FIVE WAYS TO MAKE YOUR COMPUTER PLAY GAMES FASTER.

Greetings from the pages and words of the Silent Observer. Did you know I am gamer? Yep I am.(bragging rights..lol) I have won quite a number of FIFA competitions (contact me if you want to try) and I have played and completed games like Call of Duty Series; Battlefield; Splinter Series; Tomb Raider Franchise; Devil May Cry Franchise; need for speed franchise; Pro Evolution Soccer! I could go and on. I have earned those bragging rights among my peers so please let me let it loose. Today I am going to share with PC gamers out there on a few tricks to tweak and improve gaming performance for better frame rate. Before I delve into that, please allow some meandering. The countdown to the sequel of Tomb Raider 2013 on PC is on. It will be available on PC on 28^th January,2016. So please keep your itchy gaming fingers at the right place. The time is neigh. Whoa. Can’t wait. I wanna time travel. Oops! No more meandering. These are five ways to improve your Pc’s gaming performance.     

1. USING CCLEANER
   Internet cache, internet history, temporary flies, chkdsk logs and a host of others are some of the debris that often the operating system and reduces the performance of software’s especially games. You need to occasionally search for this files and delete them which is mostly very annoying. With CCleaner you can delete all those flies and repair your registry with just a single click. You can download CCleaner for free.
   
   
2. GAME BOOSTER
   As the name rightly suggests, Game booster boost games. All it does is close the all other running applications that might interfere and compete with the game’s performance. Thus most of the memory and graphics is dedicated to the game. This improves the game’s performance.
   
   
3.  MINIMISE THE RESOLUTION AND THE VIDEO QUALITY
   For those of you with low spec Pcs, this tweak might work for you. All you need is to go to the Game’s Graphic Settings and do some little calibration. Minimize the Screen Resolution to at least 900*800. Reduce Anti-Liasing and all other technical graphics you see right there to very low. Although this will reduce the game’s graphic quality, you’ll enjoy the game at a better and faster frame rate than before.
   
   
4. INCREASING THE PRIORITY
   I discovered this trick when I was stuck with a Lenovo Pc with 2GB RAM. Albeit the graphics was good, the RAM did not auger well for my games. I always had those annoying game crashes that every gamer dreads especially when you have not reach a save point. You simply need to run the game as an administrator; Open Task Manager; Click on more details at the left bottom corner; Search for Details on the tabs on top; Click on it and search for your Game on the list of running processes; Right click on the game and navigate to Set Priority; And click on Real time; Press Ok on the pop that will appear to set the priority to RealTime. This will dedicate most of the RAM to the game increasing performance. You should note that in most case you need to minimize the game before you can do this. And also you have to close the game before you can perform any task on the computer.
   
   
5. WINDOWS VISUAL EFFECTS TWEAK
   This is quite a simple method. Right click on ‘my computer’ and navigate to properties; Click on advance System Settings and navigate to Performance Settings on the Advance Tab; Click on Best Performance and then click on Apply and then OK. Your windows will look like windows 98 with very bad visual effects. But all you care about is the performance of your game and this tweak will work right for you. You can revert to the default visual settings when you are done rocking your game.
   
   
   
   
   These are few but reliable tweaks that every pc gamer must have up the sleeves to increase frame rate and play games as smooth as possible. You can google and log on gaming forums to get more. Your questions and comments are welcome. Keep rocking!

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This picture scares the beans out of me and I know it creeps you out too. Those two gentlemen are the ex-detainees of the Guantanamo Bay Detention who have recently been marooned in Ghana. Well, if you haven’t heard now you do!

Hmm...seriously where are my manners. You’re welcome to the pages of The Silent Observer your reliable pair of stethoscope…. Wait a second. I think I wrote same introduction on my previous post and you’re probably fed up now. Let’s cut to the chase.

Kawula?

On a more serious note, I have keenly followed the media over the past two weeks looking to find answers to why? And what? Are they doing here in Ghana and I have found none. Zero! All I have heard is that it is an issue of national security and such information cannot be made to the public. I wonder if that’s supposed to make us feel better. Well, it doesn’t!

One thoughtful gentleman on T.V today raised an important argument or in a much better perspective he a threw a question to Ghanaians. He asked that…assuming you were the President of Ghana and you had phone call from Barrack saying he wants you to bunk some terrorist**cough**ex detainees in your country. Can you say no?  You dared not after all the wheat, wasawasa, roads, whatchamacallit and all the stuff he had donated free of charge to your country. My brother you lie bad! This is one of the repercussions of not being self-reliant and we must dance alkayda to the tunes.  

Have you watched the American Television series 24? I mean Jack Bauer. Did you just say Yes? Good, you dey the system inside. A single season of this series will make you distrust America and any stuff they do. Seriously! Conspiracy galore. America… more appropriately the USA do not do Santa Claus Stuff although they want their kids to believe in it. Any good thing done is always a calculated step with a fat ulterior motives masked with deception and clothed like Santa Claus to throw dust into your eyes. **Cough** Don’t get me wrong, I’m just talking about the American Series “24” remember? We love America. Don’t we all?

Honestly, I can hardly sleep these days. I get nightmares of bearded people chasing me with a cutlass. All we want is a big assurance that we are safe and under no threat. That’s all!

Wait a second…don’t go. Have you heard about a Kumawood movie that has been released with the title Guatanamobay fuo? That’s the Ghanaian spirit. We make humor and money out of any bad situation. We love our country. We love Ghana. We love our President! But we don’t like any suspected terrorists, dangerous men living in our backyard and eating our Waakye some!

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Greetings from the pages of the Silent Observer your reliable pair of stethoscope to provide updates on the pulse of the Nation-Ghana. Here on these pages you find variety and out of these options you will find where you belong. From my occasional updates on entertainment, sports, politics and other stuff; there is no better to find the right menu to satiate your intellectual cravings for more! “Let us have no meandering”

Not to meander myself I will delve right away into the purpose of this post.

The year is still quite new or at least the memories of the holidays are still hovering around us like “Hausa Perfume”. Productivity at our work places especially at the Public sectors are still on a snail’s pace. However, one can imagine a completely different scenario with our Politicians especially the opposition party. The struck of the new year was like the beginning of a 100-meter race the Olympics. The winner takes gold and the loser will be marooned in a stark poverty for the next four years.

Moreover, Political hormones are on the ascendency and the tension is growing intense as the time for the elections comes neigh. Today, I read a very unfortunate report where a man who felt belittled by the casuistry and counter comments of another man on the formers Political Party lost it and decided to go Kung Fu on the latter. This happened at a popular radio station on a Live Political Show in Tamale. Well, this no news and I bet this might have been the situation at most Radio stations dotted around the various cities this year. Worse still, it will get worse as we get closer to the D-day.

‘Dumsor’, Unemployment, Poverty, High Inflation, Increment in Petrol Prices and a host of others are some, if not the worse of the nightmares which has bedeviled our beloved nation in 2015. The incumbent government pleaded with Ghanaians since they came to office to rather sympathize with them because they were doing all they could to make Ghana a better place for us. When we grew tired of their lip service and portrayed our pleas for help by way of demonstrations they point the blame finger at us. They say we are the cause of our woes. Do you remember when our father and President blatantly told us that mobile phones were the cause of ‘Dumsor’? Do you remember the reply our beautiful second lady gave to those school kids who played Oliver Twist by asking for Chalk after she donated some items to them? Albeit she apologized for those comments, Can She purge those words from our memories?

‘Dumsor’ officially came to its climax just before the new year. This should not come as a surprise to all Ghanaians because we are in an election year. The better Ghana we fantasized about will become an unbelievable reality. Schools, hospitals and roads will soon have completed in the shortest possible time. The value of the cedi will rise and the inflation will record a historical lowest percentage. Students will be flown out of the country to study and the embargo on unemployment will be lifted. I am no Prophet neither am I a magical genie in a bottle that grants wishes and knows the future. I am simply a Ghanaian who has seen this trend become a norm by incumbent governments. It is only during the election years that about 70% of government projects are began and completed at the same time. That is a fact and a shimmy that they resort to garner our votes. A despicable trump card to throw dust into the average Ghanaian in our villages who have suffered for the past four years. A lowly and disdainful trickery that every government does each election year. The Last Minute Strategy.

I have come to one awkward but simple conclusion by observing this behavioral trends; None of the political parties do care for the country or its people. They only care about power and how to wield it by any means necessary. This gruesome truth stare in our faces every day when read or hear about the political instabilities that have plagued other African countries. So, if all these politicians seek similar goals that do no align with the nation, what do we do then as normal citizens? I have pondered deeply about this question but cannot seem to grasp any reasonable answer. After all, it is us the same citizens who become the politicians. It us who make us suffer. I cannot dare answer the question “Why?”. But I dare each one of you to give it a thought. Think about it!

Come what may, somewhere in December this year we would be offered a choice to choose. Be as it may that we are fed up of these politicians and their games we must still make that choice. We must turn into professional stalkers literary and observe their utterances. Listen, Observe and Choose. Do not allow yourself to be stampeded into violence.

And finally do remember to “give your voter’s ID card a big hug”. It is your power of choice!

May we have a peaceful election year. God Bless our Homeland Ghana…

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ON 23:59:59-THE LAST SECOND OF THE YEAR

I'm a very curious person and I have always wondered what people do on the last second of the year. Upon this insatiable curiosity that certainly cannot get me killed cos I am not a cat, I made a couple of discoveries or assumptions.

1.SOCIAL MEDIA
On the last second of the year, people Facebook like they have never done before. It is the only time of the year that almost 50% of your friends will be online. well, it isn't that Facebook has got an elixir of life so that people can cross over to the new year. Everyone is actually waiting for the clock to turn to 0:00:00 so that they can update a new message status. Seriously?

2.FIRECRACKERS
Well, lots of Ghanaians still prefer the traditional western way of ushering the new year,. So, on the last second of the year, People fire away beautiful firecrackers to welcome the new year with a blast. I love it!

3.CLUBS AND DRINKING SPOTS
Some Ghanaians are always looking for a reason to get boozed and a new year is no exception. En masse of people throng beer bars and clubs to spend the last second of the year drinking their hearts out in ecstasy. It's a new after all die be die!

4.PRAYERS
Everyone wants to go to heaven but no one wants to die at least not before the new year. For most people, it is only on new years eve that they remember God. The cold ands of death seem a colder on this night and scare a lot of people to the Church or Mosque to pray. Seriously? You think God is a Fulani man,,,Lol.

What did you do on the last second of the year. Please Share with me.

If you're reading my post it means you survived the year. Remember, it's a brand new year so leave the worries of last year behind. You have got a blank page so write a new story for yourself. Write a story with a chapter for great opportunities and success, a chapter for love and happiness and a chapter to write more chapters. Glorify your creator for such a wonderful gift of life to live again!
Happy New Year Folks!

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