Back in June, I was chatting on Steam with Joebama when my laptop froze. Being the impatient person I am, I immediately turned off my computer, hoping t would just reboot the next time I turned it on.
Big mistake.
Long story short, I'm back to using a piece of shit desktop with an Nvidia 4600 graphics card and 256 MB of RAM. Anything higher than Goldsource games are out of the question until a) this computer gets upgraded, or b) I get access to a better machine.
Yikes, no fun. Do you have a budget for a new computer? If you have only 100$ or less, have you considered buying a cheap, used computer from amazon (as long as the seller is reputable)?