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The Best Way to Farm Act1 Inferno – Diablo III 1

Jul

2012

1) start the quest “The Imprisoned Angel : Enter the Cursed Hold” 2) First take the waypoint to The Old Ruins and check for “Dark Cellar” which has a low chance to have a rare monster or treasure goblin. The chance has been nerfed from when it was being farmed regularly but there is still ...

FPS stuck at 50 in Diablo 3

Jun

2012

I am not sure what was happening, but every time I would join a new game, hit CTRL + R (gives you ingame FPS) it would be locked at 50FPS, even with the limiter at 61, or even off. To fix it, I had to do the following : For reference, I have an i5 ...

How to get rid of green flicker in BF3, and the theme change pop up

Dec

2011

I ran into this issue, a lot. From what I have gathered, it’s an issue with running out of VRAM. If you disable the aero theme before you join the game, or start origin, that frees up about 100mb of VRAM, which seems to fix the green flickering. It also, in turns fixes my other ...

How to turn off bloom in Battlefield 3 for PC

Nov

2011

open C:\Users\xxx\Documents\Battlefield 3\settings\prof_save_profile in Notepad (make a copy beforehand just in case.) Search for the word enlighten and then change the “1″ following it to a “0″, then save.

How to play Battlefield 3 early 2

Oct

2011

1. Search Windows for “proxy” 2. Click “configure proxy server” 3. Click “LAN settings” 4. Check “use a proxy server for LAN” 5. Input this IP: 203.232.208.116 6. Input this port: 8080 7. Run the release date check by launching Battlefield 3 on Origin 8. If the release date check fails, click “retry” 9. Once ...

How to unlock shaders on 6950 5

Feb

2011

I recently purchased 2 XFX 6950′s. They are great cards, and doing some research, I found this forum post : http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=137136 It talks on how to unlock the shaders on the reference 6950 cards. I have an XFX so I used this modified bios : http://forums.techpowerup.com/showpost.php?p=2137536&postcount=343 These are my personal numbers : before : after ...

Fallout 3, and New Vegas mouse lag? 9

Jan

2011

I played Fallout 3 for hours, and noticed a lot of mouse lag. Recently did a quick search, and found a VERY quick fix. In New Vegas, and Fallout 3, Vertical Sync being disabled is not saved, you have to go in and manually do it. Config file name/location for FO3: C:\Users\username\Documents\My Games\Fallout3\FALLOUT.INI Config file ...

Blog post, meet “Team Srdar”

Apr

2010

Back story on how I got “into” computers : I was playing starcraft in late 1998 that a friend so devilishly got me involved in…shit I must have been 11 years old at the time, but the tower tipped over, and stopped working. So, long story short, my little 11 year old brain had to ...