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quote:Originally posted by SmileyMan: Give her a phone, sit her next to you while you play, and you can turn off the bridge chatter effects...... (ducks!) LOL! You don't know how true that is.

Hey, who said we went off topic. I dunno 'bout you, but my missus does WONDERS for my framerate.

LOL!

quote: C'mon, I am a happy married man!! So are most of the Italians I know and that never stopped them.

quote: Well, maybe not you.... Stay AWAY from my wife! I know about you Italians.......

Hey Stephanos, doesn't LotR open in Italy till next month? It's already started here in Svizzera, I'll come down and steal your PC, you come up here and watch the film (All films are shown in the original version with F and D subtitles) Mind you, good luck getting any ticks.

quote:Originally posted by Stephanos: Paddy, last thing I can think of to help you: you live quite close to me (you live in Switzerland, I live in Italy), get the train and come here. What, you'll give me your PC? Thanks man, I'll be on the Cisalpino tonight. Please make sure the goods are correctly packaged and in full working order. Ah Milano, might as well do some Christmas shopping while I'm there: /rp 'Look darling, look what I bought you while I was in Milan' said Paddy, grinning mischeviously, as he removed a pair of crocodile skin Dolci & Gabbana shoes and Giorgio Armani cocktail dress from his overnight bag. 'Oh sweetheart, I love you so much' gushed his beautiful wife. She looked over his shoulder, 'Paddy, what's that in that large box?' 'Which box?' he replied innocently 'That one, by the door' 'Oh, THAT box' he laughed nervously, 'It's just a computer.........' SMACK!!!! /rp

quote: Do what I also did: start a new hobby that is not game related, but that could become a job in the future (I choosed digital photograpy and web designing) and tell your wife (I did) that you can't develope your skills with the PC you currently have. You need an upgrade to improve your knowledge of the subject and to work without problems. Oh yeah, she's REALLY gonna buy that one.

quote:Originally posted by Fendi: Pics? Behave!

quote:Originally posted by buckthesystem: taking the piss? LOL! That's hilarious. I especially liked the action shot, although that colour indicates a fair amount of dehydration........

quote: Does that say a celeron 633 on a 440LX motherboard?!?! That's one old Mobo, and I'm surprised (impressed) a 633 celeron works on it. Anyway, your CPU is your biggest bottleneck. Remember, that celeron is only a 66mhz bus. There's only so much blood you can squeeze out of it. Yes it does. I have a Powerleap PLiP3 slocket. It is a slocket with a voltage regulator, which means I can run FC-PGA cpus on a 66Mhz board. The problem is I can't use any other AGP video boards except 3dfx, due to problems with my board, video chipsets and SSE (or something like that) quote:Save up. Your next upgrade before anything else should be a motherboard and CPU. Heh, tell me about it! Then try and convince my Missus: 'You don't need a new computer, you only use it for your games. It's just a hobby' Only! ONLY! She doesn't understand..........

quote: Santa shoots woman SAO PAULO (Reuters) - A man in a Santa suit set aside his bag of gifts, drew a gun from his trademark black belt and shot a woman on a Sao Paulo street, wounding her in the wrist and face. The unidentified Santa was handing out candy to motorists stopped at a traffic light when he yanked the draw strings on his bag of sweets, pulled a revolver from his belt and fired at a woman who was entering her car parked nearby, said a spokesman at the Sao Paulo police department. "The woman was wounded in her wrist and face but was not seriously hurt," said the spokeswoman. She said the incident did not appear to be a botched robbery but gave no other explanation for the shooting. A witness helped police artists draw up a composite sketch of the shooter Santa after she saw him with his beard, red suit and gloves removed. Those items, along with the gun, were recovered by police. Local media reported the woman was involved in a paternity suit and said police were investigating the crime as a possible act of retaliation.

I know about the graphic glitches with V5, and I'm prepared to live with them. Would it slow up my framerate so drastically though?

I play as an assassin and any illegal cargo is confiscated if you dock at a Terran Military station. Don't know about other races, I didn't try it once I got caught out the first time. I'd forgotten to even check what it was before I docked. Luckily I went back to the save game and it was illegal gems or something, worth over 1 million creds (I think, well it was a lot anyway). Needless to say, after restoring the game I stuck it in a shuttle before docking and sold it at the next trader station instead. Easy money.

Saint19, maybe I misunderstood, are you blind or just partially-sighted? Maybe it's a difference in interpretation, but over here 'blind' is taken to mean 0% vision. If you are partially-sighted; I really respect that you work in the face of such adversity. If you are 100% blind, I really, REALLY respect you, but tell me how do you play video games (or read this forum for that matter)? Anyway, whatever you do, kudos to you, sir.

I've already dropped down a notch on the audio, and music is off. I'd like to keep the bridge chatter, it keeps me sane! Utter silence would kill me off. Maybe I'll play around with the video acceleration. problem is we have guests till after the New Year and yep, you guessed it, the office doubles as the guest room. So I'm not going to be able to get in there much over the next fortnight. Gives me a few things to think about though.

Problem is, I don't have enough money to buy either a new PC or a vid card at the moment. I'm just looking for tweak suggestions right now. I did actually drop to 640 x 480 at one stage and didn't really see any appreciable difference.

quote: Your rig barely meets the game's minimum requirements. As such, you shouldn't be running higher than 640x480 Wait a minute, my rig is actually nearer the recommended requirements. Or does the fact it is a celeron really let me down bigtime?

Hey SC, the ski season is nearly upon us. Strap on those Salomens and take to the piste....or are you, God forbid, Snowboarder type?

Wait! Before you slam me, this is a not a tech-support issue, more of a comparison and tip request. I get pretty low framerates, even in just free flight/non-combat situations (20 - 25 fps), if there's a battle going on it can drop down to 6 - 7 fps. I never run the game higher than 800 x 600, 16 bit everything, bitmap contrails etc. How do performances on people with similar machines compare to mine? I know the game is processor intensive, but I'm sure I saw somewhere someone getting 40fps during flight, and they had a lower spec than me. What's the best way to improve this without taking away too much from the candy? I suppose I never really noticed it in other games as no other game has a FPS indicator. Could something like reformatting help (I've been considering it) or does that help more with the stability side of things in general? Like I said, I'm just looking for suggestions / tips etc. Yes, yes, I know The airlock is this way..........

Sounds like a hoax / urban myth to me.......

That is just COMPLETELY whacked out. Brilliant!

Bella! Didn't understand a word, well that's not true actually, but still didn't understand it much. Get Stephanos onto it.

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It's one thing having warez in the first place, but to openly admit it on a gaming site?....