That's all fine and good half the time, but bots don't comfort you when you are down. Bots don't push you to be better. Bots don't show you the better strategy. Bots can't make you laugh. Bots aren't affected by your trash talking. Bots aren't competitive. Owning a bot gets no respect from the...
I played with them on highest settings. I thought they were too easy. I actually first started on highest setting because I haven't met a bot that was a challenge yet. I think these certainly have better AI than most bots I've dealt with before, but I dunno... humans can do better. I know one...
I thought I read somewhere that you have to write the bans to a cfg file in case the server restarts, because it doesn't save them automatically. But I can't find that site where I read it anymore. So does banid stay or not? And why does it require you to type kick afterwards? Or does it ban...
Yeah the intel chipset will run perfectly fine, maybe even on medium, because it's running the game in the lowest graphic mode available. Your game looks like crap compared to someone with a decent video card.
DO NOT get the 36GB raptor, it's NOT worth it. The 74GB is, costs more though. The 1st gen raptor is not much faster than today's 7200RPM drives, only the 2nd gen is good.
Displaying your framerate doesn't hurt performance in the least. Something else was doing that. Displaying framerate helps you see when your performance is dropping, so it's useful to have.