There are four wheels on the wall with people stuck to them, kill those guys and then shood the hanging guy at the top. Ignore the monster that keeps respawning, your squad mates can keep him off your back. Just keep doing this a few times and you should get it.

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Quite a hard choice really, for me it would be between Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and Call of Duty 4. CoD4 has a really intense single player while Quake Wars is a really fun multiplayer. But I recon GameSpots game of the year will be Crysis since they love it so much, can't see why myself.

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The SLI bridge is a short connector that connects the two graphics cards together. This links the two cards together on the top of the cards near where the cards are screwed into possition. You usually get this with the motherboard.

Glad to hear you got your screen back working again.

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Maybe you need to fiddle with the monitor settings, does it have an auto detect settings option? Some monitors have this. Check the documentation for the monitor to see what resolutions it supports.

One alternative is a very usefull program called LogMeIn. If the laptop you are currently on is on the same network then you might be able to install LogMeIn on your desktop remotely with LogMeIn Scout. Both these programs are free btw.

With LogMeIn Scout, you have to install LogMeIn to the computer you are pushing from and then you should be able to deploy the LogMeIn client to your desktop. Once this is done you can remote control the computer from anywhere, so you should be able to change the resolution.

I've used this in my work, I do IT support and LogMeIn is a life saver.

www.logmein.com

Hope this helps

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Have you tried booting into safe mode? Not sure whether the screen res is different in safe mode. If you can get in and it's visible, then you should be able to alter your screen res from here.

To get into safe mode (in case you don't already know) is press F8 before the windows loading screen appears. What I tend to do is mash F8 after post and keep doing so until the prompt appears.

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That is very strange, like Spindoc said, it sounds like your monitor can't support the resolution it has dropped to. The default for Vista is 800x600 I think. If you have another computer in the house, pilfer it's monitor and hook it up until you can install thenewer drivers. If you don't, then I'm afraid you're a little stuck. You need to get another display from somewhere so you can see until you update the drivers.

It's very unusual for a monitor to not support a low fail safe resolution, what's the manufaturer and model?

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Why don't you just pick up a projector and have a 7 foot screen :)

Sure you lose resolution, a 720p projector will set you back 800ish but who cares when the screen is so big :) that's what anti-aliasing is for.

If resolution is what you're after then you might as well stick to the 22 inch because you won't see any benefit from the extra 2 inches.

This article on wikipedia has a screen shot that shows you the relation of different resolutions to each other. Quite easy to see just how much more you are getting with different resolutions and aspect ratios.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_resolution

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Quite a lot of motherboards these days have an "Everything is ok" LED on the board somewhere. If your mothboard has one of these, then this might help. Otherwise just ignore me.

When the 8800GT is plugged in with the power connected, is the LED lit? If it is off then the motherboard isn't getting power, the LED should be on even with the computer turned off but just connected to a power source. If the LED is flashing this usually means that something is not connected right and the system won't start in fear of causing damage. This fail safe is built into a lot of motherboards (most that I've dealt with recently anyway).

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This can depend on a few things really.

Did you build the computer yourself?If so, double check that everything is seated correctly, main focus would be the extra power connectors on the graphics cards?I believe that you get a warning that they are running in low power mode if this is the case though.

What graphics drivers are you running? Have you updated your motherboard and sound card drivers as well? What size power supply do you have?

Is SLI enabled? When you update your graphics drivers it defaults to off. Right click on the desktop and select Nvidia Control Panel, if prompted, select advanced mode. On the left of this window, select "Set SLI configuration" and then press "Enable SLI technology". This might require a reboot.

I usually get my drivers from www.guru3d.com as they have everything you'll ever need, including beta drivers if you wish to try out untested drivers. It's generally better to only go with WHQL drivers though.

Also when updating graphics drivers, it's generally better to uninstall the last drivers first. You can actually do this in Control Panel -> Programs and Features. Look for Nvidia Drivers and select uninstall, this will prompt for a reboot. When Vista comes back on, decline Vista trying to install the new hardware and run the Nvidia driver install.

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RAM on the video card holds texture and object data for rendering, it keeps this data there in case it can be reused in the next frame, which in most cases it can be. But when you enter a new area the data in the video RAM is no longer relevant and is discarded for the new data that is being loaded. Like has already been mentioned, if you don't have enough system RAM to hold everything then the data is stored in Virtual Memory (on the hard drive).The hard drive is much slower than RAM so it takes a split second to load this data into the video RAM. I believe this also gets moved over to the system RAM as well and what data on the system RAM that hasn't been accessed for some time gets moved over to the virtual Memory.

All of this moving dataaround results in bad frame rates when moving around different areas and the screen pausing while entering a new room but performing very well in the same place. If you stand in an area and look in one direction and the FPS are rather high but you turn suddenly or enter a new area and the frames drop and then come back up to being stable, this is why.

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