Alucard_X

for some reason i'm having a hell of time getting this game to run smooth and stable. most of the time if i'm typing something in console the whole game will just freeze. when i get it to play i'm only getting about 20fps. this is with everything down to pure **** detail: vertex lighting on, 640x 16bit, 16bit textures, texture compression on, r_picmip 3, etc. quake3 btw runs at over 150 fps on this same system. and RTCW wasn't this bad as well. 850mhz celeron II geforce 2 gts 32mb fresh install of winxp 27.42 drivers

i'm not sure if this is what you were going for but try this out. setup your window how u want it with the size and layout, etc. then click on tools at the top of the explorer window, goto tools. click on the "view" tab, then hit the button, "like all folders" or apply to all folders and hit ok. i think this will partially fix your complaint however it will apply your setup to all folders you view not just that specific one and sub-folders.

all those builds have time-bombs on them, i'm not sure about RC's but its either 120 or 180day time evaulation. you will have to reinstall eventually depending on when you installed RC1

i've had this problem in XP for as long as i can remember.. i'd say it only happens about 5% of the time for me though, (i play q3 multiple times a day however). not sure what to tell you, i wish i knew a fix to.. never happened in w2k but has been happening in xp since way back before beta2. i really doubt its the drivers since it doesn't happen under w2k.. and i'm stuck on agp 2x as well so thats not it. driver: 21.80 (does it on any version) geforce 2 32mb winxp pro 2600 abit bx6_rev2 latest bios celeron II

WinXP 2502 interim was just released to testers about an hour ago