*Patch up the game to latest version

*Set resolution to my native 1680x1050 res

*Turn off bloom

*Turn off vsync

*turn all sound settings to max if the sound is through EAX or OpenAL (sometimes by going to a config file and setting max audio channels to 128 )

*If the game is older, I'll probably max everything out, turn on vsync, and force antisotropic filter and antialiasing, if they're not available through the game's options

In general, I do a lot of experimentation to get the visual quality vs. performance right. If I can't get it to where I want it to be, then I just don't play the game.

I'm thinking retail. We don't yet know how good the Steam integration will be. It just wasn't there in BF:BC2, so why would there be in BF3?

It will be a massive community, there is no doubt. It's maybe the most anticipated game of several years.

BF3 is probably coming this year and Skyrim could easily be better than The Witcher 2. Then there's Portal 2 & ME3. It's a good year to be a PC gamer..

Only if you sell your account for each of those services. When you buy digital games you have the option of gifting it or keeping it. If you keep it, it's forever linked to your account. If you gift it, you can choose to link it with someone else's account. Usually, it sends them an email. If they don't accept the gift, you can gift it to someone else. Either way there is no way for you play the game yourself and then gift it to someone else later. It's always linked to some account.

The exception being a site like Good Old Games where there is no DRM. You just download all the game files and can install on any computer with the CD key they give you. That you could sell to someone else by just giving them the games files on CD/DVD and writing down the CD key for them. That's pretty much only for old games though. New games all have more annoying DRM with either limited activations or linked to account.

James00715

To me, selling the 'files' of a GoG game seems way more unethical than selling a Steam or Impulse account. From a legal standpoint, however, it might be opposite.

Thanks for the input. I guess Ebay is something to try.

OK, so I have a few games I bought digitally and just never got around to playing. For example:
*Warcraft 3 + Frozen Throne

*Sins of a Solar Empire

*Minecraft

I was wondering if there's a market for this. Can digital games be sold anywhere other than to a friend? Ebay? Any input is appreciated.

EDIT: just to be clear, I'm not soliciting. I just wanna know if there's a legitimate way of selling such games.

I don't know if I'm getting either since I didn't really like The Witcher (demo) & didn't get around to Dragon Age 1. I think I'll get on that first, before DA2.

But, without a doubt, DA2 will outsell The Witcher 2 by a wide margin.

It probably is, because you can easily play through it at least twice. However, I have a feeling that you will have some huge sales not that long from now, if BFBC2 or Mass Effect 2 are anything to go by.

It's true and I thought about this a bit. But consider that there is a gap of story between DS 1 & DS 2 missing. And frankly, DS2 raised a lot more questions than it answered, unlike DS1.

I will agree that DS1 feels way more unique, perhaps because of the story and the way its introduced - piece by piece. And Isaac never speaks, too. All the more intense.

Really, now I don't know what to think, after you brought this up. I tried DS1 (already beat once) after completing DS2, and DS1 felt lackluster in several ways. Certainly not the story, though.