Col Hogan

"Famas that". Oops, sorry Shotty took your past usual "clip". Cool pic Klink, of the gun atleast.

Good grief Charlie Brown. Drinking at time of post ? No one should worry about what is in style. Just wear what you like, be clean, neat, etc. More pockets are better for who knows what

Anything is better then nothing, especially if someone else is trying/offering it to you. "Whatever gets you through the night, is alright ..." quiz : who sang that ?

As posted by me in other threads, i was surprised my systems ran the demo fine, after what i had been reading about it. Some that posted probs have better pcs. Maybe the diff has been I did 1st fresh install of xp on wiped drive, changed it in control panel/system/ icon from default max appearance to max performance. Also learned hard way just before this with xp, to not be connected to net when you install it, turn off autoupdating, install good firewall and antivirus, then connect net and get all firewall/antivirus updates. (1st attempt with this and net connected from start turned out to have multiple spy/adware and viruses found from just testing browser on it's default msn web page which this great xp ctrl-altdel window showed as resource hogs). So get protected 1st, change default home page from internet properties in control panel to one you trust. Then update xp after other security software . XP looked fine but didn't put my nvidia control drivers in so run video driver cd to be sure best drivers in. Doulbe check in contol panel system device manager. BF2 demo fine off and online so far up to 24 players total with 100 ping. Sys specs are: VIA mobo 133 AT "BUS" speed LOL (bus;-) 1.3 AMD cpu 512 mb regular 133mhz ram nvidia 5200 xl 128 mb video card set for performance not appearance like xp mobo sound chips othe sys is same except asus mobo, intel p4 1.5, sb16 sound card. Hope this helps someone decide or setup.

Cool. Been there once years ago. Walked in doors, saw map of huge area. Right there was outlet that rented electric chairs and cell phones for the day so I did. Would have bee ntoo much walking to try in 1 day. Was fun, could split up with partners and know where we were. Was funny checking out the many bars. Then racing, hide and seek, clues, etc ... Partner left me in bar once sayign be right back. When we left bar later, my chair wasgone as i had left key in it. She got picture of my face. Then told me she parked in around corner and handed me key saying I maybe shouldn't drive.

That's when I "shove it" in my tank 8-track, this that is ... http://www.freedomofchoice.com/devo/media/audio/ted/ted08.mp3 :peace:

just a bit. Having fun thinking of other funny music clips to save and use in appropriate posts. :peace:

Here some driving tunes for ya Colonel. :peace: http://www.freedomofchoice.com/devo/media/audio/ted/ted08.mp3

Looks good. I'll read it when I'm not tired. :peace:

I just edited poll number to add 1 for me to BF2 since I now know I can play it. :peace:

Yes, the chick in. :peace:

Thanks but your trailer just put greek text on screen for me. :peace:

Cool

She 1st tried it in our main pc = win98se at moment = some lag . Then we tried it in our secondary pc = xinxp trial = no > very little lag. Looked cool. Not as cool as bf2. Kinda like hl2 with a mech warrior unit. Not bad. For something diff to do.

Thanks. I'll have a look after I figure out my xp and bf2 concerns.

Thanks. Keep the appreciation going to all, always, by being and promoting decent forum and server activity. Arnie, ummm, is owed many thanks.

worked like a puppet ? what "test" line strength ?

Those heat shield tiles are very vulnerable to being dislodged. They have to find better "superglue" or whatever. Previous sorrow is result of insulation of all things, during liftoff, hitting crucial tile and knocking it off. Causing overheating during re-entry. Some tiles have often been lost but rarely crucial position ones til then.

In case this helps any, following is the order of what i did, happened and conclusions : To save you reading all the way down, results 1st are : =AMD Duron 1.3 cpu not overclocked. =VIA mobo chipset ata 133+raid/usb 2.0 vucd v 2.1 standard settings. =512 mb standard ram standard settings. =Nvidia Gforce FX 5200-128 mb agp 4x drivers v4.34.20.42 set for best performance instead of default best appearance, left rest default. =Nvidia Forceware version 77.30 (updated by BF2 demo) =refresh rate 60hz =mobo bios changed from default agp aperature 32mb to 128 mb. =80 gb standard hd 50 gbs free. Winxp changed from default best appearance setting to best performance. BF2 demo Results : looks/runs great !! ;-) It auto set 800 res, low detail/sound. Following is order i did things and what i may have learned as useful info : I borrowed friend's xp 2 yrs ago to try out but must have done something wrong as it was sluggish and nis gave errors, etc. This time xp clearly runs faster, frees more ram faster itself, nis works, etc. I'm impressed. Guess I have to figure out how I can afford 2 of them since this same friend's xp and key unactivated for 30 day trial. I just wanted to find out if my hardware would run BF2 decently or not, which it did with demo atleast. *** update 1 day later : using gamespy, got bf2 demo working online in 100 ping server with 11-11 = 22 total = flawless, no lag, lots of fun. I may like this more then FA, wow. But have to figure out my own xp cost times 2 pcs. Working on it. 1- I swapped in secondary pc, the master win98se boot drive with it's unconnected master backup. 2- Set bios to boot from cd. 3- reformatted hd. 4- installed winxp that came with sp1. 5- I had left cable internet connected. (which may be bad idea see below). 6- xp failed to recognize video card but but it's own high res vid drivers ok. 7- in control panel/system/device manger i found "other", determined it to be nvidia card with no driver installed. Loaded vid card driver cd and drivers. Fixed that. 8- Sound needed mobo sound drivers installed from mobo cd. Fixed. 9- Tested browser. Worked right away. Went only to default broswer home page. BUT AFTER ABOUT A MINUTE, XP POPUP SAID "SECURITY SHUTTING DOWN SYSTEM IN 60 SECONDS." 10- I wanted to test bf2 with no other software loaded. But this shutdown popup got me thinking. Was it a virus, net attack, MS detecting friend's key ? So I decided to disconnect net cable and try installing firewall and antivirus. As well as Spybot and Spyblaster. 11- Set NIS during install not to auto update. Wasn't ready to connect net cable. Ran full scan and it found about 9 viruses and fixed them all. 12- Ran Spybot scan which found about a dozen spy and adware culprits. Cleaned them all. 13- Now I was paranoid of what was in startup list. Using ctrl-alt-del I looked at what loaded and running. I ended process and removed from startup list with msconfig, any file i could determine was not surely needed. When in doubt, i searched hd for file and check properties. Took out a few. Sorry i did not write down what. anything that seemed related to net but not needed for connecting. was some ms stuff like i think msupdate or something. was some weird file names too. checked add/remove list. had to end task on "mousehs.exe" to delete it as nis said it was infected with "W32.Wallz". From add/remove take out "OIM" and "Network Revenue (something). Was a weird mix of leeters filename in process list that when removed came right back wit hdifferent weird mix of letters. That stopped after I add/removed OIM and Revenue things. 14- Now with all that cleaning I rebooted and connected net cable with nis this time and spyblaster and spybot for protection. 15- 60 sec shutdown popup never returned but it was connected to browser which i wasn't gonna run til nis updated. 16- i updated nis 1st as i've learned with it in win98se to not update windows untill nis fully updated 1st or you get nis errors. remember when you run nis liveupdate to check/accept only the top update on the list if it shows more then 1. we learned from trial and error taking more then 1 at once often leads to errors. 17- next was trying xp updates which i got a lot of including service pack 2 which includes xp firewall and possibly antivirus. it detected my nis and recommended not having more then 1 firewall or antivirus so did not enable xp protection. 18- i took all xp udates on list at once which worked fine. went back for more and more til it said no more needed. 19- then installed bf2 demo which looked/ran great except there was a doorway in one of the us side buildings that i moved strafed into that made much of the screen black. upon restarting mission and avoiding that spot we've played hrs on it with no probs. I DON'T REMEMBER IF BF2 INSTALLER OFFERED NVIDIA DRIVERS, I WOULD HAVE ACCEPTED. I ALSO MAY HAVE USED ONES FROM BFV CD NVIDIA FOLDER WHICH I LEARNED ARE NEEDED FOR BFV VIDEO TO WORK. JUDGE BY VIDEO DRIVER VERSION I SHOW AT TOP I GUESS. 20- now i dunno why but i re-enabled some startup items i guess just because spybot's advanced-tools-system startup list said they were microsoft things. so i figured i maybe didn't need them disabled after all. 21- NEXT DAY WHEN I RAN XP UPDATE CHECK I GOT DIFFERENT SCREEN TELLING ME I DON'T HAVE RIGHT TO THEM AND ASKED ME TO ENTER EITHER MY CD KEY OR PRODUCT ID UNDER USERNAME IN SYSTEM PROPERTIES. 22- hmmmm. seems something i re-ennabled allows them to detect me as ligit or not . 23- o well, it's all updated anyway. I only wanted to test it to see if it runs well in my pc and if bf2 works ;-) *** update : exactly 24 hrs later, nis popped up detecting "W32.Spybot.Worm" virus in c:\windows\system32\winupdatexp.exe" . This is 1 of the above that i disabled during paranoia but renabled after all was updated and working. Seems to be on 24 hr retry attack. Check your systems for this. NIS said unable to access file. so i checked ctrl-alt-del and saw it. i highlighted it and clicked "end process". short while later nis popped up again with same complaint but this time said it was able to delete the file as it was not fixable. SO BE ADVISED, STAY SAFE, FRESH FORMAT/XP INSTALL, NOT CONNECTED TO NET UNTIL YOU GET FIREWALL/ANTIVIRUS IN AND AD/SPY BLOCK SOFTWARE IN 1ST, IN MY OPINION.

And remember too much of even a good thing is bad for you.

Well, it's math. How many of those using server donate how much towards cost of server. How many are original TAC group that started their own server for their enjoyment. They've allowed the rest of us to still enjoy FA due to donations and heavy use. How many are donating members, etc. Most originals are tired of FA and doing BF2 or other things. They got big donation from few quite some time ago (who don't often do FA anymore, some in BF2), number of other size donations from others. But with the "purse" of donations getting small from high net bandwidth provider costs, more may be beeded to keep FA up. Every little bit any of you can send will go long way to help. As little as a few dollars/mth from many, may be enough. If no visa to use paypal you can always pm Gator or McGuyver for address to send few dollars to Good server behaviour on your part plus any size donation every month or 2 goes long way to you and FA players appreciated. Your rewards could me many, like good feeling you get trying to help the "FA team". Showing support and concern for it, etc. Bottom line is we cannot expect free game play on net, even from the big game companies. As the net bandwidth required costs lot more then your single home connection. For these reasons, I accept the low use CSS soon may have to go. To atleast keep the only world popular FA server going for while yet. :o

That $10 would help with monthly game server costs

I'll write that 1 down. :peace:

hmm ... motocrossing ... cool ... had 1 long time ago ... fun climbing those 70-80 degree hills with face almost touching front wheel fender ... and those catching 20-30 feet air jumps ... weeeeeeeee, then owe, dam ... blew rear shocks and nearly my back ... shoulda had forward leaning shocks. :peace: haven't riden since that and catching hornet up under my full helmet with shield down.

we both got kicked out same time. I did not have iexplore up. didn't know she did. seems unrelated to iexplore then for us.