[tvseries] Silicon Valley Season 1,2 #review

Silicon Valley is a TV Series once again. It may be considered too geek and even too silly and when You are working on startup it becomes extremely funny to You.

Oculus Rift Hands On #VR

I haven't managed to upload video from my WindowsPhone Mobile to Facebook, tried 5+ times and remembered that it's Youtube for videos :)

Oculus Rift hands on: Resolution I lower than I expected and lighter too, impressive and quite accessible, not too dizzy, looks like it's time for mass use of virtual reality #tech Today is high tech day #games #VR

[books] Packt’s $5 eBook Bonanza #tech #gamedev

I've missed previous ones so know nothing about the huge success of last year’s festive offer and  anyway Packt’s $5 eBook Bonanza is back and bigger than ever! Let's shop and support our friends at Packt Publishing :)

From Thursday 18^th December until January 6^th 2015, every #eBook and video will be available on our website for just $5 and customers will be able to purchase as many books as they like before the offer ends. There’s no better opportunity to try something new or to take your skills to the next level as 2015 begins. 

It was no time to #read this year at all %) Keep on Rocking and Raving, Happy Holidays and amaizng Year ahead of You my friends! Read More :)

R&D for Mobile Game Development

I haven't coded two of our latest games and now, one is on App Store and Google Play, here is browser version with links to mobile and the other is going to be available at FGL pretty soon. Now I go further I haven't tested technologies just set a task, publishing demos, sharing impressions and conclusions :) Now I can be called R&D manager for sure :P

The task is to get our next games work properly in Browser, on iOS, Android and Windows Phone. The last requirement makes AIR not a variant, so in focus HTML5+JavaScript and Unity. We made AIR/Flash based performance test demo too anyway. Also Visual Studio was involved %)

The laziest and easiest solution is PhoneGap

[#tech, #windowsphone] Lumia Cyan #review

I've updated my Nokia Lumia 720 to new Windows Phone 8.1 version named Lumia Cyan, sharing positive impressions:

[PC, WindowsPhone, PS3] ToPlay #list

 

I have #ToPlay list for ages. Previously I was cleaning it up.Yesterday I had idea to share it. Here it comes :)

Legend:
"+" played, finished
"+>" played, still installed
 "?" not sure to play

#PC
+> Crysis 3 (3D tech short review)
+ Battlefield 3 (short review PC #gaming impressions of the week #1)

+ MoH Warfighter (short review PC #gaming impressions of the week #1)
+ CoD Black Ops 2 (short review PC #gaming impressions of the week #1)
+ Far Cry 3 (short review PC #gaming impressions of the week #3, #4, #5) 
+ BF 4
+ CoD Ghosts
+ Halo SA  (review)
+ Bioshock Infinite

[Updated] TriDef #3D #gaming at NVidia? #tech

Googled to this thread by query "tridef nvidia".

[Updated] Doom 3 BFG works to, so I've tring to find a solution once again, found a topic Nvidia & Tridef and asked once again :)

[Updated] I've got BF3, BF4, MOH Warfighter, CS:GO and all the games crashes after start through TriDef.

Just upgraded my PC to Inno3D iChill GTX770 and Win 8 64 bit.
Previously on Win 7 Home Basic 32 bit and Radeon 5750 everything worked slow but properly %)
Monitor is 27" Samsung S27A750D 1920x1080 at 120 Hz connected with DisplayPort.
Any ideas how to fix?

[Updated] Thanks in advance, meanwhile can play Crysis 3 or Doom 3 BFG they can create 3D itself :)

[sales] Astore @ e+Games #Amazon

Let's try to make some profit from my time, knowledge and experience in classic e-commerce way :)

[book] Packt Publishing 2000th title

Our friends from Packt Publishing have released 2000th title! They are launching pretty nice  campaign to this milestone:

[stats] Unigine Valley Benchmark 1.0 #game #tech

Unigine Valley Benchmark 1.0

FPS:	45.4
Score:	1900
Min FPS:	21.4
Max FPS:	85.7

System

Platform:	Windows 8 (build 9200) 64bit
CPU model:	Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 661 @ 3.33GHz (3344MHz) x2
GPU model:	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 9.18.13.3182 (2048MB) x1

Settings

Render:	Direct3D11
Mode:	1920x1080 8xAA fullscreen
Preset	Extreme HD

It's amazing, strongly recommended to try for #game #CG enthusiasts and for everybody :)

[Tech] Windows 8.1 Update

Microsoft, Microsoft Ukraine, I've got Windows 8.1 upgrade from Windows 8 SL 64 bit now, 30 min of download on 20 Mbps, 10 min of install on SSD and i5 and no way to launch %)

I was promoted to log in to Win Live account. I understand, I have to remember the password but I didn't because I don't use it recently. And how was I supposed to receive activation code by email (the only option avail) without Windows running? Happily we've got one more PC at home, +20 min :)

[Hint] So everybody who updates Windows from 8 to 8.1, please have Your password to Windows Live in mind and another computer/device with access to Your mail to get verification code ;) #useful

PC #gaming at home: impressions, games, tech, stats, benchmarks

I've started to gather info on my new #gaming PC, games, tech questions, stats, benchmarcks and realized that It's going to be long. Already posted piece of info and decided to make larger post.

1. A review based that I've decided to by this GTX 770 by Hercules iChill Edition not yet avail at Amazon so 680 on the pic instead

2.Benchmarks
2.1 Guru 3D GTX 770 iChill is a bit faster then Inno3D iChiLL GTX 680 HerculeZ 3000 - Grafikkarten - GF GTX 680 - 2 FPS at Crysis 3 [Download] ULTRA 1920x1200
2.2 Metro LL Benchmark at GeForrce GTX 770 already posted in blog
2.3 Win 8 benchmark 7.1/9.9, CPU i5 661 is a bottle neck now, going to add screenshot later on
2.4 I scored 3440 in Fire Strike Extreme Better than 38% of all results, it was 41 % two weeks ago
2.5 To be continued...

3. Games 
3.1. Crysis 3 [Download] - all clear, 3D works itself, ULTRA in HD 3D is smooth and fast
3.2. Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 [Online Game Code] - need no hardware like this, maxed out 60/120 FPS
3.3. Metro Last Light [Online Game Code] - wants faster hardware 28 FPS average on LL benchmark, in game is faster it's most complex scene as far as I know
3.4. Medal of Honor: Warfighter [Download] - in 2D works properly without crashes that was previously on Radeon 5750 but in 3D with TriDef 3D crashes instead %)

4. Tech
4.1  Medal of Honor: Warfighter [Download] - in 3D with TriDef 3D every time, previously on Radeon worked for a while before crash %:)

5. Impressions
5.1. I'm happy I've got the system like this, I was going to it for 16 years
5.2. And I have a log way to go still at least 62% of systems in the world for example High End Gaming PC

• Intel Core i7-4770K
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan
• ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. Z87-PRO   

5.3. Frostbyte 2 in Medal of Honor: Warfighter [Download] on ULTRA 2D utilizes more resources then CryEngine 3 in Crysis 3 [Download] on ULTRA 3D based on coolers noise level %)

To be continued, I'm permanently out of time to play, test and write

Metro LL Benchmark at GeForce GTX 770

28 FPS in HD on highest settings in artificial benchmark in one of most advanced games, not 30 but I guess the goal achieved :) #game #tech