A while ago Electronic Arts released the older Command and Conquer games for download but since then they have revamped their website and the links seem to have been lost, as of posting below are working links:
| Command and Conquer: Gold | Command and Conquer: Gold – GDI ISO Command and Conquer: Gold – NOD ISO |
| Command and Conquer: Red Alert | Command and Conquer: Red Alert – Allied Command and Conquer: Red Alert – Soviet |
| Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun | Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun |
In order to backup your save games for Grand Theft Auto IV on the PC you will need to backup two different folders, this is due to the game using the Games for Windows Live system.
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Rockstar Games
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\MicrosoftXLive
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Rockstar Games
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\MicrosoftXLive
NB: These are the default folder locations, if you have a different location it can be found by typing %LOCALAPPDATA% into Windows Explorer.
Grand Theft Auto IV is the latest instalment in the long running Grand Theft Auto series, and uses a brand new game engine to transport you to Liberty City the Grand Theft Auto universe’s version of New York complete with an Statue of Liberty knockoff.
You play as Niko Bellic, a war veteran from a Eastern European country who is trying to track down the person responsible for crossing him during the war. As with most Grand Theft Auto games the story is good but is mainly an excuse to hang a series of missions from. I found the missions to be a lot simpler then when compared to previous entries in the series but it took just as long to complete. The PC version is a very demanding game on your machine, since release a series of patches have helped solve some of the problems, but you will still need a beast of a PC to see it at its best, especially when running under Vista where 3GB plus of RAM is recommended. |
The Assassin’s Creed save games can be found in the following locations:
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Ubisoft\Assassin's Creed\Saved Games
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Ubisoft\Assassin's Creed\Saved Games
These are the default locations, if they are not in the respective location you can try searching for assassin.ini as they should be in the same folder.
I recently started to play Assassin’s Creed
To take an in-game screenshot whilst playing Free Realms you can press the F12 key, if you want to remove the interface it can be toggled on and off using the F10 key.
You can find the screenshots you have taken in the following folders:
Replace <username> with your Windows user name.
Far Cry 2 takes part in an unnamed African country which is in the throes of a civil war between two sides, the UFLL and the APR. Your character has been sent to kill an arms dealer called The Jackal who has been supplying both sides, but within the first few hours this aim is thrown into disarray as The Jackal helps save you whilst under attack and continues to assist you throughout the rest of the story.
The story is told completely from the first person view and instead of cut scenes to progress the story all actions are controlled by the user, this is in a similar style to the Half Life series and is designed to help you become more immersed in the main story. Your final choice is strange given your initial mission and it seems to have little impact on the overall ending of the game. There are a few issues with the game, such as enemies respawning at checkpoints which you have cleared only moments ago, but overall it is a very good game and I found it highly enjoyable. One quick note, the PC version allows you to save anywhere using quick save but unlike most PC releases the previous save file is not overwritten and is kept, this led to me having a 2+GB save folder when I had finished the game |
Below is a list of various command line options that can be used with Grand Theft Auto IV (4) (external link)
| -benchmark | Runs the benchmark tool and exits the game |
| -help | Displays a list of command line options |
| -renderquality |
(0-4) |
| -shadowdensity | (0-16) |
| -texturequality | (0-2) |
| -viewdistance | (0-99) |
| -detailquality |
(0-99) |
| -novblank | Disable vsync |
| -norestrictions | Do not limit graphic settings within the game |
| -width | |
| -height | |
| -safemode | Runs the graphics in the lowest setting possible |
| -frameLimit |
Limits frames to a multiple of the refresh rate i.e. if your refresh rate is 60Hz then setting this to 1 would locks the frame limit at 60 |
| -refreshrate | |
| -fullscreen | |
| -windowed | |
| -availablevidmem | Set amount of available physical video memory |
| -percentvidmem | Percentage of video memory available to the game |
| -fullspecaudio | Force high-end CPU audio |
| -minspecaudio | Force low-end CPU audio |
| -noprecache | Disable the precaching of resources |
| -nomemrestrict | Disable memory restrictions |
You can these commands easily by creating a commandline.txt file within your default GTA IV install folder (the default is C:Program FilesRockstar GamesGrand Theft Auto IV), put each command on its own line to run multiple commands at once.
Installing Sid Meier’s Civilization 3 (external link)
Download links:
Civilisation 3 Registry Fix - Windows Vista 32 bit Civilisation 3 Registry Fix - Windows Vista 64 bitWindows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Infogrames] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Infogrames\Civ3PTW] "Install_Path"="C:\\Program Files\\Steam\\steamapps\\common\\sid meier's civilization iii complete\\Civ3PTW" "Gold_Version"=dword:00000001 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Infogrames\Conquests] "Install_Path"="C:\\Program Files\\Steam\\steamapps\\common\\sid meier's civilization iii complete\\Conquests" "Complete_Version"=dword:00000001 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Infogrames Interactive] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Infogrames Interactive\Civilization III] "Install_Path"="C:\\Program Files\\Steam\\steamapps\\common\\sid meier's civilization iii complete\\" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Infogrames Interactive\Civilization III - Play the World v1.27F] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Infogrames Interactive\Civilization III - Play the World v1.27F\1.27F] @="" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Infogrames Interactive\Civilization III v1.29f] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Infogrames Interactive\Civilization III v1.29f\1.29f] @=""
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Infogrames] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Infogrames\Civ3PTW] "Install_Path"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Steam\\SteamApps\\common\\sid meier's civilization iii complete\\Civ3PTW" "Gold_Version"=dword:00000001 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Infogrames\Conquests] "Install_Path"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Steam\\SteamApps\\common\\sid meier's civilization iii complete\\Conquests" "Complete_Version"=dword:00000001 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Infogrames Interactive] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Infogrames Interactive\Civilization III] "Install_Path"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Steam\\SteamApps\\common\\sid meier's civilization iii complete\\" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Infogrames Interactive\Civilization III - Play the World v1.27F] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Infogrames Interactive\Civilization III - Play the World v1.27F\1.27F] @="" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Infogrames Interactive\Civilization III v1.29f] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Infogrames Interactive\Civilization III v1.29f\1.29f] @=""
Steam is well known for doing weekend deals, often with them halving the price of a game just for a few short days. Recently I noticed that Bioshock was being offered at half price and as it is a critically acclaimed game with a Metacritic score of 96% (external link) I was interested in buying it.
At least I was until I noticed this link (external link), in summary the US were being offered Bioshock for $15 whilst in the UK it was $27.49! Thats almost double!
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