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roe-ur-boat
05-17-2007, 05:27 PM
If you ever want to know if the pc game you want to buy is able to play on your computer go to this site. It is very good if you're not sure if your pc or laptop is able to handle it.
http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest
Cheezeball99
05-19-2007, 01:19 AM
I've seen this before, it's decent, but not that great, alotta times it's stupid. Like if I can run "Titan Quest" it claims all is good but my video card... Yet on every catergory IN the video card part it passes completely. Pretty good if ya don't know much 'bout comps, though.
Darkchild
05-26-2007, 12:54 PM
that website is great xD I just learnt I can't play halo 2 xD oh boohoo I dun like vista anyways
bwalker
05-27-2007, 02:06 PM
im not gonna test it but if i cant run halo 2 im gonna be mad, but i like vista. or do you need it for halo 2
Darkchild
05-27-2007, 02:08 PM
you need vista to run Halo 2 because Halo uses DX10 which is vista only, this is microsoft's way of telling you to upgrade to vista xD but I'm ok in XP, it's more stable, faster and more secure ^^
Cheezeball99
05-28-2007, 12:09 AM
you need vista to run Halo 2 because Halo uses DX10 which is vista only, this is microsoft's way of telling you to upgrade to vista xD but I'm ok in XP, it's more stable, faster and more secure ^^

No kiddin', plus, ya know, stuff WORKS on XP.:biggrin:
Darkchild
05-28-2007, 12:33 AM
yeah xD a friend of mine had like a crappy AntiVirus, almaost 50% of his pc wasn't supported, and yeah...windows vista XD
bwalker
05-28-2007, 01:09 PM
i didnt know halo used dx10 lol. I havent had anyproblems with vista except there were no drivers for my wireless fora while but that was fixed. I actually like vista i think it runs great and ive never had it crash. The performance for games is a little slower but its no big deal. Maybe im just lucky or its a ticking time bomb lol.
Darkchild
05-28-2007, 01:50 PM
i didnt know halo used dx10 lol. I havent had anyproblems with vista except there were no drivers for my wireless fora while but that was fixed. I actually like vista i think it runs great and ive never had it crash. The performance for games is a little slower but its no big deal. Maybe im just lucky or its a ticking time bomb lol.


time bomb -_-'
Cheezeball99
05-28-2007, 11:47 PM
time bomb -_-'

EXTREMELYLARGEEXPLOSION! :biggrin:

No, it'll just be sometime that you're doing something important, and WHOOP, FREEZE! Or "This program is incompatible with Windows Vista". Or something like that.
Darkchild
05-29-2007, 12:31 AM
yep, I got one of those xD (with VB6 which made me go straight back to XP)
and when I tried to install my most trustworthy anti virus...guess what?

BSOD! :D:D:D
bwalker
06-02-2007, 10:03 PM
what virus i use nod32 and it works like a charm. You prob use alot more programs then me though lol. I just surf the internet, mess with photoshop even though i suck, and play games thats about it. THats prob why ive had no problems. However i forgot to mention i did have a bad problem with my keyboard the drivers were incompatible with ati's and it messed everything to all hell, but they got a fix for it and then i reinstalled and it all worked well. I support it for now untill i have a problem but i am gonna mess with linux for a bit never really used it before.
Darkchild
06-03-2007, 01:29 AM
Well in my PC I work with all sorts of things...arts for my PSP, Arts for my desktop, Music, video, video edition, gaming, programming...everything

XP so I do a lot XD
About antivirus... I use Avira Antivir, it's free and does it's job (very well I must add)

(about the driver incompatibility.... WINDOWS XP FOR THE WIN!! :D:D)

And...If you are going to linux with an ATI Graphics card....forget it...because linux doesn't "like" ati, but it loves nvidia =D
bwalker
06-04-2007, 02:04 AM
yeah i herd that but i dont want to do anything fancy, i was looking at just installing i think its called debbian my freind said not sure about the spelling. I kinda just wanted to see what it was like. He said some of the coold graphics features are really hard to get to work on ati cards but the basics work fine.
Darkchild
06-04-2007, 06:40 PM
Try Ubuntu =)

www.ubuntu.com

you can even order an original CD for FREE
shadowforte
07-03-2007, 09:59 PM
I need to buy some more ram :sad:
Darkchild
07-03-2007, 11:22 PM
I can buy 1GB for 32€ :D
Cheezeball99
07-04-2007, 10:22 PM
I need to buy some more ram :sad:

Yah dude, like, no matter what kind you need you can pick up some cheap RAM from Newegg.com for usually 40-50 bucks per 1GB. It'll have sub-par timings and latency 'n' such, but it'll still GREATLY help- The other day I went from 512 to 1.5GB and it is SUCH an improvement, I tell ya what.