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With previous versions of Windows we have basically had Direct3D and OpenGL installed on top of the OS to add some extra functionality. In some cases the the API or the driver installation have failed so that 3D rendering could not take place or wasn't done properly. With Windows Vista the...

I'm not inserting anything anywhere!!! Happy birthday!

What a HItleresque way you have of telling everyone else what can and cannot be done! Need we remind you who WON the war?

It's difficult to say why you are seeing this behavior, but typically WiFi will have higher latency and, more importantly for gaming, it may have some drop-out issues that you wouldn't normally notice with less latency sensitive applications (jitter). I think about 6-10ms latency is typical...

Or the "good life" of being married. :wink: "But I'm not hungry! Can't we have sex instead?" "Eat your food!"

Nice rig! You should never feel bad about such a purchase. People will tell you it costs too much or that something better is coming out, but I think you did a splendid thing: you bought the best there is right now and that should be a good feeling. Once tuned, if you are not happy with the...

This happened to me (the BIOS smiley faces, mostly purple or was it pink) and as far as I can tell it was a dead video card. After swapping out the video card all was fine again. My 6800 Ultra died and I popped in a GF4 (:shock:), so, potentially, it could also have been power related as the...

I agree fully with the sentiment of the OP. Games have really (REALLY!) gone down the toilet. It's not just me thinking so, having "evolved" from a easy-going fun-loving guy to an old boring grumpy old man. It's everywhere: in music, in movies, and, of course, in games. It's all been...

It's neither. This is an Unreal Engine 3 demo. The assets may have been created for use in Gears of War and/or UT 2007, but this is mainly a demonstration of the level stream loading of data, allowing for large locales without stopping to load new data. I believe this was done on a PC running...

People who bring noise makers into movies with the attitude that we are all just there killing time, as if we are in some quarantine together and not necessarily there to take in what's being offered on screen and through the audio system. These "noisemakers" invariably come in two varieties...

Oh yeah...so it is...heh. Oops. :neutral: Having read Basic's statement that we must know how highly a film is rated before determining how over-rated it is, and agreeing and alluding to that in my own post (I did, didn't I?), I just came up with the most overrated piece of celluloid garbage...

Another vote for the ghastly abomination that is the 2005 remake of War of the Worlds. This is quite near the pinnacle of dreadful. What makes it so very bothersome is the fact that they had so much to work with, a prior movie to analyze and to refine and then they pop that thing out of the...

I'm just talking about her general appearance and not a particular role she may have played. She may be tough as nails in real life (I guess you have to be to survive Hollywood), but she would have no problem pulling a "puppy" and this is what I am referring to. On some primitive level (so...

Specifically, and this is just my conjecture without volumes on human evolution and psychology to back me up, I think Jessica Alba is physically attractive because she looks vulnerable. I think it would be fair to say that the male is attracted to her in a role as protector. She is so thin and...

Money and fame never hurt a person's prospects in being desirable, but I think you may be on to something here.