Quote from Bose321 :

... What the... it's isn't my opinion, it's a FACT that these wheels don't last long! Don't try to be funny dude.

Mine's lasted for like 3 years

Quote from Takumi_lfs :

That is a LOT of bloom, and as we all know, bloom = good graphics.

Quote from Dooonster :

And CSCZ owns them all CZ is a little better looking and i think its better then 1.6 i just get noobed in the head whenever i play 1.6 now days and source is full of excited children

CZ is by far the worst of the bunch - hearing footsteps from the other side of the map WTF?

At £10 CS:S has given me the most play time per pound of any game ever.

Why not try 1680 x 1050 which is the native resolution of the monitor. You won't lose many FPS.

Sucks to own a PS3 doesn't it?

Let's see how that goes down.

Quote from Dajmin :

Imagine I started a business selling something nobody was buying. What do you think the government would do if I asked them to keep stumping up cash for me, even through I was running at a loss? I'd get laughed out.

Buuut your business wouldn't have been a large part of the economy for decades...

Still, I agree with your point.

Quote from GFresh :

I got it from a Wiki page in a .txt format
Interesting reading...

How does it make interesting reading exactly? Unless you happen to know someone on the list, and by my reckoning that's about 1/5000 people.

Quote from Jamesisinthehouse12 :

I see your point Sam...
oh well, say goodbye to this thread.
I will erase it at 9:00pm +0800 (Western Australian Time)
Unless there are some people who want it to stay...

Or you could leave it?

Why the hell do people want to delete threads anyway, just leave it, not that you can delete it anyway.

Quote from jwb_moto :

or i found this on fleabay

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayI ... e=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=017

a) It's not a gaming rig
b) It's shite

So no. Buy from the UK only, you should be able to get something half decent for that budget.

Quote from tinvek :

last year one of wogans auction items was a private concert at your house / village hall etc by katie mellua and aled jones and it went for





£ 250,000 !!!!

Bin Jones, keep the girl and a roll of gaffa tape, sorted.

Isn't it a self-extracting file? That always confused me with LFS, where the hell do you extract it to? The root of 'Program Files' or wherever you put it, or in a new folder altogether? The latter IIRC. God help you if you choose the former, clearing up those files.

Quote from 5haz :

Only problem with DeviantART is that evryone just posts comments saying 'Omg thatzzz well niceeee', even when you virtually beg them for some constructive critiscism.

I have noticed that, never seen ONE word of negativity there, even when work is crap. Don't think that translates into a) work actually being good or b) money though.

That said there is a lot of really great work on dA, you'll have a hard time to beat it.

We always end up turning up late anyway, by which time the ads are usually just ending. I guess you don't get great seats if it's a new movie that way though.

Some people love the cinema, I'm not bothered really, true they have a big screen, but tbf I have a big screen - and I can sit 30cm away from it if I have to. I can also deafen myself with the soundtrack if I want, but instead I choose to have it at a sensible level. The only thing I don't get is to watch the movies as soon as they're out.

So really, $10 to promote your forum

..And the fact they have implemented version-specific rendering modes. Awesome work M$.

Full CSS2.1 support is good, but so long overdue it's unreal.

And talking of spell checking...

Unless it's under warranty, which it won't be, read about doing it yourself. It'll take all of about 10-15 minutes to fit those components and costs you nothing.

...Sadly it isn't going to run Far Cry 2 well/at all.

Shame it can't render pages properly. More fun for web designers.

Quote from shiny_red_cobra :

I think one or two of your sticks are broken, because there's no reason why all of sudden Windows wouldn't recognize them. Is it possible to try some other sticks of ram from another computer?

Nah they pass Memtest86+ with no problems, and display fine in 64bit Linux. No spare RAM to try though sadly.

It used to read as 3.25GB or whatever was left from the 4GB limit, but suddenly stopped the other day.

WAY too many 'American made' references for my liking.

Cheers for the replies guys.

I did try swapping the sticks over but no luck.

I think perhaps I'll get Vista 64bit at some point in the future, think I've got a legit copy of Business knocking around here somewhere.

I did try the 3GB switch too but I think there's something a bit more weird going on, as that didn't help.

Still, it's not a big issue as 2GB is fine for gaming atm, and as there's hardly anything else running it never gets close to running low.

Think you're probably right tbh. PAE was on by default this time around (:/) think I must have turned it off before. Tried the 3GB param to no avail, and maxmem=4096 etc, again no luck.

Running Memtest86 now to see if it really is the RAM, no errors yet 10 mins in.

So my next question, how is XP 64bit these days? Drivers seem pretty much all available. I'm not going for Vista as this is a highly streamlined installation of Windows used purely for games and I could do without Vista's useless background services.

Hmm thanks anyway.

Here's something new, it's exactly the same after a reformat :/

I booted up my Windows rig today to play Left 4 Dead, and found that it decided to only read 2GB of ram.

Did a quick CPU Z on it and 2 sticks (out of my 4 x 1GB) are reporting serial numbers of FFFFFF etc, switching slots shows the same two sticks displaying as 'faulty' each time. Which I could believe if it weren't 2 sticks and they hadn't both 'failed' at the same time. However CPU Z does read 4096MB total.

BIOS shows 4096MB fine, and 64bit Linux shows 4GB fine. I tried looking at my boot.ini to see if it was restricting the memory usage at all, the max value I could set in MAXMEM was 2048MB

I am aware of the limitations of 32bit Windows, it previously read around 3.5GB or whatever the limit is, which wasn't really a problem. So it's not the problem of it being 32bit here.

This Windows installation is getting pretty shot with junk now anyway, time for a reformat do you think? Or any other suggestions?

Downloading the demo now, Steam servers are a little slow today

That's true Dan, and I wouldn't encourage anyone who's starting to look into shakes, my perspective was more from a weights training one.

If you're needing 1.5g protein per lb bodyweight, some people will find it hard to get that much from solids alone, not to mention it can be expensive.

Anyway that's not really relevant here, so yer, no shakes.