And at least ntohing is holding developers back from PS3 now since the tools and the software to run it is out now. Expect to see a rise in PS3.0 support.

That's what NVidia is counting on.

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With an obnoxious site that doesn't seem to work properly, eg. (skip intro). I think I'll pass on this one.

I'm still waiting for drivers that work as advertised for my SB Gold card, Live!, and now the Audigy 1. Forget the Audigy 2. I promised myself I wouldn't buy another Creative card unless they got working drivers for the Audigy. I guess they've moved on again without fixing their past driver issues. If you have a choice don't get a Creative card. It seems like every time I have a problem with a game it is always related to the Creative sound card. Everyone else who does not have an issue in the game has something other than a Creative sound card. And as almost always a solution to the problem is turning off hardware acceleration.

To bad I use my Audigy for something other than gaming or I'd drop Creative in a heartbeat. They have manipulated the market in a manner that resembles Microsoft. Forcing you to buy proprietary hardware that will only connect to their sound card. e.g.Digital Din. Then trying to force you to again buy new speakers in order to use the digital connection on their new cards.

It took me over 6 months to get a digital din-to-mini stereo phono adapter. I had 4 confirmation numbers given to me by their support department that they had mailed the adapter, only to find out that each time I failed to receive the package in the mail and called them back they had no record of such a confirmation number. What they were trying to do was to force me, through frustration, to go out and buy the latest $200+ Cambridge (Creative owned) speakers that had the appropriate connector for the Audigy. That is just one of 4 support horror stories I've experienced through Creative. I bet we see an AOL and Creative merger in the future. It seems like these weasels tend to attract each other.

Following this satirical rhetoric is the actual commentary (small amount) about the CMR4 demo.
Please be advised that what you read may offend you only if you happen to be one of those drivers, and if so I’m glad I offended you. You need a slap in the face.

Depends on where you live in America. If you live on one of the coasts, where the melting pots are, then I would agree with you, people in America can't drive. And, if you believe that being able to drive 30+ MPH faster than everyone else, weaving in and out of traffic, without the thought of using a signal to indicate your intentions, all while talking on your cell phone makes you a good driver, you're sadly mistaken. In So-Cal I'd say 95% of the divers have never figured out what that little stick on the left side of the steering column is. Other than making a repeated clicking sound when activated they haven't a clue as to what it is used for.

After riding a motorcycle on the So-Cal freeways for several years before deciding my number was about to come up I had some very close calls. Most of which all could have been avoided if the other driver would have indicated his intentions with his turn signal. Give a guy a chance, but then again why bother it's just some a hole on a bike, right. It's your choice how you choose to drive. When you look at the stats and suddenly discover that there are more deaths involving car accidents than gun accidents, and you also look at the damage one person can do with a single vehicle as apposed to a single handgun, you have to wonder why the rules are not stricter for obtaining a drivers license. And you also wonder why the idiots who protest against organizations like the NRA have never once protested against the DMV for issuing licenses for the use of a much more deadly weapon. Maybe that’s because they own one.

I’ve seen Aunt B. change from a nice little old lady who wouldn’t harm the spider that made her jump out of her chair into Richard Petty on acid when she gets behind the wheel of her car. Some people create an altered reality when they get behind the wheel. The power they control consumes their being. Even if Aunt B. drivers a Pinto she still becomes her evil twin when she gets behind the wheel. And of course none of her accidents are her fault. She always has an explanation that differs from the police report, eyewitnesses, and the person she ran into. I don’t think she will ever get the picture until she actually injures someone. I just hope it’s not a child.

No one gets in their car to drive their child to school and gives a thought about putting their lives on the line. The idiot who gets into their car thinking they are in a race with everyone out on the street is willing to put not only his life but your life on the line. Crashing your car while driving in a race against others who are willing participants in a sanctioned race is easier to explain than crashing your car while racing against Mrs. Applecrab who was just taking little Missy to kindergarten. But some how I believe some people would still try to make it seem as Mrs. Applecrabs fault. “She had her signal on indicating she was pulling in to the exit lane, but I was going 40 MPH over the speed limit, two lanes over, when I decided to see if I could floor it around her before she got into the exit lane, so I wouldn’t get stuck behind her. So you see, it was her fault for not looking to see if someone was coming.” The sad thing about these idiots is they usually take an innocent life when they finally extinguish themselves from the increasingly rancid gene pool. Sorry Aunt B., you may be a sweet little old lady, but you become an idiot behind the wheel. You’re not driving me to get an ice cream anymore. I shudder to think my origin came from the same gene pool.

If this made you laugh, Good.
If this made you think, Good.
If you drive like Aunt B. I hope your luck doesn’t run out until you’re too old to drive. But, be aware for a guy who might come up to your car at the stop light, reach in your driver side window, and rip your turn-signal switch off your steering column. If your not going to use it you don’t need it.



BTW, I didn't like CMR3, the demo had bad frame rates and the graphics looked outdated, but the Rallisport Challenge demo ran smooth with much nicer graphics, so I bought it instead of CMR3. CMR4 doesn't seem to be that much better, but I'll try the demo anyway.

Our IT department has been working with the company laywers for several years now about Gator and its apparent ability to by-pass passwords to allow their software to be installed onto the company PC's. They have one guy they pay just to continually go from PC to PC, especially in the accounting department where the women work, and remove Gator from their systems. 95% of the time that someone complains about thier system being slow is all because of the spyware they have inadvertenly installed on thier workstations, and Gator is one of the most devious. They use all sorts of tactics to get thier spyware on you system. The problem with sueing them, which they will eventually screw up and lose the battle (and we can bet on a take the money and run tactic by those who have the power, when they do get nailed.) is that they are very good at covering their tracks. If anyone knows how Gator by-passes passwords please post a reply. Gator costs companies millions of dollars a year and are of no value to anyone but themselves. Gator needs to be whipped from the butt of the planet where it resides in the form of a dingle-berry waiting for the next turd to fall out so it can catch a free ride into the toilet where it belongs.

>>Yeah... tell everyone what the hacker used to take everything, and then tell them that you haven't yet figured out how he got in. That's real smart... <<

Does any one know how to make sense? A lot of kids can take apart, put together, and install an OS on a computer, but as for writing a coherent sentence they need some help. If you would make sense people wouldn't take what you say the wrong way.

It is smart if you want the hacker to attack again. If your ready for him, you can identify how he or she is doing it, and possibly who it is. Like the idiot who kept stealing my packages off the doorstep. I set him up with a package that not only caused him great pain for a short amount of time with no permanent damage, but had the police give him a call on his newly stolen cell phone before they approached him, just to make sure it was the correct man they were looking for.

Installed the mod (in the appropriate directory). After installing couldn't find a shortcut in the start folder or anywhere else. Started BF1942 and activated the mod, but couldn't find the Hoth map. Only thing that the .exe appeared to do was install an uninstall shortcut. What a waist of a 45min download that should have taken 10min. I miss the good ol' days when you didn't have to pay to have the file available for download at the speed you are paying for provided by your ISP. Kind of pointless to have to pay twice. Pretty soon will have to pay before we can even view any site. Like cable TV we'll be waiting for the free viewing moments of those premium channels. MS may even ask for a fee just for double-clicking IE. If it becomes like the airlines it will be class oriented and everyone will be paying different prices for viewing the same site. Wiat a minute!!! it already is. doh. Travel Agent/ISP.

I'll leave SWG alone for now. I love the SW universe and movies but paying to play a game online based on a standard that everyone is charged the same amount regardless of how long they actually play the game online. By those standards you are paying not to play either as long as you are subscribed and offline. Crap I better cancel my DirecTV and DSL line. I don't use either of those all the time. Just in case someone tries to make that argument which is logical but not realistic. After the game develops a little more I may give it a shot.

The liberal conservative debate going on here leads to no end. The libs are rarely tolerant. They have the same comparable mind set as Hamas or Al-Queda. This striking difference only became apparent to many as the contrast between the two increased after 911. The problem with the liberal attitude is that not everyone on the face of the planet thinks like them and they don't understand why. That's the reason you see so many people switch to conservatism during times like this. The reality of the world has slapped them in the face and they have awakened out of their dream world. There is nothing wrong with their dream world and is preferred by many. I would prefer it, but I realize that there are those in the world who will not tolerate it, will kill to keep others from it, and show no compassion while doing it. The world is not a perfect place, and will never be one unless we all can tolerate each other. There will always be those who take things just a little to far. Humans are animals and will always act like them in circumstances that instinctively require it. That's why you see peace rallies get out of hand. Do they really oppose war while acting so violently protesting for peace? A lot of the pro-war rallies only became chaotic when the anti-war protestors showed up and started the brawl. So who really wants peace? The answer is we both do. Ever see an animal do something stupid. Animals tend to think only in their little worlds and are unable to think in terms other than their own. I'm not trying to insinuate that Liberals are nothing more than self-serving animals, but rather that their instincts are getting in the way of realistic thought. Conservatives need liberal though to have an idea of what they are striving to achieve while at the same time using liberal passion to drive their own to achieve what we all should want, peace on earth. Kind of like when your wife keeps nagging you to fix the washing machine. She doesn't understand the process to fix it but you both want the same thing, for it to be fixed. You more than likely will fix it just to shut her up. Her passion, or nagging, has driven you to fix the machine, but she also nags about the mess you left in the kitchen while fixing the problem. Her world is perfect as long as you can do the dirty work and make it that way. You would never see a liberal working in a slaughter house, but you can buy them a burger at MacDonald's.

Thar she blows. I found it. "Pirates of the Burning Sea" it's called. http://www.burningsea.com

Sea Dogs 2/Pirates of the Caribbean will keep us happy if not happier until Pirates 2 or what ever it will be called comes out. Then there is also the MMORPG swashbuckling title which I can't remember at the moment that looked very promisisng. Anyone know the title I'm talking about?

It's a game, right? Planetside will be the next Tribes, or more correclty, what Tribes 2 should have been; lets hope. Wish it was free to play though. These new secret weapons I'm sure will provide a few little additions to the tactical element but will provide no huge advantage to one side or the other. Yes, it's just a gimmick, but any game is just a gimmick. It's how that gimmick is implimented which will make it more fun for the masses or just piss a lot of people off who are content with mastering the game as is and hate the idea of the ordinary joe knocking their ego in the dirt for awhile. I'm sure these type of players, if not cheaters, will master the new weapons in time. Those who cheat will remain pissed until they can find a hack for the new stuff.

Dan you should have waited for the 486DX-100. I waited 2 more months and bought a P-75 that was suppose to be a P-100 but the vendor overclocked the chip and charged me for a P-100. Good thing is the vendor got smacked hard. After I was finished with him he had to buy new tires for his Porsche, and after the law got threw with him he was driving a Metro.

Oh the drivers. I wouldn't get them. No point. By the time they release the next official drivers most of use will probably be using an ATI vid card. Just imagine Nvidia's first attempt at using 3Dfx's technology maybe their last attempt if the new cards fail in the market. To bad though, 3Dfx had FSAA that worked better than any card for the next 2 generations after they went belly up. Hope that doesn't happen to Nvidia. Then 3Dfx well be remembered as nothing more than a curse.

Anyone know about the simulation details of this game? Does it meet the requirements set a long time ago by Elite? ex.. Landing on planets w/o cut scenes; planets having gravitational pull; being able to set up mining equipment on planets; space flight itself. The use of cut scenes ruins the feel for Freelancer. (What a waste of development time that game was: What's the point of 3D cut scenes if you can't freely move within them, plus a forced storyline, yeah definitely a story driven arcade game) I even went and bought FL just to prove myself wrong, but failed to do so. You'd think that after all these years that the tech advances in graphics cards and CPU speeds would allow better adaptations of what Elite did so long ago all on a C-64. Am I missing something here or are these supposed space sims completely lacking the sim experience, which I have yet to see anything better in this category since the C-64 days. Fighting an opponent is not everything, and every game out there is devoted to this concept in such a grand magnitude that any other appeal to the game is lost in that concept. It's time to grow up and discover rather than destroy. It's more rewarding putting your characters life on the line trying to correctly land on a high gravity planet to get those precious minerals, or trying to calculate your fuel consumption to that far off planet hoping you don't exhaust it before you get there, rather than having to do meaningless countless moments of combat to acquire enough credits to advance. How about a skillful thinking peaceful game with moments of meaningful combat rather than a mindless death count game with moments of thought for a change. Or am I just old and crazy? Who knows with more games with peaceful attributes rather than the habitual concentration on destruction the game developers of the world could change it. Or are we all just hell bent on destroying ourselves.

BTW I'm not a appeaser of evil such as Saddam or any other form of it. Evil should be meet with destruction by any means possible and as quickly as possible before you have idiots gaining strength in ways that they wind up doing evils work without any thought that they could possibly be wrong. All for a moment of self righteous egotistical comfort. Without any thought of the future they are creating by their actions they are giving evil more comfort than they receive themselves by wrongfully appeasing it. It's not evil to promote peace but it's definitely wrong to comfort evil. Evil exists because good men do nothing, someone once said.

Sorry to get off the my first train of thought, but with that thought I knew I would receive feedback pertaining to what's going on in the world.

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Ok I've played the demo for a couple of hours now. I'll changed my mind on possibly buying the game in the future to a NOT. It's an absolute mindless game. I find it hard to believe that Freelancer took this long. Hell Starlancer is better than this. The mouse control should be dumped for a more realistic joystick/hat/view support with a target lock mode. There's no redeaming quality to Freelancer what so ever. Must be aimed at those 12 and under cause I don't get it. After 30 minutes of constant attacts from rouge squadrons which seem to appear out of no where for no reason the wrist starts hurting. Maybe a lawsuit for carpaltunnel is in order for demanding gamers to use the mouse so much. I've never experienced this much wrist pain from any FPS that I've ever played, and I play alot. X-Beyond the Frontier was much more intuitive, but no where near as action packed as this, and I have always been under the assumption that Freelancer was going to be geared the opposite. Apparently not, it's just another graphically pretty arcade game designed for those who have never appreciated quality in gameplay or style. That's all I'm going to say about this game because anymore effort would be useless. The game isn't worth it. There should be better ones coming out that will hopefully do it right. I can see why they left the multiplayer aspect out of the game when they still list it as a feature in the game on the website. We make great strides in hardware only to be beaten back to the stone age by developers.

"how about i dock my fist with your face you nerd". You wouldn't stand a chance. But then again I'm pretty much a pacifist, so go play with your binki and get a grip. I did. Who knows I still may purchase Freelancer after the dissappointment of the hype wears off. I remember reading years ago when they first started developing Freelancer all the comparisons the developers made to the Elite sytle of play, back when a 14.4 modem was all the rave. No wonder Lord British left the scene.

Glad they put the demo out. I'll be sure to aviod this game. I played about 20 min., and that was enough. The whole game appeared to be a cut scene. Why not allow the pilot to dock with a station or land on a plant with out the use of a cut scene. Elite did it and that was 15 years ago. Developers keep making strides backwards when it comes to space sim. Freelancer is no where near a sim. X2 should be much better. Plus it will have joystick control, and a cockpit view. I don't get it. Elite still blows this game in the dirt.
Microsoft really disappoints me by putting out all those FF Controllers that are rarely used in their games. And when they finally put out a game that uses them, they screw it up. What a waist. I was looking forward to this game, but I'll wait to get the goods instead of being suckered into a cheap imitation. Don't be fooled by imitations of a great game. Maybe one day someone will figure out how to make comparable sim to Elite. Have you ever tried to land on a planet with high gravity, or run out of fuel while in route to a planet then wind up crashing into the planet cause you can't slow down. You won't find those thrilling experiences in this lame duck. Pretty graphics don't make a game. This game is more of a childs binki. I'll wait for the real deal.

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I love BF1942, but they still need to fix some sound problems, and tweak the code a little more. Hopefully Road to Rome will not just add to the problems.

If I were you I'd try something other than a Creative card. Everyone I know, except me, who have finally given up on Creative have had nothing good to say about them since they trough their Audigys in the trash. They all replied that most of their games now run faster and without any pops, stutters, or just general crappy game sounds that their Creative cards exhibited. I still use an Audigy, but I'm just about ready to give up on Creative altogether because no matter what output analog/digital I use in every system I have used Creative sound cards in there have always been popping, and with EAX enabled most games crawl to slow to be playable unless they are very well coded games. I believe Creative relies on the later because the way most games are poorly coded today it's amazing that any game works out of the box.

Looks like EA is going for the buck on this one. Once they see that a marketing area is stagnate and they have had reliable game in that area they dish something out cheap so they can clean up. Problem here is they are doing on 2 fronts. I don't know what to expect from the console version. I don't own a console. Who know's it may turn out to be worth it after the price drops. Without having everything we were use to in the previous editions of NFS I'll feel more than a little betrayed if I went out and bought it at full price. Any game that has my attention for several hours at a time is worth full price regardless of it's graphic quality or features. If it's fun, it's fun. BF 1942 has a lot of both, fun, and also by EA. Sometimes you can't trust your employees. No different with Publisher and Developer. Sometimes you can't trust your empolyer. Who can you trust? Usually the one without the power.

Very boring and a very stupid idea E&B is.
First the FAQ doesn't respond to very many of the questions directly. Is it 1st person or 3rd person. It looks as if it is 3rd person. Flying behind the ship in a unrealistic way using a mouse... very stupid. I can't understand why 3rd person space combat would appeal to anyone over the age of 12. Most of the screens I've seen look like cutscreen clips not actual game play clips. They tell you a lot of things you can do but don't explain how you go about doing them.. as, do you actually do something or just point and click? They way they hide info is just too annoying to even consider the game... It appears to be a scam, especially since it is online only. I think MS will get it right with Freelancer, not these guys. They just want your money.

As for the Firing Squad... They lost me after they sold out, as was evident after certain reviews of hardware and software that were given that were completely bogus. Thresh left and the hounds to over. Don't ask me which reviews, I can't remember. If I went out to the garage and looked through some of the junk I'm sure I could jar my memory though. I tend to hate looking back on bad buys, and stupid mistakes due to trusting someone elses opinion.

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