Re: OT - Wireless LAN connection "says no" :(

DVDfever Dom wrote:
Lee J. Moore wrote:
DVDfever Dom wrote:
Lee J. Moore wrote:
DVDfever Dom wrote:

I need to return to Vice City some day, though, as I never got to
complete all of that.
I religiously, nerdishly, worked towards 100% completion on VC.
(Actually haven't got that far on San Andreas...yet...due to limited
time. I'm still in San Ferria.)

I had a thought that I'd record the whole thing on a DVD, connecting
the Xbox to the recorder, so I'd get a perfect complete adventure to
watch once I'd edited it all together. Of course, it'd take forever to
do that and the problems included a slight delay between moving the
joystick and seeing the response - less than half-a-second but still
annoying enough, as well as the Xbox control system being a dog
compared to the PS2 as I was too used to having four shoulder buttons.

I've got the PC version. And super high-res (1280x1024), 32bit graphics & delicious frame-rates via my NVidia PCI-Express card. I have to justify the price of the hardware somehow. And listening to Depeche Mode whilst delivering prostitutes to punters in the San Francisco bay area is the way to do it. ;)

Gosh though, *huge* game. Would take forever to edit into a film. And I wonder how long the end result would be? Over three hours, surely?

[..]
It might be possible to do in Windows though, even for this strangely
'integrated USB' device. Have you tried disabling and reenabling the
RT2500 in Device Manager? (Via the Device usage box in the Properties
applet.) It might be worth toggling the USB ports between enabled and
disabled too, if that doesn't work. (Remember what the settings are
before you mess though, and perhaps create a restore point beforehand too.)

I'll take a look at the above forum. I'm not sure about messing about
with the USB ports as the wireless keyboard works fine in it (I've
connected a wired mouse as I've never found wireless mouses - it is a
valid word - much cop).

As for the restore point, surely that wouldn't have an effect on the
BIOS settings as restore is a Windows thing? I tried going back a
couple of days when this thing reared its head anyway and it didn't
make a difference :(

Ah, I'm not talking about adjusting BIOS settings. Just disabling and re-enabling the devices in Device Manager, to see if an emulated 'unplug/replug' will kick the Wireless card into operation again. (Just something I thought might work after reading the referenced forum post.) System Restore would revert any changes made in Device Manager back to their previous settings if you rolled back, but obviously, it's not a good idea to use a USB keyboard when disabling USB devices. (I hadn't thought of that.)

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LJM
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