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I'm also a big fan of the most recent Eastside Hockey Manager.

I think all the work spent on that would start to take away from the rest of the game. It's nice to dream though.

I quit playing them because I was owned. Brutally. Every time. Without fail. I could beat the computer, but not my friends. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I guess I'm being a bit too narrow, but I suppose this means you could very well have played some old classics like Blades of Steel and whatnot. I'm just so used to considering the first NHL Hockey game (the '92 one) as the "originator" since it pretty much started the trend of annual hockey games.

Oooo, for better or worse I don't usually associate racing games with sports games, so I didn't even think about Gran Turismo. I really enjoyed that game.

I always thought Theodore had quite a bit of hair. Maybe he's compensating...or Propecia is working

If you'd quit playing hockey games since the '92 version came out, I wonder if you can really claim that you ever started playing them :D I haven't played too many sports game unfortunately. The most recent one that offered a good challenge with decent playlength was probably Tiger Woods (I can't remember the year...2004 I think). NHL 06 is ok, but as always it gets to a point where I find it too easy to score. An older one that I really enjoyed was 4D-Boxing.

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Urge to conquer rising.....

I have that on my computer somewhere too

Ok. What time should I be there? Though it did seem like an 8 hour time zone difference, so I might be a little late.

I really hate that this incident has happened, if for no other reason than I don't particularly care about it, but it's all I have to listen to an see for hockey news.

It makes sense that it can't exceed 4 GB of memory, as that's the most you can address on a 32-bit processor.

No that's not exactly what I was talking about. I was curious about the default placement of the kernel into main memory. Though it could be I was confusing it with the 2 GB max for a single process. http://www.support.microsoft.com/default.a...kb;en-us;555223 Though I'm not familiar with the situation you describe either. I've only had one class that covered cache, and it was rather brief. Though I would think that given a 32-bit interface, it shouldn't really have a hard time addressing a 1GB of RAM (as 32-bits allows for addressing of 4 GB of data). And even then, the caching would only be necessary when memory is actually used. No sense caching something that isn't used. Though I suppose I could see potential problems with once you start getting into set associative cache....though even then I wouldn't think you would

Never one to disappoint. http://www.flashplayer.com/animation/8bitdnd.html

Hehehe, I _hate_ that tech support response.

Tell that to George Zip! Bonus points if anyone can tell me the movie!

That's it? Just started a new game??? Oh well, sometimes it's the easy things that work the best

Heh, I chuckled about that too. On the other hand, at least Yzerman has shown that he still has sweet vision on the ice. Nice play to set up Schneider for the win.

Nope (not yet anyways :D). Though I have been spending a ton of time there as they have a games night once per week. Given I am also a tech-geek computer programmer, they either "forget" that I don't actually work there, or they just don't care. They don't go out of their way to tell me the dirtiest secrets and super inside information, but just in general discussion about things I'm pretty sure they probably say stuff that technically isn't "cleared" for someone such as myself. They probably also realize that I'm not an ass and wouldn't compromise my relationship with them anyways....given that the games nights are fun and I'd like to keep getting invited Plus it would ultimately leave my friend (as well as my new friends) responsible and I wouldn't want to see them get pooched over because of me anyways. Not about to go burning my bridges, so to speak. I did just start an internship on a project (ScriptEase) that does have a relatively close relationship to Bioware, given the nature of the project.

Everytime you quote Hudson, I like you a little more In any case, it's probably no longer prudent for me to actually comment anymore "

I think Fable's may have actually been cut content. At the very least, cut at some point, but perhaps not quite as much as KOTOR 2 in terms of finished product.

I'm hoping some sweet games are announced. Some more info on Spore would be nice too....it's really the only game I'm looking forward to. I am kind of curious if Bioware has made any substantial advances with respect to Dragon Age as well.

Hit CTRL-ALT-DEL to bring up Task Manager, and click on performance. Once your Page File usage at? Also, while you're here, there's something else that may work. When you are running the game, open up task manager and find the vampire process under the Processes tab. Right-Click on it, and select Set Priority and set it to one level above normal (appropriately called "Above Normal" if it truly is a CPU load issue, this *should* fix it, as it will give extra CPU cycles to the Vampire thread if it needs it (which I'm sure it could use, since running games can be pretty strenuous). Note, whatever you do, don't accidentally click on Realtime, because it means that ALL of your resources will go towards Vampire. As a result, I'm not even sure if you'd be able to get back into the game as there'd be no resources to handle Alt-Tabbing back into the game....I don't even think your mouse will move. The only way your other processes will get more CPU usage is if the game doesn't require ALL of the resources....and I wouldn't count on that Though to be honest, I'm not too optimistic that that will work either. You mention that it's limited to speech only. Perhaps exploring new audio drivers, or changing the hardware acceleration level of your audio chip would net some additional improvements as well. I'm kind of stumped as your problem is pretty isolated.

I saw a bit of the game, and New York was taking them to the cleaners.

To be honest, going down to 2 Gigs shouldn't really make a difference. I'm just sort of under the impression you get limited gains from going beyond it. Though you did mention that going to 2.5 GB did make other things act wierd, so I don't know. Try a HD defrag What's your swap file usage while running the game?