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In other words...

Hit the 'Windows key + R' on your keyboard, type in 'CMD' in the box then in the black window that pops up, type 'ipconfig'. What's listed as 'IPv4 Address' is what you want to put in the first box on your router page: 'Local IP Adr'

Image is not generated in its entirety, but divided into two: first the even numbered lines (horizontal) are generated, then the odd lines (horizontal). The number of  FPS you see  in any test is just the response 'READY' sent by GPU - this does not mean, in fact, the number of displayed full images.

As for 'back that up': I am able to fix (kind of ...) electronic equipment - include PC stuff.

What you're talking about is interlacing, something not done for video games. FPS is a measure of the frames being generated by the graphics card and you're right, it has no bearing on how many frames you actually see on the screen. This is why any FPS above your monitors refresh rate is pointless and actually causes tearing. V-Sync fixes that by waiting until the monitor has finished drawing the frame, then sends the next frame rendered by the GPU to the buffer. The monitors refresh rate is to draw one whole frame, not part of one. This means that if you have a 60hz monitor and use V-Sync, you are seeing 60 whole frames every second (if your GPU can render it).

The response time is different, that's a single pixel being changed, usually from grey to grey which is a mostly meaningless measurement since that's the quickest response time the monitor will ever have. Changing from one color to another takes considerably longer. However, the response time of a monitor is much quicker than refresh rate. This is why it doesn't really matter to find a 1 or 2ms response time for a 60hz monitor, 5ms is perfectly fine.

For my understanding, it's an in-progress feature. We haven't finished it but ELiZ has done extensive work in creating a replacement statistics tracker for BattleTracker. Those TVs are a part of that, showing statistics.

As far as the first & last, yea those are shitty. Unfortunately, there's not much we can do. Improper sound occlusion and emitters passing through objects even happens in newer games. This is a very old engine, made for back in the day with dial-up and single-core processors. It's a product of the times.

There are engine settings for colliding smoke particles but since the smoke particles are so big in this game, it would look crappy when those particles suddenly disappear. We would have to recreate the smoke from scratch and very likely it would lower FPS even more and look a lot different.

It's not stolen, it was logged in from the same computer he's using right now.

The issue I have is that he's got 3 accounts when the limit is 1 per computer. On top of hopping between accounts every session, he wants honor transferred among them. Play on 1 account and he'll have the most honor on that one.

Another admin might be more sympathetic than I.

50's about the cutoff for me, 60 with vertical sync is expert though.

CPU (at least not AMD):     i5 -> i7
GPU (very bad choice):      AMD -> nVidia
RAM:                                  OK
MB (very bad choice):        Asrock -> Asus
HD:                                     OK
PS:                                     OK

I'd like to have a nice nvidia powerhouse GPU but my budget won't allow it either. Plus, I don't like the idea of supporting them, they're really shitty with the way they do things. AMD takes the more opensource style of approach with new features and doesn't try to over-advertise and bash the competition.

As far as the motherboard, I don't know that ASRock was a bad choice. Personally, I prefer ASUS but that's because I have experience with them and know them to be quality (stick with what you know I guess). The ASRock boards I have seen haven't been terrible, surely a step up from the crap MSI makes.

As far as the CPU, don't worry about it. I have an Intel Pentium G3258 (shocking that a techie would have such a low end CPU, I know). It seems to do everything I need now that I got away from most games. Sure it's maxed at 100% during startup and some other tasks but when prices come down and I feel like putting money into my computer, I can drop in an i5. You don't have to go i7 or nothing unless you render hour-long HD or higher videos or demand the best 4k experience on the newest games. Even then... I've found memory to be far more important than CPU power. I've got a lowly dual-core but behind it is 16GB of memory and I've never maxed it out.

o.O somebody changed that though... I blame Teddy.