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35 days ago
People say that NFS Underground was bad, and it did have (on technical grounds of how the game was coded, and QA’d) and I was apprehensive with this latest iteration in the NFS franchise. Need For Speed Shift, literally shifts back to the realm of organized racing similar to Need For Speed ProStreet with a difference in graphics, controls and overall performance. EA got a different team working on this project (along with some of the old EA Black Box people) Slightly Mad Studios, who are developing simulation driving games with other development studios. Graphics: Graphics wise, Shift has improved the graphics immensely from Need for Speed Undercover. The treatment of the cars has improved with more vibrancy in their color. Add in the return of the cockpit view, giving us a refreshing (and a much needed) view inside the car, seeing each car’s detailed interiors. The interiors of the car have working gauges, and we could see the driver shifts (stick or paddle) and steer. ...
59 days ago
In case you’re running Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) and notice that at times links seem to not work, or everything seems to run so slow, don’t fret. It may just be that your SSVAgent executable (aka Java Virtual Machine) is misbehaving. Try checking your Task Manager to see if there are multiple processes of it running. See those rising chunks of processes running? It eats up process time and slows down your system. To remedy this, either a.) disable SSVAgent in Internet Options like here: b.) Remove Java entirely. Note: just re-install Java again if you’re using Windows to develop Java applications. Hope this fix helps
59 days ago
System Builder Marathon, Sept. '09- $650 Gaming PC For a 30-35k peso PC, this is no slouch, being able to run demanding video games like Crysis and Far Cry 2, easily. The set-up involves the AMD Athlon II X2 550 Black Edition (also known as a ‘crippled’ Phenom II processor with 2 cores), a Gigabyte Crossfire AM3 motherboard, several gigabytes of DDR3 RAM and DUAL ATI Radeon 4850s (cheap but no slouches in performance)!. If you need quad core performance, you can opt in the AMD Athlon II X4 660, however, it will perform slower than the dual core processor as the ‘crippled’ part of the processor is the all powerful L3 cache (the reason why Phenom II chips are on par with Core 2 Duos).
72 days ago
Battlefield 2 was one such slick game that came out in 2004/2005 with the popularity of LAN/online FPS with vehicle combat. What made Battlefield 2 such a slick game (even with its compatibility issues with Windows) was the flexibility of playing a modern warfare game with tanks, planes, soldiers and helicopters. Sadly though, no direct sequels were made (maybe except for the upcoming Battlefield: Bad Company 2). Here are the steps I’ve done after reading through the various forum sites, blogs around the internet. This works well enough for gaming. My configuration is the original Battlefield 2 game (on CD, as DVDs weren’t popular yet… four years ago!). I’ve updated it to version 1.41 as I’ve installed a Battlefield 2 Single Player 64 mod as latency was quite an issue when I started playing it back then. The following steps assume that I’ve installed BF2 and applied the patch. 1. Update the Punk Buster Client for Battlefield 2 ...
88 days ago
Well the new Batman Game came out this week, and reviewers were all raving about it… on the consoles. But for us PC gamers, don’t fret, there’s a Demo ready to be download to try out and see if it indeed is worth the buck to buy: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/batmanarkhamasylum/download.html?sid=6214962&tag=topten;all;8
