Mirc problem

Longtooth · August 2002

<div class="IPBDescription">Open it and find out</div>I used to have Windows XP Pro and I had mIRC and it ran fine, recently though my computer crashed and I had to reformat and had to go back to Windows ME and now whenever I try to install mIRC it freezes at the last 1% of it and I have to control-alt-delete it, Does anyone else with ME have this problem?

SmokeMasta · August 2002

well... ME has lots of problems
next to XP it's prolly the worst operating system MS ever made. get 98se

or reformat and try again

Gwahir · August 2002

really? I had heard good things about XP, though ME is certainly horrible.

I use 2000

SmokeMasta · August 2002

win XP is a relative stable operating system in comparison to their last OS ( that was ME ) but Xp has one bad bad bad shortcome.....games on XP == EVIL
they run extreeme slow in comparison to 98Se
example : CS on 98 Se : +45 fps, CS on XP : less than 14 fps

Comprox · August 2002

XP is fine. It is like people bitching about CS being bad, it's all in the mind. I don't mind XP at all, my games run fine, yadda

horror_kid · August 2002

Check <a href="http://www.readyroom.org" target="_blank">RR.org</a> there is a page <a href="http://www.readyroom.org/perfgde_1.html" target="_blank">here</a> about tweaking XP. It seems to help quite a bit. If you set XP up the right way you can get pretty good performance.

XHydralisk · August 2002

I have XP and the game Counter Strike runs fine. I average about 30fps, but that's just because I sacrificed some speed for higher rez.

Only thing that's bothersome is that when I select a server to play, it only shows like a quater of the screen for the game and i have to exit the server and re join to fix it.

BioHaz · August 2002

I too am running XP [Pro], and my <u>only</u> gripe is that the keyboard and mouse do strange things in HL, and only HL. <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'> They seem to freeze up and stop responding for fractions of a second, but everything else runs just fine.

And as for FPS, you could do some tweaks in XP to sqeeze some more power out of it, or upgrade if you can.

Scythe · August 2002

XP runs fine for me in almost everything. I have 98se installed dual boot as a backup, just in case.

Longtooth: All I can think of is to redownload mIRC and try again or install 98se/XP :-D.

--Scythe--
<a href="mailto:the_only_scythe@subdimension.com">the_only_scythe@subdimension.com</a>

Sinister · August 2002

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (BioHaz @ Aug. 03 2002,07:40)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I too am running XP [Pro], and my <u>only</u> gripe is that the keyboard and mouse do strange things in HL, and only HL. <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'> They seem to freeze up and stop responding for fractions of a second, but everything else runs just fine.</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
Ive got a similar problem in 98... Its just that the freezes happen everywhere! Not just in HL... even in windows while not running anything...
Luckily, it doesnt happen to often... <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>

GobyWan · August 2002

BioHAz, I have the same problem in HL running XP. It goes away after a while, I'm not sure what causes it... but I rarely have to restart XP, it doesn't crash very much at all. I enjoy it.

Mendasp · August 2002

if your HL does strange things with your mouse and your keyboard just add "-noforcemparms" to the command line, like this:

C:\Half-Life\hl.exe -console -game xxxxx -noforcemparms

and everything will be ok <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>

Dunsby · August 2002

i got win xp...
i thought it was best one.. i updated from my old 98 version <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'>

Necrotic · August 2002

im running WinME and its the most stable OS i've had aside from linux
I find that odd to be honest

secondly, SBV, how on earth have you made 126 posts in the last 3 days.
You need to get out, a whole lot more

Dunsby · August 2002

lol, im addicted to the forums... and im bored waiting for ns to come out

Gwahir · August 2002

understatement

BioHaz · August 2002

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (Mendasp @ Aug. 03 2002,09:26)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">if your HL does strange things with your mouse and your keyboard just add "-noforcemparms" to the command line, like this:

C:\Half-Life\hl.exe -console -game xxxxx -noforcemparms

and everything will be ok <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
Didnt Work <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':('>

Taylor · August 2002

...Annnyway, back on track to what was actually said initally, if the mIRC installer doesn't function, then I'm sure you could get somebody to give you the files (only the directory (and the files in it, obviously) is needed to run). Alternately there's always other IRC clients, such as www.klient.com - which is vasty superiour in my opinion. There's also Trillian (haha), BitchX (oh god) and some others.

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