I have just noticed today that minecraft (having just entered its beta) performance is shocking (3 - 11 fps), and the fog or draw distance has plummeted. Is anyone else noticing this issue since the beta was released? (I am running it on a laptop with 2G RAM and 2GHz CPU running a 32 bit Vista OS...

Does anyone know of a way to play chess on a PC against someone on an iPhone? Are there some general servers that use generic APIs where you can just have a client play against a different client?

GT5 gives you the option to not take delivery of cars - any good reasons for that or is it just as good to take delivery of everything and sell the clunkers?

Golden Ages started by Great People don't count as far as I can tell. Do all golden ages have to be from Happiness? What about from say Reformation or Rationalism, the cultural GAs?

and anyone tried mmosolo.com would give me some advise ? i heart it's legel and trustful but still hesitate

Are there any online achievments in Black Ops for the xbox 360?

I'm trying to find an old game that was running on my Sharp MZ-800 (but no doubt it was a port from other system) really lon time ago. It was a car - racing (or touring?) game, seen from inside a car. The driver had drive fast otherwise a time-out came out. Also, on top of the screen was a navi...

I can't get further than the moon levels in Revenge of the Titans. I don't seem to be able to end each game with enough money to purchase more than the basic weapons and upgrades. Does anybody have any good general strategies for this game?

Why are there brown orcs such as Warchief Garrosh Hellscream? Why are there only a few of them scattered throughout the [World of] Warcraft's Azeroth and Outland?

Hi all. am about buy a dell laptop , and i need to use it for video rendering and need to use some 3D editing softwares. I go through dell inspiron nd xps models. in xps its 1GB NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 420M and in inspiron i can choose ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 550v - 1GB Im little confused , which am...

Hi, I believe that we need 8 members to do the old 10-man raids for the guild achievements. I seem to vaguely recall a mention that 25-man would only need 8 people as well but I'm not sure if that made it out of beta. Also, do 40-man raids still exist? How many people do we need for those? Th...

Is there a way to buy a Playstation Network Card and get the code sent by email? I don't want to wait for the snail mail to deliver a simple code that could be easily transferred by email.

My name Is Mehgan. I play Garry's Mod alot and i am over at a friends house who also enjoys games. I downloaded steam for her and i noticed that garrys mod is downloaded onto my harddrive. I legally own the game, it is legally on this computer, so why can she, on a differant account, Not play it?...

Which processor is the best, and why? Choose from the following: http://www.asus.com/Product.aspx?P_ID=HGTVnGv5nGahCYgK

I bought the humble pack #2 and activated it through Steam. However, only 3 games were available through that platform at the moment. Does anybody know how the key works for the pack? Assuming one of the games in it gets released in Steam in the future, will it automatically be associated to my ...

I've passed campaign once and want to do on the Brutal now. After passing all 3 first missions I did the "Smash and Grab" - the 1st artifact missions. Upon completion I've discovered that I don't have laboratory available... Then I did "The Evacuation" - the 1st colonist mission. I've passed t...

GT5 gave me a gift ticket "1000", for doing 100 races. When I accepted it the darn thing gave me the very same car I had just won (a Corvette). Was I just unlucky or is there a "trick" to using the gift car ticket?

In order to give the town a sliver of a chance to survive one more night, I was forced to take two steroids in one day and now I'm hooked! Which drugs can I take each day to stave off my inevitable death? Does it have to be steroids or will any drug work? For instance, will water purification tab...

I had a discussion with a friend about Tetris where we quibbled about how it got more difficult as the levels progressed. His assertion was that it had only to do with the amount of time given to work with a block whereas I thought that I remembered it not just being a time thing but also that ea...

Using sc2ranks.com we can see the points accumulated by each player. Are the points of a player comparable to players in other leagues? If not, why not and what happens to a players points upon demotion/promotion? Is there a better way to compare players ( other than just playing each other )?

Played on a Mac in the early 90s. The beginning starts out by your car crashing into an old spooky house. And you go inside to look for help. It was in first person, but clicked left, forward, back, etc to navigate. You could interact with the environment as well. If you did the wrong steps the ...

Are anti vote fraud mechanisms in place for all of the Stack Exchange web sites, or only for sites in the extended trilogy? Background: In the biostar mailing list, there's some discussion on suspected vote fraud.

Hi, I understand that you can install and play Orange Box games (HL2, HL2:E1, HL2:E2, Portal, TF2) on the PS3. However, when I go to http://store.steampowered.com/sub/469/, I don't see the PS3 listed. I'm afraid of buying the game, and then finding out I can't play it on the PS3. Does the PS3 ...

So far all I can do is to create a macro, place it on an action button, and make sure that this action bar has a key bound to it. I'm running out of action buttons. I would like to bind a key (or a key combination) to a macro without the need for an action button. Thanks.