"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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>>> Crysis, OTOH...
>>
>>    No doubt about it... :)
>
> Well, Nemesis seems to pretty strongly doubt it. :-P

 Well, in a way, he's right about the 'tech demo' side of it, but I woudn't 
go as far as saying that it's bland. The story is quite good, the cutscenes 
are very good, scenery is amazing, (you'll get to see that with your 260 
easy), and gameplay is just great if you love freedom to do what you want 
and how you want. I completed it in about 12 hours and honestly, it's one of 
those games where you'll want to take a break because you'll want to just 
carry on to see what happens next.

  ~Steve~

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Invisible wrote:
>> Crysis, OTOH...
> 
> ...will cost me money, whereas FarCry 2 I already have. ;-) I might as 
> well at least see what it's like...

Sure, check it out since it's *ahem* free.  How much did you pay for 
that video card?

Also, I thought you were going to buy Crysis anyway.

> Hmm, although... if it's any harder than FarCry 1, I guess there really 
> *is* no point. o_O

I don't think it's harder.  Don't expect the same game as FarCry 1, 
though.  It's quite different.  Crysis is much more similar to FarCry 1 
than FarCry 2 is.

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Kyle wrote:

> Sure, check it out since it's *ahem* free.  How much did you pay for 
> that video card?


compute-bounded mentalness on? ;-)

> Also, I thought you were going to buy Crysis anyway.

Er, yeah. But probably not "soon"...

> I don't think it's harder.  Don't expect the same game as FarCry 1, 
> though.  It's quite different.  Crysis is much more similar to FarCry 1 
> than FarCry 2 is.

OK then.

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On 28-Jan-09 22:46, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
> 
>> When did it get common to tack a "U" on the end of "Power Supply"? 
>> Nobody calls it a Power Supply Unit. :-)
> 
> Er... I do?
> 
> I've always seen it referred to as PSU. 

Would you pronounce that as P.S.U. and if not would you pronounce the 
the P as in pseudo?

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>> I've always seen it referred to as PSU. 
> 
> Would you pronounce that as P.S.U.

Yes.

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OK, so last night I embarked on an epic HD moving process.

Suffice it to say, I removed the 80GB HD that I don't really use much. I 
took the two remaining HDs and moved them to the bottom of the drive 
rack. There is now space for the giant graphics card to slot into the PC 
without purchasing a larger case.

It sounds like a trivial operation, but it wasn't. I only just have 
enough power connectors, and various cables weren't really long enough, etc.

There is one small problem: the drive I removed was the one with the 
working boot sector on it. I did try plugging the drives into the other 
SATA sockets, but the Windows XP install CD apparently lacks the drivers 
necessary to access the secondary SATA controller, so it couldn't "find" 
the drives in that configuration. (KNOPPIX found them just fine, but not 
Windows XP.)

Actually, it turns out the new graphics card will only block *two* of 
the primary SATA sockets, so I can in fact still plug my drives in in 
the usual way. I have now done this, and Windows XP can "see" them again.

Now *all* I have to do is figure out how to put NTLDR and friends back 
onto the drive using the recovery console and my PC will be usable 
again... o_O

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> Actually, it turns out the new graphics card will only block *two* of 
> the primary SATA sockets, 

Cool.

> Now *all* I have to do is figure out how to put NTLDR and friends back 
> onto the drive using the recovery console and my PC will be usable 
> again... o_O

Then you should be able to try the latest ones from here:

http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_nvidia.html

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scott wrote:

>> Now *all* I have to do is figure out how to put NTLDR and friends back 
>> onto the drive using the recovery console and my PC will be usable 
>> again... o_O
> 
> Then you should be able to try the latest ones from here:
> 
> http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_nvidia.html

One time, I actually sat down and tried every demo on nVidia's website. 
(Up until the point where the higher ones wouldn't run, anyway.)

Some of the demos are just rubbish, but a few of them are really awesom. 
Most especially this one:

http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_luna_home.html

OK, technologically it's probably not that special. But seriously... 
WOW! o_O This is some SERIOUSLY WEIRD CRAP! How the **** did they come 
up with this stuff?! ._.

Unfortunately, I rapidly discovered that many of the demos will not 
cleanly uninstall afterwards. (!!)

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Invisible wrote:

> Now *all* I have to do is figure out how to put NTLDR and friends back 
> onto the drive using the recovery console and my PC will be usable 
> again... o_O

Under Windows NT, there was a feature where you could boot from the 
install CD, select "repair", and it would scan your HDs, try to find an 
installed copy of Windows NT, and if it found one, attempt to make it 
bootable. (E.g., check the boot sector, add the various executables and 
configuration files required for a successful boot, and even replace 
missing or corrupted DLLs and so on.)

Apparently this feature does not exist in Windows XP. (One presumes it 
was found to be too useful, and its removal allows M$ consultants to 
charge you money to fix your PC for you...)

Anyway, after consulting not less than 7 different KB articles, it 
appears that I can use the Recovery Console to manually copy the two 
boot files from the CD to the HD and semi-automatically rebuild the boot 
configuration menu.

In case anybody wants to know, the procedure appears to be this:

- Start the Recovery Console. (I.e., boot the install CD and press "R" 
when prompted.)

- Type "map" and observe the drive letter for the CD drive.

- Copy NTLDR to the harddrive: copy O:\i386\ntldr C:\

- Copy NTDETECT.COM too: copy O:\i386\ntdetect.com C:\

- Build a new BOOT.INI file: bootcfg /all

- This last command spends a few hours scanning all your HDs looking for 
anything that looks like a Windows installation. It then gives you an 
interactive prompt asking which ones to add to the boot menu.

Hopefully at this point the system should become bootable again. (And if 
not, I'll just reinstall Windows. That should get rid of those old 
nVidia demos that wouldn't uninstall...)

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Invisible wrote:

> Unfortunately, I rapidly discovered that many of the demos will not 
> cleanly uninstall afterwards. (!!)

I just realised... I can't even run them in a VM! They need the GPU. ;-)

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