After the smoke cleared.... So, it has been a couple weeks since Mass Effect hit store shelves in the US. Comparing relative success of this title to others that had a console version come out a few months earlier, did it do as well as it should, or did it...

8800gs does it. :pt1cable: awhile back while playing NFS III on a Dell XPS running a 700 MHz Pentium III, whenever there was smoke the framerates would drop considerably, but once the smoke cleared, play was fine. The videocard was an NVidia, 32MB. Hmmmm....

and Gentlemen, please remain in your seats until Capt. Crash and the crew have brought the aircraft to a screeching halt against the gate. And, once the tire smoke has cleared and the warning bells are silenced, we'll open the door and you can pick your...

On the other hand, selecting "abort" will require you to start the whole tedious, maddening process over again. Your choice. When the smoke has cleared insert Disc A2 (marked "Disc A1") and repeat as directed with all 187 of the other discs. When installation...

in the hard drive. On the other hand, selecting "abort" will require you to start the whole tedious, maddening process over again. Your choice. When the smoke has cleared insert Disc A2 (marked "Disc A1") and repeat as directed with all 187 of the other...

laptop...whats best company. hey guys what would you say the best company for buying a laptop is?...alienware and voodoo and falcon-nw are too pricy...and i customized a fairly good laptop for a good price with HP...what do you guys think is the best company...

smilies in it. Well, BoM really needs to expand all right. They need to expand to a wider audience, and thats higher tech as well as answering "I spilled my softdrink on my computer, and after the smoke cleared, I saw my c o m p u t e r was...

The Golden Age of Gaming. Archived from groups: alt.games.half-life () Are we in it or has it passed? I'd say we are in it, but past it's peak which for me was when I got my computer around 98 or 99. The new games just seem like graphically improved versions...

to smoke in private, in a manner that doesn't affect their kids, then they're perfectly welcome to do so. If they choose to smoke with a bunch of other people that smoke, in a manner that doesn't inflict second-hand smoke on anyone that doesn't want it, then...