tags: Games, quake, simpsons

After the race itself, my favourite part of any Formula One race is getting smashed while Kimi gives his press interviews.
Here’s how to play along with me:
So, when Kimi:
Plays with the microphone: have a shot
Picks his nose: a double shot;
Picks his nose, inspects the picking, then somehow disposes of it (or returns it): go the triple [...]

Yep, it’s been three months since the last ArmA update, and we’re hoping this one fixes the crashing under Windows Vista.
I wasn’t game to try the early betas, as one of the side effects was mentioned as being a Sprocket reactivation. I’m wary enough of Sprocket without wanting to lose an activation for a weirdo [...]

Well, I’m very happy to report that the Stalker crashes were fixed under Vista x64 - completely - by marking the executable as LargeAddressAware. Yay!
For me, the Stalker experience has been one of two different games – the first a taut, fearful experience, when saving might actually cause the loss of progress, thus providing a powerful incentive to [...]

Since earlier this evening, I was able to play STALKER for an hour without it crashing when I tried to save !!!!!?!!!!!
I have no idea why this works, and I shudder to think what’s likely happening under the covers when this works – it’s the oddest workaround ever:
I marked the Stalker executable as Large Address [...]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (from here on in, just Stalker, okay?) is a game I’d love to hate more.
What crack am I smoking this week? Well, it’s like this:
Imagine, if you will, that Word crashed every fourth time you saved a document. That would be annoying. Saving is a key part of creating a document – you save at important [...]