Just got done with the demo. I always wanted to know how the Indians did it.
Has some ruff language. Graphics are awesome to say the least. Game play well if you didn't see the trailers you have to use your head. Don't eat your lunch playing this one you might loose it.
I've been play with Vista. Still has a lot of bugs. Some software drivers don't work. I found this while trying to edit my boot.ini. Now I have xp boot first.
So what does all this mean for us? The potential for it all sounds great on paper. Since DirectX 10 is tied to Windows Vista, this means if you want to experience DirectX 10-powered 3D games you are going to need Windows Vista, a DirectX 10 video card, and a DirectX 10 game at the least. Windows XP users need not apply for DirectX 10. That said, given the advances with DirectX 9 gaming in the last year, we fully expect to see more of its potential realized as well for those of us “left behind.”
Given the expensive and extensible upgrade path that will have to be traveled in order to support DirectX 10 gaming, we think there are going to have to be some tremendous gaming experiences for sale to get those beyond the early adopters to facilitate a move to DirectX 10 and the needed hardware. The transition to DirectX 10 is going to be interesting to say the least; and we are certainly curious about how it is going to be accepted by the gaming crowd. Windows XP can easily be seen as the best operating system Microsoft has ever produced and we think that PR promises of a usable 3D desktop is not going to be enough to motivate people to leave the XP operating system behind. Much like Ageia’s PhysX, Windows Vista needs that elusive “killer app.”
ATI is very confident and certain that their unified GPU architecture will be a match made in heaven for DirectX 10 and Windows Vista. ATI thinks the pairing will bring about a whole new revolution of gaming on the PC. We can’t wait to see if this really is so. Obviously none of this matters if there are no games for sale, and there won’t be any amount of DirectX 10 games on the market until DirectX 10 along with Windows Vista itself is released.
The DirectX 10 API is a move in the right direction when it comes to gaming. It looks as though it is easily going to allow future GPUs from ATI and NVIDIA to shine in the gaming arena. Given ATI’s and NVIDIA’s quick advancements in GPUs as of late, we think that the DirectX 10 gaming era will truly be one that reaches the next level as it is shaping up to be exactly what the game content developers have been wanting for years now. And when the game content developers are happy, that means us gamers are happy.
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A 4.1 GHz Dual Core at $130 - Can it be True? May 10, 2006 10:00 The Pentium D 805 is a budget CPU, but it puts lots of processors from AMD and Intel to shame. Although it is not based on the latest 65 nm core, this CPU remains stable even when operating at amazing 4.1 GHz. What will this mean for the status quo in the computer industry
Video game taunts may have led to killing CHICAGO, March 18 (UPI) -- A 16-year-old Chicago boy has been charged with first-degree murder in a killing possibly triggered by taunts during a video game, authorities say.
James Terry, who was charged as an adult, was ordered held on $700,000 bond in the Feb. 15 stabbing death of 11-year-old Clay "C.J." Ether, the Chicago Tribune reported.
They were among seven people playing video games in a second-floor apartment when Terry began taunting C.J., Assistant State's Atty. Diana Garcia-Camilo said.
According to the police report, C.J. left for the first floor where he lived and two witnesses said they saw Terry at the boy's apartment a short time later. After the stabbing, Terry was found hiding in a closet, the report said. DNA on the knife handle links Terry to the death, Garcia-Camilo said.
The thing is that AMD Opteron 165 is the best value dual-core AMD processor for Socket 939 platforms. However, the performance of this processor in traditional desktop applications is not as higher as we would expect it to be, according to our tests. The main reason for that is its relatively low clock frequency of 1.8GHz. Even large 2MB L2 cache cannot make up for it. This CPU falls about 5-10% behind the Athlon 64 X2 3800+, the youngest processor in the corresponding family, in most applications (except the games). As a result, the performance of our Opteron 165 processor gets very precisely described by its price: it is positioned between the Pentium D 920 and Pentium D 930. The situation changes in games, because many games are very sensitive to large L2 cache. In other words, Opteron 165 appears a pretty decent choice for the latest gaming titles that can now take advantage of the dual-core architecture. However, I am pretty sure that overclockers are going to love this processor. Our experiments showed that this Toledo based processor can be overclocked by about 1.5 times. Thanks to that you can have it running at frequencies close to 2.6GHz. In other words, Opteron 165 can deliver the performance of Athlon 64 FX-60 processor to enthusiasts for only $278.
By Paul Hales, in Jerusalem: Sunday 22 January 2006, 12:39
IT’S OBVIOUS, REALLY, that the best way of penetrating users' PCs to see what they get up to online would be to become a Firewall maker. Like, when I wanted a Firewall and was too tight to pay for one, I turned to Checkpoint’s little freebie Zone Alarm. It sits there between you and the Internet and lets you know when someone’s trying to sneak in through your backdoor or when a program you’re running tries to connect to the Web for no apparent reason. When you’re as techie as me – not very – you just have to trust it.
Of course, Checkpoint’s an Israeli company and as a foreign journalist working in Israel you know the hyperactive security services here would like to keep tabs on you. And you know that they do. It has been confirmed to me by a security sources here that mobile phone conversations I have had have been listened to – and in circumstances which I won’t reveal, the contents of a call I have been involved in have actually been relayed back to me.
It’s part of the game – like the airport interrogation, or the surreptitious copying of your notepad while you’re off having a body search. You know what goes on but you have a job to do and just get on with it – hoping that what you get up to in the legitimate pursuit of your business won’t upset anyone to the extent that they’ll come break your door down and cart you off somewhere.
Now, the handsomely-named Mr Cringely has revealed that a colleague of his at Infoworld noticed that Zone Alarm 6.0 was sneakily sending off data to four different servers. Cringely says that Zone Labs (acquired by Checkpoint in March of 2004) at first denied the activity for a couple of months before deciding the software had a "bug" even though, as he points out, "the instructions to contact the servers were set out in the program’s XML code."
The company says it will fix the "bug" soon. In the meantime you can work around it by adding: # Block access to ZoneLabs Server 127.0.0.1 zonelabs.com to your Windows host file.
The "bug" seems to be present in the retail version of Zone Alarm, so there’s no telling what the freebie gets up to. We called Checkpoint here in Israel to find out, but were referred to a US spokeszoner. Trouble is they’ll all be in bed there on this sunny Sunday morning. µ
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