I really don't think this will make Linux take off in the home/desktop market. Linux is simply too immature for the general public. Sure, geeks everywhere think it's fun to fiddle around to get everything to work, but your average user doesn't. If people have trouble with Windows, I can't imagine wh...

Main machine: Antec P150 Corsair 520HX ASUS P5B Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 3GHz (333*9, undervolted to 1.17V) Scythe Ninja rev. B (with Scythe S-Flex 1100RPM) 4GB Crucial DDR2-833MHz GeForce 7900GS 256MB Soundblaster Audigy 4 Samsung T166 320GB WD Caviar SE16 250GB Samsung SH-S183A SATA DVD-RW Tricked out n...

I'm running Descent on an old P200 MMX with an SB AWE64. Gives the right old school feel, if you know what I mean. Anyway, the mouse sensitivity is very low and I was wondering if there is any way to raise the sensitivity of the original version.

I have the exact same problem with my AC97 equipped laptop. HL2 works extremely bad (worst of all my games) and most of the others have that nasty little stutter (the picture stutters, not the sound) just before a sound effect is about to be played. A PCMCIA Audigy will rid this problem. I have thou...

No, you don't need an anti static bag to ship a laptop. There are no exposed electronics that could be damaged, really. My laptop came in what looked like a perfectly ordinary, fully transparent plastic bag.

Diedel wrote:Mikael,

the problem was that some other device in my house periodically briefly interrupted the WLAN connection - none of a problem when surfing, but impossible to play over the inet that way.

Ohh, sorry. I didn't catch that you had pin-pointed the problem to other equipment.

Read my first post for reasons of a WLAN connection being instable/lossy. Sure it wasn't just the equipment? Maybe there are differences between equipment sold in Sweden and Germany? I have used WLAN exclusively since July. I have a Linksys WLAN router that covers a 200 square meter house, providin...

running latest ver. xp desktop res = 1024x768 still cannot use -fullscreen option in d2x.ini is there something i can do to get startup in fullscreen? it's a small thing i know. i can still get fullscreen by starting window then change res in game. that works ok. if poss would like to start in full...

Worse, though, is the lossy nature of the connection. Would you care to elaborate? If the ping is more or less the same and the data arrives intact (which it does!), what other problems can be noted by the end user? Well, I guess the connection could be unstable, but that's rarely a problem with go...

That actually all depends on how good your airflow is. If you're stuck with a cheap case, and a vid card that comes within inches of your hard drive(s), then yeah its definitely an issue. However, most of your good cases take that into consideration and have fan mounts or have the hard drive bays i...

Yeah, but the thing is, people running these high end cards are going to be running atleast 450 - 500W power supplies to begin with. Power isn't going to be an issue for people with that kind of cash. No, I didn't mean that the PSU would be much of a problem (if you have one good enough). It's the ...

Can be well taken care of if you place your fans correctly, thereby optimizing airflow. OR you can go watercooling. Heat issue? what heat issue? Ohh, I know a thing or two about this, having built quiet computers for quite some time. My point is that it isn't enough just putting the fans in the rig...

About the SLI issue: It has some pretty large drawbacks. A side from the quite valid points that Mobius brought up, I'd add a couple of highly relevant ones: - Adding an extra card, like another 7800GTX, will add a significant amount of extra heat to the system. It's probably not a very good idea to...

Yeah, yeah, I know. I just wanted the game to change tracks when you got to new levels, went to the menu, and what not. Like D2 does. It feels less ghetto...

I just thought of a great addition to Descent 1: CD audio! Then we could just put the D1 PSX tracks on a CD and have them play in-game. What do you think? Would this be hard to accomplish? Since D2 supports CD audio, wouldn't it be possible to reuse some/all of that code? I'm not good enough at prog...

I just put together this retro machine so that I can play Descent "the way it was meant to be played". Or atleast look and play like I remember it from back in the day. It just feels better to run it on an older machine... :P I started out with an old P166 and ended up replacing most of th...

Ontopic: Mostly for multiplayer. Sadly it didn't live up to D1/D2s multiplayer. If I only had some friends that weren't crap at Descent or just hated it... :( I would have played over the net, but I have dial-up, so that's not really suitable. Offtopic: Most of the new people are greeted this way o...

meh, it gave me an excuse to unveil my revised retard award. Don't take things so seriously around here or you'll be eaten alive :P No hard feelings. I just thought that the mummy pic was enough. Also, if all first time posters are greeted this way if they make one mistake, it might scare them off....

wow. major thread necromancy. http://missions.dyndns.org/misc/retardaward.jpg ;) Funny. I've said I'm sorry so give me a break , okay? You may post this jokingly, but it's not getting any funnier. Also, I've got to say that of all the forums I've been a member of, not a single one of them is this u...

Nice pic... :roll: I was using the search function to find info about Descent 1/2 music and when this thread turned up. I found it interesting and wrote a reply and forgot to check how old the thread was. So, don't make it too big of a deal. I'll try to be more careful when using the search in the f...

Hi guys! I'm a great fan of the Descent 1/2 music and I've searched quite some time for somewhat rare versions of the original D1 midi tracks. First of all, the D2 trailer that was released as a sneek peek back in '95 or '96 featured a great version of the music from level two in D1. In which versio...

Definately Descent 2. Descent 1 is almost as good. I'm a big fan of singleplayer and haven't played much multiplayer in Descent 1/2/3, mostly because my pals suck at it. Anyway, the reasons I don't like Descent 3 looking at it from a singleplayer perspective are many: - Music really, really sucks - ...