Love the web site works great.

One problem, it seems to take forever to load up and sometimes I get the

"oh, sorry we ran into a small problem please try back later" screen.

Not sure why. but it happens and or is very slow to come up. once it does, everything is fine

Oh Yeah Kaz, I got my Damien FR Schecter back(on the cheap, guy needed cash, I got it for 100$)
Floyd Rose Tremolo
EMG Hzs (Dual Humbuckers)
Satin Black Finish
Rosewood fretboard
Batwing inlays on the fretboard.


Also (in a different deal with different person) I traded a Peavey 2x12 75watt Chorus amp (heavy as hell) for a Takamine G540C natural (cutaway acoustic electric). needed strings and had to straighten the neck (whoopie , 2 turns of an allen wrench).

If I can make some time, I will take some pics of each and post em.

This is about MWO (and some bad luck)

So a couple of years ago (? maybe, crap I dont remember), I boughts myself a really nice laptop.

It has 4 gig Ram, a 2.5ghz dual core AMD cpu and an AMD/ATI Radeon 4250 (chip).

It plays MW4 GREAT!!!! plus some others like Veng and Black Knight and Megamek and MechCommander and well thats pretty much all I play. It also did all the other things I needed in a laptop, nice big screen, built in number pad, large HDD and DVD burner.

It doesnt meet MWO SPECS (CPU not enough and Vid chip not enough)!!!

To top all that off, I was gonna save up for a new machine (I remember a day when i would just go order the shit and build me one, but now I gotta save). We had a pretty bad TStorm come thru here this past weekend. I was on my old XP Gamer machine (still not enough for MWO) and lightning strikes very close by. Power goes out (for about 20 minutes).

When the storm passes and power is restored, I am a little concerned about me gamer being smacked even tho on a surge protector (nice one). To my surprise, it starts right up and works just fine. However, my olde server machine (I now use it as a testbed machine to check out crap before putting any software on my old gamer or my new laptop) seems to be zapped. It was NOT on and plugged into the SAME surge protector as my other (gamer) machine.

When I hit the power button, the front panel lights up as does one of the internal fans, but that seems to be about it. I am thinking power supply, but it could be more. Cant check it out unless I replace the power supply. Its an old 2.4ghz dual core 1 gig ram XP machine, but it worked and worked great, now, not so much.

So, no PC capable of playing MWO and also down 1 pc that I used to work on other peoples machines as well as my own. Really sux.

From what I have read, gathered and Dev statements, MWO is pretty CPU intensive. They highly suggest Quad core CPU

I been looking at Tiger and NewEgg and price wise/performance I am thinking AMD Quad Core if I ever get up the cashola. I have had very could success with AMD in the past (in fact, I have only owned about 3 different Intel based machines). Price wise, they are MUCH less than Intel and the performance is only a wee bit less (especially for 2oo to 300$ diff in price). Will shoot for 6 to 8gb Ram and I will most likely go with an NVidia GPU. I already have a GREAT sound card and speaker system and probably enough fans out of my old (non working server and currently working old gamer) to keep it very cool inside.

I will still need to buy a copy of Win 7. I have one on my Laptop, but it did not come with a disc (cheap bastards), only a recovery section on the HDD and my backup discs I created when i bought it.

Based on all the above info, it will be awhile before Ole Vettie can get into MWO.
Boo!

So in the mean time, its MW4Mercs and some MegaMek.