How to get best gaming possible, without over-clocking!

Hey,

So this post was originally made for my bud 'Road Runner', so here you go! First off I wanna say that I hope everyone had a very merry, safe and fulfilling Christmas and not too mention happy!

Alright, now many of you probably started off with computers as basically just checking your email, than moved onto movies, music and photos, social networking and now gaming, blogs and forums, right? Right, well that's good because I'd imagine when you got you're computer you got a "Basic computing and media computer", right? Yup, you didn't need a high-end gaming rig with a Nvidia GeForce 9800GTX2, did you? Nope and you still don't! After you're done with this post, you'll be getting a lot more frames a lot faster providing either no lag or less lag for over-all computing, sounds good? Sure does!

So let's get started. The links to what you need to download will be posted at the bottom of the page.

Alright, now many people bring down ATI because apparently their is less performance in their cards, this is basically complete bullshit because I am and have been an ATI user since my first computer when I was 10 (I'm 15 now!). Right now I have a computer with a Nvidia GeForce 6150LE 128MB Integrated Card and a ATI X1200 Mobile Graphics 128MB Integrated Card. The Nvidia is on the desktop which gives me the upper hand on gaming and some-what different looking visuals which is good to some bad to others. The only reason my ATI isn't as good as my Nvidia is because the ATI is on a notebook but when I swap out one of the 1GB DDR2 RAM Cards out for a 2GB DDR2 RAM Cards it'll be even better than the Nvidia, it also got a new hard-drive! I'll post my system specs down below. Now let's get down to business. Step-by-step!

1. Set a restore point & Download and install all updates and service packs for Vista or XP.

2. Go to ATI or Nvidia (Whichever graphics card you have) and go to download and then drivers and put in you're information to download the latest driver and software package; You may need to try to different options to find you're direct card.

3. In ATI Software or Nvidia Software you can change graphical settings, now unless you have at-least a 256MB Card I suggest rolling back these settings, such as Anti-Aliasing, Mip-Maping and it also gives other options which you can choose between best looking and best performance; Best performance gives you the same graphics basically but at a much, much faster speed and nearly lag free depending on your hard-ware set-up!

4. On you're game, roll back the settings to medium detail; Sometimes like on trucking simulation games you can play on all the highest detail and get faster performance as a pose to medium or low settings, due to the graphics engine they use.

5. Now, if you're up for an extra 3 or 4 frames than you can download the "Omega" drivers if you're graphics card is supported; Note: SET A RESTORE POINT BEFORE OMEGA INSTALL!

The last option would be to upgrade the card and or RAM if you play games like Crysis or Halo on a shitty motherboard/processor/ram/graphics hardware.

Note: Updates, service packs and graphics drivers are a MUST update, otherwise you're guranteed not to get the most out of you're system.





& The omega site can't be found as my internet connection won't load the page, you can simply google it and you'll know it when you see it!

Are you running Vista?

My next blog will be about how to make Vista run faster, this'll be valuable if you have a notebook or desktop PC thats currently running Windows Vista but with a little bog.