Recent content by Rolfil

I only buy new "AAA" games when they aren't new. Just wait a year or two and you can probably pick it up for a lot less. I'm finding that I'm buying more games that are under £30, playing the games I have or are in the huge backlog that you get with Epic Games free giveawys.

I went from BT to EE, ditched both a landline phone service and went from 30 mb to 150mb FTTP. They had to run a new line into the property but the installation was free. Even just switching broadband saved money and EE is owned by BT. My previous broadband was pretty fast but just going to...

90% gaming. Although I also listen to music or podcasts at the same time. I often have 10+ browser tabs open on a second monitor. I wanted to future proof my PC a bit so I went with a 4070ti SUPER and 64gb RAM. The only likely upgrades I might make are a second NvmE drive as I only have 2TB's...

I would have bought a 9070XT but my PC died late last year. The memory speed of the NVIDIA card is a lot lower but the GDDR7 means the memory runs faster. However the card really doesn't make use of this as the cards perform pretty close to each other. Blackwell (50 series) is only 5-10%...

I was working till today. Planning on planning a Werebear Tornado to league start it. I think this time I'll go purely account found characters. As well as the additional content one large change is that you can't generate as much Ward as before and HP has been buffed.

I generally don't buy AAA games at release. The last one that I did was Diablo 4. I will buy DLC for games I play a lot, but I still waited for the D4 DLC to come down in price. I also will buy games like Space Trucker, Pacific Drive. Really good games that are around £25. There is no way...

I moved to Windows 11 when my old PC gave up the ghost on me and I had to get a new one. Honestly it's not that bad. There are lots of articles to get it to look and behave like Windows 10 with minimum effort and not extra software.

I just finished AC: Mirage. I liked that it wasn't as open world and was a much shorter game that others in the series. Once I turned bloom effects off it looked really nice as well.

You can make mashed potatoes and potato skins at the same time. Bake the potatoes then scoop out the centre and pass through a fine sieve. Add butter and milk to the mash to get the taste and consistency you wish. FYI - I only know this from watching professional chefs use this method on TV...

Not strictly a macro but I always remap Space to a side mouse button as I hate using it for jump. I've used macro's a few times where you can't remap buttons. For instance in Space Trucker I remapped the accelerate and decelerate controls from space and shift to my side mouse buttons. I...

If it's on GOG then please buy it there. They have a game preservation program and their games will work on modern PC's. I think it's pretty cool that CD Projekt set this up as there are quite a lot of older games that you either cannot buy or when you have the original disks/cds will not work.

I switched to a Logitech G502 Hero wired mouse from a Steel Series mouse and am very happy with it. One nice feature is the per game macros that you can set each button too if you install the extra software, although this isn't needed.

For me it comes down to two. My fully tricked out Volvo truck from Euro Truck Simulator 2 and the 2008 SUBARU Impreza WRX STI from Forza Horizon 5.

I think there are two things here, Early Access and Early Release. Early release is where you pay more, get a few cosmetics and get to play the game a few days early. I cannot understand why anyone would do this if it's a multiplayer game. They are just always problems with servers and the...

I'd recommend at least another separate drive for development and extra space for games. Then the same size as an external drive for local backups. For development work I'd recommend learning how to use git. You can use a free plan but eventually you'll need to pay for a plan or run a...