I thought, “Ah ha! There’s a false myth for sure. Easy pickins.” Then I found a BBC article detailing ample instances of poor disc manufacturing and chemical deterioration causing enough defects to make discs unplayable. The article’s opening in particular...

It is also bright, powerful, and extremely pretty. Indeed, the PSP Go has one of the best portable screens around, although even the Go is unplayable in bright conditions. The DSi is only slightly better when it comes to brightness levels, while the Go’s...

for the measurements to take the strain off the graphics chip's RAMDAC. DirectX 9: Halo The DirectX 9 game Halo is practically unplayable on the Inspiron 8600 with Pixel Shader 2.0 settings. Almost double the frame rates can be achieved on the Yakumo at the...

extremely thirsty under full power. After a little more than an hour the tank (i.e. battery) is empty. Although the battery life can be greatly extended using the power play default settings, 3D FPS games such as Splintercell become unplayable due to the extremely...

is better because it doesn't depend on the time code that the proprietary systems put on the video. Sometimes the time code is damaged, which renders the video unplayable on proprietary demuxers. After clicking a few buttons, Video Active separates the previously...

Latitude D610.. Older OpenGL titles like Quake3 Team Arena run around 50 percent faster on the 915GM. Current titles like Doom3, however, are unplayable with the new chipset, even at low resolution. DirectX 8 Older DirectX8 titles like UT2004 run around...

performance. The racing game Need for Speed demands not only a fast graphics processor but also very short pixel refresh (or screen redraw) intervals in the display. Otherwise, the background scenery becomes blurry and the game unplayable. ...