A speeding van in Russia loses control, hits a dirt embankment, and flies 20 feet into the air.

The driver of the van was killed and the one passenger is in critical condition with a head injury.

Not even the general lee ever flew that high I don't think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ9GuwHLKd0

Where can I get the MSI GeForce GTX 680 Lightning online?

Everywhere I have looked it is either "out of stock," "unavailable," or "discontinued."

Can you please find a legitimate and reputable online vendor that has this particular GPU in stock and for sale?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127693R

Popular Reddit thread with very many posts

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1d...est_thing/

Here are some of my favorite.

"I was on a bus recently and we were stopped outside a walk-in clinic. A little girl in the seat in front of me turned to her dad and said, "Death is the poor man's doctor." And that was that."

"Why are you crying?
"Bad man"
What bad man?
"There." Points behind me at a dark corner of the room
Lamp on bookshelf next to said darkened corner falls off as soon as I turn to look.
She slept in our bed that night"

"My toddler went through a phase where she would just constantly say 'hi' to things. "Hi hi hi hi hi hi"
One day, it came out sounding more like "Die die die die die"
So I say to her "What's that you're saying?"
And she turns to face me and just whispers "Diiiieeeeeee......."

"I was tucking in my two year old. He said "Good bye dad." I said, "No, we say good night." He said "I know. But this time its good bye."
Had to check on him a few times to make sure he was still there."

"I don't have kids, but once, visiting some friends on a farm, my buddy's youngest girl (5 or 6) at the time, was afraid of the chickens. I tried to explain to her that the chickens weren't there to hurt us but she wasn't having it.
So I'm sitting around the fire pit, looking at one of the chickens a few feet in front of me when I feel hot breath in my ear as she whispers:
"See. He's always watching."
Horrific and hysterical all at once."

"Getting my two and a half year old daughter out of the bath one night, my wife and I were briefing her on how important it was she kept her privates clean. She casually replied "Oh, nobody 'scroofs' me there. They tried one night. They kicked the door in and tried but I fought back. I died and now I'm here." She said this like it was nothing."

I read that there will be a random night/day and dusk/dawn cycle in BF4, as well as random weather efffects such as rain, snow, fog, wind, severe lightning and dust storms. Also, there should be night vision goggles for infantry to use in night maps and very dark rooms.

This sounds like a really cool idea.

What do you think?

What is a ram disk and how does it work?

Is 16GB of memory considered a ram disk?

How do you benefit from a ram disk?

I got the seasonic 1000W Platinum for my dual SLI GTX 680's, a Core i7 3770k, and 16GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM.

Also, I intend on heavily overclocking my system.

Did I make a good choice for PSU?

I made this video as a tribute to Susan Slaughter from the SyFy channel reality show ghost hunters international and ghost hunters academy.

She is the biggest celebrity crush I have ever had!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RMiPJaUxHw

In online gaming speak, what exactly is a "pub?"

To me, a pub has always been an Irish bar, but it has a different meaning as well. Please fill me in.

WormholeWizard

Best Battlefield 3 player in the entire world, bar-none.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1plBMFEU_c

I've finally got all the parts, but I haven't put it together yet.

I hope I can fully max out Crysis 3 on 1920x1080 and always get 30-60fps.

*Core i7 3770K
*4x4 GB 16GB DDR3 1600MHz cl9 RAM 1.5V
*MSI BIg Bang Mpower Z77 motherboard
*Dual SLI GTX 680 2GB MSI LIghtning edition
*Corsair AX860i 860W power supply
*ZALMAN CNPS9900X MAX red CPU cooler
*1TB WD Caviar Black 7200RPM 64MB Cache HDD
*24X DVD ROM
*Corsair Vengeance C70 mid-tower case military green
*Four ventilation case fans (two 120mm and two 140mm)
*128GB Corsair SSD
*Windows 7 HP 64-bit

Are there ANY Battlefield 3 tournaments in the professional gaming circuit?

Has anyone ever played against or beat Johnathan "Fata1ty" Wendel? Does he ever play on public quake 3/4 servers?

Please recommend a high quality power supply (at least 1KW) for this new gaming build. I haven't finished it yet, but it should be complete within the next few months..

*Core i7 3770K
*Corsair Dominator Platinum 8GB DDR3 1600MHz cl9 RAM
*MSI Big Bang Mpower Z77 motherboard
*Two-way SLI GTX 680 MSI Lightning graphics cards
*Western Digital 1TB 7200RPM HDD
*Corsair Vengeance C70 mid-tower case
*Corsair H100i liquid CPU cooling
*24x speed DVD ROM

I was playing Fallout New Vegas for the PC and I came across some guy wandering the desert who looked so much like Kiefer Sutherland, I had to take a screenshot.

I wonder what business Jack Bauer had in the wasteland.

[IMG]http://i1327.photobucket.com/albums/u665/Ronnie_Heater/FalloutKiefer_zpsd549b863.jpg[/IMG]

I've got some questions about Crysis 3.

*What happened to Alcatraz from Crysis 2?
*If Prophet shot himself at the beginning of Crysis 2, how is he alive in Crysis 3?
*How did Prophet survive re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere at the end of Crysis 3?
*Will there be a Crysis 4?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpqyy4fQ5CA

Have any graphical improvements been made to Crysis 3 when compared to the previous game?

I must say, I was not impressed by Crysis 2's graphics until they released the DX11/High Resolution pack.

Did the CryEngine 3 receive a facelift? Or is it essentially Crysis 2 with identical graphics/gameplay, and a sequel story?

Is fallout 4 currently in development? I mean has there been any official news of whether of this?

Do you think it will use Skyrim's "creation" engine?

Newegg is currently out of stock and they don't have it anywhere on tigerdirect. It could be months before they have them back in stock.

I'm building a new PC and I have the MSI big bang mpower Z77 motherboard. I read that this memory kit was designed specifically for my mobo.

Is there any other place where I can order this particular memory kit online?

It must be from a trusted and reputable website.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA0ST0DV4427

Super Metroid, bar-none!

What's your opinion?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhIqT3Ak32A

Is this a real demo of next-gen gaming graphics, or is it fake?

I don't think the PC hardware exists capable of running this graphics engine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9dg8PI2sEg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingpin:_Life_of_Crime

I remember playing the shit out of this game with my old Pentium 2/.3DFX Voodoo 2 over 13 years ago!\

Definitely needs a remake!

In your opinion, who do you think are the sexiest female video game characters?

Here is my list.

1. Aya Brea from Parasite Eve
2. Paine from Final Fantasy X2
3. Alyx Vance from Half Life 2
4. Jill Valentine from the Resident Evil series

Is this the fastest memory for the MSI BIg Bang Mpower Z77 motherboard?

I was thinking of just getting 16GB of Corsair Vengeance 1600Mhz, but then I saw this.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA0ST0DV4427

I'm probably getting 10-15 fps in Far Cry 3. The game is extremely jittery and barely playable.

I even tried turning down the graphics settings to the lowest possible and I still have the problem.

I have a $2,500 enthusiast gaming PC with multiple graphics cards.

This is the worst micro-stuttering and frame skipping problem I have ever had with any PC game.

Building a new Ivy-Bridge gaming PC.

In your opinion, which motherboard is better?

MSI Big Bang M-power Z77 or the ASUS Sabertooth Z77

Would a single GTX 680 be faster than two HD 5870's in crossfire?

I'm building a new gaming rig and for the time being, I can only afford a single GTX 680. But I will add 2nd one as soon as I have the money.

Still, wouid 1 GTX 680 be faster than two HD 5870's?

To my knowledge, there aren't any pro-gaming circuits for any of the battlefield games.

Most FPS pro gaming tournaments involve the "quake" and "unreal" games.

http://kotaku.com/5961994/what-skyrim-looks-l...ds-at-once

Apparently this was running on 100 different graphics and texture mods simultaneously.

And it probably ran at 5 frames per second (sarcasm).

Will Grand Theft Auto 5 be released for the PC and the consoles simultaneously, or will we have to wait many months for it to be ported over to the PC?

I know this is a very console-oriented game.

It would run much faster and look far better on the much more capable PC hardware. Plus the massive modding community would be very happy.

I read that the next-gen "Haswell" Intel processors are going to offer 50% more performance than the current Ivy-Bridge architecture.

The jump from Nehalem to SB and IB was 10-15% at best. I think it's time that Intel puts out a processor that offers a major performance gain like the Core 2 quad to the first-gen Core i7, which was around 50%.

I am hesitant to build a new 3770K gaming rig for Christmas knowing that the Haswell processors are right around the corner for Q1 2013.

Should I wait for the Haswell to build a new gaming rig?

Creepy... I can't believe this actually aired on TV.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FybA0SaL0nI

This man is the spitting image of solid snake.

When?.....

Are they any PC games that use more than four threads? I heard that flight simulator X can use up to 16 threads.

Allegedly, this video is that of the physics and vehicle damage engine which will be included in grand theft auto 5.

This video may be a fake, but if it's real then I'm going to cry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8QT7R0N5bs&feature=related

Nvidia might want to focus towards faster PhysX processing in the future.

They need to remake the very first "unreal" game using the Unreal 5 engine.

That would be eyegasmic!

I downloaded a free version of the first carmageddon game and apparently it is only compatible with Windows XP service pack 2.

I am running windows 7 64-bit.

I've read that there is a trick to getting it to work.

Could anyone help me out?

I was thinking of building a new PC but can't decide which to build. I've got about a ~$2100 budget.

Jessica Mark I

*CPU/Core i7 3770K Ivy Bridge Quad Core processor
*Motherboard/ECSH2-AX Gold Edition
*Memory/G Skill RipJaws X Series 16GB (2x8GB) 1600MHz 240pin dual channel memory kit
*GPU/MSI GTX 680 TwinFrozr
*PSU/Corsair TX850 850W power supply
*Coolermaster HAF-XM Mid Tower Case
*Hard Drive/Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache Internal Hard Drive
*Optial Drive/ASUS Blu-Ray Internal disk drive
*CPU cooler/ZALMAN CNPS9900MAX-R

Approximately $1,710.91
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Susan Mark I

*CPU Intel Core i7 3820 Sandy Bridge 3.6GHz Quad-Core processor
*Motherboard MSI Big Bang X-Power II LGA 2011 X79
*Memory Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB (4x4 GB) 1866MHz Quad Channel memory kit
*Power Supply Corsair HX850 850W Power Supply
*GPU MSI GTX 680 TwinFrozr
*Hard Drive Seagate Barricuda 1TB 7200 RPM 64GB Cache
*Case Coolermaster HAF-X full tower case
*Optical drive Internal Blu-Ray

Total $1,854,93 approximately.

Are the new PCIe 3.0 graphics cards reverse-compatible with PCIe 2.0 slots?

When are the long awaited 8-core processors from AMD and Intel going to be commercially available? Will they use current sockets and chipsets or require new ones?

What kind of applications would fully make use of an 8-core 16-thread processor? Certainly there aren't any PC games that would need or use so much CPU resources. Do I really need this much CPU power if I'm just playing games, viewing photos, and browsing the internet?

I can't remember, but does the Ivy Bridge use Intel socket 2011 or 1155?

I read that DirectX 12 will be featured in the future generation of graphics cards from AMD and Nvidia in circa 2014.

Are there any details yet about what might be included in the next version of DirectX? DX10 was a HUGE leap from DX9, while DX11 was essentially DX10 with bug fixes, better coding, and tesselation.

Hopefully DX12 will deliver something that will "wow" us PC gamers much like Crysis did with DX10. Do I smell a CryEngine 4?

Dual CF HD 5870's > Twin SLI GTX 670's.

Is this a good, solid upgrade? Will I see a significant improvement in performance in games like Battlefield 3, Crysis, Crysis 2, Skyrim, Metro 2033, and so forth?..

The 1GB of my HD 5870's is causing low fps and microstuttering in many situations. I have a 1920x1080 resolution monitor, and 2GB+ on your GPU(s) comes in handy.

I thought that Diablo 3 was rather short and it needs expansion packs to add more acts and character classes.

Has Blizzard announced any plans to create Diablo 3 expansion packs?

OMFG!!! I remember playing the shit out of this game for some old IBM computer I had when I was a kid!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhi-7lj7osI

Will battle.net charge a monthly fee to play Diablo III online as they do with world of warcraft?

I heard someone made a mod for Elder Scrolls V Skyrim where you can fly a fully armed MIG-29.

It must be fun killing dragons with that aircraft.

Dragons can't fly supersonic and they don't have heat-seeking missiles, JDAMS, and DU-firing cannons.

You can unleash hell on the ground with that plane as well.

What happens if you collect all of the "enemy intelligence" in the Call of Duty Modern Warfare series?

Does it give you a different ending?

I doubt anyone here knows who she is but Susan Slaughter Utermark is a co-host on the popular SyFy channel reality show "ghost hunters international" and I have an unhealthy obsession with her.

Since nudity isn't allowed on this forum (or is it?), I am simply going to state that nude photos of this girl have been discovered on the internet and are spreading throughout dozens of websites on the web.

I nearly had a heart attack when I saw news of this and viewed the photos for the first time.

Here is some information about her and who she is.

http://top100sexiestwomen.com/s-bios/susan-slaughter/

With the ending of Crysis 2 and as well as strong sales, Crysis 3 is inevitable, but NOTHING has been said by EA or Crytek, yet... We don't even know if the game is currently in development.

Hopefully the CryEngine 4 will be so advanced it will ONLY run on PC's and next-gen consoles.

Crysis 2 looked like a high-end PS3/XBOX360 game. Even on the computer.

Honestly, the graphics were not that impressing.

Although the DX11 and high resolution pack makes the game tons prettier.

Good lord! this is the fastest memory I've ever seen! How much does this memory kit cost?

Apparently it was designed specifically for the ASUS Rampage IV Extreme X79 enthusiast motherboard.

How do they run it at those speeds without it becoming unstable or overheating?

They must have huge heatsinks which require tons of airflow to keep them cool.

http://xtreview.com/addcomment-id-21205-view-...6-MHz.html

Back in 2007, the game "Crysis" brought every single hardware setup to it's knees.

Nowadays, a single flagship GPU like the GTX 680/HD 7970 can smoothly run Crysis on it's maximum settings and resolutions.

When is the next PC title that will make today's fastest PC's sweat and cry?

I heard a rumor that "Metro 2034" is going to benchmark the new hardware and give it a run for it's money.

Also, the PC port of Grand Theft Auto 5 will test systems to their limits.

I heard about someone made a mod for BF3 that replaces the Russian army with the Mexican army. Complete with the Spanish language.

Does anyone here play Battlefield 3?

If you do, please post your player stats.

http://bf3stats.com/stats_pc/womansworld

I didn't want to be named "womansworld" but that was the name of my EA account. I didn't feel like going through the hassle of creating another email and EA profile so I could have a different handle.

I figured that you could just choose a username like in BF2 and BFBC2. Battlelog is a bunch of bullshit.

I'm playing Skyrim for the PC and it keeps crashing to windows 7 desktop with no error message every 15-20 minutes or so.

This problem is getting very annoying as I have to save frequently and keep rebooting the game.

It only crashes when I'm outside in the skyrim open-world and it does not crash when I'm in dungeons or inside buildings.

http://www.cracked.com/article_19507_the-8-cr...games.html

The sims 3 "demon baby" and the PS2 Rocky game are the best!

I played Rage on the PC and immediately noticed extremely laggy textures as well as constant framerates below 20 FPS.

I've got an extremely high-end ATI CrossfireX desktop and I'm not sure if the poor performance is being caused by game glitches or just the fact that this game is torturously taxing on even the fastest PC hardware possible. Even more so than Crysis, GTA4, and Metro 2033.

The game runs so poorly it isn't fun to play.

I certainly hope that ID software releases a patch fixing this pressing problem.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOFI2Qi2mcw

Apparently Treyarch is working on CoD Black Ops 2.

Hopefully the story will take place in much more modern times, and not the 1960's.

Series grand finale to the TV show "one tree hill".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzPDEirVTZk

Absolutely gold!

Do you think a dog would eat a human heart in real life?

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclusive-debut-crysis/720427

I don't know how they tweaked the CryEngine 2 to work with the console hardware. I bet that the graphics will be watered down.

When I was a wee-high kid (6-7 years old) playing the Dick Tracy game on the NES, and I quite clearly remember that at one point in the game, you could shoot people who were chained up to walls, and even people in wheelchairs -- holy shit!

Back then, video games were not excessively violent. But who's idea was it to allow players the ability to shoot helpless people chained up to walls and people in wheelchairs?

In today's world, such a feature would be politically incorrect and would probably offend many people.

I have two HD 5870's in crossfire and I don't understand the necessity of having more than two graphics cards in a system.

There are many inherent problems with having four graphics cards. With heat and staggering power consumption being the most prominent. Four-way HD 6970 or GTX 580's can use 1,400W+ of total system power at full load. The only PSU that I know of capable of powering four GPU's at full-bore (tested) is the Silverstone 1,500W. Also, your typical power socket cannot handle the load and circuit breakers can blow. Requiring an electrician to repair.

Don't forget the chip-damaging heat four graphics cards can produce. And since they are right next to each other, they share the heat. This can cause some of the cards to exceed 90 *C in some cases.

Who the hell would need four GPU's in SLI/CF? It's better to have two dual-core GPU's like two HD 6990's or two GTX 590's instead of having four individual graphics cards. While sacrificing some performance due to the cards being downclocked.

It's hard to overclock the dual core GPU's to match the clock speeds of their single core counterparts. The cards are downclocked for heat/power reasons.

Two or three is more than enough for most applications. Also, the performance scaling after two GPU's isn't very good. A third card might add 40% more performance, while a fourth will give about 25%.

Trying to run Crysis on 2560x1600 with 32xMSAA with graphics mods installed and on multiple monitors might need four GPU's. But I can't think of anything else.

Does anyone here have four graphics cards in their system? If so, can you give me some input?

I read on a hardware website that the new GeForce GTX 680 "Kepler" cards will offer almost twice the performance as the GTX 580.

Now that's damn impressive!

Anyone who is considering building an enthusiast gaming rig should wait until early 2012 for the Kepler cardsd!

WTF?!?!?!??!?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=416G_oTFXZc

Even though Johanathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel is no longer the world's #1 gamer, has anyone here ever played him or perhaps fragged or beaten him?

If anyone has played Battlefield 2 online for more than a few hours, you will understand what a nuisance claymore mines can be.

Especially in infantry-only servers. A claymore mine is literally around every single corner. All people do is plant them left and right, and they cannot be destroyed or avoided.

Some people get 25 kills per round using claymore mines.

Perhaps BF3 will allow players to destroy or disable enemy clays.

Do professional gamers occasionally play on public servers in games like battlefield bc2, the quake games, team fortress, counter-strike, and other titles?

I've been playing battlefield 2 since 2005 and I have come across a few players who were extremely skilled and may possibly have been pro.

I noticed some resemblances between the "gman" from half life 2 and the "cigarrete smoking man" from the x-files TV show. What do you think? Do you think they used his likeness?

[IMG]http://i739.photobucket.com/albums/xx36/bermantelevision/gman.jpg[/IMG]

An impatient truck driver passes the double yellow line into oncoming traffic in order pass another truck that wasn't driving fast enough for him. In doing so, he comes within mere inches of hitting a passenger vehicle head-on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxDiy...1&feature=fvwp

Unbelievable....

I was at the mall and walked by a "gamestop" store and saw a poster about a "limited edition" of Deus Ex 3 which comes with the first two games, as well as the third.

I remember playing the first two Deus Ex games but I never finished them. It would certainly be nice to see how the new graphics shine on my monster gaming rig.

Did the change the game's coding to make them compatible with windows 7 and modern hardware?

I'm not sure if it was for the PC or consoles.

I think the cooling fan on my GPU is making an annoying rattling sound. Because when I turn the fan speed down to 20% the sound goes away.

Should I open up my case and blow into it with a can of compressed air?

How do I fix this?

I heard that the system requirements for the PC version of Elder Scrolls 5 Skyrim are going to be staggering, possibly even more so than Crysis. Especially if you want to max it out. Games that are made for consoles and then ported to PC's are given major graphical facelifts because PC hardware is so much faster.

Can I play Skyrim on it's highest settings @ 1920x1080 and get a playable framerate with the following hardware setup?

*Core i7 930
*6GB DDR3 1333MHz RAM tri-channel
*MSI Big Bang Xpower X58 motherboard
*Two Radeon HD 5870's (1GBB in crossfire

I can play Crysis on all very high spec on 1920x1080 and get 30-50 fps.

http://www.corsair.com/force-series-3-120gb-s...drive.html

I heard that the Corsair "force" series of solid state drives are faulty and are being recalled.

I am considering getting one of these solid state drives to install a few games on and perhaps my operating system to speed things up a bit.

But if these SSD's are faulty, should I even bother getting one? The one I want has SATA 3 speeds. And I believe my MSI X58 enthusiast motherboard is compatible with SATA 3 as well as USB 3.0.

It's about $214.99 at my local electronics store. Is it worth the money? Are there any other solid state drives comparable in price, speed, and capacity which are not faulty?

I almost pissed my pants laughing at these videos!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ-ckU_D1fg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO8lHGXWMzo

I tried accessing my BIOS and noticed that the arrow keys don't work. I can't select any of the options, meaning that my BIOS is "broken."

I have the MSI Big Bang Xpower X58 motherboard. I'm not sure about which BIOS version I have.

Is there any website I can visit to update my BIOS version?

Electronic engineers have finally discovered a solution for the inherent problems of Moore's law. It's called "3D" transistors. Meaning that transistors are stacked on top of each other, instead of trying to fit more of them onto chips horizontally. This should open up a whole new realm of possibilities to make microprocessors faster and more efficient.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMtOChkyLPY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRkB4Giko6M

This new technology will be implemented into the next-gen "ivy bridge" processor from Intel.

I heard a rumor about how the playstation 4 is supposed to have faster hardware than even a $5,500 gaming PC with the fastest hardware setups possible.

Also, the next-gen XBOX and Ninento Wii 2 are supposed to have faster-than-PC hardware.

The combined graphical power of 4-way SLI GTX 480 or 4-way Crossfire HD 6970 still isn't even half of what the PS4's GPU is alleged to be capable of.

There are also rumors of a 22nm TERAFLOP CPU in the next-gen consoles.

http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-natio...ood-threat

The "Fort Calhoun" nuclear power plant in Nebraska is almost underwater because of severe flooding. This could potentially have led to disaster if the water levels rose any higher.

How do I unlock the "SPECACT" (special action) weapons in battlefield bad company 2? Also, how do I unlock the M1 Garand?

I have all of the over weapons/gadgets unlocked except the SPECACT weapons and the WW2 M1 rifle.

What is the difference between the SPECACT weapons and their regular counterparts? Are they more accurate or cause more damage than the normal weapons?

This is really bugging me.

Large capacity hard drives should be used for mass-storage such as photos, music, video, text documents, whatever. Right now, I have a Hitachi 7200RPM 2TB hard drive, and I am considering putting a 128GB SSD in my computer to make a few games run significantly faster. About how much more performance does an SSD offer over a standard hard drive? I heard loading times in games are cut in less than half in most cases. Also, do games run smoother and feel more responsive?

SSD's are extremely expensive, a 512GB can cost more than $600. I don't have that kind of money to spend right now. So I'm going to go with a ~128GB to install about 6-7 games on or so. Particularly Battlefield 3 (when it comes out).

I have a few more questions about solid state drives. I have never used an SSD before, so I am not familiar with them. All I know is that they are many times faster than standard hard drives.

*What is the typical power consumption of these devices?
*Does it use a regular SATA cable like a hard drive?
*Will I notice significant increase in performance?
*Some solid state drives have a "TRIM" feature, what is "TRIM" and how do I know if my SSD has it?
*Does it come with software/drivers?
*How long do SSD's last before they die out? I heard that they are much less reliable than hard drives.

I recently became a Lieutenant General in Battlefield 2 because I had earned the veteran aviator badge.

BFC2 is kind of boring.

Anyway, here is my player profile in both games. You should post yours too (if you have one).

http://bf2s.com/player/48462826/

http://www.bfbc2.eu/en/pc/stats/TJHoushmandzadah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-sMsoVM_ls

I played Crysis and Crysis Warhead from beginning to end and I do not recall any "jungle" map where I was in a densely forested jungle.

Is this a custom map? If it is, where do I download it and how to I play it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-sMsoVM_ls

The Sandy Bridge processors are not significantly faster than the Nehalems, and they only have dual-channel memory.

Hopefully, the HUGE performance boost will be with the 8-core/22nm "Ivy Bridge" processors. I am curious if any official information is available about the "X68" chipset. What are some of the new features on this chipset? I heard rumors of PCIe 3.0 x32, more than twice the QPI speed, and even quad-channel memory.

I would imagine the 3rd generation of DX11 graphics cards from ATI and Nvidia will be available by then.

Hopefully, the Ivy Bridge processors will offer a performance boost similar to going from a C2Q to a Nehalem.

I have a 1920x1080 monitor and a powerful enough rig to playably run any of my games on that resolution, even Crysis. I heard that AA (anti-aliasing) isn't necessary at high resolutions. And that adding AA at high-res is almost completely unnoticeable, and it only murders your framerate.

The only function of AA is to make jagged edges appear smoother. I believe high resolutions has this same effect, eliminating the need for AA. Although high-res AA might have some effect if you look very closely in some areas. But otherwise it is mostly unnoticeable.

I play games on 1080p with 0x AA and I do not see any jagged edges. But when I reduce the resolution, the jagged edges become very obvious.
Anisotropic filtering (AF) is a different story.

So low resolution + AA or high resolution - AA?

Not to mention that turning off all AA (especially at high-res) SIGNIFICANTLY improves your framerates.

It's a flash game called "QWOP"

It is virtually impossible to play.

http://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html

Let's see someone here give it a try

I've been having texture problems and memory leaks for the PC version of need for speed shift unleashed. Sometimes the textures on the cars, and on the road, and in the sky, are all solid black.

I had this same problem with star wars the force unleashed.

Is there anything I can do to fix this? What might be causing this problem?
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Some tracks are completely unplayable because much of the road has been "blacked out."

As soon as I boot up the game, it says "this application has stopped working" and "executable has stopped working." The exact same thing that happened with COD world at war. I pait $50 for this game and I can't return it after opening it. What the f#*@ is the problem?!?

How do I patch it through steam?

Can anyone link me to the latest patch for the PC version of Metro 2033? Every place I have found to download it requires me to pay money to sign up for something, or download other (probably malware infested) software.

I need a link to a legitimate website where I can download the full patch for this game.

Core i7 930
6GB DDR3 1333 MHz
MSI Big Bang Xpower X58 motherboard
X2 Radeon HD 5870 (1GB) in CF
Corsair TX850 850W PSU

How will Metro 2033 run on my computer? Can I run it on 1920x1080 with DX11/tesselation enabled? I heard that Metro 2033 is even more hardware-demanding than Crysis. And that Metro is highly optimized for Nvidia cards, not ATI.

I remember 10-11 years ago playing the first starsiege tribes.Just like quake 2, it is one of the most memorable PC multiplayer games ever made. Apparently they are making a new TRIBES game called tribes ascend. Are there any screenshots or gameplay videos of this game yet?

Does anyone else here remember the first "tribes" game?

I tried playing call of duty world at war, and when I try booting it up, it then crashes back to windows and an error message pops up saying "call of duty world at war has stopped working, please choose to end this application now."

I've tried reinstalling it, and this same problem persists. I clearly remember playing this game a few months ago on this same computer. What the hell is the problem? The patches are like 2GB's each and you have to download them in sequence and install them in chronological order from oldest to latest. And there are like five or six patches.

Does this game have compatibility problems with Windows 7?

Oh god, why can't I run this game?..............

The GTA4 expansion "the lost and damned" keeps crashing after a certain point. It's during the mission where you have to sell diamonds to some people at the museum. You get ambushed and you have to escape. The very second I exit the museum, the game crashes into desktop.

It does it over and over again. I can't play the game beyond that point.

There is a really bad graphics glitch in Crysis 2 where all the light sources are constantly flickering. It is so bad it renders the game almost unplayable. The only way to solve this problem is to either run the game in windowed mode or turn off crossfire/SLI. Apparently it only does this with multi-gpu setups.

I hope EA/Crytek releases another patch for the game fixing this problem. Or perhaps ATI/Nvidia can fix this with new drivers.

Has anyone here fragged the famous pro gamer "Fatal1ty" or perhaps even beat him in a match?

On their spare time, do pro gamers sometimes play on public servers in games like UT3, any of the battlefield games, Quake 2-4, and so forth?

If CPU's can have 2-6 cores on a single die, why can't they do the same with GPU's?

We could have a graphics card with 4-8 GPU's on a single PCB.

Imagine the possibilities.

A few months ago, I put together a $2,500 gaming rig. The specs are the following.

*Core i7 930
*MSI Big Bang Xpower X58 motherboard
*6GB DDR 1333MHz RAM
*X2 Radeon HD 5870's in CF
*2TB 7200RPM HDD
*ZALMAN CNPS9900 CPU cooler
*Corsair TX850 850W PSU
*Creative SB X-Fi sound card
*Coolermaster HAF 932 case
*DVD-ROM

I wish I had waited a while and gotten two GTX 580's (the PALIT 3GB models) and a slightly larger power supply. But I exceeded my budget with this build.

I can max out pretty much any game out there without any noticeable lag, with the exception of Crysis and Metro 2033.

What do you think of my build?

I find it utterly impossible to believe that this is an actual in-game screenshot from the PC version of Crysis 2. My computer would explode if I tried to run this. This has to be some CG image with the Crysis HUD photoshopped into it. What do you think?

Some guy prank calls coast to coast AM with George Noorey, a radio show dedicated to conspiracy theories. This is hilarious! George Noorey falls for it so bad!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_UdpSNccfI

I bought a new gaming rig to replace my old shitty desktop. Use this link to see detailed specs. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883113080

My Radeon HD 4850 512 MB idles around 80-90 degrees Celsius. When playing a 3D game, such as Crysis, or even an old title such as Battlefield 2, the temperature of the card reads 100-110+ degrees Celsius in ATI Catalyst control center. I don't know why it's getting to damn hot! I'm not sure if that is an error or an accurate reading. Are the HD 4850's known to have overheating problems?

I've been told that it's the cheap 400W power supply that gateway tossed into my computer which could be causing my problems. I bought the Corsair TX750, but I have not had it installed yet. I wonder if it will run any cooler with the new PSU. Probably not.