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75519	2002-09-01 06:42:00	New Quake2Max released A new version (0.38) of the Quake2maX mod for Quake II engine is now available. The new has the following changes: - Improved shader support - Redone menus - "Q3A-ish" text formatting - Font scaling - and more. download here (www.fileplanet.com) NVIDIA acknowledges bug in new drivers nVidia has acknowledged that there is a bug in the Det drivers and that they are working on a fix to be released soon. Here are some details of the bug: The default setting on the new driver and the old driver are both the same. The problem that is being identified is a bug that occurs when the AF settings are changed. It seems that once the AF slider is moved away from 0 to another setting, then back to 0 again, it triggers a bug that causes the control panel to misread the register setting. That setting is not point sampling, but it is something less than 0. The only way to "reset" back to true 0 is by reinstalling the driver or deleting the registry setting. We are going to fix this bug and others and submit the new BETA driver to WHQL, before the driver moves from BETA to "official". Also he had this to say: A lot of the improvements in performance that are seen are due to efficiencies in the driver code that controls vertex and pixel shader. That is why you see the jump in peformance for Nature and Aquanox. Those apps also happen to be the ones that are used for benchmarking. Red Hat Desktop Edition announced Red Hat is set to launch an enterprise-based desktop Linux operating system soon. The new OS will be much like their recently released Advanced Server offering and will be subscription-based. Read more details over at The Register (www.theregister.co.uk). Another DVD standard announced NEC and Toshiba have announced a new DVD standard to compete directly with the Blu-Ray standard announced earlier this year. The standard will be another blue-laser DVD standard. Here's a bit on it: A high-capacity replacement for current DVD technology has been announced by NEC and Toshiba. But the replacement will be incompatible with a rival technology proposed by nine other companies in February. NEC and Toshiba said in a joint statement that the new technology "will allow manufacturers to continue to use existing DVD plants and equipment and so minimize the investment required for the transition to next-generation DVD players and drives. Blue laser light has a wavelength of 405 nanometres, whereas a red laser has a 650-nanometre wavelength. The shorter wavelength means more data can be squeezed onto a conventional 12 centimetre-sized disk. The Toshiba-NEC technology would increase data storage capacity from the current 4.7 to 8.5 gigabytes to between 15 and 30 gigabytes, although a 40-gigabyte disk is also planned. Get more info at New Scientist (www.newscientist.com). Case modding madness leads to 1 dead and 3 Injured In a case of modding gone to dangerous extremes one person has died and three people were injured in an accident involving propane and guns. read more below: Waco, TX - Neon tubing and blow holes weren't enough for one local computer case modifier and now the deaths related to case modification are two. Just 12 days ago Carson City, Nevada teen Warren Botrey was killed in a house fire when the acetylene torch he was using to modify his computer case ignited his comic book collection and destroyed his home. This time the victim is Waco resident Sean Whitman. "He wanted a case that looked like it came from a war zone. I told him he was crazy, but that Sean is a visionary. First we took the case out back and shot it a few times with his pistol, but the holes weren't big enough to allow proper ventilation," said survivor Fred Willis. "After that we left Sean outside while we went to get some more brews. Next thing we know we're pulling glass out of our eyes." According to what police munitions experts can piece together Sean Whitman attached two large propane tanks to his computer case and began shooting. The explosion created some very large ventilation holes in his chassis, but unfortunately for Sean some very large holes in his torso also. Read more at iBelite (http://www.ibelite.com). Tweak-XP Pro v2.0 available for download Totalidea Software has released version 2.0 of their XP tweaking utility Tweak-XP Pro. Tweak-XP is the ultimate utility for XP owners with more than 37 different utilities included for tweaking and optimising. the Totalideas website hasn't listed the changes but any updates are a boon for this program, which I personally have been using since it was released as Tweak-ME. download here (home1.t-online.de) DVX version 2.28b released Version 2.28b of DVX has been released for download. DVX is a program that automates popular video tools in order to create DivX or XviD videos out of DVB or DVD sources. download here (dvx.reloadworld.de) Kquery 3.0 Alpha Preview 3 released A new Alpha release of Kquery is out. Kquery is a game server reporting tool that reports players, rules, maps, server settings etc. and makes a good alternative to GameSpy and All Seeing Eye. Kquery features the following: - uncluttered interface - geo/ping lookups done at same time, making kquery VERY FAST. - 'smart queries' don't need to know what type of game server you're querying - comms with mIRC/ICQ/other software - freeware. completely. no spyware/adware. - custom colour schemes and logos - if you want a feature, just ask, i'll code it :) You can check out more info over at the programs homepage (www.kquery.com) or download it from the link below. download here (www.kquery.com 16.exe) No picture in DIVX using Windows Media Player with Detonator 40.41 It seems that the 40.41 drivers have another feature built into them that has not been published, the inclusion of Macrovision. These reports show what some people have had happen to them and how they fixed it: Hey, I don't know if it's just me but since installing the new Detonators (40.41). But trying to use the VIVO TV OUT on my GeForce 4 4200 (Prolink PixelView) to watch a DIVX file using Windows Media Player has resulted in no picture in Media Player. Everything else is normal just no picture. If I use Radlight though it works fine. Just curious if this happened to anyone else!. Russel sends word that the new Detonator 40's have yet an another feature: Macrovision protection. What this does is prevent movies to be displayed upon the TV, be it .avi, .mpg etc... However, I was able to watch a DVD movie using my TV-out yesterday, but some readers haven't been so lucky. Gargr mentioned that TV-Tool had an option to disable Macrovision, so I checked it out and wouldn't you believe that it works! Congrats to the guys at H.O.T for their awesome program. If this problem is common, then the old TV-Tool program may become very popular. Roxio Easy CD Creator Platinum updated to version 5.3.1 Roxio has updated the Platinum edition of their CD recording program Easy CD Creator, bringing it up to version 5.3.1. The new version contains the following changes: - Some fixes - Adds new drive support, including support for DVD -R/RW and DVD +R/RW. - This update will install Windows XP specific drivers and make the necessary registry entries to allow Easy CD Creator to operate correctly in Windows XP. download here (www.roxio.com) NVIDIA Detonator Drivers 30.40 for Windows 2000/XP There are some new leaked Detonator drivers out for Windows XP/2000. The version number is 30.40 and may be a stable replacement for the new 40.41 drivers. The drivers are for all nVidia based video cards. download here (ftp://ftp.pc.ibm.com/pub/pccbbs/netvista_drivers/e7az21us.exe) Nero CD Speed version 1.00 released Ahead Softwares CD benchmarking tool CD Speed has been updated to version 1.00 with the following changes: CD Speed and DVD Speed combined into a single program New function: Database to load and compare multiple test results New function: CD-R Info: displays ATIP information of CD-R(W)'s New function: export results to HTML Added autosave function Added support for special test discs Full support for 90/99min CD-R's Option to increase resolution of transfer rate graph ScanDisc function: supports for DVD discs Improved support for Parallel Track Path (PTP) DVD's DAE Quality Test: improved CD Text creation This version is also available with the new 5.5.9.9 of Nero Burning Rom but can be downloaded separately from the link below. download here (www.cdspeed2000.com) Xbox Media Player and XStream B6 final out Cdfreaks has reported that the final version Xbox Media Player and XStream B6 has been released with the following list of changes: Improved support for DVD-R/W, CD-RW playback. Seeking for AVI files. With the analog buttons you can control how fast you seek. Divx 5.0 and 5.02 Pro support. This includes B frames and qpel motion compensation. MSMpeg4v2 and MSMpeg4v1 support. Skin parameters are in a new and separate .xml file. This will make dropping in new skins much easier. Network configurable via .xml config files. This includes static IP/EVOX/DHCP support. Anamorphic aspect ratio buf fix (16 : 9). Subtitles. We only support SubRip .srt format right now. There are conversion tools out there, though. Local and Remote Directories supported. DVD tray auto-eject/close. New MMX/SSE optimized motion compensation routines. For the curious, its a combined IDCT and MC copy/add. Several codecs have support for this opimized function but I believe we're the first to implement it in MMX/SSE. This is must for those Xbox tinkerers out there. download here (www.cdfreaks.com) How to enable Software NV30 Emulation If you like mucking around in the registry and want to enable the NV30 support in the 40.41 Detonators, you can do so by adding/altering the following keys in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\OpenGLDebugRenderer="0" HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\v Device0OGL_NV20Emulate="00,00,00,00" HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\v Device0OGL_NV25Emulate="00,00,00,00" HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\v Device0OGL_NV30Emulate="01,00,00,00" HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\vDevice0OGL_NV20Emulate="00,00,00,00" HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\vDevice0OGL_NV25Emulate="00,00,00,00" HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\vDevice0OGL_NV30Emulate="01,00,00,00" Remember, always back up your registry first. On the other hand if your a bit chicken about playing with the registry, you can download nvEmulate (developer.nvidia.com) and it will do the job for you. New Tweak utility There's a new tweak utility out for Windows 2000/XP called XtraWarp and it contains the following features: Increase PC Performance for games, media and other office applications. Recover waste usage of cpu. Optimize for specific applications.. Smart Detection of Games. Build on the .NET technology. Fully configurable SR - Smart Recovery for non-Optimized applications. ( Best for Games ). Running automatically. Configurable. XtraWarp does tuning in real-time, XtraWarp monitors all running processes and Optimises them for your specific needs (Media, Games, Graphics applications etc.) resulting in better framerates in games, no stuck frames when playing movies and less waiting time in graphics applications. download here (www.xtratoolz.com) thx thy god monty (www.ozquake.com)	tweak'e (174)
75520	2002-09-01 15:33:00	things that go <bump> in the night	dipstick01 (445)
75521	2002-09-01 22:01:00	> Case modding madness leads to 1 dead and 3 Injured > In a case of modding gone to dangerous extremes one > person has died and three people were injured in an > accident involving propane and guns. read more > below: > Waco, TX - Neon tubing and blow holes weren't enough > for one local computer case modifier and now the > deaths related to case modification are two. Just 12 > days ago Carson City, Nevada teen Warren Botrey was > killed in a house fire when the acetylene torch he > was using to modify his computer case ignited his > comic book collection and destroyed his home. This > time the victim is Waco resident Sean Whitman. > > "He wanted a case that looked like it came from a war > zone. I told him he was crazy, but that Sean is a > visionary. First we took the case out back and shot > it a few times with his pistol, but the holes weren't > big enough to allow proper ventilation," said > survivor Fred Willis. "After that we left Sean > outside while we went to get some more brews. Next > thing we know we're pulling glass out of our eyes." > > According to what police munitions experts can piece > together Sean Whitman attached two large propane > tanks to his computer case and began shooting. The > explosion created some very large ventilation holes > in his chassis, but unfortunately for Sean some very > large holes in his torso also. > Read more at iBelite > (http://www.ibelite.com). Yeah, you had me going for a moment. It all came together when I read the bit about "NRA President Charlton Heston". Still, good moral of the story story. "Modify your case all you like, just resist the urge to become a crazed moron".	honeylaser (814)
75522	2002-09-02 03:43:00	Ummm ... the president of the National Rifle Association is Charlton Heston. :)	antmannz (28)
75523	2002-09-02 05:06:00	> Ummm ... the president of the National Rifle > Association is Charlton Heston. :) Really? I thought he killed himself after seeing the acting in Planet Of The Apes (2000).	honeylaser (814)
75524	2002-09-02 05:07:00	(BTW.. following the story it says "This is not true, but it is funny", so I'm still kinda right in a way kinda sort of maybe)	honeylaser (814)
75525	2002-09-03 08:04:00	Hey tweake I read in one of the news reports a few weeks ago of the final fantasy xi movie I think it was. Do you still have the link for the download, I have searched but cant find it.	Sam H (525)
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