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Just wanted to say, Hello! From reading through various posts in the forums it seems like a great community and I hope to become a part of it. So I got the hankering for some Thief as of late and stumbled on TDM through some googling. After purchasing Doom 3 through Steam and instaling TDM, I have been nostalgiacly playing through many of the FMs and have also decided to d/l the Radiant editor and start making a mission, maybe many, we'll see. As it turns out also, I just started (today!) my 1 week vacation from work and intend to dive in to the Radiant editor and am currently going through the A-Z wiki on it. A bit of background on me, I 'used' to work in application support till the economic crash a couple years ago and was laid off and am now running a machining center at a local machine shop, using Mastercam daily, 2D/3D stuff and have always wanted to make a mission/game, and decided since I've always enjoyed the Thief series and stealth gameplay so much, this is where I would start. After getting to my third year in Mechanical Technology I changed my major to Information Technology (should have went with straight Computer Science but ahhh hindsight). I've always loved building things and designing things and also really enjoy computers, art, audio, and the entire visual experience as presented to a user. I have created a couple playable maps before using the older source engine editor so I'm vaguely familiar with 3D modeling, skyboxes, lighting, AI pathing, etc. That's been over 10 years ago though. I got familiar with 3dsmax, ProE, Autocad, and Mastercam in my first major during school so that helps a bit when familiarizing with a new editor and as previously mentioned I've dabbled around in the Valve Source editor. I'm also very much looking forward to the Crucible of Omens campaign created by the marvelous talent at TDM and would like to help in any way I can once I'm familiar with the Radiant engine. I can also do many many voices, I've often thought about moving out to Cali from Indiana and finding work in voice-overs, voice acting, etc. All this started as a youngster with little friends, time on my hands, and imaginary friends. Wow that's hard to admit. So anyway, I've been working on a shadowy Garrett voice, and can do guards and some women characters with old, old english, gruff, slippery, sneaky, terrifying, voices and personalities. Just thought I'd mention that as it may be a way that I could contribute early on and would also enjoy. So anyway, too much about me and not enough A-Z wiki, back to the tutorial! Glad to be here and hope for good things to come.

For the last 1-2 weeks the forums have been really slow and unresponsive for me, when I type a post half the time it just sits there etc.. is anyone else having the same issues..?

Does anybody else have this problem? In the (European) evenings the forum is unbearable slow. The server is delivering about 8Kbyte/s, sometimes less and usually stops midwhere during loading the page. Sometimes you can't even get the index page, sometimes you can log in, but then only get half of the overview etc. In the mornings everything is snappy.

I've upgraded IPB to the latest stable version, and since this was a major upgrade (from 2.3.6) I also had to re-do the forum style. Most of the new stuff is in place, but I bet that the logo will be changed. One of the many new features in version 3 is rating of posts and also a "report spammer" ability which will make it easier to single out spam bots and ban then at sight. Hopefully this will stop some of the spam threads we've seen recently. Make sure to empty your browser cache if you're experiencing any problems. And please report any errors etc in this thread. Cheers, ~m2

Hi all. Lets all build a computer that is under 1500$ and will be able to run Bioshock, Assasin's Creed, Gears of War, and anything that they throw at us in the next five years. I spent an hour or so searching these components from newegg.com (a very good online store). What i'm missing pretty much now is the video card(s). I am wandering how SLI works. I know this motherboard supports it, but do you just put both cards in and plug the monitor into one card and BAM! it works? Anyway here are the specs and costs. Qty. Product Description Savings Total Price SAMSUNG 18X DVD±R DVD Burner With 12X DVD-RAM Write, LightScribe Technology Black SATA Model SH-S183L - OEM Item #: N82E16827151141 Return Policy: Standard Return Policy $77.98 ($38.99 each) Antec Performance One P180B Black 0.8mm cold rolled steel for durability through the majority of chassis 1.0mm cold rolled steel around the 4 x HDD area ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail Item #: N82E16811129017 Return Policy: Standard Return Policy $40.00 Mail-in Rebate $129.99 Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM Item #: N82E16822144701 Return Policy: Limited 30-Day Return Policy Select An Optional Extended Warranty Plan 1 Year Service Net Replacement Plan -- $14.99 2 Year Service Net Replacement Plan -- $19.99 $69.99 Crucial 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Desktop Memory Model CT12864AA80E - Retail Item #: N82E16820148061 Return Policy: Standard Return Policy Select An Optional Extended Warranty Plan 1 Year Service Net Replacement Plan -- $14.99 2 Year Service Net Replacement Plan -- $19.99 $170.97 ($56.99 each) Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80557E6600 - Retail Item #: N82E16819115003 Return Policy: Processors (CPUs) Return Policy Select An Optional Extended Warranty Plan 1 Year Service Net Replacement Plan -- $39.99 2 Year Service Net Replacement Plan -- $59.99 $223.90 Microsoft Windows Vista 32-Bit Home Premium for System Builders Single Pack DVD - OEM Item #: N82E16832116202 Return Policy: Software Return Policy $111.99 CORSAIR CMPSU-620HX ATX12V v2.2 and EPS12V 2.91 620W Power Supply - Retail Item #: N82E16817139002 Return Policy: Standard Return Policy MSI P6N SLI Platinum LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 650i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail Item #: N82E16813130081 Return Policy: Limited 30-Day Return Policy Grand Total: $1,124.83 Throw in the video cards plus shipping and no doubt it will near the 1500$ mark. I hope I didn't leave anything out. Everything should be able to work accordingly. Case is worth they money and it brings 3 120 mm fans. Just put in the specifications at newegg.com and add the components to your shopping cart so you see what they come with. Has lots of pictures and reviews and stuff. Anyway now for the harder part. Figuring out what graphics card(s) to put in there and explaining SLI. I don't have much time as I type this so I leave the rest up to you gurus. Maybe you can help me finish this little project. It might be cool if some of us end up purchasing this rig and running Bioshock, Creed, Crysis, etc on it in the future. p.s. Thanks for your help. Also pay no attention to the warranty stuff. I basically just copy/pasted my shopping cart. I'm surprised I didn't hit the 1500$ mark. Truly, building your own rig is way cheaper.

Anybody of you guys ever where at a monster truck event? Next week there is one here in my area, and since my son was so excited about the adverts, I bought some tickets for us. So far I have only seen something like that in magazines, so I'm quite curious how this will be in real. They are running some adverts in TV and this looks quite a lot of fun.

So... What was up with the forums all day yesterday..?