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My security skill is currently 25. I was wondering why I do not even get the option of the training dialogue with Samuel Bantien and Malintus Ancrus. I bribed the latter up to a disposition of 90 but still no joy. Do you have to be a member of the thieves guild?

I recently upgraded my motherboard from an Epox 8RDA+ to an Abit NF7S. Both have Nvidia Soundstorm onboard audio.

On upgrading I reinstalled Windows XP from scratch and I'm using Nvidia's latest integrated drivers and a set of Logitech X230 speakers and subwoofer.

The onboard sound worked ...

Ok, I feel very silly. I just hadn't been looking at the map properly. I was right though, lots of things to kill in the great marsh

Help, please! I can't find Khalim's eye. I know it is supposed to be in the spider cavern but I have been through that place twice and I cannot find it. I presume that what is referred to in the quest log as the "spider cavern" is in fact the arachnid lair in the spider forest? Am I missing ...

Ancient Kaa the Soulless. Maybe I should have remembered the name after he had nearly broken his foot off kicking my butt several times. Duriel was a weenie compared to him.

I was a bit gutted to lose the Horadric Staff, it was great for scything through crowds of burning dead to get to the ...

In Act 2 my Paladin has one item from each of three different sets.

Has anyone done much gambling to get good loot. I lucked out and got a really nifty pair of boots on my first gamble. Since then I haven't done so well, I have gambled away hundreds of thousands on nothing. Even if you get ...

@ C Elegans: Thanks for your help, It was getting somewhat frustrating wandering through the wilderness looking for something that wasn't actually there.

I am progressing through the lower level of the Palace now and finding new and interesting things to bludgeon to death. I found a mace which has ...

I thought I would add my own newbie questions to this thread.

The first is where the **** is the Arcane Sanctuary? I presume I am missing something extremely obvious but I now have the Horadric Staff and nowhere to go.

Does anyone play with a merc? I got so very tired of paying to resurect Amplisa ...

Vrek is a troll, you need fire or acid to finish him off.

As for your character not having performed an action between pause and unpause, I think it depends on when in a round/turn you initiate the action.

Hope this helps.

Originally posted by Yshania

What are the main advantages of Win XP Pro over Win XP, please? The upgrade will cost £70 ish, which is not a problem, but what benefits will this give me over the standard package?




Umm... you got me.... nothing I can think of that you are ever likely to need ...

@ Kameleon

I'm sorry, I can't help you there. I've never tried using a network card on this board, not even the onboard one. The only thing I have plugged into it is a Hayes Accura ISDN card which works with no problems at all.

I too would be tempted to ditch the flat panel monitor. If you're playing high end games you need a really good one.

Again for high end games, I reckon you have to go for the Mesh system offering the 9700 pro. I just bought one and it absolutely rocks! Stunning performance out of the box and they ...

Originally posted by Mr Sleep
I pine for a reason to install such a lovely app on something else

"The wording on the box says "runs on Windows 98 or better". Why won't it run on Linux? I don't understand."

There's always hope, if not expectation

Originally posted by Mr Sleep
ATI were notorious for a while with their poor drivers

new chip from AMD and I am just waiting to see what happens with that before I commit any real money.

ATI's driver support is improving tremendously. My hoary old Radeon 8500 is soldiering on thanks to the ...

Originally posted by Mr Sleep
Heh, future proofing graphics cards...that is quite amusing. I

Yeah, I guess I walked right into that one. :o

I don't think there's any question that the Radeon 9700 is the best card you can get at the moment. And at UK prices it is only about £50 more than the ...

The early Cat 3 drivers were withdrawn because they were more full of holes than a Swiss cheese. There are new ones available now which seem to work fine. I would suggest downloading those.

Further to my previous post, I would suggest dropping the 2800. If you buy a 2600 you will get only a very very slight performance reduction, but a fair old cash saving. The difference would probably fund a Radeon 9700 pro. You can even buy a 2400 and unlock it to run on a 166 bus, most of them will ...

For future proofing get yourself the Radeon card. It is the only one which is hardware DX9 compliant, although, as pointed out, no games currently use this. But, Doom 3 anyone?

ATI's new Catalyst version 3 drivers are excellent. Shame about the version 3 betas which were dire.

Personally I would ...

Well done indeed, young jedi :)

They were mean mothers! I never thought of the insect plague spell, I never carry that one. I didn't have Mordkainen's force missiles either, went out and bought it after the fight because Atalaclys used it to such good effect on me so many times! He must have been ...