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Probably the game I've spent the most time in as an adult is Halo 1 for the PC. Something you console guys may not be aware of but the PC version has public server based multiplayer... I've read that the console version only allowed private party multiplayer? Anyway, I've put thousands of hours into that game and was still playing it up until I bought Halo 3 and my 360 back in September of 2008.

As I've mentioned in previous blog entires (yes they're all old now), after I did my first game machine build I bought Vista Home Premium a while back so I could get Halo 2 for the PC.  I did originally install Vista on my laptop because I was hoping it would run Halo 2 well enough I could take it on the road with me.  It was horribly sluggish so I proceeded to install Vista on my gaming machine which is where I should have installed it in the first place.  Of course the validation didn't work, so I was able to go through a chat system, explain what I did, explained that Vista had been remo

As I've mentioned in previous blog entires (yes they're all old now), after I did my first game machine build I bought Vista Home Premium a while back so I could get Halo 2 for the PC.  I did originally install Vista on my laptop because I was hoping it would run Halo 2 well enough I could take it on the road with me.  It was horribly sluggish so I proceeded to install Vista on my gaming machine which is where I should have installed it in the first place.  Of course the validation didn't work, so I was able to go through a chat system, explain what I did, explained that Vista had been remo

With all the PC problems I've had I can now post a console con... one of my 360's is going in for service. bad disc drive. What makes it worse is it's one I sold to a friend. I should have known better than to sell a friend a used 360 when I've heard about so many problems they've had. So since I've mostly been Con-PC in my blog entries so far, I'm going to list the things I find that are Con-Console for once.

1. More Control with WASD.

With all the PC problems I've had I can now post a console con... one of my 360's is going in for service. bad disc drive. What makes it worse is it's one I sold to a friend. I should have known better than to sell a friend a used 360 when I've heard about so many problems they've had. So since I've mostly been Con-PC in my blog entries so far, I'm going to list the things I find that are Con-Console for once.

1. More Control with WASD.

Disclaimer: I am a programmer, more on the software side of computing.  I do have some hardware experience but please take this into consideration if you are someone who reads this blog and decides to use it as any kind of basis to do your own upgrading. I would strongly suggest consulting with someone with more hardware experience before doing this yourself.

Disclaimer: I am a programmer, more on the software side of computing.  I do have some hardware experience but please take this into consideration if you are someone who reads this blog and decides to use it as any kind of basis to do your own upgrading. I would strongly suggest consulting with someone with more hardware experience before doing this yourself.

Ok, I finally had some time to sit down at my 4890 again and do some playing around with it to see if it really did finally resolve the problems I've had with both the 8800gtx I had in this machine and the 9800m I have in my gaming laptop.  I will give specs at the bottom of the blog of each machine so those of you interested will know exactly what I'm currently running.  These tests were with my desktop with the ATI 4890 installed and with my gaming laptop which has the 9800m installed.

Far Cry 2