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Vomitmeister

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  1. Here's mine: * Your score: 4 * Gender: Male * Age range: 40-49 * Best score for your gender and age range: 0 * Highest score for your gender and age range: 1212
  2. The actress' name is Morena Baccarin.
  3. In case you don't recognize her or haven't seen the show, the spokeswoman is the actress that played Inara Serra, the professional companion, in the Firefly series.
  4. There has been a lot of trash talking going on in the office, especially from the boss. I want to have his head put on the cleaning lady, if we can figure out how to do it so it looks decent. During the game, you can spray the picture on the walls. The cleaning lady even fits in as we work at a janitorial service.
  5. Does anyone have a dvd of Monty Python's Meaning of Life? If so, could you take a really good quality screen capture of the scene where Mr. Creosote vomits on the cleaning lady? I have been trying to find one online and the only ones of that specific scene are too fuzzy. I want to crop the scene down to just the area around the two of them. I then want to superimpose someone's face over the cleaning lady and use it as a spray in Left 4 Dead for a lan party. If anyone can help me out, I would be very grateful.
  6. I received a free copy of Vista back when it came out by watching a bunch of Microsoft videos on some website. I still haven't installed it due to all the negative talk. Now that it has been out for awhile, I may have to try installing it. I am worried about drivers for a couple of my peripherals, a joystick and a game controller. I remember upgrading to XP and losing the use of a joystick I had because the manufacturer wouldn't upgrade the drivers.
  7. I didn't get the impression he was blaming Stardock. I got the impression that he bought the game with the impression that he would be able to download updates somewhere with a fast connection, maybe at a library, like many games. The developer failed to note this on the packaging. I agree that he was a tad more pissed off than he should have been, but I felt the developer should have handled it a bit differently. Maybe empathize with him a bit, admit they probably could have added some wording to the box and that would have been the end of it. The part I find funny is that the bill of rights states no download manager needed, yet they develop one that is a requirement. And, from what the complainer said, doesn't offer a restart ability, which would have satisfied him.
  8. I think I used Edmunds to buy my last car. I went in with their TMV value and said I wanted to pay that and they agreed without any argument. Easiest car purchase I ever made.
  9. That Stardock Bill of Rights cracks me up. I was looking at their Sins of a Solar Empire site a couple of weeks ago. They had a link on their main page to a thread on their forum dealing with a customer's complaint. This customer lives in Australia's Outback and only could get dial-up access with speeds around 26kbs. His complaint was that in order to get the patches for the game, he needed to download some custom download manager and IE. He also complained that nowhere on the box does it state these requirements. First the fanboys trashed him. Then, the developer got on there and basically did the same, including banning him. I was pretty disgusted with how they handled the whole situation.
  10. Well, I tried CMBO with the newer drivers last night. The drivers have a hotkey feature that is supposed to allow you to turn the 3d on and off and also adjust other setting by hitting a hotkey combination. I wasn't able to get this to work at all in CMBO or Far Cry. As for the graphics in CMBO, the problems are still there. Most notable are the boxes drawn around a unit when you click on it. Instead of a single box drawn around the unit, you will see two boxes, one to either side of the selected unit. When the hotkey toggle was working, I would turn off the 3d during the planning phase and turn them back on during the movie phase. They worked pretty good as long as you didn't need to select a specific unit. I don't have either of the two later games and don't have their demos installed, so I wasn't able to try them. The drivers contain a list of games and a rating of how compatible they are with any problems they have found. CMBO had very good ratings with two negative comments involving the drawing of lines. If you really want to try them, make sure there is a return policy that allows you to return them if they don't live up to your expectations. I bought mine at a computer fair and got them on impulse. Now, I find I hardly ever use them. Maybe I would use them more if I had a newer monitor that had a much higher refresh rate. My monitor peaks out in the 70 mhz range which causes a lot of irritating flickering while playing with the glasses. Newer monitors probably look much better. By the way, I noticed last night that there are newer drivers out there again. I downloaded them but didn't get around to installing them. I would really doubt that they fix any of these issues, though. The problems seem to stem from the way the games layer the 3d graphics. I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any other questions.
  11. I haven't played CM with them since my reload. Silent Storm looked good. Far Cry looks good. I will try to check them out tonight or tomorrow with CM.
  12. When I was looking around for answers to the slow boot problem, I saw some references to the slow shut down. I remember one solution was to disable the NVidia Driver Helper service. Supposedly, it isn't really needed. You can do a search in Google's Groups for more info on this.
  13. I have a second machine as well. The machine I was talking about as an Athlon 2600. My other machine is a much slower Athlon 850Mhz system and it was booting faster than the 2600. The 2600 has a Geforce 3 ti200 vs. a TNT2 in the old machine. Do you use Windows Update on both machines? I vaguely recall now that my slowdown occured while updating drivers and other things with Windows Update. Maybe there is a security patch that screws up some driver that Nvidia uses. Just throwing out ideas.
  14. BOOTVIS - from what I read, but never saw it myself, it should give you the amount of time each driver is taking to load. A driver with an unusually high time might be your culprit. I never got to the point that I saw anything reporting this. i just read that it should show this. Safe Mode - If it boots quickly in safe mode, then it probably isn't you MB. Safe mode is using Windows' basic drivers. If your MSCONFIG is clear, the only thing different between safe mode and a normal boot is the drivers that are being loaded. My machine booted quickly in safe mode but not with the msconfig cleared. Searching on the web, I found a few people with similar problems saying it was the NVidia drivers. I know registry bloat wasn't my problem, since I just reloaded my machine and booting slowed down when I loaded up my slightly older Nvidia drivers.
  15. I don't remember what version I was at, but after upgrading to 56.64, it cleared it up. Does it boot up slow when you boot in safe mode? If not, use msconfig to try to determine if it is anything that is auto-starting. If you turn everything off and it still boots slow, then it could be indicating a driver issue, video or other. Otherwise, work through the services and try to figure out which one is the culprit. Could mean rebooting many times. You can also try doing a Google search for BootVis. It supposedly can be used to track down what is loading during boot and how long it takes. My machine was pretty messed up when I tried it, and I only ran into more problems. However, you could give it a shot. If you want, I can e-mail the program to you, if you want it. It is only 329K.
  16. Have you checked the version of your NVidia drivers? They released new ones a couple of weeks ago.
  17. I was having boot time of up to 4 minutes. Even tried blowing my machine away and reloading everything. Then, I found out in the 3d glasses thread that there is a new NVidia driver out. Installed it and now my machine is back under a minute.
  18. I'd been having problems with my machine taking a few minutes to boot. So, last week, I decided to blow my machine away and start fresh, hoping it would fix the long boot. No such luck. So, I spent part of this weekend finishing the reinstallation of some of my software. I looked at the drivers you mentioned and found them to be newer than what I had. So, I installed bothe the video and 3d drivers. Now, my machine is back to the 30 second boot time it should have been at. I didn't get much of a chance to try anything. I loaded Silent Storm for a minute. It looked pretty good, but I got summoned by my wife and couldn't mess around with it to see how it played with the 3d.
  19. The ones you are looking at look similar to the ones I have, so they are probably using the same mechanics to produce the 3d image. I haven't used mine in awhile, so maybe the drivers you are talking about are newer than the ones I have used. I will try to look at it over the weekend.
  20. I have a pair of 3d glasses. Not sure what brand at the moment. I have used them for CMBO and found it enjoyable to watch the movies with them. However, the drivers can't handle a mixture of 2d and 3d. In CMBO, the lines drawn around the units wouldn't appear properly. The box would appear on either side of the unit instead of around it. I usually turned the glasses off during plotting and use them only for the movies. They are pretty good for most FPS games. Other games that mix the 3d and 2d also have problems. For example, Freedom Force, Warcraft 3and Neverwinter Nights loses the 2d graphics around the boarders. That means no pictures, stats or buttons. Makes the games unplayable. As for NVidia drivers, they don't seem to release their 3d glasses drivers anywhere as near as often as their other drivers. This means that upgrading your video driver can cause the glasses to no longer work. One other thing, you need a monitor that has a refresh rate of at least 80 Hertz. My monitor can't hit that fast and it causes a lot of flickering that can give you a headache. If you can try them with the games you play and return them if you don't like them, that would be the optimal solution. Otherwise, I would recommend holding off.
  21. I tried loading these new drivers as well as the last set. I ended up going back to an old set. Wmy machine boots, there is a point when the Windows XP Logo screen comes up, goes black, and then asks you to logon. With these new drivers, that time in the black has gone from a couple of seconds to a couple of minutes. BTW, I have a home built Athlon 2600 with a Geforce 3 ti200 video and 512MB of ram.
  22. I sent this by e-mail, but just in case someone else wants to know, the tool I used is Process Explorer at http://www.sysinternals.com/index.shtml
  23. Well, I tracked it down. Somehow a bogus Explorer.exe found its way into my System32 directory and added a pointer to it in the registry to start up when Windows starts. It was killing my task manager, msconfig and regedit. I found it by downloading a third party task manager tool and noticed that there were two explorer.exe's running. The second looked to have been created recently, so I tried stopping the task and found that the problems vanished.
  24. I am having a problem getting Task Manager and MSCONFIG to come up. When I do the Ctrl-Alt-Del press, Task Manager pops up briefly and then disappears. The icon shows in the system tray but disappears as soon as I move my mouse over it. Doing some searching on Google seemed to point at a virus. Did a virus scan but found nothing. I tried opening MSCONFIG and found it was doing the same thing as task manager. I rebooted and went into Safe mode. Everything worked fine there. In MSCONFIG, I turned everything off so that it would boot with minimal stuff. It still has the same problem. I have uninstalled my NVidia drivers and Sound Blaster drivers. I have also reinstalled XP. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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