MS Wheel Mouse Optical Redux (August 2018)
Back on the WMO train again. I was using Sweetlow’s signed driver, but it stopped working again, probably due to Windows updates. You can find the old guide...
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MS Wheel Mouse Optical Redux (WMO 1.1 & Windows 10 x64)
Back in 2011, I wrote a fairly gushing post about the Microsoft WMO 1.1/1.1a. It’s a great mouse. It really is.
Benq XL2411T Monitor Review
Before I review the Benq, it’s worth giving a bit of background about the monitors I’ve owned up till now.
Video recording with MSI Afterburner
I’ve used this application for half a year now, but had no idea that it has the ability to capture video.
BF3 - Pump Shotgun tips (870MCS & SPAS)
Non Battlefield 3 players, look away now. Battlefield 3 players who like shotguns or want to get better with them, keep reading.
EA penalises its existing customers; nobody cares
To follow up from my last babblings on the scourge of expansion packs and unfair advantages, EA/DICE has really put the cat amongst the pigeons with the re...
Moving Origin Games to a different drive
I wanted to move my BF3 install to my SSD but couldn’t figure out how to do it. Numerous posts suggested things, but none worked until I found this:
And another thing… BF3 Expansion packs
From the blurb on the Battlefield Blog (emphasis mine):
Since when was it in vogue…
… to make aspects of your game totally totally and utterly unbalanced when new players are in the mix? I realise that people are OCD and like collecting shit...
Valve’s response to being hacked
… was very, very disappointing. I’m somewhat befuddled by the extremely low key response to the incident.
MS Wheel Mouse Optical (WMO 1.1)
I’m an addict
Project: MyWorld announced
We finally announced our minature-version-of-real-world-as-a-platform-for-games project last week. Image shamelessly nicked from Luke’s blog:
Data oriented design links
I’ve been doing a little reading around data oriented design of late and thought it was worth sharing some interesting links. Here’s my distillation of the r...
Mouse Input in FPS Games
Am I the only PC gamer that is really, really fussy about mouse input? I say this because it feels like every other PC game I play comes with default input s...
L4D - Pleasure and Pain
Left4Dead is ridiculously good. I can’t quite get over how tremendously visceral, tense, hilarious and fun it is. I’m one of those people who tries games, bu...