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I'm stumped

No on-board video. I actually also re-used my old X-fi sound card; I've run with it with on-board sound disabled in bios, and without anything at all-- no card no bios, and the USB would still cut out. The only thing I can think of is maybe this mouse IS bad, and it is somehow affecting...
- emilyek
- Post #8
- Oct 29, 2011
- Forum: Computer Building
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I'm stumped

It's a new motherboard, and case. And all the USB devices-- Logitech G15, Razer Tarantula Keyboard, and old Razer Diamondback and a New MS IE 3.0 are all wired. Does a GPU use the same rail as USB devices? Could a weird monitor or monitor cable be causing interference of some kind? Because...
- emilyek
- Post #4
- Oct 28, 2011
- Forum: Computer Building
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I'm stumped

About a month ago, the computer in my signature below started having problems. The mouse and keyboard-- both USB-- would cut in and out; it got to the point where the computer became unusable. I figured it was time to build a new one, so I put together an AM3 system that re-used the old PSU...
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- Oct 28, 2011
- Replies: 8
- Forum: Computer Building
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Does it bother you when people say "axe" instead of "ask"?

And yet, you never hear an old White Southerner say it (or any White person, really) without it being an obvious influence of ebonic speakers to begin with-- and presumably African-Americans learned their English from white people. I wonder if African languages more commonly have "ax" sounds...
- emilyek
- Post #63
- Oct 24, 2011
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Palestinians Burn US Flags

Keeping it closed is just fine for Israel, because Israel doesn't want a solution; the longer they can keep delaying, the more settlements their fundamentalist fanatics can build and more Palestinians they can drive off, starve or shoot. The U.S.-- despite the whining from Tel Aviv--...
- emilyek
- Post #52
- Sep 23, 2011
- Forum: Politics and News
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#OccupyWallstreet

There should have been an occupation of Wall Street in 2008, with torches and pitchforks; and Lloyd Blankfein-- and others-- should have been strung up by their testicles, flogged and disemboweled. Protests today? They already stole the trillions that actual laboring people spent a lifetime...
- emilyek
- Post #55
- Sep 19, 2011
- Forum: Politics and News
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Breaking News: Crash @ Reno Air Races

Shouldn't we be seeing the pilot's head?
- emilyek
- Post #63
- Sep 17, 2011
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Why is Ron Paul considered a nutjob?

Anyone who calls out Neocons by name, opposes ME-intervention and wants to dismantle the Federal Reserve is likely to be called nuts by the mainstream media. In fact, whenever the media frames just about anyone as oh-so-crazy, you can be pretty certain of what that person's opinions towards...
- emilyek
- Post #5
- Sep 15, 2011
- Forum: Politics and News
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9-11-01 The day America lost

Out of all the memorial coverage, I didn't hear our ME policy as a reason for the attacks mentioned, even once. Official 9/11 remembrances are and will continue to be just more disinformation and propaganda with a sentimental faux-patriotic thrust, just more icing on the "they hate our...
- emilyek
- Post #51
- Sep 13, 2011
- Forum: Politics and News
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9-11-01 The day America lost

This sounds patriotic and everything, and it's repeated by lots of folks daily, but it's empty. The towers were not owned by the American Taxpayer; they weren't a public works project like the Hoover Dam or something. Larry Silverstein, the billionaire owner owner of the Towers, put profit...
- emilyek
- Post #45
- Sep 12, 2011
- Forum: Politics and News
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A fine mess that MI6, CIA, and Brits/American Admin got us into.

Surely our new puppets over there will work out for awhile, seeming initially to validate the Neocon notion that those people were just starving for "democracy" (i.e., controlled media and bought political parties and a central bank run by the usual suspects). There will be a backlash; we'll...
- emilyek
- Post #26
- Sep 5, 2011
- Forum: Politics and News
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How come I never heard of these guys?

Well... Also, the chorus sounds pretty darn close, oddly enough, to Motley Crue's "Too Young to Fall in Love". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfN4vXQUJpg&feature=fvst Like "lawsuit" close.
- emilyek
- Post #28
- Sep 4, 2011
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Mass Effect 2...explain?

ME2 is much slicker and tighter than the first. But it narrows and "streamlines" itself so much that it fails to be as good a game. Moreover, on top of that ME2 has zero reason to exist with respect to the overall plot; it advances nothing and it clears up nothing: all it does is add a...
- emilyek
- Post #33
- Jul 30, 2011
- Forum: PC Games
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Gabe Says Something
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- Post #67
- Jan 7, 2011
- Forum: PC Games
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Corsair CX430 official review!

And yet your typical midrange gaming machine could have an Earthwatts in it and still have 50 watts to spare.
- emilyek
- Post #20
- Jan 7, 2011
- Forum: Power Supplies
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Return to Castle Wolfenstein

RTCW is great fun, one of the all-around best games in a decade. Not overly cinematic, it's a big helping of cheeseball DOOM shooter with just a taste of the movie-like stuff in it. And RTCW/ET multiplayer is arguably the best action team-based FPS ever. I liked them both and could play the...
- emilyek
- Post #11
- Jan 7, 2011
- Forum: PC Games
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Gabe Says Something

Here's the context: Gabe is in bed with somebody or sombodies who want to re-launch PC gaming, which means on-die graphics that can run casual games well and other games acceptably; the intention of which is to erase even more of the line between the PC and console experience, not by making...
- emilyek
- Post #11
- Jan 5, 2011
- Forum: PC Games
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Rumor: Microsoft to relaunch PC gaming with Windows 8

PC gaming is almost all console ports. If it's not dead already it doesn't have much time left. M$ wants to try to get a taste of the Steam and casual gaming/onboard graphics-capable pie, just for the hell of it. Just like XboX, which also was launched just for the hell of it, because M$...
- emilyek
- Post #100
- Jan 3, 2011
- Forum: PC Games
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CS:source, any tutorials for newbie?

Gun Game will be good for a bit, just to get a feel for how the different weapons work. Gun Game, however, to get good at it, requires a different playstyle than regular map rounds. It might teach you the basics and to always be alert for the next target, but winning at GG means exploiting...
- emilyek
- Post #22
- Dec 28, 2010
- Forum: PC Games
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the witcher sucks

Geralt is weird and physically fit and mysterious and a kind of celebrity-- the ladies love that stuff. Plus, he's infertile, making some of them even more prone to throw themselves at him. That's the logic. Also, PC games have a pedigree of solitary nerdy males channeling their sexual...
- emilyek
- Post #156
- Dec 28, 2010
- Forum: PC Games
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the witcher sucks

witcher is best rpg in a long time one of the best in last ten years combat can be repetitve but the story is best and most mature in a decade so if u like XXXTREME popamole games you should stick to ur xbawx cover-shooter 'RPGs' because u wont leik it
- emilyek
- Post #153
- Dec 28, 2010
- Forum: PC Games
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Bioware, what happened to you?

Bioware is in full decline mode, now. They've crossed the 'tarded Rubicon. Online-only mofps based on the ME franchise. Maybe with a box, surely with subscription fees. How I hope EA liquidates them. And, you know, if it's the techs at Bioware responsible for making it, and they...
- emilyek
- Post #19
- Nov 19, 2010
- Forum: PC Games
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China This, China That...

The Ameican funny-money economy is played out; the globalists have sucked all the real value (which bouys up the imaginary money which exists at many multiples of the real value) from it they can. Their next duty, therefore, is to use academic-media power to talk up China, so the masses whose...
- emilyek
- Post #11
- Nov 17, 2010
- Forum: Politics and News
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Gtx 460 768mb good enough for fallout 3 new vegas

Turn water multisampling to low. Install d3d9 fix. My 8800gtx runs NV with 2xAA 15xAF and all other settings maxed and fps is fine.
- emilyek
- Post #21
- Nov 17, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Black Ops Single Player w/ out shooting

This is obviously a design decision so that noobs, kids (or perhaps the your typical mentally disabled xboxer) will be sucked in by the cinematic experience and won't get discouraged if they are so bad that they get killed on the first map. Every game nowadays has to have portions at the...
- emilyek
- Post #23
- Nov 17, 2010
- Forum: PC Games
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Mouse - program a "sniper" button?

Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 3.0 can do this with the latest Intellimouse software installed-- perhaps any higher-end MS mouse can do it? With a feature called Precision Booster in the mouse button-mapping drop-down, you can tell it to put a certain % of the mouse's total DPI on any...
- emilyek
- Post #9
- Nov 12, 2010
- Forum: Mice
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Fallout New Vegas - Contemporary Graphics Cards Compared

Did they say anything about running d3d9 fix for the facegen problems? I also noticed they ran Water Multisampling at something other than "Low" for the higher quality tests. The engine is bugged-- you need the d3d9 fix so that the faces don't run in DX10, which will bring the game to a...
- emilyek
- Post #22
- Nov 12, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Giantbomb.com Fallout New Vegas Review - 4/5 Stars

Yes Yes And they always have been. NV not too bad overall, though. Has some non-bug glaring amateur-hour stuff that should have never made it out the door (that even Bethesda wouldn't have let slip by), but mostly decent.
- emilyek
- Post #347
- Nov 9, 2010
- Forum: PC Games
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The Witcher 2, Prison Break

When it came out that's how far I got, too. The ending of Chapter 1 was really good I though, and two startrd out OK (although the hardware requirements shoot up a lot and fps goes down-- and maybe that makes the experience less enjoyable). But I quit and put it away for about a year...
- emilyek
- Post #23
- Sep 28, 2010
- Forum: PC Games
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Microsoft pledges to 'lead the way' in PC gaming

With XboX exclusives and staggered release dates MS has been working to kill PC gaming for years. This is just a tossed-off comment by some MS executive who has no idea what he is talking about and can't possibly mean what he says-- just like 'nobody plays FPS on the PC anymore; it's all about...
- emilyek
- Post #36
- Sep 27, 2010
- Forum: PC Games
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Why black people are better sprinters and white people are better swimmers

Fast twitch muscle fiber is more useful on the Savannah than body fat. Africans typically weren't seafarers and swimmers for thousands and thousands of years. African-Americans went through their own sort of population bottleneck, having been intentionally selected for physical traits and...
- emilyek
- Post #28
- Jul 18, 2010
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Stats and levels need to die in RPG

If you don't like stats then you are LARPing on your computer. The original point of the RPG is the 'Role' you play-- as in, the role you fill in a party; as in you are the healer and not a damage dealer. Moerover, RPGs are (were...I guess) really about geeky number crunching, but with a...
- emilyek
- Post #76
- Feb 8, 2010
- Forum: PC Games
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Wolfenstein....Poor Sales

Die, PC-classic franchise raping console money whores, die.
- emilyek
- Post #19
- Sep 11, 2009
- Forum: PC Games
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ALAN WAKE available for preorder!

Alan Wake changed during its disappearance. It is no longer a psychological thriller: it is now another zombie horror shooter, replete with combat shotgun. Remedy straight up sold out, and this thread belongs in the consoles section.
- emilyek
- Post #23
- Sep 2, 2009
- Forum: PC Games
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~$1500 Gaming PC, AMD or Intel Processor

$1500 is a solid budget. And you should overclock. The chances of really hurting anything are very slim. I too was once paranoid about such a thing; but that was 5 or so self-built and OCd systems ago. As long as you don't go full retard on adding Vcore, it's harmless. Get a quad phenom...
- emilyek
- Post #23
- Sep 1, 2009
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Got my feet wet with multiplayer gaming, now need more

TF2 is beautiful but boring. COD4, for all its consolitis, is probably the best action team shooter since RTCW:ET, which is still the best ever, imo.
- emilyek
- Post #24
- Aug 1, 2009
- Forum: PC Games
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what CPU to choise

If you are going single GPU, know what you are doing and don't mind gambling, the Phenom II X2 550 + MSI 770 C45 is unbeatable at $170 for the pair. http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813130228 http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16819103680 The 550 will overclock well...
- emilyek
- Post #13
- Jul 21, 2009
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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CapXon Caps bad?

Can't speak to the PSU (although I'm sure there are more solid bargain PSUs than a Kingwin), but The Samsung 225BW monitor in my sig that I've had for almost 3 years is crapping out. I haven't opened it up yet to look, but Googling reveals that the problem is almost surely some Capxon caps...
- emilyek
- Post #4
- Jul 21, 2009
- Forum: Power Supplies
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Wow, that was the best game I've played in a LONG time.

Let me threadcrap: Episode 2 was awful. Made for XboX; levels designed around achievements; hyped features that didn't exist (a la free roaming gameplay); horrible soap opera dumbed-down plot. HL1 and 2 are watersheds in PC gaming. Episode 1 is passable; Episode 2 is the confirmation...
- emilyek
- Post #14
- Jul 20, 2009
- Forum: PC Games
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Who is most to blame for the decline in PC gaming?

Who? The mega-publishers and investment groups who used their great big money-sniffing noses to smell out the billions that could be made. They have transformed (read: wrecked) everything. Gaming might have become an interesting, bona fide new genre. Instead games are on a fast track to...
- emilyek
- Post #118
- Jul 5, 2009
- Forum: PC Games

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