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In the past I’ve found myself wanting to know of some DirectShow screen capture drivers. I would use these for sharing my desktop on web cam programs, video streaming programs, streaming Starcraft 2, and so on. I have list of all the (free) ones I know of so far.

• VH Screen Capture Driver
• UScreenCapture
• ManyCam

VLC Media Player and Windows Media Encoder 9 can also be used for screen broadcasting, but they do not have input drivers so the output can’t be fed into another program.
Additionally, CamStudio can be used to record the screen (but not broadcast), and Skype can be used the broadcast the screen to a single person.

For the longest time, I couldn’t figure out what was wrong with my Unreal Tournament 3 setup. Every time I entered a game of any type, the loading screen wouldn’t appear. Instead, it would say “Precaching” in red with a black background. I figured out the reason why it was doing this is because I had the “-nomoviestartup” command line option set. “-nomoviestartup” eliminates movies of all types, not just the startup movies. Loading screens are considered movies. There are campaign movies, too, and you’ll miss out on those with the command line switch.

There is a way to turn off the start-up movies in a non-destructive way. Find your “My Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\Config\UTEngine.ini” file. Open it with a text editor, such as notepad, and search for “[FullScreenMovie]“. Directly below it, add semicolons before all the sections that say “StartupMovies”. It should look like this:

[FullScreenMovie]
;StartupMovies=Copyright_PC
;StartupMovies=EpicLogo
;StartupMovies=MidwayLogo
;StartupMovies=UE3_logo
;StartupMovies=Nvidia_PC
;StartupMovies=Intel_Duo_Logo
;StartupMovies=UT_loadmovie1

Congratulations. You have disabled start-up movies and/or restored your loading screens!

Here’s a quick list of free full games I know of.

FPS
Warsow (http://www.warsow.net/)
OpenArena (http://www.openarena.ws/)
UrbanTerror (http://www.urbanterror.net/)
Quake Live (http://www.quakelive.com/)
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory (http://www.splashdamage.com/wolfet)
Combat Arms (http://combatarms.nexon.net/)

RTS
Battle for Wesnoth (http://www.wesnoth.org/)

RPG
Maple Story (http://maplestory.nexon.net/)
Runescape (http://www.runescape.com/)

Music
FlashFlashRevolution (http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/)

Racing
TrackMania Nations Forever (http://www.trackmania.com/index.php?rub=nations)

Radio Responses/Reports
Name (RADIO): Roger that.
Name (RADIO): Enemy spotted.
Name (RADIO): Need backup.
Name (RADIO): Sector clear.
Name (RADIO): I’m in position.
Name (RADIO): Reporting in.
Name (RADIO): Get out of there, it’s gonna blow!
Name (RADIO): Negative.
Name (RADIO): Enemy down.

Radio Group Commands
Name (RADIO): Go go go!
Name (RADIO): Team, fall back!
Name (RADIO): Stick together, team.
Name (RADIO): Get in position and wait for my go.
Name (RADIO): Storm the Front!
Name (RADIO): Report in, team.

Radio Commands
Name (RADIO): Cover me!
Name (RADIO): You Take the Point.
Name (RADIO): Hold This Position.
Name (RADIO): Regroup Team.
Name (RADIO): Follow Me.
Name (RADIO): Taking Fire…Need Assistance!

I was unsatisfied with my complicated smart mount macro; one that would mount me on my flying mount if possible, and my ground mount if not.
I discovered something immensely simple that seems to work great. For example:

/cast Swift Blue Gryphon
/cast Swift Yellow Mechanostrider

You can use any mounts, as long as the flying mount is first. Of course you do get an error message when you use the macro, but it doesn’t bother me and doesn’t cause any problems.

So you’re trying to buy emblems of triumph from Usuri Brightcoin in Dalaran but can’t because people are spamming it.

Bind “interact with target” to a key, or shift+v and right click her name.
Then use this macro since you’ll probably get “That object is busy”:

/script local function buy (n,q) for i=1,100 do if n==GetMerchantItemInfo(i) then BuyMerchantItem(i,q) end end end buy("Emblem of Triumph",1000)

Also you can use a simpler one

/script BuyMerchantItem(4, 250)

Portal is a first person action puzzle game. If you haven’t already seen the trailer, here’s a link. Most things about the game are positive. The story, the characters, the concept, the portal gun, the seamless portals, the puzzles, the music, and the creepiness are great. Continue reading ‘Valve’s Portal’ »