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35515	2002-02-13 09:00:00	id Software lead programmer John Carmack has posted a .plan www.bluesnews.com update for Doom 3 where he discusses 3D acceleration of the new Doom game on ATI Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce boards. The most interesting part of the whole update is this final comment listed below: On the topic of current Nvidia cards: Do not buy a GeForce4-MX for Doom. Nvidia has really made a mess of the naming conventions here. I always thought it was bad enough that GF2 was just a speed bumped GF1, while GF3 had significant architectural improvements over GF2. I expected GF4 to be the speed bumped GF3, but calling the NV17 GF4-MX really sucks. GF4-MX will still run Doom properly, but it will be using the NV10 codepath with only two texture units and no vertex shaders. A GF3 or 8500 will be much better performers. The GF4-MX may still be the card of choice for many people depending on pricing, especially considering that many games won't use four textures and vertex programs, but damn, I wish they had named it something else. As usual, there will be better cards available from both Nvidia and ATI by the time we ship the game A cumulative patch has been released for Internet Explorer. The patch eliminates all known security vulnerabilities affecting Internet Explorer 6, as well as six new vulnerabilities, the most serious of which could allow an attacker to run code on your computer. The affected software: Internet Explorer 6. Internet Explorer 5.5 SP2. Internet Explorer 5.5 SP1. Internet Explorer 5.01 SP2 on Windows 2000 only. Grab the patch here. www.microsoft.com Mad Onion have released 3D mark 2001 second edition with a swag of improvements For all you benchmarking junkies you can download it here www.filefront.com or here gamershq.madonion.com . Tweaktown have written a Windows XP Home Networking Guide. Giving the sweet stuff on networking all those Windows XP PC's you have lying around the house. The guide also gives you a bit of info on general networking as well www.tweaktown.com A new crack has started to find it's way onto the net that outdoes the existing crack of Windows Product Activation technology in Windows XP. The new crack comes in the form of a keygen, which is able to create valid Product IDs for Office XP, Windows XP and other recent Microsoft products equipped with Product Activation technology. The biggest kick in the pants with this crack is that these generated Product IDs can be used to activate the product in question either via telephone or online. Ouch....that has got to be sticking it where it hurts at Microsoft. ;-) Overclockers.com have developed and released an AGP PCI Latency Utility that can change the clock cycles that a AGP video-card takes on motherboards with VIA chipsets. Overclockers had this to say on the new utiltiy: 'Use this utility is to reduce the number of clks that AGP video cards are taking. According to the PCI Latency Timer Howto, 248 clks (a typical value for AGP vid-cards) is about 4 times too much time for any device to grab the bus. I've noticed that by reducing my GeForce 2/GTS AGP card's PCI latency from 248 clks to 64 clks, I have less problems w/drive-write errors under Windows 98 on my Gigabyte 7ZX when accessing the CDROM and an IDE drive simultaneously (i.e.when loading certain games). Reducing this timer value (to about 72 clks) didn't affect the performance of my Geforce 2/GTS either. You want to lower the AGP card's PCI latency timer as much as possible and see at what point (if any), it affects your video performance. It's a fairly simple program to use. I've only tested it on a Gigabyte 7zx motherboard and a FIC VA503+ both w/VIA chipsets.' You can grab the program from here.www.overclockers.com Leadtek have released version 2.204 of their Winfox Tweaking Utility. No word on the changes, but you can grab it here.http://www.fdrsoft.fr.fm/ Version 6.01 build 1041 of the Opera Browser has been released to fix some problems that appearred in version 6.0. The changes are as follows: [core] * Reverted all scale code changes. Should fix 68484. [install] * removed a custom-button set that was misplaced * reverted back to standard foreground skin You can download the version without java here web.opera.com and the version with java herehttp://web.opera.com/~andre/public/ow32enen601j.exe Radeon and Radeon 7500 Technical Support Rage3D Discussion Area has word on how Radeon users having framerate woes in Half-Life with the latest drivers can easily overcome the problem.rage3d.com 0&forumid=13	Guest (0)
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