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His opinion is an ill-founded one based on severely flawed logic. When someone acts pigheadedly, persisting in touting pure claptrap in the face of all contradictory proof, it frustrates those around them. Thus is the story of Xplsvbam.

The graphics engine has nothing to do with the connection. Everything required for rendering a scene is found on your local machine. It does not rely on a connection to render. It is very simple and I have said it a dozen times. Remove the timeout value and you'd still be able to explore the game world whilst not connected, you just wouldn't be able to interact - no combat, no chat and so on. That is why in so many games, when you get disconnected, it is a few seconds before you notice. If your theory were true then as soon as a connection went down the game would crash within milliseconds. If your theory were true then this post would not exist - since a connection loss would throw an exception which would be caught & handled (since connection losses are so common) and NOT result in a crash like this. If you are trying to give assistance on a computing issue then you should have a grasp of basic computing concepts.

The thing is though, the people that report their temperature are the sort of people to ensure they have decent temperatures. I'm pretty sure it can run a bit higher than that (10-15 degrees) without problems in the short term. When I had my Sparkle 8800GTX I had the card fan at 100% all the time in a Stacker 830 with 8x 120mm fans, 4 of which were directly over the card, and in games it still averaged about 80-85c. For the record, mine went back due to memory problems.

There's no reason to continue scientific research in any field then. I'd best tell all the universities and research institutions in the world and all the Nobel Prize committees so they can stop wasting their money. Let's see where we'd be if people like you had had their way: - Dying of dysentery and infections at age 40 - Knowing nothing about the world outside our own continent, not exploring for fear of falling off the edge of the world - Praying to a dung beetle to make the sun rise each day - Having no surgical procedures whatsoever. Got appendicitis? Tough. Need a kidney transplant? What's a kidney?

I know I had my cards run at up to 88 with no problems, as I understand it they can go up to 90 or so - but even for a GPU 100 seems a bit high. Can you try looking around in RivaTuner for the fan speed settings and set it to constantly on at 100%? See if that does anything.

In my 15 years of computing I've never heard the term '457' before - would you care to explain it to me? Also, if you are using a recovery disc you are not reinstalling windows. You are ghosting the same image onto your disc - if that image is flawed then your newly ghosted image will be flawed, no matter how many times you do it.

Your logic is ridiculous. Now I am starting to see why you are such a religious zealot - the kind who other theists despise because he undermines their more plausible arguments. I have a couple of posters in my room. They are taking over my life. I wear a dressing gown in the morning. It is taking over my life. Just because removing ALL technologies at once would cause millions of deaths does not mean to say that any one of them is taking over your life. It is clear that one thing has taken over your life though.

What a hilariously stupid practice. Why didn't she get you a tattoo as well? I'm sure she's a fine person, but hearing that just makes me think what an idiot.

You can't disprove there isn't a china teapot (a Utah teapot, for modellers) orbiting the sun between Earth and Mars. That is not an argument for its existence though.

You're pretty much stuck. Sometimes there just isn't a way to get the application you want to run on a relic. Back when I played runescape and it didn't have 3D models I barely ran it on a 166, if I tried to do anything else (including rapidly moving the mouse) it became unplayable. So, I say you're out of luck. There comes a time when there is no option but to upgrade. P.S. - I have yet to see developers/publishers publish accurate minimum specs for ANY game.

I'm yet to see a guy wearing hoop earrings. When I do, I think 'looking like a chav' as an issue will play second fiddle to 'looking a bit ginger beer'. NO WAI!! .

Halo may not be the worst game I've ever played, but it is by far the most overrated. I have several 'worst' games that I've played, most of which I have deleted before I've even played an hour of them: Reservoir Dogs - abysmal everything Scarface - abysmal graphics & non-remappable control system Silent Hill 4 - abysmal graphics for a game of its time Divine Divinity - bugged to hell Prince of Persia: Warrior Within - abysmal story, abysmal combat Wayne's World (SNES) - the most pathetic tie-in game ever, it had nothing to do with the film

Get the facts right? The information transferred between client and server is game-related (positions, results of combat calculations, etc.) and has nothing to do with rendering. Fact. Since latencies vary, all online games have a specified timeout value. The client will continue to act as though it is still online until this timeout value is exceeded, at which point it will give you a disconnection message. That means that you could unplug your ethernet cable and have the game continue to render before the timeout value is reached, at which point the error will be handled and you will get a disconnection message. Fact. Connection has nothing to do with how the game is rendered. Fact. Rendering problems are an issue with the machine the game client is run on. Fact. Do not post on a computing board when you do not have the faintest idea about computing concepts. It makes you look like an idiot. Fact.

I meant reinstall windows from scratch. Though since it's pre-bought I assume they didn't even give you a windows disc.

Needs to be mentioned: The diameter of the hoop earring a female wears in millimetres, multiplied by 2, is what percentage chav she is.

You're forgetting buddhism. Now there's a wantonly violent religion if ever I saw one.

Another: Sceptic's Annotated Quran Check out the links on the right for passages on each of the topics. See just what you're being told to believe.

That is absolute BS. That is on a par with someone from EA tech support who told me that the sims 2 wouldn't work with my machine because it has on-board sound since the game uses 'very advanced AI'. All rendering is done clientside and has absolutely nothing to do with the internet connection. Hence why you can yank your ethernet cable out of your machine and still have the game render for a little while before it times out and tells you you're disconnected. Honestly, with answers like this and your suggestion of a registry cleaner on the other topic - do you just roll a dice to determine your suggested fix?

If you suspect an OS problem why not save time and reinstall windows yourself? For the time it will be at the shop you might as well do it yourself - it will be quicker and cheaper (if you have to pay for them to look at it). Even an inexperienced user can install windows, it's stupefyingly simple. The installer is made for laypeople (the clever people have already orchestrated an unattended install with nLite or similar).

I've got 3. Two in my left eyebrow and one tunnel in my left ear. The eyebrow has two straight bars in it, each topped with something like this: ...just without the steps in it. They have plain balls on the bottom. And I have one of these in my ear: ...but 8mm. Neither image is actual size, of course. I got them when I was younger and have just never bothered getting rid of them. I got them when I was in my 'angry youth' phase, around the time that I kept a goatee beard and put my hair in serious [bleep]es.

I quit. There was nothing left to do since I don't like instances or PvP. All I could do was make money and I had nothing to spend it on since I already had the fast bird.

Overclocking 'your computer' is not something that would affect this. Only overclocking the graphics card.

I don't really see how that could be misinterpreted, and it's particularly relevant to this topic. Do you contradict that? Or do you follow it?

I am not talking about trendy "ringtones". I am after some simple files that sound like a phone ringing. A variety of them - the sort that you would expect to hear emanating from a house phone. I do not want stupid songs for ringtones - I am not 15 and trendy. So, does anyone know a site where I can get hold of some? It's proving a little hard with google since all the results are for stupid songs.

I was not referring to making them financially rich. I was referring to the poverty, suffering and starvation they underwent. There is a difference between ending that and making them financially rich. Her shelters did not serve to help people, they served simply to provide them with a catholic death. She did have money - from donations, enough to open convents and nunneries in over 120 countries, but not enough to build even a small hospital with good medical practices. She was satisfied with keeping the suffering suffering whilst she spent millions on furthering her own religious beliefs.