Pyrion

Pyrion

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The best you can do with an AGP based system is a Radeon X1950 The 3dmark2006 scores would say otherwise. You can get a GF7950GT 512MB for $250-280 US. At least I did, several months ago. EDIT: Wait a sec. AGP?! I wasn't aware people were still using that. Hm. Yeah the ATI or a nVidia 7800GS AGP would be about it

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One thing that people tend not to bear in mind when it comes to sound quality - the motherboard's chipset. If your AMD is one of the older ones reliant on a VIA KT chipset, therein lies your problem. I went from awesome sound quality on an nVidia nForce board (an Abit NV7-133R specifically) to utter crap on a replacement VIA board (KT600A chipset) due to going from HyperTransport-backed onboard audio (nvidia's precursor to the nF2 SoundStorm chipset) to generic PCI-bussed RealTek sound

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The ultimate difference between dogs and cats is quite simple actually. Dogs consider their crap their primary means of marking territory, but due to their sorely-lacking long term memory, they often end up sniffing their own as a reminder that, yes, they own that land. Cats consider their crap vile and toxic and go to great lengths to bury it. They also have good long-term memory, so if a cat craps inside the house, it's either ignorance of the law, spite, or a means of convin

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Hey you!... Yeah you in the Penny Arcade/Ctrl Alt Del shirt! Guess what? Vista wasn't made for you! Lets step outside ourselves for a few minutes. The majority of people using computers are not gamers like us(I own more than my share of web comic shirts). They don't really care about pushing their FPS up or tweaking their CPU usage to get max performance. They want to turn

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1. "Included, standardized performance benchmarking." - Ha. Theoretical benchmarks prove nothing and help nobody. 2. Games Explorer - bah. Put a menu on your taskbar with shortcuts to all of your games, move it to the far right by your systray. Problem solved. 3. Parental controls - here's an idea, how about parents stop being idiots and oh I dunno actually start paying attention to the content of the games they're buying for their kids? Too hard though right? As if the ESRB kn

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That's what the US national debt will look like in a couple hundred years.

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Posters. I tend to avoid ads too, but the first thing I look for when I get a new game mag in the mail (this is why I remain subscribed to Nintendo Power) is the foldout poster, if it has one. I have lifetime subscriptions to GamePro and CGM (thank you GameSpy, lawl) and renew my subscriptions to GameInformer and NP every year mainly for the posters. Rarely will I ever actually read anything in them. (EDIT: If this ends up becoming a lot of posts, it's cuz I kept

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I found that the easiest means of ridding myself of the midgame grind and its eventual crashes was to disable debug mode. Seriously, when the game doesn't have to write half a megabyte of information on everything happening with each turn, it runs a lot faster. Oh, defrag too. Not with Diskeeper Lite either, SysInternals Contig ftw.

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Correction, the starbase range still displays, but it's far dimmer than it used to be. Out of curiosity, is there some sort of setting I can alter to make that and the trade routes easier to see on what could otherwise be a pitch-black starfield?

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Yeah, there was a short review in the April 2006 issue of GameInformer (page 131) that I posted about a week ago that nobody saw apparently. They gave the game an 8 and a 7.75 second opinion.

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