BF4 Will Soon Run On New High-Performance Servers To Resolve The “Rubber Banding” Problems


EA and DICE seems to invest in new high-performance servers for Battlefield 4 to improve the infrastructure of the game according to their latest blog article. They found out that the root cause of the “Rubber Bandind” problem was a … Continue reading BF4 Will Soon Run On New High-Performance Servers To Resolve The “Rubber Banding” Problems

I Got A New All-In-One Printer


In Germany we tend to say “Eine Hand wäscht die andere” which means “One hand washes the other”, if people help each other. If I can help a friend or family member, then I do it and I usually don´t demand anything in return. But it´s sometimes great if you get something offered in return as appreciation for your help. I helped my uncle out several times and last week he told me by phone that he has still one of these all-in-one or combo printers that he don´t need anymore because he got another one. He asked me if … Continue reading I Got A New All-In-One Printer

And Again… Steam Servers Are Down


No joke, the Steam Servers are horrible at the moment. It happens every day that you can´t login to the Steam Cloud with the client and that you get the message “Could not connect to Steam network”. Sometimes it works and later it works not. I am not the only one with the problem. Users on Reddit reported as well that they have issues to log in. It really happens everyday at the moment. I am not sure whats wrong there. Are they constantly under DDoS attack or are the servers too busy to be able to handle the logged … Continue reading And Again… Steam Servers Are Down

DirectX 12 Will Hit The Windows Systems Probably In 2015


Microsoft and the partners Nvidia, AMD, Intel and Qualcomm revealed DirectX 12 at the 2014 Game Developers Conference, according to Polygon. The new DirectX version will come with improvements and will be available for all Microsoft platforms like the Microsoft Windows operating systems for usual PC´s but also for Xbox One and Windows Mobile operating systems. The graphics efficiency for modern games will be enhanced as tasks will be better spread across multi-core CPU´s, which will according to them reduce the performance decreases in bottleneck situations. Microsoft states that DirectX 12 will come with better support for multiple GPU´s. Nvidia … Continue reading DirectX 12 Will Hit The Windows Systems Probably In 2015

Weekly Photo Challenge: Abandoned


I had a hard time to find a nice scene for the Photo Challenge of this week with the motto Abandoned. I thought I would take photos of some abandoned buildings here in Lübeck. But I remembered that I did this already and I was a little bit stressed this week, so that I didn´t want to walk through my city. But I found an abandoned object. I have a box filled with very old computer hardware, that I abandoned. I took a dusty and dirty video card out of the box and thought I could make a close up … Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Abandoned