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46955	2002-05-03 08:59:00	A playable demo of TOCA Race Driver has been posted at Blackhole Motorsports <www.bhmotorsports.com TOCA Race Driver is the new touring car racing game by Codemasters. The download is 62.4MB and it representative of the game at 60 percent development completion. You can alos get the demo from these mirrors: - 3D Gamers <www.3dgamers.com - Tiscali Games <games.tiscali.cz A new version of the neur0soft Deathmatch Tournament Generator <www.planetquake3.net has been released. This generator program will automatically generate a DM tournament for up to 64 players in most multiplayer FPS games. The new version has the following additions and fixes: Added: Sort by Skills Minor Bug Fixes: Scrollbars on Loser Tree League Table is Resizable Doesn't Keep retrying to load missing files TourneySaving Dialog No Freeze On Start-up Download the upgrade here <ftp://www.fragland.net/mirror/planetquake3/neur0soft/dm-tg.zip> and for the upgrade to work you MUST have this <www.planetquake3.net version installed first. Gamers Depot <www.gamersdepot.com> has published a four card GeForce 4 MX Comparison <http: that as well as reviewing the cards also includes comments by Tim Sweeney of Epic Games on what he has to say about the MX chip and why it could be a huge marketing blunder by nVidia. Here is a clip from the intro: Like most companies, NVIDIA tries their best to establish a complete product offering that appeals to market segments of all price ranges for its respective family of GPUs. The most recent example of this is the ?GeForce 4? chips that top out at $400.00 for a card, and go as low as about 100 dollars on the street. In this review we?re taking a closer look at their budget chip, the GeForce 4 MX, to test its performance and hopefully uncover some of the surrounding controversy over its naming. We have four GeForce 4 MX 440 ? based card from eVGA, PNY, VisionTek and Leadtek, all of which have varying designs and packaging/bundling. Ad-aware the pop-up ad removal tool has been released as version 5.8 with the following changes: - Same user interface like the previous 5x versions. - Performs additional checks - Handles new referencefiles. - New referencefile 005-29-04-02 with the following new targets: OpenMe.exe, recent GoHip version, - - - Network-Essentials, DownloadWare, ImiServers IEPlugin and additional browser hijackers. - This update uses a new referencefile format, this change was necessary to handle more tasks through the referencefile, and avoid too frequent updates of the Ad-aware binary. Grab the new version here <www.ad-aware.net There's a new version out of another of the ever expanding family of refreshrate utility called nvrefreshtool. The new version has the following changes: New GUI design, smaller, cleaner. DirectX detection removed, newer method added. No longer requires DirectX. Fixed problem with about box having maximize button. Fixed problem with program staying in memory after opening about box & exiting the program. Updated help file to reflect changes made in the program. Known Issues: Windows 2000 Support not quite working yet(This is the first report since 0.2a which is why we didn't catch it) This is one of the better utilities out there, so grab it here <www.xp-faq.com TBreak <www.tbreak.com> have posted a review of the Leadtek GeForce4 Ti4400 <http: In the article, tBreak were were able to overclock the card to a 320MHz core and 690MHz memory speed, up from 275MHz core and 550MHz memory standard settings. If you're looking to buy a new AMD Thoroughbred processor when it comes out and are worried whether or not it will work in you're motherboard, worry no more, for it looks as if the new CPUs should work in all motherboards supporting the current AthlonXP Palomino processors. This is so because the 0.13micron Athlon XP will have almost no architectural differences from its predecessor, as well, the Vcore of Athlon Thoroughbred is so close to that of Athlon XP, that no problems should arise on any motherboard, as the majority of Socket A boards provide 1.5V, not to mention 1.6V. It appears there my not be a Windows XP SE after all. This is a snippet of an article over at Win Informant on the Microsoft Windows roadmap. Read on: In yesterday's WinInfo Daily UPDATE article titled 'Next-Gen Windows Rumors Heat Up,' I discussed a report from 'Microsoft Windows XP--The Official Magazine' that described Windows XP Service Pack (SP1) and a purported follow-up release called XP Second Edition (SE). This publication is the second to publish information about an XP SE release since I speculated that such a product was possible back in January. However, Microsoft says XP SE isn't on the schedule. 'There are no plans for Windows XP Second Edition,' a Microsoft representative told me yesterday. Microsoft will release XP SP1 this fall, and then begin the beta program for the next Windows version (code-named Longhorn). But Longhorn isn't set to ship until sometime in 2004, leaving an empty release slot in late 2003. The fact that Microsoft has shipped a new consumer Windows product every year since 1995 has led to speculation about XP SE. You can read more here <www.wininformant.com Here's an interesting little snippet from the US on a rather pervy high school vice principal: Angry parents demanded the resignation of a California high school vice principal Tuesday because she lifted the skirts of teenage girls at a dance in front of men and male classmates to make sure they were wearing 'appropriate' underwear. Parents at Rancho Bernardo High School in suburban San Diego say the vice principal, Rita Wilson, made the girls prove that they were not wearing thong underwear before they were allowed into the dance on Friday. The full story is over at CNN <www.cnn.com HSmonitor 4.0.4.2 has been released. HSmonitor is a handy tool similar Intel's Landesk manager. It sits in your system tray monitoring CPU and system temps as well as other functions. The new version has the following changes: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) southbridge support added; VIA 8233A southbridge support added; ADM 1026 sensor chip support added; ASUS 'ASB100 Bach' sensor chip support added; ALI M5879 sensor chip support enhanced - thermoprobe type can be selected now (Thermistor/Diode); Asustek A7V333 (VIA333/ASB100) support verified; Download it here <www.hmonitor.com There are new leaked nVidia Detonator 29.11 Drivers For Win2000/XP out for download. You can grab the drivers from here <www.guru3d.com Xp-erience.org <www.xp-erience.org have snagged some screenshots of the soon to be released WinDVD 4. WinDVD 4 is expected to be released on the 20th May and will be available as an update to the previous version (requiring a serial) or as a complete product. The new version will include support for DTS-ES, Dolby EX and Dolby Dynamic Range Compression. It will also support playback from hard disk, advanced TV-out properties and a new feature called Video Desktop that will allow you to set your wallpaper to act as the DVD screen. You can check out some pics of it here <www.xp-erience.org System Sentry 2K,XP version 1.5.07 has been released. System Sentry repairs you're system if you're having problems with General Protection Errors, screen freezes, program hang-ups, programs errors, and other problems. System Sentry finds all corrupted, replaced, added, incorrect versions, and dates of your system files and replaces them for you. Download it here <www.majorgeeks.com Asus PCProbe version 2.16.04 has been made available for download. Asus PCProbe monitor ASUS motherboard computer's components such as fan rotations, voltages and temperatures. Download here <ftp://ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM/UTIL/PC_Probe/probe21604.zip>. Plextor Europe has released a new version of their PlexTools and CDRInfo software. Plextools feature the the following functions: 'General Information' lists the drive's hardware, including jumper settings. 'Drive Settings' controls the drive's adjustable settings, like read speed, spindle motor spin-down time, etc. 'Drive Information' shows the capabilities of the drive. 'CD/DVD Info' reveals extensive information about the inserted disc, like format, sessions and tracks, manufacturer, CD TEXT, etc. 'Multimedia Player' uses the installed MCI devices for playback of MIDI, Audio and Video file playback. 'AudioCD Player' uses the installed MCI devices for playback of AudioCD's. 'Digital Audio Extraction' delivers high-precision wav or MP3 files from audio tracks, with extra features like intelligent speed-down/re-read on error and CD TEXT editing as well as ID3-tag editing in case of MP3 encoding. 'AudioCD Maker' creates personalised Audio CD's with added CD TEXT from WAV files. 'CD Copy' for accurate duplicating with possibility to add CD TEXT and even create or burn ISO images. 'CD-RW Functions' erases CD-RW discs so data can again be written to it. 'CD Test' scans your disc for uncorrectable errors and identifies potential read errors. Go here <www.plextor.be to download the new Plextools and here <www.plextor.be for CDRInfo. nVidia have released new version 1.05 unified nForce drivers. The new release is WHQL certified (except Win98SE) and have these changes: Windows 98SE/ME: Rear Stereo Support Compatibility Fixes International Language support Driver Versions Display Driver: 28.32 GART: 2.29 System Memory Bus: 2.16 Memory Controller: 2.26 Ethernet: 2.36 Audio: 2.13 Products Supported: nForce 220D/415/420/420D Platform Processors Get the Windows 98SE drivers here <www.nvidia.com and the ME drivers here <www.nvidia.com Windows 2000/XP: Rear Stereo Support Compatibility Fixes International Language support Driver Versions Display Driver: 28.32 GART: 2.29 System Memory Bus: 2.17 Memory Controller: 2.26 Ethernet: 2.36 Audio: 2.26 Products Supported: nForce 220D/415/420/420D Platform Processors Get the Windows 2000 drivers here <www.nvidia.com and the XP drivers here <www.nvidia.com Compaq has released it's own version of the Creative Audigy software and drivers with the release of a 377MB download over on their site. These are for Compaq based machines only and here are some details of the software: Application Versions: Playcenter: 3.01.57 Creative Recorder: 2.00.24 Surround Mixer: 2.00.26 Creative Task Bar: 1.00.26 Driver Release Notes: Creative Labs Audio Driver Version: 5.12.1.244 Revision: C Pass: 1 Enhancement/Fixes: 75468 - After Maple process, Creative driver cause taskbar to be locked up. Download the software here <ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp20501-21000/SP20920.exe>. WinAmp version 2.80a is out with the following fixes: PPs output plugin fixes. winampa.exe fix. Grab the new version from the following links: - Full version <ftp16e.newaol.com - Standard version <ftp16e.newaol.com - Lite version <ftp16e.newaol.com ZDNet has an article up about a Very Serious Flaw <firingsquad.gamers.com in Netscape that can expose the contents of the users hard drive to the outside world. No patch has been released yet, so until one does arrive, you may want to switch over to IE (which patched a similar flaw in February) or Opera (which may not have the issue at all). Tech Help Center has posted up a Windows security Guide <www.techhelpcenter.com That compiles a list of programs and hints to shore up the security on your Windows system. Here's the intro: Tech Help Center has compiled a list of some necessary programs to secure your Windows computer. Together, these programs fulfill almost all security functions that you will need to perform on your computer. This is the first Windows Security Guide. As new programs are released, or existing programs are updated, we will be compiling updated Windows Security Guides. This could become as serious resource page for all of your security needs, so go on, check it out.	Guest (0)
46956	2002-05-04 02:03:00	Don't try phoning me for the next 4 days as I'm downloading the new Compaq Audigy driver. PS - I don't have a Compaq, but I'll see if it will foul up my XP.	Guest (0)
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