Optimize Windows for better gaming using Game Booster

Game Booster will help squeeze the most out of your system and get games running more smoothly.

Assassin's Creed is one of my favourite games of all time. I can't stop playing this game. Just can't get enough of it :) You might have noticed that while playing games with heavy 3D graphics, PC response becomes slow. In some cases 3D games become jerky. The trick is to optimize PC for optimal game performance by reducing down resource consumption while playing game.

Optimize your PC for smoother, more responsive game play in the latest PC games with the touch of a button, Game Booster helps achieve the performance edge. It works by temporarily shutting down background processes, cleaning RAM, and intensifying processor performance. That means you can keep all the features of Microsoft Windows Vista and XP ready for when you need them, but turn them off when you are ready to get down to serious business – gaming. Game Booster makes it simpler to enjoy the latest games and take your experience to a new level.



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Play LAN Games Using Hamachi

Create a safe private network between two computers and Play LAN Games with Friends.

Hamachi is a program that allows you to form connections over the internet that usually could only be done physically-basically making it computer networking software. It's free and is available for compatibility with Microsoft Windows (Vista included), Linux, and Mac OS X. In this tutorial i will show you some advantages of this tool and how to play LAN games with your friends using the Hamachi software.

First of all you need to download Hamachi and install it to your computer. You can download Hamachi from filehippo or hamachi.en.softonic.com.

How to create new network using Hamachi?

When you open Hamachi you'll see three icons that show up along the bottom of the rectangular menu. Clicking on the triangular icon opens up the networking menu, where you can join a network if you have the proper information or set one up.

1. Click on triangular icon -> create new network




2. Type name of server and password


3. Click Create


How to join to hamachi network ?

1. Click on triangular icon - > join existing network


2. Enter the name and pasword of network that you want to join



How to play Counter Strike through Hamachi ?

To host a Counter Strike game:

1. Turn off or disable your firewall when you play using hamachi. If you are using the Windows firewall, remember to turn it off from the Control Panel (Start -> Control Panel -> Security Center -> Firewall and choose Turn Off option).

2. Run Hamachi. Click the last button and choose Preferences. Then click Window and check the Show “Advanced…” peer menu item checkbox and click OK.


3. You must open ports (Go to Control Panel -> Windows Firewall and choose the Exceptions option, select hlds and then click on add port)

CS in port number type port 28010, select UDP , click OK


5. Run hdls Launcher ( C:\Program Files\Counter-Strike 1.6) , type information as shown below, just use your server name and password, click Start server



For every new player who joins your networks you have to do the following steps:

1. Right click the player's entry in Hamachi, click Advanced. In the Peer VPN alias box enter the first three parts of your Hamachi IP address (example: 5.106.110) and add the last part of the player’s IP address ( example: .59) so that it makes a new IP address.Click OK and then exitHamachi. Launch Hamachi again.


2. When you finish that, call your friend to join your hamachi network and do not give them ip addres of server (192.168.x.x). Give them your hamachi ip then when they want to connect to your server in ther CS console( to run console press ~) type connect 5.101.x.x : your port :28010 and hit enter.


To join a Counter Strike game:

Turn off your firewall (or disable it). Remember to turn it back on after you finish playing.Run Counter strike. Press the ~ key on the keyboard. It is to the left of the 1 key on the top row of the keyboard. Type connect hamachi ip :port to connect

The game will connect and you can start playing.

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Download and Play Sony PlayStation 1 (PSX) Games on your PC

Play all of your favorite PS 1 games on your computer using ePSXe Emulator.

Remember Final Fantasy VIII? Remember Eden, Bahamuth, Shiva?? Or Suikoden II, Parasite Eve, Lunar, Rayman, Hercules, Xenogears?? Those where old, good times. Ever wish to play those games all over again or maybe finish them for the first time? You can install and run the necessary software to turn your PC into a virtual PlayStation. Today there are a lot of tutorials on the net about how to download and play PlayStation 1 games on your computer. The bad thing is that only few of the tutorials are really working and the others are not completely finished or aren't explained good and you can't understand them. Here i'll write a full tutorial to run PSX games on your computer. I will be posting links where to get emulator, ISOs and more!

Lets start:

1. Download ePSXe (PS1 emulator)

First of all you need to Download ePSXe. Here you can download ePSXe emulator for Linux and Windows. I recommend you to download version v.1.6.0 or lower (don't download any beta version).


2. Download plugins

Plugins will be necessary. You can download plugins for both OS, Windows and Linux. There are three plugins you basically need to run the program.
Go to http://www.ngemu.com/psx/epsxe.php?action=plugins and then press Ctrl+F and download the following plugins:

Graphic Plugins:

P.E.Op.S. Soft GPU (v1.18b)
Pete's GPU Plugins (v1.77)

Sound Plugins:

Eternal SPU (v1.41)
P.E.Op.S. DSound (v1.9)

CD Plugins (To make Game Rips such as ISOs and CDs run on ePSXe):

CDR Mooby (v2.8)
P.E.Op.S. CDR (v1.4)

You can also download Misc Plugins which allows you to play over the net, but those aren't necessary.

Extract the files into the "plugins" folder in the ePSXe. (It's NOT in C://Program Files...! Remember the path when you download the ePSXe program in the first place? And you double click on it to run it? Go there and you will find the "plugins" folder)

3. Download BIOS

Now it's time to get the BIOS in order to play the games. You'll need a file called scph1001.dll. Here is a website where you can download your BIOS http://dragonballarena.gamesurf.it/english/media/giochi/psx.php.


After the download is complete, place it on the "bios" folder in the ePSXe.

4. Download your game!!

You can type your game on google and search for it, or get torrent on isohunt, mininova or anything... Here are some good sites to download your PSX ISOs:
http://www.emuparadise.org/roms/psx/
http://www.romulation.net/PSX/
http://romhustler.net/roms/psx
http://nitroroms.com/roms/Sony_PSX
http://www.rom-freaks.net/psx-isos-0-asc-name-.html

5. Configuration

Before you start using ePSXe you need to configure some settings. Select the icon that looks like a PSX controller ( that's the emulator itself ) and a window that says ePSXe should pop up. Now choose the Config tab and you are ready to configure the plugins and the bios that you've downloaded.

Config - Video

• Choose the plugin that you want to use. I use Pete's DX6 D3D Driver. Now choose Configure

• Choose the resolution, or whether you want to play it in a window. If you are wondering if the resolution depends on your computer performance... I personally choose window. Now on Default Settings (bottom-left) click Nice and OK.

Config - Sound

• Choose the plugin. I use P.E.Op.S. DSound Audio Driver -> Configure

• Choose following options:

Mode : 2
Volume : 1
Reverb : 2
Interpolation: 3

Leave the rest as default and OK.


Config - Cdrom

• Choose the plugin. I use P.E.Op.S. CDR Driver

• Don't need to configure anything there.. leave it as default.

Config - Bios

• Locate the scph1001.dll and click OK

Config - Game Pad - Pad 1

• Adjust it at your convenience...

Now your all set and you can start playing some PSX Games!!!

File - Run ISO and Locate the PS1 game you want to play. If in the folder that you've downloaded there are more than one file, choose the one with the bigger size.


Enjoy Gaming!


If you don't want to spend much of your precious time, searching for plugins, bios and all other necessary stuff, you can download my ePSXe with all these stuff in it. Now all you have to do is just to configure the settings and you are ready to play.

Download ePSXe with All Plugins and BIOS in it.

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