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    Slipstream Windows 7: Is It Worth It?

    Weird that 2 1/2 years after RT7 came out it's still in the same Beta version. Seems the author has not bothered to update the program out of Beta. Guess he abandoned it for some reason.
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    Tomb Raider (2013)

    Oh ok. I'm sure you noticed the red hexagons on your second vid (since you had said you didn't notice them).
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    Tomb Raider (2013)

    And your point is?
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    Tomb Raider (2013)

    I didn't see hexagons when looking at the sun. I saw flashes of circles. Those are lens flares.
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    Tomb Raider (2013)

    Don't confuse droplets with hexagons. The only time I saw water droplets appear on the screen is during cutscenes. Also when taking damage, though they are not droplets, simulated blood splatter appears on the screen until you heal. Both of those are quite different from the Tinkerbell hexagons...
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    Tomb Raider (2013)

    Yep they are gone!! They got rid of all the screen effects including the rain droplets and damage blood splatter. I didn't mind the last two but maybe they had to either get rid of them all or keep them all. That's ok with me. I'll gladly give up the water droplets that you only saw during...
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    Tomb Raider (2013)

    Anyone tried it yet? I hope when they say removed water and blood "drop", they meant the hexagons. There are actually water drops on the screen that don't look bad and simulated blood drops on screen when you suffer damage. I can live with those but the damn hexagons got to go. I hope they are...
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    Tomb Raider (2013)

    I also thought is was a great game otherwise. The effects besides being immersion killing, were just ill placed to me and not even consistent. Here you go next to a waterfall and get the effect but walking in pouring down rain and no effects. Then the screen filling up with red hexagons when...
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    Tomb Raider (2013)

    Max settings. Can't believe some can play this game and not notice those. The only time those didn't appear was before the game was patched. From the first patch on, that screen effect is there. Skinning an animal. More dots. Go into the game and take screenshots of skinning an animal...
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    Tomb Raider (2013)

    It's not a grain dirt effect. It's big hexagon dots all over the screen. Like this.
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    Tomb Raider (2013)

    No dude they don't. There is no way to turn them off. If you get close to water (like a waterfall) or skin an animal, the big hexagon dots will appear all over the screen, doesn't matter how far into the game you are. Easy to test. Just go back into a game and walk close to a waterfall (don't...
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    Tomb Raider (2013)

    Nope, those screen effects stay through the entire game. I know, I've played it to the end.
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    Tomb Raider (2013)

    I can't stand the screen effects of big hexagon dots all over the screen that I guess is supposed to simulate water and blood. Don't know what thought up that idea but apparently someone thought it would look cool (it doesn't, it looks like crap). It is very distracting and immersion killing...
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    my 3770k requires really high voltages? temperatures too high?

    Delidding just makes no sense to me (with the work involved and losing the warranty). I have my 3770k running 4.4 gigs at 1.17 volt at load at around 65c. That's plenty good enough for me and I can hang with that all day long. I don't have the need of some of these overclockers to have my system...
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    Questions about offset mode & LLC for 3770K overclocking.

    From reading a lot of forum stats on different bios setting results for voltage, you got a low result of 1.2 volts with a +.050 offset. Other results I've seen with people running those kinds of offsets at 4.5 gigs are well into the 1.3s. I used a +.005 offset on my 3770K @ 4.4 gigs and the...
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    update: new geforce beta drivers 301.25

    I gotta pay more attention using a fps counter (which I don't ordinarily do) to see if I see tearing below refresh rate. I'm one of those "show me" kind of guys so I will have to see this for myself. I looked at Borderlands 2 again using Precision X fps counter and now Adaptive is working...
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    update: new geforce beta drivers 301.25

    Well I for one have learned something from this thread. I was one who was convinced tearing only happened above monitor refresh rate (with vsync off). Back in the days when I had a crt monitor with my refresh rate set at 100 hz, I never noticed any tearing in games and I played them all with...
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    Who's getting Bulletstorm?

    I couldn't disagree more. I saw nothing unnatural or forced about it. It's a friggin game man! Get fucking over it! Words are just words. There are sure some high and mighty in here. What the hell are some of you guys even doing playing games anyway? Why don't you get back to your church socials...
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    EA Download Manager

    Well to each his own but for me it's still a lot easier with installing the game separately on each machine then having to deal with two Steam accounts (if each computer had a different Steam account. If you had the exact same Steam account on each machine then I could see it. If you had two...
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    Who's getting Bulletstorm?

    I don't think the language is a drawback whatsoever. If you're going to get tripped out by some profanity in games, you might as well just quit playing games altogether or even watching movies. Do you ever go outside?
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    EA Download Manager

    That's a lot more trouble to me (especially if both computers already had different Steam accounts). With EA games downloaded from EA, you just download/install the game to each computer and be done with it. Both computers can also play the game at the same time.
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    Not being notified for email posts

    I have the settings to instant email but when I post I don't get any emails for follow up posts. Edit: Nevermind, I think I figured it out. If changing the settings to Instant Email Notification, it doesn't automatically change any previous posts where the setting was No Email Notification...
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    EA Download Manager

    It doesn't work like that anymore. It no longer downloads what's on a disk to install from that. It now downloads sort of like Steam where the download is the install also. What it now calls the installer is actually only a few kb in size (I think sort of like what you'd use to re-download in...
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    Who's getting Bulletstorm?

    I thought it was a great game!. Playing it is a blast and that's the point isn't it? That's what I look for in a game, not to try to nit pick it apart trying to be a game critic. Like making a big deal if someone uses "dick" instead of "shit". So the dick what! Some don't like the game cause she...
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    EA Download Manager

    I use the EA download manager. In earlier versions you could set it to ask for a destination each time you wanted to use it to install a game. Now you have to set a destination and would have to manually change it if you wanted a different location. Once the game is installed, you can play it...
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    Password didn't take

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    Password didn't take

    I've been a registered member of this forum for years. Recently I tried to log in and my regular password all of a sudden wasn't accepted anymore. I then chose to get new password. Followed all the steps and got new password. Tried to log in again and still can't. It continues to reject it...
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    Splinter Cell Chaos Theory on Win7 Beta

    I bought the downloaded game directly from the Ubisoft website. I just ate the loss of the retail CD game I had previously bought. If I remember right, the download version was something like $20. It was worth it to me cause I really liked the game (and still do), no more cd in drive to play...
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    Splinter Cell Chaos Theory on Win7 Beta

    Nothing that is Starforce protected is going to be on my computer. I bought Chaos Theory when it first came out. I had sense un-installed it because of Starforce (and also got rid of the Starforce drivers) and then later purchased it again, this time the downloaded version which does not have...
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    *** Official ASUS P5B / P5B Deluxe Thread ***

    A further comment of using the AHCI drivers. I've now used this driver and have come to the conclusion that it isn't necessary if using SATA drives not in Raid or that do not have NCQ. I originally posted an increase in burst rate in HDTach but it now appears to have been a fluke. HDTach gives...
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    *** Official ASUS P5B / P5B Deluxe Thread ***

    I would like to thank 3NF for those instructions on installing the AHCI drivers without having to re-install XP. I've been reading all over the place wondering if this was possible and you were the only one with instructions how to do it. Very Cool Dude! I just did it and it worked perfect! I...
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    *** Official ASUS P5B / P5B Deluxe Thread ***

    From 3NF I would really like to try this as I originally installed XP just with the XP drivers. I have 2 WD 250 gig SATA HDDs (not in RAID) and would like to have them working at maximum using the AHCI setting in BIOS (not in RAID). Installing the drivers without having to re-install XP...
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    *** Official ASUS P5B / P5B Deluxe Thread ***

    Tried all that. The combo I gave was as high as I could get. Even tried 8x400 which gave the same 3.2 gig, but had stability issues and the PCIE 1X issue. As I said, I'm not complaining. A 2.4 gig chip hitting 3.2 is fine in my book.
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    *** Official ASUS P5B / P5B Deluxe Thread ***

    I had the PCIE reverting from 16x to 1x myself when I was trying higher overclocks and messing with the Northbridge/Southbridge voltages. The highest stable overclock I can get is 356 FSB (1/1) which gives me my 3.2 gigs. Anything higher than that on my system resulted in instability and/or the...
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    *** Official ASUS P5B / P5B Deluxe Thread ***

    I have read this whole thread regarding how to install drivers for SATA hard drives to use ACHI in the BIOS instead of IDE. I am no closer now to understanding this than I was when I started reading. I installed XP with SATA at IDE in BIOS and XP installed fine without needing any floppy...
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    E6600@3.6 on 1.4125 Vcore Fails Orthos in Less than 5 Seconds

    I don't see a MCH Voltage option on the P5B Deluxe. There is a ICH voltage reading. I currently have my 6600 running at 3.2 gig at 9x356. I tried 8x400 but Windows freezes after about a minute. I have my Voltages set as follows: Memory Voltage - 1.9 volts (2 gigs Corsair PC6400C4 at SPD)...
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    What's the BEST LCD Monitor I can get for ~$650?

    Ok, I'm convinced now the 20WMGX2 has an 8 bit panel. Apparently I was reading the wrong bits of info.
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    What's the BEST LCD Monitor I can get for ~$650?

    Why are you being the wise guy? No need. I was stating the info I had on the subject. I was not guessing, it was from info I've read (just like where your info comes from). In that PDF it did state 16.7 million. That's the first place I've seen that. I've seen the figure "more than 16 million" a...