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I think I'm also in. I just hope, that it won't get too complex for the goldsource engine

Gonna post some screenies soon...

I started gaming on my mom's 386. I was like ten years old. The most notable games were F1GP - which was the best racing simulator back then, imo - and Retaliator - an awesome, and fucking hard flying simulator. I never managed to land the plane in that game, I even tried it like a year ago, just for the lulz.Then, I got a NES, which actually wasn't called NES, it's name was Terminator, that was an european remake of the original NES, and looked more like a sega genesis, and the cartridges had the shape of that system aswell. From those games, the one, that I liked the most, was Tennage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Tournament Fighters. Damn, we played that so friggin much with our friends...those afternoons were great.In the meen time, I was playing on Pentium IIs at school. I remember playing a hellotta Network Q Rac Rally, and Scorcher. The grapics of Scorcher just blew my mind back then...there was even a machine with a 3D Accelerator in it (I don't remember what kind of card it was) and with that - it looked just incredible. Slowly, I was getting back to PC gaming.I finally got a machine in 2000: Intel Celeron 433, 64 MB RAM, 5 GB HDD and an S3 Trio 3D. I started to play with Quake (I still love it) Quake II, and Unreal Tournament. I remember sitting for at least a month every day in front of UT. Then got into HL:OPFOR, and didn't really care about HL. A year later I got a Riva TNT2 32MB, which allowed me to finally play Quake 3. After like 2 months of playing it, I found out, that there's a level editor for it - Q3Radiant. I started to make maps for Q3, and after a year of mapping, got bored with it. At the end of 2002, I downloaded my first hammer, and began to map first for CS, and later - after discovering it's l33tness - for HL.

Here's the list of my fav games:

Deus Ex
Unreal Tournament
Quake 1,2,3 (4 sux ass)
Doom 3
Battle Arena Toshinden 1
Half-Life 1&2
TMNT IV: TF
Retaliator
F1GP
Air-Sky
Street I, II
Rally Championship 2000
GT Legends
Mafia
Outcast
Duke Nukem 3D
GTA: San Andreas
Max Payne 1&2

That was...holy fuck.

id suggest a longer bridge for that tv cause that one looks awfully close to the edge

It's pretty stable, even if it may not seem so. But if someone decides to pull out the desk on the right, that might damage the tv

Lol at your private stash of bog roll

Started to store them like that last year, and I sticked by it. Btw it's one of the most important things to have in a college besides beer

Luck for the exams. Whaterver.

That's my roommate's (lion btw) aswell as the rat They're bringing him luck.

Laptop + bottles containing liquids = Impending disaster

I have teh skillz to avoid that

its that a 3230 nokia? smile - i have one just like yours rolls eyes -

Yes it is.

Btw, an update on my desk, and my roommate is also here:And yes, that's a NES down there

My desk at the college:Well, it's tidy right now, but I'm only here since Thursday

Taking religion for fully granted is stupid. So is taking science for fully granted. I believe, that you can't just say "there is no God" nor "he / it is here and guides us all". Thats because, you just don't know. There is still so many things, that we don't know, and many things, that we will never find out, IMO. As said above, believeing if you're sick, or if you have a serious illness, helps you. But what it really is, nobody can tell for sure. But it does work. Even if someone doesn't believe in God, and is a realist: it's science, that tells us, that we are only using a small percent of our actual brain capacity. Who knows what that is? It may be there for some telephatic or self-hypnotising use, what we don't know how to fully use yet (What Jose Silva's Mind Control is all about) or...for contacting God

Sorry for being off-topic, but I think you can't say that only one of these two beliefs is true.

"Go and get a girlfriend, n00bz."

Ok, that's hard.

Errrr...

Hmmm, my laptop's 8600GT mobile dips to a jerky 20-30fps. 1280x1024, 8xAA/16xAF. I get a rock solid 60 almost all the time.

Thanks ZL, and yeah, the Berliner looks nice

I tried it in fullscreen 640x480, and in windowed mode also, with the same effect. And yeah, this integreated intel piece of shit is pretty useless - especially with the source engine.

Yeah, I know, that's because I didn't had a stand for the camera, and I had to manually set the three different exposures between shots (100 buck camera, not exactly the best machine, but I don't have money for anything better ATM). So, I couldn't perfectly hold it still, and Photomatrix couldn't align them properly on that image.

I was in Slovenia last week, and made a few HDR images:

I have a desktop, which runs HL2 fine, I just wanted to have HL2 working on my laptop aswell. Just to kick some combine ass, and perhaps map, when I'm fed up with the german texts on the uni

EDIT: 'Cos I don't want to drag my desktop with me 80 miles away to the college, and drag it back, when I need to do something on a computer, like I did last year.

Well, tried everything, even running in windowed mode, in 640x480, with everything set to the lowest possible value, and the desktop color depth reduced to 16-bit - where HL2 looks worse, than HL1 - and still the same problem. I think HL2 does something during the save process, that this thing can't handle. When I started the game, the train station was slow as hell, and there was lots of swapping going around everywhere, but it was still running, until I got to an autosave point, or did a quicksave myself. This is just insane...I run games on this thing like Max Payne 2 and Doom 3 - and Doom 3 eats up more of the system resources, than HL2 - but a simple HL2 savegame is lethal. Wtf.

Yeah, sounds like the solution. I have an Intel 950 (I know it's crap), and yes, it shares the system RAM of 512 MB. I've installed the driver for it from the driver CD, which came with the laptop. As I looked around in the properties, it says that the minimum amount of memory it shares is 10 MB, with a maximum of 224 MB, but I didn't find anything about paging...

Ok, I'll try to download new drivers for it, hopefully that's gonna fix it.

EDIT: Found this on Intel's website at the 82945GM Express Chipset Family's game comatibility list:

"Half-Life* 2 game installs successfully, but crashes during game play.

Intel is not aware of a fix or workaround for this issue. Contact the game manufacturer † for further updates, patches or support."

FUUUUUUUCK!!!!!

Deleted that .blob file, and still nothing...but thanks for the help. About the amount of save files...well, I just installed it, and have like 4-5 saves, so that's out of the question.

Did all of the updates (steam, HL2, HL2DM, SDK), verified the integrity of cache, and defragged the cache files, but still have the problem. Is there anything else I can do?

I just installed HL2 on my laptop, it started and ran well (actually not too well, because the laptop is for office use, but ok) until I got to an autosave point. In that moment, when the loading was done, and the game made an autosave, HL2 exited, and dropped me back to the desktop, with no error message. What seems even more strange, is that if I don't move, while the save is being made, just wait and stand still for that few seconds - it doesn't exit. This is just pissing me off, and I never had an error like this on my desktop machine.

So, does anyone know, why this is happening?

Rob Dougan - Born Yesterday

Same thing.

http://www.robzombie.com/music/default.aspx/pid/2102

+1: Led Zeppelin

Ah...these threads are leading nowhere.

There are only three options to choose from:

1. I don't believe in conspiracy theories at all, so - according to the conspiracy theorists here - I'm a blind slave, and I suck.

2. I only believe in some conspiracy theories - the ones, that I think can be right, and worth thinking about - and deny the others. But it doesn't matter, the reaction is the same: You're fucking blind. Enjoy your slavery.

3. I believe in all theories, no matter what huge load of bullshit they may be - and I'm saved.

Can't you see Jahzel, DocRock, that you're doing the same thing, what you're fighting against? The way I see it, you think that the truth can ONLY come from you. I don't even have a choice, to think about it. What about you're posts about the media contolling us and brainwashing? Isn't this completely the same? Everyone must have the right, to decide, what to believe in.

I agree, that you shouldn't believe everything you see / hear in the media, but you can't expect people to believe everything you say, just because you're on the other side.

Yeah, nice, the 5th is winner for me.

Pic of my back yard from the top of the garage. Edited with PhotoMatrix. (HDR) Nothing special, just to test what the program can do.

See it.

Well, I don't know about Oblivion, but I think it can handle HL2 no problem. Yes, the laptop GPUs are slower, than the ones in the desktop machines, but come on, X1600 or GF 7600? I have an old Radeon 9550, and even that old junk can run HL2 on high detail settings and 1024*768 with average 40 FPS. Maybe they'll have some slow-downs in high resolutions, and HDR turned on, but generally it'll run smooth.

srry: Ok, so I fail on the american market, it seems, that I don't really know what specs the american dells have, but in my country, MSI is clearly the better choice. (Maybe Dells are hellotta expensive in Hungary) The models from dell, that I can get my hands on here, mostly have useless Intel Extreme GPUs, the only one - from the 6400 series - that has a Radeon X1400, and has a price of 280000 HUF (so ~1400$) has only 512MB of RAM. There are two MSIs in that class. The first one has 1Gb of RAM, X1600 GPU, and a Turion 64 2.0 Ghz for ~1070$. The second one has 1 Gb of RAM, GeForce 7600 Go GPU and a Turion 64 1.8 for ~1250$. And according to this, a GeForce 7600 Go isn't as crap, as you say it is.

As for the processor: 1.8 Ghz Core 2 Duo or Turion 64 - well, where I live the fastest CPU you can get are Core 2 Duos running at 3.0 Ghz, or Quad Core CPUs running at 2.4 Ghz. Now, we're talking about middle class laptops here, not some gaming beasts. In the middle class, I think a 1.8 Ghz Turion or Core 2 Duo combined with GeForce 7600 Go or Radeon X1600 works just fine.

And once again, sorry for my n00bness on the american market.

Whoa, I only looked at the hungarian models, and as I took a look at MSI's site, and a few other sites, the model numbers are completely fucking different - or in Hungary they sell older models ,or I dunno...well all I can say, take a look at the above mentioned site (newegg.com), there are models, that have similar specs, as the ones I mentioned.

Yeah, my friend also has a macbook, and couldn't turn it on one day, even with fully charged battery, and with the power cable plugged in...the macbook was only 7 months old...

Heh, yeah, couldn't figure out to just leave steam open, unplug the cable from the internets, and connect it to the other computer...I fail

Thanks for the help guys.

I think, that an MSI notebook would be the best choice for you. I don't own a laptop myself, but I'm looking forward to buying one in the next few weeks. I've been looking around, what kind of specs laptops have, and which are reliable, and came to the conclusion, that MSIs have the best price for their performance, and are reliable. They almost always have 1Gb of RAM and have a middle-class (so useable) videocard.

Acers are only good, if you have like 800 bucks for a laptop. The acers, that are more expensive, suck balls compared to the laptops from other manufacturers.

The laptops from Dell, ASUS and Sony are also reliable, but they just cost too much IMO. The new, cheaper Dells have nice Core 2 Duo processors, but a piece of shit graphics chip (Intel Extreme 950) - with that, you can't even run HL with decent FPS rate. For the same price, MSIs have better overall performance - maybe not with ultra leading-edge CPUs, but with 1Gb of RAM and GeForce 7600-Class videocards.

Actually, I've been looking for a model around 200000 HUF (1000 dollars), in that category, my model of choice is: MSI L735X-050HU (AMD Turion 1,6 Ghz, 1Gb RAM, GeForce Go 7600 256 MB, 100Gb HDD). If you have 1500 dollars for it: MSI L745X-075HU. (which HAS Core 2 Duo processor AND a GeForce 7600 Go 256 MB, which you can't say from the Dells in this category.)

Well, this is kind of a noob problem, and it's probably simple to solve, but I just can't figure this out. So, my problem is: How can I start HL2DM in offline mode? I've played it on the internet a few times, but now we want to try it out with my buddy on LAN, and I just can't start it without Steam telling me, that I can't run it in offline mode.

Thanks for your help.

Well, usually a samurai at least welcomed the opponent with a bow, a ninja didn't, and could just cut his head down, while bowing. Besides, the way they fought was different. A samurai rather focused on one attack, he's goal was to win / kill with one move. They were trained to do like that. The ninjas goal was to win - no matter how.

Gang Starr - Much Too Much

A ninja would win, because the samurais fight with rules and honor, the ninjas don't give a shit about those stuff, and just beat 'em the hell up.

Doom 3 vs. F.E.A.R.

Edit: Fuck, waz too slow

Me shooz:

Speak, The Hungarian Rapper

Business. Yee c'mon.

Ok guys, solved it.

The whole story: I had an XP on my hard drive, and after my machine got repaired (the processor died) this one did not want to run anymore. Obviously because of the new motherboard and processor. Thats why I had to reinstall XP, but this was not the same version, which was previously on my comp, the old one was a simple XP Professional, with no SPs, and this - as I mentioned - was with integrated SP2. So, I got another XP CD from my friend (which is hungarian, this was english) and with that, I could repair my previous fucked-up windows. Internets is working perfectly with this repaired one...there was something wrong with that english version, I think.

I've tried all of the drivers on the CD, even adding them in the device manager, but I still have this error. Any other ideas?

I've just got my usable (P4-class) computer back after 1 month. I've installed winxp with integrated sp2 on it, and I can't connect to the internets with it (DSL). It always tells me, that the username / password is incorrect. But I'm 100% sure, that they are right, because I used that username and password on my piece of shit P200 MMX (I'm using it right now as a matter of fact) at the time, when I didn't had this comp. Xp recognized the integrated LAN on my my motherboard - it didn't work with that. Then I used the driver on the motherboard CD - didn't work. I also tried it with a PCI-Ethernet Card, and still, the same error. I've tried it with the PPPoE program, what my ISP gave to me, with the same error...

So, I'm pretty fucking sure, that it's some other error, but I don't know what it can be. I fucked around for like 2 hours at the network options, but nothing seems to help.

Does anyone know, what the problem could be? Thanks for your help.

(Self)
Full Name : Botond Szabo
Age: 19
Hometown : Lajosmizse, Hungary

Education: University - Starting the 3rd semester in September

(Interests)
Favourite Films:

• Matrix Trilogy
• Dark City
• A Scanner Darkly
• Anger Management

Favourite Meal: Lasagne

Favourite Actor: Kevin James

Favourite Actress: Winona Ryder

Favourite Game to Date: Deus Ex

Game your looking forward to: HL2 Episode Two

Favourite Bands: Fluke, Crystal Method, Dub Pistols, Overseer, Dire Straits, Rage Against The Machine, Public Enemy

Favourite Drink : Water

Favourite Alcohol: Whisky and Beer

Hobbies: Gaming, Reading (sci-fi books), Nanbudo

(Other)

Girlfriend Yes/No?: Nope

Past Girlfriends: 1

Things that make you smile: Caturday pics.

Things that make you really laugh out loud: Listening to my (well, now previous) roommate.

Things that annoy you: Politics / Untrustworthy People / Girls, who are whining, that a stupid fuckfart guy left them - but they made the choice of picking him themselves.

Things that well and truely piss you off: Girls, who are whining, that a stupid fuckfart guy left them - but they made the choice of picking him themselves- and they choose a same fucker the next time aswell.

Photo (optional):With teh original Punisher Look

Holy fuck. There's almost no point reading / commenting these threads, as long as this virus called "Ghetto" is loose. You lose 5 iq-points reading one of its comments.

Gone mapping

My top three:

1. ASMD Shock Rifle from the first UT. (The Shock Rifle in UT2003 is just a piece of useless shit.)

2. Double-Barreled Shotgun from Quake 1

3. Rocket Launcher from Quake3 (Simple, but still kicks ass.)

Fluke - Absurd

Errr...ok Ghetto. Back to second grade. Sad, that that's all you can hear from a 13 year old. Or maybe I'm just too old. Whatever. Keep listening to JT. Real good stuff.

Back in this:

Dire Straits - Single Handed Sailor

Ok, now that makes sense. So, what's you're point? That I'm a smartass, just because I like a certain author, and read books from him?

OMG Justin Timberlake?? That fails. Listen to the rap of the early 90s, if you want quality rap.

Dire Straits - Portobello Belle