Komag
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I just checked the past few weeks' ended auctions on eBay and it seems that 6800's (not GT or Ultra or anything) with 128 memory go for around $70-85, pretty cheap!
6800 scores MUCH better than 6600 in graphics benchmarks, and even better than 6600 GT, but in that case it's much closer.
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So far it's been a great gas saver for me. I've clocked it three times and it averages about 75 mpg, very nice compared to our 14 mpg SUV! I ride it all around town instead of using the SUV whenever I can, and in just the past month it's saved me around $50
Plus since it's a second vehicle, it's MUCH more convenient for my wife and I, instead of constantly figuring each other's rides to and from work, store, etc. That also saves gas because there are less round trips (when giving a ride to drop someone off you end up doing two round trips instead of just one).
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The FX5200 is MUCH worse performing than your Ti4600. It just has some newer shaders. If you want an upgrade, the logical step is a 6600, a 6600 GT, or a 6800. It will definitely help a lot, even with a 1.6 processor.
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We ALWAYS need more textures, you can't have enough. We have very few right now in fact.
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I've bought and sold tons of electronics/computer parts on eBay. The mainest thing is to only buy from someone with at least 100 feedbacks, and at least a 98% feedback rating (over 99% is preferable, and not hard to maintain if you're a good honest seller).
Check their recent auctions to make sure they've sold other electronics/computer parts in the past, rather than having all feedbacks from selling books or from their own purchases or something. Basically, they need a lot of SELLING feedbacks, from selling similar type items that you're looking at.
If you just follow those basic buyer-savvy guidelines, you'll pretty much have no problems ever.
It may sound a bit daunting or risky, but it's really not, and eBay nearly always has the best prices possible so it's can really be worth it. Getting a card for $60 or $90 versus $100 or $150 is a nice thing.
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Or a vanilla 6800, much better than a 6600, not much more cost. 6800 GT though is a jump in price, but much better card that can be overclocked nicely (it's what I have, runs GREAT!). I had a 6800 previously and it worked great, sold for about $90 on eBay, probably a good way for you to go.
Since you have a Ti4600 that worked in the slot fine, you probably don't have some ancient 1x AGP slot or anything like that. Very likely it's an 8x or almost positively at least a 4x slot, which will be fine for any AGP card you can find.
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sorry, never played the game
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was that post for reals?
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It's not like it's worth arguing about, not like anyone is going to convert. oDDity spitefully hates many things that most people like, it's a natural sign that he's cool or different or something. That's life.
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I would say that MIGHT suck (but not infinitely), but it might be cool.
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Common newbie mistake I guess
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But what you're asking is still valid in other situations where a neat solution won't work
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Yay, Sept 22 is here and the Water Contest missions are released!
See http://www.keepofmetalandgold.com for all the details!
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There were a lot of motorcycles in those pics - hopefully they pull them off right in the game!
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I see deisel offered most places, probably 2/3 of stations I think.
I don't mind gas prices of $3. People complain a lot since it was about $2 just a year or two ago. (plus my motorcycle gets about 75 mpg, and I ride it a lot instead of the car)
My older sister and her family now spend about $450 a month on gas, when it used to be around $300. So I'm thinking, if $150/mo is breaking your bank, then you are living too closee to the edge of your means!
If you make $4000/mo you shouldn't be spending $3800 of it. You should be spending more like $3000 and investing/saving the other $1000. That way when gas goes up you can easily absorb the extra $150.
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hehe, nice poll. Yeah of course everyone wants more contests because they're fun and produce some great little missions.
I don't know when there will be another one, probably not for a LONG time. I doubt I'll try another T3Ed contest, as pretty much NOBODY is doing anything with that editor. (quite a travesty I think) I don't plan to do any more Dromed contests - this water one was meant as a "last hurah". So probably it will be TDM in a couple years.
About them not being allowed to talk about my banning, I just don't care how they handle it over there anymore. TTLG is part of my past.
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Is there any new news? I'm interested in the game as well, although it's never a good idea to take all the "features" at face value this early in development. Similar super advanced AI systems were touted for Oblivion and didn't come through in the end, same for a dozen other games I can think of.
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All good points. I think prorams like SpeedTree are best thought of as a useful tool when appropriate and not a creative cop-out
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They are both the same. Obscurus said a mapper can use SpeedTree to make a great forest filled with variety, like they did in Oblivion. Which is the same as the post you read, that SpeedTree was used by the designers, and now the forest it generated is there in the game, the same for all players. No one ever said the forests get generated on the fly (they don't)
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Yes it works fine, will just stretch or whatever. Same with any game that doesn't "support" widescreen
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It's easy enough to figure various parts of the Bible are figurative, metaphorical, whatever. For instance, I really doubt God and Satan really had a conversation in which they bet whether or not Job would remain faithful through his trials. And as far as Eve being literally made out of one of Adams ribs, fundamentalist crazy Christians can just kiss my butt on that one.
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My laptop is widescreen, and a lot of my games aren't, so there are a couple options I have.
1. I can set it to only center the resolution, using the exact pixels. If the game is set at 640x480, this would make for a very small viewable game screen, because it will use just the center of my laptop screen. But since my laptop screen is 1280x800, if I use a game at 1024x768 it uses most of the vertical screen, looks pretty good, and nice and sharp to boot since there's no scaling.
2. I can set it to "fixed aspect ratio scaling" which will scale up the size but not stretch it, so a 640x480 game will be large up to the top and bottom, but the sides will be black, preserving the 4/3 ratio.
3. I can just set it to fully scale up and use the whole screen, stretching any 4/3 to my widescreen.
I always use 3 just to have the biggest picture, and only at first did things look stretched wide a bit. Very soon I got very used to it and it looks completely normal to me now. The scaling does sacrifice some sharpness, but it's fine with me and I sort of consider it some free antialiasing.
In fact, I've gotten so used to the wide stretch that when I do something on my desktop with normal 4/3 it looks squished to me! But then I get used to it being normal after a few minutes, so now I can go both ways just fine.
@komag, Question...
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He must have been talking about the contest then - I've never worked with him