I know from experience that the 9550 is a DirectX 9.0 card, while the Ti4200 is only DX8.x. I upgraded from a Ti4800SE to a Radeon 9550 so I could try out Vista's Aero Glass interface, which isn't compatible with the GeForce 4 series. In terms of performance, simply try the two cards on some benchmarks such as 3DMark2001[^]. I suggest that version because it only requires DX8.1, not 9.0. Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder

Some of these are good: http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/#Data+Access[^] --EricDV Sig--------- Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them. - Laurence J. Peters

Ah TypeDescriptor, that's the one! That is a lot easier than looking for TypeConverterAttributes and stuff. Thank you so much man! :jig: "..Commit yourself to quality from day one..it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.." -- Mark McCormick || Fold With Us! || Pensieve || VG.Net ||

Hehe np :). So that's why it still didn't work with a proxy, i got blocked cos i use gmail. I've sent the mail again now, keep your fingers crossed... :-D "..Commit yourself to quality from day one..it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.." -- Mark McCormick || Fold With Us! || Pensieve || VG.Net ||

Lol, you know it's saturday, no work for me... :P Anyway it's now 15.51 here and i've just eaten my breakfast :rolleyes:. Pompiedompiedom... ;) "..Commit yourself to quality from day one..it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.." -- Mark McCormick

You can change the drive letter of the system partition, but then you will probably fuck windows up. I found an article that showed how to do it. With the help of that article i did some tweaking in the registry. windows started fine, until i clicked on a user, then it hung. maybe i had to change some system variables too, i don't know. Anyhoo, windows got stuck, so i reinstalled windows just like you. I disconnected that stupid cardreader, and everything worked fine! :-D

... but you guys probably already thought of that :-D

thanks rudy! although it didnt work at first, i got it working in the end: Private Declare Function GetKeyState Lib "user32" (ByVal virtKey As Integer) As Integer and to call it: CapsOn = CBool((GetKeyState(Keys.CapsLock) And 65535) - 65408)) thanks again!

thanks man! awesome!