How to buy games on Steam from another country

I've had problems trying to buy games on steam using another country PayPal. Obviously this also occurs when trying to buy games while travelling. There are serious flaws in steam system, however there is "official" bypass for this.

For example if your home country is UK, but you are trying to buy games from another country (when travelling) or if you are in UK and want to buy games using PayPal / Credit Card that is not registered in UK, then you have to do it via web browser by using the following link:

http://store.steampowered.com/?cc=UK

This will set your country to UK, then browse the store as usual, login and order. Worked fine for me.
Specific problem for me, was that i'm using business PayPal to buy games on steam, but it's registered in another country, so i was not able to complete the orders.
Keep in mind, you can't do this via steam client, you must use web browser, but that's ok. Once purchase is complete in browser, it will offer you to install game on your steam client. If steam client is running and you're logged in, all you have to do is click on the button in web browser and game will be available for you. no need to enter any serials or check emails ..etc.

How does it work exactly?
If you don't understand the link, then you must know the 2 letter country code for this trick to work. For example USA is "US" and you would have to replace UK with US.
Germany is DE, Finland is FI, Sweden is SE ..etc ..etc
That country code has to match the PayPal / Credit Card location, otherwise it won't work.
Or whatever payment method you're using, you must use the correct country code to go with the billing address / payment method's location.

I hope this makes sense and will help you purchase on Steam.




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Need for Speed (NFS) Rivals - WORST GAME EVER!

Yay .. NFS Rivals made by Criterion the Cretins!!!
5 minutes in the game and i got so pissed with this piece of JUNK, this is WORST NFS ever made!, probably worst game of 2014!

sooo .. well it's not a problem for drooling twats who are only interested in bashing buttons, but as a true racer, you notice right away that it ONLY supports 360 controller and it cannot be remapped! so you are STUCK with the button layout that is given to you.
UNACCEPTABLE! this game goes down the trash bin!

I'd understand only 360 controller, because microsoft probably payed them tons of money and those Cretins are money hungry fucks, so they couldn't decline, but what is the logic behind making it STUCK on default layout?!?!?!?
I CANT FUCKING DRIVE WITH THOSE TRIGGER PIECE OF CRAPS !!!!

Now lets move on, second thing .. that intro movie is not skippable! so you have to watch that 2-3 min intro movie every fucking time you launch the game, also the tutorial is UNSKIPPABLE! what the fuck is that nonsense?!
who made this junk? and it costs 50EUR ?! WHAT THE FUCK!!!
good thing i torrented this junk, because im never going to WASTE my money on this piece of junk.

ONLY good thing in this game is graphics, rest is complete crap. as usual, driving even slow, you hear tyres screetching just like you'd drive 300km/h!!!! and when you jump the car, you take no damage, but tarmac and car pieces flying EVERYWHERE, just like car blew up .. but nope, not a scratch on a car!
wow ..just wow...
it's like somebody's 5 year old kid designed this lmfao...

my suggestion, DO NOT waste your money on this piece of junk. Torrent it, see for yourself how much this game sucks and throw it into trash bin, because that's all this game is good for!

nVidia ShadowPlay latest updates (27.jan.2014)

nVidia just updated ShadowPlay and it said to add/fix the following:
- Adds option to change the directory of the ShadowPlay buffer
- Fixes missing audio when playing in 5.1 surround mode
- Adds 30 FPS recording option
- Adds custom bit rate control
- Adds output resolution control
- Adds microphone on push function

If you still don't know what ShadowPlay is, it's a free game recorder by nVidia for 600 and 700 GTX series graphics cards. It comes in a package with "nvidia geforce experience" which you can freely download from nvidia.com website.

DayZ Standalone FPS (framerate) optimization tutorial

This tutorial explains how to optimize your DayZ Standalone to get higher framerates in big cities. Every DayZ player should know that even with ultimate gaming PC you get low framerates in populated areas. For example even with 8-Core AMD CPU or 6-Core i7 and GTX690 or HD7990 you end up getting like 20fps or lower.
So far only way of fixing this, is to change some setting files and add few launch options on Steam.

Launch Options

- In steam, right click on "DayZ" and select properties

- Set Launch Options...

- Put this into the box and click "OK"
cpuCount=8 -maxMem=16384 -nosplash -noPause

cpuCount - should be the amount of cores your CPU has.

maxMem - amount of RAM you have (doesn't really change a thing tho)
nosplash - removes the splash screen
noPause - not really sure about this, didn't really change a thing for me, but some say it speeds up loading times.

CFG File Settings

- Go to the following location:

- C:\Users\<Your User Name>\Documents\DayZ

- in my case, it would be "C:\Users\Sethioz\Documents\DayZ"

- Open file DayZ.cfg with Notepad++ (can use normal notepad, but it will be a mess)

- Change the following settings (if not already as shown)

GPU_MaxFramesAhead=1;

GPU_DetectedFramesAhead=1;

vsync=1;

Profile Settings

- Go to the following location:

- C:\Users\<Your User Name>\Documents\DayZ

- in my case, it would be "C:\Users\Sethioz\Documents\DayZ"

- Open file Sethioz.DayZProfile in your case "Sethioz" would be replaced with your username

- Change the following settings:

sceneComplexity=1000000; < default is 1 million, i have it on 200000 (greatly helps with fps)

shadowZDistance=250; < default is 250 i think, mine is set to 200, you can try lower numbers.

preferredObjectViewDistance=1900; < default is 3000 i think, set to whatever you think is good for you, but beaware that it may interfere how you see other players. setting it too low may cause you not to see other players.

Note - if you can't find the file, it may also be in following folder:
C:\Users\Sethioz\My Documents\DayZ Other Profiles\Sethioz (where Sethioz is replaced with your name)

This should make it more playable in laggy areas and give you advantage over others who have not done this, however it will affect your visuals. Setting the ObjectViewDistance may cause windows not rendering properly from distance, so you can't see if someone is in the house, looking out from a window and shadowZDistance is the distance where you see shadows, too low and you may miss shadows and not see a player sneak up on you.