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Technology Stocks : GTIS - Will it be a Phoenix or not ? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nutty Buddy who wrote (2225)	5/14/1999 10:56:00 AM
From: Scot	Respond to of 2319

<GTIS stock is up about 50% in three weeks! Someone's making some serious money here (not me, of course). Are we excited yet?> I'm actually getting [a little] excited. Volume is still not there, but I'm surprised at the support. This morning, stock down to 3 3/4 and now down 1/16 at 4 1/16. Also, while I agree with both Alex and Bob's observation that there is more money in consoles....the pc line-up looks pretty decent (although not overwhelming). Check out the gte3.com pr site. The PR is very good. Much better than we've seen from GT in recent memory. I understand Epic and GT had some media down to South Carolina[?] NC[?] to preview Unreal Tournament. I've been playing QuakeIII Test, and while it is a good-looking game and is fun to play....it certainly doesn't add much to the genre. IMO, while a test and not the completed game, it is merely an improvement on QuakeII. After playing TFC, I'm not that interested in playing solo in a game where you just wildly run around trying to shoot anything that moves. Team play interactions and motivations are just much more enjoyable. I just hope that Unreal Tournament successfully implements some of these themes (realizing there will be CTF and other teamplay mods). Bob: you should check out the interview at gamecenter.com with Valve's Gabe Newell on TFII, the game sounds fantastic. gamecenter.com -Scot

To: Nutty Buddy who wrote (2225)	5/14/1999 12:06:00 PM
From: RJC2006	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2319

<<<<I am currently going through that hair thing. I boldly bought the 32 bit ATI Rage Fury three weeks ago. This card has been out for two or three months now and the current drivers are called "release candidates"? Talk about buggy. My PC locked up on the first installation. The dealer touted it as great before I bought, then when I go back with problems, they said "a lot of people are having problems". They said the drivers had not been perfected, but to beat the competition to market, ATI retailed the card with buggy drivers. After hours of finaggling, I got it working. I had to remove non-essential startup files to get my PC to boot into Windows 98 without locking up. Why the conflict with startup files? Beats me, but it worked! My Diamond Viper 330 NEVER had a problem.>>>> The Rage Fury card has caused nothing but problems for those who have bought it since it was released. I bought one and after a few hours took it back realizing that the drivers were horrid. Through Usenet there was a link to a Russian site that had what appears to be drivers that are more than sufficient to run the card but as there is no support for them I passed. I have talked with two people that said they used them and they worked fine. By that time I was too disgusted and decided to just go 16 bit with the Viper 550. <<<ATI did respond to my emailed problem report (I had/have other quarky issues). The solutions involve more finaggling. So much for plug-and-play, excuse me, that's plug-and-pray. I must say though, the DVD movie output through the Rage Fury is great! I think I spend more time watching movies on my PC rather than computing. ;)>>> Yeah I would have enjoyed using the Rage card but just gave up. <<<GTIS stock is up about 50% in three weeks! Someone's making some serious money here (not me, of course). Are we excited yet?>>> OUI ! <smirk>