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Top 10 Best Selling PC Games For Feb. 12 The NPD Group has released its latest list of the top 10 best selling PC games in the US, this time for the week ending Feb. 12. 1 Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords LucasArts $41 2 World Of Warcraft Vivendi Universal $49 3 Half-Life 2 Vivendi Universal $53 4 The Sims 2 Electronic Arts $47 5 The Sims Deluxe Electronic Arts $18 #1 on the charts! http://www.cgonline.com/content/view/354/2/

Pats by at least 10.. and thats if they are having a off day.. eagles will prob be lucky to keep the pats from going more then 14 ahead. This is mostly a no brainer whos going to win.

*points to his sig*

Black Isle was the PUBLISHER for BG1/2, Bioware was the DEVELOPER. Bio did the majority of the work on the BG series and all the work for NWN1. BI OTOH did the fallout series, IWD series and planescape. With that said, I am very confidant Obsidian will do a EXCELLENT job with NWN2.

> I just don't see the point of Athlon64. I really don't care too much anyways... Thats fairly obvious. First of all, you can more power/bang for your buck vs a p4. Second you are future proof. When the 64bit OS/software hits your all set. Yet you still have excellent backward compatibility perfomance for 32bit. No current intel can do that. > Besides, when you have a fully loaded system with everything, a $300 difference makes a biiiiig difference. No idea what your talking about. We were discussing a low end p4 vs a amd64. You can get a amd64 3000+ with high end mobo for $260ish. Far from a '$300.' difference vs a p4. > Besides, I do other things than waste my life on the PC... Please.. get off your high horse. Your on enough apparently to reply in short amount of time to every one of my replies. If you feel you cant 'win' the debate just say so rather then pull this shollow stunt. > Price is the main difference and I'd rather pay $850 and get a 3.6 Xeon 64bit w/800FSB then purchase a $1200 AMD FX-55 or Operton processor. LOL.. you need to check your prices. Plus, have you seen the benchmarks between the two processors? Neither has a wide advantage over the other across the board. > See the point? Try comparing an Athlon64 3000+ - 4000+ or even FX-51 and see which processor wins (Xeon or A64). Yes, I admit I am a budget gamer partly because I am saving up for university (UPENN is still a lot even w/ a 20k scholarship), the only reason I bought a new PC was to get rid of an old 350mhz Your under the impression it seems the amd line is more expensive then the intel. Your are QUITE mistaken, intel you generally get poorer perfomance and pay more. In the end if you just like intel because of brand loyality just say so and leave it at that. But trying to throw price and benchmarks around will hurt your case more then help it.

*nods* Thats the charm of it in a nutshell. Simplicity yet the 'one more turn' addictive game play.

*Thinks this looks oddy familar for some reason..*

MokahTGS - well said and I agree 150%. I think they are going back(wards?) to the BG mentality. Very strong SP/story but MP being a afterthought. I feel DA will be a skilled modders dream but aside from hard core modders and SP only players I dont think DA is going to get much of a following. More along the lines of what the morrowind community looks like then that of NWN1. We shall see though.

Yes, default msg. It does not take into account if you have not bought a weapon yet. Prob done on purpose, to add to the tounge in cheek humor.

New link for the game. All chars have been reset as we moved over to the new ver of the game: http://www.nwn2news.net/lotgd enjoy!

wait a min.. theres acually "WORK" involved when you rule the world...? hhmmm now what am I going to do with my secret lair, my army of attack ninjas and super-duper mega gun I have pointed at the capitols of the G8 nations? *sigh* <_<

> Show me examples. I'm not doubting you but if you'd post some examples, it would be more helpful than restating your point 1000 times and not giving any tangible proof... isnt that the pot calling the kettle black? none the less.. SUNNYVALE, CA -- September 7, 2004 --AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced software support from Novell, Red Hat and Sun for AMD64 multi-core technology and recommended ISVs license software applications by socket. This follows a recent demonstration of the industry

> Check any internet forum... In other words you dont have a single link for a reputable site to back up your claim.. just as I though. Next. > What I'm saying is that you won't have much use for a 64bit processor these days because the large number of applications are all 32bit. And the AMD64 runs them JUST as good if not better as a strait p4 32 bit cpu. So for those looking for the future then the amd64 is the key. As irrelivant of the app/os it will run great. Over 200 s/w vendors have pleaged support for the amd64. Its only a matter of time now before 64bit s/w floods the market. Not a question of if but when. > I'm also saying that by the time Longhorn arrives on the scene, there will be better processors than an FX-55... In 6-12 months of course! thats true for ALL hardware. > Second of all, Intel now has 64 bit processors in the Xeon and P4 Series. They are known as the EM64Ts and for about 850 US, you can grab a 3.6 Xeon 64bit and I'd rather go for this as opposed to the AMD processors (even Opretron). First, intel hes realized they have to jump onboard the 32/64 bit cpu or amd will cleansweep the market it created. They are no longer leaders but followers on this level, trying to play catch up. As 12 months ago they were hell bent on saying the amd64 posed no thread and would be a niche market. So much for that theory as they are not tripping over themselves trying to get a 32/64 chip out using AMDs 64 bit instructions. Second you need to educate yourself on this topic it seems. Your mixing and matching workstation, home user and server cpus. They are all different with all different user groups. You CAN'T compair a xeon, p4, amd64 and fx all in the same sentance. Its ignorant to do so. > If you think this is a bit too high, then you can go for a P4 EM64T processor or a slightly slower Xeon since 3.6GHz is the fastest they have. Whos talking server? were talking home user. Again your mixing and matching. > Also, the Itanium and Itanium 2 were the first ever 64 bit processsors so don't go there... Who said otherwise? BTW.. the itanium is in life support due to the fact it has very poor 32bit performance. AMD saw ppl needed a stepping stone to full 64bit and created the amd64.

Aside from the fact I am here to rule the world? :ph34r:

If anyone played the Shadowrun rpg thats how,IMO a magic system should be done. Why WotC kept the 'chalkboard' system in 3E I still to this day cant understand. They had a chance to replace such a poor system.

I assume theres a inside swipe at KOTOR I but since I never played that I am kind of in the dark..

hhmm.. that sounds like a fresh, new idea. Perhaps you can sell that to bioware..?

This thread is going to get moved/whacked as this is the wrong forum and many topics about it in the off topic/rpg forum. But with that said... DA is more a BG mirror image. Strong SP, full party control. MP a after thought and no pw/semi-pw ability at all from the sounds of it. Also you are going to have a much smaller custom content community working on DA. As its going to be much more complex then NWN. But that content should be consistantly high quality. So its a trade off I suppose. I feel DA will be a good, solid SP game with limited cc, again similar to the path BG evolved. But nwn2 will be more or less closer to how nwn1 is currently cc/community wise.

Get the beholder model or a few added children models... hhhmm let me think about that one..

because no such models exist. The only non-cc children models are human. Thus thats why they only appear in the offical modules.

You are correct. The starting inn had a few children NPCs

> The P4 does give better multitasking performance than the Athlon 64 because it supports Hyper-Threading (which makes it appear as two "logical" processors, so it can take two instruction streams simultaneously). Doesn't make a huge difference though (best case throughput increase is about 20% IIRC). Two logical processors aren't as good as two real ones Ahh.. I totally blanked on HT. Tho I honestly dont think much of it to be honest hence they it slipped my mind. As you said if you want real MPS get a MP rig. Tho IIRC amd is looking into their own ver of HT tech for the next gen FX line. So it apparently is catching on. > Hyper-Threading is pretty much useless for games which hardly ever benefit from multiprocessing. The software has to support it or it does not not take advantage of it. Similar to how something like SSE2 works. > Gaming wise the 3000+ Athlon 64 is definitely a match for the ~3.2GHz P4s (take a look at some benchmarks). And PCI Express motherboards for Athlon 64 are out. Bottom line is the AMD64 is a better designed/efficient CPU. Gets more work done in the same amount of time vs intel. I concede on high end multimedia editing intel still retains a edge from the benchmarks I have seen. But every generation of the AMD64 has been narrowing the gap bit by bit.

> Athlon-64 does give better gaming performance but the price you shell out for something like an FX-55 Processor is around $1000. For a FX sure, the focus for the FX (sledge hammer) is high end servers/workstations. For a home user PC you use the standard AMD64 (claw hammer). Which you get the benefits of the FX just not as much cache. (512k vs 1meg) and its far better priced. ie a amd64 3000+ can get for under $200. > Also, P4 gives better multitas.ing performance than an Athlon-64. Really? first I heard of this. Have a link/where you read this? > Besides, when Longhorn comes out, there will be better processors than Athlon-64 FX-55 which is why I'd settle with an Intel Xeon or P4 Solution. That makes little sense. Your argument is dont bother to buy a current amd as it will be dated when xp64 comes out. Yet, then you say buy a intel. erm.. well a current intel WILL be dated too. Plus it WON'T have 64bit functionality. > Another reason I chose Intel over AMD was DDR2 memory. DDR3 is around the corner. This is a moot point since both cpus can use DDR2 and 3 when its released.

http://www.nwn2news.net/lotgd Legend of the Green Dragon somewhat based off of the old BBS door game LORD tounge in cheek humor in a middle ages fantasy setting.

Sid nor Brian were involved in any way with the CTP line. The devs of CTP bought the rights from microprose to use the civ name, for their civ type game. They felt they could do a pseudo-civ3, thats what CTP was supposed to be in their eyes. Well the first one did fair at retail but the second if I recall tanked. Then sid and microprose made up, and he made the official civ3. CTP has no direct or indirect (aside from the civ title) relation to Sid or his work.