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The Lounge / Re: Daily Chuck
« on: Monday, April 26, 2010, 19:12:37 PM »
:P the last several days have been great.

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Games & Programming / Re: I Am Alive
« on: Monday, April 26, 2010, 17:47:14 PM »
LOL, those are screenshots of downtown Chicago!

Very good :)

Quote from: Wikipedia
Not much is known of the plot, except that the game takes place in Chicago after a 10.3 Mw earthquake destroys the city and the rescue team fails to save the survivors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Alive

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Media & Art / Re: Classical Music
« on: Monday, April 26, 2010, 14:15:28 PM »
Oh, I remember the one I forgot. "The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Most Famous Hits"

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Games & Programming / Re: I Am Alive
« on: Monday, April 26, 2010, 02:22:04 AM »
This game might be really epic. It's been delayed to release in 2011.

Here's some old leaked screenshots:
http://www.joystiq.com/photos/i-am-alive-beta/full/#2183739

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Games & Programming / Re: Get more game performance!
« on: Sunday, April 25, 2010, 23:00:19 PM »
Ah yes, I forgot about drivers :) I didn't really think to add cleaning the hard drive since that would only improve loading times a little and not really affect FPS but that's still game performance.

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Games & Programming / Re: Get more game performance!
« on: Sunday, April 25, 2010, 22:00:28 PM »
:) The first one should be good for running games at higher resolutions or with a lot of anti-aliasing or with high quality textures. The second should be good for low amounts of RAM but closing un-necessary programs might help more than tweaking services. But this guide is meant to help you get the most :)

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Media & Art / Re: Computer Specs Sig
« on: Sunday, April 25, 2010, 21:57:00 PM »

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Media & Art / Re: Classical Music
« on: Sunday, April 25, 2010, 21:54:20 PM »
:) I'm not SUPER into it but I do have a few nice albums. Here's a few things I would recommend:

Amy Beach - An excellent female composer.
Hilary Hahn - Female violinist.

Others would be Glenn Gould, and all the typicals like Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Prokofiev, Bartok.
There's also misc albums like "Various Artists / Best Guitar 100" (can't provide any more info, sorry), and Herb Alpert but I don't know if you can call that classical.

That's what I have :)

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Media & Art / Re: Computer Specs Sig
« on: Sunday, April 25, 2010, 21:32:49 PM »
Feel free to use it guys, just don't steal my image :) You'll have to figure out the rounded border by yourself though unless you select it with the magic wand but I did that and it turned out bad.

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Games & Programming / Get more game performance!
« on: Sunday, April 25, 2010, 21:30:08 PM »
This thread will go over a couple things that can help you gain FPS or help stabilize FPS when playing games.

  • Windows Vista and 7 introduce a new 3D GUI called Aero. While this looks great, it uses more resources. For me (I'm sure this greatly varies depending on if you use multiple monitors or what resolution you use and if you play windowed or full screen) the GUI uses 136MB of my graphics card's memory. Disabling Aero, the usage drops to 61MB. That's pretty significant, especially if you're starved for graphics card memory as it is. Even if you're not, this can be an improvement.

    To disable Aero automatically when starting a game, right click on a game's shortcut, go to the "Compatibility" tab and check the boxes "Disable visual themes" and "Disable desktop composition". Now, when the game/program is launched, Aero will be disabled thus freeing up graphics card memory. memory.

  • This next tweak owes thanks to Blueblaster since he introduced it to me :) Even if you're not doing anything on the computer, Windows is doing many things behind the screen. These are called services and while many are necessary, some aren't critical. Unfortunately Windows is a blanket and covers many uses right out of the box and while some services aren't necessary for you, they might be critical for someone else. Tweaking these to suit your needs can improve performance and memory usage. I won't go into a whole lot of detail on this since another site already has, it's called BlackViper. They have services tweaks for XP, Vista and 7, tutorials on how to do it yourself or pre-made registry downloads to quickly change things.

  • Graphics drivers. This is a little controversial, some people think that you shouldn't install the latest driver since it can be buggy or not be optimal however when it comes to Nvidia 8xxx series and newer (and even some older) I think it's best to stick with the latest WHQL driver. They rarely have major unknown bugs and often increase performance. For ATi it might be different but try out the latest. Also updating DirectX is recommended and can fix several issues.

  • Cleaning up the hard drive can greatly improve loading times but may not change FPS. Removing any unnecessary programs, cleaning up temporary junk files and startup programs with CCleaner as well as defragmenting can do a world of good. It can also lengthen your hard drives lifespan.

More will be added, feel free to add suggestions!

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Media & Art / Re: Computer Specs Sig
« on: Sunday, April 25, 2010, 20:42:24 PM »
:D Nobody's said that to me. You know the funny part, to me, it's so easy, it's just random styles that I've googled to achieve a look similar to what I want. Here's what I did:

Took a picture of my computer, blurred it (forget what blur but they all do about the same), added a layer of scanlines, added text with a 1px black outer glow that pretty much outlines, then learned how to make rounded corners via circle selection tool, then used the slicing tool and made 2 images. I mean, really, even with the computer locking up in the middle of work, I spent no more than 10-15 minutes.

Yours is good, I always like the ones that pop out like that. Totally breaks up the typical rectangular sigs.

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Media & Art / Computer Specs Sig
« on: Sunday, April 25, 2010, 16:59:57 PM »
Normally I don't don't broadcast specs but after seeing a flood of those leetsig images, I thought I could do better :) I pulled off a couple of moves and came up with something that I think looks halfway decent. Something cool about it is the right 1/4 of the image is actually a link.



Comments?

PSD: (feel free to rip)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/464376/Images/sigs/comp_sig/Ross211.psd

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The Lounge / Re: Daily Chuck
« on: Sunday, April 25, 2010, 15:02:40 PM »
Ha, that's like the bug and car joke :)

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The Lounge / Re: Proof Windows is better.
« on: Sunday, April 25, 2010, 00:53:31 AM »
I didn't see godmode mentioned in either of those.

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