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Ivo Flipse

8:00 PM

Do you play games @Mokubai?

Mokubai

Yep :)

Ivo Flipse

what games?

because else I could use your help on Gaming ;P

oh and if anyone has any questions for yhw42 --> check my interview in the sidebar

Mokubai

Was just considering how I want to stress test my graphics card this evening, shall it be a bit of Crysis for a light roasting, a bit of Monkey Islands 2 for some old skool

Allsorts really, mainly FPSes and a few randoms...

@IvoFlipse Anything in particular?

Ivo Flipse

What would be the goal of stress testing? Testing stability or have you been messing with the gpu?

Mokubai

I just like making it work...

Ivo Flipse

8:04 PM

if you have any informative Super Userish posts that would help Gamers with their computer, that would be interesting

Mokubai

turn all the sliders in the game up to maximum

Ivo Flipse

it doesn't work? writing a post about troubleshooting your GPU is interesting

is there anything you yourself can do to 'improve' the performance then?

to squeeze out more performance that is

Mokubai

It does work, I just mean make it work hard, as in actually using it :)

Ivo Flipse

what kind of GPU is it?

Mokubai

It's an nVidia GTS 240, pretty tame by todays standards, and an OEM card to boot, but it does a fine job.

KronoS

8:08 PM

@IvoFlipse @Mokubai when should we schedule the 64-bit article?

Mokubai

@KronoS I'd say when we can come up with a good title, I'm stumped with that bit...

Ivo Flipse

so what can you do to make it perform better? ;P

"Why you should forget about 32 bit and move on"

Mokubai

Ooooh, nice

@IvoFlipse me likey

KronoS

how bout: "32-bit is for grannies"

Ivo Flipse

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Mokubai

8:13 PM

@IvoFlipse There's always overclocking, but I'd prefer the graphics card lived a long and fruitful life than died in a blaze of glory... Disabling Aero helps a bit, which you can set in the game executables properties so that it is disabled when the game starts and re-enabled on exit... Console to PC ports suck balls, but dans data did a post or two on that (after I sent him an email about that kind of thing grrrrrrr)

@KronoS lol

@IvoFlipse I have no rep on gaming.se, I lurk there occasionally to see where things are heading, but am not active...

Ivo Flipse

that's not a problem @Mokubai, you've already proven you can blog about things you like

that counts

plus you are somewhat forced to start asking or answer questions if you would get a game

Mokubai

true :)

Ivo Flipse

A post about tweaking Windows for squeezing out performance is nice

KronoS

Game Booster @IvoFlipse

iobit.com/gamebooster.html

Mokubai

@KronoS I'd seen that, is it any good?

KronoS

8:23 PM

that does a good job

Ivo Flipse

I wouldn't know never felt the need :P

played Wow for 2 years, that didn't need it

only low pings

KronoS

@Mokubai ya it does actually.. nothing like spectacular but squeezes a little extra out

Mokubai

@IvoFlipse what realm(s)?

KronoS

I've never played WOW

Ivo Flipse

Eonar mostly, I switched to there when I hit 70

Mokubai

8:26 PM

I'm always suspicious of performance enhancing programs, granted they may do some good things, but the majority just seem to be snake oil

KronoS

@Mokubai what do you mean?

Mokubai

@IvoFlipse dang, I'm mostly on Aerie Peak

KronoS

this one shuts down all unnecessary processes and checks for drivers updates

Ivo Flipse

well I don't dare to pick it up again honestly

KronoS

flushes memory etc,.

Mokubai

8:27 PM

@KronoS Just that most programs promise a lot and deliver very little in the way that the OS doesn't already do better

@IvoFlipse It is dangerous, it sucks you in...

KronoS

Well this one does an ok job... I notice a difference when playing on my lappy

Ivo Flipse

I played as much if not more time on WoW as on grad school @Mokubai

perhaps it would be fun to review @Mokubai

I'll pay for the license

KronoS

@IvoFlipse you mean Game Booster? It's free

Ivo Flipse

what's the difference with their pro-version?

I didn't know it was from the company behind: Advanced System Essential

I liked that program

someone should review that as well

Mokubai

WoW or Game Booster? ;)

KronoS

8:30 PM

@IvoFlipse I used to use Advanced System Care... it was a great program

I'm willing to do a review...

Ivo Flipse

indeed

Mokubai

Isn't Game Booster free?

KronoS

but I'm kinda busy :(

Ivo Flipse

I'm willing to sponsor, though we could first ask them off course :)

KronoS

emailing right now

To whom it may concern,

The editors at Super User Blog (blog.superuser.com) would like to do a review on your professional version of the Advanced System Essentials software packages. As a long term user of the free version of both Advanced System Care and Game Booster I would like to spread the word to our followers about your products. We were looking to see what options we have in obtaining a license of Advanced System Essential for a review on our blog. Feel free to email back with any questions.

what do you think? @IvoFlipse @Mokubai

Ivo Flipse

8:36 PM

Sounds good :)

KronoS

sent

Mokubai

@KronoS Soz, cat wanted to play, sounds good to me. :)

KronoS

iobit.com/toolbox.html

oooo check this out

Mokubai

@KronoS That looks pretty neat, might try that at work...

Well, they look like they've got some pretty solid software so if you can't do it @KronoS then I'm happy to pick up slack...

KronoS

lol

bordom.net/view/53906/Le_Arc_de_Monitor

Mokubai

8:44 PM

awesome

So @IvoFlipse gaming needs blog people too?

Ivo Flipse

yeah I need more writers

even one post biweekly would be of great help

or a diary in a couple posts

KronoS

where's the cat?

@Mokubai where'd you find that?

Mokubai

@KronoS google.com/…

KronoS

@IvoFlipse can I get funded for one of these:

Mokubai

@IvoFlipse Are you the blog organiser for Stackexchange now?

@KronoS drool me want

Just think how awesome Assassins Creed would be on that wall of monitors

KronoS

8:54 PM

@IvoFlipse I would settle for just this...

►

you'd only have to get me two more :P

Ivo Flipse

evening @nhinkle

@KronoS then its cheaper to get myself a third one :P

KronoS

oh snap! just lost that battle

actually it'd be interesting to see a 3d gaming blog post

Mokubai

@IvoFlipse If you want I'm happy to look at reviewing a few games and bits for gaming if you'd like.

@KronoS That would be pretty neat, been wondering what 3d gaming was like

Ivo Flipse

@Mokubai I just want to see these blogs happen, so I make it happen

Mokubai

Fair enough

Ivo Flipse

8:57 PM

but some of the gaming users are slackers and don't want the responsibility

Mokubai

lol

gamers want to game, news at 11 :D

Ivo Flipse

because I also want a blog for Fitness and slap some Programmer users while I'm at it

Mokubai

does gaming have a blog already?

KronoS

here you go @IvoFlipse you could use this for @Wil :P

Ivo Flipse

gaming.blogoverflow.com

8:59 PM

lol

good afternoon @ivo

I've always wanted to review a game in this style:

Ivo Flipse

make a comic like that?

Mokubai

Sort of make a comedic diary of going through the game...

Ivo Flipse

9:10 PM

well if you take a bunch of screenshots, it should be doable

that would do well on Reddit if the text is funny enough ;P

KronoS

9:20 PM

Mokubai

@IvoFlipse gaming and SU joint blog post: Why a huge SSD is great for gamers...

@KronoS I loved that one :)

Ivo Flipse

haha you want me to buy you a 240 gb drive?

Mokubai

;)

I've got a friend with (I think) a pair of SSDs and when we play L4D2 going through a saferoom loading screen he's generally loaded the next level, healed 1 (sometimes 2) people in the time it takes my 2 x 1TB RAID0 drives to load...

and healing takes like 10-15 seconds...

KronoS

@Mokubai having two raided SSD's is sweet

Mokubai

@IvoFlipse But no. One day the SSD goodness will be mine, one day... gazes meaningfully into the distance

My games directory is like 300GB...

KronoS

9:27 PM

he he

Mokubai

Yeah, wth happened to that machine?!?!

@KronoS You haz teh RAID SSD goodnezz?

Ivo Flipse

you can use junction points perhaps, to load data from the SSD when you want to play a certain game @Mokubai ;P

@LucasMcCoy any ideas for a new post?

KronoS

blog.superuser.com/2011/03/25/…

@Mokubai

Mokubai

Hmmm, maybe an SSD game / junction organiser type program...

Ah, my short memory is short, I'd forgotten you did all the SSD testing :) @KronoS

KronoS

:) @Mokubai

Lucas McCoy

9:32 PM

@IvoFlipse I was thinking about doing a post on pianobar. It's a terminal Pandora client for Mac/Linux.

I recompiled mine so that I don't even have to type my username/password.

KronoS

hey @IvoFlipse what's the deal with this:

It would help if you links didn't expire @RaymondeAnesSNV Let Dell tweet me if they want me to test anything for the #SuperUserBlog

Tweeted by ivoflipse5 on April 14, 2011 at 3:21 PM in reply to RaymondeAnesSNV

Mokubai

@IvoFlipse If dell want you to test a Dell Streak, I'm your man ;)

Anyway, sleep.

G'night all.

KronoS

l8rs @Mokubai

Ivo Flipse

I think it's a scammer @KronoS

tried the link, but it didn't work :P

nice @LucasMcCoy, too bad I can't use Pandora

anyway, I need to come to bed

I'll see you guys tomorrow

go make a draft @LucasMcCoy ;)

Lucas McCoy

Will do! :)

KronoS

9:46 PM

@IvoFlipse makes sense

studiohack

10:35 PM

Hey @IvoFlipse @KronoS

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