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Hello, Im dBs of Clan Alliance [CA]. I recently got the Killer NIC card for getting 3rd place in the BF2 tournament at Showdown LAN (hurray A Fluffy Pancake pugger team!). I installed the card last night as soon as I got back and installed the burned CD drivers (had a chuckle at that, talk about new!). I had one problem right off, but I have yet to isolate the source. I had Firefox up on my yahoo beta mail. It started saying it couldnt open my email for some reason but could open others. I suspect that was the yahoo mail itself not not a matter of the card. I started Trillian and XFire (I believe XFire just before Trillian) and it completely locked my system. I restarted and it worked great. Today I had the same situation occur again. I believe the same situation was going on on my system. When I open the programs individually and allow them time to load completely, it works great. Ill play with it and see if I can replicate the problem. If I can isolate a cause Ill post it up here.
The drivers give you SOOOO many options to change things up. Way more than I could ever possibly understand since I know computer hardware, not network stuff. Im going to need a translation for most of the settings in there lol. This is a very technical piece of equipement and you might consider putting up a settings tweek translater on the Killer NIC site. Today I got the firmware update that you guys released and I noticed more stable functionality.
I finally got to game with it about and hour ago on BF2. Its hard to tell if it actually improves ping. But what I can tell that it DEFINANTLY does is keep the pings consistent. Normally, when your in game your ping will jump around, but with this card in place it stays so perfectly consistent. I played 2 full rounds and my ping litterally did not wavor beyond 2 points. THAT is useful for me. Im competing in a LOT of online tournament at a high level (were in 5 ladders, and 2 tournaments right now) and ping consistency is very importent. We also play tournaments in Europe, from America, and the pings will jump 40+ points all the time. That alone is a very useful aspect of this new technology.
The other thing that I think will really make this card worthwhile would be the nifty apps that people come up with to run on the card. The ability to download things and STILL be able to game without worry is a very exciting thought for me. Its like having a dual core processor allowing you to virus scan while playing. The other thing that I think will give this card a sales edge will be the increasing complexity of games. Games arent going to become smaller or more streamlined. More and more packets will have to be able to be sent over the internet. The more information thats sent the greater the likelihood something will lag, so the market for this technology will only increase.
Ill try to keep you guys updated on my experiences with the card and give my input as time goes on. Thank you for sponsoring the Showdown event and hopefully you may one day consider sponsoring teams themselves =)
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ELN Board Member, Bigfoot Networks CEO
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Super glad that the patch released yesterday is more stable: the cards we gave out had some beta drivers on them... (as the product isn't even released yet!)
If you have further problems, feel free to email me or support@bigfootnetworks.com
Also, I'll be sure to send you the full user manual as soon as it comes back from the press...
Tytus
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[ELN]Tytus - EndLagNow.ORG
Member of the Board of Directors of ELN
CEO + Mad Scientist of Bigfoot Networks, Inc.
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Today I figured out the solution to the locking desktop problem, once I pull out the network cable, it unlocks and goes back to normal again. I put the cable back in and it all works wonderfully again. This time it locked while trying to close Teamspeak while checking sites out on Firefox.
I also figured out the computer restart issue. When I close xFire (not sure if in all situations), the program will freeze and I cant do anything with that program. I will CTRL+ALT+DEL and it wont show up in applications BUT it will show up in the running programs. I end its process and the program closes. A few seconds later the computer will restart (I believe its a blue screen restart). I havent found a solution yet for this.
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ELN Board Member, Bigfoot Networks CEO
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Thanks for the update dBs,
if you wouldn't mind: please keep this stuff in the Killer support section... (you are one of 12 guys who have the card right now!)
but we're on top of it.
Tytus
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[ELN]Tytus - EndLagNow.ORG
Member of the Board of Directors of ELN
CEO + Mad Scientist of Bigfoot Networks, Inc.
http://www.bigfootnetworks.com
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Ok, can do =)
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