The game wants to use a refreshrate your monitor can't display. If you have windows XP click start -> run, type: "dxdiag" -> the tab on the far left. You can change override the refreshrate there. Set it to something you KNOW your monitor can support. 60Hz should be safe. Click ok and run Vampires. It is recommended to do this only for trouble shooting, meaning disable the forcing of the refreshrate override if you want to play something else.

It's a common problem and has nothing to do with what happened with Kaspersky. That seems to be a seperate issue. If you experience any other problems check back again!

I don't like Total War's multiplayer but apart from AI issues the singleplayer is awesome and I don't like CnC's singleplayer but apart from glitches and bugs the multiplayer is awesome (mostly played Generals and Zero Hour).

Hard to pick one to be better. If I had to pick one I'd probably go with Total War. It's just more fun over-all to me.

wut?!.. why did it censur the word s-t-y-l-e?babminloeg

It has to do with the programming of the site somehow. The problem is old and known but somehow nothing is done to correct it. Just cheat your way around it with alternative spelling. A 1 or a ! for a l isn't that distracting and it gets the job done.

Sorry I can't help you with your initial question.

Can you tell use roughly which universe it took place in? Fantasy? ww2? Modern combat? Sci-Fi on planets? Sci-Fi in stations?

Was it 3D or 2D?

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[QUOTE="thenewau25"]hmmm wtf anyone can pirate in consoles just by chip the console so what is all that pc piracy crap?thenewau25

Of course not! You know, there is no such thing as a 'chip', nor 'flash', nor SD card nor anything that allows piracy in any console platform. You must be sadly mistaken and misinformed by those damned PC pirates. No, seriously, there is no such thing as piracy on consoles.

I said it before. Piracy is just a scapegoat to mask their incompetence in making good games so they can enforce abusive measures upon legitimate customers who, in time, get sick of all this nonsense. I sometimes wonder if they have any kind of wicked pleasure when they unleash pests like SecuROM and StarForce.

...HAHAHAHAHAH LOL look maybe its not on ps3 but i know alot of peopl and someone who is doing it everyday for x360 and wii!

Adjust your sarcasm-meter, mate. ;)

my idea: to start a game they need a crack. put what if the game exe dosent allow copying over a exe what it dosent read/support. they cant crack they cant play :Phenrynarits

As for the cd drive: 1. It should at least be a dvd drive. :P 2. If it's a downloaded game the dvd drive is skipped completely and if it's installed from a legit dvd and cracked afterwards the drive can't do nothing about it. The only thing this prevents is the use to burnt pirated dvds but regularily burnt pirated copies don't work anymore anyway. Those times are over. Not regularily burnt pirated dvds (e.g. cloned dvds) would still work in the drive. A while ago cds where issued with a mistake that a burner would auto-correct but without that mistake it wouldn't be recognized as a legit copy. That was a cool idea, but as I said, this won't stop downloaded games and cracked games that are installed with a legit copy.

I like steam's method best as well. It's a fairly good protection (not 100% but fairly good) and it doesn't screw with legit customers. They don't need a dvd in the drive, they don't have to bother with cd-keys more than once, they can just download it even if they lose their physical copy, updates are done automatically... At first I was skeptical because I had to go online everytime I wanted to play HL2 because the offline mode wouldn't work more often than not and with ISDN that's not fun. Time has passed, the offline mode works significantly better now and I have dsl now anyway so I'm very happy with it.

Oh, it does meet the criteria but I already have it and the landscapes aren't that hot unfortunately. The city scapes are great but the other environments are lacking. The desert parts are good but the woodland areas just don't look real. Good suggestion though, thank you!

Test Drive Unlimited sounds like a game I would like to play but I don't think my 6600GT can run it adequately.

quake3, really dont like it, it sucks a btiHunterV3

In my opinion the game rocks on Lans. I can't really play it online because I'm miles below the average player as there seem to be only pros left but on Lans it's a literal blast.

Opinions can differ though and I respect yours. Let me just point out that westernquake3 or smoking guns has absolutely nothing in common with Quake 3!

I know that one. In my opinion it's boring to just compete against your own times (opinions defer) but if you race with someone who is just as good as you or slightly better it's a real blast. On the last Lan I've been to (four or five people) we played this all night. I can definately recommend the game to anyone who reads this here, but at the moment this is not at all what I am searching in this topic.

Let me rephrase my request:

I want a game that features long roads through beautiful and romantic landscapes and allows the player to travel on them in anything that is slower than a ferrari.

Even if it's something "weird" like motorcycles or trucks.

An example for such a game would be "Mercedes Benz World Racing". As a racing game the game fails but it has some great tracks in huge valleys. I am searching for something like that. The game's qualities as a racing game are not a priority! If it's good it's all the better of course, but the best gameplay on the market can't make up for the lack of long romantic roads.