Play MMO GAMES and Seeing Double!
The idea to write an article about this came to me the other week while I was knee deep in discarded appliances up in the attic searching for an old CRT monitor that I had not seen in years.
Me fumbling around in the dark wishing I had brought a torch up, too late to go back though, it occurred to me that writing an article about this would be just the thing. Don’t worry, I’m not going to bore you with the story of my peril finding a dusty old monitor, what I am going to bore you with instead is with the cool little trick I found out you can do if you have two PC screens.
All you have to do is hook them both up to the back of your PC, you may need an adapter if there is only one visual outlet, fiddle about in ‘control panel’ and hey presto you have two fully functional PC screens working off one PC.
That may seem like the silliest idea since a unicycle, but it can work wonders when it comes to playing an MMO. Think about it, with most, you have tool bars, maps and other stats taking up nearly half the screen while you have a little square to peer into this vast world. What I did was set the dimensions of the screens so that my tool bars in 4Story and WoW appear in the old CRT monitor (which I had cleaned up at this stage) and the main game play screen in my shiny LCD screen.
Let me tell you, best decision I have ever made. The game got a lot better and the whole issue of scrolling the mouse cursor between the two screens just was not an issue which I though it would be. There are tons of websites that I found offering instructions on how to do this, but to be honest..it is straightforward! Just hook everything up and go to control panel. From there it is pretty self- explanatory.
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Age of Conan servers to close
Despite the initial ‘buzz’ that surrounded the release and honeymoon stage last year, Age of Conan seems to be going downhill and does not have any brakes. The games publishers and developers Funcom have recently announced that they will be closing down 31 of the 48 servers. The most obvious reason for this is that they just are not being used by enough players and are unprofitable to keep up and running.
By Dean Sherwin
Most expected the game to be major competition for WoW, (Which has been at the top of the market for the last 4-5 years) but it just never caught on as expected with the gaming community. The game offers a host of intriguing and well-developed features such as property owning system, not to mention the storyline. However, because of the lack of interest in the game and thus the knock-on effect of severely under populated servers, the game has gone downhill with many users complaining of boredom within the game.
The issue of keeping servers adequately populated is an issue with all developers as social interaction and busy town are necessary but cramped servers can often lead to much activity on screen, overwhelming the player, not to mention the lag caused my so many characters.
Funcom have stated that by reducing he numbers of servers, they hope to increase player enjoyment and interaction. However, it is more likely that they are simply trying to cut-costs while keeping a steady income flow coming their way during the development and testing of their future release ‘The Secret World’, which is though to be due for release sometime in 2010.
This news has come as many other free games such ad Bounty Bay Online, are preparing to expand servers and begin beta testing. In such economic times, perhaps the free MMO scene will take the upper hand.
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Sexin’ up your PC, from Doom to World of Warcraft
Back in the hay days when a great PC game could be bough from Todd, the young office intern, grimly copied onto a floppy disk and sold outside the toilet for five bucks, you did not exactly need a computer borrowed from NASA to play the thing. You just had to pop it in, aim for the office high score and pray the boss did not happen to walk by and see you playing Tetris or Space Invader or in the later years, Doom. Some say that games were more enjoyable then without the storyline to bog you down and the millions of other players with whom you had to interact. But, whoever says that is just plain crazy.
By Dean Sherwin
Now in the new year of 2009, we will be expecting this year’s upcoming release of PC hardware sometime around April of March after they sell last years stock during the post-Christmas sales. Millions will be running out to by components or even full PCs to take advantage of the updated systems so that they can squeeze just a little bit more graphical quality from WoW. These people may seem a little crazy but they are actually quite on the ball in gaming terms.
Whilst you do not necessarily need a top notch PC to enjoy video games, it is worth making sure you have a little bit more power than what recommended on the back of the box. This makes the game more playable when it comes to a point where you have hundreds of players all gathered in a town during online play or you’re engaged in a heated fire fight, pop up for just a second to take that perfect shot and everything freezes on your PC while the other guy fills you with lead. My point is that perhaps buying a few sticks of RAM or a new video card when your PC is around the two-year mark will give it a second burst of life. Believe me, when you pop in a stick or two of RAM you notice the difference in the old girl straight away, whether it is playing games or not.
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