Madden 12 Official CAG League - On official hiatus until Madden 13.

[quote name='bvharris']Matt - When you come around grab whoever's online that can sub.

I'll advance us first thing tomorrow morning.[/QUOTE]

Sorry, but I didn't get back on here. I figured Mog would text me when he was ready to go, but I fell asleep. Thanks for being willing to sub.
 
[quote name='siradam134']feroci0us#1251 is my battle.net id... [/QUOTE]

[quote name='Doomtime']Mine is Doomtime#1584.[/QUOTE]

bvharris#1684


I'll add you guys once the damned servers are back up.
 
[quote name='MasterAwesome']Unless I'm freaking doing something wrong, this damn Radeon 6870 doesn't fit into my CPU...............[/QUOTE]

Did you make sure it was compatible with your CPU before you bought it?
 
[quote name='MasterAwesome']Unless I'm freaking doing something wrong, this damn Radeon 6870 doesn't fit into my CPU...............[/QUOTE]

Do you mean the case? If so I could see that I guess. I have a gts 250 and can only plug in 2 hard drives at a time because of sata port placement.
 
[quote name='bvharris']Did you make sure it was compatible with your CPU before you bought it?[/QUOTE]

I don't understand what the compatibility requirements are...from what I understood, you can pretty much install any graphics card into any PC. The requirements for the card are basically in regards to the power supply and the specs on your PC. That's why I said like 2 or 3 times on here that my biggest concern was that it wouldn't be able to fit since people were saying it was a huge video card but I honestly don't know how I'm supposed to figure out whether it can fit or not without having the actual product with me and opening up my computer. I googled a bunch of different things in regards to whether it would fit into my PC and there wasn't really much about it. As far as I could tell, people were saying it was huge and to make sure your PC had room for it, but it didn't seem like anyone actually didn't have room for it. My PC is fairly new and I have never added anything to it from the inside, so I thought I would be fine....man this is really gay....that thing cost me like $170. I get that it's my fault but I honestly am clueless about computers and tried to research it beforehand but I didn't see what else I could do other than buy it and hope for the best.
 
[quote name='MasterAwesome']I don't understand what the compatibility requirements are...from what I understood, you can pretty much install any graphics card into any PC. The requirements for the card are basically in regards to the power supply and the specs on your PC. [/QUOTE]

Graphics cards are not universally compatible. There might be some that are, but certain brands of card only work with certain processors.

It definitely sucks if you got the wrong one, hopefully you can return it. I did say that if you wanted to send me your specs I could take a look at it for you...

If the card is compatible and the only issue is space, you could always get a new case or take out some unnecessary components (I'm not sure what's in there now), though I get the feeling that's probably not something you want to mess with.

It's hard to give you sound advice without knowing the specifics of everything in your rig, sorry. :cry:
 
I think it is case size. CPU compatibility isn't really an issue anymore, at least I haven't seen it in 5-10 years. Even then it was more of a driver compatibility thing.

Case size is something I didn't really think about, sorry MA. You probably can't get a new case because most OEMs use proprietary screw holes/motherboard sizes.
 
[quote name='MasterAwesome']I don't understand what the compatibility requirements are...from what I understood, you can pretty much install any graphics card into any PC. The requirements for the card are basically in regards to the power supply and the specs on your PC. That's why I said like 2 or 3 times on here that my biggest concern was that it wouldn't be able to fit since people were saying it was a huge video card but I honestly don't know how I'm supposed to figure out whether it can fit or not without having the actual product with me and opening up my computer. I googled a bunch of different things in regards to whether it would fit into my PC and there wasn't really much about it. As far as I could tell, people were saying it was huge and to make sure your PC had room for it, but it didn't seem like anyone actually didn't have room for it. My PC is fairly new and I have never added anything to it from the inside, so I thought I would be fine....man this is really gay....that thing cost me like $170. I get that it's my fault but I honestly am clueless about computers and tried to research it beforehand but I didn't see what else I could do other than buy it and hope for the best.[/QUOTE]

Unfortunately, that's not true, though it would be nice if it really worked like that. I've noticed most store-bought computer cases have shrunk in size, so I guess it's not too surprising the card doesn't fit.
 
Cardinals 20 - Rams 17

Great game with zero turnovers by either team. The Rams made a 10 point comeback in the fourth quarter with the help of a fake regular kick and a 4th and 6 50 yard TD right over my safety. But the Cardinals drove down field with 1:00 and two timeouts left and Vick hit Fitzy on a one handed slant to set up the game winning field goal.

Vick throws 9-10 for 165 and a TD with 35ish rushing yards putting the team on his back.

Great game Ninja, looking forward to the next one.
 
Oh well I'm gonna take my computer to Office Depot tomorrow and drop another $30 to get them to take a look and install the power supply since I can't seem to get that to fit properly either....

And yeah I know I forgot to PM you the specs BV, but unless by "specs" you meant the measurements of the inside of my CPU included, then I don't think that would have helped at all...my computer is perfectly capable of running the graphics card, it just doesn't fit in there. I took a look at all the requirements of the Radeon 6870 on the company website and it doesn't mention anything about the measurements so the whole "not fitting" thing seemed like a pretty minor concern.

In the meantime though I'm just gonna install D3 on my laptop and see how crappy the quality is with my default video card. I could run the demo just fine with the same video card on my desktop but I'm assuming the demo isn't nearly as demanding as the actual game.
 
[quote name='MasterAwesome']
In the meantime though I'm just gonna install D3 on my laptop and see how crappy the quality is with my default video card. I could run the demo just fine with the same video card on my desktop but I'm assuming the demo isn't nearly as demanding as the actual game.[/QUOTE]

I think you'll be okay on moderate settings as long as you've got a decent internet connection.

Send me a friend request when you get on!
 
Cleveland wins their second game in a row, beating Tampa Bay. The Bucs scored a TD with about 50 seconds left in the game, then converted a 2 pt attempt to go up 22-21. With only one TO... backup QB (insert first name) Browns drove the team down the field, hitting Ben Watson on a flag route to the sideline at the TB 37 to set up the game winning FG with 6 seconds left. 24-22 was the final. GG Tanabeo...
 
[quote name='staticz']Do I need to find a sub for the Saints? Last week he needed one...wasn't sure about this week.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I think so.

Tanabeo, any idea when he's getting his 360 back? Or should we just consider them open?
 
[quote name='bvharris']Yeah, I think so.

Tanabeo, any idea when he's getting his 360 back? Or should we just consider them open?[/QUOTE]

OK....who can sub for the Saints? Shoot me a PM if your interested.
 
[quote name='staticz']OK....who can sub for the Saints? Shoot me a PM if your interested.[/QUOTE]

If you don't find someone by this afternoon let me know and I can do it. I'm home today playing Diablo III, but I might need a break at some point.
 
Need to find out when I can get this steelers Atlanta game going. The player whose team is falcons. Let me know
 
[quote name='Thrax83']Need to find out when I can get this steelers Atlanta game going. The player whose team is falcons. Let me know[/QUOTE]

His information is in the OP, you can take the initiative and contact him.
 
[quote name='bvharris']His information is in the OP, you can take the initiative and contact him.[/QUOTE]

Since his name wasn't in bold I assumed it wasn't CAG ID. Since the note mentions that. Got it now. Ty
 
[quote name='Thrax83']Since his name wasn't in bold I assumed it wasn't CAG ID. Since the note mentions that. Got it now. Ty[/QUOTE]

he answerrd my pms pretty quickly but do to his job he can probly play mornings or after 11 pm est time
 
WELL, some really good news and then some bad news...I took my CPU tower + graphics card + power supply to Office Depot to see if they could install it. Turns out it did fit (kind of) after all lol, but the guy said it was a huge PAIN and he had to actually chip off some of the plastic off the back of the tower with his knife in order to get them to fit properly. He said Asus makes it hard for you to mess around with the inside of your CPU. He went into the "Windows Experience Index" on my computer and refreshed mine...the graphics index went from a 4.5 to a 7.8...max is a 7.9. I have a freaking SUPERCOMPUTER now!!

On to the bad news...I took my computer home, hooked everything up, turned on my computer, starting surfing the internet....then after a few minutes the screen changes colors (first time it turned blue, 2nd and 3rd time it turned black) and my computer froze. Happened 3 times so I took my computer BACK (right smack in the middle of rush hour) with my monitor to make sure it wasn't a monitor issue and then hung around while they checked it. Of course it didn't act up while I was over there, so they didn't really know what to do...but they put the latest graphics card update on their since apparently the CD that came with it wasn't quite up to date and sent me on my way to hope for the best. So I got home and am gonna try it out in a few minutes...but if everything goes well, then I'll be all set for some D3 tonight!!!!! I'll add y'all playazz shortly

Okay that should hopefully maybe be the end of my Diablo 3 off-topic chatting in here so everyone carry on....

Oh yeah and like an idiot I didn't realize the activation key is tied to your ACCOUNT and not to your computer itself so I uninstalled D3 on my laptop in order to install it on my desktop....now I gotta re-install that bad boy on here too but I don't see myself playing it on my laptop much anyways.

Edit: WOW my computer froze again...actually much quicker this time. I can't catch a @#%@#*&)@#in break here!!!!!!!!!! Store is closed so I have to take it in a 3rd time tomorrow...
 
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[quote name='MasterAwesome']WELL, some really good news and then some bad news...I took my CPU tower + graphics card + power supply to Office Depot to see if they could install it. Turns out it did fit (kind of) after all lol, but the guy said it was a huge PAIN and he had to actually chip off some of the plastic off the back of the tower with his knife in order to get them to fit properly. He said Asus makes it hard for you to mess around with the inside of your CPU. He went into the "Windows Experience Index" on my computer and refreshed mine...the graphics index went from a 4.5 to a 7.8...max is a 7.9. I have a freaking SUPERCOMPUTER now!!

On to the bad news...I took my computer home, hooked everything up, turned on my computer, starting surfing the internet....then after a few minutes the screen changes colors (first time it turned blue, 2nd and 3rd time it turned black) and my computer froze. Happened 3 times so I took my computer BACK (right smack in the middle of rush hour) with my monitor to make sure it wasn't a monitor issue and then hung around while they checked it. Of course it didn't act up while I was over there, so they didn't really know what to do...but they put the latest graphics card update on their since apparently the CD that came with it wasn't quite up to date and sent me on my way to hope for the best. So I got home and am gonna try it out in a few minutes...but if everything goes well, then I'll be all set for some D3 tonight!!!!! I'll add y'all playazz shortly

Okay that should hopefully maybe be the end of my Diablo 3 off-topic chatting in here so everyone carry on....

Oh yeah and like an idiot I didn't realize the activation key is tied to your ACCOUNT and not to your computer itself so I uninstalled D3 on my laptop in order to install it on my desktop....now I gotta re-install that bad boy on here too but I don't see myself playing it on my laptop much anyways.

Edit: WOW my computer froze again...actually much quicker this time. I can't catch a @#%@#*&)@#in break here!!!!!!!!!! Store is closed so I have to take it in a 3rd time tomorrow...[/QUOTE]

Does it actually freeze or does the screen just change colors? Try a different dvi port and make sure you've screwed in the cable to both the monitor and video card.
 
[quote name='bvharris']Yeah, I think so.

Tanabeo, any idea when he's getting his 360 back? Or should we just consider them open?[/QUOTE]

Last I heard he said it was on the truck should be here by thursday
 
[quote name='Deuce20602']Cleveland wins their second game in a row, beating Tampa Bay. The Bucs scored a TD with about 50 seconds left in the game, then converted a 2 pt attempt to go up 22-21. With only one TO... backup QB (insert first name) Browns drove the team down the field, hitting Ben Watson on a flag route to the sideline at the TB 37 to set up the game winning FG with 6 seconds left. 24-22 was the final. GG Tanabeo...[/QUOTE]


You left out the part where in the first game QB (insert First name) Browns was shut down had thrown 2 picks and no TDs when the game lagged out ;) and thos two games the cpu was not on my side I was missing easy picks, passes where hitting off the side of my players heads but yet you get a stupid one handed leaping catch and still get both feet in when he is flipping out of bounds I didnt think I was going to win this game anyways but I kept it close. I know that 2nd game was boring with me chewing the clock almost the whole game.
 
[quote name='staticz']Does it actually freeze or does the screen just change colors? Try a different dvi port and make sure you've screwed in the cable to both the monitor and video card.[/QUOTE]

It freezes, I CONTROL+ALT+DELETE several times after and nothing happens. And I tried it in each port on the video card, it freezes regardless. Thanks though...

The weird thing though is that surfing the internet is the only thing that seems to trigger the crash...I installed Diablo 3 on my desktop (took about 10-15 minutes or so) with no issues...then literally 3 seconds after I opened Firefox, the computer froze. So then I reboot the computer and videotape it this time (the guy at Office Depot told me to, so they can see exactly what happens)...I start surfing the internet right away and within 2 minutes it crashes again. Then I reboot it AGAIN and just start playing Diablo 3 and get through 15 minutes of it with no issues until I got disconnected from the servers (I'm assuming that's not an issue on my end). After I get kicked off...I go to browse the internet and then roughly 4 or 5 minutes later my computer crashes. It's a really weird problem...I'm gonna take it to a different guy tomorrow and see if he can figure out what's going on.
 
[quote name='MasterAwesome']It freezes, I CONTROL+ALT+DELETE several times after and nothing happens. And I tried it in each port on the video card, it freezes regardless. Thanks though...[/QUOTE]

Go here and download the latest drivers. It's quite possible the bundled software includes old drivers.

http://support.amd.com/us/Pages/AMDSupportHub.aspx

Did you install the new power supply as well?
 
[quote name='Doomtime']Go here and download the latest drivers. It's quite possible the bundled software includes old drivers.

http://support.amd.com/us/Pages/AMDSupportHub.aspx

Did you install the new power supply as well?[/QUOTE]

Yes they already downloaded the latest drivers for me at Office Depot. They didn't the first time, but after my computer started freezing, the guy thought that COULD be the issue so he did it for me the 2nd time. That apparently wasn't the issue though.

And they put the power supply in and connected it to everything if that's what you mean. There isn't a disc or anything that I'm supposed to install along with the power supply like there was for the video card is there? The power supply is hooked up just fine but I never did anything in addition to that...didn't update any drivers or anything for it.

I don't know if you read the additional paragraph I edited into that post, but that should at least narrow down the issue. So the notable characteristics of this issue I guess are:

1) My monitor changes colors and my CPU crashes at HOME when everything is plugged in...but when I took it to Office Depot (along with my monitor) and they plugged everything in along with the exact same cables, everything seemed to go smoothly.

2) The computer only crashes after minimal web-surfing...I could play Diablo 3 just fine, which works the computer a ton harder than just surfing the web, but within usually just 5 minutes of opening a web browser, the computer crashes.

Hopefully someone has an idea based on these..
 
Does it always just freeze, or do you ever get a looping error (I forget the exact message...but it's a blue screen)? I had a hell of a time with my Radeon card and Asus motherboard working well together. I found out it had something to do with ATI's software that they use to control the grapics card (Catalyst Control Center). My system would run for a while and then just crash for no reason. I thought maybe it was doing it cause I had too much running at once, but then it would crash when I had nothing open at all.

Then, I thought it could be my power supply not having enough juice. I replaced it...still had the same problem. Google searches revealed numerous others who had the same problem, but no one who had completely solved it...just people suggesting to make sure they were using the most recent ATI drivers and software. Even with everything updated, I still kept getting crashes. But what I noticed, was if I didn't install an ATI driver at all...and just used the default windows video driver, it never crashed (something you might want to test).

The downside of this was that it was drastically limiting the card's capabilities (though, at that point, I was happier not having to reset my computer 15 times a day). FINALLY, after researching it on and off for months, I found a post from somebody saying that they kept installing older versions of Catalyst Control Center (and driver) until they found one that didn't crash. I hunted down that specific version, installed it, and voila...no crashes ever since. Not sure if this is the same thing you're experiencing, but it might be worth doing some trouble shooting of your own. Sometimes the "Geeks and Geniuses" don't always have all the answers.
 
[quote name='n8rockerasu']Does it always just freeze, or do you ever get a looping error (I forget the exact message...but it's a blue screen)? I had a hell of a time with my Radeon card and Asus motherboard working well together. I found out it had something to do with ATI's software that they use to control the grapics card (Catalyst Control Center). My system would run for a while and then just crash for no reason. I thought maybe it was doing it cause I had too much running at once, but then it would crash when I had nothing open at all.

Then, I thought it could be my power supply not having enough juice. I replaced it...still had the same problem. Google searches revealed numerous others who had the same problem, but no one who had completely solved it...just people suggesting to make sure they were using the most recent ATI drivers and software. Even with everything updated, I still kept getting crashes. But what I noticed, was if I didn't install an ATI driver at all...and just used the default windows video driver, it never crashed (something you might want to test).

The downside of this was that it was drastically limiting the card's capabilities (though, at that point, I was happier not having to reset my computer 15 times a day). FINALLY, after researching it on and off for months, I found a post from somebody saying that they kept installing older versions of Catalyst Control Center (and driver) until they found one that didn't crash. I hunted down that specific version, installed it, and voila...no crashes ever since. Not sure if this is the same thing you're experiencing, but it might be worth doing some trouble shooting of your own. Sometimes the "Geeks and Geniuses" don't always have all the answers.[/QUOTE]

My computer freezes each time, no error messages. Sometimes the screen will turn a bluish color (not like the typical bright blue screen that you sometimes see with error messages, but a sort of dull shade) and sometimes it'll just turn black...a little duller than the shade of black you get when your monitor is turned off. I've been googling a ton of variations of my problem, trying to be as detailed as possible, but I haven't found anything too similar yet.

Thanks for trying to help though guys. I'll just try a different guy at Office Depot again tomorrow and then maybe the Best Buy Geek Squad or something after...
 
Remaining Games:

Jets-Packers (scheduled)
Vikings-Panthers
Colts-Raiders (need Raiders sub)
Bears-Bills
Saints-Seahawks (need Saints sub)
Broncos-Chiefs

Sorry I haven't really been paying attention, both fero and I are fully in the grips of Diablo addiction it seems. Looks like we are in decent shape to advance tonight though.
 
Colts-Raiders (need Raiders sub)

-Me and Widdow were supposed to play this last night, I'm sure we will be able to get it in later on today.
 
[quote name='staticz']Still nothing on the sub front. Should be available pretty much whenever tonight but would prefer 10est.[/QUOTE]

i can later as a last resort and ill just run the ball the entire game
 
[quote name='sprice8688']i can later as a last resort and ill just run the ball the entire game[/QUOTE]

Hell I'd play straight up. Can't believe it is this hard to get a sub, you can tell it is season 5.
 
[quote name='staticz']Hell I'd play straight up. Can't believe it is this hard to get a sub, you can tell it is season 5.[/QUOTE]

We're all playing Diablo. ;)

I'm not gonna lie, my enthusiasm for Madden has dropped to approximately zero.
 
[quote name='bvharris']We're all playing Diablo. ;)

I'm not gonna lie, my enthusiasm for Madden has dropped to approximately zero.[/QUOTE]

Yeah I'd agree with that....I'm trying to keep myself from buying it as I've got a certification exam coming up but I really really want it.
 
[quote name='bvharris']I'm not gonna lie, my enthusiasm for Madden has dropped to approximately zero.[/QUOTE]

Due to D3, Madden fatigue, or a combination of both?
 
[quote name='pitfallharry219']Due to D3, Madden fatigue, or a combination of both?[/QUOTE]

Mostly the former, though I'm sure the latter is a factor as well.

Don't get me wrong though, I don't plan to shirk my commissioner duties. This will certainly be the last season I'm running the league officially though, and I think the same is true for fero as well.
 
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