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shiny_red_cobra
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I bet the devs would rather stay home than show up and be bombarded by questions regarding the next patch. It's unfortunate, but hey that's life.
shiny_red_cobra
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Hahahaha this game is awesome!
shiny_red_cobra
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It'd be nice for you to use your brain. It also claims to support DDR, and no motherboard has been released with DDR support for over 3 years. I meant I haven't seen any nforce 980a motherboards with DDR2 ram, they all have DDR3.
shiny_red_cobra
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Oh is that a new Nvidia chipset or something? I haven't seen any of those in stores. Also, the 980a supports only DDR3 ram as far as I can tell.
shiny_red_cobra
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If you want an AMD CPU your motherboard must have an AMD chipset. And AMD chipsets only support CrossFire, they don't support SLI. Also, why would you want it to have DDR2 ram?
shiny_red_cobra
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You don't need to use DXtweak, you just have to install the drivers for both wheels and make sure they both show up in the Game Controllers control panel. If they both show up there, you can assign axes from both of them in LFS.
shiny_red_cobra
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Maybe it's an AGP problem. My Radeon 4870 has HDMI audio onboard, and the correct driver for it is installed, and everything works fine.
shiny_red_cobra
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It wouldn't mess up posts. You can delete your posts manually, and the forum won't be broken. Just any links pointing to your posts will result in an error page. But that's normal.
shiny_red_cobra
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Looks like I was right! Good to hear you solved it.
shiny_red_cobra
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Please post specific error messages. We can't help you if it "says something about hard drive". Also check your system log for any errors, type eventvwr.msc in Run command prompt. Maybe you should try installing the drivers that are on the CD that came with your video card, that's the first step. I know some people get better performance by using older drivers.

Also try installing this.
shiny_red_cobra
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Your CPU is the bottleneck. It would also be the bottleneck at 3GHz because it's a shit CPU, it's just a Pentium Dual Core after all. I suggest you get a new computer altogether as anything will be faster than what you have now. Any upgrade will be a waste of money really.
shiny_red_cobra
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Ah you're right, it doesn't. My bad, I hate matlab.
shiny_red_cobra
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Basically a function in matlab is as follows. This line must be the first line in your .m file:

function [output1, output2, ...] = myFunction (input1, input2, ....)
(and here is the body of the function where you can write any code you want)
.
.
.
end

The last line in the file must be "end". You can have as many outputs and inputs as you want, comma-separated.

Next you need an if statement to check the dimensions of your input matrix.

if expression1
statements1
elseif expression2
statements2
else
statements3
end

Don't forget the "end". Use [m,n] = size(X) to find the size of the input matrix. You need to check for 2x2 and 3x3 matrices, and also make sure m == n. Obviously the determinant of a 1x1 matrix is the only number in the matrix itself. Once you have an if statement for each size of matrix, do the calculation for each one and store the answer in an output variable (you only need 1 in this function). Then go into the main matlab console and call your function like you call any other function.

Also, matlab has a good web site if you need help with the syntax of things like if statements and for loops and so on, you should check it out.
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shiny_red_cobra
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You don't have them installed, if you did it would say "ATI High Definition Audio Device", not "Microsoft blah blah blah Device". But yea, if you don't need HDMI then there's no point in installing anything else.
shiny_red_cobra
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That's an interesting fix indeed. But have you actually tried installing AMD's HDMI driver and see what happens?
shiny_red_cobra
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It's probably PCIe 1.0 too, so any recent video card won't be able to run at its full potential.
shiny_red_cobra
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But it has a Pentium 4 CPU?
shiny_red_cobra
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Wow dude how do you confuse a PCIe x16 slot with an AGP slot? LOL
shiny_red_cobra
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The Mafia 2 Demo was on Steam, it should still be there I think.
shiny_red_cobra
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To tell you the truth I'm not really interested in synthetic benchmarks (other ppl might be though). I just wanna know the fps before and after in games, such as Half-Life 2, LFS, and Mafia 2 if possible lol. Thanks!
shiny_red_cobra
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Can you let us know what kind of performance boost this upgrade will give you? I've always wondered if those AGP Radeons actually do anything for an old system.
shiny_red_cobra
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I'm just saying in my case it didn't work well, but it seems to work in your case. The problem is probably the BIOS doesn't support your CPU, but I don't even know what BIOS version your board has.
shiny_red_cobra
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Quote from Dygear :Would not kill me to do a tiny upgrade on the CPU also, the motherboard should support that just fine ... But I'd love to swap the whole thing out with the fastest APG board that I can find with SATA 6gbps controllers and an AMD socket so I can put a really low thermal unit in there.

I strongly discourage you from doing any of that. I did that once, it was the biggest waste of money ever. I wish I had bought a new computer altogether. If you buy the fastest AGP board ever, you will be disappointed. Trust me. Don't waste your money. Get something new.
shiny_red_cobra
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I had a brand new power supply once too, and the system wouldn't turn on at all. It turned out the power supply was broken. Brand new doesn't mean much these days.
shiny_red_cobra
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That's a pretty good CPU, and spending up to $100 on a good AGP video card isn't such a bad idea. It will definitely inject some life into it for the time being.
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