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#1 charliebarter
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Same problem here, it says when you test you connection that they realise some people,

"Users may be unable to render the maps winthin the Call of Duty: modern warfare 2 stimulus Map Pack"

They are aware of this problem and are working to fix it apparently.

Nothing about not being able to update though

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#2 charliebarter
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So i'm thinking of getting some gaming headphones so when I game on my 360 I don't annoy my flat mates.

I want to get the turtle beach HPX which says it requires the astro mixamp for 5.1

I currently run my xbox optically via my logitech z5400 5.1 setup.

If I use this with the headphones will it produce 5.1 surround sound without the need of the mixamp?

When I use really bad headphones it apppears to produce 5.1 but they are so bad I can't really tell.

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#3 charliebarter
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So I tried today to play the review for dark athena and instead of playing the entire video, I got a quick image which I saw, and then a black screen.

The play button has turned into a pause button and if I click on the black screen I can change this between play and pause.

None of the video is buffering however as the total play time for the video remains at 00.00

I'm running adblock plus which i have disabled on gamespot

I'm also running avira which whenever i goto gamespot warns me of a HTML/IFrame.adyh malware in the URL:

http://mads.gamespot.com/mac-ad?beacon=1&site=6&NCAT=&ptype=2001&pid=

If a deny this access gamespot goes to a blank white screen, if I ignore it gamespot loads but I still don't get any video streaming

Not sure if I have tried using any videos on gamespot since the newest version of avira came out.

Also the old viddeos e.g. max ppayne 1 review are also not working.

Any idea whats blocking the videos? They used to work.

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#4 charliebarter
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sorry but bump, only once
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#5 charliebarter
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I have recently installed a usb headset on my computer. A creative one. I also have a creative x-fi ultimate gamer card installed in my PC. I want to be able to change the output of my computer from the speakers to the headset and back again.

Obiviously I would have thought that changing the default device in ccontrol panel/ sounds in vista would do this. But changing the default output device has no effect.

I have also tried changing the ouput device in the creative console, but this still doesn't change the ouput device. If I start my computer with the headset in, all sound will come from the headset. If I start without the headset I cannot get sound to come from the headset without restarting the computer with it in the usb socket.

Obiviously this is quite annoying. Any help would be very much appreciated.

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#6 charliebarter
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I've realised that I need a microphone, especially for left 4 dead, i.e. steam.

I was wondering what peoples thoughts were on whether to get a pc headset with one earphone so that I could still use my nice 5.1 speaker set. (like the xbox 360 one)

Or is it better to get a good 5.1 surround sound headset with 2 headphones to use for fps games?

I've been looking for an answer on this but I can't seem to find one. Most likely my failure though.

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#7 charliebarter
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Thanks most useful