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Woah. I installed the Win2K v.29.42 drivers (up from the v.28.32) about four days ago. OF worked fine until today (nothing else has been tweeked, upgraded or installed), when all I Â get when I try to run it is an error message saying CANNOT CREATE 3D DEVICE ADAPTER 0 (NVIDIA GEFORCE3) FULLSCREEN RESOLUTION 1024X768, FORMAT X8R8G8B8/D24S8, REFRESH 85HZ ERROR E_OUT OF MEMORY Out of memory! Memory is one thing I have plenty of. The card has 64MB and my system has 512MB PC800. There is only Nortons AV and Adaptec DirectCD running in my system tray and they have always been there with no problems. Have tried re-installing the old v.28.32 drivers which I know worked fine, still get the same message. Tried adjusting the games resolution, colour depth, refresh rate, everything short of reinstalling the game, and still no joy. Am D/L the 29.80 drivers to see if they fix the problem. Other than that, anyone got a good solution? (apart from buying a Mac, which in itself creates more problems). Damn, I don't know why I try to fix what ain't broken, it always goes pear shaped.

Thanks dude. Will have a play. I guess it is a matter of trial and error and a lot of paitence. I will post up how I did it if I can ever sort it out. Cheers

Comrades How do you change the default respawn weapon in MP games? Example: all WEST units respawn with an M16, the EAST with an AK74, resistance with AK47. Â I want the WEST player to respawn with a STEYR in his hand. I do not want any stray M16's or renegade AK74's polluting my map. I have looked back through 35 days worth of topics in this forum and 10 different fan-sites, but cannot find any answers. I am trying to make a simple Aussie vs Kiwi CTF MP map. Both sides are armed with Steyrs (as both countries in fact are). I have made a simple pbo file that starts the EAST player (the Kiwis) with a Steyr weapon instead of an AK74. However, after the first kill, both sides players respawn with the "default" weapon (or default setting) for their side - the Australians with M16's and the Kiwis with AK74's. I don't want that to occur. I want them to both respawn with Steyrs in hand. This way, both sides have a "reasonably" equal footing. Any information or guidance will result in my first born being named after you. Unless your name is Dwayne, Bruce, Scott, Chad, Brad, Marc, Julian, Justin, Barney, Thadeous, Maximillian, Trevor, Gus, Hugh, Gazza, Bazza, Barry, Larry, Jon, Stephen, or another name that I do not like. Then you will get a Xmas card instead. But since I am a communist that will be highly unlikely as well. I might build a bronze statue in your (vague) likeness after the revolution, so it may be worth your while. Tally ho.

Comrades I do not think many people believe Americans are all "mercenaries" or bad people. The vast majority of Americans, Canadians, Afghanis, Pakistanis, Vietnamese, Chinese, Russians, Equadorians, Somalis and even Australians, are basically good people (they do not seek to harm or impose their beliefs/dogma on others for personal gain). In all cultures you have a minority of people who seek power for their own ends, often by utilising illigetimate means (not within their cultures agreed rules and regulations - e.g. Western Democracies have the judicial and executive branches to affect change) to achieve change for their personal benefit (terrorism, crime, bribery, threats, extortion, undue political influence and so on). Highly unstable nations or cultures like the Balkans, Rwanda, Somalia, Afghanistan, the Sudan, Chad and even Columbia, Â have terrible consequences on the majority of people who are innocent by-standers. Â These regions are under the rule of the gun - those who have the most guns make the rules. I do not believe Abdul the Camel jockey in Somalia enjoys it when the local warlord decides to rape his family and destroy his crops. But what can he do - he has no guns, no military training and no money to bribe them with. He does what he has to do - either stay and put up with it, or take a chance and head off to the 'promised' land (the West) and make a better life for him and his family. Does anyone believe the warlords of Somalia are or have ever been stronger than the entire United States industrial-military might? Â Of course they aren't! Â Not in 1993 nor in 2002. If America and Europe REALLY wanted to (ie - had the political will), they could use a fraction of its real power and crush the warlords in Somalia, Rwanda, the Balkans, and anywhere else they sprouted up like pimples. Â Combine rebuilding the basic infastructure of a country, promoting political and economic stability and providing HOPE to people, refugees would become a thing of the past. The United States & Europe pre-Sept 2001 did not have the political willpower to remove the warlords in Somalia, stop the slaughter in the Balkans and Rwanda, crush the terrorist/drug cartels in Columbia or tackle any of the other butchery and injustices around the world. Since then, the west has come under direct attack, and their bubble of comfort has been poped. Now they are lashing out at all threats real and imagined. Â You have to ask "WHY DID 9/11 HAPPEN?". One answer is because up until then, the average western response to third world problems was "we don't give a rats ass". Ignorance is bliss. 'Islamic Terrorism', the threats of terrorism (non specific) and the refugee problems are all interlinked. Â One creates the other which perpetuates the other and the cycle goes on and on and on. Help the third world to help themselves. Â Not by throwing money, or weapons, or the United Nations (the biggest political joke on the planet - even surpassing the Tongan government) at them. The West needs to get actively involved in these nations to make a difference. If they don't, they will reap what they have sown - 250 years of imperialism and exploitation. And I don't think there will be enough rats asses to go around all by that stage. BTW, I dig seeing my message copied and pasted into someone elses reply. Thanks, mate. Its kinda groovy. The revolution - its getting closer. You can see it in their eyes and smell it in the air. Its coming, comrades, its coming...

Comrade Oligo You humanitarian streak is at least a mile wide. Humanitariansim does not have a lot to do with biology. We are not animals in the raw sense. We are different to primitive animals because we can control our concious behavior, we have imagination as well as very complex emotional and social behaviours. We have also evolved as a "civilisation" out of the prehistoric mentality of I'll screw you before you screw me (although thanks to the Corporate world and lack of ethics, this mentality returning to poison many minds). If we lived like dogs or lions, I would agree that it is survival of the fittest. But we (should) have compassion. A dog does not have compassion, but people do. Its attitudes similar to what you expressed that have lead our world to become what it is. I think you can take pride in the fact you are one of the millions of people who perpetuate the refugee problem because they don't give a rats ass (unless they happen to be living next to you or in your town). Once they get to your country or your town, its too late. You need to give refugees a reason to stay where they are, unless it is impossible. One day the whole third world problem will blow up in the western world's face and it will hurt, and many, many people will cry. The revolution is coming. You can see it in their eyes.

Comrades I don't recollect asking the good-ol boys from the US to fight every battle around the world (although the current US administration have taken up a crusade to become the world police). Nor the Eurpoeans, Brazillians, Cubans, Japanese, Chinese, or any other knees owned by any race, creed, religion or cult. Isn't it time that all first world nations took stock of the global situation and decided that there was enough poverty, sickness, plagues, famine, death, destruction etc. By eliminating these issues, there would be no refugees - apart from those who are displaced due to natural disasters beyond the control of any human. As a species we have collective humanitarian responsibilities and this is something our societies have forgotten. By helping them to help themselves, this sh!tty old world would become a better place. The give a man a fish or teach the man to fish scenario. Do you think that Abdul the camel jockey in outer Kreblekistan really cares that 100 people in the UK are killed in a train accident, or 3,000 people in the US are killed in acts of terrorism, when 500,000 of his friends and countrymen have died as the result of famine, disease and poverty? He probably doesn't even know or care where the US is anyway. His focus is on day-to-day survival. Get rid of the problems Abdul and hundreds of millions like him face every day, and the migration of populations will cease. Â If we don't do something about it now, the problem will only contine to get worse. The long term outlook is very bleak for everyone, especially us living in the privilleged minority - the first world (yeah, you and me, pal). Don't tell me it can't be done because it can. All it takes is willpower and determination (look at the US in Afghanistan). And a little humanity and compassion (no religious crap here). Long live the revolution. Its coming, man, its coming. Listen, you can hear it...

Comrades I live in New Zealand (or Neeewww Zeeeelaaannnnd for you Aussies out there - pay attention, I will say what I have to say slow enough so you can understand it ) and our illustrious government thinks it's kinda liberating to take all of Australia's refuse (not Australians but the refugees they have). Maybe our female Prime Minister is looking for a nobel peace prize or maybe it's because she is a commie pinko lefty who believes that it is our social responsibility to take these people in. Whatever. She is outraged at the Tampa "incident" and now Woomera (or however the hell it is spelt) and wants to take these unfortunates in (I have no doubt that where they have come from was a complete sh!t hole). As has been illustrated, these "refugees" are not true refugees in a persecuted "going to get killed if I stay here" type or "the desert / ocean / (insert natural disaster of choice) has destroyed everything and I have no chance of living" types, but people who are simply looking for a better lifestyle - ie they are potential immigrants. Each nation has a process to take in immigrants. Some nations are harder to enter than others. Nations like Switzerland, for instance, make people pay a huge sum of money before you can become a citizen - after all you are benefiting from their established infastructure and social services and why should someone not pay for the privilledge of citizenship, each by their own means. After all, we all pay the price of citizenship in our nations through our taxes. The ironic part of it is, most of these "refugees" were the middle class citizens of the countries they came from. They had enough money to get out. The truely needy still remain in their countries unable to get out because they lack the funds to do so. The fact remains that these processes are in place for a reason and for EVERYONE. Â What right does an individual or group have to expect, or even demand, to be treated differently or as a special case just because you paid some @sshole huge sums of money to take them to the promised land? That, my friends, is your problem, not ours. Does their supposed "refugee" status mean that they can then break the law of the nation they want to live in, or to do as they please? What kind of citizens or society will they help make or contribute to? Â Educating your kids that if you don't get your way, break the law. We did it and we got citizenship! A society without laws, or where laws are ignored, is a society in chaos. I do not want to live in a society like that, and I am lucky enough to be able to make that choice. I have nothing against people who are trying to better themselves or their childrens lives. It is only natural. These people have been dealt a crap hand and were born in a hovel in a jungle, a desert or an god-forsaken part of the Earth. I know in the same situation I would behave no different. The sad fact is that all governments, corporations and the United Nations all contribute to the global refugee / migration problem. How? By conciously chosing not to do anything about the issues these people are escaping, until they are directly affected. Â USA - Sept 11. is a classic example where the US went from not caring about Afghanistan to toppling the Taliban to pouring massive aid in to return prosperity & stability. It proves that a difference can be made, where there is willpower and of course, the fickle wind of "public support". Australia & NZ do not have the economic, political or corporate influence to change the behaviours of those who do. Until then, both nations will suffer from the follow-on effects of illegal immigration, to the detriment of our societies as a whole. Maybe one day the US military will have to come to NZ and eliminate it's "terrorist government" then and pour billions in aid to rebuild our broken country. And to think it could have cured the illness years before it required hospitalisation. Something to chew over... Long live the revolution. Its coming, man, its coming. Listen, you can hear it...

Comrades The FN FAL is one of the finest pieces of man-portable industrial death that has been made in our very short cosmic history. It is ten times better made than the AK and fired a more powerful, accurate and reliable round. It has been manufactured under licence in scores of nations and was at one time (1960's to 1980's) used by over 80 nations. Even where the AK47 was in use in a national armoury, the FN FAL often soldiered alongside. It was used by British Commonwealth nations in a semi-automatic mode only, while everywhere else they were produced with full-auto capability. They had hundreds of attachments, modifications and finishings, but they were all the same creature at heart. As for all of those weapons pictured that look like they were used on the set of ALIENS, go and play with them in Ghost Recon or Quake Long live the revolution. Its coming, man, its coming. Listen, you can hear it...

Comrades I would suggest that anyone wanting to play using a silenced sniper rifle should be playing Rogue Spear/ SWAT / Ghost Recon or even Counter Strike instead. I agree that any good real-world sniper should be able to hit their target with one unsilenced shot at ranges well over 500m. At this distance, the confusion of the shot and the hit would leave those around the target desperately taking cover and trying to figure out where the hell the shot came from. In the game, due to certain engine restrictions, a paitent player sniper should still hit targets out to 300m or more away. The AI tends to be a little more alert, recovers from surprises quickly and the ground cover is far less than in reality. But hey, its a military SIMULATION (game really). Silenced sniper weapons are all image and no skill. I vote they stay away from this area. Long live the revolution. Its coming comrades, its coming. Listen, you can hear it...

Comrades Would some clever bastard out there making add-on vehicles please consider the following: I am keen to see a 1985 vintage General Dynamics M1 MBT with the 105mm M68 main gun. This model was released to the US Army in 1980 and served through until the late 1980's when they were upgraded to the 120mm M256 smoothbore main gun. Â The M1's in the game timeframe should be, in reality, the M1. The M1A1 Â did not enter service until 1986. Â However, you can argue that the game M1A1's are pre-mass-production field trial units serving in a high-threat / hostile environment The add-on itself would not be hard, just changing the parameters of the main gun to the 105mm (the M60 in the game has EXACTLY the right main gun and so the data already exists), upping the speed fractionally (the M1 was lighter than the M1A1 increasing performance), downing the overall armour values by about 10 to 15%. I know the main gun on the M1A1 is larger reflecting the 120mm bore, but what the hell. I would have a crack at it but I can't be assed learning a fourth language, as I really struggle with my primary language. The wish list would include The apperance of the odd T-62 or T-64, or Leopard 1, Cheiftain, Centurion, M48 or (the terrible) AMX-30 main battle tanks would not go amiss - and would help those who are trying to design 1960-1990 Arab-Israeli or India-Pakistan wars. Throw in a few BTR-70/80's, BRDM's (with ATGM or MG capability), LAV-25's, M150's (M113 with TOW ATGM launcher), M901's (M113 with 2 TOW launchers), M113's with an enclosed 20mm cannon turret, LVTP7 amphibious assault vehicles (go USMC!), SA-13 Strela-10 self-propelled SAMs, M48 Chaparral self-propelled SAMs (for what they are worth!) and the melting pot gets far more interesting! Add a few towed or emplacement 20mm / 23mm and 30mm AA guns and US/Soviet fixed SAM launchers and those who kill to get the air units during MP games, will wish they had taken a change of underwear up with them Any ground unit that kicks the butt of those namby-pamby, Neville no-mates, girly-swot blouses who ALWAYS have to get in aircraft & helicopters during on-line games (and then blow everything up including their own team mates and base rape from nearly 2 kicks away), is welcome IMHO More power to the foot soldier and the iron land-juggernauts. The revolution will come yet.

Greetings all I hope I can add to the discussion - * How 'bout the ability to custom select your own players clothing / uniform type as well as the face in the Player Editing Screen. * Please limit the pinball / kangaroo mode when vehicles and aircraft are destroyed (although it is kinda amusing). * An option for the AI automatically rearm at the nearest friendly / enemy weapon source when out of ammo instead of being ordered to. * Friendly AI being more careful when firing while moving behind other friendly units. The numbers of friendly fire casualties I've seen makes the American Forces during Desert Storm look positively angelic. * Tracked vehicle speed uphill seems very low. I have been overtaken by a foot AI when in a M113 gunning it up a steep(ish) slope. * Ability to hand over to other players/AI unwanted weapons or the ability to drop them. * You jump in abandoned enemy vehicle, senior ranked AI orders you out of a vehicle, you are forced out by the program, and then the AI orders you back into the same vehicle it expelled you from. This always happens when the avocado dip hits the fan... * Faster reaction times from the AI when shots hit near them - going prone or into nearest available cover / foliage. * The Soviet AI launches all of their RPG ordnance at the castle tower and castle ruins when they are placed as a "unit" on any world. They must see something truely evil in the ruins because they keep wanting to take it out! Groovy game, lads.