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Which would you recommend?

To run MxO: 2GB RAM Win XP 2x 10,000 RPM SATA HDDs (1 for windows the other has MxO) go for 256GB if you plan to record your gameplay with FRAPS Either an Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 or better, or an Intel core 2 Quad Extreme ATI Video card FAS...

General Technical Help and Questions · 03/29/2008 19:53:19

Ask Virrago

What's the standard snack order for your office parties? In particular pizza topping.

Community News · 03/27/2008 19:14:56

~~~ MxOSpace Updates and News ~~~

That player art slideshow is BAMF! Also the promotional video at the top makes me want to jack in now! That really was a triumph of Aquatium's. The music gets me pumped! It's all looking phine and sexy.

Community News · 03/27/2008 19:06:36

~ Advertise your phaction on mxospace!! ~

Name: Kings of Never Organization: Zion Server: Recusion Website: http://www.thekingsofnever.com/ XFire Clan: http://www.xfire.com/clans/konmxo/ Description: Strength. Honour. Loyalty. Website Logo: XFire Clan Logo:

Community News · 03/27/2008 18:49:06

Official MxO Sketches Discussion Thread

Was just watching the fan art slideshow on http://www.myspace.com/mxospace It's been a while since I looked at (or added anything to) the sketches thread. This community never ceases to amaze me with it's 1337 4r7 5k1llz. *EDIT: well ... I...

Residual Self-Image · 03/27/2008 18:39:52

La Sombra - Cyph

Honestly... They have Misfit. What more reason do you need? (and of course Mitrios for teh ladies ) If you value your kneecaps you know what to do...

Crew and Faction Recruiting - Recursion · 03/27/2008 18:08:45

Operative Profile - Deffdog - 03-25-08

These player profiles are great. I really like the insight into the motivation behind players they provide. Nice interview DD.

Community News · 03/27/2008 17:30:20

Sometimes....

I find that Matrix Reloaded, Final Flight of the Osiris and Matrix Revolutions... with a little bit of Second Renaisance 1 & 2 help fix those ruts you get in... they get you enthused again. And then I sift through my last 3 years of FRAPS...

General Discussion · 03/27/2008 16:47:35

A question on connection speed.

If you are lagging when there are a lot of people on screen, it is usually caused by your hardware struggling with the extra polygons (it should happen when there are lots of pedestrians as well).

General Technical Help and Questions · 03/25/2008 18:42:16

no forum avatar

Ranks have a minimal posting requirement, they are based mostly on length of time subscribed. Players here for less that 1 year can not have an avatar, you must wait until you have been subscribed for 1 year. (Although you can have holiday...

General Technical Help and Questions · 03/24/2008 22:57:01

The Kings of Never

The Kings of Never... We remember. We remember Cinematics. We remember events run via the Sentinel. We remember when events happened on weekends, instead of during business hours. After three years, we remember that which matters most... W...

Crew and Faction Recruiting - Recursion · 03/24/2008 17:45:14

Help Vista is horrible

Muvy1999... I hear ya. "XP is a pile of rubbish... nothing runs right... I'll never move from Win98!" Sound familiar? So far the only 3 programs I've had ANY trouble from under Vista are: MxO (minor rendering issues) Symantec Internet Secu...

General Technical Help and Questions · 03/24/2008 16:29:39

Help Vista is horrible

Protip: 404 = internet speak for "file not found" ... that's a server error. Nothing to do with Vista. Given that the error page has "Apache Tomcat" at the bottom... that tells me that the message is coming from the SOE servers. The server...

General Technical Help and Questions · 03/24/2008 16:17:43

Accidently deleted my blips

If Reverb's file is offline you can get another version here: http://www.aliciaandnick.com/MxO/files/pblip.zip It has all hardlines, uplink boosters (satellite dishes), landmarks and a few key points already marked for you.

General Technical Help and Questions · 03/24/2008 16:11:08

Load Sector LODs

Bayamos is right. Setting "Load sector LODs" to "on" means that the game will use more memory by pre-caching the the LODs for each sector (high and low). Because they are already in memory when a sector passes the high-low boundary it can...

General Technical Help and Questions · 03/24/2008 16:06:36

Lagg SPikes

Lag spikes tend to be caused by one of two things: 1.) Programs running in the background that periodically use the network or harddrive (p2p, some AV scans, widgets, gadgets and extra crap...) 2.) Something interfering with your wireless...

General Technical Help and Questions · 03/24/2008 15:55:45

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 - Test results

Muvy1999 is right... except about 1 thing. If you have anything other than the final release of SP1 (Windows Update or OEM release) you need to uninstall it and install the newest version. It fixes a security bug or two in the installer an...

General Technical Help and Questions · 03/24/2008 15:46:44

ATI Radeon 2600 XT AGP Series Bugs

Probably about a month, but I'm guessing. Here are a list of older versions of XP drivers for your card, and you can find the older Vista 32bit drivers here .

General Technical Help and Questions · 03/19/2008 23:53:18

In Response to "Gamers Beware"

any decent software firewall will warn you the first time a new program tries to send outgoing data. Sygate Personal Firewall FTW (before Symantec bought them and messed it up)

SOE Discussion · 03/19/2008 23:48:01

3 years already?

Iterator reporting in. Flame on!

General Discussion · 03/19/2008 23:05:05

[9.3.5] Zion mission feedback thread: "Unsaid"

Screenshotty goodness! When I see Halborn angry I can't help but think "Hulk mad! Hulk smash!" (he does have a green tint as opposed to Colbard's blue tint)

Missions and Storyline · 03/19/2008 22:18:45

GFX/Sound Glitches in MXO under Vista/ATI

Kuroidoragon wrote: Problems : 1 - Upon Loging in when you are typing in the username & password instead of getting keyclicks as you type its continuosly doing so even after you have finished entering in you detials to log in Vista - No fi...

General Technical Help and Questions · 03/19/2008 22:10:08

ATI Radeon 2600 XT AGP Series Bugs

Argh! Flu and Gastro at the same time in 40 degrees celcius is NOT fun. I think my EJP almost triggered. Anyway... I had a look and as far as I can tell the problem is that the drivers for vista and XP have been amalgamated and don't provi...

General Technical Help and Questions · 03/19/2008 20:55:58

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 - Test results

nope... running exact same config as my XP box. Fullscreen: on Shadows: on AA: 14x All settings: max object shading (recent bypass setting for indoor lag): on (default setting)

General Technical Help and Questions · 03/19/2008 19:22:33

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 - Test results

Well the final release for Vista SP1 became available via Windows Update yesterday for the general public (Vista Ultimate users will get it slightly earlier than the rest). I've installed it and spent the last 24 hours testing it. So far I...

General Technical Help and Questions · 03/19/2008 18:26:13

ATI Radeon 2600 XT AGP Series Bugs

Can you send your options.cfg and useropts.cfg (if it exists) files, too? I'l have something for you in about 2 or 3 hours... I'm out of the office at the moment.

General Technical Help and Questions · 03/16/2008 22:25:29

ATI Radeon 2600 XT AGP Series Bugs

I'd love to help you here... but I need 2 files: MSCONFIG and DXDIAG (the full versions - email them to [email protected] if you can't link to them): *** Read before posting *** (you know the drill) In the mean time, run a full system...

General Technical Help and Questions · 03/16/2008 16:26:26

MXO character name generation problem/error MS_Accountinuse

Something to keep in mind in the future... Deleting a character often will cause your account to become stuck. To release a stuck account follow the instructions in this thread: ** CHARACTER LOGIN ISSUES - ACCOUNT IN USE **

General Technical Help and Questions · 03/16/2008 16:10:28

Game crashes

A quick summary for the rest of you: It turned out that he had 1 stick... and replaced it with 2 new sticks of RAM... One of them was bad. The lessons learnt: Don't buy RAM of unknown brand (or anything at all for that matter) from eBay.

General Technical Help and Questions · 03/16/2008 16:06:47

-Adding people to online/buddy list-

Story characters have hidden characters in their names to prevent being added to your friend list. Last I checked you could log the area chat when an event character was around (alt-L ?) and the actual name showed up in the log. Of course...

General Technical Help and Questions · 03/12/2008 17:22:47

Game crashes

Memtest isn't as exhaustive as you may think. This should tell you if it's a RAM problem... swap the sticks in their slots. If the crashes happen more often it's a bad stick. If they happen about the same then it's either a dodgy slot or m...

General Technical Help and Questions · 03/12/2008 17:19:23

MxO still alive?

Don't forget that most players don't hang around the same areas that are available to new characters. Mara Central and Camon Heights Central hardlines seem to be the place to hang out.

General Discussion · 03/10/2008 15:51:38

Mute Malfunctioning

Do all of you use computers that have the sound card integrated into the motherboard (AC'97 etc...)? I have a soundblaster X-Fi and haven't noticed it... there does seem to be a problem with the sound channels though... quite often I'll lo...

General Technical Help and Questions · 03/10/2008 05:02:34

Unable to perform ranged attacks after entering loading area?

Triface wrote: nope Don't reply for the sake of replying... that wasn't helpful. As for the problem: B1ackOrchid - So you select the tactic and your gun ranged attacks don't work? Have you tried selecting a different gun in your inventory?...

General Technical Help and Questions · 03/10/2008 04:54:55

Slow Launcher

*adds to solutions notes* So your launcher was trying to upload a crash dump? Did you crash when the servers went down? Also check for the following files in your MxO install directory and delete them.: any files ending in .dmp ( eg: Matri...

General Technical Help and Questions · 03/10/2008 04:50:11

Character there but deleted

I'm sure this is just an accidental deletion but it can't hurt to check your subscription is paid up.

General Technical Help and Questions · 03/04/2008 16:04:18

Game just doesn't launch.

Can you be specific about what you copied over from your other machine... if possible I'd recommend re-copying the entire MxO folder to your new laptop, then re-patch. There may be a missing .dll file (they don't all get replaced with a fu...

General Technical Help and Questions · 03/04/2008 14:17:43

Game just doesn't launch.

Mashoe. Your laptop's video drivers are most likely the cause. You have intel chipset onboard graphics with BARELY enough power to run Vista. I'd say you barely meet minimum specs to run MxO. If you can, switch back to the other laptop. Yo...

General Technical Help and Questions · 03/03/2008 15:26:51

ISP's and their Acceptable Use Policies

ALL "unlimited" plans have a fair-use policy that either allows them to throttle your bandwidth or charge extra if they deem it necesary. Typically they work like this: medium use home user plan: 256kb - 1mb dowstream / 128kb - 512mb upstr...

Off-Topic Discussion · 03/02/2008 17:48:36

Game doesn't start - client.dll

Please post the information requested in this thread: *** Read before posting *** The error is saying that it either can't put your video card in the correct mode or that it is having a directX problem. The MOST likely cause is a problem w...

General Technical Help and Questions · 03/02/2008 15:12:37

The Epic thread!

Bible fight!

World Discussion - Recursion · 02/28/2008 22:07:35

The Epic thread!

EPIC creepy ! Read the whole thing... no skimming.

World Discussion - Recursion · 02/28/2008 21:30:27

Disconnected

It sounds like Comcast gave you a broken second hand modem. I'd speak to their helpdesk about it. It might just be their poorly made software that needs the USB. Either way they should never have given it to you.

General Technical Help and Questions · 02/28/2008 18:26:38

[9.3.1] "He's more or less already dead" - Vector - 2/25/08

Hrm... he mentions being fitted out to work with different equipment. that could mean that they are: from a newer version of the matrix from an older version of the matrix fitted out to run other machine equipment (external to the matrix o...

Live Events · 02/28/2008 18:18:54

Game Crashes.

Follow the steps that you followed in this thread so you could patch: http://forums.station.sony.com/mxo/..._id=36300021150 Then try again. It might be a firewall problem.

General Technical Help and Questions · 02/27/2008 23:14:14

Game Crashes.

Well first up, your Audigy is only marginally compatible with Windows Vista, you will probably improve performance and stability by upgrading the drivers to a version written AFTER Vista was released (your current audio drivers are from 20...

General Technical Help and Questions · 02/27/2008 23:08:33

Game Crashes.

D3D Status: Enabled AGP Status: Enabled ------------- Sound Devices ------------- Description: Ç÷åßá (SB Audigy LS) Default Sound Playback: Yes Default Voice Playback: Yes Hardware ID: PCI\VEN_1102&DEV_0007&SUBSYS_10021102&REV_00 Manufactu...

General Technical Help and Questions · 02/27/2008 23:04:07

Game Crashes.

Rapidshare block timed out... I have the dxdiag re-hosted here: http://www.aliciaandnick.com/MxO/mi...hael1dxdiag.txt here's the juicy bit: ------------------ System Information ------------------ Time of this report: 2/28/2008, 00:09:40 M...

General Technical Help and Questions · 02/27/2008 22:54:54

Game Crashes.

Have you recently updated your video drivers? Have you altered or replaced your options.cfg or useropts.cfg files? Have you installed any new programs around the time the error started?

General Technical Help and Questions · 02/27/2008 22:17:37

Game Crashes.

don't use rapidshare ... I refuse to pay to access your files (I already downloaded 1 file today so I can't get anymore for another 12 hours) post the contents also you just patched so there is a fair chance that one of your game files is...

General Technical Help and Questions · 02/27/2008 15:58:14

Launcher doesn't patch

congratulations. By following the SOE "clean boot" advice above you have just disabled your firewall. What you should be doing is following the advice in this thread: Up to date port information for those with super tight firewalls (like m...

General Technical Help and Questions · 02/27/2008 15:55:34

Character In Use...AGAIN

THERE IS ALREADY A THREAD FOR DEALING WITH THIS ISSUE! IT IS STICKIED AND IS THE VERY FIRST THREAD IN THE TECH HELP FORUMS! ** CHARACTER LOGIN ISSUES - ACCOUNT IN USE ** Please refrain from making any more of these threads. Making multiple...

General Technical Help and Questions · 02/27/2008 15:51:13

Disconnected

Aww... thanks 9mmFu (yay for dev luv) amarao90: I see nothing wrong except that the first and last pings were lost. Why can't you modem recognise ethernet? it should have an ethernet port immediately above the usb port. I believe the probl...

General Technical Help and Questions · 02/26/2008 21:19:45

Disconnected

Triface wrote: god you know everyhing but i did see that latency but i didnt know if it was anything Heh... I'm just good at this stuff because it's my job in RL as a Systems Admin.

General Technical Help and Questions · 02/26/2008 03:54:45

Authentication timed out again

There was a problem with the patch, everything will be rest soon. In the mean time I refer you to the VERY 1ST THREAD in the tech help forums: ** CHARACTER LOGIN ISSUES - ACCOUNT IN USE ** Please use that thread rather than clogging up the...

General Technical Help and Questions · 02/25/2008 18:53:34

Disconnected

I notice you have a SURFboard 4200 USB Cable Modem. Is it connected to your PC via the USB or ethernet cable? The reason I ask is that you have a periodic dropout and the following concerns me: Tracing route to recursion.matrixonline.com [...

General Technical Help and Questions · 02/25/2008 18:49:04

Obselete

Up to date port information for those with super tight firewalls (like me) I also do not recommend that people turn off the UAC, but rather set Launcher to run as Administrator (right-click > Properties > "Compatibility" tab > tick the "Ru...

General Technical Help and Questions · 02/25/2008 15:57:13

Disconnected

*** Read before posting ***

General Technical Help and Questions · 02/21/2008 16:01:33