VAGINAFIELD The Snort of Disapproval PLUS NietCola Sad Face

Discord Overlay Not Showing Won't Appear Battlefield/Origin/Shadowplay

Discord has an overlay feature that allows you to see who is in your current channel and who is talking, similar to every other communication app.

Until recently, I haven't been able to get it to show up while playing certain games, especially ones that require Origin.

Here's the fix that worked for me:

1. Turn OFF Origin In-Game
2. Close Origin
3. Add Origin and Battlefield to Steam Library (Under Games>Add Non-Steam Game)
4. Open Battlefield using the link in Steam (you may have to click it after again after Origin launches)
5. While the game is running>Open Discord>User Settings>Overlay>Enable In-Game Overlay (assign a hotkey as well)
6. Discord User Settings>Games>Make sure you see the game you want the overlay to work in and that it is activated.
7. Close the game and then Reopen. If it worked you will see a discord prompt for the overlay with your hotkey selection to manage your channels. Press the hotkey again to only see the channel you are in.

PUBG PlayerUnknown Battleground Notes

PUBG Loot Maps

PUBG Crossbow (Xbow) Sight

PUB PLAYERUNKNOWN BATTLEGROUNDS SETTINGS

SHADOWS

This setting can have a negative effect on your overall FPS and potentially effect your ability to see other players.

Recommended: Very Low to Medium

EFFECTS

This can have a detrimental effect on your FPS during a firefight.

Recommended: Low

FOLIAGE

This effects how much grass is in the game and can effect how easily you are able to spot enemies.

Recommended: Low 

VIEW DISTANCE

Sources indicate that maximizing view distance is counterproductive since there are not sniper rifles in the game that can punish you past your ability to see on Low.

Recommended: Low

TEXTURE

This is an eye candy setting and does affect FPS. If your system can handle it, go as high as you can. There is no discernible difference between high and ultra except the strain on your system.

Recommended: High

POST PROCESSING

This setting will affect how blurry the game is at a distance. Go as high as your system can handle.

Recommended: Ultra

ANTI ALIASING

This effects the how smooth objects look and does not have a noticeable impact on performance. Go Ultra.

Recommended: Ultra

NIVIDIA SETTINGS

Power management mode: Prefer maximum performance

Vertical sync: Off

Maximum pre-rendered frames: 1

Multi-display/mixed GPU acceleration: Single display performance mode

FURTHER CUSTOMIZE YOUR SETTINGS

-USEALLAVAILABLECORES

Sources
https://www.primagames.com/games/playerunknowns-battlegrounds/tips/how-increase-fps-playerunknowns-battlegrounds


https://nowloading.co/p/tips-for-improving-fps-fov-in-playerunknowns-battlegrounds/4250760

https://steamcommunity.com/app/578080/discussions/1/135514402723371418/

ARMA 3 Keyboard Controls Layout

ARMA 3 KOTH PWNAGE CHRONICLES PART 4

ARMA 3 KOTH PWNAGE CHRONICLES PART 3: SNEAKY SNIPING

ARMA 3 KOTH CLEARING THE TOWER CHOLO STYLE

ARMA 3 OPTIMIZATION PART 1: OPTIMIZE YOUR COMPUTER

After spending hours researching how to get the best FPS out of my ARMA 3 multiplayer experience it seemed best to put my notes together for safekeeping.

STEP ONE: OPTIMIZE YOUR VIDEO CARD SETTINGS
1. Right click your desktop and select NVIDIA Control Panel
2. At the top left under 3D SETTINGS choose Manage 3D Settings
3. On the right select the tab that says PROGRAM SETTINGS
4. Under select a program to customize, select Arma3 (or any other program you wish to optimize).
Note: If you don't see the game, click Add and then navigate to where the .exe file is stored.
5. Use the settings as seen in the pic below.

• Maximum pre-rendered frames: 1
• Multi-display/mixed-GPU acceleration: Single display performance mode
• Power management mode: Prefer maximum performance
• Threaded optimization: On

6. Close the NVIDIA Control Panel

STEP TWO: INSTALL MSI AFTERBURNER (here)

1. If your card runs hot go to the fan tab and enable user defined fan settings.

2. Drag and move the points on the fan curve to meet your needs.

3. This program has many more features, such as on screen monitoring and overclocking, which we will not discuss here.

STEP THREE: MAXIMIZE YOUR PROCESSOR'S POTENTIAL 

1. Install Process Lasso (here). This program will prioritize ARMA 3 when it is running and will help performance.

2. Disable core parking (here) - follow the instructions.

3. Use launch parameters (we'll get into that shortly).

STEP FOUR: USE THE CORRECT LAUNCH PARAMETERS

I use the following parameters for my system. You will need to adjust these to fit yours.

These are entered by going to Steam, right clicking Arma 3>properties>set launch properties.

-nosplash -skipintro -maxMem=12288 -maxVRAM=3584 -cpuCount=4 -exThreads=7 -nologs

More explanation on these commands are available here.

-nosplash -skipintro: will load your game faster by skipping the intro and splash screens.

-maxMem=12288: I have 16GB of ram but didn't want the game to go over 12GB. Multiply how many GBs of RAM you have by 1024 to get the correct value.

-maxVRAM=3584: This is how many GBs your video card has. GTX 970 says 4GB but only has 3.5 GB usable ram.

-cpuCount=4: A lot of people with i7s put 8 here because that is how many cores Windows sees. That is incorrect. Enter 4 or 6 here depending on how many your processor actually has.

-exThreads=7: This will override auto detection  and the formula is (#cores x 2)-1. So for quad core it is 7, for 6 cores it is 11.

-nologs: Be aware this means none errors saved to RPT file (report log). Yet in case of crash the fault address block info is saved.

A note for you nerds that think I forgot about the hyper-threading command -enableHT: This enables the use of hyper-threading CPU cores which might slightly improve performance in certain scenarios. This option may be overridden by -cpuCount so if you want to use maximum number of CPU cores use -enableHT without -cpuCount.

STEP FIVE: CHECK YOUR SOUND SETTINGS
1. Change your Windows sound quality to 16 Bit CD (Right click Speaker in task bar>Playback Devices>Right Click your Device>Click Properties>Select Advanced Tab>Choose 16 bit CD Quality).
2. Change your in game sound source to 32 (ARMA 3 Settings>Audio>Sound Sources).

In the next post we will discuss ARMA 3 in game settings.

ARMA 3 KOTH PWNAGE CHRONICLES 2

ARMA 3 SUNDAY DRIVER

ARMA 3 KOTH PWNAGE CHRONICLES PART 1

ARMA 3 KOTH SNIPER HUNTER

BFH Garage Attendant 30 Kill Streak

BFH BANG BANG

BFH It's Showtime

TS3 Minimalist Text to Speech

This Sound Pack is similar to the Default Text to Speech pack, but is much less verbose. Some of the notifications have been disabled entirely, such as the notifications when somebody changes channels outside of your own channel. Other notifications have been shortened to a minimal level of chattiness -- channel joins just say "John Smith joined", for example.

This pack is also set as editable, so you can edit the speech messages or re-enable any disabled notifications directly from the
Settings->Options->Notifications screen. Just double click an entry to change it.

Download here.

Extract to C:\Program Files\TeamSpeak 3 Client\sound.

Original post at http://forum.teamspeak.com/threads/47533-Minimalist-Text-to-Speech. Link is for download is dead and RAR file link was removed.

BF4 Knife Montage

☼ Battlefield 4 - Why its broken & current state of the gaming industry

BF4 Siege of Shanghai Air Battles

Played a couple of rounds on Siege of Shanghai in BF4. We took to the skies in the transport and attack choppers and had a lot of fun. Hope you enjoy the highlights of our gameplay.