MajorWales

I like the fact that it's not touting lies on the inside. It's not a Lamborghini Gallardo LP-570 with a G-Whizz electric motor... it's like a hipster buying a JZ notebook and realising it's a JK. I dunno where I was going with this, but I blame Luke for his continuous jokes about the naming of these laptops hahaha

I have to admit, the favourite feature I'd say is the multitasking. My current phone quits out of a lot of apps when I'm only watching a video (call on skype as an example) and having it open beside my video I'm watching would be sweet!

I have to admit, the favourite feature I'd say is the multitasking. My current phone quits out of a lot of apps when I'm only watching a video (call on skype as an example) and having it open beside my video I'm watching would be sweet!

I have to admit, the favourite feature I'd say is the multitasking. My current phone quits out of a lot of apps when I'm only watching a video (call on skype as an example) and having it open beside my video I'm watching would be sweet!

I've setup equalisers for my headset and 5.1 speaker setup, but if you look at gaming headsets, they tend to be tuned with a lot of bass for explosions, and the mid-end sounds seem to be a lot quieter, I was on about do people really care about trying to listen to a properly balanced sound being played to them? I've used a hearing test page to try to equalise the volume of each frequency (on the EQ) in my soundcard and get it as close to what it's supposed to be, basically balancing each frequency to make an "almost-flat" response. I use my Vengeance 1300 Headset with my Creative X-Fi soundcard (worst purchase ever), and although the sound quality is great before editing everything, comparing it to my laptop, the audio is completely different. I use my laptop when I'm out because every so often I go over my Gran's house, which for about 6 hours or so isn't really necessary to take my whole PC over. When I noticed this audio quality difference, I decided to try to make it sound better. I started to mess about with the equaliser and found some settings which made it work a lot better. I decided then to see what it should be like, of which I decided to use a hearing test to help me setup the equaliser. Because of this difference, I felt the need to try to balance everything out as best I could, and I've noticed myself playing a lot better because some sounds I can hear better and others I could hear really loudly got turned down. as a result, the equaliser I setup actually helped me playing games. It's not just the headset/speakers you buy, it's your ears and (In some cases, if it's old or just plain rubbish) can be the soundcard. My headset when using a flat EQ actually starts to rattle when bass comes through in games, and I found that when I equalised the frequency responses properly using the EQ it was a lot nicer to hear, with no overpowering bass (no CMSS-3D/Crystalizer/bass boost enabled, when using my 5.1 speakers I have Crossover Freq. set to 40Hz, and SW Gain off) If any of you guys want to try to "balance" your audio in the same way I have, I'll leave a link here to it (just make a copy and edit in your own hearing test's results through your headset/speakers)

I know a game is a game, but when you play the story/campaign of a game, instead of picking out explosions and gunfire and footsteps, do you like hearing the wind, birds in the trees, rustling of leaves and bushes, the ambient noise of a computer, a server room etc. Does anyone actually care about hearing these extra sounds? When gaming, do you use an equaliser (custom/presets) to optimise your headset/speakers for gaming? I find that a lot of my friends don't even realise they have an equaliser with their soundcards/onboard audio. I'm the only person I know that has actually tried to create a "flat response" based on what I hear through my headphones using a javascript hearing test. I did it because I wanted the audio to be "as it was supposed to be heard", which doesn't mean setting the equaliser to 0dB across all frequencies because the headset and your ears are tuned differently and pickup different sounds better than others, and some not at all (high pitched noise test being an example). I know it's kinda useless because I'm using a gaming headset (whoopdee do), but if I spent £5000 on a pair of the highest end headphones and the best DAC, I'd still run into a problem because my ears are different to what the sound engineers working on the game have. Even with AMD's TrueAudio, or Creative's EAX/CMSS-3D, Dolby's Pro Logic II, and THX's ASA, you may still need to equalise the sounds to be able to hear them properly, or even to be able to hear them at all. It would be pointless having a surround sound experience with a headset/home theatre setup where half the sounds you can't hear because all you are able to hear is mostly explosions, footsteps and gunshots even from a distance. I want to know what you guys can come up with, it seems like a great thing to do for games since it allows you to be more immersed in it, especially when playing career/campaign/single player.

"AMD are attempting to make a way to unify applications to handheld devices, consoles, and PC's. its called "Unified Gaming Strategy," which AMD hopes will make games playable on PCs and gaming consoles with minimal modifications in code." Do you think this is necessary? If GTA IV was built using this method, would it run better? I'm sure they'd still need to optimise the game, so modifications could still be the same. http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/desktop-pc/3450872/amd-hopes-to-bridge-gap-between-xbox-playstation-and-pcs/#ixzz2VYW76adk