all the people of canada, or all of the people of america be labeled based on what their governments control - as said - bush should not even be in office! to me that is ridicoulus - there are many canadians who support the war - and just as many americans who do not. - (look @ the almost 500,000 protestor's who showed up in new york.) It seem's many americans think that just because we are your neighbors - we should fight a war that you started - or choose to start - against the advice of many other nations - for some rather unclear reasons- so because we do not support you, we are to be punished - that seems something typical of the US - bulley your way around to get what you want - hence how this war likely began. i thought america was the land of the free? So why such hatred for those who can think for them selves and make a decision about this war that suit's their interests - and not that of CNN and every other media source trying to shove "patriotism" down your throat because if you do not support the war - u are no patriotic? BS. Even if the US did want to do something to us, you think the rest of the world would sit by and let it happen, i think not.

going to check this out, and i am sure u can get something to "unecnrypt" - much like flash files.... or is it a custom made encryption they did. a pdf file, will see if i can find anything.

Quote: Well if your studying for MCSE, performing network testing at home for work, developing applications for server software, familiarizing yourself with the software. These are all valid reasons for why someone would want to "game" in a server OS. Why reboot to a Workstation OS when you don't have to? I would say depending on how you use your computer converting a Server OS for Workstation Gaming would in some ways be just as easy to get your Workstation OS into a gaming state. We all have different requirements for how we use our computers. yes good point - but likely by the words of this post, this person is not part of the MS beta testing if u know what i mean - otherwise they would know if it can be used and what ever. a good chance, and please correct me if i am wrong, but they likely download it froma source that claimed it was the final server 2003 - funny, since it is not even out yet. (rc2 i beleive?)

Quote: The error couldn't possibly be happening on two Laptops could it? it didn't run on my brother's Laptop as well..the same exact model....maybe its spoilt....but i've installed other games before.. first u say "bought" then u say "friendly" please clarify? did you try copyng the game to your hard drive? and running it - if so, that takes out the possiblity of a bad *rom drive. if it is a "friendly" copy, as in w@rez version, then could be your drive as i do know of many who do have the game, illegally obtained, and it works fine. (w@rez groups do not relaease games that do not install and if they do they release another working version or a patch.)

downloaded (03.26.03.toca_race_driver_proper-immersion) or bought? what new mobo u getting? (just got the BH7 myself) got all windows updates? check for any game updates? check the read me file for possible issues with certain hardware?

admin rights no permissions blocking - all regular .exe files work fine. it is a partition left over . edit okay - i just copied the file to my root c drive and it works? (did not yesterday) so why only MSI files and not exe's?

i like my sig now overclockiung rules! any one have a 3.1 cpu yet, no! i do - and sometimes it is a 3.2! with this new Abit BH7 mobo on a quick run my 3dmark2001se (not that it means anything) went up 7k to 17k from 10k maybe the o/c Ti4600 helped as well

don't buy the 9700 AIW yet - wait for the 9800 (april supposedly) to come out with 256mb - i would "hope" that shortly after they will have the AIW 256 versions - although maybe pricey. Last week i bought for my over clocking needs the new ABit BH7 motherboard - allowed me to take my 2.4C! upto 3.1 with stock fan and voltage!. - also grabbed 512 pc3200. Now i am saving up for dual LCD's - either 18" or 19" but i can not find ANY that go to a 1600 x1200 res. Does anyone know of any LCD"s that go to 1600 x 1200 res? all i can find is 1280 x 1024!

^^^ exactly one forum, with in a month ithink it iwas, i was up @ 28 post per day average ...lol then i stopped for a few days and it dropped to 12. got to get it back up there, but that is what happenes when u join anew forum, u go nuts! then calm down.

Quote: Actually, as surprising at it may seem I get better gaming performance on 2000 rather than XP. I get about 150 points more 3DMark 2001 score and almost 50 more in the 3DMark03 score. So I have switched back to 2000 as a result. 150 and 50 is not a comparable difference- i get that difference by running the test 2 or 3 times after reboots on the same machine.

Quote: ...and the weekly OS Vs Os thread is started. . again? aren't there enough of these darn threads - everyone has to be a critic. Both XP and 2k rules - it depends what u are used to - period! just cause to one person Xp suxs, does not mean it does to others or vice - versa. TO be honest, this is such an OLD topic, that i don't think anyone really cares any more as people can make their own choices and decide for them selves via trial and error. I would not mind seeing a sticky here as i do on many other forums along the lines of: "no more XP vs 2k threads" "no more AMD vs Intel threads" because it is just the same crap over and over and over and over and over! and is usually a waste of bandwidth. EDIT But it is nice to see well typed out replies here as many have done,. such as Alec and clutch (and others) as they always do.

Just found out someone els ehere installed kazaa on their laptop - the accountant! - i flipeed - and they had upload enable so anyone could download all they want! was wondering why the Inet was so slow lately (office is in our house) - that was why - like 30 people downloading from us!

well, came across this article, - and well, the FX from what they say, whether true or not, as i am reading more and more - is not such a HUGE gain over the 9700 pro...?? - and is bring features and speed that the ATi had over 4 months ago. Memory bandwidth - FX - 16g /sec - ATI 19g/ sec - but the Nvidia is also using DDRII - 1ghz speeds - ATI use DDR 1 - 600mhz speeds - so that should help - when games that can use that come out Dissecting GeForce FX These vapors aren't so potent http://www.tech-report.com/etc/2002q4/geforce-fx/index.x?pg=1 Now this was done back in November - but how much have their specs changed? As i find other more up 2 date articels i will post - as well - anyone else? Since this card is to be out the first weeek of Feb. now. WHO KNEW NVIDIA WOULD stick a Dustbuster to the side of its next-gen graphics card in order to cool the GPU to where it could reach clock speeds higher than the Radeon 9700? Honestly, I figured all the new technology, from a 0.13-micron fab process to DDR-II-type memory, would take care of things for NVIDIA on the performance front. But here we are after the product announcement, about four months from the product's projected availability date, and the GeForce FX reference design has an appendage a la Black and Decker. Actually, I don't mind the OTES concept on a premium high-end card, even though it eats a PCI slot. But we found the Ti 4200 incarnation of this beast to be alarmingly loud. Let's hope NVIDIA's ultra-high-priced, high-end card doesn't sound like a Dustbuster. Advertisement However, the details of GeForce FX's chip architecture are surprisingly tame. We knew ATI had beaten NVIDIA to the punch, but most of us expected NVIDIA's counterpunch to be a little more potent. Now that the GeForce FX specs have hit the street, it's safe to say that ATI produced the exact same class of graphics technology over six months before NVIDIA. At the time I wrote my comparative preview of the Radeon 9700 and NV30-cum-GeForce FX, NVIDIA was being cagey about the NV30's exact specifications. They were claiming (under NDA, of course) that the NV30 would have 48GB/s memory bandwidth, but we now know the part has 16GB/s of memory bandwidth, plus a color compression engine that's most effective when used with antialiasing (where it might achieve a peak of 4:1 compression, but will probably deliver something less—hence the 48GB/s number). The Radeon 9700 Pro has 19.4GB/s of memory bandwidth, thanks to old-fashioned DDR memory and a double-wide, 256-bit memory bus. NVIDIA was also fuzzy, back then, about the exact number of texture units per pixel pipe in NV30. We now know the GeForce FX has eight pipes with one texture unit each, just like the Radeon 9700. So don't expect any massive performance advantages for the GeForce FX in current games. Only the higher clock speeds, afforded partly by the Black and Decker appendage, will give the GFFX a nominal fill rate higher than the Radeon 9700. Yawn. I could go on. The GeForce FX features DirectX 9 compliance, floating-point color formats, adaptive anisotropic filtering, and an early Z routine to eliminate overdraw. Just like the Radeon 9700. The GeForce FX offers an antialiasing routine hitched to yet another marketing term; the new Intellisample replaces the outdated Accuview. Intellisample is gamma-corrected multisampling—just like the Radeon 9700. Only the color compression engine, which promises to conserve memory bandwidth, separates the GFFX from ATI's top chip. The thing is, the 9700's antialiasing is already very fast, and in true next-gen applications, GPU pixel processing power should become the big limitation, not memory bandwidth. (Update: Whoops, I forgot. The Radeon 9700 has color compression that it uses with antialiasing, as well.) Nymph demo chick: hot You get the point. Other than slightly higher clock speeds, the GeForce FX doesn't appear to offer any compelling advantages over the Radeon 9700. TSMC's 0.13-micron fab process has proven to be much more of a headache and a liability than anything else, and the GFFX's availability date still hangs out in the air, at least four months away, as a result. The use of DDR-II-type memory instead of conventional DDR and wider memory paths has pedestrian advantages like potentially lower board costs and simpler PCB layouts, but those benefits will be available to ATI as its graphics cards make the transition to DDR-II memory. Now, none of this is to say the GeForce FX doesn't have its appeal. For instance, the nymph chick in that NVIDIA demo is hot. Plus, any product as good as—or possibly even a little better than—the current Radeon 9700 Pro is one helluva spectacular graphics chip. The GeForce FX promises to be superior to the Radeon 9700 in extreme cases where loads of pixel shaders ops need executed in a single pass for performance reasons (though these are definitely non-gaming scenarios we're talking about here). And NVIDIA's overall assets as a company, from always-solid drivers to good board manufacturing partners to developer relations initiatives like Cg, should propel the GeForce FX to success. That success, when it comes, will be much needed. Only now are the true effects of NVIDIA's missed product cycle with NV30 coming into focus. NVIDIA is no longer the graphics technology leader, in title or, soon, in sales. NVIDIA has held on to its market share over the past few quarters, even with the Radeon 9700 on the scene, because its mainstream and low-end products were still very competitive. That won't be the case for much longer, as ATI pushes its R300 and R200 technology generations down into the mainstream and value segments, respectively. Already, the Radeon 9000 Pro is the best choice for under $100, and soon, the Radeon 9500 and 9500 Pro will fill store shelves, ready to bring floating-point pixels to all the good little Christmas shoppers. All NVIDIA has to counter with are warmed-over versions of the GeForce and GeForce3 graphics cores mated to AGP 8X interfaces. That is to say, NVIDIA is a full technology generation behind in the value and mainstream market segments. Word has it that the GeForce FX-derived NV31 and NV34 chips are just now entering tape-out at TSMC, and in all likelihood, those chips won't hit the market until a month or more after the first NV30-based cards arrive. Of course, the GeForce FX may be pretty darned fast when it arrives. The benchmarks will tell that story. Also, of course, ATI may have a faster variant of the Radeon 9700 on store shelves before the GFFX arrives. But now that we've had a real whiff of the GeForce FX vapors, the reality is clear: this concoction isn't potent enough to freeze the market for four to six months. If you want a next-gen graphics card now, you might as well go pick up a Radeon 9500 or 9700 and start enjoying it right away. [/list:u]

9800 coming soon! the FX lower end cards may look half decent, but i think i would still get an ATI 9200 or something