Archive for the ‘Synthetic Interaction’ Category

Blurry/Bleeding Red Text on Black Background with HDMI/DVI-D and LCD TVs with 1:1 Pixel Mapping

Like many electronic enthusiasts these days, I have joined the movement towards bigger is better with regards to the visual experience, more specifically, PC gaming. In December of last year, I treated myself to LG’s flagship LED LCD TV, the 42″ LH90. I will keep my opinion about this screen to a minimal, but all [...]

L4D Demo: Expert Pwnage

So yeah, just got Left 4 Dead 2 days ago, have been blowing zombie brains out ever since. The game is WICKED awesome! (To learn more about L4D, go to http://www.l4d.com). Anyhow, beating the game in Advance mode was cake for the most part, so my brother and I decided to give EXPERT mode a [...]

ATI Radeon 4870X2 Benchmarks Revealed

The folks at Tomshardware have done a preliminary review of the capabilties of the ATI Radeon 4870X2. The following pretty much sums up the findings:

Conclusion
Our first conclusion is that the Radeon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon HD 4870 X2 manages to achieve its objective—namely to be the best performing card you can buy. It has been a long [...]

Installed Diablo 2 and LOD today…

With all the ruckus going on with Diablo 3, I decided to give Diablo 2 and Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction a reinstall today. Ah, the memories of plowing through herds of demons and beasts; sojs; 290s and 32020s; the hostility and smack talk; and of course, the wall of death (black lag walls). [...]

Star Wars Galaxies 5th Anniversary Promo

Just received this in my mail for a one-month free reactivation on my SWG account

Changes To Your Star Wars Galaxies Account
This message is to inform you that your Star Wars Galaxies™ account has been reactivated for a limited time*. Between June 26, 2008 at 12:01AM and July 31, 2008 at 11:59PM your account [...]