Recent content by nordicfireman

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    Trouble with sound

    have you tried it with other speakers or headphones to make absolutely sure it's not your speakers?
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    shuttle x can't see sound device or ethernet port

    ok, my buddy just bought a used shuttle x from a lan center (lanwerx) that went out of business. all the computers there were hooked up to the internet and had sound. lanwerx cleaned all the programs and stuff off the comps and sold them. when it was taken home, the computer was plugged into...
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    strange frame rate problem

    OMG!!! i borrowed some ram, i now have TWO GIGS of pc3200 ram in my computer, in the form of 4 512 sticks, and IT STILL HAPPENS! i am so sick of my retarded-ass computer i guess i better do all those tests now
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    strange frame rate problem

    everything works fine on medium settings....it's just not beautiful :(
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    strange frame rate problem

    i just read a little about memory and virtual memory and stuff, at http://www.tech-hounds.com/article12/ArticlesPage1.html, and it said In this situation, the processor will be able to quickly process the data in memory, but it may have to wait until the rest of the data (in virtual memory)...
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    strange frame rate problem

    ok, here's a small update, thanks a ton for the posts. i have actually been using 2x AA since my first post, not 4x (i have now edited it so there won't be any more confusion on that, also, the problem seems no different from 4x) the problem actually seems to be getting slightly worse, as...
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    strange frame rate problem

    can someone who knows a lot about hardware and performance please comment on this, i've tried the reasonable suggestions so far and have had no luck
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    strange frame rate problem

    peoples please help me on this...
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    strange frame rate problem

    yeah, the 512 sticks are pc3200. i just took out the 256 sticks, and there was no improvement. it actually seemed to be a little worse, although it's hard to tell. i've also noticed a couple more details about the problem: it sometimes depends on if i'm scoped/zoomed in with my gun in...
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    strange frame rate problem

    ok, thanks for the advice. one thing though, is that i don't have 1 stick of 512 and 1 stick of a gig, it's two 256's and two 512's.
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    strange frame rate problem

    i have a pentium 4, 2.8ghz processor, an asus P4SD-VX mobo, 1.5 gigs of ram (512 mb unknown pc2700 that came with my comp, 1 gig kingston value ram pc 3200, i read that it was fine to mix them) and a geforce 6800gs agp card. i have the 4 extra pixel pipelines and vertex shader unlocked, and i'm...
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    SATA vs IDE Hard Drives

    ok, sounds good. thanks again for the help. i'll try to get that itunes thing worked out. adios!
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    SATA vs IDE Hard Drives

    well the problem with the itunes thing is that there's only one of each song in the library, but there's multiples of the actual mp3s, and i have waaayyy too many songs to do it song by song. yes, i use xp. what are the benefits to reinstalling windows on a new drive? and what effect does...
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    SATA vs IDE Hard Drives

    well, i would love to make c larger, but right now d is just about full. i could get about 20 gigs freed up if i could figure out a good way to sort out my music problem: i had about 20g of mp3s that decided to duplicate themselves 1 or 2 times, and i just found out about it so now my 30g of...
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    SATA vs IDE Hard Drives

    damn, it got partitioned so that c is 15 gigs and d is 90, of course every program wants to install itself on c...i guess i'll try to sort everything out when i get another drive. so i can/should just get an ide/pata drive? i see that there's another ide cable as well as another power...