The best tricks are the old tricks

So my computer is starting to push the 2.5 year mark now which means at this point about the only thing to do to keep it a viable gaming rig for another 18 months or so is to put band-aids on it via patches, maybe a new vid card, and other tricks.

Fortunately, one of the oldest Windows tricks is still the best, even under Vista. The trick? Slap in another hard drive, format it, and move your pagefile there and then make the pagefile have a static size to where it does not expand and shrink like Windows often makes it do. While I know the hard and fast rule is a page file 1.5 times the size of your RAM, I went ahead and made it six gigs for 2 gigs of RAM.

So I had an older IDE drive (PATA) rated at 7200RPM in my closet that had old data on it so after a quick format, configuration, and reboot it's in business and looking good.

Plus I also ripped out the floppy drive on the machine to get rid of that messy FDD cable and hopefully help the airflow a little bit.

And that's it for Tweaking for dummies.

What's that? More Serious Sam? Well sure!

It's safe to say that if you ask anyone who knows me and those who may only know me from the dying last gasp of their friends after I pummel them, that this clip for Serious Sam is pretty much my own autobiography.

Yay Spaceships? YAY SPACESHIPS!!

So what's the problem with most RTS games these days, not much really unless you're pressed for time and have gotten laid in your lifetime and realize there's more to life than watching villagers build huts. For people like that the big issue with RTS games is all the micro managing and building of shit all day.

Fortunately, some people realized what we all really want in RTS games is to blow shit up and are therefore developing the aptly named game "Gratuitous Space Battles." Deck out your ships, line them up, and let the chips fall where they may.

Could this be the Serious Sam of RTSes?