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Will this give me the 60 fps needed with shadows on? Just checking because I can still change the order.

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hrhr i did the same, within a few days of finding out q4 did not run properly on my old rig, I had brand new parts winging their way to me. (plastic + late night online shopping = trouble)

yep, i would say q4 should be running smoothly with your new bits, not sure about shadows - they can be taxing for even the best machines. and personally i'd prefer to have 2 gig of ram (twinned naturally)

edit :- oh and wtf, must purchase Xp home with hardware :-o

I should order two more sticks of the same RAM?

Called the place and changed the RAM to this:

http://www.mwave.com/ (link removed because it contained a session ID) - ridd

Thank you for the advice. :icon31:

hmm not sure what you ordered, it throws an error at me :/

ADODB.Recordset error '800a0e78'

Operation is not allowed when the object is closed.

/mwave/ASPpagedata/page.shoppingcart.asp, line 7


on the ram side, i am pretty sure you'd be better off with 2 (twinned) 1 gig sticks, than 4 x 512 - I'm thinking something like this >>
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products ... _uid=85958

Careful mac, you could have been giving away your session id on the website with that link

Ouch. Thank you for fixing it.

Here is the RAM:

http://www.mwave.com/mwave/skusearch.hm ... ia=BA21906

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that'll do nicely :icon14: (more or less the same as what i have ordered)

If it matters, go for xp pro rather than xp home...


good intro read on the differences here:
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/wi ... me_pro.asp

(googled xp home vs xp pro)

Most home PCs don't suffer at ALL from not having the "pro" version. I run XP Pro at home because I actually do have an Active Directory domain on my home LAN.. If you don't have a Windows server environment, features like IIS aren't really enough to add up the cost for the Pro version, methink.

I have seen dozens of XP home PCs upgraded to Pro because it's "better"... if you're not using the extra network or security features (terminal services, group policy client, etc).. Don't pay extra for features you won't use.

It says to use multiple processors I need Pro. Is that true for Quake 4 SMP as well?

Yes.

Doh. I'll contact them to make it Pro version. Thank you. :icon31:

riddla wrote:fixed

http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/high ... icore.mspx

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Weblets/0,,783 ... 64,00.html

No, you don't need Pro. Go hard, though.. :icon26:

I changed the order to Pro to be safe.

Any recommendations on a good anti-spyware / anti-virus solution?

I've been using a Mac that doesn't need such protections (so far), so I've been out of the loop on these kind of things.

Thank you. :icon31:

AVG Free Edition+Firefox.

Thank you. :icon31:

Iluvmymac wrote:Any recommendations on a good anti-spyware / anti-virus solution?

I maintain a Freeware Privacy, Security and Recovery Software thread over at Savage and Respawned that may help:
http://www.respawned.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=634

The game runs like a dream -- faster than these forums -- anyone notice the forums real slow lately?

Some reason I was getting dropped sounds (using the onboard audio) so I did this -- by a suggestion from fellow gamers:

s_maxchannelsmixed 48
s_restart

I'm thinking I should probably invest in a decent sound card. I use mainly headphones for gaming.

Is this card any good?

http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx ... ia=3800658

Thank you. :icon31:

If you get anything other then an X-FI for Q4 your wasting your money. Sounds drops are common on my Audigy 2..

yeah i got and x-fi fatality (spot the cheesey name) But the sounds are pretty impressive (lol scrap pretty - they rock)

I've read alot about the new drivers for other audigy boards that support openal, and various problems people are having. I do get the odd dropped sound, and the occasional loop still - but compared to my previous card the difference is nothing short of incredible.

I haven't played much Q4 online yet, but OpenAL seems to be working fine with my Audigy 1 and the Creative beta drivers. Some delays now and then (on item pickups mostly) but nothing serious.

See if this helps with your dropped sounds:

s_maxchannelsmixed 48
s_restart

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