I had that problem a couple of times, the first time that I had it, it was the motherboard and so I installed via 4in1 drivers.

The next time it happened I took my network card out and re inserted it and that seemed to be causing the problem.

Take a look at some of your cards inside your computer for loose connections etc. (network card especially) 

More to the point, I've spotted a PCI Riva TNT 32MB video card in a shop for $200, and I don't need the network card just now, so...

(Oh, yeah, haven't started work yet. Farg.) 

$200 for a four-year-old card? I hope those are munckin dollars or something... 

...why dont you just buy a geforce 2 GTS? you can get them for like $50 US dollars online or from ebay. 

I live in Melbourne and you can get gf2's for anywhere between $A 100-150 depending on the model. I'm sure NZ prices msut be similar. 

seems like it's turned into a yearly franchise :)

Although, to be fair, from the news on PU it sounds like the original ut2003 with new maps and some code (not sure on this since it's backward compatible with ut2003 servers) for vehicles plus the Assault and Onslaught gamemodes.

Wonder why they didnt mention all of this to folks when they were forking out money for ut2003. 

$200 for a TNT 32mb?? Struth... I wouldn't pay $5 for that.

Good lord, you can get a geforce4mx for about $100 AUD...

I guess if you need a PCI card specifically your options are more limited, but you can still do better than that, Fatty. Have a look around (online especially) for better deals. 

As mentioned, I intend to purchase a video card with my own money - and as yet I still don't have a definite start date on that job. There's still plenty of time to shop around.

(Besides, I still have to wiggle cards and get this PC going yet!)

Actually, back when I was house/cat sitting, their box (now long gone due to a lightning strike) had a Riva TNT64, so that's my benchmark. Still, if I can find a PCI GeForce I'll get it if I can, since y'all seem to reccomend 'em. 

If you are willing to pay the postage/shipping, you can "HAVE" that stuff I mentioned earlier, up there ^^^, but I need to know soon, I have some one else who wants it, but if you would like it, it's yours. Let me know, and we can arrange it 

...I thought you were from India or somewhere in Asia nitin??

Or have you moved to get closer to your love interest Mr Fribbles....hang on, WHO did he get engaged to recently?? Hmmm... 

How about an indian living in melbourne? And I didnt know frib was engaged, all that moving for nothing! 

I'm sure Aussie law must allow bisexual bigamy... 

I'll have to get a technician to get this fargnaxing computer looked at first.

Besides, a 3D card's actually a pretty low priority at the moment. 

Just save up for the GeforceFX 5900 Ultra (aka NV35). That card smokes everything in its path, particularlly Doom III. 

and it'd be awesome for that pentium 200 or so, maybe he could solder an agp slot onto his motherboard! problem solved! 

Not only are these cards stupidly expensive but they are also extremely loud, so kiss goodbye to any atmosphere you wanna hear in a game or DvD movie you wanna watch. Unless of course you wait for the water cooler unit there making for the FX. 

Forgot to mention this last night.

The Matrix Reloaded is cool. Awesome fight sequences. The first movie was better though, IMHO. This is because it had some magical and mysterious qualities that Reloaded couldn't have. In The Matrix, you find out everything as the movie progresses, but in Reloaded you already know a lot before the movie even starts.

(Also that Green Guy Pitfall icon is meant to look like a kung fu fighter for the sake of this post.) 

While yes the cards maybe expensive, they are much more quiet. The first GeforceFX 56-5800s were the loud ones. These now feature a larger heatsink so the fan doesn't need to be as fast and loud. 

anyone have a hold of a quake->unreal geometry converter? I had one before I reformatted, but now I don't. You can just email one to me (netgames@netdp.com) or drop a link here or there. Thanks. 

The first movie was better though, IMHO.

That doesnt sound promising :) 

Or...

You could get a top end Radeon for less money and virtually the same levels of performance. And it's not annoyingly loud.


That of course presuming that you hadn't noticed the rest of the PC specs... 

i looked again at hi res pics of the lost souls (cmon, if i get the name wrong it's just because i'm drunk...at 2pm, ok its a lie)

the reason why they seem tame is cos the eyes and the mouth expression seems similar to that of Michael Jackson shouting "aww" (skull farthest to the left). besides, the face looks like it's taken from Kate Moss. why didnt they start with MJs face. now that WOULD be scary.

ok, i'll fuck off now. got exams to revise. 

I want to get a brightened, HALF LIFE (wad3) file of all of the quake2 textures for use with WC3.3 to make Q2 levels. Now, I'm trying to make a batch conversion of all of the .wals to a wad3 file with wally, but wally seems convinced that there's "nothing to convert." Any suggestions? 

i made myself a .wad of all the q2 textures for use with WC 3.3... you can get it here:

http://groove.ath.cx/~inertia/pub/q2all.hlwad.zip

i got a special version of riot's wadconv tool that has a >1024 limit on the number of textures converted, so i just took my wc1.6-compatible q2all.wad and converted it to a wc3.3-compatible q2all.hlwad

hopefully this works =] 

I am not sure I will be able to run the qw ffa day for some time. There are a few reasons for this. First of all it seems that interest is dying down, sometimes it is hard to find 3 people willing to play. The second reason is that I will be quite busy and may not be around on the weekends to get the games started.

If someone from #terrafusion would like to organize the ffa they can contact me in irc and I will give them rcon to the server.