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Tried that, no dice. With the Audigy2 there is no merging of channels, I would be SOL without the middle speaker.

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So I was at BestBuy this evening and they had a BFG 6800GT OC sitting on the shelf selling for $400. Now, my 9700Pro is getting kinda long in the teeth and I'm thinking this card would make Doom3 (and HL2) run silky smooth. Problem is, the card is $400. I have $400, but I can't bring myself to justi...

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Man, if you guys don't have 5.1 sound you are totally missing out. I'm running a set of Klipsch 4.1 speakers and I was totally bummed when I got Doom3 because it said it couldn't turn on surround sound because it "couldn't find surround sound speakers." Apparently 4.1 speakers isn't close ...

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Is it just me or does anyone else really really really hate using those damn elevators (lifts)? I hate those damn things, something always jumps me. Now, for ones that go down anyway, I lower the lift, hop off and toss some grenades down first, then I call it back up and head down.

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War, you can turn it on manually in single player by going into the console (ctrl+alt+~) and typing "seta g_showplayershadow 1." This will turn it on permanmently.

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Top, I was just playing Doom3 when I ran into this guy who said he heard you thought that Doom3 sucked. After a little talking to with my chainsaw he was ready to show you how much fun Doom 3 can be! Look for yourself

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Sorry about making the flame-ish posts. I was just getting a little fed-up with the constant hype and discussion about the game. I'm sure that, for people who like that type of thing, it's a really revolutionary and fun game. All right, that's enough of my derailing of this topic :). Dude, you have...

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You do cast one:

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Top, have you actually played the game? Its amazing. You want groundbreaking? Look at the use of light and shadows to create a mood / environment that I have never before experienced in a computer game. Combine that with the extraordinary sound design and what you get a completely unique gaming expe...

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DCrazy wrote:Awaiting big-image oppression in 3... 2... 1...

Big image oppression? Screw that, they are all under 100k.

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No AA or AF turned on. I never play with that crap on. Most other games I run at 1600x1200 where there is hardly any jaggies at all. Only thing I turned on was vsync in the doom3 setup. It doesn't run fast enough to be held back by my refresh rate, so I turned it on to make sure there wasn't any tea...

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Here's a few screenshots, just for fun.

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Runs decently @ 1024x768 medium details on my 9700PRO. I wouldn't suggest any higher than that though.

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For those of you who have played the game, how do you go about entering a new room? Personally, I take it very slowly, scanning the floor, ceiling, every nook and cranny with my flashlight to make sure none of those damn Imp things are going to jump me. Does anyone out there just run and gun? Who's ...

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STRESSTEST wrote:I think the slowest thing you should even consider would be a GF4 MX 440

The Geforce4 MX line is based on the Geforce2 Ultra hardware. Geforce3 > Geforce4 MX.

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I've been playing Doom 3 through the single player. Currently I'm walking around, quivering, in the Alpha Labs. Thank god for that damn flash light!

This is the creepiest game I've ever played, hands down. My god, its crazy!

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Woot again for 5760!

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Woot, 5275!

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So do I and Winamp 5 still takes much longer than 2 to load up.

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Version 5 is hideously slow to start up, just like 3 was. I just removed 5 and put 2.91 back in. Much better. 2.79 has a huge security problem btw.

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That sucks man. Thankfully I still have mine, and will not be having them out. Woot!

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You can mount NTFS volumes under drive letters of another drive ala Linux if thats more your style. You can have a folder thats a seperate 250gig. I've never done but personally, but I know the option exists.

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Man, those are screwy looking graphs. I had RAID0 way back in the day on a FastTrak66 card and it did something similar if I recall correctly. Unfortuntely, the current word on the street says that RAID0 is practically useless for everyday, single user uses. Obviously this excludes video / audio edi...

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Did a fresh install of WinXP today with my new Raptor drive. I installed DX 9.0c along with it and I have no problems to report. Everything works just fine.

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Just got my new Raptor drive so I decided to do a few HD tach tests on it. Get the latest version here: http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public/index.php?request=HdTach Do a Long Bench (32meg). Here's the Raptor, all by itself on my ICH5R southbridge: http://www.rit.edu/~aig3588/raptor.jpg Here's my ot...

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Sold.

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Straight up Unix or Linux? I suppose you could use some sort of emulator, i.e. WINE or some other similar program.

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Testiculese wrote:The one you're apparently not part of.

Oh, give me a break. The Descent community consists of what, 500 people, 1000 max? Give me a break. The DBB is just a bunch of yohans that post on a BB themed after Descent. Descent has very little to do with what goes on here.

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Just an FYI for everyone. I ghosted my SCSI boot drive onto a 40gig Seagate drive and I was able to boot from it without a problem. No repairs or any other funky stuff needed. Just ghost and go.

Woot!

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I have the Logitech Quickcam Pro 4000. The software it comes with has a "Motion Detector" app that you can run and it will start recording video and sound when the motion in the room exceeds whatever level you set it to. Its cheap, $75 at Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.a...

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Its a shame that the 74gig 15K.3 is around $550-600 :) I'm getting the Raptor for $165 and I'm selling my current setup for $205. No doubt that the SCSI was nice to have, but my drives been be eclipsed by the Raptor and even some 7200rpm IDE drives. Time for some new ones. Having 1 drive instead of ...

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I doubt that will the case. The Raptor is both faster in terms of transfer rate and seek times compared to my Atlas 10K III drives. The 15K.3 is a nice drive, but expensive and loud. I'll post what I think once I get it and have everything loaded up.

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Have you read the review of the 74gig drive on StorageReview? The Raptor beats the 10K.6 in every test. It only looses to a few of Maxtor's latest offerings. Its a very speedy drive indeed. Why ditch the SCSI? Because I want to slim my machine down. This way I can loose the controller card and swap ...

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AceCombat wrote:I am now a Proud Owner of HALO PC!!

Man, its too bad Halo just flat out sucks. Good price on it though.

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Grendel wrote:Uninstall the SCSI controller then ghost the disk. Should work.

No offense, but how am I going to ghost the drive without the SCSI controller in?

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I have ghost to do that. My problems lies in the fact that WindowsNT+ freaks out if the controller its looking for at bootup disappears. Thats what I'm referring to.

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I have a new 74gig Raptor drive on the way which I'm going to use to replace my SCSI setup. Is there any way I can get Windows to boot off the new drive without having to do a reinstall? The controller is going to be completely different so I'm not sure if it will work. Maybe something in the boot.i...

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Has anyone done this? What does it involve? I'm going to send some hard drives to a guy in Canada. Need some advice.

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Ok, I really want to get rid of this, how about $200 + shipping?

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Got the new fan controller today, things are much quieter again thankfully! The 305 is a nice little unit and it looks much better than the monsterous 201 that takes up a 5.25 bay. I drilled a hole through one of my slot covers and mounted the blue cathods on the outside of the back of my case. It p...

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