Recent content by Ordie

Yep, Headed over there myself for the first time. 6 years in the Marines and now 6 years in the Air Guard I am presented with a chance to actively participate where so many other brothers and sisters in uniform have. You can't explain it really. I joined the service right out of high...

I thought the XBox 360 was going to be unimpressive. Now after seeing the Fight Night game and the NBA game(not EA but some other company), I am quite impressed. The improvement in skin textures and body movement they have used for this generation of system is great. They are getting there...

My machine makes a strange noise also on bootup but it is the old CD ROM drive I have. It makes a loud whirring and grinding type noise when the machine is powered up or if I reboot. It is fixed by having a CD (NOT BOOTABLE;)) in the drive at all times. It seems to be making the noise when the...

I enjoy reading posts like this because it's a good shot of truth that we need. When the question was asked "What's one thing that's gotten better in the past 10 years?(entertainment wise)", you used to be able to say "video games". Well, as you can see it's not really true anymore. It's become...

Yes, The drivers went in fine but.......but, I used a step by step process to remove the old drivers and installed the new/older drivers after all the cleanup steps were finished. The process is actually in the forums over at Flightsim.com. I can't link it due to firewalls at work but you...

Do not RMA the card. I had the exact same problem in FS9 with my new 7800 GTX PCI-E card. Every game worked perfectly except FS9. I had to roll back the drivers to 78.01 in order for the swapping texture problem to dissappear. The game runs the way it should now. I know your frustration...