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TF2 on my Asus EEEPC 1000H

The Neighbor — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 02:04:29 +0000

I got the game running on my small 10" 1.6 Ghz Intel Atom based laptop with GMA Intel 945M Chipset.

I had to tediously tweak the machine with instructions from a steam forum -

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/s … ht=gma+950

You can try setting it up with similar laptops without dedicated graphics cards. Don't expect too much though. Games only run at 30 fps indoors and just 10 fps outdoors. Discolorations with the characters is bad that you sometimes can't tell the enemy. The game crashes when there's too much graphical calculations coming in, ie - more players joining or you go through water.

Oh well, just trying out what my portable rig can do. I can overclock it to just above 2 Ghz with temperatures going up 30% from its normal operations. If you underclock this baby to 900 Mhz, turn off your wireless connections, and lower the LCD light, it can go just above 5 hours on its batteries!

I bought this for the portability mainly. Retro games like Age of Methology runs smoothly. Games running the first HL engine can go nicely with this. BadCat actually installed these for me. You won't mind taking this machine anywhere because it's really light and powerful enough to do normal PC applications.

To sum up, try the setup at your own risk. I'll probably uninstall TF2 once I've exhausted every tweak that can prevent it from crashing. Well, I'm learning about tweaks and what games can work. It's not a gaming laptop, but now it is.

Tweaking the Asus EEEPC 1000H for TF2

The Neighbor — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:45:55 +0000

I never intended to get the small EEEPC 1000H to play games. Its size was just right for me to carry around for communication with loved ones and work. Now my friend Bad Cat helped me install Age of Mythology, Day of Defeat and Counter Strike. Now I'm just tweaking to have TF2 to play here. We'll see if it works. Give me a line if you guys know a better way - arlegui@gmail.com

Any Filipino CNC3 Players out there?

The Neighbor — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:35:28 +0000

Hi you all,

Did anyone of you catch that CNC3 tournament held at Cyber Center in SM Megamall last March 1? I happen to have participated. Funny thing was, Datablitz only posted the tournament a week before, and I was lucky to see it the night before. Of the 160+ who registered online, only 22 of us participated. The lucky guy who won first place is the rep for the regional tournament in Singapore aside from getting P5k and freebies. I just think the Philippine tournament was not promoted effectively. I managed to garner the fastest gamer there, beating my opponent in 2M54S. I go online in the evenings for a game or two. My online ID is theneighbor. I'd like to meet some of the Pinoy players out there. My email is arlegui@gmail.com.

Janeil