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Gaming Mice/Keyboards

HoLeYHoLeY Registered User regular
edited August 2007 in PAX Archive
What are we to do with drivers and such on these particular peripherals?

I know we can't install drivers...will pax staff take care of it? Or should we just plug and play and forget about any additional features the peripherals provide?

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  • BigRedBigRed Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    If your gaming item needs drivers for operation, you WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO USE IT ON A TOURNAMENT MACHINE
    No we wont install drivers for you.

    If its for any additional features, you will just have to deal with basic operation.

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  • Morbid_AngelMorbid_Angel Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    What will be the mice used this year?

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  • BigRedBigRed Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Morbid_Angel wrote: »
    What will be the mice used this year?

    No idea

    Wont know until day of.

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  • ThePimpImpThePimpImp Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    once again, thanks for quick response big red, i was pretty sure this was the case but told him to ask anyways

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  • Stabbity StyleStabbity Style He/Him | Warning: Mothership Reporting Kennewick, WARegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Will the tourney computers be using Vista or XP?

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  • BigRedBigRed Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    All the tourney/freeplay computers will have Vista on them.
    ThePimpImp wrote: »
    once again, thanks for quick response big red, i was pretty sure this was the case but told him to ask anyways

    No prob.

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  • uc4lifeuc4life Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    BigRed wrote: »
    All the tourney/freeplay computers will have Vista on them.

    That is disappointing to hear. I'm no anti-MS guy either, I bought a copy of ultimate and everything. But the performance hit, the lackluster driver support, the general not-goodness of everything. Im sure someday vista will be a great OS, but not today.

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  • BigRedBigRed Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    uc4life wrote: »
    BigRed wrote: »
    All the tourney/freeplay computers will have Vista on them.

    That is disappointing to hear. I'm no anti-MS guy either, I bought a copy of ultimate and everything. But the performance hit, the lackluster driver support, the general not-goodness of everything. Im sure someday vista will be a great OS, but not today.

    All the computers will work fine and they are more than beefy enough to run the games so... whats the problem?
    Freeplay :P

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  • ThePimpImpThePimpImp Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    People expect a lot out of free things, I'm pretty sure thats not how capitalism works.

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  • BigRedBigRed Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    ThePimpImp wrote: »
    People expect a lot out of free things, I'm pretty sure thats not how capitalism works.

    I thought thats how communism works? :P

    Intel is providing all these machines to show off their best things, who cares if they have vista?

    Nobody is forcing you to use it, you can pass on the tournaments and/or PC freeplay if you are so adamant about it.

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  • ThePimpImpThePimpImp Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I'm using 'em, although only for tourneys, since I have my own rig. But mine sucks compared to what these are going to be I'm sure. Although maybe they will be so much better I'll need to play on them on saturday too. We'll see.

    Anyways these free machines are gunna be great for what we are using em for, FREE GAMING MACHINES.

    Seems like a good deal to me :D

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  • BigRedBigRed Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    ThePimpImp wrote: »
    I'm using 'em, although only for tourneys, since I have my own rig. But mine sucks compared to what these are going to be I'm sure. Although maybe they will be so much better I'll need to play on them on saturday too. We'll see.

    They were way better than what I have now last time I used the intel demo rigs back in feb :(

    Goddamnit I need to upgrade.

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  • ThePimpImpThePimpImp Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Lat time I upgraded was to play fear and bf2, which was around march 2006. I just bought bf2 like 2-3 weeks ago lol. Anwyays, hardware has continued to go nuts since then and being a student i wasn't buying top of the line stuff (can't waste all you loan money on a gaming rig), so I barely meet min requirements for some of the games coming out now. I guess thats why I bought an xbox 360 too.

    To tell the truth the game I play the most on my computer is NHL 94 for snes.

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  • BigRedBigRed Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I moved to seattle and have had no money since :P

    Plus i get xbox360 games for free so I havent had much incentive to upgrade the computer since just after pax05 :(

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  • whypick1whypick1 PAX [E] Info Booth Manager ~2' from an LCDRegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I have stupid college to still pay for, so I can't justify upgrading now without screwing myself over in a couple of months.

    On the plus side, maybe the guys at BFG will be smart enough to pick me for the raffle this time.

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  • ThePimpImpThePimpImp Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    THe other truth is I also have a 360, I still like lanning though, and besides my friends the crowd here for it is dead.

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  • smessmes Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    BigRed wrote: »

    Plus i get xbox360 games for free (

    How do you manage that?

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  • SnickersSnickers Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I was going to ask, but knowing that this is Microsoft country....

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