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Joe Cooler wrote:

Axtech wrote:Well, I'm just playing around with demos right now, so drivers won't help.


Question: Do Mac users have to deal with all this shit? I know this is bordering on blasphemy, but it's starting to become tempting...

What do you mean drivers wont help? A driver will effect how a game runs, regardless of whether its a demo.

Seriously? I just assumed that patches were written for the full release, and wouldn't work with the demo.

Don't know why I thought that, really.

AnnieDreams wrote:

saman wrote:it doesn't really matter if it's the same version of winamp if you don't have the codec, i believe. anyway, good for you for figuring it out

Really? That was probably it, then. Ah well, it works now.

Coincidentally, what I was watching was a Richard Dean Anderson show...

stargate? was it stargate???

Axtech wrote:

Joe Cooler wrote:

Axtech wrote:Well, I'm just playing around with demos right now, so drivers won't help.


Question: Do Mac users have to deal with all this shit? I know this is bordering on blasphemy, but it's starting to become tempting...

What do you mean drivers wont help? A driver will effect how a game runs, regardless of whether its a demo.

Seriously? I just assumed that patches were written for the full release, and wouldn't work with the demo.

Don't know why I thought that, really.

i apparently missed that part of your post
i blame the mac panthers.
anyways.. the drivers and what not are tailored for the fx card in conjunction with the games built in settings so they would help demos
not always tho
it depends on what features of the demo are locked

The graphics driver is the program that runs your video card. It doesnt really distinguish between what game your playing. A video card driver that is out of date, may not be able to recognize some of the new features in say Doom 3, thus a whole bunch of grafical errors will appear. Secondly make sure you have Directx 9.0. Doom 3 simply will not run at all without it, where as a game like Half Life 2 can. (although it doesnt look as nice.)

Nah... it was MacGyver. I learned quite the wisdom from it though!
"the thing about a junkyard is treasure you find is libel to be something another fellow lost - and sometimes he wants it back. Real bad."

there are some game specific drivers too

i've never seen MacGyver, but if it's got Richard Dean Anderson in it, it's bound to be good

Not only Richard Dean Anderson. Richard Dean Anderson... with a mullet!

True enough. I guess for a game as specialized as Doom3, they could really help. I guess what i'm saying though is, that if the game has a whole bunch of graffical glitches, its your driver or Direct X. That or your card doesnt have any Direct X 9 support if you have it already.

AnnieDreams wrote:Not only Richard Dean Anderson. Richard Dean Anderson... with a mullet!

hahaha that's one awesome mullet.

i'm glad he got rid of it for stargate though

Yeah, it would have been a little hard to take him seriously...

Joe Cooler wrote:True enough. I guess for a game as specialized as Doom3, they could really help. I guess what i'm saying though is, that if the game has a whole bunch of graffical glitches, its your driver or Direct X. That or your card doesnt have any Direct X 9 support if you have it already.

usually games like doom (in the past i mean when i actually played them) have released card-specific drivers thru nvdia and ati due to the complexity of the imagery and crap

with half life tho.. they took so much time perfecting the graphics engine for the game that for the most part they didnt have to do that stuff

I like how two COMPLETELY different conversations are going on in this thread simultaneously.

i do too

btw
sammy

i stole aishwarya back
shes mine
forever!

I tried getting the patch to go with the Doom 3 demo, but it wouldn't install since there wasn't a "current" (full) version of the game installed. Doesn't matter. I've switched to console gaming for the time being.

What's a good program for burning DVDs?

Specifically, a good program that is quick to download. I'm using the prog that comes with my DVD burner, but I can only get it to work when I burn at a hideously slow speed, because otherwise it says 'there is not enough space in the temporary directory' (even when I've got like 3 gigs free of space)

Is there any (uncomplicated) way to fix a video file where the video and audio are terribly out of sync?

if they are out of sync the whole time you can use an editing program to extract the audio clip from the video and then move the audio track over to the correct spot, so that they are synched.