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    Audiosurf!

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    - Turn down the graphics. Yes, I know the game is very pretty on the Premium setting, but unless you're on a really good computer it's probably going to strain it a bit, and even the slightest instant of slowdown can mean the difference between a 30% bonus at the end of the track and nothing. This, of course, doesn't apply if you're just playing more for the experience rather than for getting a high score.

    Even if you have a really good computer, turn them down anyways. Dual 8800GT's and I still run standard simply because the less complex the game is, the faster it runs and the less laggy my FRAPS recordings are.

    One other tip, if you're playing casual mono, go ahead and turn on ironmode. It's easier. I'm not kidding, taking away the shoulder lanes allows you to make fast moves without overshooting and ending up in a shoulder lane.

    Hard Drive Partitioning for Vista Install

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    Scenario 1: Windows has a wonderful thing called shadow copy, most good back-up programs will hook into this or use there own version. It allows you to back up files that are in use (system files included). So scenario 1 is bull shit

    Shadow copy creates local backups. Not at all useful if the drive itself fails. Shadow copies are only useful for reversion to earlier versions of files if they're accidentally deleted or modified.

    Scenario 2: Not really how RAID 1 works, you don't write the data to disk 0 then copy that to disk 1. I'm sure there are implementations of RAID 1 that do this...but god why? Your RAID controller is more likely to write data to the drive independently of the other because what you are suggesting could happen.

    Yeah I was leery of this description too cuz it doesn't make sense. If this were the case then RAID 1 would put unnecessary strain on drive 0 to re-read the data it just wrote simply to put it on drive 1. It makes more sense for the controller to write to both drives more-or-less simultaneously.

    Scenario 3: The fact backups were not done on a regular basis maybe a bit more of a concern then the fact you lost this one.

    Well this is generally due to the people making backups not actually making backups until they suspect the drive is about to die. Too little too late at that point.

    Hard Drive Partitioning for Vista Install

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    How do I partition the drive while maintaining the files that already exist on it? Assuming that I actually do get through that step, how much space would you recommend for Vista?

    This would actually be a non-issue if you already had Vista installed. You'd just convert your drive from basic to dynamic and then resize the volumes as necessary. Can't do that within XP though.

    GPartEd works. I've used it before, with NTFS, no problems from what I could tell, it doesn't actually commit the changes until you're satisfied with your choices.

    DVD Burning

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    So, the question is - say they've got their videos saved into 100-150mb compressed video files at 4:3. How many should they try to fit on one DVD, to find that balance between quality and quantity? They kind of range in time too. Some videos are only like 20min long, others go for 2 hours.

    Around 150 minutes (2.5 hours) to maintain quality. Otherwise, like you said, the encoders will sacrifice quality to make it all fit.

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