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I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to post this, but there didn't seem to be a more appropriate forum. ~_~ Anyway, I'm heading off to college in California in less than two weeks. I live in New Hampshire, so I'm taking much more than my clothes and a few things I want in my dorm room with...

I got a MacBook Pro as a graduation present (which I absolutely love), but its only shortcoming is a rather small harddrive, for my tastes anyway. It's got a 120gb harddrive, and having ~45-50gb of music or more seriously decreases the limited amount of free space I already have (the OS already...

I've heard similar problems. I'm no expert, but from what I've heard it sounds like other people (myself included) have had this problem. Are you running on Vista? If so, that's a potential cause for the problem, I've heard issues with Vista and dual core users for STALKER in particular. Beyond...

I would just like to mention that Godwin's Law holds true. :p On topic, do let us know if you get a reply. I'd be interested to hear what he can muster up.

Doesn't look like any Vista issues were resolved in this patch...at any rate, my game still freezes for a few seconds every couple minutes and then resumes.

2 minutes until I can download it...here's hoping "various other issues" refers to Vista. [EDIT] Nope, didn't fix any of the glaring performance bugs in single player, for me, anyway.

Hmm, any changelog to accompany it? Downloading anyhow, I can deal with losing my saved game.

Might want to check out Guitar Hero II when it comes out for 360 in a week or so...I can't pull myself away from the game on PS2. It's a ways off, but Bioshock will also definitely be worth it if you don't choose to get it on PC.

I'll have him give that a try. I may even go over myself and do it, he's never done anything like this before and I'd hate for him to ruin his new RAM. Dunno if it's reverting to 333mhz. He hasn't OC'd anything, so there's nothing to back down. If he backs his RAM down to 3-4-4-8, will he...

I was particularly infuriated at his most recent statement about Take Two's lawsuit filed against him, posted on Joystiq, wherein he stated that he'd "prayed for this moment every day" (something to that effect), and continued on to quote various verses from the Bible. Now, I'm not even...

My friend recently got a new stick of RAM to complement Battlefield 2 and STALKER, but is running into some issues. He's got a Chaintech VNF4-Ultra motherboard, and had two 512 sticks of Crucial DDR400 PC3200, and just got a new stick of Corsair ValueSelect DDR400 PC3200. The problem is when...

I'm using the latest official drivers (100.65) after hearing about some odd issues with the beta drivers, whichever versions those are. I may give the betas a shot just for the heck of it. The game isn't actually crashing, it just seems to have some extended hiccups. I can usually tell when my...

I posted this over on the official Stalker forums at GSC Game World, but have yet to receive a response since new topics are created like wildfire there, so I'll give it a shot here. I've managed to avoid the crashing when saving/loading bug when running Stalker on Vista. In fact, except for...

If I had to guess, zoltan, I'd say your error is related to the page file not being big enough. On another forum it says that the page file has to be able to go over 2gb. Google how to edit your pagefile size, and set the maximum (and possibly the minimum depending on how much RAM you have) to...

You're not experiencing any stuttering? Mine wouldn't be because of RAM, I upgraded to 2gb partly because of S.T.A.L.K.E.R., and for what it's worth the frame rates I'm getting are rather decent. It just hangs, my monitors will shut off for a second, and then come back on and it'll be fine.

Well, it's up and running, and I've been enjoying it immensely. No real clue how it's running on my system, since I don't have Fraps installed, but it seems to be doing just fine. Playable, at any rate. Only problem I'm having (somehow managed to avoid the dreaded Vista crash when...

The GSC Game World forums has a topic about the Vista save/load bug...seems to be associated with lighting, somehow, as the guy who found a temporary fix says he turned the lights down to simply Static Lighting and hasn't crashed. I suppose that would lead back to a driver problem, so one person...

Well, today's the day. I'm a little worried because it seems like a lot of Vista users have been having crashing issues, but I can't for the life of me figure out if it's a problem with all Vista users, or some. I haven't had any problems even remotely close to that with other games, so I'm...

I dunno, maybe I'm the abnormal one. It just seems to fade into the background for me, although I guess aside from putting it in some vibrant color, it's more noticeable than being the color of the regular text.

I do enjoy how "Immediate Action" is capitalized. For all the official-sounding jargon, some people still can't write a proper paragraph. I still think they should present the "don't tell your password to anyone" phrase at the top in bright red letters. As it is it almost goes unnoticeable...

Any thoughts from those running it on Vista? So far the only major Vista bug I've heard are artifacts (no pun intended) similar to those in F.E.A.R. I think it's an acronym-title-game thing. :) Anyone able to verify that? Anything else Vista users should know about?

It just says I'm running at the default speeds for my 3800+ X2, 2000mhz. This is regardless of what I set the multiplier to, the CPU bus, the HTT multiplier, etc. Booting into BIOS shows the speed I actually set it at, but in Vista all it seems to do is decrease the FSB to 800mhz rather than...

Ok, so I OC'd and checked CPU-Z. It says that it's running at 200 x 10 with an 800mhz FSB, rather than the 250 x 10 / 4x HTT settings I put it at in BIOS. I can't figure this out. Whenever I reboot and go into BIOS, the settings are exactly as I put them. Is this a problem with Vista, or...

One more question, anyone have any information on how the game utilizes dual-core processors, if at all? Seems like not many games have officially been touted as using dual-core. The only one that even comes to mind is Call of Duty 2 after the patch.

The "less evolved" headcrabs were the baby headcrabs on the level you fought the Gonarch (essentially a/the mother headcrab). The headcrabs, as far as I know, anyway, are native to Xen, but were no less aggressive while one was there than they were on Earth. As for vortigaunt-headcrab zombies...

Just a question for the people who have played it. How does it compare performance-wise to Battlefield 2? I ask about BF2 in particular because since I got my second gig of RAM, BF2 has been running perfectly, and if S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is at all comparable to it in performance, then I'm in good...

Well like I said, I did the benchmarking things in Everest, but I dunno how reliable those are. I downloaded CPU-Z, but it's not telling me anything new since I clocked it back down to stock speeds. I'll try it again when I get home. Cool'n'Quiet is disabled, and the only thing installed...

I wanted to do a basic OC on my X2 3800+ from 2.0ghz to 2.4ghz tonight to prep my rig for STALKER (can't get enough of just the thought of that game). So I went into the BIOS on my ASUS A8N-SLI Premium, upped the CPU Frequency to 240 x 10, lowered the HTT multiplier to x4, and upped the vcore to...

I don't think the game will be sold out, but as long as the money gets paid either way, I figured I'd just do it early. I'm in dire need of a new game to play. Here's hoping S.T.A.L.K.E.R. keeps me entertained for a long while.

I went and reserved a copy at my local GameStop yesterday. The guy at the counter told my friend to come back Wednesday because Tuesday is the shipping date, but we're checking Tuesday anyway...when is it supposed to actually be in stores? Regardless, who else is looking forward to the game?

Ah, thank you again. Exactly the succinct answer I was looking for.

Doom definitely started it all for me, on the PC, anyway. I do remember playing Wolf 3D at a friend's house, but I don't remember if that was before or after I had already played Doom. I do have fond memories of attempting to install mods for Doom, to no success. :) My dad used to play Doom, and...

Well I got my RAM in today, and it really is night and day. I couldn't even play Battlefield 2 and F.E.A.R. before, and now neither of them have any hitching at all. I'm installing Far Cry, since I never really finished it anyhow. Thanks for the assurance on the RAM. My last question is, now...

Well then, that solves that.

The one thing confusing me is that I just watched the second video of the level editor on Gametrailers, and at one point some kind of window comes up with a field to fill in, and it seems that the level editor is clearly running in Windows XP. Will Crysis be able to be run in DX9, or is it a...

I suggested Everquest. :)

I'm predicting Half-Life as being somewhere in the top 3, as it usually is. CS 1.6 falls into the Half-LIfe category, the way I see it, so I'm not expecting any mods to make the list. System Shock II should make an appearance, one of the best games I've ever played. I'm sure Warcraft III or...

I guess I wasn't clear in my original post about what kind of "performance" I was talking about. I'm mainly talking about stuttering, and if more RAM will help that, which the general concensus is that it will, then I'm happy. My next purchase will probably be an 8800GTS 640mb anyway, since I'm...

Today I ordered 2gb of Corsair Valueselect RAM (affordable, and I have a gig of Valueselect RAM that I've had and am going to use until the new RAM gets here). Although it's a little late to ask, just for the sake of asking, what kind of performance increase can I expect? My system specs are in...

I am playing F.E.A.R. again because I got tired of some Steam games to hold me over until S.T.A.L.K.E.R. comes out, but what I really cant wait for it Crysis/UTIII/Bioshock.