StarFleet Captain

Sorry if this has been discussed before, but I'm fairly new and haven't seen any thread asking about this. So how many scenarios and operations, is it? that are shipping with the game?

Matt, I can feel for ya. I recently had my HD trashed by a virus. Had to do a reformat, but saved everything. Although I didn't want hardly anything I used to have, including my porn. I spent Sunday afternoon deleting most of my old data save a few things. However, I discovered that my motherboard was bad. So I did a upgrade, however still have a problem, (see thread in Tech Support forum about new computer problem.) Oops, sentences above aren't necessarily in correct chronological order. [ July 17, 2002, 08:05 PM: Message edited by: StarFleet Captain ]

$25? That's it? Hell, even I can afford that many! LOL!

Forgive me, I've missed the pricing information. How much is SC going to run? How much better is this game than the old Three-Sixty game High Command?

Fellas, I think we've figured it out. I called the shop this morning and after further research about this brand new board, they've found that it has on-board 5.1 surround sound and that it conflicts with my SBLive! They apparently loaded a software patch before leaving the shop and it was working fine, but as you may note above in my first post, when it rebooted one time it said Windows had found new hardware, the motherboard, and then it looked like it loaded new drivers for it. I'm thinking it over wrote the patch. And that's when my shutdown problems started. But the deal about why my Recycle Bin and "My Computer" windows are freezing up is still a mystery.

IMO, it would be a good thing to use Human Wave tactic when you are relatively close to some arbitrary objective and you just wanna take it in kind of a rush. Something similiar to doing an assault in a more operational level game like Talaonsoft's Camapign Series. In other words, instead of shooting for enemy casualties at range, to do a hand-to-hand kind of rush.

...myself from bumping the FAQ back to Page #1 from Page #4. But nonetheless some people just don't get the royalties that come with...

Win98 was cleanly installed after a reformat, I think. That is that's how I understood it because my old HD was thoroughly trashed by viruses and the registery was screwed as well. The major problem I'm having right this moment is that Explorer keeps hanging when I'm working with "My Computer" and the Recycle Bin. I don't know if I mentioned it above, but the shop recovered all my information from the harddrive, stored it to a removable HD and then later restored it to a new folder on the clean HD in a folder called "oldhd". I have just spent the last hour or so going thru and deleting all my old stuff that I didn't need. Freeing up about 25 Gig. While doing so, both Explorer and the Recycle Bin would hang several times where I would have to CTRL-ALT-DEL to shut them down. It seems almost like there's a memory problem. After I delete a bunch of stuff, it's like memory fills up and it won't clear itself properly. But anyhow, I'm probably going to take it in either tomorrow or Wednesday and let them fool with it.

For games, my soundcard and speakers are just fine, but I was really concerned with getting something newer that supports the 5.1 surround. Need that LFE more than anything.

How would a Athlon 1800+ XP with 256 DDR2600, ASUS A7V333 mobo, and 64MB DDR Geforce 2 GTS handle CMBB? I wished I could upgrade to a 128MB Geforce 4 Ti4600, but I couldn't swing the extra $375.

The problem is still there. In fact, I had a lock-up with Recycle Bin in the same manner as the "program files" folder. Except this time I did get a "Not Responding" notification in the CTRL-ALT-DEL function. But now, not only am I not getting a power down, but it's Restarting, just like it did in the shop. I called the shop this morning and the tech said that try running an on-line virus scan (housecall.antivirus.com) to see if I had transfered a virus from my 'oldhd' folder to the real Program Files folder. Housecall scanned my entire drive and found nothing. He also said perhaps that I could try reseating my video card because right before I took it out of the office, they removed it temporarily to download the newest Nvidia Detoantor driver. (He only removed it for reference for the tech who downloaded the driver) And when he put it back in, it didn't quite go in right first. But anyway, he's gonna check for any compatibility issues with this brand spanking new board and Win98.

I'm still using Win98 SE. The shop did all the work. They were having some problems with it for several days, otherwise I would have had it back by Tuesday or so instead of Friday. But one problem they were having was that when they selected "Shut Down", it would actually do the equivalent of "Restart". They said they narrowed that problem down to an IRQ conflict with my sound card. It was working fine when I brought it home. Just that strange occurance last night. I'm going to try to shut it down now to see if the problem is still there.

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I currently own one of the original SBLive! X-Gamers. I'm thinking of upgrading. Can anybody recommend anything? I've got a DVD drive on my system now and I'm interested in something that supports Dolby 5.1 Surround. I've checked out the new SB Extigy, the external soundcard that has all the Dolby Digital decoders in it 'n stuff. Amazon.com has it for $126. Is that a good deal? [ July 14, 2002, 03:31 PM: Message edited by: StarFleet Captain ]

Hi, I hope this sub-forum will be suitable for this question. I just had to do a forced upgrade on my computer as my old motherboard apparently was bad. I had an ASUS A7V-133 and a 1.2 GHz Athlon, but now I have a ASUS A7V-333 with an 1800+ XP Athlon. I also am starting all over with a fresh reformat as I had a corrupted registry on my system due to a virus, I think. I just got it back on Friday. The shop had to flash the BIOS because of some problems. Now here's the deal. Yesterday, (Saturday) I was using "My Computer" and I was transfering some folders from a saved folder containing most of my old imformation. I copied two folders of modlets for Dungeon Siege over to the master Dungeon Siege folder which was in C:\Program Files\Microsoft games. When I did this, the "Program Files" window locked up and quit responding. I could close down any other open "My Computer" windows, but not the "Program Files" window. So I did a CTRL-ALT-DEL shutdown of that window. It did't show a (not responding) message, but it eventually let me shut it down. Now here's where it got weird. When I did this, I lost all but two icons in my System Tray. So I did a Windows restart. When the computer rebooted, Windows said it detected some unknown hardare, my motherboard! And it appeared to load something, probably drivers, but then later last evening when I webt to shut the machine down, I would get the "Windows 98 shutdown screen" but the machine would not power down. I hit reset a few times, but still the same result, so I just had to flip my power switch on my surge protector to shut it down. What's up with that? Any idea, or am I gonna have to take it back to the shop?

Well bummer, I ain't buying it unless it has white birch branches. Please pretty please with sugar on top. I just love those white birch trees.

Talking about when we'll start bombing Afghanistan. Oops, wait. You meant this year, my bad. Oh, I don't know, what day of the week is that? Friday? Hmmm, probably going to work and twiddling my thumbs as usual.