Posts by xapache

Well 2.3 came out yesterday and now life is back to normal. 50 FPS where only the day before I was getting 10 FPS. I am not sure if it was the newer version the fact that I did clean the dust out of the inlets of my computer. Whatever...

I'll give that one a shot, seems simple enough and I hadn't thought about it. However, you would think that if that was the problem then wouldn't there be other symptoms?

Why would a 3.5 P4HT with 1gb ram and 128mb ATI GPU suck so bad on FPS on Americas Army, suddenly ? It used to run so great at the highest res and everything turned on. Now even when I turn everything off and at the lowest res it...

Yeap just went to Best Buy and Frys and they are expensive. It isn't worth it just yet to buy the blanks. But I remember when the first DVD burners came out and it took less than 6 months before the price was where a poor pilot could...

Is this drive capable of dual layer burning? I cannot find any solid information on this drive. Before I run out and buy dual layer blank DVDs would be nice know.

All very good suggestions. None of them worked. There isn't anything in the BIOS. No luck setting up a network connection either. I saw the prompt but had no luck at all. Next step is seeing if I need an update for the sync...

Anyone know how to turn it on? The remote control works no problem. But I have a PDA that I want to be able to sinc with my laptop and I don't see any way of turning on the side IR port or even on the front. I have tried telling the...

I would consider myself one of the most investigative people that I know. I looked at everything....Nothing came close to the performance that I wanted...except the Area 51m. Let's just say my expectations were very high. I...

Ok so I ordered my laptop on Aug 29th. I am, as of today, on Phase 7. I looked back at my emails from Alienware and noticed that every 5 days after Phase 3 I get an email alerting me of my new phase. Exactly 3:08 pm. Here's the...

Well I ordered mine Aug 28th with an estimated time of arrival of Sept. 21. So that is 4 days away and I am only on Phase 6. However, there have been 2 1/2 hurricanes to deal with and then the CPU was back ordered so I will be lucky to...