CS 1.6 RO servers kick laggers

I installed Counter Strike 1.6 yesterday. It's been years since I last played the game. I was surprised to find a lot of servers, most of them from Romania. I did have a problem playing on those servers though, because the automatically kick me out after a couple of seconds for having a latency of over 150ms (some allow upto 200ms). I find nothing wrong with the game when playing with 200ms to 400ms lag, but I guess it may slow down the server. It was fun for the few rounds that I played, but I guess I'll be moving to Counter Strike Source shortly for want of better graphics.

AOE 3 display problems

I'm not sure if the guys at Microsoft didn't any testing with Age of Empires III, because both the notebook computers that I've tested it with had display problems. I think I had to install the update to 1.12 for it to work correctly.

The last time I installed it, the game slowed down when rendering smoke, so I couldn't play any of the battles at sea or play with the cannons. I hope it works better now that I've got better hardware.