OT: Speed Tests

[David E. Gervais]

AT, go back to the old "One more turn" type games.. Heroes of Might and Magic come to mind. Lots of fun, and currently not expensive. (can be found in bargain bins)

If you want a great FPS game, go back and play Deus Ex. It's probably the best FPS I have ever played. (I haven't tried Deus Ex 2, it wants higher sys specs than I currently have.)

Anyway, you know the deal, when boared make models LOL

Cheers!

[Atrocities]

Check this crap out.

I was gone for about an hour today and when I came back my computer had automatically UPDATED to SP2.

Don't ask me how I honestly don't know. I just now figured it out. All day today my system has been running really sluggish and now I know why. I will have to uninstall all of my games and re-install them in the hopes that they will work without crashing me to a reboot or desk top.

What I want to say I would like to do but will not is: KILL EVERY MTF'ING MICROSOFT EMPLOYEE WHO CAUSED THIS PROBLEM!

And then STRING THAT SKINNY SOB - FOUNDER OF MS - UP TO THE NEAREST TELEPHONE POLL WITH A SIGN AROUND HIS NECK THAT READS "I was a greedy bastard!"

There ought to be a law against this kind of update and break your PC crap. The law should allow people to sue for damages and such if the update causes problems.

[Mephisto]

I always found Americas Army quite neat. Anyway, why do you want to re-install your games on the SP2 patched system? You shouldn't need to do this. I certainly didn't need to do it on my machine...

[Karibu]

You should try Homeworld 2 and Ufo Aftermath. I had both of them but they didin't run on my computer. Though I think they will as soon as I change its motherboard and reinstall W2k. Also I have heard that Galactic Civilizations is a good game also. Though, I haven't tried that one.

[Atrocities]

The game is indeed neat, I just could never get any where in it. I will try again later, after I finish Far Cry on its hardest settings.

[Aiken]

X2: The Threat is reported to be a great game. It's direct successor of legendary "Elite". Unfortunately my pee-cee is too antique to run it, otherwise I'd play it days and nights.

[Renegade 13]

aiken said:
X2: The Threat is reported to be a great game. It's direct successor of legendary "Elite". Unfortunately my pee-cee is too antique to run it, otherwise I'd play it days and nights.

I just bought X2, and it arrived a couple days ago. Unfortunately, I can't get the thing to work! Crashes on me right when the first "loading" page comes up....updating my graphics card drivers better work, or I'm gonna be pissed!

Oh yeah, the subject of the thread...well I'm on dialup, so I guess its not worth posting my stats. I sure envy you people with your Broadband connections. I've been waiting for about 20 minutes just for a 6 MB file to download!!

[Ragnarok]

Atrocities said:
I was gone for about an hour today and when I came back my computer had automatically UPDATED to SP2.

AT, did you have the settings in automatic update to either notify you before updating or to avoid downloading the news patches completely? If not then that is why it automatically updated, it downloaded the SP and installed without notifying you because that is what it was set to do.

But if you indeed had this set to notify you before installing the patch or not download any new patches completely that is indeed a intriguing problem.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

www.elderscrolls.com TES:IV announced!

I got 1269/158.6kb/sec down and 531 up. So, I don't think I could host a server.

[Rasorow]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
www.elderscrolls.com TES:IV announced!

Sweet VERY sweet - cannot wait.

Rasorow