SymphonyX

What?!?!?! Only 7 votes for the dream car?! Pfft... We've got a global economic crisis, people! You'd be wishing you voted for your dream car instead when your chick takes you hostage if you don't buy that Prada bag for her up ahead. It's a friggin' highway robbery!

@ zawshu Thanks! I'll be visiting those places later when I get to play. Unfortunately, I still have a lot of work to do. Bah...

Does anyone know of any other wheel that's around half or less than half the cost of the G25 but has a 900 degree steering wheel? I can do away with the clutch and H-shifter. I just want the 900 degree steering wheel. Sigh. I wish I had money to burn. The G25 and the new but equally good (and more expensive) Porsche Driving Wheel can get you a new console.

@ RB26DETT James Blake downed Federer at the Olympics. Well, no offense though but it's probably a fluke. Federer's never been this 'bad' before. But still, if it were anyone else but him in Nadal, reaching a Grand Slam semi (Aussie Open), two finals (French Open and Wimbledon) and winning one (US Open) would be like a dream season for anyone else on the tour. It's just that his standards are insane. Federer's getting old. Losing to younger players like Nadal, Murray and Simon. Kinda sad. Bur I hope he gets to at least tie Pete Sampras' record of 14 Grand Slams before retiring. BTW, isn't that the engine of the Skyline? RB26DETT?

Car companies offer great insurance on cars these days. Hell, Hyundai offers up to 5 years on the standard warranty (not confident about their product quality?). Girls these days, well, all I know for sure is that they don't come with any insurance. At least you've got an option for a prenuptial agreement when 'it's on'.

@ Ferrari7000 Can you tell me where that Oahu Raceway and Ford Island is? Even just a hint where it's near? I've been to the secret island (the one where you enter through the Eden logo) before and it's actually faster there, probably because there are hardly any trees there. I get around 30-35 FPS in the secret island. The places with the worst FPS for me are the places with lot of foliage/trees/grass. It actually drops to 20-25 FPS when a lot of cars are in those places. Elsewhere it's just fast and smooth. And it's odd considering my GPU is slower than yours. BTW, I run the game at 1024x640, 2x AA, no HDR, low details. EDIT: Hmm... I just noticed your CPU. Quite old. It's below the minimum requirements of TDU. AMD Athlon XP 2000+ Barton core? It's probably what's causing the bad FPS despite a faster video card than mine. It was great though back then. Bang for the buck. I had an Athlon XP 1700+. My desktop is still an AMD though. =P Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Windsor core.

@ Iced_Bullet Not exactly. To be more precise, you consider a point being a rally if they've been playing the point for a considerable amount of time, especially if they're slugging it out on the baseline. They call it a rally because players are basically running while attempting to outhit another guy. And so much for an example... that final was crap. Not just because it was short. It was just crap. The Wimbledon final between Nadal and Federer this year was epic. They played the best rallies and shots I've ever seen in men's tennis. And God knows how the hell they lasted nearly 5 hours on court... The last year's final at the WTA Tour Championships between Maria Sharapova and Justine Henin is also another classic. Two former world #1s in a 3 1/2 hours display of nothing but the best in women's tennis. Usually it's the long matches are the good ones because getting steamrolled or choking is pretty common in tennis. It is, after all, an individual sport. Anyway, if you were looking for a really short but great Grand Slam final, Steffi Graf destroyed Natasha Zvereva, 6-0, 6-0 in a mere 40 minutes at the 1988 French Open. BTW, I read the same article you read. Kinda sad. I feel sorry for that guy who wrote it. Biased criticisms from a pro squash player who whines about not even making a fraction of what a pro tennis player does is pathetic. If anything, he should have been writing about how great his sport his, etc. etc. without having to bash a similar sport under the premise that 'fitter athletes display better play and should be paid more'. If he's really bent on the cash and thinks he's better than tennis players he should try it himself. Besides, in tennis we've got a wider array of shot types and styles of play which makes for a more entertaining match. Why is he complaining about the cash when his sport is less appealing to a wider audience? Length of ball being played doesn't exactly equate to a good match. This is why I dislike the typical baseliners even in tennis, moreso women's tennis. Only the veterans or the more talented players actually do something else such as drop shotting, volleying, slicing, lobbing or other shots which makes the play interesting.

Native resolution = maximum resolution of your monitor. For LCD monitors, it's best playing at your monitor's native resolution as playing anything lower than that will merit a considerable reduction in sharpness. This is especially important when the pixel density of the monitor isn't so high. My laptop's pixel density is high because its resolution is 1680x1050 but the panel size is only 15". My desktop's 19" LCD monitor has a lower pixel density since its native resolution is only 1440x900. Hence, 1280x800 on my laptop actually looks better (in terms of sharpness) than my monitor, which it does. I forgot to tell you. You should download NvTray. Look it up in Google. It's an awesome GPU control application. You can enable supersampling from there.

@ SLRRR What's your monitor's native resolution? Just curious. I'm guessing 1280x1024 from the size and since most 17" screens aren't widescreen. Then again, I could be wrong. Anyway, you should try 2x AA with supersampling enabled. You'll only lose, at most, around 5 FPS. It looks just as nice as plain 4x AA which can take away more than 10 FPS.

Squash is definitely faster because of that wall thing, but how long are matches played professionally? I mean, seriously, with that speed, I don't think those guys will be playing for more than an hour and a half on court. I've tried plenty of sports before and tennis definitely gave me the most work out. Baseball -- too much waiting. Soccer -- mostly standing and running for 90 minutes. Basketball -- like soccer, but smaller playing area and with hands. Ping-pong -- crazy fast... too fast that points end too quickly and it becomes boring. No thrill. Badminton -- court size too small for my taste. You need to be fast though like in ping-pong and it can be tiring, but not strenuous. It's just that no other sport gave me as much adrenaline rush like tennis, without hurting myself of course unlike those 'extreme sports'. I did have a few injuries though, most were sprained ankles which God forbid, were already enough. I heard ACM/dislocated knee cap hurts even more. Thankfull I don't have that problem of a loose knee cap.

Isn't that the old racquet sport in England where you try to outhit someone after ricocheting it off a wall? The court for squash kinda looks like the one used in Jai Alai. Then again, each one to his own. But you can't take away the fact that tennis is a much more popular racquet sport.

@ SLRRR 4x AA is a killer and so is AF (anisotropic filtering). Drop it down to 2x AA and make sure you set it to 'supersampling' in the Nvidia Control Panel. It looks just like 4x AA that doesn't use transparency AA, which I assume you're using right now and it's not as taxing on your card. Just wondering, is your screen's native resolution 1280x1024? That's actually higher than 1440x900, even though 1440x900 kinda looks better IMO. 1440x900 = 1,296,000 pixels. 1280x1024 = 1,310,720 pixels. Small difference though. @ RX_37 Apparently, in this game, you can't. But why would you want to force it to do that? The point of dual core is so that you can perform multitasking. Try playing TDU on two rigs, one that's single core and one that's dual core with similar performance, say an Athlon X2 3600+ and an Athlon FX-57. If the virus scanner automatically does the scanning at a preset schedule and you happen to be playing at that time, you'll most likely experience stuttering on the Athlon FX-57 computer when the scanning starts in the background, even if the FX-57 is the faster processor (in given circumstances where an application is not optimized for multi-threading).

Seems like you're also looking forward to playing the newer games. The minimum requirements of GTA IV is a Geforce 7900 GS and a dual-core processor (Athlon X2 or Core 2 Duo) which is honestly, ridiculously high like Crysis, but expected. I suggest you hold on to your cash and perform a complete overhaul. You can actually get a decent gaming rig for $500 with the right parts and if your target resolution isn't over 1680x1050.

I don't have a car yet. Hell, I don't even have a driver's license! Then again, it's just another 3 or 4 years. I'll probably get a small car like a Toyota Vios or Honda Jazz/Fit at that time, which ever my parents will buy or I'll just get my mom's Corolla Altis and she'll get a new car for herself. The Lambos, Porsches and Ferarris will have to wait till I'm 50+ year old DOM picking hookers left and right with meh hawt ride.

Wow. That was kinda hurtful. Please, if you don't like tennis don't post here at all. I'd rather have no one post rather than people posting here saying 'I hate tennis'.