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48151	2002-05-10 11:08:00	Sierra has issued a patch for Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza <www.sierra.com bringing it up to version 1.01. The patch comes in at 513KB and fixes an issue when running the game with a combination of the ATI Radeon 8500 video card and Windows XP. EA Sports has released a demo of F1 2002, their upcoming F! racing game. The demo is 53.8MB and includes the Albert Park circuit here in Australia and the cars from the Ferrari, McLaren, Williams and Sauber race teams. You can download the demo from the following links: - Multiplayer.it <www.multiplayer.it - 3D Gamers <www.3dgamers.com 3D Realms Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project has gone gold and is expected instore in the next couple of weeks LucasArts has announced the next chapter in the Indiana Jones saga, titled Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb <www.lucasarts.com The new game will be developed for the PC, PS2 and Xbox. The game is being developed in collaboration with The Collective, and the official site <www.lucasarts.com is online with more game information and the first six screenshots and concept images. Here is part of the game's storyline: Indy's whirlwind adventure, set in the Far East in 1935, plunges him into an international crisis of terrifying magnitude. As the game begins, a powerful underground Asian society, the Black Dragon Triad, and a German mercenary, Albrecht Von Beck, have formed an unholy alliance in the hopes of acquiring the Heart of the Dragon, a black pearl that gives its possessor the power to mold minds. Rumored to be buried in the crypt of China's first emperor, it has been safely hidden for more than two thousand years. Now, with this unwelcome coalition in desperate pursuit of one of the most powerful artifacts known to man, it's up to Indy to prevent the Heart of the Dragon from falling into the wrong hands. Indy enters the race for the Heart at the behest of Marshal K'ai, an Asian businessman who asks him to retrieve the pearl and return it to the government of China. But in order to retrieve the Heart, Indy must first traverse the world to find and assemble the three scattered pieces of the Dragon Seal, the key to unlocking the crypt. Jones is aided in his search by K'ai's stunningly beautiful assistant, Mei Ying, who helps him throughout this epic conflict. There are new Half-Life dedicated server beta patches out for download. The Windows patch is version 4.1.0.9b and it fixes two Counter-Strike bugs, while the Linux patch is version 3.1.0.9b which also includes two additional Linux fixes. The patches are available from these links: - Windows Fileplanet <www.fileplanet.com - Linux Fileplanet <www.fileplanet.com - 3D Gamers <www.3dgamers.com The demo for Unreal Tournament 2003 will be released on May 24 with the game to be released a month later on June 27. Stay tuned for more details and links. The Inquirer <www.theinquirer.net is reporting that nVidia are set to release a version of their Personal Cinema add-on in PCI format. This would allow users to run a low-end video card with capture capabilities on their PCI slots and leave the AGP port free for a faster 3D video card as opposed to having the AGP slot tied up with the personal cinema as it is now. Here's a bit more: We learned quite some time ago that Nvidia & its partners are working on a new Personal Cinema & one of its flavours is likely to be PCI based, we understand. So this might be a PCI tuner with a graphics card ? most probably Geforce 4 MX branded, that will use a PCI slot while the AGP slot will be free for Radeon 8500 of Geforce 4 TI 4600 cards. Microsoft has officially announced support for the new Itanium 2 processor line from Intel a little over a month after they added support for AMD's 64-bit processor. Microsoft has released a new update for Windows Messenger, bringing it up to version 4.6.0079. You can grab the update here <messenger.msn.com Windows XP. For other versions you can get the update through the in-program updater. Matrox will be unveiling the G1000 <www.matrox.com on May 14. Microsoft has released new Intellipoint drivers bringing them up to version 4.01. Grab em here <download.microsoft.com InterVideo has released WinDVD 4, the latest version of their DVD player. WinDVD 4 features over 30 new features and enhancements such as easier-to-use Time-Stretching and Video Desktop, which lets you watch movies under your desktop icons while you work or check email. The new version also includes 10 new audio features including TruSurround XT from SRS Labs, for powerful virtual surround sound over two speaker systems or headphones, plus over a dozen other improvements. The main features of WinDVD 4 are: Watch movies while you check email or surf the web with WinDVD's new Desktop Video Fit movies into your schedule with Time Stretching, which lets you speed up or slow down the playback speed of movies without distorting the audio Immerse yourself in a wall of sound with 10 brand new DVD audio features like Dolby ProLogic, Dolby EX and DTS-ES Matrix Make your PC the center of your digital universe by hooking it to your TV to watch movies with WinDVD 4's TV Out support Over a dozen other new features For more info go here <www.intervideo.com and read the press release or here <www.intervideo.com for the full list of features. Unfortunately there are no free upgrades for existing owners of WinDVD, but you can download a trial version here <www.intervideo.com A new nForce beta Driver Package version 1.03 for Windows 2000/XP is out. The new package contains the following: Display Driver: 29.20 GART: 2.17 System Memory Bus: 2.17 Memory Controller: 2841 Ethernet: 2.3.6 Audio: 2.47 (This driver is for W9x/ME & W2K/XP) Get the package here <ftp://ftp2.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/beta/mb/2k_xp.zip> with the audio drivers not included and get the audio drivers for W9x/ME and W2000/XP here <ftp://ftp2.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/beta/mb/audioutil_2.47.zip>. ATI has released some new official drivers for the Radeon for all Windows versions. The new drivers are fully supported display driver for Windows, DirectX 8.1 and OpenGL. Grab em from the following links: - Windows 98/ME <www.ati.com - Windows 2000 <download.ati.com - Windows XP <www.ati.com - Windows NT 4.0 <www.ati.com A new version (2.01) of RefreshLock, the Windows refresh rate fixer has been released with no real word on the changes. You can grab it from the following links: - RefreshLock 2.01 <www.majorgeeks.com - RefreshLock 2.01 Mirror <www.pagehosting.co.uk Nero CD Speed version 0.85b has been released. For those not in the know, CD Speed is a CD-ROM benchmark which can test the most important features of a CD-ROM drive. Grab it here <www.cdspeed2000.com The Inquirer has posted an article on the difference between a Pentium 4 Northwood on a 533MHz chipset motherboard and a Pentium 4 Northwood on a 400MHz chipset motherboard. This is a very short part of what they said: That's the question we asked Intel yesterday and the answer is 'not a lot', but enough to entangle you in a nightmare if you buy the wrong sort of processor by accident. thx monty www.ozquake.com	Guest (0)
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