Do Windows gamers still need XP?
Posted by Mike Halsey in gaming on 10. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
A year ago today I wrote an article called “Why Windows gamers will ALWAYS need XP”. This came about because several of my friends are PC gamers and, while some of them may have been happy to use Vista for day to day internet browsing and document creation, they, rightly, insisted on a dual-boot XP [...]
Fixing PunkBuster
Posted by Mike Halsey in gaming on 05. Sep, 2009 | 1 Comment
One of the most common complaints about PC gaming is problems with PunkBuster, the system intended to stop people from hacking and abusing the games, preventing the games from running or kicking people from the games on a regular basis.
I recently had to diagnose one of these problems, in this case Battlefield 2 wouldn’t start, and [...]
Punkbuster MD5 tool error and other fixes (updated)
Posted by Mike Halsey in gaming on 12. Jan, 2009 | 0 Comments
I’ve been trying to help a friend find a fix for two PunkBuster errors affecting his gaming on Battlefield 2 and other games for ages now. There’s been much searching going on online but now finally it looks like I’ve found some fixes.
MD5 tool mismatch error
I have long suspected that this error was caused by [...]
Creating a dual-boot Gaming PC – Part 2, Configuring XP
Posted by Mike Halsey in gaming, guides and how to's on 14. Nov, 2008 | 1 Comment
In part 1 of this I showed you how to install both Windows XP and Windows Vista in a dual-boot configuration. If you’re going to use XP exclusively for gaming though you need to do some streamlining to maximise perfomance.
The first thing you should do is switch off all the fancy desktop stuff. To do [...]
Creating a dual-boot Gaming PC – Part 1, Installing Windows XP and Vista
Posted by Mike Halsey in gaming, guides and how to's on 12. Nov, 2008 | 0 Comments
As I’ve written previously, there are many advantages to having a dedicated copy of Windows just to be used for gaming. You can shut down all the parts of Windows that you don’t need and minimise Windows’ ‘footprint’, maximising gaming performance.
To set up a dual boot system for this with both Windows XP (for gaming) and [...]
