Games

I have always like computer games, from first getting doom on my dads 486 DX2 and spending days just trying to get the games to load by going through what was loading up and removing things you didn’t need. The first time a played another person was doom 2 but we had to sit next to each other as internet gaming was not around. But getting older and getting my own computer with dial up internet saw the first big online game and that would be and add on to half lift which was Counter Strike and seeing at was only on dial up it still worked quite well (avg ping was about 300/400!).

Now this was a fantastic game, for the first time you could play other people which was a nice change from the computer as no matter how hard it would try would come predictable. Playing on line you would have a small community and you would know the people you were playing with and you would connect to the same servers. Now for me the games continued from there like, battlefield (1, 1942, 2, 2142) Quake, Medal of honour, command and conquer just to name a few. There have been other just as good online games and even the American Army developed a game for free and it was a good one (think if you win big you had to enrol in the Army) but as you may see from the games I play it tends to be more shooting. Now the next big games would be the Call of Duty saga, we have seen 1 2 and 3 and now with the 4^th one out it was the last game I got and I have to say they have got better and better every time and the 4^th is amazing. The game (not on line) is not very big and after 6 hours of playing it was done but this is nothing to the amount of fun you can have online, I can play it for hours and really enjoy it, I know that Echo11 son plays it and so dose Brain Splat and many other no bloggers.

I'm sure I have been over this point before but the game industry is huge but I feel it is not seen this way. They make films out of games just like books, they make games out of films and the amount of money we will spend on games it huge. Now with broadband in every home and the gaming world coming closer due to the high speeds of the internet meaning you can play someone around the world (pings now down to 20/30) without problem.

For me the next big thing will be cross platform gaming, all pc users, xbox and ps3 will be able to play the same game with or against each other online. But with big and better games has to come big and better computers, to give you some example my first computer had a 800mhz processor, 128mb RAM and 40GB hard drive. No extra graphics card or sound card and all on a 14inch monitor. Now I have a 4600mhz Duel core (2 processors in 1) 3GB Ram (24x more) and 960GB hard drives and a 22inch LCD monitor and a 512 DDR3 Graphics card and this is what I would class as a normal home users computer. The good thing about technology always moving on is after a few months you can pick up good kit for half the price as the new stuff but you will never be cutting edge.

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So I decided to make a few upgrades to my pc, a new graphics card for one and a new case, so having taken everything out and put the gubins back in a new case and putting a new graphics card in a boot up for it all to work fine which is a nice change from the usual first boot I normally end up with. Now windows boots fine but getting the driver loaded is another matter, I think due to some old drivers the new drivers would not install causing me a mountain of problems which all lead to one solution a clean reinstall, trust me If I think it was possible to just get the old install working I would have but it was not going to happen this time round. I did end up getting a nice case with a nice quite cooling system to keep the noise down, when it final got here there was a small piece broken off but it took that long to finally get here think I will just stick it back on instead of sending it back. So now with the 4600 due core and x91950 pro and 2GB of matched ram with a big power supply it should swim along quite happily and I hope so trying to get the graphics out of my 22” TFT and the broadband got installed to I come to you from my flat, with internet and everything!

The only thing left to do apart from putting all the software and updates back on the thing is to get it activated again seeing as this would be the 3^rd time with hardware changes windows through a little wobbly about it but that’s just a phone call and sorted.

So I spent some time hunting for someone who didn’t cap the internet connection coming in to my flat and trust me there is no one out there so I ended up going for someone who didn’t cap it as much and went with Eclipse, now there are a little unknown and I was unsure until today when they just won the best customer broadband supplier

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