Far Cry demo tweaks?

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I've got a Barton running at 2346 Mhz (202 Mhz FSB) on an NF7sv2.0 w/a 9800 Pro
and I can't run the Far Cry demo smoothly even at 1024x768 (all details maxed).
I have my AF set to 16x forced on my Cat 4.4's on 98SE. Is this what's slowing
the Far Cry demo down to a crawl? The game just has points where it lags bad
for about a second then clears up and runs fine.

Does the actual, released Far Cry game run any better than the demo?
-Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email)

 

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Why don't you try speaking English, so I can understand
what you have? What is a Barton? Why are you running
on W98SE? There's your problem. 98 runs mostly in
software mode no matter what hardware you have. I
have an ATI Radeon 9000 pro, and both the game
and demo run fine. Autodetect put it in low settings
with one medium, but it looks great, and the frame
rate is fine. CPU is AMD 2000XT, Gigabyte mobo,
and 500meg ram. OS WinXPHome. Am using the
latest catalyst drivers for XP, and that did make a big
difference on the 9000. I've tested a 9200, and the
new drivers are needed there too. I just built a P4
system with an ATI 9600XT, and it autodetected
to medium settings all. Really looks good, esp the
surf and wind in the palm trees and brush. Entire
game moved up a level regards special effects, but
overall, the game play is the same. Something I've
learned over the years doing this. If you have an out
of order weirdie going on, 99% of the time, it is something
like the data cable to the hard drive is not fully seated,
or is just bad. I don't know why, but the general apps
and the OS will run normal, but hot games absolutely
will not run if your data cable is bad or noisy.

johns

 

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johns wrote:
> Why don't you try speaking English, so I can understand
> what you have?

Oddly enough I understood *everything* in the original poster's message,
but not so much in yours.

> What is a Barton?

I think most people "in the know" realize that a "Barton" is an AMD
Athlon XP CPU with the newest core (333MHz FSB and 512k L2 cache.)

> Why are you running
> on W98SE? There's your problem. 98 runs mostly in
> software mode no matter what hardware you have.

Wow. What the hell are you talking about? I don't even have a response
to this drivel.

> I
> have an ATI Radeon 9000 pro, and both the game
> and demo run fine. Autodetect put it in low settings
> with one medium, but it looks great, and the frame
> rate is fine. CPU is AMD 2000XT,

Wait, an AMD 2000XT? What is that? And more importantly, how does that
address the issue the orig poster had with his 9800Pro not performing
like he expects on MAX settings? Basically, all you've said is "Hey, my
hardware is totally different from yours, as well as all my game
settings. But I'm getting what I consider to be acceptable performance
on some unspecified resolution!" How very helpful of you.

> Gigabyte mobo,
> and 500meg ram.

500meg? Perhaps your mean 512MB, as ram configurations typically occur
in power of 2s.

> OS WinXPHome. Am using the
> latest catalyst drivers for XP, and that did make a big
> difference on the 9000. I've tested a 9200, and the
> new drivers are needed there too. I just built a P4
> system with an ATI 9600XT, and it autodetected
> to medium settings all. Really looks good, esp the
> surf and wind in the palm trees and brush. Entire
> game moved up a level regards special effects, but
> overall, the game play is the same. Something I've
> learned over the years doing this. If you have an out
> of order weirdie going on, 99% of the time,

I'm sorry. Were you just criticizing the previous poster for not
"speaking English?" Would you care to explain what an "out of order
weirdie" is exactly?

> it is something
> like the data cable to the hard drive is not fully seated,
> or is just bad. I don't know why, but the general apps
> and the OS will run normal, but hot games absolutely
> will not run if your data cable is bad or noisy.

Wow. Your technical experience must be far and wide-reaching for you to
reach the conclusion that "99%" of "out of order weirdies" are caused by
"hot games" running on bad or noisy hard drive cables that are not fully
seated. No wonder you get to criticize people on usenet, you've
obviously earned the respect of your peers.

>
> johns
>

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On 27 Apr 2004 14:34:27 GMT, wblane@aol.combotizer (Wblane) waffled on
about something:

>I've got a Barton running at 2346 Mhz (202 Mhz FSB) on an NF7sv2.0 w/a 9800 Pro
>and I can't run the Far Cry demo smoothly even at 1024x768 (all details maxed).
>I have my AF set to 16x forced on my Cat 4.4's on 98SE. Is this what's slowing
>the Far Cry demo down to a crawl? The game just has points where it lags bad
>for about a second then clears up and runs fine.
>
>Does the actual, released Far Cry game run any better than the demo?
>-Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email)

Loose the AF.

I never played the demo on my machine, but the full release is
stunning on my P4c-3.0 and AIW 9800SE (Unlocked pipes, so it's a
9800pro) cat 4.3. I have 1 gig of ram and I've been told that helps.

I let it auto detect my hardware (it detected I have a monster game
machine) and just ran at the max setting is selected.

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On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:29:42 -0700, "johns" <johnsxxx@mudbog.edu>
waffled on about something:

>Why don't you try speaking English, so I can understand
>what you have?

I thought he was.

>What is a Barton?

Athlon XP, from his overclock I would assume it's an XP 3200+

>Why are you running on W98SE?

I'm amazed anyone is still able to run this! The last one I saw was so
clogged up with registry left overs, spyware etc felt like it was
running on an original XT... Oh, sorry, English... Err... very early
IBM PC that had a 4.something Mhz cpu.

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Perhaps the most unhelpful reply of the month..

As for problem: What is the size of pagefile for win98se you are using?.
And like many said, drop the 16x AF to something like 4X or 8X. See if that
makes the problem go away.
Disable VPU recover, see if that helps.
Is Fastwrites enabled in mobo bios? disable it.
Set agp apperture to 1 notch higher than current setting, i think that might
be the prime suspect.

"johns" <johnsxxx@mudbog.edu> wrote in message
news:c6m1po$m1n$1@kestrel.csrv.uidaho.edu...
> Why don't you try speaking English, so I can understand
> what you have? What is a Barton? Why are you running
> on W98SE? There's your problem. 98 runs mostly in
> software mode no matter what hardware you have. I
> have an ATI Radeon 9000 pro, and both the game
> and demo run fine. Autodetect put it in low settings
> with one medium, but it looks great, and the frame
> rate is fine. CPU is AMD 2000XT, Gigabyte mobo,
> and 500meg ram. OS WinXPHome. Am using the
> latest catalyst drivers for XP, and that did make a big
> difference on the 9000. I've tested a 9200, and the
> new drivers are needed there too. I just built a P4
> system with an ATI 9600XT, and it autodetected
> to medium settings all. Really looks good, esp the
> surf and wind in the palm trees and brush. Entire
> game moved up a level regards special effects, but
> overall, the game play is the same. Something I've
> learned over the years doing this. If you have an out
> of order weirdie going on, 99% of the time, it is something
> like the data cable to the hard drive is not fully seated,
> or is just bad. I don't know why, but the general apps
> and the OS will run normal, but hot games absolutely
> will not run if your data cable is bad or noisy.
>
> johns
>
>

 

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"johns" <johnsxxx@mudbog.edu> wrote in message
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> Why don't you try speaking English, so I can understand
> what you have? What is a Barton? Why are you running
> on W98SE? There's your problem. 98 runs mostly in
> software mode no matter what hardware you have. I
> have an ATI Radeon 9000 pro, and both the game
> and demo run fine. Autodetect put it in low settings
> with one medium, but it looks great, and the frame
> rate is fine. CPU is AMD 2000XT, Gigabyte mobo,
> and 500meg ram. OS WinXPHome. Am using the
> latest catalyst drivers for XP, and that did make a big
> difference on the 9000. I've tested a 9200, and the
> new drivers are needed there too. I just built a P4
> system with an ATI 9600XT, and it autodetected
> to medium settings all. Really looks good, esp the
> surf and wind in the palm trees and brush. Entire
> game moved up a level regards special effects, but
> overall, the game play is the same. Something I've
> learned over the years doing this. If you have an out
> of order weirdie going on, 99% of the time, it is something
> like the data cable to the hard drive is not fully seated,
> or is just bad. I don't know why, but the general apps
> and the OS will run normal, but hot games absolutely
> will not run if your data cable is bad or noisy.
>
> johns


This reply demonstrates ignorance and a complete lack of knowledge on the
part of the poster. I especially liked the "try speaking English" opening,
followed by 10 or 12 spelling, syntax and grammar errors.

 

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On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 19:31:54 GMT, "Asestar" <a s e s t a r @ s t a r t
.. n o> wrote:

>Perhaps the most unhelpful reply of the month..

True it was, but ..... the O/P never stated Win98, the 98 in dispute
is an ATi 9800 Pro.

Regards, BoroLad

 

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borolad@myowseintheboro.org wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 19:31:54 GMT, "Asestar" <a s e s t a r @ s t a r t
> . n o> wrote:
>
>
>>Perhaps the most unhelpful reply of the month..
>
>
> True it was, but ..... the O/P never stated Win98, the 98 in dispute
> is an ATi 9800 Pro.
>
> Regards, BoroLad

Quote the original poster: "I have my AF set to 16x forced on my Cat
4.4's on 98SE"

That would indicate to me that he *was* running Windows 98.

 

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> >>Perhaps the most unhelpful reply of the month..
> >
> >
> > True it was, but ..... the O/P never stated Win98, the 98 in dispute
> > is an ATi 9800 Pro.
> >
> > Regards, BoroLad
>
> Quote the original poster: "I have my AF set to 16x forced on my Cat
> 4.4's on 98SE"
>
> That would indicate to me that he *was* running Windows 98.


Which brings another question, is catalyst 4.4 AVAILABLE for win98
anymore???? I tought cat4.3 was the last one?

What the heck is going on??

 

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On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 18:48:00 +0100, Dodgy
<Dodgy@earth.planet.universe> wrote:

>On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:29:42 -0700, "johns" <johnsxxx@mudbog.edu>
>waffled on about something:

>>Why don't you try speaking English, so I can understand
>>what you have?

>I thought he was.

>>What is a Barton?

>Athlon XP, from his overclock I would assume it's an XP 3200+

2500's run at 3200's on this MOBO

>>Why are you running on W98SE?

He's not, " NF7sv2.0 w/a 9800 Pro " the 9800 Pro is an ATi card and
this is an ATi group.

>I'm amazed anyone is still able to run this! The last one I saw was so
>clogged up with registry left overs, spyware etc felt like it was
>running on an original XT... Oh, sorry, English... Err... very early
>IBM PC that had a 4.something Mhz cpu.

The O/P never stated Win98

>D0d6y.

Regards, BoroLad

 

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> >>Why are you running on W98SE?
>
> He's not, " NF7sv2.0 w/a 9800 Pro " the 9800 Pro is an ATi card and
> this is an ATi group.

> >I'm amazed anyone is still able to run this! The last one I saw was so
> >clogged up with registry left overs, spyware etc felt like it was
> >running on an original XT... Oh, sorry, English... Err... very early
> >IBM PC that had a 4.something Mhz cpu.
>
> The O/P never stated Win98

Read the 3rd line of original post again. "I have my AF set to 16x forced on
my Cat 4.4's on 98SE".

Which brings another question, is catalyst 4.4 AVAILABLE for win98
anymore???? I tought cat4.3 was the last one?

What the heck is going on??

> >D0d6y.
> Regards, BoroLad

 

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On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 18:48:00 +0100, Dodgy
<Dodgy@earth.planet.universe> wrote:

>>Why are you running on W98SE?
>
>I'm amazed anyone is still able to run this! The last one I saw was so
>clogged up with registry left overs, spyware etc felt like it was
>running on an original XT... Oh, sorry, English... Err... very early
>IBM PC that had a 4.something Mhz cpu.

Perhaps an Ad-Aware clean up might help, or an optimiser program?
--

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computer "at" richardsuk.f9.co.uk

XP Home
L7S7A2 motherboard
Powercolor 9800 SE 8 pipelines 438/364 with Omega drivers
1 GB RAM
10 GB + 80 GB HDs
CD+DVD/CDRW drives

 

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On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:30:31 -0500, cK-Gunslinger <cK@nowayinhell.net>
wrote:

>borolad@myowseintheboro.org wrote:
>> On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 19:31:54 GMT, "Asestar" <a s e s t a r @ s t a r t
>> . n o> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Perhaps the most unhelpful reply of the month..
>>
>>
>> True it was, but ..... the O/P never stated Win98, the 98 in dispute
>> is an ATi 9800 Pro.
>>
>> Regards, BoroLad
>
>Quote the original poster: "I have my AF set to 16x forced on my Cat
>4.4's on 98SE"
>
>That would indicate to me that he *was* running Windows 98.


And it makes me wonder how he's running Catalyst 4.4 on W98SE. Or has
someone hacked them for this?


patrickp

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Maybe that's the real problem! Somehow he managed to install a driver
written for 2000/xp plateform on win98. That's just insane..

"patrickp" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:30:31 -0500, cK-Gunslinger <cK@nowayinhell.net>
> wrote:
>
> >borolad@myowseintheboro.org wrote:
> >> On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 19:31:54 GMT, "Asestar" <a s e s t a r @ s t a r t
> >> . n o> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Perhaps the most unhelpful reply of the month..
> >>
> >>
> >> True it was, but ..... the O/P never stated Win98, the 98 in dispute
> >> is an ATi 9800 Pro.
> >>
> >> Regards, BoroLad
> >
> >Quote the original poster: "I have my AF set to 16x forced on my Cat
> >4.4's on 98SE"
> >
> >That would indicate to me that he *was* running Windows 98.
>
>
> And it makes me wonder how he's running Catalyst 4.4 on W98SE. Or has
> someone hacked them for this?
>
>
> patrickp
>
> patrickp@5acoustibop.co.uk - take five to email me

 

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You're right it's CAT 4.3's, can't get Cat 4.4's for 98SE or ME.

I've got an even stranger problem now. I upgraded the Far Cry demo by d'loading
the research level. The new textures blink on and off and make the game
impossible to play now. Could this be a Cat 4.3 issue?

I"m going to try cranking down the AF by one notch.

>Read the 3rd line of original post again. "I have my AF set to 16x forced on
>my Cat 4.4's on 98SE".
>
>Which brings another question, is catalyst 4.4 AVAILABLE for win98
>anymore???? I tought cat4.3 was the last one?
>
>What the heck is going on??
>


-Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email)

 

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I just dropped the pagefile from 256MB to 128MB. I'm going to try dropping the
AF to 8x next. BTW, I've heard that anything less than 8x AF on ATI vid-cards
is a complete waste of time and unnoticeable. I still wish I could find the
website that did a complete rundown on AF settings for both Nvidia and ATI it
was the last word on AF.

Fastwrites is enabled, it's never caused me a problem in any other game.

I may try increasing the AGP aperture size but it's already at 512MB! The next
step would be 1 GB!

>As for problem: What is the size of pagefile for win98se you are using?.
>And like many said, drop the 16x AF to something like 4X or 8X. See if that
>makes the problem go away.
>Disable VPU recover, see if that helps.
>Is Fastwrites enabled in mobo bios? disable it.
>Set agp apperture to 1 notch higher than current setting, i think that might
>be the prime suspect.


-Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email)

 

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On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 22:05:07 GMT, "Asestar" <a s e s t a r @ s t a r t
.. n o> wrote:

>> >>Why are you running on W98SE?

>> He's not, " NF7sv2.0 w/a 9800 Pro " the 9800 Pro is an ATi card and
>> this is an ATi group.

>> >I'm amazed anyone is still able to run this! The last one I saw was so
>> >clogged up with registry left overs, spyware etc felt like it was
>> >running on an original XT... Oh, sorry, English... Err... very early
>> >IBM PC that had a 4.something Mhz cpu.

>> The O/P never stated Win98

>Read the 3rd line of original post again. "I have my AF set to 16x forced on
>my Cat 4.4's on 98SE".

Your right my wrong - Asestar & Dodgy - missed it - need new glasses !

>Which brings another question, is catalyst 4.4 AVAILABLE for win98
>anymore???? I tought cat4.3 was the last one?

>What the heck is going on??

>> >D0d6y.
>> Regards, BoroLad
BoroLad

 

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On 28 Apr 2004 04:47:41 GMT, wblane@aol.combotizer (Wblane) wrote:

>I just dropped the pagefile from 256MB to 128MB. I'm going to try dropping the
>AF to 8x next. BTW, I've heard that anything less than 8x AF on ATI vid-cards
>is a complete waste of time and unnoticeable. I still wish I could find the
>website that did a complete rundown on AF settings for both Nvidia and ATI it
>was the last word on AF.

>Fastwrites is enabled, it's never caused me a problem in any other game.

>I may try increasing the AGP aperture size but it's already at 512MB! The next
>step would be 1 GB!

That means you are allowing your O/S to ' call ' 512MB of your system
ram - how much ram in your machine ?

Bit speculative but, instead of increasing it, try going down to 64MB.
Have you tried disabling video & system shadowing/caching ?

>>As for problem: What is the size of pagefile for win98se you are using?.
>>And like many said, drop the 16x AF to something like 4X or 8X. See if that
>>makes the problem go away.
>>Disable VPU recover, see if that helps.
>>Is Fastwrites enabled in mobo bios? disable it.
>>Set agp apperture to 1 notch higher than current setting, i think that might
>>be the prime suspect.

>-Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email)
BoroLad

 

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On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 07:32:46 +0100, borolad@myowseintheboro.org
waffled on about something:

>On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 22:05:07 GMT, "Asestar" <a s e s t a r @ s t a r t
>. n o> wrote:
>
>>> >>Why are you running on W98SE?
>
>>> He's not, " NF7sv2.0 w/a 9800 Pro " the 9800 Pro is an ATi card and
>>> this is an ATi group.
>
>>> >I'm amazed anyone is still able to run this! The last one I saw was so
>>> >clogged up with registry left overs, spyware etc felt like it was
>>> >running on an original XT... Oh, sorry, English... Err... very early
>>> >IBM PC that had a 4.something Mhz cpu.
>
>>> The O/P never stated Win98
>
>>Read the 3rd line of original post again. "I have my AF set to 16x forced on
>>my Cat 4.4's on 98SE".
>
>Your right my wrong - Asestar & Dodgy - missed it - need new glasses !

You're forgiven, but I think we're going to save the glasses for the
O/P. He's gonna need them more after looking at those blinking
textures!

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On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 22:43:43 +0100, Julian Richards <see@sig.co.uk>
waffled on about something:

>On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 18:48:00 +0100, Dodgy
><Dodgy@earth.planet.universe> wrote:
>
>>>Why are you running on W98SE?
>>
>>I'm amazed anyone is still able to run this! The last one I saw was so
>>clogged up with registry left overs, spyware etc felt like it was
>>running on an original XT... Oh, sorry, English... Err... very early
>>IBM PC that had a 4.something Mhz cpu.
>
>Perhaps an Ad-Aware clean up might help, or an optimiser program?

I found the best cure was windows 2000!

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On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 10:01:16 +0100, Dodgy
<Dodgy@earth.planet.universe> wrote:

>On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 22:43:43 +0100, Julian Richards <see@sig.co.uk>
>waffled on about something:
>
>>On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 18:48:00 +0100, Dodgy
>><Dodgy@earth.planet.universe> wrote:
>>
>>>>Why are you running on W98SE?
>>>
>>>I'm amazed anyone is still able to run this! The last one I saw was so
>>>clogged up with registry left overs, spyware etc felt like it was
>>>running on an original XT... Oh, sorry, English... Err... very early
>>>IBM PC that had a 4.something Mhz cpu.
>>
>>Perhaps an Ad-Aware clean up might help, or an optimiser program?
>
>I found the best cure was windows 2000!

Win98 users by definition have very deep pockets and very short arms
when paying out for new software.
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Powercolor 9800 SE 8 pipelines 438/364 with Omega drivers
1 GB RAM
10 GB + 80 GB HDs
CD+DVD/CDRW drives

 

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> Win98 users by definition have very deep pockets and very short arms
> when paying out for new software.

Huh? People actually PAY for Microsoft operating systems? Interesting ...

 

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In your case, set the page file = your system Ram. Don't set this on C:
drive, use another. 256mb might be too little.

Apperture size is WAY too high there. I think try 64mb or 128mb max, no
higher.

Turn off Fast-Writes. They don't do any good anyways.

See if that helps. If not, consider upgrading windows to xp or 2k.


"Wblane" <wblane@aol.combotizer> wrote in message
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> I just dropped the pagefile from 256MB to 128MB. I'm going to try dropping
the
> AF to 8x next. BTW, I've heard that anything less than 8x AF on ATI
vid-cards
> is a complete waste of time and unnoticeable. I still wish I could find
the
> website that did a complete rundown on AF settings for both Nvidia and ATI
it
> was the last word on AF.
>
> Fastwrites is enabled, it's never caused me a problem in any other game.
>
> I may try increasing the AGP aperture size but it's already at 512MB! The
next
> step would be 1 GB!
>
> >As for problem: What is the size of pagefile for win98se you are using?.
> >And like many said, drop the 16x AF to something like 4X or 8X. See if
that
> >makes the problem go away.
> >Disable VPU recover, see if that helps.
> >Is Fastwrites enabled in mobo bios? disable it.
> >Set agp apperture to 1 notch higher than current setting, i think that
might
> >be the prime suspect.
>
>
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On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 21:42:05 GMT, "Asestar" <a s e s t a r @ s t a r t
.. n o> waffled on about something:

>I get my MS stuff the oem way
>Had to RMA 3 laptops during last 1 year, all with ati cards, tough they were
>not at fault. So now I proudly own 3 win xp home cd's, 2 Office xp, 1 Office
>2003, encarta 2002-2004 and a lot of works suite stuff... and all with their
>own cd-keys

You actually got CD's with your machines?

/me feels faint.

When the HDD on my laptop died I lost the only win2k oem install set I
had, it was all preloaded on the HDD, so I had to "acquire" a hooky
win2k cd and install that. Of course the oem serial number on the
bottom of the laptop wouldn't work with it, so technically I'm running
1 pirated win2k and the legit version isn't being used anywhere.

D0d6y.
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