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I got a 50" LCD tv on my living room, and games never seem to look right, i already used the THX Optimizer that came in a star wars movie i got, and no change, movies look perfect, same as tv shows and that kind of stuff. The main problem is that games look too dark (Demon Souls is impossible to...

Hi I just got myself Battlefield 3. I learnt that it was protected by SecuRom. I have a doubt here. I have RMAed my hard disk and expect it back sometime next week. I just can't hold any longer. I wanna play the game right now. I have this doubt regarding the number of instance i get to...

Hi, I have this problem with flatout. I want to play with two other computers in my house, over lan (the only online gameplay offered). I have it working on two of the computer I want to use. Both are older machines with win xp. But, my budget gaming rig with win 7 wont work! I can run the...

i have hp dv6 6121 tx. i7 2nd generation 640gb harddisk. 2gb radeon 6770m. 4gb ram. theres a game lag while playing cod mw3. i thought this was the best machine to play games on apart from alienware. please help...

Hi Guys, I have 2600 points in my account at the Wii shop channel, I don't know what to buy. :fou: I was hoping if you guys would have any advice for me on what to buy. I like : Fighting, action, RPG, simulation, strategy, platformer, beat 'em ups, puzzle, and shooters. Thanks for any advice.

I just recently installed BF3 on my computer, and to my suprise, it was unplayable. On the lowest possible settings i was getting about 17 lowest, 22 average, and 30 high. :( Specs: Intel Core 2 Quad @ 2.4Ghz 4Gb RAM Sapphire HD 6570 2Gb DDR3 I meet the requirments just fine, Help...

Hello, Does anyone have any ideas on why games like Skyrim, Rage and Oblivion are choppy and eventually unresponsive? They start out fine then after about 20 minutes it gets choppy and often freezes up. I have an nVidia GTX 550Ti video card and added a rear case fan to try and help the problem...

Hi, I just bought a used 9800GX2 and before I put it in my rig, I wanted to get some advice on whether I need to upgrade my PSU. I have an Antec EA650, running a Phenom X4 940 overclocked to 3875, 2 DDR2 6400 memory chips @ 840mhz, 4 HDDs, and 7 total cooling fans. Board is 790X-UD4P F8, and...

Hello, my son has just built a pc and has asked for an xbox controller for pc as a christmas gift. Does this mean he will be able to play his xbox games on the pc, or is it just a way of playing his pc games rather than using the keyboard? thanks from Dummy Mummy

Hey Guys, This X-Mas I am going to be asking for a mid-range gaming headset to use in FPS games. Here's what I am looking for - $50-$80 In Price - A Headset that picks crucial noises (ie Foot Steps, reloading, etc..) - Good Mic with headset! At the moment I am totally into competitive-essence...

I play on a shitty laptop, typical university student budget so I can't afford anything better Toshiba Satellite C655 Processor* Intel® Celeron® Processor 900 Operating System* Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)* Graphics Engine* Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 4500M Graphics Memory*...

Hi,guys. My pc spec is: INtel e4600 Nvidia gts 450 Ram 2 ddr2(upgrade to 4gb,but next 2 months only) Samsung j105 500gb sata2 Power supply 500watt silverstone Well,my question is battlefield 3 is also ram hungry system. I know windows 7 64 bit will have more caching performance as it load a lot...

I ordered a New Samsung Xbox 360 disc drive from Amazon, it looked exactly like the one that broke, just not the exact model...I installed it and turned on xbox..And it worked as far as opening and closing. When I put a disc in though and press play game...it trys to read it then it disconnects...

Alright guys so I am running bf3 on my new system at 45 - 60 frames per second. There are sometimes large spikes which annoy the heck out of me, and i heard that some solutions are to either 1. download an fps limiter and limit the fps to 30 or 60, but i cant find one that supports dx11 only one...

Hello, A young friend of mine needs a good desktop pc to play Free Realms and his mom will need to use it also for household use. He says they only have around $800 to spend. He does not know much about them but he would definitely like to be able to play Free Realms with the graphics set on...

Hello, My husband is getting an xbox for Christmas. These are on sale at amazon and I can find no info on if they are compatible with xBox in the USB or analog version? http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-CA-HS1ANA-Gaming-Analog-Headset/dp/B004IZN3NY/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top I believe he plans to...

Just need some advise skyrim detects my video settings and sets it to high.i would of thought my system could run this on close to ultra (aa) yet if i run the game on the detected settings the fps is BAD .i can only seemto run games without AA. I have had a feeling for a bit now that some...

i have a school HP laptop and i want to get black ops on my pc will black ops work?

im playing left for dead 2 but my launcher is not running and a dialogue box that contains the sentence saying ''steam is not running.You must start in order to play the game.'' i dont know how to start the steam can you help me ?

have tried EVERY possible thing there is to remove the write protection from my memory stick Pro duo, and the write protection is still there. This is becoming very inconvinient, please help.

hey, ive been experiencing low fps while playing BF3 and cant figure out why, My specs: CPU: Phenom II dual core, 3ghz. RAM: 4gb 800mhz ddr2 OS: Win7 64 bit Hard drive: 500gb SATA II GPU: Started with a Geforce 9600gt, obviously wasnt running it very well so I upgraded to a Geforce GT 440...

I know that there are quite a few of us here that play, but I've not seen a mention of anyone setting up a platoon. In the event that there isn't one yet, I've set one up for us. I thought it'd be fun. Plus give a place for people that have no platoon and are looking for people to play with...

Hello, I purchased this game on steam i have finished installing it and when ever i click PLAY NOW it comes up Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: gta-sa.exe Application Version: 0.0.0.0 Application Timestamp: 47553f1a Fault Module Name: gta-sa.exe Fault...

Hi, I'm currently having troubles with keeping a stable connection through my entire home network. Please note that I don't have that strong of a understanding of computers but I will try to explain things as best as I can. Anyways, it's easiest if I first list the things connected to the...

Could not find a dedicated mouse and Keyboard forum, so since I am going to buy a new mouse mainly for my gaming I thought to ask here. I have 90% decided on Razer and have been looking at Abyssus and Deathadder. I use palmgrip, bet I will dislike having a ton of side buttons. The games I play...

Hello, I had a problem with this pc a few years ago,it would just die and when restarted all the alarms would go off so I put on the self for a rainy day. I pulled it out a few days ago and tore it down then put it back together. It would start to boot and shut off. I found out two sticks of ram...

hello, i am vinay when i play games, in graphics options i get a anti aliasing select mode, which one should i select Anti aliasing 2x,4x,8x,16, or linear,bilinear, or trilinear can u tell me the priorities of which should use in high end computer and in low end computer

Hi, i Just picked up Deus Ex HR during the recent steam sale and right away I noticed the game was suffering from a slight stutter, despite my framerate staying a contestant 60+. I googled the issue and saw that it seems to be a common problem. After a lot of testing, I found that the only way...

I built this system about a year and a half ago by following one of the $1k gaming machine builds here at the time. To date, it has done everything i've asked and more. Now I'm ready for BF3 and I want to make sure that I can simply upgrade components individually without running in to...

I was all excited today about upgrading my pc since it is my first time upgrading it myself and whatever. But when I turn on the computer.. Nothing happens to the monitor. All the other parts on the computer are on/running. I've tried removing RAM, replugging hdd and stuff, trying my previous...

My old graphic card that I used that work and can run Rage was Nvidia GT 430. Then I installed a new graphic card and its driver, Radeon HD 6850, replacing the Nvidia GT 430. Is this some kind of driver issue or something? Whenever I started the Rage application my screen resolution turns to...

hello, i already have DirectX11 with conf(2gb ram, i3 2nd gen, hd graphics, windows7 ultimate 32bit os), but TDU2 is not running with error 'crashhook.dll is missing'.. suggest ideas to run without graphic card.

im just lookin for some good free arcade games i know of freearcade.com, id like to find a site like that... games to u know pass the time :) and maybe some online java based ones to play with friends... they must be fun tho! any1 know of any sites?

Hello, Does anyone know if the Russian version (Steam) of Skyrim is Mod-able? thanks!

Hi, I apologize for asking this question when it's been asked 1,000 times already but I just installed Crysis from Steam and no matter what I do it never goes above 30FPS. System: i2500K OC to 4.2Ghz 8GB DDR3 1600Mhz MSI R6970 Lightning at stock speed (940Mhz) I tried 8X AA with Very High...

Ok, so I have the following laptop pecs: -Dell XPS 15 -8GB RAM DDR3 1333mhz -Inter core i7-2630QM CPU 2.70GHz -Windows7 64bit -Nvidia GeForce GT 540M 2GB -451 HD screen res of : 1366x768 But when I run WoW it won´t go over 30 fps, same with all the other games. It also has an integrated...

Alright, so, I've dealt with this stuff for nearly a year now. It's driving me crazy, and I've had 8 system replacements --literally! I've went through Dual HD 5970's, Dual HD 6950's, Dual HD 6990's, and finally land on Dual HD 590's. All the demanding games I play receive some form of...

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http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/05/mass-effect-pc.html I know we've all got different stances on piracy, so I'd like to know what you guys think about this. Is this overkill? Has piracy become the white whale for BioWare? Futhermore, how many of you would be purchasing Mass Effect with this...

So, i have been getting stuck into Battlefield 3 the past few days. And one thing i noticed was the steep learning curve for Jet flying, its a hard world for budding new pilots to get started. Upon first starting you are only allowed to use your Machine gun on board the jet (which is tricky to...