Hey all!

I just wanted to share this small tip of mine, to all of you having trouble running Minecraft on your Nvidia Optimus based laptop. This feature is meant to save on the battery, when you are running less demanding applications by using the onboard Intel graphics, and then kick in with the Nvidia GPU when this is needed, fx by 3D intensive games or in our case Minecraft. The problem is Minecraft ONLY using the onboard Intel HD Graphics card instead of using the much more powerful Nvidia card.

This is, however, about to change

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Bungie, a company that started out with developing Macintosh titles over ten years ago. Had one simple dream that they wanted to fulfill with its original Halo: Combat Evolved game: Online multiplayer.
And when they were told that the current Mac OS wouldn’t be able to support such a feature Bungie Joined forces with Microsoft in a joined effort to create a killer app for the upcoming Xbox. And while Bungie did get first hand expertise with the Xbox. They didn’t get to experience their dream come true until Halo 2. But they still helped with pushing the Envelope for first person shooter games. Namely on the consoles!
Bungie have always been known as a company that respected and loved its many fans and followers. And as a last hurrah for their lovechild they developed Reach, their last game before leaving Microsoft for good.
So is this really the last hurrah for Bungie, or should the planet be glassed and forgotten? Let’s find out for our self, shall we.

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Hey!

While I was at LAN yesterday, we encountered problems when we wanted to play Age of Mythology over LAN. After a fresh install (with original game discs of course), the game did not want to start. Even after the more recent game patch 1.03, the game still froze right before the intro video or sometimes right after - always showing the following message:

Luckily I found the solution after stumbling upon this thread. The main problem is that either the resolution of the game is set too high, or your directx/graphics drivers are out of date.

Since I was already running with the newest graphics drivers, I tried setting the resolution manually by adding following commands to the shortcut target of the game:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Age of Mythology" xres=1280 yres=800
This solved the problem and made the game start like a charm!

You can find target you need to change in the shortcut properties.

This is the same command used if you want to run the game in widescreen or run it in a custom resolution (just replace xres=1280 yres=800 with your own)

Hope this little tip helped!

/KillerBee

Singularity, or: “SIИGULAЯITY” if you absolutely have to. Is brought to us by the video game developer Raven Software. Who is known for their previous titles such as: X-Men Origins: Wolverine and the new Wolfenstein game. I was actually exited by Singularity in the first place. I didn’t really know what to expect because I didn’t know that the game existed until the day it came out. But what I saw on that Very day was a chap of mine who were playing one of the first levels where he picked up a gun that shot controllable bullets.

The only thing that went through my head at that point was:”I have got to get my hands on this game”.

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It has been 12 years since the original StarCraft came out. Back then I was a mere five years old and was just beginning in school. So naturally I wasn’t playing StarCraft.

But long throughout my adventures with the internet I discovered StarCraft, a strategy game from 1998 made by the same folks who made my bellowed WarCraft III, so you guessed it. I found it pretty interesting… But I still didn’t play it.

To this day I have only played minor fragments of the original StarCraft. I don’t really know what it was; it just never really got to me… everything seemed a little bit too… Cluttered, for me. But on the faith full day that I saw the launch trailer for StarCraft II Blizzard made a believer out of me.

It has been 12 years since the original StarCraft came out. It was once held as one of the best games ever made, and many still consider it to be the best strategy game to this date. Can the series stand up to the challenge and impress someone that never played its Predecessor?

Why, let’s find out.

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