Della_Brown - Heavens Tear Arc User

To elaborate on the point more generally: 5570 v. 6310 is not 6310 > 5570, but more 5 > 3. The model numbers are arbitrary. Within a series, a higher model is generally superior. So, 6450 < 6570 < 6670 <6770 < 6850 < 6870 < 6950, and so on, but that does not directly translate into anything that can be directly compared to…

A dedicated 5570 would be faster, with a faster CPU. Most likely, this will be a light notebook, or netbook, and not have a high enough resolution to worry about it. If it is an E-350, with a 1366x768 or smaller display, then the OP is in very good shape. If an E-240, go up to a E-350. A C-50 would be OK, to get extra…

Like maybe 1.5" square, on the video card's main chip? If so, and the PC is in a spot where you can try this, and have the tools handy, try opening the side up, and have a fan, like a desk fan, blowing into it. If that gets rid of the crashes and hard reboots, it would be overheating of the CPU or GPU, most likely. If the…

For a non-gaming card, it would have been. Aeons ago (before the AMD 740g and Intel GMA), a cheapish nVidia card was basically a necessity for a decent desktop computer. An ATI would be rolling dice (people who thought their old drivers were acceptable either had luck on their side, or very low standards), and Intel…

Ur rong. @ me 4sure.

Proofreading mistake on my part. A 256MB one should be able to handle some level of details, but...they were basically nVidia's way of giving you a display with better graphics than Intel could offer, at the time. An FX 5200 was a poor gaming card when it was brand new, and worse after it had been out for awhile. In terms…

Some of us actually do just go AFK for hours at a time, occasionally coming back to check the AH and friends list. b:chuckle

Low framerate only w/ low detail makes it sound like an old/weak graphics card. The rest makes it sound like a graphics card that shouldn't be playing the game, or is overheating, or you have bad RAM, or you have a bad PSU. Any more useful information about your computer (OK, it's an eMachines...what model, and what kind…

* Dead people polluting the are chat. If horns and teles aren't bad enough, there's that added drone of, "rez plz," possibly with whispers added. * The white vertical 'seam' on a lot of fashion, from far away. * Pet multitargeting bug: if I target a mob of a type, and then target another, without attacking, or telling the…

False premise. You are assuming the time and electricity spent are not similar between the two groups of players. Irrelevant. If you're here, you obviously don't agree with that. The suckers that prefer to spend their money on things that matter in their daily lives, like food, and fuel? Yeah, I laugh at those guys, too.…

Could be a thing with being nearsighted, for some of us that hate it. Reference/comparison: Geforce 7800GT at 350/1100 (it won't go slower :( ) 1680x1050 All game settings maxed, and shadows, sun/moon, vsync, and sharpen on. Texture filtering set to 'quality' (driver default, I think). Trlinear optimization, anisotropic…

Ew. It makes it look all fuzzy and washed out, like an old movie's flashback scene. Off, whether taking SSes or not.

While slow, I did fine with a 7300GT DDR2. Getting by w/ PWI is not hard :). But, it is nice to be able to max everything. There are several available cards that beat the GT220 by quite a bit, at a similar price or only very slightly more. In the same price range, a 9600 GT, or 9600 GSO, would all beat a GT 220 by quite a…

If the GT220 were replaced, sure. Of the common graphics options available, try to go for a 240M, 250M, 260M (this would probably be the best pair), 350M, or 360M. Starting with the GTX 260M, battery life goes out the window, while the GTS 260M has near the same performance, but a good bit lower power use...and higher…

Are you getting a desktop or notebook? What is your budget?

Use the right mouse button to change your direction, and move with WASD, which move you relative to the camera angle. Always following the character's back is a plain wrong way to do the UI of a 3rd-person game where you can move in any direction, if it's not a shooter with a crosshair.

It's good to be paranoid. The only times in recent memory that I've gotten malicious files, it has been through web ads on mainstream websites. With JS mostly disabled, and no Adobe Reader set up to automatically open things, and being on Linux half the time, nothing has happened, except for the browser asking what to do…

In a default FF, there will be a stop sign button for it in the toolbar. If the item shows up with a "block" tab at its top-right, you can just click that. If not, click the toolbar button, which opens a list of blockable items. If it is a normal item in the page, it will highlight it when you select it in the list. If you…

896MB RAM is 256MB of 1GB dedicated to the IGP. Given that people can run the game with current Intel IGP...give it a shot. The Atom should give decent Athlon XP/P4 level performance (worst-case it should be better than a 1.8 P4), and the tweaked 9400--excuse me, "ION," aught to be lightyears above any Intel GMA.

Done that fairly regularly (and it does miraculously fix other problems).

If you're back up and running...try the 1GB stick, again, but w/o the 256MB. Most anything should either run comfortably in 1GB, or plain need a newer PC. With that, you could hold out until that PC is just not good enough to do anything but email, before upgrading :).

Don't forget finding all of your drivers, and installing those (but, a USB flash drive and other computer with a 'net connection will make that easier). Yes, it should fix the problem, but it would be good to go ahead and check to make sure that it was that RAM configuration causing the problem. And, if it was, check the…

Pretty much. It's practically impossible to really diagnose and fix such errors. You might be able to do a system restore to an earlier date, but I wouldn't be surprised if enough has been corrupted outside of what system restore saves for that to fix everything. I also wouldn't want to risk it crashing in the middle of a…

Use full, not window.

"Summer days tend to slip away like you men you couldn't make them stay Hard to choose, whiskey or a wife" had been stuck in my head for days. Good song to have stuck there, too.

The OS is probably toast. But, it wouldn't hurt to try a repair install, if you get an optical drive, and have an OS CD. Since you're worried about your data, the first thing to do is find someone who will help you back that data up; or, take it upon yourself to learn. Once your data is safely somewhere else, then get to…

If it is not a notebook, chances are very slim that it can't handle 1GB RAM. Maybe not that specific stick, or maybe it needs it as 2x512, but any PC from '04 should be able to handle 1 or more GB total RAM. For that matter, my notebook is almost ten years old, and it can handle 1GB... Given the situation, there's not too…

AVG is fine, but kind of pig. You don't notice it much on fast hardware, but Anything less than a Core 2, I'd use Antivir or Avast. That would be likely. Chkdsk running every now and then, esp. after bad shutdowns, is fine (if I get any that are unexpected, I manually run it), but every start? Yeah, that's bad news.…

I disagree a little bit with your views on the in-game economy (gold/coin trading allows free players access to the CS, in a way that benefits PWE, FI), but overall, I agree much more than I disagree. I'd be just fine with the cat shops, even, if the AH got rebuilt (IE, don't try to convert the original AH--make a new AH,…

First, back up, back up, back up. If it has been doing it often, recently, it probably is either an old Windows install, with a bunch of crud in the registry, or a hardware problem, like long-term heat damage (FI, your GPU getting too hot too often), a gradually failing fan, or dust clogging things up. If it happens mostly…