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List of Guides For Beginners

Defallen — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 15:14:13 +0800

:: BASIC ::

Mass info for the uninitiated. READ ME!
Everything you need to know to get you started on Guild Wars 2
Better Living through Inventory Management
Official Getting Started Online Manual
Downstate skills for all professions (Might change as Anet keep working on it)
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Image credit to AltTabMe

:: ECONOMY, CRAFT & RESOURCES ::

All Craft 1-400 NEW!
A GW2 Economic Overview by [EXUM] guild
GW2 Resource map
Salad's Guide to Crafting
Jerich's Guildwars 2 Crafting Guide
by [IHG]Kowz :
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Cooking :
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- GW2 Locations Of All Cooking Ingrediants;
- Cooking Spreadsheet;
- Andok's Cooking Information Station
- Cooking Jabbo (Simple list 1-400)
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  [YOUTUBE]mpITsNL5xjw[/YOUTUBE]
  
  September 8th, 2012 update: Some ingredients are no longer sold by NPC.

Important: Please bear in mind: "All values given are approximations as you may get lucky with critical successes. These values can also be increased through the use of crafting boost items found in the gem store."

:: TOOLS ::

Build Editor
GW2Spidy-A trading post price watching tool
GW2 WvWvW Map and tactical planner
Guild Emblem Creator
Countdown
Interactive Map
Interactive map (MMORPG-life)
Combo Tool
GW2 Trading Post Calculator

:: DATABASE ::

Official Wiki If you are that lazy, just type /wiki in game
Guild Wars 2 Database (Curse)
Guildhead -ZAM
Guilds Database
Item ID generator to link in chat

:: MAP COMPLETION ::
Don't really need a guide for this. While waiting for exploring mods, this is what u can do, check database above for a complete map, find out the name of the POI, vista, and google it and pray. Some are in underground, underground cave in water or require a hike. There's a lot of video for particular POI/Vista, so, long video (complete) is less useful, will stop posting more as there will be hundreds of video to link, just google them .

Lion Arch

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:: MOBILE ::(Non-official, Android and iOS)

Trait Calculator for iOS
GW2 Trade Post Calculator Shared by bunvirus
~~Release/Headstart Coundown for Android~~

:: OTHERS ::

Dungeon guides Will have a sub category for this once I found more
Ascalonian Catacombs - Guide to All Explorable Paths
[FAQ] Equipment Attributes and You
Where To Find Jumping Puzzles (Updated to http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Jumping_Puzzle)
Fan-made Guild Wars 2 Alarm Clock for PC
Complete Skill Challenge Guide to Queensdale
Customized soundtrack
Claiming your Hall of Monuments Rewards
Role player? Need a lore friendly name? Check this
GW2 Karma Vendors
Karma Vendor Armor Image w/Location
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Overview combo fields and finishers (huge image that might break forum layout)
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Courtesy of gelroller
Fields:

Finishers:

:: TECHNICAL ::

Run GW2 on Linux
Download this Wine build(rename it tar.bz2) set WINEDEBUG="-all" and start GW2 with the options "-dx9single" -Tips by JnvSor
~~Run GW2 on Mac (May 2012 Article, Thanks to M1X for link)~~ For Mac, read this
Average framerate on GPU (Auto detect) Note: This is reference before launch, drivers, and other hardware will get different result, and will change any time; source: Official Forum on 22 AUG 2012 Edit: Read Full here!
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XBox 360 Controller

Note: I am just putting all these articles together. All credits to the original authors/writers/owners. If you found some nice resources, do share here!

Battlefield : Bad Company 2

Defallen — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:35:34 +0800

Battlefield : Bad Company 2 MP Demo is now live on market place (1.35GB)

Ok, now I am going back to PC Section. Enjoy and have fun!

-Locking this down, check the below link-

Aztech DSL600E + Ovislink IP1000R Router-Config?

Defallen — Tue, 23 May 2006 23:21:17 +0800

I'm having a problem when I got my streamyx. I'm currently having an Ovislink IP-1000R router and a Aztech DSL600E dsl modem. How am i suppose to set both of the setting.

U see.. I tried a lot of ways and it juz don't work. Googled the topic and... end up here...
Could someone spare some help on this?

Note- Gateway unreachable in router's page mean what?

Overclocking radeon 9550 possible?! Read how!

Defallen — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 05:03:05 +0800

Radeon 9550基于成熟RV350架构，与Radeon 9600完全相同的0.13微米工艺和4管线设计再加上极低的250/400MHz初始频率，令Radeon 9550蕴藏着惊人超频潜力。但ATI在芯片出厂时对Radeon 9550做了点儿手脚，令各种超频软件全无用武之地，任何调较过的核心/显存频率值都会在运行程序时回归到为默认值。不过，一个真正的DIYer又怎会轻易放弃这天赐的超频大礼呢?

　　不少玩家都试图通过修改BIOS来解决核心/显存锁频问题，这样做已经属于硬件改造的范畴了，具有一定的危险性，由此造成的硬件损坏厂商是不会给你提供正常的售后服务的。更重要的是，ATI已经在出厂时就对芯片进行了某种技术处理，简单地修改BIOS参数并不能解决锁频问题，到目前为止，还没有哪位DIYer能通过单纯的硬件改造破解Radeon 9550的频率锁定。

　　当然，我们还是可以通过软件修改进行破解的办法达到同样的目的，只不过方法稍微繁琐一点，这就需要借助RivaTuner的力量。通过RiveTurner对Radeon 9550进行锁频破解只涉及到驱动层面，如果修改失败，仅仅替换一下驱动文件即可，这个方法相当安全。

　　RivaTuner是非常强大的NVIDIA和ATI显卡优化调节工具，目前最新的版本是RivaTuner 2.0 RC 14.3，但即使是RivaTuner 2.0 RC 14.3也并不支持对ATI频率锁定的破解，所以我们需要先下载一个国外网站做好的ATI锁频破解文件--ATIOverclockingAntiprotection.rts ，这个是RivaTuner的专用破解补丁脚本。下载链接：http://nvworld.ru/downloads/ATIOverclockingAntiprotection.zip。下载后把它解压到RivaTuner下的\PatchScripts\ATI目录下。

　　接下来，就让我们以WinXP为例释放Radeon 9550蕴藏的全部能量吧。(由于到催化剂4.4为止，ATI的公版驱动都还不支持Radeon 9550，所以我们使用Radeon 9550的随卡驱动(wxp-w2k-wme-RV350lx-7-992-040303m-014319c)做为破解的基础)。

第一步：将随卡驱动解压到指定目录，在..\Driver\2KXP_INF\B_14116下找到ati2mtag.sy_。

　　第二步：运行RivaTuner，选择"Power user"卡片并点击"Open PatchScripts"按钮。

第三步：选择在..\PatchScripts\ATI\ATIOverclockingAntiprotection\下找到锁频破解脚本并打开。

之后，用鼠标点击下图右下角的Continue (继续)按钮，系统将出现让你选择修改哪个文件的对话框。

第四步：..\wxp-w2k-wme-RV350lx-7-992-040303m-014319c\Driver\2KXP_INF\B_14116下找到ati2mtag.sy_这个文件，选中之后用鼠标点击右下角的"打开"按钮。

然后系统会弹出补丁脚本被成功执行的提示框，发烧的玩家还可以看看LOG文件中的详细提示信息。

执行完对ati2mtag.sy_破解后，..\Driver\2KXP_INF\B_14116下会出现两个文件ati2mtag.sys以及ati2mtag.old，ati2mtag.old为原始文件的备份，而ati2mtag.sys则是破解后的新文件。

第五步：在开机时按<F8>以安全模式进入WinXP，把破解之后的ati2mtag.sys拷贝到C:\Windows\system32\drivers目录，拷贝完成后Reboot系统即完成破解锁频的全部工作。有部分朋友喜欢在WinXP下直接覆盖掉ati2mtag.sys，但因为该拷贝工作是在Windows系统目录下进行，这样做会有许多问题(如蓝屏、拷贝保护等)，所以不建议使用。

　　虽然频率锁定已经破解，但因RivaTuner 2.0 RC 14.3发布较早，不支持Radeon 9550，因此无法使用RivaTuner自身的频率调校面板。在此我们必须借助于其他的调节工具，如--ATITool，当然Rage3D Radeon Tweaker也可以。

　　我们可以借助ATITool 0.0.19中的"Find Max Core"和"Find Max Mem"功能找出我们手中显卡核心、显存的频率极限。我们的建议是先做"Find Max Mem"，然后将显存频率设定在最高频率-20~30MHz上(如果显存极限频率超过250MHz，建议减30MHz；其他情况建议减20MHz)，然后设定再做"Find Max Core"(这时找到的核心极限才有实际意义)，然后在核心极限频率的基础上减30MHz做为日常使用频率，如果在这样的频率下做任何测试都没有问题的话，那么恭喜你！这就是你手中的显卡蕴藏的全部能量了，别再超了。

　　需要提醒大家的是，ATITool做"Find Max"操作耗时非常长，大家一定要有耐心呀！

有的朋友说了：要是这样的话，我每天开机后都要去调频率，多麻烦呀？其实这个问题也有解决方法。下面我没要借助BIOSEdit和Flashrom的力量了。BIOSEdit的最新版是v2.7，Flashrom的最新版是2.23。大家可以去http://www.Radeon2.ru/downloads/bios.html下载。

　　第一步：在DOS下(没错，是DOS！用Win98光盘启动，启动时按<F5>也行)输入下面的命令：flashrom -s 0 XXXXXX.bin，保存你手中显卡的BIOS。

　　第二步：进入Windows，运行BIOSEdit，将BIOS中的默认频率调整到我们日常使用的频率，如核心400MHz、显存200MHz(没错！这是DDR显存)后保存，最好使用与源文件不同的文件名。

第三步：在DOS下(没错，是DOS！用Win98光盘启动，启动时按<F5>也行)输入下面的命令：flashrom -p 0 XXXXXX.bin，将修改后的BIOS刷回显卡。千万保证刷新的时候不要断电！！！

　　从此以后，我们就再也不用每天都调显卡频率啦。

　　