Modern Warfare 2 Fail-tage?

Oh yes, this is my first montage that includes weapons, and I'm not good at any of those two things. I just don't feel that making montages with sniper rifles in them is the thing for me, I'm more of a straight forward video guy.
This is just a simple msuic over footage video. I actually created a song for this ''montage''. I used for that Sony Acid Pro 7, it's really easy to create music there, check it out.

Another thing, I'm not experienced with sniping, and I'm kinda against running around with sniper rifle and slight of hand pro. Making this video gave me a chance to experience what it's like to be a sniper, and it's really easy to pull off that kind of stuff. What you see in the video is my 2 day learning experience in MW2 sniping.

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Crash Time 4 on Pentium 4

Crash Time series continues it's journey with 4th game!



I'm not a huge fan of these series, but the game uses stuff that I enjoy, like cars, or roads, and nitro, maybe. This is a racing game with a story, a cop story, it is based and popular german TV show Kobra 11 (or Alarm fur kobra 11 in german), great to watch it on TV, but not playing it, but it's only my opinion. It just isn't as thrilling or interesting to follow it, because you just drive a car while your friend talks with boss trough a mobile phone, with some occasional cut scenes from a parking lot near a building.

The game is also bugged, in cut scenes car usually jump like rabbits instead of just going smoothly on the road, or if you drive head to head with a big truck you will end up under the ground falling to nowhere and completing an achievement that requires you to fall 30feet.

Game graphics don't look that bad, you won't be amazed or something, but you won't bitch about it, I guess you can call them average. I think that game isn't optimised to perfection, because it feels like it could run smoother.

If you have an Games For Windows Live account and care about achievements and gamer score then sure, grab this game, but that would be the only reason for you to play this game. I would recommend getting Burnout Paradise The Ultimate Box isntead of this.

Thats it for today, have a nice day.

And also:
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
You know how they say, you will spend the next year the way you meet it. :) 

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I like Modern Warfare 2

Yes, I really do. On this blog I decided to post something different. What... just because title says Pentium 4 Blog it doesn't mean I will only post P4 related stuff.
What a big impact did the Modern Warfare 2 done on the internet community, just look how many unknown commentators are there now.



This was my first try to do a commentary on MW2, but at that point there were so many people doing this so I had to come up with something different, so I decided to replace my voice with the big man him self Microsoft Sam, or atleast something that sounds almost like it. It was my first try so it was full of cheesy sex jokes and bad quality. It didn't get me too much views, or got me an invite to machinima, but I liked the fact that I finally done a commentary over Modern Warfare 2 gameplay.



Actually, I liked it that much, so I decided to make another one. And this was directly inspired by Cr1TiKaL, check out hi's videos, because they are a must-see one's, not to talk about Fun Tactics series. You can actually some similarities, in how I commentate over my video, and hi's videos. Anyways, check his channel :). Back to my video, in this one I somehow managed to get really good footage by not trying at all, I was trying too look as stupid as I can by applying the most ridiculous tactics, but I gotta admit, the one with claymore in the smoke is quite effective. Also I learned from the previous video, so in this one I played with pitch of the voice, so make it look a bit more alive and human like. I don't know, maybe I will do more of these in future, but I find it had for my self to think off saying something funny...





Now in these videos I just happened to film a random bugs the come out of nowhere, but it's actually funny.



Here I happened to film this. It primarily was, as the title says, for quality test, but ended up as a battle between me and a guy named AlbanianTiger. I didn't even noticed, but I edited video in the way that I looks after he was dominating me I get a humiliating payback on him. Really, I only noticed that 2 weeks after I uploaded this video...



I like Modern Warfare 2, I don't know, maybe it's because I have this abillity to overlook bullshit on things and like them the way they are.

That is it for now, until next time, goodbye.

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Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 on Pentium 4

This is my third post and why not making it about  the game that cause so much hate, so much rage, so much one man army, danger close noobtoobing. You guest it, Modern Warfare 2. You can tell by the number of views on a video of MW2 on Pentium 4 (35,000+), that this game was very anticipated. You might say: ''oh wtf? Game came out one year ago and you are writing about it just now... whats next? Wolfenstein 3D?''  Maybe I will do a post on Wolfenstein 3D, but enough about that, I am writing about it because this game gained really big popularity on the internet so why shouldn't I write about it?



Sure it may seem choppy on the video, but not like in Black Ops, single player runs worse than multiplayer.  Just as long as you will keep ''Specular Map'', ''Shadows'' and ''Dept of Field'' off, you should enjoy single player's intensive story with ease.And once you complete the story second time you will play Spec Ops, it maybe isn't as fun as Zombie Mode in CODBO, but it sure is fun to play with a friend. It runs really nice and you shouldn't have big problems.

Now, the multi player, the most important part of this game, for many people... And I'm telling you, as long as you will keep the settings just like in the image above you will do fine with 20-40Frames Per Second even at the most intensive parts of the action. There is no need to configure the config.cfg file, because multi player runs smooth enough to enjoy whats left of competitive FPS ruined by unbalanced weapons and overpowered killstreaks and perk combinations combinations.  but, if you're a guy like me you will overlooks all of that stuff and enjoy the multi player action.

Oh, almost forgot, if you aren't into ''buying games'', check www.alteriw.net and play on dedicated servers without relying on the retarded matchmaking system.

Thats it for now, until next time, goodbye.

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Need For Speed Hot Pursuit on Pentium 4

Ahh, those three magic words Need for Speed. It seems that this game has been there almost for half of your lives and it still goes strong. Sure it had some bad times, but from there it only gets better and better, gameplay wise...




PC Specs:
Pentium 4 (s478) 3.00GHz HT (enabled)
HP ch085 Motherboard
2.2GB DDR400 Ram
HD 3850 AGP Video card 512MB VRam/256Bit
160GB Samsung Hard Drive...
Windows 7

As usual, I launch game trough a shortcut on desktop, everything seems to go smooth. Intros are not lagging, even the nice 3D menu runs really smooth. It gets a bit choppy at race selection menu, when you look from a sky to a map of Secrest City. So i select to play as a cop, choose a vehicle and press A on my controller.
At first, I didn't mess around with graphic settings, wanted to see how it will run on default.
Another thing I notice that it takes quite a while to load race, and once it finished loading it started playing the pre-race sequence at 5 Frames Per Second, and it didn't get better after that, game just continued to run at 5FPS. I quickly entered the pause menu to set game to it's lowest settings... it yield in no result, game just cointinued to show a slideshow of exotic cars. I managed to complete few races then jsut removed this game from my hard drive.
 I can't say that I was dissapointed, because I kinda got used to the fact that modern games require more and more computing power with every year.
Thanks for reading. Until the next time, goodbye.

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Call of Duty Black Ops on Pentium 4

Hello everyone who clicked a title for this blog entry. This is my first blog, and as it is written in those big letter up there, I'm going to dedicate this whole blog to Pentium 4 gaming and my impressions on how games run on it + impressions of the games them selves.

So, to start off on high note today I have a game of Call Of Duty Black Ops.



PC Specs:
Pentium 4 (s478) 3.00GHz HT (enabled)
HP ch085 Motherboard
2.2GB DDR400 Ram
HD 3850 AGP Video card 512MB VRam/256Bit
160GB Samsung Hard Drive...
Windows 7

Pre-patch:
I double-click the shortcut on the desktop, game starts, everything seems normal for now. Intro starts and seems that there is some lags spikes. When I reached the title screen fraps was showing 7-10FPS, and it didn't get better after I pushed the Enter key. In main menu the frame rate remains the same. After spinning my head like an idiot in that dynamic 3D menu ''world'', I continued my journey to the single player. First thing I notice is that the loading takes very long time, after my patience-o-meter was at it's lowest point I finally got into the game. I was a bit disappointed, well not really disappointed, It was kinda what I expected. Even on lowest settings possible, there wasn't any enhancements, and after After struggle to finish first mission by noobtoobing trough a slide show of explosions and flying cars I turned the game off.
So those were the impressions of single player.
I'm glad to announce that zombie mode runs alot smoother. I was a bit surprised, zombie mode was actually playable, and even when there was some action I could still play zombies with success. I also found something weird about zombie mode (don't know if this works in single player), but when I set Texture Quality to EXTRA and Anti-Alias to x16, I actually gained few more fps.

Post-patch:
These impressions are after third patch. First single player, patch didn't made really big difference, more like no difference at all, all those special effects really put alot of stress on CPU and GPU.
Again zombies, after patch now you can slay zombies 25-30FPS, just keep the ''SHADOWS'' off.
Now the Multi player, yes, the main reason why you bought Black Ops. Not going to lie, you probably won't play it. The biggest problem is map loading, it takes long time to load maps, and when it finishes loading map you get disconnected with message ''Lost connection to host''. Sometimes you do get connected into the server, but only if theres a NUKETOWN map, because this map takes shortest time to load, and when you get into the multi player action you struggle trough playing on 5-10FPS.

In overall, the only playable thing in Black Ops is zombie mode, but that doesn't mean that it sucks, zombie mode is really really fun, doesn't matter SOLO or in CO-OP mode.

These are some changes to config.cfg I found on the Internet. Looks like treyarch tought thap people play on computers that have single core CPU's with dual GPU video cards (seriously?).
Open config.cfg (it's located in C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\call of duty black ops\players folder), find seta r_multiGpu "1", change 1 to 0, then find seta r_multithreaded_device "0", change 0 to 1, save it and thats it, this should help a little. You can also do the same thing to config_mp.cfg.

Soon new patch should come out with these fixes:
• Added an option to create shaders during load time. This fixes hitching when viewing a new area of the map for the first time on some video cards.
• Incomplete server browser results.
• Improvements to Quickmatch results (with better ping and reduced lag)..
• /connect
• /reconnect
• Improved threading performance on computers with only 2 cores.

I'll update this blog entry after this patch comes out :).

UPDATE:
So the long awaited patch came out, and it is me who is late to update this blog entry. So did it do any good? Did it improve framerate? Anything?
Yes, and no, but that depends, I don't know is it my computer or what, but I now have 15FPS, but in adition to that I received few problems that I didn't have, like freezes, the freezes that had to be fixed, maybe it's only me, I don't know. It's always a good idea to visit call of duty forums, because some peopel say that patch helped, some say that it didn't...

Thanks for visiting my blog, stay tuned, next game Need For Speed Hot Pursuit.

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