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Im always a paladin, but the 2nd kinda sub-class 1, cant remember what its called Tried being a mage but i have like 4 hp so i kinda die alot

I hope its a substantial manual from what ive heard it sounds pretty complex

Is it actually worth getting? its not out here yet i dont think, the combat looks a bit weird to me, kinda like thief and i didnt really like that at least the water looks like it uses pixel shaders first game in ages that actually uses some of these new features

Yeah even if your using 5.1 speakers tis a pain but games only seem to use 4 of the speakers and give you a big blank directly infront where the centre would be.

Sounds like you got it set to 5.1 speakers in the audigy audio centre thingy. Try setting it to 4 point or quadraphonic and you should be able to hear people speaking directly infront of you.

No-one released games on CDs when CD drive were new, but now look Will be same with DVD drives, thing is though that i must have got my 16x DVD drive almost a year ago now and i still cant find any faster ones to buy. Maybe they realise there is no point atm

Sorry if this sounds really insulting, but....whats the point. Any change you make can surely only provide the most tiny performance difference.

Dunno how you work that out sapiens.

Seems to me that every time someone has an IBM drive fail they need to tell everyone about it anyway, i can only speak from experience but ive had 2x60gxp drives that i have had since they were first released and they are still spinning as i type this. I have however now had 3 maxtor drives fail. As far as the TH7-II goes, ive got that board, it has next to 0 tweaks in the bios apart from overclocking and be warned it does have a slight cold boot problem when significantly overclocked (you may need to turn it on and then push reset for it to boot correctly). Apart from that, great board and 100% stable.

well you cant really blame em, they finally make a standard OS that does what both NT and 9x can do (supposedly) and they need to push ppl into dropping 9x would be alot easier for them just supporting NT. i would think that there must be a 9x version of dx9 though.

The chipset does, but the board may not, you had better check with the board makers site.

For some reason it does depend on the picture yeah, im able to get jpg on most pics but for some there is only the bmp option

Thats really a feature of intel chipsets rather than the board, as far as i know the abit and epox ones also do this. btw had fun playing cs with ya palos ill pop in again sometime

Try going into Internet Explorer and going to tools->internet options->connections tab and set it to 'never dial a connection'. Shouldnt ask you to dial when you play mohaa then.

They need to make a directx that looks as 'nice' and as crisp as opengl.

Yeah i remember signing up for it, no email from ms for me though

Ah it doesnt matter really, 3dmarks mean nothing. As long as you can run your games well with your current setup there is no need to change anything.

wow i didnt know you could do that

It should always say "ECC ram" or whatever when its ECC, if it doesnt say ecc or non-ecc then it will mean its not ECC ram. As far as i know if you got some ECC ram and stuck it in a board that doesnt support it it wont work at all.

ah i just like cuteftp, does everything i need and it was pretty easy to figure out.

k checked it out after spending 30mins downloading your custom sounds i finally made it in, i get around 70ping.

Final Fantasy 7, just a shame it wont work fully under XP.

Baldurs Gate cos i just like the whole BG storyline.

Well this is really the 1 game that I really wanted working in 2000/XP and now its working im happy..... Finally i can get back to moving that coal to the powerplants, simple but fun

Yup this is great innit I cant beleve someone actually went to the trouble to get this working in 2000, now every problem with 2000/xp is solved ! Anyway, 2 problems, as far as i know it wont work full screen in NT4, and the multiplayer doesnt work under 2000/xp, but im just happy i can now play this awesome game