Little Shop of Horrific PC Game Practices

Last time I ranted about the fact that I cannot use my game controller in NFSU:MW.
This time my frustration is about why 512 MB of RAM is not enough for Black and White 2? With this amount, at the third level (island, in fact) the game starts continuously using the hard disk.
Oh yeah, this is not the fault of the game itself: why there is no such a hw and sw solution, which does not slow down, even to a halt sometimes, when something happens on the hard disk?
So the game starts poking at the hard disk, so, the game flow starts clogging in the same rhythm.
Disappointing.

You may think I am really just ranting and complaining... I'm telling you, I will get to a conclusion... keep tuned.

Controller Challenge

I've tried Need For Speed: Most Wanted PC game. I'm really disappointed by the detailed settings of the game controller - the controller is a Logitech WingMan Rumblepad, and the possible settings are: none (besides assigning buttons and axes).
No "Dead Zone", no sensitivity. Which is really disturbing in the light of the unrealistic sensitivity in the game - a stir on the analogue joystick turns the car at a greater rate than you can call fine. Also without "Dead Zone" (how far you have to move the joystick from its center position before it reports to the game that it's not centered), my car always steers a bit to the left. Combined with the rough sensitivity, I simply cannot keep it real straight.

(Advanced: Dead Zone may include a maximum range too, the "Range of Motion", which adjusts how far the joystick moves away from the center position, which the application will sense as the greatest possible value.)

Seriously, how can a car driving game, even a really arcade type like this, come out without settings for analogue controllers? What is the Cause of this situation? Besides the obvious, "buy a brand new controller". And I suspect that on PC the keyboard is the main goal for the developers, which also must be a challenge, to achieve maneuverability with a non-analogue control method.
Why isn't there a tool by the manufacturer (Logitech) to adjust the settings of the controller? It should communicate to the game a set of values, and it should modify this data regarding the settings.
Or, step one level up, why isn't there such an option for any game controller (and human interface) in a more abstract layer, like DirectX or the operating system?
Wait, thinking of it, that is not a good idea, that would be a leaky abstraction.

This is just one of the few reasons, why gaming industry is and will moving to the less difficult platforms.

Language Challenge

I tried to check out something concerning the game Black and White 2. I went to a browser and typed: www.blackandwhite2.com.

It automatically transferred me to http://lionsource.planet-multiplayer.de/. In case you didn’t know, .de is for Deutschland, that is Germany.

Yes, I haven’t told you: I am from Hungary. I’ve already met this strange premise (all right, at least it’s strange for us), that Hungarians happens to speak German, at least speak better than English. (Which is a historical misconception, from which I will spare you.) Well, we don’t.

If I browsed to a probably-English site, I wouldn't want to be transferred to a German speaking page. Or if that happened by mistake, I would like to switch back to English. But I can’t find the words “English”, “Language”, or even “Englisch” on the page. No way to switch, no way to understand.

(Well, to the end of this post, the right address googled out is http://www.lionhead.com/bw2/.)

Did Mark won over Sony?

Is it possible to “win” “against” such a mulitcorp? Did Mark Russinovich raised into the rank of a cyberpunk? Sociohacker?

I'm pretty sure he's one of the few productive hacker-type with a positive attitude. You can see and try at their site all the great tools.

Also, this is my first post here, and I’d like to test a few thing with it.

I do welcome myself at least :)