Recent content by racerjosh

Long story short... did a fresh install of XP yesterday and reinstalled steam. I only play COD6 through steam but it has disappeared! I thought steam keeps the games on your ACCOUNT not your PC? Anyway, since its not there i went to install COD6 from disc again. However, Steam says its already...

Been looking around some online stores at some bargains and i have stumbled upon a 'half' decent barebone system for the price, barebone systems never really took my intrest but it seems a cheap way of upgrading since ive already got a few parts (will be upgrading bit by bit): 250GB HD 8600GT...

il explain what i mean by semi-future proof .. basicly, my pc isnt the best spec for gaming, which i do a lot of, so im going to build a new one (time is not on my side so it will be a internet build, on finace for 4 years) :p now, no one knows what beholdes the future in 4 years time :( but i...

a low down (might be a bit long..) i have 2 PC's, one downstairs for family and my one in my room. i managed to 'stupidly' get a virus on my pc which wouldnt allow me to re-install windows (i have a thread about it on here somewhere) so i went out to get a new internal HD :) basically, i tried...

Windows 7 BETA is now avaliable to download from microsoft at 2.4GB :) .. im installing it tomorrow, basically in its final release (around feb 2010) its going to be a 'slimmed' down vista using less ram and will be a lot faster, as well as more customisation and other little 'behind the scene'...

a run down: me doing a stupid click on a link which i regreted as 'soon' as i clicked it, some pathetic spyware/virus has entered my pc bascially it diverts my searchs to another page like ebay or some other random search engine etc, as well as little ads that pop up every now and again, my pc...

well.. just bought an extra 2GB to whack into my pc to make it run 3GB on XP :D however.. only one slot seems to be working (i have two) the 1GB ram i had previously was in the left slot and has run fine etc, i put the 2GB stick into the slot next to it, and nothing.. bios, system properties or...

couldnt really think of a suitable title that was short enough so i listed some key words :) right then, what i would like to know is where windows saves all the drivers and updates that the user has installed since the last time the reformatted? since i would like to re install windows but i...

is it possible to play games in safe mode ? since my cod4 is only getting a crap 60fps :( (did get it upto 300fps without tripple buffering, but had lag spikes more often) and i need to free up some RAM (not going to buy some as im going to sell my rig and get a new one -any offers? - so i need...

just started overclocking .. ive been using n-tune for my nvidia graphics card .. all was well and got some half decent results for the GPU and CPU BUT .. on the last run i had reached the max and it went choppy (all previous settings worked fine) .. so i restarted and lowerd the settings down...

im currently thinking of overclocking my RAM so that i can get a bit more out of it :) .. porblem is i dont no how to and ive read some of the tutorials and they make no sense :( :rolleyes: anyway.. my specs are.. AMD 64 X2 dual core 4000+ 2.11GHz nVidia 8600GT 256MB 1.00GB of RAM (OCZ DDR2...

hello, i have recently been looking at downlaoding and installing ubuntu... ive heard from mates and from people in the I.T side of things that this platfrom is very good and a lot quicker than windows, which im all for ;) since i have my games on a different paritition on my hard rive then it...

as some of you may know, i have the Vista briopack installed to make my XP look like Vista. i am currently having problems with call of duty 4 online :( when i try to connect to a server, i am told that my CD Key is in use and to try again later :nono: :mad: .. but i know this is not true as i...

when i run crysis the game loads and plays fine; kinda .. first of all it wont let me do miltiplayer and in singleplayer i can hardly see anything (most of the screen and surroundings goes black and i cant see objects or enimies) ... its better on DX9 BUT still doesnt run properly and still...

got my pc working last night and everything is installed and updated :) problem is that there is no sound or any regognised sound output on the pc :( the motherboard (geforece 6100sm-m) is ment to have a Realtek ALC660/ALC662 sound card but its not been shown.. cant find any drivers for it and...