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That's it. WineCape has finally drank too much of his own stuff. Seriously, I do not understand this post. :confused:

Creative's sound card processors and drivers force some of the workload onto your processor's shoulders. As a result, system performance takes a hit, and this is bad news if you are on a older processor like me (P4 1.5). In addition, this can cause sound anaomolies such as the occasional pop or skip when you processor is being over-worked. Second, I own a Creative Jukebox MP3 player, and it has been nothing but a headache for me. I should have been patient and saved up the extra bones for an Apple Ipod. I short, I am sick of Creative's ****. Much like EA in the games arena, they are the one of the most popular brands, but are not even close to the best that are out there. I just bought a Santa Cruz Turtle Beach card. Where my sound blaster needed 33% of my CPU to run MP3's on Musicmatch Jukebox player, the SC needs 4%. And the SC has the best sound I have ever heard in a card, even better than Audigy!

Good camo scheme Flesh, but it's too flat. Light seems to be striking it from all directions. I didn't know JagdPanthers were operational in trinary star systems? I needs some shading, dirt/mud on the wheels, a cross on the side, ect...

Hey bub, I am a CMBO player.

Thanks for the advice and the link GF.

You must have played my old Hockey Riot scenario. Designed for pure bull**** and fun, it was meant to get a laugh out of and nothing more.

Nevermind. [ August 25, 2003, 12:26 AM: Message edited by: Vader's Jester ]

Dude, I telling you it's not going to be like that. I don't care what the egg heads with late betas are saying. They always freak when a new graphics engine comes out. I mean, they treated Quake III like you couldn't run it on anything less that the freaking Death Star's main computer. LOL Do you really think Valve or ID would release a product that 95% of their consumers can't play? That's like a car company releasing a new car that runs on urainum. They'd go belly up, because they'd have no market to sell too. Most people do not have uber $4000 gaming systems, and very few will be able to upgrade to a state-of-the-art rig for these games. Half Life and Quake III were both state-of-the-art when they released, and were both playable with most of their eye candy intact on mid range systems. Hell, I remember everyone saying you would not be able to run HL on a rig without a 16mb graphics card, and it ran very well on my 8mb VooDoo 2. It's overhype BS man. Besides, betas are often glitchy and have performance issues. That's why they're betas. I think that anyone with a decent 128mb graphics card will do just fine. Valve even claims that you can run HL2 on a 64mb card with the settings turned down. There is no game now or within the next year that will use a 256mb card. The new generation of cards are overpowered at this point. They will only be useful to get the full effect out of games like D3 and HL2, otherwise, they are overkill.

This is how you do it: 1. Go to 'My Computer,' 2. Open 'Local Disk C' (or whatever your HD is), 3. Delete the Nvidia folder (thuse wiping out all the drivers [leave it in your recyle bin just in case though - do not fully delete it yet]) 4. Download the 44.03 dirvers from here: The Guru of 3D 5. Install them. Should be ready to fly after that. Good Luck.

To be much more precise: CMAK screenshots galore!! I don't see the point of posting this here though. CMBO players don't like the improvements made in CMBB and CMAK. It sucks that machine guns really work, or that you can't make gamey last turn flag rushes, or how map hugging with tanks is risky now.

For the love of god can you post this beauity already!! :eek:

Gaylord, That site gave the speakers I have been looking at a very good review indeed! And the suggested retail on them is $200! I have found most sites want $135-$200, so the $119 I found is a total steal! :eek: EDIT: The wankers wanted $59 in shipping?!! It has to travel a whole 140 miles from LA to my house for godsakes! I used to work freight, and I know stuff in the same state moves by truck to the destination city, not by air to a central processing hub and then out again. 59 bucks?!! Is the subwoofer made of lead?!! LOL I'll have to see if there is a local deal, otherwise I may stick with easy target's suggestion for now. Edit again: I can get them through Dell. Since I am already a customer, I get $13 off and the $35 in shipping is dropped as well, so I pick 'em up for $121 total! Schweet! :cool: [ August 24, 2003, 01:57 AM: Message edited by: Vader's Jester ]

Thanks for the link Gaylord. I'll look into that site. :cool:

I already have a great sounding set with a built in mic for teamchat. I run a Ti4200, so I have enough juice to run HL2 with most of it's settings turned up I'm sure. Everyone thinks HL2 and D3 are gonna need a dang HAL 9000 to run 'em! I think everyone is going to be suprised at how well they're going to run and look on even mid-range systems.

DAMN Lucky! I hardly ever play CMBO anymore, but that ambush Panther looks out-f%#&ing-standing! You have to do that to one of the CMBB Panthers! The Panther VA could use it the most. Damn. [ August 23, 2003, 10:07 PM: Message edited by: Vader's Jester ]

Nevermind. I found that speaker set for $119. Not bad. Well within my set budget ($170 total; with shipping, I should do okay).

They explode in a glorious fireball and come smashing down on the battlefield right on top of your enemy's armor! It's the most ass-kICking thing I have ever seen in a video game! And if your AA has quad damage with heat seeker delepeted uranium rounds...WHOA! Do not say I have not warned you!

We are Borg. Resistance is futile.

44.03's seem to be the best of the current drivers for CM.

...you have seen for under $200. I am getting ready for HL 2. I am interested in buying a HERCULES Fortissimo III 7.1 to replace my crappy Soundblaster card with. I am sick of Creative Lab's processor dependant cards holding back my system's performance. With a P4 1.5, I am looking for a top quality sound card that won't tax my processor so much. This card seems to run in the $50 range. That leaves me with $150 to spend on a good 5 speaker surround set. Logitech Z560 4.1 Computer Speakers look good, although Amazon wants a little more than I would like to spend ($142, but I could afford it). So anyone know of good places to buy these for less, or better suggestions altogether? BTW, does CM support surround? Can I hear an 88 go off behind my camera position? [ August 22, 2003, 06:52 PM: Message edited by: Vader's Jester ]

Yeah, great screens. I can't wait to run my tanks in diagonal formations to use the dust for cover! [ August 22, 2003, 01:38 PM: Message edited by: Vader's Jester ]

Does your wife know you're still spending on those "working" girls?

Trotter gives props to CM and TacOps 4 in his article in this month's PC Gamer, and the new writer for the MMORPGS section lists CMBB as his #2 game of the month. That's what I like about that mag. They are a fair and well balanced crew that always puts gameplay over graphics. When they say a game's crap, it'll probably be crap. When they give it high praise, it's probably worth your money. They seem to be the only mainstream mag that still supports wargameing at all. Great mag.

I am so there man!