It's really not that bad at all, you should do it. Wanna dl me a copy of 7 x64, so I can stop getting "counterfeit" warnings

I haven't been to school in a few years now :P, but it would likely work for those that are still in college

Using the student gateway http://www.dreamspark.com/, you can get any version you want too

Yeah, they may have changed it. I heard about this trick about a week or so ago, maybe they have caught on? Basically, after you hit next with the infomation, it will not allow you to continue or email the code until you put the windows 7 key. I have no idea if it would work with a 'bad' (internet) key

But what Marisa said is the easiest way to get it for free. As long as your school signed up for Premium, you get a copy of each for free. Too bad Ohio University is too cheap. Btw, all you need is an .edu email address to register, and if your school doesn't remove access (like mine) you can use them forever. Granted, I haven't tried to log in via OU's website, but I've had it forwarded to a gmail account long ago and it's been working for 10 years

and FYI

"Please note: we can only validate your registration when you submit a qualifying Windows 7 product key."

So, not sure if it will work with all people

Anyone that has their school on there wanna get me a copy? (cdkey)Even if it's windows 7, thats fine.

Dr. Drifter 20 hours ago
I kept hoping that someone would take the most boring aspect of Mass Effect 2 and make a whole game out of it, and now my prayers were answered. Thanks, gaming god of repetitive tasks.

Valve still has yet to optimize the game, ESEA anti-cheat actually caught one person, and we won in Europe

I don't know what it is about Time Warner, but they straight up refuse to give people any decent amount of upload speeds. I will get like 20mb/s down but only 500kb/s up.

I have never noticed any difference playing TF2 at my default speed with my i5 2500k (3.3) or playing when set it to 4.96

That's NOT Legend of Zelda that he is playing

I'll just leave this here

Wirex
http://www.gotfrag.com/tf2/forums/thread/406482/?cpage=1
Ezell
http://www.gotfrag.com/tf2/forums/thread/370316/

I have been trying to get back into playing two days a week during this election cycle so when I come back after I won't be so shitty. One thing that I have noticed since I last played two months ago is the insane about of time I waste validating game files. Now I know this happened on occasion a while ago, but it is now happening when I shutdown, restart comp, or even close TF2. I've noticed that a few people have been having issues like this but never to this degree of frequency. So, any help with this? Things I've tried

-defrag
-reinstall TF2
-reinstall steam and all games
-disable steam cloud (actually, been gone since it came out becuase it was really annoying, maybe it should be enabled?)
-reformatted

Second issue/settings

I just bought a 120hz monitor and had a few questions regarding the settings to use. I am already using the -freq 120 and -refresh 120 and have it enabled via display monitor. My questions is what should be the fps max be set to? I used to limit it to 250, because anything over 300 made the game feel like it was in speed mode, but what should I use now? I have heard from a few other forums that you need at least 240, but that makes little sense to me. I would understand that need in the case of 3d since it's two images being ran at the same time, but are these people correct?

Any other settings that should be used for 120hz?

Thanks,
Fzero

Also, I said I was going to review this monitor and I still plan on it in the next few days. But tbh, I wanted to be in-depth and even include pictures, but our house is such a disaster from both of us working I have to clean first. Expected it in the next week.

Thanks duder,

It was never caring about what people thought that stopped me, hell, my wife and I barely go out anymore, it was more that all the shit that you *could* buy with it was overwhelming. Other than seeing a starter set, which from buying electronics you know they don't come with everything you actually need, I was never sure what was actually needed and what was just an add on. PLus, the whole flavor option is tossing me a curveball. I mean, I am unsure of if I would want tobacco flavor because I don't think I have ever said "mmm, tasty" while smoking and menthol is 100X worse to me.

But thanks for the help again.

I've always noticed that if you are having trouble relaxing, which I did the first season of comp, one or two drinks seemed to help that. The only problem is stopping after those one or two drinks.

And yes, playing naked, or minimal clothing is always required. Or maybe it's just me because our "comp room" houses 4 computers and it's always so hot in that room.