Computers And Video Games

[tanay]

Originally Posted by fasterthanthefastest

The problem is the CPU is the small size one, approx 4 x 12 x 15 inches.

That cabinet is way too small for even the lowest end cards. You could get a new cabinet for 1K and then put in a good card.

[nagoo]

Originally Posted by EL LOCO DIABLO

I just bought Blur yesterday, while I must say the game is downright awesome and stunningly rendered, with exquisitely detailed cars. I seem to have run aground with the custom mapping of the keyboard layouts, the game comes with two layouts for the keyboard but I can't seem to edit them to my preferences. Any help??

EDIT: I'm really getting annoyed with these console to PC ported games, and this is has got to take the cake for being the stupidest port EVER! It wasn't actually designed to take in custom user inputs!! Why?? This was the statement released by them "it detracts from the experience the creators intended" WTF?? What exactly was the experience intended? Rip out your hair and scream at the screen with frustration? I'm giving it one more shot using a third-party keyboard mapper emulator. But for those who are actually planning on buying this half-assed game.........DON'T. And oh BTW if you have a wheel and wish to play this game on it, throw it out the garbage 'cause it doesn't support one either.

u saved me some money , well although i am not good fan of racing games , but now i am waiting for a game called "sniper:ghost ****" something like that .. which may release this month

[riot]

Originally Posted by TnT

Ya what's with that??
I'm running XP and Win 7, can switch when I want.. (but I run XP 99.9% of the time... old habits die hard + XP is the s*** ... /m\ )

You should get XP too dude.. how can u just do nothing when your audigy is sitting idle..!!

I previously installed windows 7 as i got a free lincense and xp went kaput . Since than waiting for Win 7 to go kaput so i can format and install XP again. But the damn thing is running strong and is not giving up.

I run ubuntu hardy heron most of the Time and Audigy woks on it. But again, no EAX or creative surround mixer on Linux. Ubuntu looks fantastic though.

Originally Posted by EL LOCO DIABLO

I just bought Blur yesterday, while I must say the game is downright awesome and stunningly rendered, with exquisitely detailed cars. I seem to have run aground with the custom mapping of the keyboard layouts, the game comes with two layouts for the keyboard but I can't seem to edit them to my preferences. Any help??

EDIT: I'm really getting annoyed with these console to PC ported games, and this is has got to take the cake for being the stupidest port EVER! It wasn't actually designed to take in custom user inputs!! Why?? This was the statement released by them "it detracts from the experience the creators intended" WTF?? What exactly was the experience intended? Rip out your hair and scream at the screen with frustration? I'm giving it one more shot using a third-party keyboard mapper emulator. But for those who are actually planning on buying this half-assed game.........DON'T. And oh BTW if you have a wheel and wish to play this game on it, throw it out the garbage 'cause it doesn't support one either.

You can buy a Xbox 360 remote. Works like a charm in PC. blur and Burnout are quite fun with it.

[Aryan]

@Riot: I agree about Ubuntu looking gorgeous! Not only does it look good, it functions REALLY well. I am already hooked!

[EL LOCO DIABLO]

Originally Posted by riot

You can buy a Xbox 360 remote. Works like a charm in PC. blur and Burnout are quite fun with it.

Yeah.......but at 2,500 a pop for a wireless one, I think my money is better spent on another 2Gb RAM module, and I never quite liked playing on a controller, it's so claustrophobic.

[bluevolt]

Hey I came across these VGA coolers which one could attach to an existing graphics card. How effective are they while gaming? Going by the looks, they have these two fans and a heat sink with copper tubes and all.

I saw something similar for the CPU too - liquid cooling with small radiator and all.

Can anyone shed light on how well these things work?

[abhichotu.abhi]

Guys, my 6 months old Seagate 500GB HDD went kaput. The SC guys told that it had developed bad sectors. Got the new one under warranty replacement. But, what about 400GB of data that i had. Lost!
Are there problems with Seagate 500GB's.
What HDD do you guys prefer. I personally prefer SEAGATE only.

[EL LOCO DIABLO]

Originally Posted by abhichotu.abhi

Guys, my 6 months old Seagate 500GB HDD went kaput. The SC guys told that it had developed bad sectors. Got the new one under warranty replacement. But, what about 400GB of data that i had. Lost!
Are there problems with Seagate 500GB's.
What HDD do you guys prefer. I personally prefer SEAGATE only.

Yeah that happened to me once, I too had a Seagate 7200.12 Barracuda 500Gb, and one fine day it just decided to jump on it's own ass and kill itself . It seems they have some inherent problem or something because I was actually advised to go for WD over Seagate. Anyway it helps to run SeaTools a HDD diagnostic tool from Seagate once in a while to keep track of any anomaly. Get them here SeaTools | Seagate

[abhichotu.abhi]

Originally Posted by EL LOCO DIABLO

Yeah that happened to me once, I too had a Seagate 7200.12 Barracuda 500Gb, and one fine day it just decided to jump on it's own ass and kill itself . It seems they have some inherent problem or something because I was actually advised to go for WD over Seagate. Anyway it helps to run SeaTools a HDD diagnostic tool from Seagate once in a while to keep track of any anomaly. Get them here SeaTools | Seagate

Thanks. I will use that from now onwards, it might take time but it's good to have precaution. BTW, Which HDD you are on now?

+ I saw firmeware's for HDD's on that website, how does they help on a PC>

[Aryan]

@Abhi: Many of my friends had their Seagate 500GB hard-drives crash on them! I guess it must be some inherent issue with the 500GB capacity HDDs of Seagate or something. I personally use WD (Western Digital) 2x500GB HDDs and NEVER ever had any issues with them.