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Deleted all the ATI references, reinstalled the stuff from the CD and voilá, seems like the movies are working properly. Would still need to set few other things but now it's time for bed :P Thx a lot, saved my night!

Newly bought by me but an old model, don't really need too powerful graphic (or should I spell that with a C?) cards for the things I do. On side note... After driver update CCC won't load up anymore. Did some googling and it seems to be more or less common things. Totally perfect, only got loads of school and work for the rest of the week, I definitely will want to play Sherlock Holmes and track down this issue when I'd only need to relax :thumbsup:

It's only with movies and it's relatively old model so I assume there's only some setting(s) wrong. Seems like this was the last ATI for me though, I watch all my movies through my computer (don't have a TV) so this is really starting to affect :ugeek:

Installed and tried. Took 3 secs before the screen froze for a while and after that it kept freezing (total screen, not jut the movie player) every few secs for around a min; after that I was finally able to close the program. Didn't exactly see the VPU-recovery error this time, but other symptoms were similar. Starting to believe there's some setting wrong, just don't know which one or where to look from.

Hello, So the problem is the following. I recently bought a new graphic card (Ati Radeon HD 4350) and noticed the following. When I watch movies, it takes roughly 2 minutes and I get an error message saying "vpu recover has reset your graphics accelerator blablala". It comes basically all the time so watching movies is impossible. This happens with avis and dvds, but Youtube and Messenger's webcams are for example ok. I tried to dug up and heard that one possibility could be overheating. However I opened Speedfan and monitored temperatures: seems like the temperatures won't go past 52c while watching movies. It stays around the same when playing RS too, so I'm tempted to believe there's some software problem behind. Any suggestions where to start looking from?

I never lost my acc, but... I'm done with RSC. Might only log in every now and then to help out friends or so, but I definitely won't do any training or solo pking there.

Nope, those aren't scandic symbols there. The proper ones are å/ä and ö, not with `'s or such :P

At lvl 98 I haven't gotten any extras, at least not yet. However if it works like Swampjedi predicts, the chances to get 3 at lvl 98 (or 99) are really minimal. I'll try to pay some attention and report here if I get some extra runes.

There's a nice cross elasticity of demand with sharks and these pizzas for example. If you can't buy pizzas anymore (due limited supply or price) you have to find alternatives: this increases the fish demand and thus rises the prices.

This movie was just waste of time. Was expecting it to be at least good, but it was probably the worst movie I've watched from the beginning till the end this year. The acting was horrible (reminded of some B-class low budget amateur movie filmed in one shot), it wasn't scary at all and it was too easy to expect what is coming next. I'm a huge fan of horror and violent movies, but this goes into the same category with Alex Jones' documentaries.

In my opinion enough people are satisfied if there's 100+ miners at once (all worlds counted together) a month after the update and people are ranting at forums how their capes turned into nothing. I'd personally say that the new mining place was the best update of this year for me: I was having serious problems with mining and was thinking that it could be the only thing that takes me from maxing overall. I also like the concept of the new mining as it offers you a great and different method of leveling a hard skill if you're willing to pay for the product and you've trained few relatively high skills, in this case mining and defence. If someone has 103 posts and his profile says "Most Active In: Rants (61 posts) ", I think there's something wrong ;P At some forums people could tell the others not to feed the troll.

Get a charter boat next time. Costs some gp's but saves around 10 minutes and gets you straight to the docks. Replacing it ain't that annoying really if you can just afford a thousand or 2 gp's :P

Grow your own chickens, pigs, cows and even Cowchickens.

That's just a temporary drop. Small drops don't really matter in a long run and if you have the habit of panicing while someone crashes, I wouldn't suggest investing. The point is to look at the long term growth, not few days. The thing is that pretending the price curve for discontinued items and items coming to the game is different. I'd personally say that investing (if it was intended to be a long term investment) in dicontinued items is safer and for the smaller risk you pay the price of having lesser growth than with the "lucky" items. Of course crashed items are worth more than a kettle full of gold. However if you're not interested or not able to pay attention to the price curves (like in my phat investment), that's not your choice.

I'd disagree. Skilling played a major role in RSC and what I saw, I'd say that more serious high level pkers also had their skilling side. At the moment RSC doesn't attract skillers for one main reason: why would you care about getting a level in a game that is played by 10 people? It's almost a singleplayer game at the moment and I definitely wouldn't play any singleplayer games where I'd need to do repetitive work for tens, maybe hundreds, of hours to gain an addup to my level list. The major role that skilling played in RSC was the role of aiding PKers. Skillers who got up smithing was so they could provide more armors to their friends and the community to PK in. Crafting was for the glories, herblaw the super pots, etc. The end goal in everything in RSC was PKing. However, now in RS2, skilling has evolved into a person E-penis boost of self confidence. The only reason to train now is because you're either OCD, bored at life, or you want an ego boost. Skilling was very similar in RSC, the only major chances I see are easier trading and skilling. If skilling had been only to aid pkin, we wouldn't have seen people powertraining skills after the "helpful barrier" (for example mining after 85+) or doing stuff like firemaking. The point was that people were doing it to gain money (where pkin was a helpful thing as it increased the demand) or to gain ranks. Currently the moneymaking aspect has dropped out with many skills (such as smithing) but the point is that still pkers benefit from skillers and visa versa.

Well, Runescapes aren't/weren't played for the graphics. I personally don't usually care at all what the game looks like, the most important thing is what is inside the game. RSC died because the inside left, not because RS2 was prettier. Of course the Jagex policy (can't really blame them for it though) was the main issue that caused the real death. As for training, I wouldn't take it so directly. Many of the things that made training easier (cook-x, etc) were built in after the release of RS2. It's normal for games to develop during the years and I could place a high bet that if RS2 had never come out, RSC would have gotten updates that made the training faster. I also wouldn't say that harder is better when it comes to skilling. To be honest, RSC leveling wasn't as great as RS2 leveling. With those xp rates, clicking and limitations in gear, leveling styles and methods, it was really repetitive. I'd also say that RS2 is more challenging in some ways; skillwise it is still really hard. You don't just max out, you actually need to do a lot of things, sacrifice time and balance on the edge of sanity. The amount of methods, skills and areas have made it harder to actually "completely know" rs: in RSC I could name the fastest methods for basically everything. There wasn't really too many alternatives for things and "secrets" were mainly bugs. Also RS2 has brought team work to a totally new level, which means social skills play bigger role. I personally don't agree with the thing that people in RS2 would know each other only from ranks or RS2 not creating teams and rivalries. I personally see it like this: there are similar things, but instead of being knit around a web of players, they are now bound to clans. Clans are great ways to get to know new people really well, they create rivalries and drama. I'd say that's quite close to the thing I saw as "RSC community", except in larger scale. I'd disagree. Skilling played a major role in RSC and what I saw, I'd say that more serious high level pkers also had their skilling side. At the moment RSC doesn't attract skillers for one main reason: why would you care about getting a level in a game that is played by 10 people? It's almost a singleplayer game at the moment and I definitely wouldn't play any singleplayer games where I'd need to do repetitive work for tens, maybe hundreds, of hours to gain an addup to my level list.

I personally gained around 50m pure profit from my purple phat. Just bought it before joining the army, sold it some months after getting out and voilá: 50m more than before. Same goes with my current santas and others: I bought them earlier for few reasons. Firstly, I just wanted to have them. Secondly, I didn't exactly need that much money floading around at the time. Why would I for example need X amount of money now if I was concentrating on unbuyables? I'd rather invest my money and help my future skilling (or currently preparations for new skills) by turning my gp into something that will sell for X+N in future, N being a positive number.

In my eyes, RSC died along with the players. The game itself was technically good enough to keep you busy during your freetime, but the people were the thing that dragged you back. I personally left RSC around 4-5 months after the release of RS2, mainly because there wasn't really anything to keep me playing: the community I liked(in major scale) had moved to RS2 or retirement, the leftovers were starting to play it more like a singleplayer game (read = autoers) and there wasn't really enough activity to form a new community. When the general atmosphere turned into what it was, I basically had 2 choices left, either to quit or move to RS2: RSC isn't really that great game for playing it like a single player game.

Don't remember did I take or find it but it's taken on the 1st day.

When he did it, there was basically nothing else to cut. This also affected to the xp/log, the xp/log was later lowered when we got other trees and such.

Beheading Brutality Blasphemy Baptism Butchery Burdening Bailing Baiting Blackmailing Brewing Breeding Bribing Mark my words on beheading. It can't be anything else. Seriously, that's most likely just a joke or such, one random line from a random person starts a multipage post makes me sometimes wonder wether there's anything worth discussing :P

When I went for 99 con, I was thinking why didn't I gain basically any ranks between levels 90 and 99 but after 99 I'd gain hundreds with almost no xp gained at all. Basically here's the summary: * Construction is dirty fast to train. Once you have the materials, it takes from some days (I personally did over 4m xp in one day and didn't definitely even play THAT much) to get to 99. It also can't really be done passively: if you fish, you can just go to the spot and fish for an hour. If we compare this to herblore (which many see as quite similar), the main difference is that you can (and many do) use herbs you get from training melee skills or farming. This adds in "passive" xp which is mainly gained slowly from other activities. If you train construction in any efficent way, you will most likely work on resources (=no xp gained) for some days/weeks/months and then boom the skill up once you're done. * 99 Con is basically a status thing. You don't get to it because it's helpful or profitable. This means that if people are going for high lvl construction, they will boom their way to 99. It also has a lot less meaning than most of the other buyables. This means that people just don't aim for "95" or "90", it's either 99 or a lot lower. * People with 99 construction are generally really wealthy or even rich due the fact that it's usually one of the last buyables (and please, don't say that player X had 99 con and 1 other skills :P The magic word is average) to be maxed and the ones who can buy it, usually just buy it. If we mean under 1h per day with "casual", then you're right. However combat skills can be trained through methods that don't really require you to actively train them. Things such as boss hunting easily add up in XP and in a long run mean level ups, even if your meant gameplay isn't to max them. I personally gained some mils of "passive" magic xp from Dagannoth kings for example: I Wasn't there to train magic, but the xp came from other things. Same goes with Godwards or such too: you don't range armadyl to get you XP, but you get XP from killing it and getting the kill count.

Funny how most of the "first to 99" lists are based on lists I made to Zezima's first forums :P Even that side has me at the "thanks to" list and I never personally supplied any information (or even heard of) to the author. Anyways if we go into details, that list has few minor things that could be fixed. It doesn't remember to mention Everdred as the first to a 99 skill. Could also add Meili as the first one to get a key half. For the DI leader part on that site, I'd recomment reading this http://www.di-rs.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t72581.html It explains why DI was founded and (goes a bit off topic from that list) how it rolled. edit: Thought it would have a reason to have these pics in this topic... I've left image tags off from the pics that are relatively large Everdred getting the first 99 ever. http://koti.mbnet.fi/hohtava/vanhoi/woodcut.PNG Proof it was the first 99 wcer. Bluerose getting 99 smithing First to 1600 total http://koti.mbnet.fi/hohtava/vanhoi/mage.PNG Proof of Bluerose being the first to 99 magic http://koti.mbnet.fi/hohtava/vanhoi/smith.PNG Proof of her being first to 99 smith http://koti.mbnet.fi/hohtava/vanhoi/mining.PNG First to 90 mining http://koti.mbnet.fi/hohtava/vanhoi/fight.PNG First to 90 hp First to 10m pray xp http://koti.mbnet.fi/hohtava/vanhoi/top.PNG First to 1400 overall. Also note Snake Slava's range xp. http://koti.mbnet.fi/hohtava/vanhoi/range.PNG First to 85+ ranged http://koti.mbnet.fi/hohtava/vanhoi/19april2003hiscores2.PNG First to 99 fletch http://koti.mbnet.fi/hohtava/vanhoi/sax123.png S A X getting 123, not the first one to reach it though http://koti.mbnet.fi/hohtava/vanhoi/toplist.PNG Proof that Gearshifter got his 93 prayer (enough for 123) first. http://koti.mbnet.fi/hohtava/vanhoi/19april2003hiscores3.PNG Proof of Ltangel being first to 99 craft http://koti.mbnet.fi/hohtava/vanhoi/19april2003hiscores4.PNG Proof of first 99 agility First to 1bil overall xp. proof of the first 99 slayer First to 99 sum First 99 hunt First to sum hiscores First to 99 prayer First to 99 rc First to 99 farm Note. I haven't taken every single pic, but all of them are on my host at the moment.

More likely more proper hunting spots. Hunting is one of my last skills to 99 (4 skills at 98, others 99) and for a reason: hopping worlds to find a spot, competing with others and so on just don't seem right for me. I ain't going to hop for 5 mins to do 30 mins of hunting, I only go there when I know I have enough time.

At lvl 83 it's more profitable and easier than hunter for example in my opinion. I haven't timed the stuff to back up that, but that's where my experiences point to. I'd compare it xp wise to woodcutting and profit wise to below lvl 91 nature rune crafting. There's a lot more reasons to train it than thieving for example.