FictiousWill
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Skip to the bottom for my questions, should you not wish to become jealous looking at my comp specs!
I just assembled and have been running my new comp from newegg. Built it myself in 2 hrs:
Veery nice antec soho file server case. Used this case before for building multiple computers for friends, best case I've seen.
AMD athlon 64 3200+, Radeon 9800pro 256 (will mod to xt, but only if I have to), some nforce3 gigabyte mobo, sata raid! 160gigs total, and a very nice tv-card. Logitech MX-510 gaming mouse. Plus dvd etc etc
I LOVE FAR CRY! It came as a freebie with my newegg order, and I wasn't going to throw it away, even though I didn't think the demo was so hot. I must admit to using the console to quicksave, but it takes four key presses to quicksave, so I don't mind. The game is loads of fun.
I thought the demo was boring and slow, but the game itself is much more fun. Somehow when playing through the demo bits in the proper game it felt different, and the game just escalates and gets better and better. The dx9 effects and dynamic lighting are awesome, shaders and normal maps are great. If you thought the demo was ok, perhaps not fantastic, give the game a try. I was scared shitless by the trigens to begin with, but the game eases you in, now I've toughened up a bit.
The game's fairly linear, but here and there you're given free reign over how to make an objective - I deliberately took unorthodox or cool routes just for fun. I'm rambling now, but I love Far Cry so far. I'm on the second daylight level and it's been very exciting so far.
Plus I can run the game at 1024x768x32 with all details full on with full AF and AS very smoothly (don't know the exact fps and can't be bothered to check) but I can blast a leaping trigen in the air with ease, so it's got to be at least 50.
Sourceworld folks: Sorry been a bit out of touch - the new comp doesn't have the internet yet, and I'm installing junk and transferring to a high bandwidth connection soon so I may be out of touch for a bit, no more than a week and a halfish, as the dialup's going away, and it may not coincide with dsl.
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QUESTIONS HERE:
My new logitech 510 mouse has all drivers in and installed, ready etc etc. However it's red light is one constant tone. It doesn't go dim when it's not moving. Is that normal? It won't burn out it's little red light will it?
Similar question: When I turn off the computer tower, the mouse red light is still on! Unless I unplug the power (thereby severing the comp's power connection) the mouse light stays on even when the computer is off. This means the mouse light is on 24-7! Surely this is not normal?
Question 2: (the above one was question 1.5)
AGP. I fixed this same problem with my nvidia comp (the old one), by reinstalling the mobo drivers and fiddling with the bios. The new comp and the radeon are giving me lip. Dxdiag claims I have no AGP acceleration support. The ati display properties window says I'm set on 8x agp, and that fastwrite is off (and it stays off, even though I set it to on and reboot). My bios claims that agp is on, and set at 8x. What gives? Is dxdiag wrong? All mobo (GIGABYTE GA-K8NS PRO) and 9800pro drivers are installed. I dunno!
Question 3:
As I mentioned above, I have a new sata raid array in the new comp. I have no IDE hard drives. My comp insists on pausing during bootup for ten seconds after scanning for ide hard drives, then has an option to set up an ide raid configuration or continue booting. If I leave it it boots normally. There are no bios options that I can see that get rid of this occurance. I don't mind really, but its annoying.
Arg! three days of limited internet use and look what happens to me. Please reply if you have any idea about any of the above questions or comments or whatever.
I just assembled and have been running my new comp from newegg. Built it myself in 2 hrs:
Veery nice antec soho file server case. Used this case before for building multiple computers for friends, best case I've seen.
AMD athlon 64 3200+, Radeon 9800pro 256 (will mod to xt, but only if I have to), some nforce3 gigabyte mobo, sata raid! 160gigs total, and a very nice tv-card. Logitech MX-510 gaming mouse. Plus dvd etc etc
I LOVE FAR CRY! It came as a freebie with my newegg order, and I wasn't going to throw it away, even though I didn't think the demo was so hot. I must admit to using the console to quicksave, but it takes four key presses to quicksave, so I don't mind. The game is loads of fun.
I thought the demo was boring and slow, but the game itself is much more fun. Somehow when playing through the demo bits in the proper game it felt different, and the game just escalates and gets better and better. The dx9 effects and dynamic lighting are awesome, shaders and normal maps are great. If you thought the demo was ok, perhaps not fantastic, give the game a try. I was scared shitless by the trigens to begin with, but the game eases you in, now I've toughened up a bit.
The game's fairly linear, but here and there you're given free reign over how to make an objective - I deliberately took unorthodox or cool routes just for fun. I'm rambling now, but I love Far Cry so far. I'm on the second daylight level and it's been very exciting so far.
Plus I can run the game at 1024x768x32 with all details full on with full AF and AS very smoothly (don't know the exact fps and can't be bothered to check) but I can blast a leaping trigen in the air with ease, so it's got to be at least 50.
Sourceworld folks: Sorry been a bit out of touch - the new comp doesn't have the internet yet, and I'm installing junk and transferring to a high bandwidth connection soon so I may be out of touch for a bit, no more than a week and a halfish, as the dialup's going away, and it may not coincide with dsl.
(stop skipping)
QUESTIONS HERE:
My new logitech 510 mouse has all drivers in and installed, ready etc etc. However it's red light is one constant tone. It doesn't go dim when it's not moving. Is that normal? It won't burn out it's little red light will it?
Similar question: When I turn off the computer tower, the mouse red light is still on! Unless I unplug the power (thereby severing the comp's power connection) the mouse light stays on even when the computer is off. This means the mouse light is on 24-7! Surely this is not normal?
Question 2: (the above one was question 1.5)
AGP. I fixed this same problem with my nvidia comp (the old one), by reinstalling the mobo drivers and fiddling with the bios. The new comp and the radeon are giving me lip. Dxdiag claims I have no AGP acceleration support. The ati display properties window says I'm set on 8x agp, and that fastwrite is off (and it stays off, even though I set it to on and reboot). My bios claims that agp is on, and set at 8x. What gives? Is dxdiag wrong? All mobo (GIGABYTE GA-K8NS PRO) and 9800pro drivers are installed. I dunno!
Question 3:
As I mentioned above, I have a new sata raid array in the new comp. I have no IDE hard drives. My comp insists on pausing during bootup for ten seconds after scanning for ide hard drives, then has an option to set up an ide raid configuration or continue booting. If I leave it it boots normally. There are no bios options that I can see that get rid of this occurance. I don't mind really, but its annoying.
Arg! three days of limited internet use and look what happens to me. Please reply if you have any idea about any of the above questions or comments or whatever.
Can't wait for mine. :naughty:
