Quote from dougie-lampkin :

Well that's a first

2nd actually, mines worked fine since day 1

Foo Fighters - Low

Feeder - We Are The People

Radiohead - Morning Bell

Quote from Hyperactive :

roffle moment for today: http://pc.ign.com/articles/936/936304p3.html

AA is DX10
"Why can't you actually through the graphics menu adjust AA (anti-aliasing)?:
Early on we decided we weren't going to support DirectX 10. We were just going to work on increasing the visual quality with what we had with DirectX 9. If we had DirectX 10 support we could have had the AA in there, but we don't have any"

:doh::doh::doh::doh::doh:

I was rofling on the floor when they got to the part where they speak about how bigger resolution scales teh detail up

I laughed at that too, but apparently you can't have HDR lighting (or whatever lighting they use) and AA on DX9. I think Far Cry 2 suffered from this too - I am aware one of the other recent big releases did anyway. only DX10 supports AA AND HDR lighting.

My vistatop

Yes - I prefer Basic to Aero.

GFW tag (whatever it is) for me: btccmad

Quote from Bladerunner :

(Just a warning, I have seen reports on the GTA forums of guys frying their GFX cards by trying to push them too hard!!!)

I use riviatuner and turn the fan up to 80% (from 25%) to make sure that doesn't happen, temps don't tend to get that high, but just in case.

Quote from pb32000 :

How are they awful exactly?

I used to like Nokia a lot, as in I made sure all my new contract phone were Nokia, however the iPhone just blows them out of the water.

The main problem I can find people complaining about is the touch keyboard, for texting etc. Well, I gave it to my dad to try, who isn't great at texting anyway, within 2 minutes he was bashing out messages faster than ever before. As can I, you can rinse through messages much fast than a non-correcting hardware keypad, the correctional function really is brilliant.

I hate touch screen, that's my main problem, much prefer to feel the button i'm pressing! Oh yeah, and it's not good looking at all either, it just looks too common, plain and dull.

Plus I didn't like the menus, things just seemed a bit wrong, the fact that everybody, their dog and their hamster has one is just taking the pi**. I'm sick of seeing them, sick of hearing people say "ooo look at my 3G iphone". And as stated before, I can't stand Apple.

I'm sick of the fact that everything these days has an 'i' infront of its name too... I'm trying my best not to buy anything that's an "iSomething" and so far I'm doing well at it!

I'd consider a Nokia N95 or even one of the newer ones N97 I believe they're up to now.

My N95 is excellent in just about every way, haven't yet found a single fault with it. Took a long time to get used to after a Sony Ericsson, but now i'm used to it I can confidently say the N95 is the best phone I've owned.

I've used an iphone before and they're awful! Plus the fact it's made by apple is a huge downside - It'll break as soon as the warrenty expires in traditional apple form. (but I may be biased).

Muse - New Born

Muse - Map of the Problematique

Feeder - Forget About Tomorrow

Quote from Tomba(FIN) :

Eh, now you are blaming ati cards? oh my, if rockstar cant make games for ati cards then they should **** off, now gta iv is even more not worth of buying, and i have dual core at 3,1ghz. They should damn optimize this game so you don't have to have some 4x hd4870

Just wait for new ATI drivers. Released on wednesday I believe.

The game as rockstar have said is made for med-high end computers today to run at medium, for next gen PC's to run on high and above, they want this to be futureproof (yeah i don't quite understand either). Turn everything to low and work from there, or wait for new ATI drivers, or here's a better idea for you, buy the fecking game!!!

I now understand why PC gaming is dying, and it's down to people like you.

Muse - Stockholm Syndrome

Quote from Tomba(FIN) :

No it's not, it is so unoptimized for pc, not worth of buying.. even if you would have nasa computer it wouldn't run this

I put everything on medium and have had zero problems from day 1 (looks better than 360/PS3 and runs at 35-45fps)... The main problem is people putting the settings far too high for their PCs, or not being patient enough to wait for Rockstar to patch it. Oh, and people on single core systems trying to run it, as well as everybody with an ATI card.... Most nvidia users (like myself) are wondering what the hell everybody's problem is!

Oh, and my PC isn't top of the range: C2D E8200, 4GB DDRII 800, GF 9600GT 512MB, Vista 64bit

Quote from Tomba(FIN) :

Damn drunken camera

You should maybe go out to the shop and buy the damn game then!

Quote from Tomba(FIN) :

Yay I'll get the iv soon, has already downloaded 58%, coming pretty good speed as a gta iv torrent, 700kt/s. I hope the crack works.
And yea, at least I didn't crack lfs so shut up

My plea to the genuine LFS community people; when you see a post like this one I've quoted above, please report it. Let the mods know talk of illegal activities is going on here - if Rockstar saw posts like this then they'd be the first to start a lawsuit against either the above quoted person AND/OR the LFS devs/mods for allowing this on their official forum.

I'm fed up of seeing people who think it's fine to crack other games and freely admit it on here (MotorM4X another prime example).
What makes these people worse is that they are always the first to jump at a Demo player accusing them of cracking LFS.... How is it any different?




EDIT: back on-topic... GTA IV is a great game for PC as well as Xbox 360.

Quote from quango2k :

i work for a large UK PC retailer and I deal with Logitech on a daily Basis and have seen the roadmap for harware releases for the first quarter of next year and can confirm that the G27 is real and is due for release in March 09. although, all i see on the list is "G27 - Steering wheel set - Gaming" so cannot confirm any more details. i know nothing of its features of design and neither does the UK sales manager so we will have to wait and see. the picture could be genuine but i think they would change more than whats pictures.

I can confirm this, I work for a small UK PC retailer and have seen the same thing!

Actually, I'm not sure it is badly optomised, it's more made to still be good looking this time next year rather than having 'yesterdays graphics'

http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=378730

Rockstar know it's broken though and are working on a patch, If I remember rightly, same thing happened to GTA3 too.

Bad sign for those on ATI cards, fairly good sign for those on nvidia cards if this has anything to do with it:

http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showforum=240

Yeah my dad has a new Mondeo and it's huge, too big for touring cars that's for certain. I'd love to see it in touring car form though. At the same time, can't wait to see the Focus in its touring car form.

Feeder - 8:18

followed by my favourite song of 2008:

Feeder - Who's The Enemy

Feeder - Seven Days In The Sun

Quote from Velociround :

@ pearcy_2k7: I would suggest you download the trial version of Norton Antivirus 2009 and run a complete system scan.

Sorry to come into this but working in a small computer shop I see every day what Norton does to computers, includes slowing them down to below snails speed, and when it wants a license renewal it really does mess up the system until it is removed (using the removal tool, add/remove programs just doesn't do it!), it generally does more bad than good to PCs. Removing Norton from a PC gives a speed increase more than a memory upgrade does, for Norton users it's the cheapest way to upgrade your computer!

I'd never recommend Norton to anybody at all, and advise anybody with Norton to get rid of it once they have gone and got some decent AV protection. Same goes for Mcafee.

If you want to go free, use AVG or Avast.

Radiohead - Morning Bell (Live)