Deadly_Nightshade

MMOs are NOT banned.

Humm... I cannot remember a game that made me "jump" - even though I've played plenty of games who attempted to make me do that.

That's what WINE is for (in some cases).

Yes, I'm sure "Tuxradar" is not pro-Ubuntu... EDIT: Interesting read though. Too bad they didn't include any gaming data.

In some ways, yes. In others, no - it does not. I've got to disagree with you there... And also an equally good reason why you should let the dead rest...

No, I think it's going to be free for the PC gamers - just like the Team Fortress 2 "expansion pack" was.

More Left 4 Dead goodness is on the way!

Only if you plan on doing more than just game. Incorrect. Given the choice between gaming on a console and gaming on a PC I will almost always choose the PC - even if gaming is all I was going to do on it.

Little Big Planet

I'm currently playing my latest bargain-bin find - Timeshift!

If you don't want to use an activation when playing it there are ways around that...

"Have a nice day"

I was about to post something like this...

Me too.

I ran FurMark some more with all the settings set to max just to see if that would fry bother the card and it did not, although i only ran it for sixteen minutes. I guess that's a good thing... Maybe I'm just lucky and it was either a problem with Rainbow Six Vegas 2 or a lone error...

Because they're annoying gits?

Oh, I would not have done that. Valve has been, accourding to the Steam forums, neglecting the 360 when it comes to patches - or rather the patches are always late, if they come at all, due to Microsoft's handling of them.

Lulz. :(

Well... I would say it's as good -if not better than- KotoR I. Of course I'm not done with it yet...

Mass Effect 2... On the PC!

I might get it... if it is more interesting than the previews make it out to be.

Well, I'm running FurMark now and it's been cranking for about twenty minutes without any problems (I'd rather know it's a bad GPU and have it die then not know and have a dead laptop when I really need it). I'll try Fallout and the high-res pack later. Anyways, so far so good.

Yeah it is a 8600M GT, so I'll try to adjust the fan and see if it gets better. If not, well, I looked at replacement costs and it would be less than $200 - although I might simply buy another laptop and use this one for parts (the original price was only about $600-700 and so $200 is about a third of the cost of a new one). Any other ideas of how to maximize the life expectancy? EDIT: It seems, so far, to only happen when rainbow Six Vegas 2 is running (it was minimized for the screenshot as I was trying to see if only the game was affected) - could it be an issue with that program that is causing the artifacts or does it still look like a dying card?

Here's a screenshot of the desktop - although a restart fixed the problem (for now). Think my videocard is dying -that would be a pian as this is from my laptop-, or was it a glitch?