7 Tips For Reducing Lag During On-Line Games

If you enjoy playing video-games online, then you surely know how it’s annoying when the game experience is riddled with slowdowns. Typically referred to as “lag”, this unwanted effect can be caused by a number of hardware or software problems. Here, we shall overview the most common such issues, and present an appropriate fix for each one.

Step 1 – Check Hardware
Low processing power is the most common reason for lag in computer games. The first thing you should check whether your computer meets all the hardware requirements of the game you want to play. Additionally, check if all the appropriate drivers (such as Direct X) are present on your computer.

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Step 2 – Internet Connectivity
If you are experiencing lag in online games then one of the reasons for it could be a slow internet connection. Modern on-line games often need quite sizeable bandwidth to run smoothly, particularly if the game involves many people.

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Step 3 – Downloads
Make sure any kind of upload or download is not taking place while you play online games or else network connectivity will be lower and you will be more likely to experience lag. If you stop all download/upload activities then there will certainly be a considerable improvement in the speed of the online games you take part in.

Step 4 – Available RAM
Try and see which applications are utilizing more of your computer’s RAM and whether they are required, if not remove such applications or disable them to free up more RAM. More available RAM will usually mean better performance of online games.

Step 5 – De-fragment the Disk
Files on your computer are often store in non-contiguous locations instead of contiguous sectors, causing fragmentation of the hard disk. Your computer will perform better if it is defragmented on a regular basis and while playing online games also you will notice the improvements.

Step 6 - Firewalls
High ping rates are also common if the firewall on your machine is blocking the network connection. If you suspect this could be the case, you should change the configuration of your firewall as to not interfere with the game you’re playing.

Step 7 – OS
 Many times the reason for lag in the online game is because of the operating system you are using. The best thing to do will be to go through the details about which operating system will provide the best playing experience and install the same on your computer. Another reason for lag in games could be malware, viruses or Trojans in your computer system. To correct this problem you will have to install good anti-virus software and clean up the system properly.

Conclusion
As you can see, lag in on-line games may have lots of different causes. Even if you have a state of the art computer, you may still come across this kind of issue. If that’s your case, consider the advice in this article, and have fun playing silky-smooth on-line games.

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Find the Perfect Laptop for Your Gamer College-To-Be Kid

Find the Perfect Laptop for Your Gamer College-To-Be Kid
Congratulations, dear parent! Your son has finally finished high school! And if you’re the right kind of parent, you’ll be turning in your sleep right now thinking about your child’s misty future. But fear not, for aside from student loans getting through college is never too impossible when you’re equipped with a good laptop.Read Top 5 Best Laptops For Professionals.Yes, not a new wristwatch, not a new pair of Nike sneakers, not even the new video game he’s been asking about for weeks. A laptop is the best gift you could ever give your kid on his high school graduation because of two reasons-First, a new laptop will help him find a job (because 86 percent of people all over the world looking for employment prefer using the Internet, specifically social networking sites) after graduating so he’ll be able to lift his fat gaming ass out of the house (specifically in front of the PC, playing Diablo III) and into something productive. Second, a new laptop will help and inspire him to study well in college. If you don’t have a budget for a new laptop, sell your electronics for cash and check out these laptops that are perfect as graduation gifts for your son or daughter who’s been drawing and playing Atari since age the of 3.For the Gamer Geek Son/Daughter of the Cheapskate
If your son or daughter had asked you for a PlayStation as a kid, then he or she may have been showing signs of becoming a future game developer or tester (yes, old Dad, there are jobs in the gaming industry). If your son is looking to become a future game and software developer, game designer or graphic artist then a cool-looking and power-punching laptop is exactly what he needs to graduate from college with flying colors. Get him a low cost gaming laptop like MSI GT60 for about $1,600 to power up his dreams. It’s got a fast Ivy Bridge processor and the best (not to mention the latest) NVIDIA graphics that could perfectly run XNA Game Studio for his practice projects. He will also be able to store up his images, game designs, mods and favorite games in this laptop’s Dual 500GB SATA hard disks and 12GB RAM. He’ll also appreciate your ultimate love for him when you sell electronics for cash to spend on his new laptop, what with all the I/O ports and card slots. Also, you’ll be happy to know that it has a one year global warranty, so your son/daughter’s laptop will be covered.
For the Gamer Geek Son/Daughter of the Millionaire
Meanwhile, if you’re the type of parent who got lucky by winning the lottery (or who was born rich), the best graduation gift for your high school gamer kid is the one of the most expensive gaming notebooks out there. Prepare to sell broken electronics for cash because the Alienware M18X costs up to five grand. We can just imagine the fallen coffee cup from your hands (thus the sub-header). But getting this laptop for your kid will make you millions when he/she creates the ultimate game of the century and builds his/her own game empire together with his/her friends! So why is it worth $4,566? Because it’s made of anodized aluminum which is more like saying you bought an Iron Man laptop that weighs 12 pounds. It’s got an Intel Overclocked Turbo Boost CPU, an AMD Radeon HD graphics card, dual 750GB SATA hard drives and 16GB of RAM that can be upgraded up to 32GB. Your gamer son/daughter would probably be wetting his/her pants out of joy once you start explaining her the specs of this wonderful laptop.These are just some of the gaming laptops you can give to your college kid and what’s more, the vast array of laptops available right now in the market are also good technologies to start with. Remember, your gamer college kid will always look for a way to play games.

About the Author:
Mikaela V. Taylor is an aspiring blogger who currently writes for Cashforlaptops.com, where one can have a laptop trade in and help save the environment. Read our guidelines to be a Guest Author at TechGau.Org.

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Amazing Alex: Angry Birds Successor From Rovio

After the unbelievable success with Angry Birds (Over 650 Million Downloads), Rovio is all set to make the change that was inevitable.Rovio is now looking forward to the release of its latest game, Amazing Alex. Amazing Alex is all set to release in the next couple of months, this has been confirmed as Rovio has already registered the domain AmazingAlex.com.

This new game called Amazing Alex is a physics puzzler game, a far cry from the mindless tossing of Angry Birds at Grumpy Pigs.Amazing Alex has been derived from the game Casey's Contraption which was recently bought over by Rovio.

Amazing Alex features a young and very curious boy name Alex, who likes to build things.This is the basis for the education and entertainment game.

Rovio CEO Mikeal Hed has accepted that pressure from other game developers has been very high and hence they would like to maintain the quality standards set by Angry Birds, if not make it better.

Rovio’s VP of franchise development Ville Heijari said -

Gameplay is a perfect fit in our arsenal with its approachable, fun and highly addictive take on the physics puzzler genre.We are currently reworking the title to enhance it, and getting ready to re-introduce it in a true ‘expect the unexpected’ Rovio style launch to an even larger audience.

It will be good to see if the game can live up to its predecessor.What do you think about this new game from Rovio?

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Play Angry Birds On Facebook Timeline

Do you think that you are a Facebook Addict? Well, it is about to get a whole lot worse.Get ready to hear this.Now you can directly play Angry Birds from your Facebook Timeline, without having to download the game, the HTML code in the Angry Birds Game can keep a record of the high scores and hence you can challenge your friends to beat your score, all with the help of Share And Play!

This is the first time that a flash game has been directly embedded into the Facebook Timeline, so expect a couple of bugs, but they will be sorted out soon enough.

It's not just the Facebook Timeline, but the Angry Birds game can also be embedded into web pages and blogs and can be played from there without downloading.

The Official Release By Rovio.

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Call Of Duty Black Ops 2 Confirmed Release in 2012

Great news for Call Of Duty fans, The Call Of Duty Black Ops 2 release date has been confirmed by creators Activision to be on 13th November 2012, so there are still a few months to go before the game is released.

Not much has been revealed about the game yet, whatever we know has been concurred from the Gameplay Trailer that has been released.You can view the Trailer here -

We all knew that a Call Of Duty game was in the pipeline, but we were unaware of was the Title, Theme, Time Setting and some new game-play aspects.From the trailer it is clear that a player can control air-drone strikes, ride horses, and fly fighter planes.The biggest change to the game seems to be the time in which the story is set.Call Of Duty Black Ops 1 was set in the cold war era, that is the 1960's which involved the arms race.But the Call Of Duty Black Ops 2 is set in a futuristic date of 2025 where robotic drones fight side by side along with humans.The whole thing makes you feel like you are in a Terminator Movie.

Here you'll assume the role of Black Ops protagonist Alex Mason's son, David Mason, who lives in a unsurprising world standing on the brink of war. China has unsurprisingly risen to become a world power (probably due to its population added to its technological improvements) and is embroiled in a modern cold war with the United States over the most precious resource on the planet – rare earth elements.

Even in Call Of Duty 1, the multi-player options were really good, we are expecting to see an improvement on this as well as a slight improvement in game-play of the single player mode.

We will update you on the system requirements, all the game features and graphics review as when Activision makes more available to us.

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What is Modding/Chipped PS2 (Play Station)?

A Play Station 2 has features which enable it to play only Original DVD's of games or movies, which means you cannot play DVD's that you have made a copy of.Many people prefer to make a copy of the original so that they do not damage the original piece while using it.But with a PS2, you will not be able to play these back up discs, the reader just does not recognize these kind of discs.

Here comes the part of Modding or Chipped PS2.

Modding/Chipped PS2 is a method of making these back up discs playable on your PS2.The manufactured Play Stations do not come with an option to be chipped or modded, but you can do it yourself.

This process of Modding a PS2 can also be useful to play Play Station Games that you or your friends have created, that is it can be useful to play custom Play Station Games too.

I really feel that Sony should keep an option to Mod the PS2 as well as the PS3 so that we can all back up our originals for safety as well as play custom created Play Station games.

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