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Harvest Moon like game for osx? [closed]
I'm looking for a Harvest Moon like game for OSX. Does anybody has some recommendations?
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Lenovo T520 overheating when playing Counter-Strike: Source. What can I do about it?
GPU seems to heat to over 93C when playing Counter-Strike: Source (at 1600x900 resolution). After a while Thinkpad shuts down on its own. Should I lower my graphics settings? I tried that, but it ...
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Is there any software to automatically change or save the resolutions for my 22“ and 19” monitors when playing the same game?
Everytime I switch to primary monitor which is 22" then I must select resolution to 1920x1080 again when first starting the same game on 19" secondary monitor with 1280x1024 resolution.
Is there any ...
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Could an installed game access all files on my machine?
If I install a game on my Windows machine, does it potentially have access to all my files and folders?
If not, what is preventing this access? How would a game be different from other software that's ...
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how to play PRINCE OF PERSIA:The forgotten sands using 3d analyzer-v236 [closed]
I want to play PRINCE OF PERSIA:The forgotten sands
my system configurations are below:
processor :Intel Core 2 Duo E700
RAM :1.00 GB Single-Channel DDR2 @ 333MHz (5-5-5-15)
Graphic card :Intel(R) ...
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Prevent second monitor to “move” while in fullscreen games
I have two monitors. Sometimes I like to watch a movie or have a webpage or manual up on the second why I play a game on the primary.
Problem is that when I start some games, the content of the ...
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close choosen applications upon game launch
How to automatically quit/close choosen applications upon game launch in Windows Vista x64 Ultimate?
For example, if I want to launch a game from Steam, and want other choosen applications to ...
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Why do some games randomly turn my screen a random solid color?
When playing some games my computer will randomly have an error that I cannot fix without turning it off and back on again. The screen changes to one solid color, which varies (off the top of my head ...
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Frequent connection drops when playing online games (StarCraft 2, Battlefield 3) and behind NAT - how to diagnose?
I am having some trouble with (I suspect) my wireless router. It's connected to the internet with a regular lan cable and has a static, public IP address. Our two home PCs connect to the router with ...
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Games for Windows Marketplace - LIVE does not work
I installed GFW Marketplace - LIVE but it does not work. I guess the problem is caused because of the unavailability of XBOX Live, or because it is not optimized for Windows 8 CP. In this first ...
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Computer randomly freezes when playing games
My computer just randomly freezes when playing certain games. It has happened to me in Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Call of Duty 4, and Blacklight: Retribution. It has not happened to me with other ...
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Quake 3 won't install on Windows 7
Today I tried to install Quake 3 from my original 1999 CD on a Windows 7 laptop. Windows 7 resolutely refused to run the installer, helpfully explaining that I might need a 32- or 64-bit version, ...
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My 3D Games crashing in these scenarios
I have a situation here which I am unable to solve.
I bought a PC last year March, here are my specs:
Intel Core i3 550 @ 3GHz
4 GB RAM @400 MHz
XFX GeForce 9500 GT graphics card 1GB @550MHz
500 GB ...
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How do game cheat codes work? [closed]
There are many cheat device names, such as gameshark, gamegenie, action replay and codebreaker, and I do not know the difference of them.
I wonder how do cheat codes work. What do they do with the ...
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Private Gaming VPN
My buddy moved to Korea for the military, and we play Star Wars: The old Republic together. While connecting to the servers he gets an okay ping, but since the game uses a lot of data streaming, when ...
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Is it worth the upgrade? [closed]
Upgrading from an intel celeron e1200 1.6ghz to an intel core 2 duo e7500.I wanna know if I can run battlefield 3 fine with that. Yes or no?
Oh and, I have a Sparkle GTS 450, newly bought. Will this ...
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“failed to lock vertex buffer in CmeshDX8::lockVertexBuffer” Various Games
I revently started getting this error when trying to play various games on my desktop
left4dead
left4dead2
portal
portal2
(all my steam games)
The screen flickers some then the program pops up an ...
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How can I tell my computer to use multiple cores for gaming? [closed]
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Force a single core program to use multi core
Whenever I play games (specifically Minecraft) on my computer, only one of the cores is being used to run the game, which ...
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Alternative to windows game explorer [closed]
OS: Win7
I use game explorer now but I would really like something similar that looks better and has more functionality, such as maybe XBMC but for games. Is there an alternative or do I have to stick ...
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AMD Graphics Driver Weird Frame Drop and Update Issue
First of all, brace yourselves, this is going to be a long post.
I have last year bought an HP dv7 Pavillion notebook but due to personal problems I was not able to get my hands on it up until last ...
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Games for Linux? [closed]
I'd like to know about how varied the scope of games available for Linux is. I am not asking about using Windows games in Linux, as it has been asked several times on this site already; I want know ...
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FPS issues with new acer aspire 5755G
I've been having some FPS/lag issues with my laptop and I hope you guys can help.
The title is kind of self explanatory, as my new laptop lags and has FPS drops. For example my FPS in Starcraft 2 ...
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How to play games which require a lot of power on old pcs like all the new strategic games and others?
I constantly hear that "buy a power graphics card it only costs this and that and play any games you want!"
Well my question is if I have an old processor, say Pentium 4, with a lot of hdd for space ...
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TrueCrypt hinder performance? gaming + normal uses
I have AMD Quad-Core Phenom II 955 @ 3.2GHz (It can go up to 3.8 if needed).
I may get high performance SSD (500mb/s write/read) and if I encrypt the whole volume how much of a performance hit would ...
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Discrete audio - will Xonar DG improve my experience and reduce my CPU load?
I've experienced audio hick-ups when playing Battlefield 3. I suspect that it's caused by to high CPU load, so I'm considering discrete sound card. Currently I'm using on board one (VIA VT 1708S). I'm ...
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Getting gratuitous amounts of soft page faults when loading games and watching flash video
My computer has a strange issue when playing games that load assets on the fly. Perhaps I'm looking in the wrong places, but I seem to be unable to find anyone with a similar issue.
In case it's not ...
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Backup of a game-map
I admin a dedicated server that hosts a multiplayer game.
This game uses a map that now is 1.5 GB but will be soon 2.3 GB. We have just one SATA HD.
We would like to save the map every hour in the ...
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120Hz in 2D, what's the point?
I've been searching the internet for advice on my next PC/console monitor purchase and come across a good deal on the LG D2342P-PN. It's LED, got all three connectors I want and even 3D in 120Hz, ...
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Game runs flawlessly with YouTube video running and is unplayable otherwise
This sounds crazy but I've tested this several times and it is completely reproduce-able. If a YouTube video is not running in the background Skyrim takes approximately 2 minutes to load and the ...
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How to change PC clock speed for individual programs?
We have some older programs (no source code anymore) that run too fast on CPUs with faster clock speeds. I'm guessing that they were written using software delays ('X' number of CPU instructions per ...
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Is it possible to use a server to play games?
I am curious on whether I could slap a high end video card into a server and use it as a high end gaming machine.
The server is an HP DL360 G5 with x2 Intel Quad Core Xeon processors, 16 GB of RAM ...
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What is faster for multimedia performance? Leaving a NIC to do checksums or the CPU?
I noticed a NIC from Realtek has an option to "offload" some of the CPU work for checksums onto itself. However, this has some - I would say - humorous effects on opinions of people on the web: Some ...
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Can I play games on my laptop with HDMI output to a television
I am getting a Dell XPS laptop as a Christmas present. From what I have been reading online it can play some modern PC games pretty well (3GB NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 555M). I don't want to play games on ...
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Using wireless connection will increase my game latency time?
Today I was playing an online game and the game connection was very poor (the game "lagged"). So I disconnected the game, turned off my wifi connection and started to use a wired connection, then the ...
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After increasing RAM size, Windows Experience graphics index rating went down
I own a Sony Vaio CB17 laptop with an Intel i7 processor and dual switchable graphics card: Intel HD and a Radeon 6630M.
originally, the laptop came with 4GB RMA (DDR3 1333), but then I thought it ...
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Which partitions in a windows system should be placed on a SSD for optimum gaming performance?
This is my theory, please prove me incorrect if I'm in error.
I'm going to build my next gaming system.
Intel® Core i7-2600K Processor Socket-LGA1366, Quad Core, 3.4Mhz
Corsair Vengeance ...
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Is it possible make a simple 2D game in VBScript?
I am using Windows. I know that VBScript and the actual visual basic program are not the same based on capability but is it still possible to make a simple 2D game like a Mario game in VBScript with ...
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Restricted Bash rbash
What creative ways are there to break out of rbash? I don't have permissions to run vim, scp or cat.
restricted: cannot specify `/' in command names
How am I supposed to execute anything ...
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Connect to EasyVPN from Hamachi VPN
Normally a problem like this would be solved using port forwarding, however our ISP doesn't use one IP address per customer, so we appear to be coming from a broadcast address (or similar)
We host a ...
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Dell Latitude e6520 gaming capabilities? [closed]
I am purchasing a very reduced Dell Latitude e6520 from a friend and was wondering what kinds of games I could play on it and what resolutions. I'm not buying it for gaming purposes, but I am curious.
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In Windows 7, if I play a full screen game, then all apps become “full screen” as well
In Windows 7, when I play a full screen game, then quit the game, all windows, such as those belonging to Firefox or Windows Explorer, become full screen as well. This means that they will expand to ...
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how to play Prince of Persia: The forgotten sands without shader model 3.0 [closed]
I have the POP:the forgotten sands DVD but I can't play it on my laptop( I have: 2.0GB RAM, Intel Core 2 CPU 1.33 ghz, But I don't know what graphics chipset I have! I have sony vaio notebook VGN ...
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Can anyone suggest me game recorder software for Youtube Video? [closed]
I am looking for game recorder software to capture movies of PC games (with sound) so that I can upload to YouTube Videos. I have recorded some games on my computer. But they run so quickly and fast. ...
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How do I choose hardware for a gaming machine, and which components are the most important ones? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I know what hardware to buy to meet my needs?
I am looking into building a gaming computer from scratch. I have a certain knowledge of what I will need, but I ...
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Network use of Gaming PC
Background
After YEARS of waiting, I built the custom gaming PC of my dreams:
Intel i7 - 975 Extreme Edition 3.3ghz (overclocked to 4.0)
ATI Radeon 5970 2gb
Corsair 256 gb SSD Drive
2 TB Sata II ...
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How can I prevent sudden audio peaks while gaming?
While playing intense first-person-shooter games often a grenade goes off near my head. The problem, is that I want to maintain my longer hearing while still hear the guy who sneaks up behind me.
Is ...
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Does upgrading from 2GB to 4GB RAM on an i5 improve performance? [closed]
Core i5 2.3 Ghz processor
512mb ATI HD 4570
2GB 1333 RAM
64bit Windows 7 Home Premium.
Will adding another 2GB to my present 2GB improve my laptop's performance ? And in which aspects ? Will it be ...
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windows 7 x64 BSOD while gaming with gtx570, motherbord issue?
I get a BSOD almost whenever I've gamed for a little while and try to save the game or do something else that explicitly writes to disk. I don't know if it's actually the disk writing part or anything ...
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Remove automatic Aero disabling in Windows 7
Sometimes when I'm playing games which are heavy on the GPU, Windows decides to helpfully disable aero, causing everything to freeze for a bit and in the worst case, combined with ATI's brilliant ...
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Does having Windows Aero enabled negatively impact gaming performance?
I like having Aero enabled when I have to work. Sometimes I like to play games though.
What's the performance hit on games? Is there a performance hit at all from using Aero?
