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.
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
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 (1241 downloads ) Civilisation 3 Registry Fix - Windows Vista 64 bit (1215 downloads )Windows 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] @=""
Team Fortress 2 (PC) (external link)
As you can see in the screenshot I have configured my screenshot key as F5, once in game pressing F5 will create a TGA screenshot.
To find the the created screenshots you can have to navigate to the following folder where <steam id> is your login id, if one of the folders does not exist then try the other one:
TGA files are not very common and as such you generally won’t be able to view them without additional software such as Quicktime. In order to convert them into more manageable files such as JPG or BMP I use the open source image program GIMP, it’s a bit overpowerful for this task but is very easy to use. If you have trouble with it you could try IrfanView instead which is more user friendly.