Watchman~SPARTA~

After Earth?

Aha, something new then? I'm still none the wiser.

Forrest Gump " I have a rare & mysterious skill"

Taking Holly home today but should get back in time to join in.

Almost got a 660 as a replacement for my 4780 ready for Arma3 but plumped for a 7870. It came out comparable in Tom's reviews etc and critically was almost £50 cheaper than the 660. Performance is great and it will be interesting to see how it measures up against the final Arma3 release.

I'm getting some sort of conflict, not always maybe 1 in 3, it seems to get stuck in auto startup and if I esc out I can see the on screen options flickering as if the keyboard is sticking between the options. Checking all my inputs, none appear to be sticking and only exiting the game completely & going back in fixes it. On top of all that, it's bloody hard work .

Bingo!

Nope, good idea but not redneck enough.

Blade Runner "Four of them with automatic weapons against some swamp rat, I make it even money"

The Guardian "Just remember this, in this country they drive on the wrong side of the road"

My youngest is with us for thew week and will be back & forth over the summer. She's recently been playing minecraft on X-box and I installed it on the pc for her yesterday. She is 16, intelligent and plays games the right way. Do you guys have any objections if she spends some time on the server, if so what do I need beyond by way of mods to be able to get on? Thanks, BTW, no issues if you would prefer she didn't come onto the server.

Krambo IS game rage! To be honest, I don't suffer with it much, maybe I'm not that competitive. Although Chivalry has got me close this last few days with getting tk'd just as I'm about to make a kill. Even then it just gets a minor cuss, at no one in particular.

Happy b'day Cent, have a great one

Okay, it's not bad, certainly fun and a novel distraction from the usual.

Will give it a whirl tomorrow, I'll keep an eye out for you, might be too early for you though, around midday EST?

I hope I don't regret this.......

Are you attempting to usurp Ebe's position for random, confusing, sureal posts on the forum? You've had a real go at it, these last few days.

Happy b'day, have a great one.

Never played a GTA but that trailer could tempt a saint. If all of that play is on offer that's a game you can get well & truly lost in.

Patched & ready, might get on later today.

Virgin are coming back in a week to install a new 'superhub 2' on a 60mb line and I'm going to get it put into the room with my pc, so I'll just stay hard wired. Edit: Engineer turned up, early and installed new line to study and shiney new Superhub 2. I'm now getting: Then on the laptop at the extremes of the use-able range I'm getting: That'll do nicely!

Bit earlier would help, need to be off for 9. How about a 7.30 start?

It's a Linksys WMP54G and current drivers (latest I can find) are 2.0.3.0. However, Linksys don't actually list a Win7 specific driver but I've found a few posts about people not getting Win 7 to recognise this card in the early days of the OS and being pointed towards a Ralink (chipset manufacturer) download. I'm just in process of getting that now, to try out. Edit: The Ralink drivers made no difference

Update: After spending most of today (so far) going through the clean boot routine to identify which 3rd party and MS services were causing the conflict, I've come up empty handed. Although I got varying results from 3.25 to 15.67 download speeds, no one single process seemed to be the issue. During the whole time I routinely ran a reference scan with all processes enabled and got speeds close to those reported for the stage I was at. This tells me that at those times the processes that were disabled were actually having no affect and the apparent improvements were just coincidental with performance at the time of day. I also ran scans on the laptop at various points during all of this work and it routinely registered 23+ mbps. So, I'm none the wiser as to how to sort this, short of doing a complete wipe and re-install and hoping for a fix that way. The fact that when ever I hard wire to the router I'm getting 30+ mbps, is actually making me think the simplest option is just to get a Virgin engineer back and pay to have the router wired to the study and connect straight to the pc.

Okay, slightly crestfallen Started the clean reboot process and following instructions, stopped all processes bar the MS ones. I rebooted expecting to get close to the expected 30mb and then begin the slow task of eliminating the 3rd party processes until I found the one causing the clash. Rebooted, ran speedtest and got 3.69 down / 1.86 up. Ran on the laptop, which is on the desk next to me and got 24.7 down / 1.94 up. So, does this mean my problem is with an MS driver or is it an issue elsewhere? EDIT: Forgot to mention, hardwired I'm getting 31.24 down / 1.95 up. Question, with all the results I've been getting the upload speed has never really changed, always in the 1.8 - 1.97 range. The PC always matches the laptop in that instance. To me, I would have assumed I'd have degradation in both directions on the PC but then I know nothing. Is there a genuine, logical answer to explain this?