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/me remembers the XP dual-core patch and/or this:

AMD Dual-Core Optimizer - The AMD Dual-Core Optimizer can help improve some PC gaming video performance by compensating for those applications that bypass the Windows API for timing by directly using the RDTSC (Read Time Stamp Counter) instruction. Applications that rely on RDTSC do not benefit from the logic in the operating system to properly account for the affect of power management mechanisms on the rate at which a processor core's Time Stamp Counter (TSC) is incremented. The AMD Dual-Core Optimizer helps to correct the resulting video performance effects or other incorrect timing effects that these applications may experience on dual-core processor systems, by periodically adjusting the core time-stamp-counters, so that they are synchronized.

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/Tec … dir=COGA01

After a reinstall or major mucking about inside, maybe this/ those need reinstall also? I used to occasionally see the UT framerate counter spin up to 300-400 f/s under OpenGL, but never had that warp-speed game issue.

It boggles my mind that my years-delayed upgrade box might be operational and stable before yours stops asploding. It's mostly been waiting the last couple months for my shoulder to heal enough to heft it around and finalize the wiring & peripherals.

The Registry was once, in days of DOS, a decent idea, and still comes in handy on occasion... but backwards compatibility seems to have made it impractical to shed so far. Seems every time I read about Winders down the road, there's a version that finally gets rid of it, but it never happens. It is now, by far, the worst thing overall about Windows, bar none.

It almost doesn't matter now what I DL or where I move it to on this machine, as long as it's not an app or wholesale moving of large directories; for lo, I will soon has a new machine with all-new, fresh Registries. Woohoo!

Could be at that. Memtest86+ looks promising...

Based on the well-known original memtest86 written by Chris Brady, memtest86+ is a port by some members of the x86-secret team, now working at www.canardplus.com. Our goal is to provide an up-to-date and completly reliable version of this software tool aimed at memory failures detection.

Memtest86+ is, like the original, released under the terms of the Gnu Public License (GPL). No restrictions for use, private or commercial exist other than the ones mentioned in the Gnu Public License (GPL). Texts about the original version was taken from the original website and written by Chris Brady.

-= History =-

The first version of Memtest86+ was released on early 2004, based on memtest86 v3.0 that was not updated since mid-2002. Our main challenge was to provide an up-to-date version of this useful tool, as reliable than the original. [..]

http://www.memtest.org/

Morely to test the evil, the first map pack. In Gaming.

Yeah, that 'Coming Spring '08' ad at IMG is getting a little old.

But no. Last I checked Ryan's .plan file, a couple weeks back, there was no mention of it. Don't think there has been in months. Maybe he's wrestling with OpenGL change issues in the latest version of Leo.

LLEVIATHANN wrote:

My bold...not just a title but titles with an 'S'...meaning more than one.

We grammar Nazis call that the 'plural.'

Good Q. That ad's now been replaced by a NWN2 ad... let's see if any new ones pop up like "Coming Soon."