Exploring Star Citizen's Initial Shader Generation: An Experiment

In the realm of PC gaming, performance is a central focus for developers and gamers alike. A defining aspect of a smooth gameplay experience is how well a game compiles and manages its shaders—a process often happening quietly behind the scenes. Today, we’re delving into the intricate world of shader compilation within Star Citizen, a game as renowned for its ambitious scope as it is for its extensive developmental journey. ...

December 14, 2023 · solariz

Star Citizen - Performance Tuning and get rid of Stuttering

o7 Citizens, When I returned to playing Star Citizen, I faced significant issues with the performance of my PC, which surprised me. However, through these challenges, I’ve gained valuable insights that I’d like to share here. As a result, I’ve compiled a brief set of tips on how to improve Star Citizen’s performance if you’re experiencing issues or if it’s not running as smoothly as expected. ...

January 3, 2023 · solariz

EPIC Game Launcher slow Download speed

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. Yesterday I wanted to install a Game from Epic Game Launcher in Windows. (Spellbreak, btw.) Unfortunately even I have a 1G Line, it only dripped in with about 100-500 kb/s and would take several hours to complete. ...

September 4, 2020 · solariz

pfsense xinetd on rampage: readjusting service

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. Cause I’m not „blogging“ regularly on this page I just want to post more things in a “Today I learned” fashion. Specially if you work on/at Events and IT there are a lot of things which leave you puzzled questioning thing and forcing you to find solutions “RIGHT NOW”. While others in normal IT Ops have time to test things, Event-IT things are often MacGyver jobs. Working on a remote unknown site with other people’s IT Infrastructure and take what you get, at the end nobody cares – it need to work. ...

April 17, 2020 · solariz

Improve Surface 4 SSD Performance

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. After some days with the new Microsoft Surface 4 Pro I’m quite happy with it. One thing bugged me was the poorly SSD Performance. Microsoft use a Samsung M2 SSD with NVMe Protocol, actually a quite fast little thing. But a SSD Benchmark showed me unbelieveable bad performance at the Random Write and Threaded read: ...

November 23, 2015 · solariz

CoD Black Ops III PC Optimierug zum Start

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. Translation This original post is written in german 🇩🇪, a rough Translation: Black Ops 3 PC has performance issues, especially mouse input lag and micro stutter, even on high-end systems. Fixes: disable Dynamic Shadows, Subsurface Scattering, and Independent Transparency; set Low Shadow Map. For micro stutter, cap FPS slightly below monitor refresh (e.g., 58 FPS for 60 Hz) via config. ...

November 6, 2015 · solariz

DHL RANT

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. Translation This original post is written in german 🇩🇪, a rough Translation: Tried to send a package to China via DHL. Website was very slow, session timeouts. Online franking blocked any Chinese characters in the address. After adapting, payment failed: VISA not available, then PayPal error. Frustrating process, unclear restrictions, wasted time and no successful label. ...

September 26, 2015 · solariz

Nvidia's GTX 950 - Die MOBA Karte. oh Rly?

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. Translation This original post is written in german 🇩🇪, a rough Translation: Nvidia markets the GTX 950 as a “MOBA card” with latency optimizations. In reality, there’s no special MOBA chip; the driver sets pre-rendered frames to 0 or 1 for popular MOBAs, reducing delay. You don’t need a new card—adjust this in the Nvidia Control Panel under Manage 3D Settings. ...

August 21, 2015 · solariz

SSL mit mod SPDY

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. Translation This original post is written in german 🇩🇪, a rough Translation: Short note: The blog now runs with mod SPDY and enforces SSL. New: HTTP/2 support via SPDY/3.1. HTTP/1.1 causes overhead with many small resources due to repeated handshakes. HTTP/2 keeps one initiated connection and streams all content, reducing overhead and speeding up pages, also easing global network load. ...

July 2, 2015 · solariz

Guild Wars 2, FOV Fix und Authenticator benutzen

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. Translation This original post is written in german 🇩🇪, a rough Translation: ArenaNet tests public beta features. Two highlights: FOV Fix and Authenticator. FOV Fix widens the viewport to reduce discomfort on widescreen monitors. Enable by adding -testVerticalFov to the GW2 shortcut; guide linked on the forum. Authenticator section follows (details not provided here). ...

November 4, 2012 · solariz