I have a friend who had the same problm with COH not playing on steam, and how he fixed it was by installing the patches manually

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truthfully you dont want to buy a pre built comp, they are generally overpriced, and ill make a few suggested changes as well. as far as the case, hard drive, DVD drive, they dont really matter all that much, but the guts of the comp do. So ill suggest AMD instead of intel, because the price for performance is better, unless your a die hard intel fan. video card wise youll want to go for the 8800gt, the best price for performance on the market right now, ram wise any DDR2 6400 will do and 2 gigs of it is fine. and for the motherboard, you dont have to go overboard, you dont need sli, its generally a waste, just make sure that the board supports the CPU you buy and has PCIE (and if you want a PCIE 2.0 slot, but their slightly more expensive), and for the power supply you just need to make sure it have the needed 12V current rating for you video card. Ill throw up some numbers for ya, all from NEWEGG.com. Provided you can put it together yourself.

CASE, Power supply, hard drive, DVD drive.....$160

AMD X2 6400+...........................................$160

2 gigs of DDR2 6400 memory......................$50

nvidia 8800gt 512mb..................................$250

Gigabyte motherboard(PCIE, not 2.0)............$80

so that set up will cost only about $700, and will be able to run crysis all highs at about 30-40fps. Also this setup is generally better and significantly cheaper than what you were looking at. Remeber Newegg.com is the way to go.

Mcgnnis1

do you have any particular motherboard in mind which you think is really good?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128052

this is a pretty good motherboard i actually have this same one, and it hasnt failed me yet(about 10 months of use). It supports AM2 cpus, DDR2 memory, SATA drives, and PCIE, the only drawback is that its not a PCIE 2.0 slot(although at this point there isnt really a performance difference between the two), and it not being 2.0 it is cheaper. well that would be my recommendation as far as AMD goes, and i do recommend AMD as well, but if you want intel just make sure that the CPU socket supports the CPU you want

truthfully you dont want to buy a pre built comp, they are generally overpriced, and ill make a few suggested changes as well. as far as the case, hard drive, DVD drive, they dont really matter all that much, but the guts of the comp do. So ill suggest AMD instead of intel, because the price for performance is better, unless your a die hard intel fan. video card wise youll want to go for the 8800gt, the best price for performance on the market right now, ram wise any DDR2 6400 will do and 2 gigs of it is fine. and for the motherboard, you dont have to go overboard, you dont need sli, its generally a waste, just make sure that the board supports the CPU you buy and has PCIE (and if you want a PCIE 2.0 slot, but their slightly more expensive), and for the power supply you just need to make sure it have the needed 12V current rating for you video card. Ill throw up some numbers for ya, all from NEWEGG.com. Provided you can put it together yourself.

CASE, Power supply, hard drive, DVD drive.....$160

AMD X2 6400+...........................................$160

2 gigs of DDR2 6400 memory......................$50

nvidia 8800gt 512mb..................................$250

Gigabyte motherboard(PCIE, not 2.0)............$80

so that set up will cost only about $700, and will be able to run crysis all highs at about 30-40fps. Also this setup is generally better and significantly cheaper than what you were looking at. Remeber Newegg.com is the way to go.

I'd recommend COH

You do know that you're seeing less in HL2? The engine renders a larger 4:3 image, then crops it to fit your screens. Other than that, it must be cool. What kind of FPS and settings do you get in Crysis. Hell, what do you have in your computer to power it?kodex1717

no im pretty sure it just expands it in half life cause its set at 3360 by 1050 and i tested one moitor against 2 and it basically doubled it, and as far as crysis goes i run it on all high settingswith a resolution of 2600 by 600 at about 20-25 fps, and my hardware is a AMD x2 6000+, 2 gigs of ram and a 8800gts 320mb

Wouldn't the band down the middle become annoying and potentially bad for games? I too have been thinking of 2 19 in. monitors FerraraZ23

well it does bug a little, but pretty much every game can run in windowed mode so you can just move it to the side a little and make it so your cursor, and the middle ofyour view isnt obscured

So I just got 2, 22" lcd monitors the other day and tried them out with my games and wow its pretty sick, im running all my games at a resolution of 3360 by 1050 and I can now see twice as much as i used to, here check it out:

Half-Life 2:Episode 2

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Crysis

Compnay of Heroes

Unreal Tournament 3

[QUOTE="SuperBork"]yep I agree, the source engine has to be the bestdarkSIDEechoes

So you think that Source games look better than CoD4? Did you even max out CoD4?

No dude, all i meant is that the source engine,although not the best looking anymore, is probably the best optimized engine ever made