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3DS Max is free for "students"(read non-profit). Blender is free, and one-hundred times the modeller ZM is. He would have been better off making plugins for proper 3D modellers.

I used to do this with my old desktop, I would have twin screens for the game and run any other programs I needed on my laptop at the other side. I only have VGA monitors though, the one and only VGA port is used in my GPU.

You have to use Zmodeler2, for now, unless you like a lot of converting, but you will still need Zmod2. You can use 3DS Max + GIMS + OpenIV for non vehicular formats. GMAX is pretty useless for most things, other than learning, unless the game's SDK has a "gamepack" for GMAX.

Faster draw calls, get access to new features as they come, not as M$ releases new OSes, cross platform, open source. The problem is that the few engines that do support it are usually the ones behind in terms of graphics. Though I would not trust my info on it, I have no hands on experience with either DX or GL. The winning argument for me is not getting capped when your OS becomes old. Enjoy DX9, XP; DX10, Vista; DX11, 7. It has got a long way to go, the Nvidia 310 drivers are a start, but I will be keeping a copy of 7 for games & XP for old/buggy7 games.

If I wanted a performance boost, and I don't as I already have extremely smooth running games, I would use Linux + KDE† + OpenGL, that combination gives outstanding performance. Shame that Linux gaming has made as much progress as PC vs console has. I think I phrased my last post wrong: Anyone "upgrade"d their 7 install to 8? I am curious if M$ have finally managed an upgrade that does not screw the system up. † With "Suspend desktop effects for fullscreen windows" enabled.

Know what pin type it uses?

I did this with a ICOM jack based headset, found the pinout for that ICOM plug, found the pinout for my USB Xbox360 controller headset, ripped apart an old broken 360 headset and made an adaptor.

I mostly played on my 360, the rest of the time I endured the slowness that was my previous machine. To be fair, many people can't just get the money together for a decent PC in a short period of time, and when they do they are stuck selecting components that will be obsolete in two weeks anyway, having just been released, and will not be able to run games developed by people who think that graphics must be bleeding edge with no proper low end settings, that will only run on two day old, overclocked, £2k+ machines. The developers have access to hardware that most average people don't have and then loose touch with the real world. The console is a good way to escape their moronic moves by forcing them to stick to a "performance budget".

Coolermaster storm sniper. Wish I got the Nvidia edition, green LEDs look nicer. Have not got around to cleaning it since the move, good tip for cheap people, like me, use a footpump rather than "air duster"s.

They will not listen to this petition. They will port it, they will not put much effort into it, we will complain, they will not listen. If every PC GTA fan bought ten copys of the game, make the console figures look less impressive, maybe they would take us seriously.

Don't want to post my setup until I have built my new desk and got a new monitor. Here is the tower: Enlarge

I could not until I got my new GPU. That mod turns EM4 into a game optimised even worse than GTAIV!

I will type the same thing I always type/say when someone types/says a price like that. Are you going to pay? No, then nor will I. I will spend my money on more important things, for one not ruining my computer.

It logs any error as soon as it happens, if it can catch it. I will build one with some debug logging tonight or tomorrow. I really should add a verbosity switch to my code so I can just ask people who have issues to enable logging.

Do you have a IVDashCam.log, if so attach or post the contents.

They will never stop piracy, no matter how hard they try. The amount of money thrown at "anti-piracy" techniques is probably comparable to the amount they loose to pirates. And the more they try, the worse methods they come up with. "Let's limit the times it can be installed" "Let's add some crapware that has to be run 24/7 and tracks info irrelevant to our product" "Let's prosecute the people downloading it rather than go after those cracking and uploading it" (ulers are not dumb enough to get caught) "Let's push laws to censor the internet. After all, we do fund these politicians" (admittedly Hollywood and the music industry, not gaming industry, yet) I am becoming less and less sympathetic with every DRM method they come up with. It is hard to sympathise with the developers who have to do all the hard work, stick to difficult schedules and rush ports, when the publishers are trying to squeeze a title for every penny, even if it kills the title. I have seen so many titles ruined by publishers and so many development studios go under. On the note of the virus that is DRM, I was installing GRUB on a HDD that previously had a Win install on it. GRUB warned about "FlexNet" occupying sectors 32 & 33. It is some DRM crap used by Adobe, it embeds itself inside the space on the HDD that is for the MBR. More virus than "anti-piracy".

If .Net: The SHDN download has a good starting point for developers. [Link] If C++: The C++SH has a SDK to help get started, not that useful if new to C++. [Link]

Never had any issues with Vista myself, other than HP stuck a 32-bit on a 100% capable 64-bit machine, just the usual small crap that accompanies Windows' OSes. This. That is why I love Arch Linux, build your own OS from the base as you want it, not how some money grabbing morons following the wrong trend want it.

They will release it on PC, they might be stupid enough to go for profit(console) over loyalty(PC) but they will do a PC version. Even if it is yet another ten minute port. The switch from RenderWare to RAGE slowed down IV modding, since V is using RAGE I am sure it will give modders a head start. Even if they decide to kill modding for the first couple of patches, their attempts are futile with such a huge, skilled community.

Having tried 95, 98, XP, Vista, 7, 8, KDE3, KDE4, Gnome2, Gnome3, Unity, XFCE, LXDE, Cinnamon, WP7.5, Android4, Chromium OS & a couple I might have missed. I can say that the worst ones are: 8, Unity & Gnome3. (KDE4 is worse than 3 but still more usable than those three.) Chrome was never built as a desktop OS, at least it is not trying to be something it isn't. Ubuntu, M$, Gnome & KDE have lost a lot of users for their new for the sake of new interfaces. I have added a poll so people with an opinion but can't be bothered to defend it can have their say.

Forgot about that, I still have it sitting on my laptop's HDD. Having some issues with it at the moment, but I will resume work on it after GTAPolicingTools is released.

If you want some stupid OS built for a phone or tablet with a new for the sake of new interface, get it, if you want a laptop or desktop OS, stick with 7 or XP, or Linux/Windows dual boot(Win for gaming, Linux for everything).

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Damn, shame they will ruin it for PC by putting no money or effort into it. R*, sucking console kids off and spitting in PC gamer's faces since 2001.