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Thursday, November 20, 2008
Clean up Vista for gaming
Posted by Jordon Bedwell on 11/20 at 01:42 PM
From somebody who knows about computers and to other people who possibly do here are some tips on making vista more game friendly. Especially for those of you who claim to know about computers and can’t pull more then 30FPS out of a newer (even low end) graphics card.
- Disable Indexing on all hard-drives
- Disabled Aero and set it to Aero basic
- Set the affinity for Firefox if you plan on running it while gaming
- Perform a weekly Disk-Defragment
- Set your computer to Performance and then switch to Aero Basic
- Run a root-kit check weekly
- Run a virus scan weekly
- Test your add-ons weekly
- Install Monitor drivers, if none, then monitor profile
- Check for driver updates weekly - if none - reinstall monthly.
- If dual-monitor use the same card or two of the SAME model
- This includes monitor
- This includes graphics card
- Choice: Disable System Restore points
If you are on a stock processor with a stock fan you need to perform some of these tasks to keep your heat in check. This is the difference between hitting the dual core max heat of 70F or staying at and below 65C performance heat. Some people like to keep their computers at 30-40F this is stupid, as dual cores perform at maximum when in the heat index of 50-65F. This is basic computing. Don’t keep your computer too cold, stupid asses. Examples:
1.) John plays a game, his computer is at 71F, he thinks he needs a bigger fan and liquid cooling. Answer: John is a retard, he needs to clean up his processes, switch his theme if he is on Vista and then set the affinity for some products that have processor leaks on Dual cores. If his computer then idles at 50F and then plays at or below 65F he is perfect.
2.) John is running a game, and 10 other processor intensive applications, his computer is constantly at or above 70F and even if he adjusts his processes it does not go below 66F. John needs a bigger fan, if this doesn’t help, possibly liquid cooling. His computer is under too much stress to perform properly under a stock fan. If he doesn’t have the money, stop trying to be the god of multi-tasking, you’re not us.
The above tweeks were tested on a stock ATI HD2400 in a SFF PC. Since this is where PC’s are headed and a lot of people by SFF now, I figured I would test it under these circumstances. In the end, on vista, with all the tweeks, you could feasably (and I did) hit 50FPS in WOTLK at 1680-wide. Since WoW uses it’s own Engine, this does not mean all games will perform like this at this resolution, however, for most games, at normal wide resolution of 1280 you should be able to get at or above 30FPS which is smooth frame-rate. The average gamer does not need more then 30FPS solid. And if any gamer tells you that you’re not a gamer, tell them ass suckers to stop trying to be engineers and techs by building their own PC’s and thinking they know all about PC’s because they don’t have a degree that says they know what the fuck they’re on about. Just say this really: “Since I’m not a gamer, want to whip out your MSCE or Degree so I know to take your advice about computers?”
Some people might consider reinstalling drivers monthly as unnecessary but I feel that it is necessary to keep performance and corruption at minimum. Driver corruption is all too famous now days with the way people treat their computers. Even in a corporate environment we reinstall drivers every so often, whether by automatic feature or by manual feature (for smaller companies). Some of those tweaks are how larger corporations keep their computers in tip-top shape too.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Meet Kerry, my new Death Knight
Posted by Jordon Bedwell on 11/19 at 08:08 PM
So, today I finally decided to make a DK, after I played around and started leveling my hunter. Even though I made the DK and named it after the person closest to me I’m going to bed so I’ll play with it tomorrow. So welcome Kerry to the world and tell her hi because she is gonna pwn face when she hits 80.
You’ll be hearing a lot about her and Jordon now that I finally got WOTLK. I’ll be leveling both but mostly Kerry as I want to get her to 70 this week and then worry about getting Jordon to 80. Of course Jordon will probably gain a level a day anyways just by fluke when I get on him and mess around with quests. So, again, welcome Kerry to the family and enjoy reading about her progress in WOTLK.
Posted in Progression and Gaming
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Blizzard favors BG unequality, it’s my opinion.
Posted by Jordon Bedwell on 11/19 at 01:22 AM
Here’s your sign you suck, you put in 5 alliance players, and then continue to Queue horde players till they hit 15, then give the battle 5 minutes. That’s fair, swallowing too much to learn to program by logic? And don’t give me that bullshit about QQ because I have 3 horde 70’s that were deep end-game and I did BG’s a lot and it’s always like that. It’s like Blizzard forgot the fucking if statement that stops the horde from Queuing into a battle if there aren’t enough players. Use it, we know you can’t program and all with the epic failures you’ve had the last few months but fuck…I think I’ll look into starting the Teach Blizzard how to program foundation which will send your programmers back to first year computer science so they can learn what a fucking IF statement is. Here is a sample:
#if (HORDE_Total > ALLIANCE_Total)
Console.WriteLine(“Blizzard is a douche”);
#else
Console.WriteLine(“This is a fluke…”);
#endif
Look how fancy that is? I KNOW RIGHT?! Use it, it’s not that fancy, hell if you need a few programmers, I know a few shitty programmers who are better then the ones at Blizzard, actually any first year is better, especially your server programmers and administrators who seemed to bring down the servers every week the last few weeks…hell sometimes even deleting mail. Don’t get me wrong, I love your game. I play it everyday for a few hours, but damn if I don’t get sick of the bad BG logic and all the downtime. Don’t get too cocky though Blizzard, remember what killed EQ2.
Posted in Wow / Blizzard, QQ about Blizzard and WoW
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Please fix XHTML Compatibility
Posted by Jordon Bedwell on 11/18 at 07:06 PM
Below are a few scripts that don’t include full XHTML compatibility:
- http://leandrovieira.com/projects/jquery/lightbox/
- http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/
There is nothing wrong with using these scripts, as they work, unless you are working with true XHTML and XML. For Lightbox the error is rather minor, and even though it’s a license violation all you have to do is open the MIN version of the script, search for IMG and then add a slash at the end of the IMG tag so it closes itself properly, this fixed the problem completely. I have not looked into the SyntaxHighLighter issue, it was too big of an issue causing parts of my site to disappear, this will be isolated and addressed later. For now it’s completely removed off my site.
Posted in Babble, General Babble, QQ Babble
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I’m really liking survival
Posted by Jordon Bedwell on 11/18 at 03:26 AM
The DPS and the PvP ability of survival just looks better by the minute. I know it’s odd but it’s cool and funny at the same time. As I fight more and more hunters, and play with survival more and more, it comes down to me loving it because it’s powerful and it gives me some edge on survival.
What is really going to intrigue me is how well it works out for me when I’m leveling and how well it will work out for me at 80 when I start raiding again. Survival is OP at 70 and I love that because now I can kick the shit out of a BM hunters ass as Survival and survive the attack of a rogue and even make it through a mage. Eventually it will end though, Blizzard will either nerf us (which I hope doesn’t happen) or I’ll run into a player as good as me and we just end up farming each other an entire game, ruining my fun and making me not want to PvP anymore. For a few days at least.
Posted in Progression and Gaming, Builds
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