Hardware
4 entries. 4,122 words.
2014-05
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PC Upgrade, Annoying But Necessary.
2014-05-09.
My gaming PC hasn’t been upgraded since mid-2012, so I thought it was time. The fact that the computer had a nagging USB mouse driver problem and has been crashing a lot in games also contributed significantly to my decision.
And so another PC has been upgraded, and once again I make another vow not to do it myself any more.
Pro installation work right there.
Oh I wanted to order a pre-built PC.
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- Status
2018-06
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Controller Woes: Aging and D-Pads.
2018-06-25.
I’ve been playing a lot of Dark Souls Remastered lately, which requires playing on a controller. Technically you can play the game with mouse-and-keyboard on PC (and it’s even easier in the Remastered edition) but the control scheme is completely alien to any other mouse-and-keyboard game, and it takes a lot of getting used to, and it’s just not worth the effort for one game. Even the controller scheme takes a fair amount practicing and learning, even if you’re used to using controller.
- Hardware
- Musings
2018-08
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Hard Drive Shopping – Blaugust 29.
2018-08-29.
Casualties of War aka. Information Technology. This SSD and external USB drive both died last year, both less than two years old. I mentioned my main 2 TB D: drive conked out yesterday morning for mysterious reasons. It’s working again now, but I’m eyeing it suspiciously, because I’ve noticed some odd behavior in my applications and rebooted a couple of times yesterday to straighten it out. I’m not sure it was hard drive related but it could have been.
- Hardware
- Musings
2019-11
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XIM APEX Mouse and Keyboard Adapter for the PS4.
2019-11-15.
I don’t exactly write “reviews” here on the ol’ blog, but these are my thoughts about the XIM APEX Adapter. It’s a USB gadget that plugs into a Playstation 4 (or an Xbox One, allegedly) and allows you to use a mouse and keyboard to play games that otherwise could only be played with a controller.
You may or may not have noticed a recurring theme here in the past year, which is that I constantly mention how much the PS4 controller hurts my hands.
- Hardware
- Reviews