Due to economic strait jacketing my video card upgrade was the ATI HD3850 on AGP. Thanks to ATI's refusal to release driver support for FreeBSD or Linux I'm basically stuck with fracking Winderz... I'm sure this makes Microsoft VERY happy. I feel like I'm living in a digital version of Cold War Russia.

I agree with you totally pmarini. Unfortunately this is just the proverbial iceberg tip, with much more still hidden. These are corporations whose activities the last few decades since Reagan have centered on removal of restrictions, merging of interests with national law, and abolition through demonization of unions.

I've been playing it daily for quite a while now and having a ball. The game is true to the original with a few very nice new maps, very fast, very frantic. But, what I am enjoying most is finding people who used to play the original Quake versions online. There's just something special about the early quake community that I've missed in the newer online gmaes. It was a community of friendly, eager to help, and even polite players who would then proceed to nail you over and over with perfect rails. Its a very welcome return IMHO. Thanks Id.

OMG, Texas has the bomb.

Yes, it can run perfectly on a 'normal' desktop PC. You do need to at least download and install the first official patch and then disable FFShow for Fallout 3 in FFShow's options. Also recommended that you disable the in-game radio on your Pipboy, to stop sound issues. I now run it fullscreen with AA at 4x. 3.2 dual core and ATI HD3850... definitely NOT your upscale gamer but more than adequate.

I totally agree with you on that... Bethesda sat on their hands while the players spent months finding fixes just so we could play a $50 game. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it immensely, but I don't get any feeling of snuggly goodness from that company at all. And then to top it off they jump in bed with Microsoft whose GFWL is the most annoying piece of navigating I've ever seen... I give up. Bethesda should have made the first DLC free as an apology for their mangled product release. Though I want to play the add-on there is no way I'll give them any more money.

Hmmm, I believe that would be the first trial where NO ONE could view the evidence without being then cuffed and charged with viewing child porn. Sheesh, maybe they'll have to get a Eunuch judge and jury? Silliest arrest I've heard... since the last silly arrest