I only said CoD because I played the MoH Beta and was not impressed. Looks exactly like BC2...exactly! But, I'm also CoDed out just like I got Haloed out and it has none of the substance it used to. CoD got overly perk happy, MoH has had a constant tendancy of getting worse. Might play CoD SP cause the spec ops missions sound cool, but knowing Treyarch they messed it all up as usual. But, who am I to say, they may have gotten their respective heads out of their, you know whats, and actually made some games worth a crap.

I just got an xbox wireless adapter for windows to connect my controller to my pc but it's not working. I installed the drivers and nothing. I uninstalled and let windows check for drivers and the adapter doesn't even show up as a recognized device. I have windows 7, AMD Athlon II x4 64, 1TB hdd, and plenty of ram so I know my pc is compatible. I'm starting to wonder if I ordered a defective unit any tips or ideas? I even tried installing the drivers manually from the install cd.

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Yeah it's the competative nature of MP games that's got your head in shambles. In SP all you have to do is adapt to the AI's programmed tactics which is usually spot-attack-advance-attack-take cover-attack, very predictable, very easy to adapt to. In MP games it's far more complicated, you have multiple enemies all controlled by individuals who have a far greater computing power than a simple cpu can compete with. Unpredictable and also actively adapting. You rarely see someone jump out from behind a crate completely unprotected and unload an entire clip at you, while your behind cover. Basically your mind is saying I have to get better because it's a natural need to be the best, because if your not better...you die, and if you keep losing your brain doesn't get the old "ada boy!" it needs from all that work it's put into it. Whereas if you play single player games you quickly adapt to the AI tactics and kick some butt on an unlimited basis your brain says "Yay me, I'm the best!!", till it gets bored and doesn't care anymore. Especially if you emerse yourself in gameplay constantly, you mind will try to adapt to this "new hostile environment" of your game and you will begin to become detatched from the outside world. Your brain will begin to replace your real world aquired survival techniques with gameplay survival tactics. Because while you may be entirely aware that your playing a game, if you play very eccessively, your brain will begin to believe that this is a new hostile environment that it needs to protect it's self from. Now I'm not saying that is what your problem is, but it could happen. It COULD happen.

Ameer27

I believe it is entirely possible. The beauty of the brain is it is capable of adapting to a changing environment in order to survive. If the environment that it is exposed to is mostly a hostile MP video game it will begin to believe that is the normal environmental condition it exists in, and make changes accordingly.

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Knowing the onlive maker and that its really being pushed to be part of a IsP package (like getting bought by AT&T and be part of the Uverse package), I think it will fail in the US. ISP's do not like granting good connection to people even if they are paying for said connection. I tried onlive. Within 5 hrs of playing, my connection went to crap. Turns out I was bandwidth limited by my ISP (Cox cable) and my 8mb connection was cut to 2mb. All that upload and download you are doing is something ISP's hate. It just will not work well in this day and age in America.

On another note, graphically this is ok. It reminds me of watching a 720p youtube video. Sometimes it looks fine but others the compression of the video makes things look horrible. It would work nicely for rpg's or games without alot of movements but after trying dirt 2, it fails on the pinpoint movements needed. Its a service that is way ahead of its time.

jedikevin2

I agree the compression does get a bit frazzled with quick movements. I also agree that if the service is pushed into a package deal with a specific isp it will be a bad move, and I use Time Warner's Roadrunner as my ISP and have had few problems with bandwidth cap, which I beleive is like 10 or 12 MB/s. Oddly playing Mafia II driving through the city and all, wasn't as affected by the compression from what I could notice, but Borderlands in first person has some limitation.

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jedikevin2

Thank you.

Yeah it's the competative nature of MP games that's got your head in shambles. In SP all you have to do is adapt to the AI's programmed tactics which is usually spot-attack-advance-attack-take cover-attack, very predictable, very easy to adapt to. In MP games it's far more complicated, you have multiple enemies all controlled by individuals who have a far greater computing power than a simple cpu can compete with. Unpredictable and also actively adapting. You rarely see someone jump out from behind a crate completely unprotected and unload an entire clip at you, while your behind cover. Basically your mind is saying I have to get better because it's a natural need to be the best, because if your not better...you die, and if you keep losing your brain doesn't get the old "ada boy!" it needs from all that work it's put into it. Whereas if you play single player games you quickly adapt to the AI tactics and kick some butt on an unlimited basis your brain says "Yay me, I'm the best!!", till it gets bored and doesn't care anymore. Especially if you emerse yourself in gameplay constantly, you mind will try to adapt to this "new hostile environment" of your game and you will begin to become detatched from the outside world. Your brain will begin to replace your real world aquired survival techniques with gameplay survival tactics. Because while you may be entirely aware that your playing a game, if you play very eccessively, your brain will begin to believe that this is a new hostile environment that it needs to protect it's self from. Now I'm not saying that is what your problem is, but it could happen. It COULD happen.

I've been playing some games on Onlive (mainly only paid for games because they had a Labor Day sale, everything 50% off woohoo!!) and I have to say it's not too horrible in my opinion. I had my doubts about the service even working, but it seems these guys did they're homework, at least most of it. Very little lag from control input to action on screen, virtually unnoticable. Decent graphics, would look better in native resolution, but you know your only getting 720p when you sign up, which is about what you get from PS3 on most games anyway.

Having said that, is resolution really THAT important? Sure it will give you a crisp high contrast picture but the point of a game is to play, not too oogle over how many pixels you can push out on super high settings. Sure if you dished out 600 bucks on a new graphics card, it better be able to push out the goods, but if you sign up for onlive you wouldn't have even needed to pay for that over charged card in the first place. And I know there's an arguement about the saticfaction of building a hardcore gaming pc so you can be proud of your big, fancy, shiny, sparkling, light emitting, overpowered, piece of hardware that can play anything that comes out in the next 6 months, and I get that. But, there are lots of people who don't have the money, or prefer to not defer that much of their cash flow into a piece of equipment that has no return value, perhaps spending it on things like paying bills, or unpaid parking tickets, maybe even food.

Anyway, there are plenty of reasons people can't afford to invest in a high-end machine to which would likely benefit from this service, granted they would need a reliable broadband internet connection. To add on that last note, I've rarely noticed a drop in video quality due to loss of bandwidth, which will usually occur, most likely, during peek hours on your isp, generally the afternoon. But honestly what do you want from an actively compressed streaming video gameplay service? Anyway, feel free to argue with any of my points, and snarl your nose snobbishly at my opinions, or just add your own thoughts as you see fit.

First it's not unrelated cause I was elaborating on the statement you made about trainers crashing the game and some other thoughts. And second I just like watching people cry about stupid things like people responding to threads posted two months ago, because they have nothing better to do.

Just sayin' if you use a trainer your game will freeze the next time you complete a mission.

ventnor

Yeah wish I knew that before hand. Everytime I bring up the map or pause the game or order something from the black market then try to go back to gameplay the game just shuts down. No warning no error message, just black screen then desktop. Actually bought two games on Steam this one and Crysis Warhead and warhead just crashes whenever I try to load a savegame(no trainer used). Otherwise the games run great on med to high specs at 1280x768 resolution. Card can handle it's self have to lower some specs if I feel like using 3D vision discovery (no 3D vision kit yet)

AMD Athlon II x4 2.8Ghz

6GB RAM

Win 7 x64

Nvidia GT240

Just played a match. It looks sweet, too bad my team got owned. Sadly I had the highest score on my team of 7 kills and 11 deaths!!! Good god it's been a while since I've played halo! I'll play it more when I dont have to go to work.