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Until I recently bought the GeForce 9800 GTX+ I have now, I hadn't given you any of my money since back in June of 2000. My recent purchase reminds me WHY.
The fucking thing is unstable as hell. The Witcher? I will apparently never get to finish this game, since you will not run it for more than about half a minute before you crash to the desktop with a driver error. Crysis? As long as I only want to see it in DX9, everything is great! DX10, not so much. Anything running on the HL1 engine is random; sometimes Counterstrike will run for hours glitch free and then I'll be looking at driver crashes every few minutes. HL2 based games run fine, however. Other things are just as random, where they either run fine, run fine for a while at random, or are totally unplayable. And these are games with a fucking Nvidia logo spammed into their start up cinematics, like Neverwinter Nights, which your hardware can't seem to reliably deal with.
And I'm sure by this time next year, you will have abandoned me on the driver update front as well, since you orphan hardware like it's going out of style.
Next upgrade cycle? It's back to ATi.
The fucking thing is unstable as hell. The Witcher? I will apparently never get to finish this game, since you will not run it for more than about half a minute before you crash to the desktop with a driver error. Crysis? As long as I only want to see it in DX9, everything is great! DX10, not so much. Anything running on the HL1 engine is random; sometimes Counterstrike will run for hours glitch free and then I'll be looking at driver crashes every few minutes. HL2 based games run fine, however. Other things are just as random, where they either run fine, run fine for a while at random, or are totally unplayable. And these are games with a fucking Nvidia logo spammed into their start up cinematics, like Neverwinter Nights, which your hardware can't seem to reliably deal with.
And I'm sure by this time next year, you will have abandoned me on the driver update front as well, since you orphan hardware like it's going out of style.
Next upgrade cycle? It's back to ATi.
Until I recently bought the GeForce 9800 GTX+ I have now, I hadn't given you any of my money since back in June of 2000. My recent purchase reminds me WHY.
The fucking thing is unstable as hell. The Witcher? I will apparently never get to finish this game, since you will not run it for more than about half a minute before you crash to the desktop with a driver error. Crysis? As long as I only want to see it in DX9, everything is great! DX10, not so much. Anything running on the HL1 engine is random; sometimes Counterstrike will run for hours glitch free and then I'll be looking at driver crashes every few minutes. HL2 based games run fine, however. Other things are just as random, where they either run fine, run fine for a while at random, or are totally unplayable. And these are games with a fucking Nvidia logo spammed into their start up cinematics, like Neverwinter Nights, which your hardware can't seem to reliably deal with.
And I'm sure by this time next year, you will have abandoned me on the driver update front as well, since you orphan hardware like it's going out of style.
Next upgrade cycle? It's back to ATi.
The fucking thing is unstable as hell. The Witcher? I will apparently never get to finish this game, since you will not run it for more than about half a minute before you crash to the desktop with a driver error. Crysis? As long as I only want to see it in DX9, everything is great! DX10, not so much. Anything running on the HL1 engine is random; sometimes Counterstrike will run for hours glitch free and then I'll be looking at driver crashes every few minutes. HL2 based games run fine, however. Other things are just as random, where they either run fine, run fine for a while at random, or are totally unplayable. And these are games with a fucking Nvidia logo spammed into their start up cinematics, like Neverwinter Nights, which your hardware can't seem to reliably deal with.
And I'm sure by this time next year, you will have abandoned me on the driver update front as well, since you orphan hardware like it's going out of style.
Next upgrade cycle? It's back to ATi.
Until I recently bought the GeForce 9800 GTX+ I have now, I hadn't given you any of my money since back in June of 2000. My recent purchase reminds me WHY.
The fucking thing is unstable as hell. The Witcher? I will apparently never get to finish this game, since you will not run it for more than about half a minute before you crash to the desktop with a driver error. Crysis? As long as I only want to see it in DX9, everything is great! DX10, not so much. Anything running on the HL1 engine is random; sometimes Counterstrike will run for hours glitch free and then I'll be looking at driver crashes every few minutes. HL2 based games run fine, however. Other things are just as random, where they either run fine, run fine for a while at random, or are totally unplayable. And these are games with a fucking Nvidia logo spammed into their start up cinematics, like Neverwinter Nights, which your hardware can't seem to reliably deal with.
And I'm sure by this time next year, you will have abandoned me on the driver update front as well, since you orphan hardware like it's going out of style.
Next upgrade cycle? It's back to ATi.
The fucking thing is unstable as hell. The Witcher? I will apparently never get to finish this game, since you will not run it for more than about half a minute before you crash to the desktop with a driver error. Crysis? As long as I only want to see it in DX9, everything is great! DX10, not so much. Anything running on the HL1 engine is random; sometimes Counterstrike will run for hours glitch free and then I'll be looking at driver crashes every few minutes. HL2 based games run fine, however. Other things are just as random, where they either run fine, run fine for a while at random, or are totally unplayable. And these are games with a fucking Nvidia logo spammed into their start up cinematics, like Neverwinter Nights, which your hardware can't seem to reliably deal with.
And I'm sure by this time next year, you will have abandoned me on the driver update front as well, since you orphan hardware like it's going out of style.
Next upgrade cycle? It's back to ATi.
Dear Lazytubes,
I'm looking for a Virtua Fighter type game for the 360. Something the kiddo and I can play together that'll be fun and isn't split screen. While I don't object to 'rip out spine, light corpse on fire, piss on ashes' levels of violence a la Mortal Kombat, I'd rather avoid that sort of thing if possible. Heck, if there's an actual version of Virtua Fighter out there for the 360, that'd be great, but since it's an ancient franchise that I haven't seen or heard anything about in about a decade now, I don't expect to find it.
Thank you Inter Net Kenobi, you're my only hope!
I'm looking for a Virtua Fighter type game for the 360. Something the kiddo and I can play together that'll be fun and isn't split screen. While I don't object to 'rip out spine, light corpse on fire, piss on ashes' levels of violence a la Mortal Kombat, I'd rather avoid that sort of thing if possible. Heck, if there's an actual version of Virtua Fighter out there for the 360, that'd be great, but since it's an ancient franchise that I haven't seen or heard anything about in about a decade now, I don't expect to find it.
Thank you Inter Net Kenobi, you're my only hope!
Dear Lazytubes,
I'm looking for a Virtua Fighter type game for the 360. Something the kiddo and I can play together that'll be fun and isn't split screen. While I don't object to 'rip out spine, light corpse on fire, piss on ashes' levels of violence a la Mortal Kombat, I'd rather avoid that sort of thing if possible. Heck, if there's an actual version of Virtua Fighter out there for the 360, that'd be great, but since it's an ancient franchise that I haven't seen or heard anything about in about a decade now, I don't expect to find it.
Thank you Inter Net Kenobi, you're my only hope!
I'm looking for a Virtua Fighter type game for the 360. Something the kiddo and I can play together that'll be fun and isn't split screen. While I don't object to 'rip out spine, light corpse on fire, piss on ashes' levels of violence a la Mortal Kombat, I'd rather avoid that sort of thing if possible. Heck, if there's an actual version of Virtua Fighter out there for the 360, that'd be great, but since it's an ancient franchise that I haven't seen or heard anything about in about a decade now, I don't expect to find it.
Thank you Inter Net Kenobi, you're my only hope!
Dear Lazytubes,
I'm looking for a Virtua Fighter type game for the 360. Something the kiddo and I can play together that'll be fun and isn't split screen. While I don't object to 'rip out spine, light corpse on fire, piss on ashes' levels of violence a la Mortal Kombat, I'd rather avoid that sort of thing if possible. Heck, if there's an actual version of Virtua Fighter out there for the 360, that'd be great, but since it's an ancient franchise that I haven't seen or heard anything about in about a decade now, I don't expect to find it.
Thank you Inter Net Kenobi, you're my only hope!
I'm looking for a Virtua Fighter type game for the 360. Something the kiddo and I can play together that'll be fun and isn't split screen. While I don't object to 'rip out spine, light corpse on fire, piss on ashes' levels of violence a la Mortal Kombat, I'd rather avoid that sort of thing if possible. Heck, if there's an actual version of Virtua Fighter out there for the 360, that'd be great, but since it's an ancient franchise that I haven't seen or heard anything about in about a decade now, I don't expect to find it.
Thank you Inter Net Kenobi, you're my only hope!
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montoyaSince my machine wouldn't even start, instead of using my favorite online hardware vendor (we likes the Newegg), I drove out to MicroCenter and purchased a replacement off the shelf so I wouldn't have to wait till next week to have a working computer again.
I really would have liked to drop an ATi 4870 in to replace the dead 2900, but MC didn't have any on the shelf. They did have a 3870 X2, but, no...just no. I don't do SLI or Crossfire setups, even when it's built onto the card instead of multiple card setups. ATi and Nvidia both have issues with their multi GPU setups, and I just don't have the patience to deal with that kind of crap.
The best bang for the buck was a GeForce 9800 GTX+, on sale for $50 off. So that's what I went with. I haven't had an Nvidia card in my desktop since I replaced my GeForce2 GTS long ago.
The Nvidia card is longer than the ATi card it replaced, and I had to pull the empty drive sleds out of the center drive bay. Fortunately, the P180B (identical to the P182 except it's black instead of dark gray) is extremely easy to do this kind of thing in. I love modular case designs.
Since my PCI x16 slot is only 1.2a and not 2.0, I can't actually use this card to its full potential, but it runs Crysis just fine so far.
Windows 7 rates the card identically with the older ATi card it replaced (maxed out for 2d/Aero, same result for 3d), so I'm guessing I'm hitting the bandwidth limit of the older PCI spec. Vista cuts off earlier for system ratings, and is maxed for both. Oddly enough, Win7 rates my HDDs at a 2.0, which I find hilarious since Vista rates them at max. I think Win7 might be a little buggy in that regard, but it is just a beta and I've only got it installed for testing, I haven't installed any actual software on it.
I really would have liked to drop an ATi 4870 in to replace the dead 2900, but MC didn't have any on the shelf. They did have a 3870 X2, but, no...just no. I don't do SLI or Crossfire setups, even when it's built onto the card instead of multiple card setups. ATi and Nvidia both have issues with their multi GPU setups, and I just don't have the patience to deal with that kind of crap.
The best bang for the buck was a GeForce 9800 GTX+, on sale for $50 off. So that's what I went with. I haven't had an Nvidia card in my desktop since I replaced my GeForce2 GTS long ago.
The Nvidia card is longer than the ATi card it replaced, and I had to pull the empty drive sleds out of the center drive bay. Fortunately, the P180B (identical to the P182 except it's black instead of dark gray) is extremely easy to do this kind of thing in. I love modular case designs.
Since my PCI x16 slot is only 1.2a and not 2.0, I can't actually use this card to its full potential, but it runs Crysis just fine so far.
Windows 7 rates the card identically with the older ATi card it replaced (maxed out for 2d/Aero, same result for 3d), so I'm guessing I'm hitting the bandwidth limit of the older PCI spec. Vista cuts off earlier for system ratings, and is maxed for both. Oddly enough, Win7 rates my HDDs at a 2.0, which I find hilarious since Vista rates them at max. I think Win7 might be a little buggy in that regard, but it is just a beta and I've only got it installed for testing, I haven't installed any actual software on it.
Since my machine wouldn't even start, instead of using my favorite online hardware vendor (we likes the Newegg), I drove out to MicroCenter and purchased a replacement off the shelf so I wouldn't have to wait till next week to have a working computer again.
I really would have liked to drop an ATi 4870 in to replace the dead 2900, but MC didn't have any on the shelf. They did have a 3870 X2, but, no...just no. I don't do SLI or Crossfire setups, even when it's built onto the card instead of multiple card setups. ATi and Nvidia both have issues with their multi GPU setups, and I just don't have the patience to deal with that kind of crap.
The best bang for the buck was a GeForce 9800 GTX+, on sale for $50 off. So that's what I went with. I haven't had an Nvidia card in my desktop since I replaced my GeForce2 GTS long ago.
The Nvidia card is longer than the ATi card it replaced, and I had to pull the empty drive sleds out of the center drive bay. Fortunately, the P180B (identical to the P182 except it's black instead of dark gray) is extremely easy to do this kind of thing in. I love modular case designs.
Since my PCI x16 slot is only 1.2a and not 2.0, I can't actually use this card to its full potential, but it runs Crysis just fine so far.
Windows 7 rates the card identically with the older ATi card it replaced (maxed out for 2d/Aero, same result for 3d), so I'm guessing I'm hitting the bandwidth limit of the older PCI spec. Vista cuts off earlier for system ratings, and is maxed for both. Oddly enough, Win7 rates my HDDs at a 2.0, which I find hilarious since Vista rates them at max. I think Win7 might be a little buggy in that regard, but it is just a beta and I've only got it installed for testing, I haven't installed any actual software on it.
I really would have liked to drop an ATi 4870 in to replace the dead 2900, but MC didn't have any on the shelf. They did have a 3870 X2, but, no...just no. I don't do SLI or Crossfire setups, even when it's built onto the card instead of multiple card setups. ATi and Nvidia both have issues with their multi GPU setups, and I just don't have the patience to deal with that kind of crap.
The best bang for the buck was a GeForce 9800 GTX+, on sale for $50 off. So that's what I went with. I haven't had an Nvidia card in my desktop since I replaced my GeForce2 GTS long ago.
The Nvidia card is longer than the ATi card it replaced, and I had to pull the empty drive sleds out of the center drive bay. Fortunately, the P180B (identical to the P182 except it's black instead of dark gray) is extremely easy to do this kind of thing in. I love modular case designs.
Since my PCI x16 slot is only 1.2a and not 2.0, I can't actually use this card to its full potential, but it runs Crysis just fine so far.
Windows 7 rates the card identically with the older ATi card it replaced (maxed out for 2d/Aero, same result for 3d), so I'm guessing I'm hitting the bandwidth limit of the older PCI spec. Vista cuts off earlier for system ratings, and is maxed for both. Oddly enough, Win7 rates my HDDs at a 2.0, which I find hilarious since Vista rates them at max. I think Win7 might be a little buggy in that regard, but it is just a beta and I've only got it installed for testing, I haven't installed any actual software on it.
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