Nope, definitely not. Can't wait to get my hands on the next nexus tablet then I'm off PC's. I don't game anymore and now have a retro PC. Gonna get myself a Thinkpad laptop and that's me done.

Max Payne. I think I played it back in 2000/2001 on my original Time computer AMD K6-2 500MHz with integrated ATi Rage 128 and 128MB RAM. I remember at the time thinking wow. That same year played a demo of Age of wonders 2 and was surprised at the nice colours and 2D graphics. Good times.. The Sims …

Age of Wonders series. Best turn based games ever.

Anno 1602 Caesar III Age of Wonders Age of Wonders II WT Dragon Age: Origins Age of Empires Age of Empires II AoK Fallout NV Bully SE Left 4 Dead DoTA HoN

Solved the ANNO 1602 video not playing issues by running dxdiag and disabling the 'DirectDraw Acceleration' option.

Can't get betrayal at krondor to run. Tried everything and have thus far got up to the black screen with, 'Loading Betrayl at Krondor.... Please Wait'. Stays like that forever...

If you want to use this system for XP, have a look into the different flavours of eXperience XP (Micro, Tiny, Full).

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Soooo... I disconnected my D:\ drive (200GB) and installed Windows 98se vanilla edition. After installing, I used the 'System CD' which came with my Gateway Windows Me PC to get access to the AudioPCI drivers (this is where I pulled the soundcard from, CT5806 ). This time it installed the correct …

This is really frustrating. I have a folder with 13.7GB of DOS games and I can't play them. Whenever I open in real-DOS mode (by restarting) the game won't let me install. Can't make boot disk or install because of low memory? When I open the dos executable in windows it loads, sound doesnt work …

Having read this thread thoroughly, I may look into a Gigabyte passive 6600. I've seen a few of those floating around ebay. My one only gripe is that it requires external power and that it may have coil whining issues. Ah well, crap shoot it is then.. 😒

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71meib_q0MY Spock 😀

Thanks. The best upgrade on this rig I've ever done is the Noctua NF-R8 fan with a low noise adapter. It is a HUGE difference from the small coolermaster stock fan which could be heard whirring from different parts of the house! I treied different fans, Akasa, coolermaster and xilence (from which I …

I'm looking for a passive nVidia gpu which is a step below the 6xxx series

When I open MS-DOS and drag the window inside win98, the computer hangs and I have to hard reset. MS-DOS is very flaky in my setup. Could someone help? I am using Soporific's Win98 UBCD 😕

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