Also known as lag spikes, or FPS drops, or frame stuttering, this annoying problem doesn’t happen only in Valve’s Source engine, as I’ve experienced, but also in GoldSrc(yeah, the Half-Life 1 engine). A gif will best explain this phenomenon: You can imagine that if in single player this is super annoying, multiplayer games like CS:GO […]
Read more "Source Engine frame drops"This post is going to be extra short, because the solution is simple. This error appears on newer systems that have an UEFI BIOS, I myself encountered it on a system after I enabled legacy BIOS on a laptop and tried to format the HDD with a new installation. Without closing the installation menu of […]
Read more "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style"As Minecraft became more and more popular a plethora of server hosting solutions began to appear. Unfortunately Minecraft is a hungry resource eater, and even for about 10 players it requires quite a beefy computer with lots of RAM. Needless to say, the cheapest solutions of hosting are often disappointing, while those that provide lots […]
Read more "Hosting a Minecraft server behind a router"Ok, after a whole afternoon spent with an obscure Benq laptop on which I installed Windows 8.1 that had a sound crackling problem I’ve finally came up with a solution. I know that it wasn’t hardware related( well IT IS, because it uses some outdated sound card maybe), because I tried a live Linux installation […]
Read more "Solved: Crackling and popping sound in Windows 8.1"Please note that this is not a universal solution, in my quest for a fix I’ve found that HP mini 110 laptops ar quite faulty. A neighbor of mine brought me a netbook to fix. It was a HP Mini 110, which is quite old now( I think it was first shipped in 2009). The […]
Read more "HP Mini 110 “Quick” Fix for BIOS freeze"RAGE is free to play this weekend on STEAM. I thought I’d give it a try. I think it has a certain Borderlands feel to it, although not featuring that cartoonish outline. Actually, at a first glance it looks quite realistic. It’s running on the id Tech 5 Engine, and I’m amazed of how well […]
Read more "Trying RAGE"Just recently I’ve seen an article that requires skills in different domains and it’s harder to approach – not exactly a weekend project. Make Magazine released a thorough article that covers how to make a Nuclear Fusor. Yeah even the name is cool, and I can’t really explain what it does. It’s basically an attempt […]
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