Saturday's Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 01:03 AM CEST - Jun,02 2002
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- Men In Black 2 Pictures - Phantastic.de has posted over 40 screenshots of
Men In Black 2, in addition Sony Pictures website offers a movie trailer for
download. This movie is to be released July 3rd, 2002 and looks great.
- Gainward Golden Sample Ultra/750 XP Review - Not content with
the performance of the Ti4600 Gainward decided to add that little bit of performance to
their cards; like some other cards in their range they set the card's default clock speeds
past the default 300MHz core, 650MHz memory to 310MHz core and 680MHz memory. So they are
selling overclocked products? It seems not. Gainward
receive special batches of NVIDIA chips, any that fail to hit the mark at 310MHz get
sent back.
- 12 New Nvidia Chips This Fall?! - Nvidia is making major
investments in the current quarter with a push to tape out 12
new chips over the next 90 days, ensuring that this fall will be an exciting time for
Nvidia," Mosesmann wrote. "(The) NV30, produced at 0.13 micron is expected to
take Nvidia's graphics to another level from its current GeForce4 product family."
- DOOM 3's HW Minimum - John Carmack made two posts (first
/ second)
on Slashdot about video hardware as
it relates to the engine for their upcoming DOOM III. Here is a snip: Our "full
impact" platform from the beginning has been targeted at GF3/Xbox level hardware.
Slower hardware can disable features, and faster hardware gets higher frame rates and
rendering quality. Even at this target, designers need to be more cognizant of performance
than they were with Q3, and we expect some licensee to take an even more aggressive
performance stance for games shipping in following years. Games using the new engine will
be on shelves FIVEYEARS (or more) after the initial design decisions were made. We had a
couple licensees make two generations of products with the Q3 engine, and we expect that
to hold true for DOOM as well. The hardware-only decision for Q3 was controversial at the
time, but I feel it clearly turned out to be correct. I am confident the target for DOOM
will also be seen as correct once there is a little perspective on it.
- Intel's new Pentium 4 chipsets - The newly updated Pentium 4 chipset
offerings, the i850E, i845E and i845G, boast not just faster 533 MHz FSBs for the new
Pentium 4 CPUs, but also improved memory support (a lot of it "non-validated"
yet, though) and new I/O based on the ICH4 south bridge -- again "non-validated"
for i850E, but guess what, most i850E mainboards will have ICH4
- Jedi Knight II Tools v2.0 - Jedi
Knight II tools v2.0 have been released.
- DirectX 9 Web Downloader (Leaked) - This is much smaller (mirror)
than the previous leak, which weighed in at approx 30MB, the installer is just 205kb, and
the total download is normally 9MB or under. (thanks NeoWin)
- WinZip Internet Browser Support Add-On (beta) - WinZip Internet Browser Support
Add-On automates much of the work normally associated with downloading compressed
files from the Internet. When you click on a Zip file using Netscape
Navigator/Communicator or Microsoft Internet Explorer, this add-on will enable WinZip to
take over when the download is completed. WinZip automatically moves the downloaded file
to your download folder and then opens the file.
- CDRWin 3.9A - GoldenHawk has released a new version
3.9 of CDRWin.
- PowerStrip 3.18 Build 245 - PowerStrip 3.18
provides advanced, multi-monitor, programmable hardware support to a wide range of
graphics cards - from the venerable Matrox Millennium I to the latest Radeon 8500DV and
GeForce4 Ti4600.
- Nvidia BIOS Editor v1.0 RC3 Build 250 - This program will support all BIOSes from TNT2 and up to Ti 4600.
Except TNT and TNT2 with old version of Control Block (less than version 3). Does not
require any .dll, and will work under any version of Windows 9x/ME/NT/2K/XP.
- Suma Detonator Beta 29.40 - Suma have released their own
version of Nvidia's Detonator 29.40/29/41 drivers.
- 3dfx 1.09 Beta4 Drivers - Many bugs have been fixed in all
driver revisions, so we've decided to release a beta 4 revision of drivers for each
supported operating system. These
drivers should work on Voodoo3, Voodoo4, and Voodoo5 cards in all the supported
operating systems. As usual, post bugs in the bug reports forum.
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