Dracion1

Dug out Black & White from my drawer today. Ah the joys of terrorising small villagers with a giant monkey that casts fireballs :D...

Sorry, this is kind of thread hijacking, but could you use the Nvidia card for Physics if you had an ATI card?

A small piece I tore off my old coat. Gone but not forgotten :(

I don't think OP needs/wants to spend $1000+ when he can easily find a very good AV for free. Try AVIRA & Ad-Aware. I've found these to be a great combo, haven't had any real problems with these at all, they pick up pretty much everything.

Where'd my other post go? D: As I said I'm looking for a spacey themed game, don't mind what genre it is (so long as it's not MMO), something like Sins of a Solar Empire perhaps. Are the X3 games any good? Specs: 3.2GHz Intel P4 HT 3GB RAM 512MB Nvidia 8600GT

Try Avira. AVG isn't as good as it used to be now and I think you'll find most people here will agree.

That's not out till June :P Looks good, but I want something now.

There's a sticky for this: viewtopic.php?f=151&t=778842&start=60 LBP is worth having if you have a PS3.

I hate sites like that :| Try this link: http://www.brothersoft.com/amcap-62177.html

+1. That looks like just what you need :)

The whole "You are now aware that you are breathing." doesn't even work for me. :?

What make? Chances are there might be some kind of software available on the manufacturers website that'll record stuff :)

If you are going to use Openoffice instead, make sure you save your work as a Microsoft Office document (.doc), or it won't work on other computers with MS Office.

Mixture. I'm used to using SI units and school and such without any problems, but there are still some places where people tend to use Imperial. The obvious is example is on the roads (miles) and when judging the height/weight of another person which people still tend to do in feet/inches and stone/pounds. It's more of a generational thing though, I could easily say I was 6' 4" or 193cm tall, while older people tend struggle with centimetres since they grew up using imperial units. Ireland did it. And seriously, that's not too hard. Sweden switched sides of the road in 1963. Yes, but there was much less traffic on the roads back then; and the UK is a much more densely populated country than Ireland or Sweden. The cost to do it today here would be huge compared to what is was back then, especially if every single sign had to be replaced.

I tried this a while ago, I didn't like it that much in all fairness. Never been a big fan of turn based strategy, but that's just me.

Time has come again to waste my cash on another new game :P I'm looking for a singe player space themed game, perhaps something like Sins of a Solar Empire. RTS or RPG, I'm not hugely bothered. Specs: P4 HT 3.2Ghz 3GB RAM Nvidia 8600GT 512MB

If he's removed everything from add/remove programs then you'll need a disk to reinstall it, if you've got a prebuilt machine which came with office on it the manufacturer usually gives you some CDs to reinstall it. If you haven't got these, you're going to need to get a new copy, and make him pay for the software. (Or you could try openoffice.org, which is similar to MS Office but free)

Unfortunately 250W a bit on the low side. If you want a graphics card of any sort I'd reccomend you'd get a new PSU. This looks like a good buy, and should allow you to easily run some of the higher end cards.

What have you got in the way of Firefox addons? I know some like Noscript would block RuneScape unless you tell it specifically not to. If you have any try disabling them all and re-enabling one by one until you find the bad one.

I'd go for IPS since you're not going to be gaming much. A TN monitor has faster response times but the viewing angles and colour quality aren't as good as IPS. I decided to wait till summer before I get my new PC. If I had it now I wouldn't get any revision done in time for my exams in May/June :P

I dont understand. 66 - 179MB (I'm assuming you mean MB, KB seems a bit on the low side :P) is nothing with 2GBs of RAM. I have XP SP2 on my computer and I rarely use more than 2GB of RAM even when major release games on highest graphic settings. It's much more likely to be your processor or your graphics card. What type of processor is this? Single or dual core? Also, what graphics card does your laptop have? To find out go to start > run and type "dxdiag", and click on the display tab. If you're trying to run Full HD with an intel integrated graphics chipset you are going to have lag problems.

Depends where you get it from. I've seen some very good laptops capable of running newer games on medium-near high settings on newegg for about US$1000 ish. This is often a lot cheaper than going straight to the manufacturer. If you just want something that'll run RSHD however, you won't need to spend that much, about US$700 would probably do.

Hiya Ves :D Despite my preference for Nvidia cards and their somewhat superior drivers (Don't forget support for PhysX and CUDA), the 4870 is easily the most powerful out of all of those. Depends what you like though.

You did get 64 bit versions of the drivers, java, etc right? Also, have you got any firewalls that could be blocking RuneScape? It's just a thought.

Most modern internet browsers have higher requirements than the original Half-Life though. :| I tried this, it's very fun. I still love playing on the Quake III and the original UT, always great fun at LAN and such.