Recent content by lumpyhed

tried a screwdriver? tiddle bit of washing-up liquid on a cloth could help as well. Avoid harsh abrasive stuff tho.

Which is why I don't do em! ;) Actually its more frustrating watching a friend spending excessive amounts of dough on things he just won't use...

I gave away my old EDO ram to a fellow poor student who was running windoze on 32mb. :P Voodoo 1 went to another friends dads comp that only had a Matrox Millenium in it. :) S3 Trio 64V+ went to another friend who had a k6 setup with a video card that had a severe bottleneck - the replacement...

I've always found the most economical way is to buy the best of the generation, and stick with it for as long as possible. Just like several years ago when i bought an Orchid Voodoo 1, and O/Ced it to 64mhz without any extra cooling. :) Then on January of this year i bought a Geforce SDR, and i...

*chuckle* The SBLive! series can't do Dolby Digital 5.1 by itself, infact you need the Encore DVD hardware decoder to get it. Anything else is emulated! :P

Going from a set of Typhoon 25w crap speakers to a set of DTT-2500 was quite a blow for me. :) i could of gone for the Klipsch setup, but judging from my experience with these speakers, i think i would piss off the entire village with em! :D Besides i thought i heard the 2500's apparently beat...

Memorex does a 3-1 drive. Scan have some in the Today only page.

The volume control in windoze alters the soundcards own diddy "amp" type thing, otherwise you wouldn't hear anything if you plug in headphones. :P

Soundfonts are for apps like Cakewalk so that you aren't limited to samples, and can have much more structured m00sic. :D No doubt alot of the games music is done using Gigasampler with instrument banks coming in at $100 or so a pop!

I think its generally best to keep soundcard amp use to a minimum, and make use of the external amp as much as possible for a better quality sound.

<< I'd like to see SoundFonts dramatically reduced in size! Imagine a super-amazing 64-MB General MIDI soundfont only >> If you use Audio Compositor, you can render your soundfonted midi's channel by channel into wav files, and then import them into a mixer for mp3 encoding. :)

They pop the manuals on cd in PDF format with these budget games, so that they can sell em for less..

Organisations on the whole couldn't really care less about AMD it seems. Like at my college for example, they recently got a suite of P3-733's installed when they could of had T-Bird 750 for a better price. And they had those crap MS laser-ass-optical-mice :P

Do these lock ups happen to be in D3D games only? If so then a little registry editing is in order, so that you can force it to run at agp1x only.

Go here for the page to get a new Opengl driver with muchos better performance than D3D, and it has S3TC support so you no longer have to use that second cd as a frisbee. :)