jstuart

Also, Cmdr Nova, you never know, it just may be the GCV Supremacy that may need some help

I thank you for the wisdom But if you are the welcome wagon, where is my flowers and fruit basket?? Hey, you betta get a contract over at the corporation with Riga and have do the delievery!

Also, to Jeffrey Eu, I received your email, been too busy at work/home to respond. Hope fully can devote more time now.

Sounds like quite an interesting undertaking! A Corporation where contracts/jobs/services and or other things FOR A PRICEare provided! Those who are in the corp get a better prices for there services, those who are not, still can find work but for not the best price. A logo, a website and home base of operations, sounds great! A charter for the Corp to follow; don't make it to technical, we are Independents, we answer to know one, that's why we didn't join a fleet. For the whole part, a division of castes or soughts is ok, but too much organization makes us more like a fleet. But the diversity in races will keep us apart. For example: If I have a contract (all hypotheticcl), and I am returning to say home base, and I see a couple of Gammulan ships beating up a Galcom Terran trader vessel, because I am a Terran, by choice, and yet the Galcom is in the Corporation, who is to say, I can't open fire on the Gammulan vessels and save the Terran Galcom vessels in order to make a buck, because I am a Mercenary? And Interesting point? Does that then get me in trouble with the Corp and possibly a bounty on my head? All in all, count me in.

Make sure the threads backed, if its on a Intel based cpu, its going down the crapper! Better call-in the crapper recovery team

Tac, you did your homework and then some! I have always used the Intel cpu's, but as of late I have not been too impressed with Intel(I run a P3-933). In terms of a gaming system, I think that you are 100% correct, go AMD! Only plus I can plug for Intel, is in my experiences, Intel was better for Suite/productivity/Payroll&Accounting software. Might be time to look into a AMD system.

Aramike, as long as you are settimg up assets, I have no problems with a Questar heavy cruiser as my ship of choice to begin. No rush, when you can.

Blackwell, from my experience I would go with the Asus. Stay away from FIC,DFI, Abit. Also a Supermicro isn't that bad either, but costly. If AMD is your cpu of choice, then go with the Asus option.

Crivens, I had a problem with demo 2 also. I have a win2k system, p3 933, 384 mb ram. etc. I have a geForce 2 ultra and was running 6.50 drivers. for the heck of it, i d/l detonator 12.41 drivers, installed them and wow! the game launched fine and i kicked up to 1024x768 32 bit color, the rest is history.

Greetings, SC Downloaded demo, installed with no problem Startup screen went fine At the nect screen the mouse cursor disappears. Read the troublshooting FAQ, did what it said Still no mouse cursor. Uninstalled game and reinstalled game demo still same problem, no mouse cursor. Demo had no problems, work liked a champ. system specs PIII 933 384 mb ram win2k pro SP1 64 mb geforce 2 ultra (proper drives) directx 8.0a sb live soundcard (latest drivers) mouse is a logitech trackman marble 20.0 gb of hard drive space any thoughts?

If EB runs out of copies: a. Poor marketing for not ordering enough b. CD duplicators at SC's headquarters are overworked and thus breakdown from selling too may copies c. SC got tired of counting all the money he makes and momentarily halts production

Pyros, one thing of note. If you had a 220PSU and a AMD 700, the AMD chips required a specific power amperage. Usually something around 0.70amp + or - 0.05 amp. I believe that a PSU below 250W does not have the capability to properly run the system and distribute power to the MB and all of it devices. If the new 330PSU does the trick so be it, if not try the FAQ at AMD or Gigabyte websites. Jstuart