you should do a clean format/system reinstall before you buy anything else for that computer, just to see its not a OS/software error/Virus.

yes but you only have access to vanilla content.

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Yes discs will out live you, floppies and zips are too if handled correctly.

Cdscottie

Right I should have said they out lived their drives.

yes, you will need all the files on your computer even you do not own the expansions.

Depends how you look at it. I personally only get DLC if I'm intrested in it. I like having the option to extend or add to my game if I so choose. There's alot out there that I have passed on, and a few I have purchased. You can say what you want, but DLC is here to stay so you might as well deal with it. It's your choice- buy or ignore!

I look at it as the developers might not have had the time to do all they wanted to do with the schedule they have to keep with publishers. So they throw out a DLC to add that content. Then you have the option to buy it or pass on it. Is it out of control? I don't think so. It's just a new avenue to extend and add to their product and make a little money.

slabber44

I think you have missed the point completely, no one here says they were forced to buy DLCs, just like every consumer product, its buy or ignore. but what you have to keep in mind is what if developers take out some contents from a game and sell them as DLCs? and Where is line drawn? and how is it changing PC gaming? What it will do to mods and expansion packs. Will they support user created content if they want to make a few bucks themselves?

Yes discs will out live you, floppies and zips are too if handled correctly.

DLC was a way of releasing expansion packs to console games, because most expansion packs required the original game installed on your pc, there was just no way for publishers to sell those for consoles, we PC gamer had downloadable expansion packs long before DLC was around, and I think everyone who played games on pc long enough would prefer have expansion packs. I think at least 50% of the stuff in xbox market place should have been free, and yes I think DLC is out of control.

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[QUOTE="Phoenix534"]

There are a few games I want, but don't know how well I can run them. Tell how well I can please. If I missed anything on my rig, tell me.

RIG

CPU - Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 2.50GHz
RAM - 2GB
GPU - Nvidia GeForce 8400 GS 1012.0GB
OS - Windows Vista 32-Bit

Games

Armed Assault II
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
DiRT 2
Elder Scrolls IV, The: Game of the Year Edition
Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition
Left 4 Dead 2
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising
Order of War

Phoenix534

elder scrolls 4: on low bad resolution

CoD: MW2 (Nope)

fallout 3 (nope)

left for dead 2 (nope)

flashpoint 2 DR (nope)

order of war (doubtful)

armed assault 2 (not on your life)

i prescribe a gpu upgrade to perhaps an hd 4670 then about all of that list is viable (except for perhaps left for dead 2)

I was hoping I could at least run Fallout 3. Is it really that much more intensive than Call of Duty 4?

yeah COD 4 is less graphic intensive then any of the games you listed, I only get around 35fps when I play ARMA2, and I have a overclocked GTX275.

thanks alot for the advice guys, I think I have made up my mind and gonna go for a phenom II quad core, and hopefully overclock it to a meltdown.

I think this monitor could work

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236067

its a 21.5 inch, has HDMI, HDCP ready, correct aspect ratio, 1080p as native resolution, 720p compatible,

normal pc monitor wouldn't work cause different screen ratio, 22 inch native resolution is 1900x 1200 instead of 1920 x 1080 which means it possiblely wont work or will have stretched picture.

correct me if I'm wrong.

Edit, nvm, just saw you had a ps2, not a ps3, my bad