Geek fantasies

Babe RuthLess · Post by **Babe RuthLess** » Mon May 16, 2005 9:32 pm

I do recommend the free previews:

http://geekfantasies.com/

DanW · Post by **DanW** » Mon May 16, 2005 10:32 pm

haha, "Mint Condition"... why thankyou...

13twelve · Post by **13twelve** » Tue May 17, 2005 12:58 pm

as a geek, who has recently played too much counterstrike cos my backs meant i cant go out dancing; i've found myself wanting to actually visit de_dust2 and de_aztec (etc.)

(for non counterstrike geeks, these are maps, or levels that are played during the game)

DanW · Post by **DanW** » Tue May 17, 2005 2:48 pm

13twelve wrote:as a geek, who has recently played too much counterstrike cos my backs meant i cant go out dancing; i've found myself wanting to actually visit de_dust2 and de_aztec (etc.)

I play CS:S a lot, but still, going there would only get you blown up

:p:P

polopowah · Post by **polopowah** » Tue May 17, 2005 10:09 pm

im a cs fan myself, you can usually find me on uk2 servers dust only

i prefer cs 1.6 to source myself, its the original and best

but i must say can get addictive and frustrating at times
-Ben-

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Tue May 17, 2005 11:24 pm

lol someone else that still has original counterstrike...... i think thats possibly the last "proper" PC game i played

(got black n white installed from a guy at uni 2 years ago, and have NEVER loaded it...)

there are still CS servers running? no s**t?
makes me wanna dust off my old Quake (1!) and see if it can find any games on the web

Si_GTi · Post by **Si_GTi** » Tue May 17, 2005 11:37 pm

Oh yes, there are plenty of CS servers about, not everyone has gone over to CS:S! I used to be full-on into CS at Uni but now that my PC is up-to-speed for Source, thats what I play, although not even half as often as I used to! Mmmm, ragdoll physics

Anyway, back to topic... why does this geek website's free previews keep crashing my Firefox?

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Tue May 17, 2005 11:43 pm

eh, up to speed, what even is that these days?

what can i get for a bag of salt n vinegar crisps and a wagon wheel? um i mean a Duron 1600, 512mb PC2100, a GeForce MX440 (or whatever the castrated version is called

it chokes at my LCD's native 1280x1024) and a brace of respectable but not blazing ATA133 drives?

i.e. will that play whatever Sauce is (?) or should i just stick to CS? (or indeed, just not play videogames when i already have enough on my plate... an occasional visit to the GT series being sufficient)

Si_GTi · Post by **Si_GTi** » Tue May 17, 2005 11:52 pm

Hmm.

My old box: Athlon 850, 512MB PC133 SDRAM, Radeon 9600XT 256MB (running at 4x AGP speed), ATA133 hard drive. CounterStrike Source stress-test high of 35.45fps

My new box: AMD64 3200, 1024MB DDR 3200 RAM, Radeon 9600XT 256MB (running at 8x AGP speed as it should), S-ATA hard drive(s). CounterStrike Source stress-test high of 82.12fps

The old machine managed CS:S admirably but it was laggy and often slow, especially on servers with more than about half-a-dozen players

but the new one is the business. Yours might be on a par with my old one I guess, but I recommend sticking to the original CounterStrike until a hardware upgrade

The original CS is still the daddy, I just love it's Source offspring even more!

polopowah · Post by **polopowah** » Wed May 18, 2005 3:10 pm

amazingly all the big matches are still played on 1.6
6 years on and cs is still going strong! nothing will ever take its crown

i find source has too much lag and the hitboxes are rubbish compared to 1.6 for instance you can aim at the side of someones head and still get a headshot!
-Ben-

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Wed May 18, 2005 7:18 pm

Should be fine then, if i have any free time on a wet summer evening... 35 frames per second = luxury in my book (hey, movies are only 24, and TV is 50...). That's what Doom 1 was CAPPED at! ... apparently allowing it to free-run on a high end machine (read: 486 DX2) made players chunder because the smoothness induced seasickness at the unfamiliar experience - ie an FPS.

Big up the 850mhz posse by the way

(my dad's got mine now). Highly underrated chip. Clocked it up to the gig a couple times (for benchmarking, or "urgent" video encodes) and it took it in it's stride, though I had to take the side off the case and aim a desk fan into the PC... but, usually had a commendable enough turn of speed in regular form.

Let's split the difference....... 850/35 = 24mhz per frame/sec (and PC133!!! jeez...

), 3200/82 = 39mhz per frame/sec (hm! even with DDR3200).... average of 24 and 39 = 31.5 ...
DDR2100 (aka PC266) with 1600, divided by 31.5mhz per frame/sec = 51 frames per second, topping british TV rate. That'll do, pig

13twelve · Post by **13twelve** » Thu May 19, 2005 2:45 pm

though there are cs1.6 servers out there and plenty of condition zero servers out there - i play source version

(though i have a 1.5 install on my machine for lan partys cos you can copy that accross a network and it work, where as steam needs to be authenticated)

the animation and detail of source make it a winner for me

its like win xp's ghey looks

its the way things are going, may as well get used to it...

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Thu May 19, 2005 11:13 pm

*doesnt understand all of les numeros*

hey, considering you have teh knowledge - does anywhere run Grand Theft Auto internet games at all? I mean GTA1..... not Liberty City but bona fide, Â£4.99-on-platinum GTA.

(was playing it on the train on the way home with me old P75 laptop

givin' it a workout as a "reward" for it's sterling emergency MS Word service over the last couple weeks... and... the thing has a network card... and i have ethernet-based broadband....

I feel like being utterly anachronistic and playing some GTA and Quake over broadband with it)

kind of like almost the complete anti-XP-gheyness.

except for Railroad Tycoon.
(a game made for 4mhz 186 chips... that i run on the duron

)

CalvinGTI · Post by **CalvinGTI** » Fri May 20, 2005 9:43 am

wooohooo

Maybe we should get a CS Polo Team going? hahaha

I play it whenever im bored in my flat, its good to whoop some ass when theres nothing else to do.

CS will never die i think, just bugs me when u get the geeks who obviously sit there 24/7 playing them and can head shot you from 1000 meters with a glock

bwaaaaaahaha

Hella fun game though

Cal

CalvinGTI · Post by **CalvinGTI** » Fri May 20, 2005 9:45 am

13twelve wrote:though there are cs1.6 servers out there and plenty of condition zero servers out there - i play source version

(though i have a 1.5 install on my machine for lan partys cos you can copy that accross a network and it work, where as steam needs to be authenticated)

the animation and detail of source make it a winner for me

its like win xp's ghey looks

its the way things are going, may as well get used to it...

I have a dodgy version of Steam that comes with a full working version of CS, all you need is an email address for Steam.

Its pretty nifty !

Anyone on Broadband who wants it can steal off me if they want :-p

Cal