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THE PURPOSE OF THIS FORUM
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All other topics that are not in affiliation with GameSpot, such as; your personal PC hardware issues, game help, and everything else will NOT be answered in this forum, and your thread will be locked if its off topic. If you are uncertain where you should post your thread, then it is best to ask your question in How to Gamespot forum.


KNOWN ISSUES
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Can't post in Game Specific Boards
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PlayFire and Fuse Bugs
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Emblem Missing or Problem
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The Collection Missing Games Thread
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Transferring Union Leadership (leader is banned, deleted, etc.)
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Game Purchase
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BUG REPORTING
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Found a bug on the site? Make sure you try these first:

How to reproduce the bug
In order for us to identify the problem, please provide us a numbered list of steps that we can use to reproduce the problem. This would make the fixing process much quicker.

These include: Send Broken URL: Please provide us the URL of the page that is causing your problems.

Send Referring URL:In case of a broken game guide, would you please send us the URL(s) of the referring page(s)? The referring page is the page that contains the download button for the problematic file.

Browser/pc specs
In order to investigate this matter, would you please provide us the following information:

Operating System:
Browser:
Browser Version:

Clear cache
Please try clearing your browser cache. To clear your browser cache, please follow these instructions:

Internet Explorer
On the Tools menu, click Internet Options. On the General tab in Browsing History, click the Delete button then Delete Files button to delete all the files that are currently stored in your cache.

Firefox
On the Tools menu, click Clear Private Data. In the Clear Private Data popup, select Cache and click the Clear Private Data Now button. Once your cache is cleared, close ALL browser windows. Then open a new browser window and log in.

Delete cookies
If you are having problems logging in, please try clearing your browser cache. To clear your browser cache, please follow these instructions:

Internet Explorer
On the Tools menu, click Internet Options. On the General tab in Browsing History, click the Delete button then Delete Files button to delete all the files that are currently stored in your cache.

Firefox
On the Tools menu, click Clear Private Data. In the Clear Private Data popup, select Cache and click the Clear Private Data Now button.

If this does not work, please follow the steps below:
1. Log out of GameSpot.
2. Delete your browser cookies.
3. Close ALL your browser windows.
4. Open a new browser window.
5. Click this link: http://www.gamespot.com/misc/logout.html
6. Click this link: http://www.gamespot.com/pages/common/login.php

If the bug is still there, please provide us the necessary info, which includes:

Video Compression Explanation

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Post A Screenshot, It Helps:

Most of the time, admins have to guess what the problem is if not described properly. So do us a favor, take a quick screenshot and add it to your thread. An image can speak a thousand words, and it will help to visualize what the problem is. If you don't know how to upload an image, here is how:

First of, youneed to be level 3 in order to post an image, however, feel free to provide the link to it.

Step 1: On your keyboard, look for the Print Screen button (PrintScrn) usually located next to the Scroll Lock button. Click it. This will take a photo of the screen, showing us your problem.

Step 2: Once you have taken a screen shot of the problem, go to Start>Programs>Acessories>Paint

Step 3: Once inside Microsoft Paint (or your favorite picture editing program) go to Edit>Paste. You should now see screenshot you took. Go to File>Save and save it as a .JPEG file.

Step 4: Upload to the net, here's how.

Two Different Ways to Upload an image:

Go to www.imageshack.us, you can either choose to upload from a file on your computer or from a url on the web, choose whichever one you want to use. Please note than from url from web, means that you found an image online you want to host. Right click that image, go to properties and copy the url of the image. Go to imageshack, click the "url" button so it's checked, paste the image and click upload.

Now, to upload from your computer, click the "browse" button

Imageshack Way:

Go to http://www.imageshack.us/



A window pops up, find your image and click it twice. You should know see text in the browse box.



Click the "host it" button

To make your life alot easier, copy the last code given to you!

Step 4: Posting it in your thread:


Now here isa ways you can show this image,

Easiest Way:

Click this button on the editor,

Paste your code on the Img Url box, you can also add a title as well as a description to that image,



Press the Insert button once you are done and your image will appear on the post



Awesome! That's the easiest way to do it.

How to Upload Using Photobucket?

Go to http://www.photobucket.com/ First of all, you need to register a FREE account on Photobucket. Do it, it takes 5 minutes.

Once you have registered, follow these easy steps to upload an image,

Click the Browse button


Choose your image and click Open or double click your image,



Click the Upload button, it chances to uploading once you clicked it,


After is done, look for your image, 3 codes are given to you, again choose the first one to make your life easy,



Follow the steps explained above on how to insert the image on your post/sig/blog post.