Quick question to the people in the know.
I recieved The Orange Box recently, played through EP1 & 2.
I have'nt finished Portal yet, but I'm working on it.
Considerable time has passed since the release of HL2, so there must be some

Lately when I play Half-Life 2, my monitor will go into a suspend mode that
I usually can't get out of, sometimes it comes back on its own.
I don't think it's the monitor itself, because I tried a different monitor
with similar results.

Wretched Wretched Steam!
Finally FINALLY I can play HL2 Ep1 and I am stuck in the core - don't know
what I'm supposed to do here and the elevator doesn't go back up.  After a
WEEK of messing around with Steam and I'm stuck on what is probably some

I have a Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer sound card and there's that whole
Alchemy thing that's supposed to get games to work correctly but I
haven't been able to get HL2 or Dark Messiah to let me use my 7.1 speakers.
Other games are working OK.  A fix exists and I'm just not sure how ...

I really liked Portal - the problem solving nature of it, etc.
Anyone know of any good portal add-ons or mods?

Playing through HL2 from A-Z for the first time
Finally got some machinery which can handle the game a little better :)
Allthough I do get some crazy video errors (unable to lock vertes or
something) - but this rig is running on Vista and it looks like I am not

I have got a rash of garbage posts since Jan 6, 2008 I am wondering if it is
My newsreader gone amuck or if anyone else is getting the same?
Most of them have numbers abd letters in the subject and from fields.
Regards Rene

What would be a better 'controller' for HL and CS to include Orange Box+.
Logitech USB Wingman Precision (looks like a PS2 controller).  OR, a
Microsoft SideWinder?
Thank you all,

I think the only way to deal with MI5 crazy guy is to filter out all
posts with 5 in the subject line.
Sound good?

I was going through HL2:Ep2. Alyx was just resuscitated, and we
emerged from the mine. I got a car. She sat into the passanger seat of
it, and told me to drive through the tunnel. I left her and walked
through the tunnel. The game loaded a new map. I found myself near the

http://www.aperturescience.com/
Cute...

I made the mistake of buying an 8600 GTS when I put my new system
together.  Fortunately evga's step-up program has allowed me to rectify
that error in judgment.  But I'm in a queue, #35, and it's two days
before Christmas, so I don't think Santa is going to come through.