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if you decide to venture into multiplay: Desert Combat Mod for battlefield 1942 is the best game i've played in... well... best game i've played!

1. it was formulaic. go to dungeon, kill critters, kill boss at bottom, get rune, repeat. 2. the story AS WRITTEN BY LORD BRITISH was cut off about 50% through and the ending was completely re-written by execs at EA wanting it to be ready in time for xmas that year. (also causing problem number 3) 3. with 2 patches the game is still very very buggy and still doesnt run well on todays high end hardware. 4. AI routine; see player, rush player, repeat. There is currently a major mod being done for the Morrownd engine of ultima 9 with the complete story and original Lord British ending. Don't get me wrong, i love the Ultima series more than just about anyone, been playing since ultima 1 on my pc junior in 81. The story and gameplay in ultima 9 was weak when measured against the legacy that spawned it.

ultima 9 sucked major @$$ unfortunately. another game ruined by EA.

the nforce has 3 things that the audigy 1 does not. 1. 64 hardware accelerated 3d audio channels. 2. dolby digital ac-3 5.1 output. 3. basically comes free on nforce boards. The audigy has a much higher signal to noise ratio, IE cleaner signal. They both use about the same amount of cpu time +-~5% depending on audio codec used and the game, blah, blah, blah. close enough. For just 3d games i would definately go soundstorm if my board had it. But being a media Whore i like the audigy 2 for my HTPC as i have less difficulty in making a variety of sources sound exactly as i want them to. Sounstorm can be quite a bit tricky in HTPC configs: http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=37&sid=a452da86e4dcadbe12c67351a8ef8243

the audigy is FAR better at taking multiple channel tracks and mixing it into the number of speakers you have... IE 2 channel into 5.1. upconverting there is only a mild difference.. but downconverting there is a huge difference. with soundstorm if you play back a 5.1 signal through say a 4channel setup, you completyely lose the center channel, it doesn't downmix it into the front channels. kinda wierd... only noticeable in very few situations (playing back a 5.1 dvd on a 4 speaker setup for instance) audio quality is a liiiiitle bit better on the audigy as well. Edit: Actually i should have qualified the statement as "you CAN lose the center channel" as you don't always. After experimenting with the 2 audio solutions for quite a while i find that creatives drivers are more mature (WHAT?! good drivers? creative? HELL HAS FROZEN OVER!!!). However, I think if we give Nvidia another 1 1/2 years then they will own the consumer audio Market.

Ultima 7... (Comic book guy voice) "Best RPG EVER!" of the the newer RPG's neverwinter nights was really really good... very satisfying! i am waiting to try morrowind until i have more time... i got it right here.. the box is opened.. (has been for 2 months) i just know i can't commit the time to play it. soon baby, sooooon... (carresses box) edit: woops! just reread the first post... yeah U7 came out more than 5 years ago... but i HAD to say something! did anyone try Arcanum:of magics and steamworks obscura? (errr somethin like that) i found it to be alot of fun... was i alone?

Thats one way of putting it ValkyerieK7. In a mulitple drive system with lots of drive access, SCSI still owns IDE by a wide margin. If doing Pro audio recording, the ability to record 16 tracks to 8 seperate HD's easily, is an accomplishment few IDE system will do. Under any kind of complex IO operation, SCSI will show its strengths. I've got both, Fast SCSI drives and "Western Digital WD1200JB With 8 MB". And in the real world, Even just 10,000 rpm SCSI outperform the proud WD.

yeah i overstudied too... overstudy again, its worth it.

95 didnt introduce plugn'PLAY, it introduced plugn'PRAY. 2k was the first OS to really deliver on the promise of plugn'play. ahhhh, I remember those early days of my youth using windows 95 fondly... "general protection what?" "whats with this bluescreen?" "freaking run this program damnit!" "I said SAVE! SAVE! Not crash and DIE!" "what do you mean your out of resources? There isnt anything running!"... Of course if I hadn't learned at an early age how to troubleshoot a PC i woudn't have this lucrative career i haver now... Thank You Microsoft, You gave me Job Security. Thank god XP still hiccups a LITTLE (mostly user error), otherwise i would be out of a job. ME didn't come out because of 2k, ME came out because MS wanted to milk the uneducated (non 2k using) masses for more $$$. needless to say, i started using 2k when i got the first beta of it i could find (beta 2? pre rc1?) and i havent used a 9x system at home since. 2k in early beta form was FAR more stable than 9x ever was... getting drivers for everything was a biatch tho. (damn you creative) at work i still support 98se and the occasional 95 (dont ask why ;( ) but i refuse to run win9x on my systems there. i just support it from memory.

exactly what vermyn said.

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if your getting low scores with your radeon 9700 and havent formatted and reinstalled windows i recommend you do so. when i upgraded from a gf4 to my 9700 my score was only 1300 ish, after a reformat and reinstall i am breaking past 16,600. it makes a big difference.

This will definately help both companies, IBM has some very good ideas on the sub 0.09 micron process chips that AMD will NEED, whereas AMD has ALOT of experience designing excuisite chips that are very effecient. This is a win-win situation. AMD's only real short coming presently is keeping up with Intel with die process shrinks (.15 to .13 to .09 etc etc.) I think this will enable AMD to become a MUCH major player within the next 5 years.

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