Archive for the 'Gaming' Category

nVidia 260.99 + external display

Saturday, January 15th, 2011

The nVidia 260.99 and (beta) 265 series drivers can not detect external display devices (analog CRT) on my laptop (ASUS G50Vt) running Windows 7 64. What a day. Rolling back to the 256 release fixes the problem, but why should I have to do this? 260 is a whql release from three months ago! Er, […]

Alpha Protocol Mouse Smoothing…

Friday, December 31st, 2010

I have been able to get Alpha Protocol’s mouse to behave by lowering MaxSmoothedFrameRate to 30. MinSmoothedFrameRate=20 MaxSmoothedFrameRate=25 Advice to set these values to 1024 and 4096 was misleading, and prevented me from finding the solution for days! Whose computer runs normally at those frame rates? The default for Max is over 60. Adjust it […]

Wipeout Fury Load Screen Ads.. Suck

Saturday, December 18th, 2010

Well, it’s official, gaming is now going to start to suck. I’ve always thought of the Wipeout series of racing games as must-have games. I bought Wipeout HD and Fury at full price, I didn’t just get them free with my Plus Subscription, and it’s one of the two reasons I have a PS3 at […]