Gerbache Kaznet

Memmaker was my first one, then I found Netroom and finally got my conv. memory up to like 630k! Hehe, those were the days, huh? And to think that now I'm running 256Megs of ram hehehe

Generally speaking, ACPI is doing it's thing when it puts all the devices on one IRQ. I suppose your mileage may vary, but I've personally been having great experiences with it since I installed it. I would personally exhaust all other possibilities before I reinstalled my computer without ACPI. I would probably cast the blame at something to do with that Thrustmaster first, but I have no direct experience with them, so I can't help you on that front.

I haven't had any direct experience with that program, but two things ended my stuttering in Baldur's Gate 2. First was a setting in a config file that fixed -some- of the stuttering in win2k, and the second was a fix involving the DirectX control panel proggie and the debug output level (darned buggy SB Live drivers!). I don't currently have a link to that file because I got it weeks ago, but if I can find it, I'll add it to this post.

I'm running a logitech wheelmouse, and the drivers work fine. One note is that logitech has a file on their drivers site that corrects the functioning of the wheel in certain games (Quake 3, for instance) that must be run before the wheel will function properly. UT never had a problem with the mouse for me, however, as long as I was running directinput.

I'd probably first try uninstalling and reinstalling UT in win2k. Also, I get a lot of general UT weirdness when I tried to run the 6.47 driver set from nvidia, but a lot of other people swear by it. I only got it running properly with the 6.36 set, even though it is slightly slower than the newer releases. As for the mouse wheel, are you sure you're using directinput for your mouse? there's an option for that either on the in-game config menu or the advanced menu, I don't remember which. Without directinput, the scroll wheel won't work a bit. Good luck to ya!

Wow, that's a bizarre problem...but it's always nice to find out that it's someone else's fault Now if only I could get my computer to stop disconnecting periodically for no apparent reason.....hehe oh well

Oh good lord. If the tables were turned and Bush were in Gore's position, do you think he would bow out and let the other guy have it? No of course not, and Bush made a public statement saying exactly that. A reporter several days ago asked him if he thought Gore was being a sore loser, and he said, basically, that he would do the exact same thing if he were in that position. Besides that, Gore won the popular vote, not Bush. If we weren't still using an archaic method of selecting the President that has grown vastly unneccessary, Gore would have had the Presidency long ago. Besides, the whole thing will work itself out eventually, and four years from now someone else will be Pres, because I don't see either one of 'em lasting for eight. [This message has been edited by Gerbache Kaznet (edited 11 December 2000).]

Are you using EAX with a soundblaster live? The current driver sets have made every game I've tried stop for a few seconds periodically during gameplay when EAX is enabled. It's REALLY annoying, I know, but the only workaround I know of is to turn off EAX. Maybe someday creative will release working win2k drivers.....

Didn't the quake series prior to Q3A have a problem where you had to limit the framerate to avoid a major lag? It's something like the renderer goes too fast and impedes the network connector. Unfortunately, I don't remember the command, but I do know that it's on the in the geforce faq (yeah yeah I know, you're running a voodoo, but it might not hurt to check) at www.geforcefaq.com.

Did anyone else see this one coming? He seemed to follow the same path that our other friends have of posting vague error descriptions, no system specs, and no extra information, then getting mad when no one responds with a fix within an hour. I personally say good riddance! If he's that impatient, let him run winME or whatever else he wants to.

I wouldn't mind Internet Explorer if it weren't for that dang Outlook Express mail program with it. I vastly prefer Netscape's email program. With regard to the advertising, to be fair it only happens when you're on the netscape web page, but you're right, AOL should never have gotten involved with the project. Haven't both the Netscape programmers and the Mozilla project been saying for weeks that NS6 was not ready to be really released and that it's in beta quality right now. Hopefully we'll see a 6.1 soon that will fix the biggies, unless AOL screws that one up, too.

The memory usage on mine tends to hover around the 30-35 mark. Interestingly, it seems to stay there, though, regardless of how many windows I have open. Personally, NS6 is really growing on me, but then IE has quite a lot that really gets on my nerves. I just wish it didn't feel so beta-y..I manage to crash it WAY too much for a final product on win2k.

My guess is that you're refresh limited, meaning that vsync in turned on. Firstly, you ought to be able to up the refresh rate, but then it's a pain in the butt (hence the reason I haven't bothered to on my Geforce DDR). On the plus side, a system like that ought to basically never drop much below 60 fps at that resolution, so it's hardly bad playing wise. Congrats on the rig, I wish mine were that spiffy (it will be though, just give me time

You sure it's actually causing an IRQ conflict? Even though all your PCI devices report as being on either IRQ 9 or 11 (mine report on 11), they are actually on different IRQs and windows is dynamically reassigning them as needed. Win2k is surprisingly good at that sort of thing, so I don't have to worry about juggling IRQs manually anymore!

Are you using the newest release of ICQ? In my experience, ICQ is a really crash-prone program. I'd probably try uninstalling it and reinstalling the newest version. Is there any kind of error message that you could tell us? At the very least, I can say that it works fine for many of us, so I doubt it's a conflict with win2k. Let me know if that helps!