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Shack PSA: Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday Savings on PC Games (Updated)

by Alice O'Connor and Chris Faylor, Nov 30, 2009 8:16am PST
Related Topics – Deals and Discounts, Shack PSA, PC

Digital distributors have begun rolling out their Thanksgiving sales to offer PC gamers a hearty spread of savings on titles including Dragon Age: Origins, Resident Evil 5, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Far Cry 2, Dawn of Discovery and Grand Theft Auto IV.

Steam's 'Early Holiday Sale' is rotating one-day deals on some top-notch games, replaced by new offers each day until Monday. There are also two incredible bargain bundles of LucasArts and THQ titles that will run all the way through to Monday.

Direct2Drive's 'All Killer, No Filler' sale brings a solid selection of games with decent discount with the site also set to offer Mass Effect at just $5.

The EA Store is offering a 30% discount on all downloadable games until Monday, including Dragon Age: Origins for $34.96 or the Digital Deluxe Edition for $45.46.

Impulse is also currently running a sale, with the following discounts highlighted.

GamersGate also has some seasonal savings on offer, including:

Good Old Games, meanwhile, is offering 30% off certain Interplay titles: Stonekeep, Descent 3 + Expansion, Giants: Citizen Kabuto and Sacrifice.

And just in case you want to know what you've missed on Steam thus far:

Thanks to everyone who sent in tips.


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    By: ajvitaly x
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    MIRROR'S EDGE AND PHYSX TIP

    Anyone with a decent (or better) nvidia setup and purchasing Mirror's Edge for the price of a cheeseburger today, do this to enable better hardware physx performance:

    Go into your Mirror's Edge install location, and then go into the binaries folder.
    (Usually C:\Program Files\EA Games\Mirror's Edge\Binaries or C:\Program Files (x86)\EA Games\Mirror's Edge\Binaries)

    3. Delete or rename the following:
    PhysXcore.dll
    PhysXDevice.dll
    and the folder called PhysXLocal

    DO NOT DELETE PHYSXEXTENSION.DLL. The game will not run without it.

    All of the files you just deleted are remnants of the PhysX software that the game came pre-installed with, and such an older version causes PhysX problems on newer systems running Windows 7, or Dual/SLIed cards. Removing them from the games directory forces the game to search your computer for them, finding the new updated ones you just installed. Startup time is not effected by this, I don't think. My Mirrors's Edge started up just as fast as if I didn't delete them.

    Make sure you have the latest version of physx installed, too.
    Nov 30, 2009 9:55am PST

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