ForsakenIshamael

[quote]Horrible comparison. Maybe someone accidently dropped their headphones, tool, etc. on the ground and doesn't realize it until later? They rush back to see if its still there, then shake their head as they realized some idiot stole it.You are enjoying for free what programmers and others have slaved over for months, maybe years. You are offering no compensation for their efforts. How is this different from me taking milk from the cow farmer who worked months to get the cows fat so they

I'm not sure why you guys are having a problem. I'm running sins on an older box, AMD 3200 and an ATI 9800 Pro with a gig of ram. I can run on a mix of Med and High settings and get a fine framerate, but get hiccups when textures and whatnot load because of my low video ram, so I run everything on low and have never seen a problem.

I just beat a random huge map with pirates as TEC using only capital ships. I raised fleet cap up just enough to get my 16 capital ships and didn't make any other ships. I lost one capital ship the whole game and that was just from being dumb. I used an equal amount of Dunov, Marza and Sova. Having two Dunovs in one fleet nearly guarantees it's invulnerability. Marzas for speedy planet bombing and Sovas for enemy frigates and their turret ability. I havn't played as any other race yet.

Random with pirates

Everytime [I]anyone[/I] destroys a ship, the bounty on the ship's owner decreases.

As soon as I get the announcement of an impending pirate raid, I camp the pirate screen and make sure my number isn't the highest when they launch. I've never once been attacked by pirates since I got the game.

Jeremy: Are you sure you rolled back to the XP ATI driver? You may have just reverted to an older driver you've installed. Once you're to the Driver tab section and you've reverted to an older driver, it should say at the top Microsoft Corporation (or something similar, not on my home computer atm). If it doesn't you may not have gone all the way back to the first driver that came with XP. I don't know if you can go back more than one level or not, I've never tried. If you can't the display driv

UPnP is Universal Plug and Play. It allows software to automatically forward the ports it needs on your router to your computer. UPnP isn't really REQUIRED by anything. It's just a system that allows software to configure your router on it's own without any action on your part. If you don't have this enabled you just have to manage your port forwarding yourself. I have this disabled on my router and manage my ports myself.

I didn't have to reinstall XP, I just reverted back to the ATI driver that comes with XP and it works now. If you right click My Computer and go to Properties, Hardware, Device Manager, Display Adapters, Properties, Driver Tab, there's a rollback button. If you've only installed one driver since you've installed XP (as was my case) rolling back will take you back to the XP ATI driver.

Let us know when you get it fixed. I get the same problem you do and I have nearly the same system, but I have a 9800 Pro instead of an x800.