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voted leave BF Sever and change RO to Dedicated. I am right in assuming with the dedicated box you can run multiple games on the same box eg 1x 32 TF2 and 1xCOD4?
Answers on a postcard please.
Did you buy Northern Strike from the EA Download Manager? (Previously EA Link) or did you buy a physical copy?
If you bought it from EA Store it is tied to your EA.com Account/Email Address so you need to make sure that the email address for the account is the same as the other titles you own via the EA Download Manager.
So for example if your ea.com accountname is Messyisabigfatghey and you registered that account using an email address of messyisafudgepackinmincer@hotmail.com that is the email address you use to login to the new EA Download Manager and will show you your entitlement for all the content you own through the DRM tool. I know that they also recently( month or so.) merged people who had multiple EA.com accounts into a single account as alot of people registered different games to different account and could remember which one was register to whcih game.
You can check that the email address via the EA.com portal https://profile.ea.com/login.do;jsessionid=B6BD5B4FCAF5F6B25BC46D29C5CCCA80.232082?surl=myinfo.do
Let me know if this works or not or get hold of me on msn or TS tonight and I’ll see if I can sort it for you.
@=XDC=iNSANE wrote:
Either 2 much money and no sense or you just didnt read Judges post 🙂
£354 for an extra 6FPS.. bargain 😆
The orginal question that seemed to be lost was; ‘I thinking of getting a HD2600Pro will I be able to run Crysis on this card?’
Which feedback has been provided from real time experiences 😉 Whilst this card may run Crysis you would probably have to compomise some of the eye candy to make it semi playable.
I agree that the differences between the HD 2900 XT are negligable when you compare the price differentials of roughly £250 for the ATI vs £450 for the Nvidia 8800 Ultra. The 8800 GTX can be clocked easily to match the Ultra perfomance. So £200 for a 6fps increase doesn’t really justify the additional outlay.
However, there are distinct differences ( and I wont go into them here unless some specifically asks for it to avoid the inevitable ‘Geek ‘ references that are bound to be posted.)to the GPU and Rendering Architechture which when you compare the Nvidia across multiple games/apps then it is a more capable card.
It all comes down to personal preference and budget. You can easily cherry pick a particular result from a specific test to highlight the benefits for each vendor. It’s the overall scores across a suite of tests that are more respresentative of ‘overall’ performance but again you can skew these either way if your trying to validate a particular point.
Anyhoo, it’s the same old debate as the ‘Intel vs AMD’ and at the end of the day you go with what gives you the best performance to match your budget.
@=XDC=iNSANE wrote:
I’ve had 17 years but I’m not as boring as you 🙂
ok how many levels are there before the ghey aliens come into it…
1.33333333333333 recurring 😛
@=XDC=iNSANE wrote:
fuck me.. what you been eating today Lammie.. or has someone hacked your PC.. cant be Legit as the posts are making sense!
I was going to upgrade for Crysis.. but the whole alien bollocks and ghey alien weapons put me right off it.. I’ll wait for something else thats DX10 which will stay true to the cause
There are some Sci-Fi Weapons as you so eloquently put it but there are also amuch more of a range of more conventional and fully customisable weapons too.
With regards to the posts today? well it’s quiet at work at the moment and seeing I have almost 15yrs hardware background I knows a thing or three 😉
PCi-E will be the preferred architecture for the time being mate, no doubt something else will come along in the next couple of years to supercede it but at the moment PCi-E is the industry standard.
Personally, If you really want to get the best out of the game then you need a high spec fully compliant DX10 Card/Vista.
I have played this game on XP/DX9 with a very highend machine at i31 and it looked amazing.
With regards to HD2600pro not a bad card, but if you can afford it I would opt for the 8800 Nvidia.
This game absolutley hammers your hardware so unless your machine is reasonably upto date hardware wise you are going to struggle because this game really does raise the bar and is deliberately aimed at the High End market. This in itself is a shame given the hype an anticipation being generated.
This seems to be a strategy some developers/publishers are doing down at the moment to highlight the benefits of keeping on the bleeding edge of the hardware curve.
Whilst the majority of titles will cater for wider scatter of hardware requirements they are increasing looking to exploit the advantages of DX10 Hardware and software.
So whilst the card would probably run it OK on maybe low to medium settings and some of the eye candy turned off other hardware components maybe serve as a bottleneck and wouldn’t really do the game the justice it deserves. If you are fortunate enough to be on the high end of the hardware curve then this game will look awsome Crytek2 Engine.
From the Crytek persective this is always how they intended this game to be played at the bleeding edge, but obviously they have to cater for some degree of backward and DX9 compatabilty.
@=XDC=iNSANE wrote:
I like the sound of this Army of Two for online ness.. and I’d have thought you’d have live to play FIFA08.. FIFA is nothing with online play!
Agreed although I need to purchase Fifa 2008 as PES 6 is the bigest pile and crap I have every played
Hello mate,
To be honest there isnt that much between the two despite all the media hype from both camps but here I’ll try an highlight some of the pro’s can con’s for both.
Xbox 360 been around longer more choice of titles and pretty aggressively priced. Even the new Xbox Elite which has full HDMI compatability is around the same price as the recently reduced PS3 60Gb model.
PS3 has built in Blu-Ray whereas the Elite has 120GB HDD the HD-DVD is still £120 addition option.
Xbox Live, and absolute must – £40 annual cost for gold membership, PS3 will have a similar portal call Home (although not launched yet) this is supposed to be free, but I’m sure the will be a similarly priced Anuual cost (Xbox Live Gold equivalent) announced soon to mirror Xbox Live.
Even though they have reduced the price and also announced a cheaper entry model that does not have the PS2 backwards compatability the thing that has really killed PS3 really taking on Xbox 360 was there pricing points at launch. This in reality has forced their hand to reduce the cost because they are simply not shipping the units they expected and not the marketing crap they spout about having recouped some off their intial costs from the sucessful launch.
I do expect the PS3 to regain some serious ground on Xbox360 once more titles come online which fully make use of the cell processors in the PS3 but for the time being there is not alot in it.
If you can hold off another few weeks as all the major retailers start ramping up for xmas I would see you getting some bargains on the PS3 as they all try to sell an many units as possible.
Hope that helps
Not with NTL/Virgin Media are you by any chance? I know when I had a problem with them it was over a week before they got an engineer out 👿
@=XDC=OldPhart wrote:
Right Chaps
Multiplay does do dedicated servers. Costs Below. The dedicated server means it is not shared and you can run any game you like, whenever you like.
Lite – Monthly Cost £50.00
Pro – £65.00
Pro-64 – £139.00
Pro-Dual – £149.00
Ultra – £249.00
Ultra Extreme – £289.00
Ultimate – £459.00
Ultimate Extreme – £549.00They also do a server that has TF2, CS and a few others for around £50 per month?
So we can gauge an accurate comparison what do we currently pay per month for the RO Server and how does this fit with the pricing matricies above?
Here are the details on each Package Pharty has listed.
Dedicated Lite
Guaranteed minimum spec: Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz, 1024MB RAM, 40GB HD
Free 50MB of webspace
Free 24-player teamspeak or ventrilo server
Estimates** of Server Use:
1 x 24-player Battlefield 2 Server or
1 x 16 player Unreal Tournament XMP + 1 x 8-player MOHAA or
1 x 12-player MOHAA, 1 x 12-player CoDDedicated Pro
Guaranteed minimum spec: Intel Pentium 4 2.6GHz, 1024MB RAM, 40GB HD
Free 100MB of webspace
Free 24-player teamspeak or ventrilo server
Estimates** of server use:
1 x 32-player BF2 server, or
1 x 64-player MOHAA server, or
3 x 20-player MOHAA servers, or
2 x 20-player BF1942 server, or
1 x 16-player Unreal XMP serverDedicated Pro 64
Guaranteed minimum spec: AMD 64-bit 3200+, 1024MB RAM, 40GB HD
Free 100MB of webspace
Free 32-player teamspeak or ventrilo server
Estimates** of server use:
1 x 64-player BF2 server, or
1 x 64-player MOHAA server, or
3 x 20-player MOHAA servers, or
2 x 20-player BF1942 server, or
1 x 16-player Unreal XMP serverDedicated Pro Dual
Guaranteed minimum spec: Dual Intel Xeon 2.66GHz, 2048MB RAM, 80GB HD
Free 200MB of webspace
Free 32-player teamspeak or ventrilo server
Estimates** of server use:
2 x 32-player BF2 servers, or
6 x 20-player MOHAA servers, or
4 x 24-player BF1942 servers, or
4 x 12 player UT 2004 serversDedicated Ultra
Guaranteed minimum spec: Dual Core AMD Athlon 64 4400+, 2048MB RAM, 120GB HD
Free 400MB of webspace
Free 64-player teamspeak or ventrilo server
Estimates** of server use:
2 x 64-player BF2 servers, or
6 x 24-player MOHAA servers, or
4 x 24-player Half-Life servers, or
4 x 24-player BF1942 servers, or
6 x 12-player UT2004 servers, or
2 x 32-player UT2004 Onslaught serversDedicated Ultra Extreme
Guaranteed minimum spec: Dual Core Intel Core 2 E6700+, 2048MB RAM, 120GB HD
Free 400MB of webspace
Free 64-player teamspeak or ventrilo server
Estimates** of server use:
2 x 64-player BF2/2142 servers, or
2 x 48+ player BF2142 titan servers, or
4 x 20-player 100TR CSS servers, or
4 x 24-player Stalker serversDedicated Ultimate
Guaranteed minimum spec: Dual AMD Opteron 275 dual core 64-bit processor, 2048MB RAM, 250GB HD
Free 1000 MB of webspace
Free 128-player teamspeak or ventrilo server
Estaimtes** of server use:
4 x 64-player BF2 servers, or
12 x 24-player MOHAA servers, or
8 x 24-player Half-Life servers, or
8 x 24-player BF1942 servers, or
12 x 12-player UT2004 servers, or
4 x 32-player UT2004 Onslaught serversDedicated Ultimate Extreme
Guaranteed minimum spec: Dual Intel Core2 processor, 2048MB RAM, 160GB HD
Free 1000 MB of webspace
Free 128-player teamspeak or ventrilo server
