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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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How do they make games cross platform? [closed]
How do they do it technically? Let's take PC, XBox and Playstation for example, how do they make a game work on all platforms? In what language are they written? How do they change all the minor ...
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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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Graphics become choppy when game assets are loading in the background
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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Software engineering program - linux for me? [closed]
My main issue:
I am a gamer, so staying away for windows would be cool and I'm also wanted to try out linux. A few things though, I need this laptop for school and i dont really want to jump between ...
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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
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?
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Which is better, GTS 450 512MB in SLI, or GT 440 1GB? [closed]
I am considering getting either of these setups, and I can't for the life of me decide which to get.
If you are going to suggest a card, it must have a VGA connection.
Should I get 2x GTS 450 ...
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From where I can download games for OS X? [closed]
Do you know from where I can download Mac games and apps?
I need good sites because I can not believe Mac has games like Windows does.
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Should I put a game on an SSD or HDD for best performance?
I got two disks:
System disk: Corsair SSD Force GT 120GB
Storage disk: 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ
Where should I put a game for best performance?
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Graphics Probilem with 3D game
I'm trying to play a 3D hunting game known as Carnivores 2. It was launched in 1999 and I bought my laptop in 2008, so you'd think that I should be able to run that game as easy as possible, right? ...
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What is it about certain graphics card driver updates that make them 'recommended' for certain games?
A couple of days ago, nVidia release a driver update:
New in Version 285.62
This is the recommended driver for Battlefield 3. It contains several performance and compatibility enhancements ...
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Constant but random appearances of hardware addition/removal sounds in games
When playing a variety of games in fullscreen mode the Windows 7 sound for addition or removal of hardware e.g. usb devices is played and key/mouse input is blocked for about 0.5-1 second. During ...
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Motherboards with 2 x Pcie state “The PCIEX8 slot shares bandwidth with the PCIEX16 slot.”?
I use the same machine for development and gaming. I am researching my next PC and noticied the following statement "The PCIEX8 slot shares bandwidth with the PCIEX16 slot. When the PCIEX8 slot is ...
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Recording a video game on a P4… speed me up, Scotty?
I'm trying to record a d3d game, but I have HUGE lag issues. I'm on a p4 with an onboard 128mb 3d video card and 2 gigs of RAM. I'm trying to record quarter-size video with only 15 fps, but I'm ...
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Remote control for Steam
I set up uTorrent so that it monitors the Dropbox folder, and by putting there my .torrent files I am able to start the download on my home server.
I love this system and I was wondering if there ...
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Fixed aspect ratio with ATI Radeon HD 4350 on Windows 7 64-bit
I'm trying to get Windows to preserve the aspect ratio when playing games at low resolutions. I have an ATI Radeon HD 4350 graphics card.
Here are my software specs:
This is the place in the ...
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Hamachi vs Windows 7
I'm trying to get Hamachi to work on a friend's really awesome computer so it can act as a server for Minecraft. When he and I had set it up, we were originally on LAN through his house. It seemed to ...
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Xeons and desktop gaming [closed]
I've been thinking about building a fairly powerful desktop system in the next few months to hopefully last 4-5 years at the very least. I'm a .NET programmer by profession so running VS2010 is a ...
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How to remove icons from the Games folder in Windows 7?
I am one of these OCD nut jobs that likes to have all their game icons perfect in their "Games" folder in Windows 7.
However when I installed Far Cry 2 it made a "Default application" icon in the ...
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Some 3D games rotate my screen! How to fix this?
I've got an Intel GMA X4500 HD video card in my laptop and some hardware-accelerated games (for example Valve's Portal and Braid of the second Humble Indie Bundle) rotate the screen 90-degree. I am ...
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Why do games have weird file names? [closed]
Many games I have seen have weird names for the actual game exe. There's the launcher/updater, then the actual game program is called something totally random. For example, Flyff has the name ...
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Problem playing games using OpenVPN that use broadcast packets. Other games work, hosts can ping each other
I'm running an OpenVPN server in bridged mode and clients can successfully connect, see shared folder and play LAN games that let you enter the LAN IP address. However I'm unable to play games like ...
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Is there any software to manage a collection of Flash Games?
I want a software to manage all of my flash games.
I am using a software called "Standalone-Flash-player", but it doesn't have any option to manage games.
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OpenGL ES 2.0 and games
I tried installing Angry Birds but found that it throws an error: "OpenGL ES not detected."
I have a relatively old PC configuration here:
Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHZ
1GB DDR RAM
56MB onboard graphics ...
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Text based games for UNIX/OSX terminals [closed]
I'm looking for any text based games for UNIX/OSX. By 'text based' I mean programs that run in a terminal, with no mouse controller - just commands and stuff... Preferably they should be free and open ...
