You are the man.

Yes, the current stealth effect is a placeholder.

Just to clarify, our clouds do move with the wind and change density/colour during storms. Those shots do not demonstrate that because Brad used a dev command to change the time of day.

Actually, Halflings can be Rangers now. So move over, talls, the smalls need bows too

Just keep in mind it's Beta, so everything is subject to change, etc. etc.

Questions about controls seem to come up a lot, so I'll try to clarify as to how our stuff works.

Vanguard has a keybind interface that allows you to customize your controls as you wish. Every action can be assigned up to two different keys, so for example you can have two "Move Forward" keys.

By default, the left mouse button rotates the camera, while the right mouse button rotates the camera and the character. Holding both moves you forward. WSAD and arrow movement both work by default, with Q and E as strafe keys, Numpad9 and Numpad3 as look up and down, etc. Basically we've tried to take the common stuff from other games to make it easier to start playing Vanguard without having to mess with the controls.

I've also added a number of options that seem to be in decent demand: Modal Chat (default: on), Invert Mouse (default: off), whether pressing Enter while running turns on autorun (default: off), the ability to change your keyboard turning speed, a few camera options, etc.

Everyone has different tastes when it comes to how they like to control their character, so the goal here is to make it easy for everyone to get in game playing how they want to play with minimal time spent in the Settings window. Besides, I'd hate for anyone to not play Vanguard because they're unable to get comfortable with the controls.

This board tends to blaze by faster than I can keep up with, so if you have any questions or special requests, please don't hesitate to PM me.

The information in Brad's post is outdated. A surname is no longer required, and first names are unique.

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Make sure the sound card is setup as the default sound device in Windows.

Make sure the Wave channel isn't muted in the advanced sound options.

Try another PCI slot, as cavalier suggested.

You said you've had this problem for 6 months, so it's definitely not the power supply. You'd have hard drives and video randomly going out if you weren't getting enough power.

Electricity can definitely suck. When I was in college I had the brilliant idea to plug my electric guitar into my budget sound card. I think it managed to play one powerchord before the popping and smoke began.

Yes, the races have different collision heights, but there's a crouch key so the big guys can get into Halfling huts and such.

The image quality gets ugly at lower resolutions, especially if significantly lower. I wouldn't suggest buying a monitor like that unless you also have/intend to have a computer that can run games at that resolution.

To answer your question, you can run Vanguard at any resolution your monitor and video card support.