Tag: games

Air Compressor

I went shopping the other day for an air compressor so I wouldn’t have to borrow one anymore. Suffice to say I was able to get one plus a duster-gun addon, so basically I have something that’s specifically made for cleaning dusty objects/components (e.g. my computer)

Microphone Stand

Another thing I found while searching for the compressor was a microphone stand. When I record at home, I usually hold the mic, which meant that I never could use the pop filter I had purchased with it. I was lucky enough to find a mini mic stand, which was exactly what I needed to conserve space. For 350 pesos, it was a brainless purchase.

Gaming

I was itching to try the new PC with some cool game, unfortunately, I played all the newer ones (or at least, the new ones I liked) already. So I decided to re-install some old ones. Namely, Prince of Persia 2 – The Warrior Within for the gameplay/story, and Doom 3, for the graphics engine everyone was raving about in the past.

To give an idea of the performance: 1280×1024, all settings maxed (save for the antialiasing, which I just set at 4x), WITHOUT a pagefile in Windows ¹ This means most of the time, everything is working directly from the RAM (which is a risky setting, but very much doable). It is to be noted that I haven’t pushed the card to it’s “limits” since I simply put in the settings I would like to play with… not neccessarily what the card is capable of. I guess I’ll try maxing everything out one of these days to see if the framerates can hold.