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Just FYI. Out of all the intillectual properties to infringe upon, Nintendo's is probably not the best choice. Nintendo is VERY adament about enforcing its trademarks and copyrights. They don't let anybody use their intellectual property without a lot of scrutiny and oversight. They've gone...

Click Start -> click run -> type "regedit" with no quotes and press enter. Navigate to the following location in the registry. HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-117609710-2052111302-682003330-1003\Software\Valve\Source\hl2\Settings At that location you will see several entries in the window on the...

After the last patch I started experiencing a graphical problem where the screen would draw a large oddly shaped tear at a different location in the picture with every frame. It started as soon as the starting menu loaded and continued into the actual game. I figured out that disabling v-sync...

I have a full version of XSI, but the feature list for the full SDK mentions nothing about an XSI model exporter. Does this mean Valve is only supporting the EXP and not the full version. Or is there an XSI model exporter in the EXP and it's just not mentioned for some reason?

I agree with the first poster. This game is a complete waste of the Source technology. They didn't use any of its best features very well. The animation is poor, the lipsync seemed way off compared to HL2, they didn't use the physics engine that is Source's best feature, the AI is retarded...

There is no set number for "a lot". It's a relative term. All you have to be conserned about is framerates. If you test the game and the framerates are acceptable, then your polycounts are acceptable. Play testing is by far the best way to figure that stuff out.

It really depends on how much you plan to have on screen at once. If you're planning a multiplayer game with up to 32 players plus vehicles and reasonably detailed worlds, then you'll probably want to keep your player models and vehicles around 4,000 polygons. If you're doing a single player...

I knew this was comming, and yet it's still incredibly sad.

If you open up your case and there are no screw holes that aren't covered by the motherboard, then you can't use a standard ATX board. If you can use a standard ATX board, there should be at least 2 screw holes in the case a few inches below the motherboard.

Well, if you wanted a little boost in install times and load times and/or you don't like having multiple drives (logical drives. As in, you have 2 physical hard drives, but it appears as though you only have 1) then raid 0 is the way to go. If you don't mind multiple drives and won't miss 1 or...

Hard drives do not matter much at all in terms of game performance. If you absolutely need to shave 1-5 seconds off your load times, then you might consider moving to raid 0 with 10,000 rpm drives. But if you have any sense, you won't bother with that. Games, like all programs, run from RAM...

This is an article summarizing the scale of Pixar Animation Studio's (the company that made Toy Story, Monsters Inc, finding nemo, and plenty of work on other CG movies) renderFarm. It's quite large, but not the largest. I think ILM has a bigger one now. I could be wrong though. Pixar...

Honestly, CRTs are better for the money. If you have the space to put a CRT, I would go with that over an LCD any day. You can get a really nice 17" CRT for $200 or less, whereas you'll probably spend $400+ for a decent 15" LCD. High end LCDs can almost perfectly match the image quality and...

When will marketing idiots figure out that nobody really gives a crap when it comes out. As long as it's on the shelves by the holidays, the stupid people of the world will still be able to buy it just because the box art is pretty. Everybody in their established fan base wants the game as...

Oh, so when I have a view contrary to yours I'm being rude? I move my computer around several times per month, but my advice doesn't count because I told him that taking the computer apart is pointless and you told him to take every component out and wrap it up seperately? It is a fact that...

I was being rude? How so?

I travel with my computer all the time. I don't know if your vehicle is the same, but here's what I do. Put a pillow on the floor behind the front seat and then set the tower ontop of that. Place it so the motherboard is closest to the rear seat and lean the tower back towards the rear seat...

Actually it's more like 130,000 players, not 50,000. If you figure it takes about 10kB/s per player to maintain lag free play (that's 80kb/s). Of course, you'd have to have a hell of a system to handle data from that many players. It could be possible though. Consider that 6 years ago...

LCDs don't have a refresh rate in the same sense that a normal CRT does. Each pixel in an LCD has a "response time", which is the amount of time it takes the pixel to go from black to white and back to black again. The faster that response time is, the less ghosting (bluring) you get with...

Not having the proper DirectX version could cause a system crash. Normally you'd see a blue screen stating your video drivers as the cause of the crash, but by default XP automaticly reboots if you get a blue screen of death.