I think you're reading into some of it too much. To me, Blue Shift is more like: Blue = Police/Security (thus Barney's job), Shift = His shift of work. In the game it was during his shift that things went awry.
And surface tension seems to refer more to the fact that, you've reached the...
They are actually very similar.
nVidia's GeForce FX 5900 will give you a bit better performance than ATi's Radeon 9800, where the 9800 will give you better picture quality with AA and AF turned up. The downside of the 5900 though, is that it has a fan so big the card will take up not only...
The 9800 is more optimized than just overclocked. The shader unit (SmartShader) was supplemented with a so-called "F-Buffer," which theoretically allows shader code of infinite length. SmoothVision was increased to version 2.1 as opposed to 2.0 on the 9700. Hyperz III was also optimized to give...
1. 0.13µ production process plainly isn't needed to create the Radeon 9700, so why use it?
2. The Radeon 9600 DOES use 0.13µ production process, unlike the 9700 and 9800. Therefore nulifying your agrument that nVidia is ahead of ATi because of the manufacturing process they use.
3. As...
Ya, I guess I filled out the first part of my name alright.
The post probably only took me about 10 minutes, it became more amusement than frustration by the end of it. And it's not like I'm super passionate about HL2, it's actually not about that at all. It's that fact that people drive me...
You should be able to disable it through "device manager".
If you're running Windows 98, which I'm assuming you are sinse you're using the i810 chipset, just right click "my computer", click "properties", and locate "device manager". It will be in there somwhere, I don't remember exactly...