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GTA 4 PC, Something wrong with Rockstar

Wednesday, 18 February 2009 21:44 Written by Ayub

Rockstar's most popular GTA series got a new addition a year back (i guess), GTA4. I finally got a chance of running GTA4 on my PC and it given pretty hard time to the PC even more than the Most popular nvidia inclined Crysis. It was quite amazing that the game graphics itself were not really that revolutionary at all as compared to other games in the market but the overall performance that it was able to squeeze of the PC was disturbing.

Back in PS2 days, one of my favourite games were Bully again by Rockstar, it worked quite well on PS2 given the harware resources available to PS2. The very same Bully got released on PC, with little change in name Bully: Scholarship Edition, except the name, nothing was quite changed in the game. Those of you who played Bully on PC can easily smell that GTA 4 is having same problems, bad hardware resources management. Both Bully and GTA 4 and unable to utilize CPU/RAM/GPU properly. Even if you meet minimum/recommended specifications set by rockstar for either of the games, there are no guarantees on some level of performance that you will get out of your harware that you call, beefy.

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Nvidia shining at CES 2009

Friday, 09 January 2009 20:06 Written by Administrator

So, here it is as it was expected, Nvidia GTX 295, Nvidia not only shown some of the new graphics cards, GTX 295, 285 at CES (Consumer-Electronics-Show) in Vegas but also released 3d Vision Glasses.

3D Vision Glasses are not something like a tiny 2.1"x2 LCD's put inside the Glasses but it just some material that is hooked with a control module that creates 3D effect. People who tested this product said that its good for a game like Left 4 Dead (Closed Environments) but not really works well with games with open environments like Crysis, Fallout 3.

Back to the graphics cards that we care about most. GTX 295 (If you don't have a clue) is Dual GPU graphics card, most probably its 2 x GTX260's. Its equivalent to ATI's 4870x2 in most of the game test, however at higher resoulutions it underperforms 4870x2 due to bigger frame buffer 4870x2 (GTX295= 896x2 MB, 4870x2= 2GB). Price wise its 599$ card which ~= 48,000 Rs (Just prey that the dollar value comes down :P), nvidia may price this as well as GTX 285 (Single GPU solution, little better than GTX 280) aggressively in the comming days as the competion is still pretty tough. Nvidia even after good home work, still not able to beat 4870x2 fair and square in each and every game. Comming days are definately gonna be interesting as the prices of these card will drop down in Q1 2009.

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Far Cry 2

Tuesday, 04 November 2008 09:53 Written by Ayub

Far Cry 2 "Throw your memory back to the year 2004 and the release of the innovative Far Cry on PC. Developer Crytek managed to fashion one of the most convincing and striking locales in all of gaming, and satisfied gamers with the freedom to pass through the landscape and tackle enemies in almost any way they saw fit. You surely remember Jack Carver and that things where about to get seriously messed up for you ? Well, tough luck. You are no longer at that deserted tropical island yet hop into a jeep and arrive at the sandy savannah surroundings of Africa. And that's a change .. as much as you'll no longer run into any mutants, aliens, or any superpowers or psychic powers. Also -- you are no longer Jack Carver, you assume the role of one of nine different mercenaries who are embedded in the midst of a brutal civil war which rages in a imaginary African nation."

Source -- Guru3d

So here we go again, Far Cry 2, its not obcessed with Island this time (Far Cry, Crysis, Crysis Warhead they get annoying because they got island all way) rather the game takes place in African Dusty Lands & you got to kill the warloards. The game also got pretty big requirements:

Minimum Requirements: Far Cry 2

- Pentium 4 3.2 GHz, Pentium D 2.66 Ghz, AMD Athlon 64 3500+ or better
- 1 GB RAM, DDR I/DDR 2/ DDR 3 Whatever you got, it will work fine
- 6 GB of free hard drive space, but you got to need more
- NVidia 6800 or ATI X1650 or better; must support Pixel Shader 3.0

Recently Guru3d guys did good job with benchmarking plenty of graphics cards out there (most latest and greatest), so check them out here. Probably the best feature of this game is Enhanced lighting features, that completely eat up your graphics card, this is definitely gonna be the next game on which benchmarking for the upcoming graphics cards will take place for some time.Happy playing Far Cry 2!

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Open Arena Portable

Sunday, 19 October 2008 21:00 Written by Ayub

If you have ever played Quake III probably know how addictive it gets when played online or even when played with computer bots, Open Arena is a MOD (modificaiton) of Quake III engine and this Mod is completely free and portable so that you can play it off your USB stick where ever, when ever even with an ancient video cards on laptops or desktops alike.
All the system requirements both for CPU and GPU are equivalent to Quake 3, its a cool game, runs from your usb stick with atleast 75 MB free space, or you can unzip its rar file and save it somewhere on the disk to play from.

Download
http://rapidshare.com/files/149878813/oparpo.rar

NOTE: This link may die few days later, so grab it now, i would not probably able to update the link once its dead, because its not uploaded by me if you got it before its dead then Happy Shooting!

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Banned from COD4 Online Server?

Thursday, 25 September 2008 18:18 Written by Ayub

Call of duty 4 is awesome game when played as single player and 10x awesome when played online. Playing online sometimes may get you banned for a number of reasons from the server you are playing at, different servers got different rules, some will ban you for just kidding around with people in the server and other may ban you for abusing players and using obscene language or sear words. In this article i am going to discuss how to get unbanned (includes both temporary and permanent) from a server where you were doing something that was really not appreciable.

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Call Of Duty 4, WATEEN COD4 ELITE SERVER

Thursday, 04 September 2008 22:32 Written by Ayub

cod4 The popularity of 3d games in Pakistan is increasing every moment. There was the times when Pakistani's were limited to their PC's. Now when the broadband internet is within most of the people's reach, a number of Pakistani gamers have started playing games online.