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Off Topic / Greatest Moments Of Hl2
« on: November 19, 2004, 07:08:30 PM »
you could pick up bodies with the gravity gun? i cant pick up bodies!
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Basically, the advantage of FF is the customization. If you are fine dealing with IE's normal interface, enjoy. I have customized FF a lot so far. In the Status Bar, I have Adblock, which blocks specfiic ads i tell it to. I have Homeland Security Threat Level, for kicks. I have Foxy Tunes, where i can control ANY music player. Name it, it is probably able to be controled. And i have Weather Fox. I see what temp it is now, and tonight, but you can add a 5 day forecast if you want.
I have a couple of other Extensions, such as mouse gestures, which i am just getting used to, Download manager tweak, which adds it to a tab, Translate, which you can click a button and it tranlsates any page, and Image Zoom, which lets me click on any image, shrink it, enlarge it, etc.
To sum it up, It is worth trying out. I am still getting used to it, and its been a couple months. You can not try it for a day, say "its the same" and then leave it. Thats wrong. I am just now getting into features i didnt know i could use. Ive added search engines into the upper right field, such as IMDB, Ebay, Wikipedia, Dictionary.com etc. I am still customizing mouse gestures to make my browsing easier.
It may or may not be more secure. If FF has half of the market, and IE has half of the market, only then will we know which is 'more secure.' It may be faster on your system, it may be slower. For mine it is faster loading webpages, and sometimes faster loading up. It does have trouble with *some* webpages, but that is why i have a plug in called IE view, which you right click on a link and it says Open in IE. And it will load IE up to view it. Its all up to you. What do you want Your browser to do?
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Oh yea, I recently redid one of my roomates computers. I took off all links of IE off, and installed FF. no extensions. I made it the default browser. He loves it. Havn't heard a complaint yet. He says it seems faster then before, but of course, that is right after a reinstall of a computer. Point is, you can switch back and forth between IE on one computer, and FF on another, and barely notice.[snapback]33614[/snapback]
Where do I get all these so called plugins
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Off Topic / Greatest Moments Of Hl2
« on: November 18, 2004, 03:27:25 AM »Quote
Was this bloody gunship supposed to come down on the road? I had a hell of a time moving that damn carcass.
And yes, the Citadel was great. It was just... damn, something else eh?[snapback]33550[/snapback]
haha thats hilarious! Only thing that happened to me was I didint know you were supposed to open a gate to get passed this part on Highway 17. I saw a small opening so i tried blasting the car through with my gravity gun and it fell into the sea...
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Off Topic / Praise Be To Valve
« on: November 18, 2004, 03:21:16 AM »Quote
Well I'm not that far into the game, only about 1 hour, so hopefully the story will get better. The NPC dialogue is great, but the part that annoyed me were barney/alex/scientist.
Firstly, barney greets you like "OMG GORDON, REMEMBER ME, WE WERE BEST FRIENDS AND WENT HUNTING AND FISHING TOGETHER AND FROLLICKED IN THE FIELDS", and I just want to think, "no, there were 100 of you that all looked the same and sometimes I threw a grenade at you when you got stuck behind something." The whole idea of taking characters from HL that there were used MULTIPLE times and then make them into one character just doesn't work for me, especially when that one character acts like your best bud when they acted like a complete stranger in the first.
Then, there's the first encounter with alex. No spoilers here, but if you played it you know what happens. That scene reminded me of a bad james bond film and made me laugh (in a bad way).
Like I said, I'm not that far into the game, so chances are it will get better, but I will always be haunted by those first scenes.
Haven't had any real big problems with the physics instagibbing me, but I have had weird effects. Like if you pick up an object and move it into something, it will flop all over the place like a dying fish.QuoteYes indeed. Too bad the game's atmosphere makes you feel like you should be running top speed all the time, because there were places I wanted to explore.
I did notice that in the initial "RUN AWAY REAL FAST" scene. I was immediately upset when I wasn't able to fully explore the areas, which I compulsively do. I hoped it was only because I didn't have a weapon and that it would slow down later on. <_<
I'll try turning the subtitles on, but I really do think they're too quiet. In the beginning when there is that guy talking on the TVs everywhere, I'd turn my volume up to try to hear what the soldiers are saying, but they're easily drowned out by the blaring loud TV. Later on, I still have the same problems, with all the sounds being SUPER LOUD except the soldiers.[snapback]33561[/snapback]
Everyone loves barney, How can you not love him? I was dissapointed about the run away real fast thing about the train station place. I thought you could of seen more npc stuff. But i really love the storyline so far. Am right now at nova prospect
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Off Topic / Stories Of Awesomeness.
« on: November 16, 2004, 08:59:26 PM »
You guys are hilarious =D
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Off Topic / Greatest Moments Of Hl2
« on: November 16, 2004, 08:47:17 PM »Quote
Damn you all and your fancy shmanshy computers to run HL2 without lagging up whenever you see an enemy :angry:[snapback]33524[/snapback]
Infact my computer isnt fancy. I lag whenever a enemy pops up. I dont mind the lag but it could be better without it!...Anyways i just got to middle of ravenholm. I want one of those Dog robots too. It seems like it lifts it arms with a string lol
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Off Topic / Greatest Moments Of Hl2
« on: November 16, 2004, 06:48:36 PM »
Lol your that far already am still at water hazard. I cant wait to get those Alien Pherephone things
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Off Topic / Greatest Moments Of Hl2
« on: November 16, 2004, 05:02:37 PM »
Post you greatest moments here!
I felt that when Barney hands over your trusty crowbar was a good part and when you put on the hev suit...
Added the spoilers description. Don't want people to unknowingly wander into this and have the plot given away. ~GrayDuck
I felt that when Barney hands over your trusty crowbar was a good part and when you put on the hev suit...
Added the spoilers description. Don't want people to unknowingly wander into this and have the plot given away. ~GrayDuck
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Off Topic / Ati Radeon 9800 Pro
« on: November 15, 2004, 05:02:54 PM »
Thank you. You are a time saver!
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It says am missing a driver update for them still and it says i need a driver update for Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC too. I thought i just installed one...
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It says am missing a driver update for them still and it says i need a driver update for Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC too. I thought i just installed one...
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Off Topic / Christmas Is....
« on: November 15, 2004, 05:01:33 PM »Quote
depends if i get my job at EB or not. if i do i'll look into buying people stuff, otherwise i'm sol =/ and i'm not working at freaking cvs.[snapback]33427[/snapback]
awsome you might work at eb. Is that "Electronic Boutique" Over where you are? Well if it is, I hope you get that job...
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Off Topic / I Made My Own Hl2 Poster
« on: November 15, 2004, 05:06:44 AM »
Thats huge....Lets all come to your house and have a party and as gifts to us we all get free posters
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Off Topic / New Lcd For Me
« on: November 15, 2004, 05:04:01 AM »
I have one of those old "NEC Accusync 75F". Its space consuming, I always have to plan out my new room before i actually move it. So i can actually fit it somewhere
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Off Topic / Christmas Is....
« on: November 15, 2004, 04:59:11 AM »
Christmas is comming. What do you plan on buying for your family or friends?
Me am planning to buy some game or something for my little brother and maybe just take my parents out to dinner for christmas. I dont really know what to get them. For friends i'll just take them out too.
Me am planning to buy some game or something for my little brother and maybe just take my parents out to dinner for christmas. I dont really know what to get them. For friends i'll just take them out too.
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Off Topic / Ati Radeon 9800 Pro
« on: November 15, 2004, 04:56:45 AM »
yes i properly uninstalled the old drivers. But these last 4 drivers i can't find. I either have to pay for some site to get them.... Intel site doesnt even have it :S and i use net_graph 3 in game to show fps and all
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Off Topic / Ati Radeon 9800 Pro
« on: November 13, 2004, 09:39:17 PM »
I play on 1024x768. I'm really concerned about this though some people have worse cards then me and they get a fps of 100 all the time, I just hope i didnt waste my 300 dollars buying this card and this is really helping me guys. Even if there hasn't been any performance increase, I just would like to thank you all for all this support. Thanks Everyone...
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I just checked the bios and it didnt say agp aperature anywhere all i found was agp aperature size - then it was set to 128 (128 mb i asume) and how do i tell if i have ddr ram or sd ram
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I decided to run a scan to see if my drivers were up to date and here are the statistics
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Driver Detective has successfully scanned your computer and has determined the following:
Correct Drivers Installed: 40% WRONG Drivers Installed: 60%
Driver Detective and WebXscan have determined that your system has a SIGNIFICANT amount of updates needed and recommends that you UPDATE YOUR DRIVERS NOW FOR YOUR SYSTEM TO RUN AT PEAK PERFORMANCE.
Device Groups/Devices
Mice and other pointing devices
Microsoft USB Wheel Mouse Optical (Just Updated)
Display adapters
RADEON 9800 PRO
RADEON 9800 PRO - Secondary
Network adapters
Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC (Just Updated)
Universal Serial Bus controllers
Intel® 82801BA/BAM USB Universal Host Controller - 2442 (Need Update)
Intel® 82801BA/BAM USB Universal Host Controller - 2444 (Need Update)
Sound, video and game controllers
Intel® 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio Controller (Need Update)
IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers
Intel® 82801BA Bus Master IDE Controller (Need Update)
USB Root Hub
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So what do the last 4 items i need updating do? Do i need to update them? and its impossible to find any of these last 4 drivers....
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I just checked the bios and it didnt say agp aperature anywhere all i found was agp aperature size - then it was set to 128 (128 mb i asume) and how do i tell if i have ddr ram or sd ram
EDIT
I decided to run a scan to see if my drivers were up to date and here are the statistics
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Driver Detective has successfully scanned your computer and has determined the following:
Correct Drivers Installed: 40% WRONG Drivers Installed: 60%
Driver Detective and WebXscan have determined that your system has a SIGNIFICANT amount of updates needed and recommends that you UPDATE YOUR DRIVERS NOW FOR YOUR SYSTEM TO RUN AT PEAK PERFORMANCE.
Device Groups/Devices
Mice and other pointing devices
Microsoft USB Wheel Mouse Optical (Just Updated)
Display adapters
RADEON 9800 PRO
RADEON 9800 PRO - Secondary
Network adapters
Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC (Just Updated)
Universal Serial Bus controllers
Intel® 82801BA/BAM USB Universal Host Controller - 2442 (Need Update)
Intel® 82801BA/BAM USB Universal Host Controller - 2444 (Need Update)
Sound, video and game controllers
Intel® 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio Controller (Need Update)
IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers
Intel® 82801BA Bus Master IDE Controller (Need Update)
USB Root Hub
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So what do the last 4 items i need updating do? Do i need to update them? and its impossible to find any of these last 4 drivers....