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I started playing The Lord of the Rings Online over the last month or so. And so far I really really enjoy it! the thing I find most appealing is that it has all the stuff World of Warcraft didn’t have for me, and it doesn’t have the things that made me mad playing WoW…ganking, class balance, and my favorite the “l337 hacxzors” don’t seem as prevalent making for a more mature palyer base that can form a sentence using the English language (or french for our Quebec brothers & sisters). Best of all the game is beautiful! I’m running it on my Vista machine using DX10 graphics…and well take a look at this!!

That’s it! game is cool! try it out…

Much to my surprise (okay, not really) when I tried to play Battlefield:1942 on my new Vista PC at home I found many of the environment sound effects were missing! Not all the effects just little things like the sound a tank turret makes when it turns or the click of a clip being loaded into a gun. I might not even miss the sounds if I didn’t expect them…but it drives me nuts!

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