Hah. I went to play some CoD4 last night only to suck balls. I mean BALLS! The entire time I was broadcasting, too.

11-29 at one point in Bog, and 13-25 in Broadcast.

One of the three people watching me chimes in with "god can you get a kill??". What a douche.

Anyway, my right hand is killing me. On that note, anyone got a spare spacebar key for a Saitek Eclipse? Mine got cracked in half sometime last night. >.o

I can run it now at almost maxed settings at ~35 frames per second with my new build:

E2200 @ 2.2 GHz (Stock)
8600GTS OC 512 MB
3 GB DDR2 RAM
Vista Ultimate

I just tried playing a round in one of the four servers that actually had bodies in them, and the only server with more than 10 people playing. It was ACTUALLY semi-enjoyable. I got killed alot, but it was much better than lowest settings at fifteen frames per second.

And then it happened. As I was spinning my AA gun around to achieve a missile lock on that damned chopper, everything stopped. I was slapped in the face with a flashback of BF2 1.3. Sounds stopped looping one after the other. I alt-tabbed out to close the program and then my picture goes snowy!

I know it's not my video card. The temps were at a warm 57C and 45C for the GPU and CPU respectively. A restart fixed it, though.

Fuck Kaos. Fuck FFoW. What a waste of my time and money.

DX10, PCI-e, Dual-core, SLI, AM2, DDR2 are the new standards. That would mean new mobo, new chip, new RAM, and a new card(s). And I thought paintball was an expensive hobby.

I already had the 7800GS, the two hard drives, the DVD drive, and the case. I just bought the K8N motherboard, the 3200+ processor, and the Arctic Cooling fan. The 3200+ is now overclocked to 2.62GHz from 2.2GHz and compares with a stock 3700+. 38C idle, 47C load. Pwnchips.

PS- Xfire, you're becoming a MySpace. Stop it.