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40161	2002-03-22 08:57:00	nVidia has released a new set of official Detonator Drivers. The version number is 28.32 and they include these feature highlights: Full Acceleration and support for the GeForce4 and Quadro4 families nView? Multi-Display Support Control Panel applet NVIDIA?s patented Unified Driver Architecture (UDA) ? supports all products <www.nvidia.com in single a driver binary Highly optimized Microsoft. DirectX. 8.1 and OpenGL. 1.3 with NVIDIA extensions pipelines Please remove all old Detonator XP drivers from the 'Add/Remove Programs' from the Windows control panel before installing these new drivers. The links for each of the driver sets are below, with each package coming in at around 8.4MB: - Windows 95/98/Me Drivers <www.nvidia.com - Windows XP/2000 Drivers <www.nvidia.com Windows NT Drivers <www.nvidia.com Are you sick of using Quake III to benchmark your new graphics card ? Well, you're prayers have been answered, Epic has released Unreal Performance Test 2002 <www.voodooextreme.com to stress that card or system. Here's the lowdown on the press release at the GDC: Aiming to stress-test the functionality and power of today's graphics performance, the benchmark is a barometer of how current hardware technology measures up against next generation gaming applications. The Unreal Performance Test is the first game benchmark to utilize a widely used game engine, Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine. Licensed by many of the recognized leaders in PC gaming such as Electronic Arts (Undying, Adventure Pinball), Infogrames (Epic's own Unreal Tournament), and Eidos (Deus Ex, Deus Ex 2, Thief 3), the Unreal Engine is viewed as the game industry's most advanced and widely used complete 3D game engine. The performance test was recently put to task on leading hardware Web site Anandtech.com. The site compared 15 of today's leading cards at five different resolution settings. The Unreal Performance Test is designed to be a torture test for today and tomorrow's personal computers that contain the best available CPUs and GPUs and stresses both equally. The content being used in the current version of the test shows as much as 1,000 times the detail levels seen in Epic's 1999 hit game title Unreal Tournament. With accelerated 3D rendering that is constantly being tweaked and refreshed the benchmark represents the latest internal build of the Unreal Engine. It is designed to test polygon counts, CPU performance, AI and animation at the highest possible settings. As Epic's next-generation Unreal game engine is constantly evolving, the Unreal Performance Test 2002 will be continually updated and the test will remain an important tool for the industry. Netscape 6.2.2 has been released. So if you're a bit of a fan, you can get it here <ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6.2.2/windows/win32/N6Setup.exe>. There's no word on what's new as yet. Nullsoft has released WinAmp 2.79 which fixes the following issues: Upgraded unzip/decompress support to zlib 1.1.4, for big security fix Improved multiple instance detection code/opening many files from explorer issues Winamp agent tooltip improvement Updates to MIDI support, disk writing support, WAV file support (PP) Fix to id3v2+unicode support (rOn) You can grab one of the different versions available from the following links: 2.79 lite <download.nullsoft.com 2.79 standard <download.nullsoft.com 2.79 full <download.nullsoft.com Asus has released official 27.20 Detonator Drivers for all Windows OS's. Grab them from the links below: - Windows 9x/ME <ftp://ftp2.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/vga/agp/v8460ultra/2720w9x.zip> - Windows 2000/XP <ftp://ftp2.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/vga/agp/v8460ultra/2720w2p.zip> - Windows NT <ftp://ftp2.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/vga/agp/v8460ultra/2720nt4.zip> it is recommended that you uninstall the previous ASUS drivers before you use the new set. There are reports floating around that the new VIA 4-in-1 drivers don't install in Windows XP when you use the setup program. Here's an example from the forum link below: Just download 'em from www.viaarena.com Installed and freakin prob came up. It did not update any drivers in WinXP! In fact, it resetted all to the default Microsoft drivers. Had to extract the driver executable than install them manully. Did VIA not test this? To load these drivers manually go to this <discuss.madonion.com link. ADTW <64.246.11.7 have found a small utility called NTSwitch that can fool Windows .NET Server betas into thinking that they are plain Windows XP client systems. NTSwitch applies some small changes to the registry and after a reboot, your Windows .NET Server will look like a Windows XP client. The tool will not downgrade or disable any features of Windows .NET Server, but it will allow you to install applications that can normally not installed in a server environment. The big downside to this switch is that this does cause a nasty memory leak when taking XP Pro Workstation to XP Pro Server. With this in mind you should convert at your own risk. You can read more here <64.246.11.7 and download the util here <64.246.11.7 German news site 3DWin.net has posted up a copy of the NvChess demo that nVidia used at CeBIT show to show off some of their graphic cards. As suggested by it's name the demo is a chess game that is playable and includes some very cool graphics which will really show off GeForce to the fullest. The demo comes in at 42MB and is available from the links on this <www.3dwin.net page. Microsoft is to skip DirectX 9.0 and go directly to DirectX 9.1, reports The Inquirer <www.theinquirer.net They are reporting this quote from Microsoft: We can freely say that DirectX 9 will make some big differences in future games programming since it will include some interesting parts that programmers will love to use. Rather unbelievably, Eva Glass' friend tells us that Microsoft will skip DirectX 9.0, expected by us all, and plump for DirectX 9.1 instead. Go here <www.theinquirer.net for more information.	Guest (0)
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