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More descriptive than what I would post. All in all, I'm gonna check this out. Sounds a little LITTLE bit kinda like sorta-ish that movie Surrogates.

Way old, just look at her hair. Quite honestly, this isn't surprising to me. What's surprising is that they actually use real chickens. I used to be a McDonalds eater, then I discovered better fast food joints then I discovered real food. It's quite enlightening, try it sometime.

This is just a temporary post until I get my stuff together... Basically, you copy the contents of the hosts file into your Windows hosts file. Then, whenever you visit a website, the ads (or any site blocked by the host file) will redirect to 127.0.0.1 but unless you want a "page not found" error, we need to run a web server there. We do this with PixelServ which is a Perl program which requires ActivePerl, then we run PixelServ as a scheduled task when the user logs on and presto, clean and advertisement free webpages. But... I'm too tired right now and I needs sleep for tomorrow. Those that want to try this out, go for it but I'll have more detailed instructions later.

You Need:

• Hosts File - Spanky's Custom Hosts File (based on MVPS) *EDIT* Just use the MVPS list, I no longer keep mine updated.
• PixelServ - Download the original version 1.0
• Active Perl - Download and install with default options

Instructions:

• Go to "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC" and edit open "hosts" in Notepad or similar text editing program.
• Paste in content from the hosts file you downloaded.
• Install Active Perl.
• Download PixelServ.pl and move it to "C:\Perl" and open it in Notepad or similar text editing program.
• In PixelServ.pl, change line

$sock = new IO::Socket::INET (  LocalHost => '0.0.0.0',to
$sock = new IO::Socket::INET (  LocalHost => '127.0.0.1',

• Go to "C:\" and make batch file (new txt document and rename extension to .bat) with the following:
  

cd c:\perl
perl -w -t pixelserv.plNow, if all went well. You should be able to double click on the batch file (run it) and ads will disappear on websites.

If you want to automate this, you can drop the batch file into your startup folder (boring) or you can use Task Scheduler to run it automatically.
Here's some screenshots that I shot of my setup in Task Scheduler:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/464376/headshot/hosts/Capture1.PNG
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/464376/headshot/hosts/Capture2.PNG
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/464376/headshot/hosts/Capture3.PNG
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/464376/headshot/hosts/Capture4.PNG
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/464376/headshot/hosts/Capture5.PNG
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/464376/headshot/hosts/Capture6.PNG

What site did you steal this from? It's a good review I am honored to have someone posting this kind of quality material on this crappy site.

beta...optimizing

Those words don't go together Try the retail game.

what settings would make it look the best

The first step is running your monitor at native resolution, this usually means the highest it supports. If you run lower than native, some resolutions don't scale well and your monitor has to use like 1.5 pixels for 1 pixel which doesn't work and looks crappy like Killaman said. Some lower-than-native resolutions look ok but I know on every LCD I've seen, the highest always looks the best.

Second step to run the game at the highest settings, an example is here:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/464376/GameShots/BFBC2Game%202010-03-16%2011-18-58-36.png

next time i play it i will tell u how much cpu and ram it uses mr nothings good enough for me  :

Well, really, I mean get a bit more specific. There's a wide range of computers that can play the game and simply saying that they all can do it isn't too helpful. Resolution, game quality settings, FPS in various zones are all helpful in other determining if their computer can or not. Playable can mean anything from 640x480 on the lowest settings and getting 20FPS all the way up to 7680x1600 with the highest settings including full anti-aliasing at 60FPS (monitor refresh rate, another topic). It just kinda annoys me when people say bland statements that don't really have much information. Sorry if you caught the wrong end of my stick.

I say that's from CPU usage which I know they've optimized since the Beta.

Added retail review onto first post. Some screenshots may take a minute or to to fully upload.