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What are you talking about this relates in know way to the topic. Let me fill you in with what he is asking. He wants to know if in RSHD if he can use his second monitor, as he runs dual monitors. I think it relates to the topic pretty good. He's saying you can now have the game in almost fullscreen on 1 monitor and still be able to use the second monitor. fyi: when you press f11 to make the browser fullscreen the RS window stretches to fill the whole browser. I suggest you know what your talking about before correcting somebody else.

Or you can download the firefox extension Foxmarks. This is a bookmark synchronizer which store your bookmarks on their server so you can download them to multiple computers. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2410

We're not psychic, what are you computer specs?

Guys liutilities is a safe site. It's a very useful site for looking up unknown processes. I use it almost daily fixing computers (great for hijackthis logs). The technet link is also safe. The main website is microsoft.com. If you think the official Microsoft website is not safe you are pretty paranoid. I have used this program and it's really good. A registry cleaner and optimizer/defragger can greatly speed up your system startup time. However if you want a free alternative you can use the Ccleaner registry cleaner to delete unused entries and then use Auslogics registry defrag to defrag the registry afterwards. Both programs are free. I highly recommend Auslogics Boost speed (not free) it can optimize your whole computer for optimal performance. The OP said that a program like this can screw up your computer which is true. However if you delete only the safe (usually suggested by the program) then you should be fine. If you are not an expert never delete the optional items that aren't checked by default.

Well I got it and tested and well... I dont know... it didnt display the temperature. Ive been looking on that forum on screenshots and some of them had like all these "sensors" items like fan and temperature. I had two bars: GPU and Mem and they were running a touch below the default speeds (150 GPU and 120 Mem). The GPU was running I believe at 149.8MHz and the Mem and 119.3 MHz even when I went to RS HD. Also the bars at the right were all the way red. I dont know what those are lol... are those like loading bars or what? :? The program to get your gpu temps would be ATItool. GPUZ only gives you information about your current card (which you knew before so it's not too helpful). http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=45596 Download and install this program and take a screenshot of it running while playing RS HD. The driver issue: I have no idea what you did. When you install the drivers leave it to the default location. The rest of the install should autorun after that. Use the default settings and then restart the compuer. You may want to uninstall the old drivers before installing the new ones.

I have but one question... Have you filed a bug report to Jagex? If you haven't, make it very clear that you don't have ~$150 USD to pour into a New OS, and they'll listen and try to help fix it one way or another, even if they have to expand/bug-test their code again. :-s If they want the most business that they can get, they will fix the problem such that they can add Windows 98SE to their list of supported platforms. In turn, that will make a lot of people happy, causing more people to play, and therefore more potential money that Jagex can earn. :thumbsup: And here is to the hope that my thoughts help. :idea: ~Mr. D. V. Devnull This would not be Jagex's job to support the operating system. It is entirely up to Sun to have the newest Java support Windows 98. If they drop support for 98 (which the windows download says no 98 so they must have already) Jagex has no power over this. They certainly are not going to code for an old Java version that does support 98 just for a few more subscribers.

Another stupid question: Did you disable UAC from the control panel?

Let me clear a few things up for people. If you can see the artifacts from his computer in the screen shot it can not be his monitor or cables. This has to do with the graphics card because you can see the problem on a different computer. If the card can't handle HD it would not just display blue pixels, it would be slow and laggy. Jagex chart for support cards is not too accurate. It says my graphics in my laptop is below min spec but it plays it smoothly with everything on full. It could be a number of things causing this. It may be overheating or a fiscal fault with the card since it's old. Try updating the drivers before anything else. http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/xp/a ... 00-xp.html (download the first file called "catalyst") If drivers don't work I think it may be overheating.

If it's just one hard drive he can just expand the C: by deleting the D: partition and using that space to expand C:. Nobody seemed to realize this is a laptop, most laptops don't have two hard drives. Which means the second one is either an external or a 2nd partition. Which means you can't raid partitions (which one person brought up). Mounting folders would be pointless if it's one drive also.

It's illegal not matter what. Apples says you must install OSX on a Mac computer that Apple made or it's illegal. Don't let that stop you though ;) . BTW: I have gotten leopard running on a pc. It's still not up to speed of a normal Mac and probably never will be. There are disks out on torrent that are already fixed but then there's the drivers issues too.

It's been out for months.

SATA has no master and slave. It's one drive per channel. Every SATA device is a master. The psu calculator you were mentioning is here. http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp I would add 50+ watts to leave room for expansion in the future.

Yes you can do this. You need to see if the external hard drive has a SATA or IDE interface and make sure your computer has the same. It's a 750GB external then? It's obviously a 3.5" drive then so no problems with the form factor. Raid stands for redunant array of inexspensive disks. There are many different raid levels. RAID0 is disk striping which splits the information over 2 or more disks for a speed improvment. If one disk fails you lose all the information from both disk (higher chance of data loss than a non raid0 system). The disks also need to be the same size. RAID1 is disk mirroring which mirrors the content to both drives. This is to protect from data loss. If one drive fails, you still have all your data on the second disk. They also have to be the same size or you will have the storage of the smaller disk. Example: 320GB disk mirrored with a 750GB will give you 320GB of storage. raid JBOD just spans information across hard drives. This takes multiple hard drives into one big disk. A 320GB drive and a 750GB will give you one big 1070GB drive. (no speed improvement) The only raid you can do is JBOD which gains no speed improvement. You can do the others but you will lose space because your drives are different sizes. As for a psu, anything by Enermax, Antec, or Termaltake would be a good psu. 650watt would be overkill for a 9600gt, a 500watt would be cheaper and could support a 9600gt easily (even a GTX 260).

Well RAID 1 is mirroring to protect from data loss. There will be no speed increase, it may be even a little slower than having no raid. 64bit Vista can support up to 128GB of ram with the Ultimate version. Although most motherboards only support 16GB of ram anyway. The Premium version supports 16GB. If your going with a gaming computer you should get Vista. For newer hardware the Vista drivers are superior to the XP's and Vista supports directX 10 which all the new games are using. The only way you will get comfortable with an OS is by using it ;) .

This processor is better and cheaper. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819115038 This is based on the new wolfdale core which uses less power, runs cooler and has more cache. For a video card you should either get a ATI 4850 or 4870. They are faster than the Nvidia counter parts and are cheaper than them too. 4850 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814103060 4870 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814103061 For a motherboard there are plenty to choose from. Make sure you get a motherboard that has pci-express 2.0 slots and has a good chipset ( p45, x38, x48, or nforce 7) Sloter: Good idea with a 64bit OS, but 64bit XP sucks, it has tons of incompatible software and drivers. If he needs a 64bit OS he needs to use Linux or Vista.

init display should be set to PEG for the dedicated card. This will make the picture display faster on boot up. Even with this settings changed you should not just get a black screen. If you can not even see the post screen with the new card then a system restore would have nothing to do with it because it would be a hardware or bios problem because this is before Windows even starts up. BTW just for a future tip: Never install the drivers form the cd, they are usually very old compared to the drivers from the website. (this still should not have caused your problem) Try reseating the card again. There's not much you can do if it shows no picture on post. It could be from static electricity frying the card when you put it in. Usually that doesn't show right away and it breaks after a few heat cycles. If that's the case, just exchange it for a new one.

Well is this 1GB a month? If so then you should be able to play Runescape the whole time since Runescape does not use too much bandwidth. I have noticed that HD uses a little more bandwidth than normal, but that still should not be a problem. That is if you only use the internet for Runescape and not watch online video. Normal website like these forums are fine also. Seriously 1GB Internet usage? That really low for todays standards. You will not be able to do too much more than play Runescape while your there. Do not use youtube, you could eat up that 1GB in an hour.

I think Jagex is wrong on a few of those. It says the Intel GMA 950 will not run HD but I have been using that onboard card with HD since it's release. On max specs (besides AA) with no lag. Although the 915 may not be fast enough. If he's running Vista he has enough to run HD because Vista requires a minimum of 512mb of ram. Vista is very good at memory management so he should have no problems with Vista+ RS HD on 512mb of ram. Chances are if your running Vista you have the specs to run RD HD. The lack of ram will not garble the screen image. This would be the graphics card problem.

How is the computer freezing? Does it lock up and you can even move the mouse? Do you get an error or a blue screen? Does the program lock up but you can still do other things?

If you want to play games like Cod4, you don't get a Mac. Mac's are not meant for games (here comes the Apple fanboys). If you want to play games you need a Windows machine. Macs don't have that good of a graphics card for games if you do use bootcamp also. Although Alienware is equally overpriced. If you really don't want to build a computer and your on a tight budget of around $1000-1700 then you don't buy an Alienware. For $1000 you could build yourself a moderately high end gaming machine. If not The programs on your current computer are pretty clean. You have like nothing installed in it. If this thing is moderately new you could put a graphics card in it and play all the games you like (way cheaper).

How slow are you talking about? You can click "more information" on the file copy window to see. Vista copies files differently than XP if that's what your comparing it to (Vista is actually more efficient).

It's been fixed for a while now. It was fixed before SP1, it's also included with the service pack.

Theres your problem. Get off the tech board. If you have nothing constructive to say then don't post. Vista is fine and we have gone over this many times in the past. The vista aero to basic will not fix a thing so don't bother. Since it's crashing while it's loading RS HD I'm thinking it may be a problem with your java. Make sure it's up to date. If you still have problems after that delete the cache directory so you have to re-download the whole game.

No there not, the second post with images now has a 2007 driver from a 2004 one. That was my theory that they didn't update correctly but they did, I know some other people on the forums were having the same problem with the same onboard graphics and I don't know if they fixed it.

Post another dxdiag of the display tab please. (i know this may sound stupid but I may be onto something)