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12May

Will Rockstar Disappoint with the late Release of GTA V?

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It’s been a long-hard wait for hardcore and even the casual ones that Rockstar is almost year late to finalize the release of GTA 5, first it was set for previous year November according to rumours but later Rockstar decided notch-back and worst thing is they are still to decide whether the game will be out for PC or not. The scenario for all GTA fans who only own PC doesn’t look bright as there aren’t even official system requirements confirmed.

Currently, the game is marked up for PS3 and XBOX 360 platform and may even be available for next-gen XBOX and PS4. Even as a PS3 owner I’m not quite impressed with the decision of company to stepback for PC platform, an obvious reason could be to avoid Piracy and shrugging loss it can cause but gaming console are also not completely restricted to piracy and can be easily hacked to save money from buying expensive games and rather getting them for free, doesn’t sound cool? Although, I’m not a big fan of stealing software but the pricing of most of them just get over my head, especially when I’m a average earning family and you have to value every penny you spent.

Although, genuine gamers are likely to buy the original copy of the game but in my circumstances where you mainly play for fun, just casually move around and have least chance of beating the game then it would surely be a total waste of money. Coming back to the game, I was not quite impressed with the previously released GTA IV. For me, the biggest disappointment in the game for me was there no Jumbo Jets and ineffective cheat codes as compared to San Andreas, other dark side was the game was poorly ported to PC and failed to run well even on the best of machines and the only bright side was the vast improvement in graphics and maybe a little in gameplay.

31Mar

My Personal Gaming Experience

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As Gaming Industry is getting bigger and better, with whole lot of improvement in technology and graphics in last few years. There are some of my personal favorite and some others that received positive response from critics and professional gamers.

As a casual gamer, I’m not really that deep into gaming and most of the game I play are left unfinished either because the game is too hard to beat. Sometimes, i find it ridiculous that people beat a game in higher difficulty with ease whereas I struggle in the lowest level of difficulty, may be I’m too rubbish at games. There can be other reasons as well such input lags, poor response time of keyboard, mouse or controller but the major one is that I am not a genuine gamer. My Greatest achievement in video games was beating the best shooter of 2011, COD: Modern Warfare 3 in Hard Difficulty but that even took me plenty of failed attempt. Personally, I found the game was shorter than a regular FPS. Even though, these days I’m not gaming much due to lost interest and frustration of failed attempts and as already mentioned lack of skills to progress and reach upper levels.

Another FPS I’ve beaten which is my personal favorite ever falling under this category, not a very popular one but still I regard it as one of the best I’ve experienced which I got from the local store (a pirated copy), SAS: Secure Tomorrow. Just like MW3 this game was also not long with the storyline but had a great environment, variable beautiful places, engaging gameplay. Certainly, it wasn’t best at the graphics but considering it’s release year it was not bad at all.

Let’s talk about some genre. My worst experience goes down to Skyrim which I consider highly overrated, other the the graphics and the ancient open-world. The quests, combat and the level of realiisticness in higher difficulties is utterly overrated. The game is almost impossible to beat in Realistic difficulty. I regret wasting my time in challenging the game in the highest difficulty and doing countless failed attempt and all I could do was reach Level 9 out of 100 before giving up.

05Mar

Top 6 Best Overclocking Utilities for your Graphics Card

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In current era, when video games and some other application have a demanding requirement of advanced and powerful hardware, we are generally in a place where we need to upgrade our hardware parts at regular basis. But, what if you don’t have the money to buy new one? There is no need to worry anymore!
With our 6 top rated tools to overclock your graphics card, life would alot easier but you should also make sure that you don’t mishandle the program as excessive overclocking above stock speed can generally result in possible permanent damage or instability of your card.

Most of these tools offer overclocking beyond the ability of your card, just make sure you do test the card before going too beyond, my recommendation would be to go ahead 5-7mhz at once, then test it with a stress tool like MSI Kombuster or Furmark, it’s a game of trial and error.

Top 6 Overclocking Software on our List:

1. MSI Afterburner
The most versatile, widely used and universal tool for every graphics card. Not only it offers overclocking both Nvidia and AMD/ATi card but you can also take some catchy screenshot or record your gameplay footage with this utility.

2. EVGA Precision X
We all know how supreme and unique EVGA card are but we should also not forget about their software tools as well, EVGA Precision X offers some of the most advanced features such as “Framerate Target”, healthy overclocking guide (i.e. the green icon is shown for the clock speed when it is at a safe point).

3. Nvidia System Tools
The official overclocking program by Nvidia (formerly known as ntune), the standout exclusive feature of the tool is optimal auto overclocking by just a click of the “optimize” button you are all set for the best possible clocks and it’s done by safety measure too so you have nothing to worry about any risk such as too much heating and reduced life-span.

4. ASUS GPU Tweak
Very simple and cleanly designed, the tools offers the most basic option for overclocking, not quite meant for the enthusiasts but does it job as expected.

5. ATITool
One of the most advanced, can be a bit complex for a starter but not inferior any other program for overclocking. The tool is bundled with small a stress test program so you can also check the stability of the clocks.

6. AMD Overdrive
Official Tool provided by AMD for both CPU and GPU overclocking, offers the most basic and as well as advanced input option for overclocking but too bad as it does not work on other branded products, for eg. the software would not work either if you have a Nvidia GPU or Intel CPU (either way).

24Feb

8 Reasons Why Windows 8 Sucks

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Much hyped OS of Microsoft, Windows 8 was released just 4 month ago. Even with so much done in advertising and promoting the product on different platform with very unique ideas such as a engaging music in TV ad or offering it for cheap 20$ for a limited time, Microsoft is still facing poor sales of Windows 8 and it stands out as people have finally realized that newer is not always the better. Today, I will list out some reasons why it is better to keep your current OS intact (whether it is XP/Vista or 7). Although, I have not experienced much of Windows 8 lately but still as I have read about it and discovered in short-term usage, would put all according to it.

1. Slower Hardware Performance (especially in games)
Gaming in a XP based system has always been wonderful, it always has been upto the task in performance even in low-level hardware. Everyone know how bad Vista was, especially in terms of performance and hardware scaling. Although, Windows 7 too performs on par with XP in Directx 9.0c and same graphics settings as we all know well optimized it is, Microsoft has done a good in this instance. But, DirectX 11 is more GPU demanding than earlier versions which is included in Win 7 and needs higher end hardware to performance better than on Directx 9.0c.

2. Poor Design and UI
The New Metro UI was a pretty plain plan by Microsoft, with all those clumsy and too much application and windows stuffed interface, the interaction could not get any better with applications.

3. No Start Menu
Another weird part of Windows 8, there is no start menu which you make you difficult to find common programs and installed software.

4. Difficult Navigation
The new UI makes it almost difficult to browse through your files and folders and also apps, installed programs etc.

5. Bad Driver and Application Support
Still plenty of major developers don’t offer hardware drivers for the platform and many upcoming and released software such as demanding video games, applications not as well.

6. Degraded Internet Speed
The whole idea of new way of connectivity seems failing, Windows 8 is about 10-15% slower in Internet performance compared to Windows 7 and 20% against XP.

7. Too Many Unnecessary Features and Programs
Have you ever wondered Microsoft Windows tends to require better hardware everytime they release a new OS? No Surprise, the code has too much mess.

8. Big Size, Small Benefits
Even being sized around 20 GB after installation, Windows 8 lacks too many general features which people might find annoying is also the reason behind the low sales of the operating system and company might reconsider making Operating System as of such type.