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Frets On Fire

protoNium — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:34:52 +0800

anyone played this game? very nice and interesting free game for PC
it support Windows, Linux and also Mac OS X

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Frets on Fire is a music video game in which players use the keyboard to play along with scrolling on-screen musical notes to complete a song. Frets on Fire was the winner of the Assembly demo party 2006 game development competition.

Frets on Fire is open source software. Original source code written for the game written in the Python programming language and released under the GNU General Public License, though the game incorporates other open source code under other licenses. The game's included image and sound files are proprietary, however.

more info can be found here :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frets_on_Fire

you can download it over here at their official web :
http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net

some screen of the game that I played :

..it also support multiplayer, but has to use the RF mod.. and also u can import the Guitar Hero 2 song if u have the game dvd..

Now turn your keyboard into guitar.. enjoy!!

The Settlers II : The Next Generation

protoNium — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 09:29:13 +0800

This is the remake of The Settlers II years 1996...
this remake celebrated 10 years since Settlers 2 was launched and will be available this fall

I'm quite addicted to this game at those years...

here you can download the Demo of this game :
Gamershell

Size : 229.5 MB
Game Tutorial and Demo map

Some screens that I capture :

...go and try it

NVidia ForceWare 91.31 win2k/winxp32/64 is out!

protoNium — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 06:20:07 +0800

Check out this link for the download :

WinXP 32bit Drivers :
http://uk.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads...t_91.31_uk.html

and u can also access their ftp to download other version :
ftp://download1.nvidia.com/Windows/91.31/

Issues Resolved in Version 91.31 :

The following are changes made and issues resolved since driver version 91.28:

Single-GPU Issues Resolved :

. NVIDIA Control Panel: SLI Antialiasing option is erroneously visible
at the 3D Settings->Manage 3D Settings page.
SLI AA settings are now available in the Antialiasing Settings control.
Selecting SLI AA will override the predefined SLI rendering mode for
applications with a profile.
. NVIDIA Control Panel: The 3D preview image in the Adjust Image
Settings with Preview page does not update when ʺBalancedʺ is
selected on the slider.
. NVIDIA Control Panel: The Red/Green/Blue Color settings are not
saved when closing and then re-opening the panel.
. Improved mouse performance on Oblivion.
. GeForce 7950 GX2, NVIDIA Control Panel: 8x and 16xS antialiasing
settings on application profiles are not saved when closing and
reopening the control panel.
. GeForce 7950 GX2, Windows XP Professional x64, NVIDIA Control
Panel: An error message appears when opening the Adjust Image
Setting with Preview page.
. GeForce 7950 GX2, NVIDIA Control Panel: After selecting "Alternate
frame 2" from the Multi-GPU performance mode list box, the setting
reverts to "Alternate frame rendering" when reopening the panel.
. GeForce 7900 GTX: WMV content is corrupted when played in
overlay mode.
. GeForce 7900 GT/GS: Model position graph editor response is slow in
the Lightwave 8.5 Layout workbench..
. GeForce 7800, NVIDIA Control Panel: ʺAlways run fan at highest
speedʺ option in the Adjust Overclock Settings page is not accessible.
. GeForce 7300 LE/GS: The HD file ʺPBS - Omaha Zoo RR.mpgʺ shows
corruption when played after playing an inverse telecine clip.
. GeForce 6600 GT: "Cannot play file" error occurs when attempting to
play an MPEG file with Full-screen Video Mirror enabled under
nView Clone mode.
. GeForce 5200 FX: 709 colorspace not properly displayed on highdefinition
content.

SLI Technology Issues Resolved :

. [SLI]: SLI performance is evident on bridgeless boards only if
antialiasing is enabled using the driver control panel.
. [SLI]: Cold War, protected with Star Force, does not respond to SLI
multi-GPU mode.
. NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2, SLI: After enabling SLI, the SLI menu
disappears from the classic NVIDIA control panel.
. Windows XP Professional x64, NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500, SLI: The
system freezes after enabling SLI and Frame Sync.
. NVIDIA Quadro FX 4400, SLI Workstation: There is no video when
running the Sleeper test.
. GeForce 7950 GX2, SLI: Oblivion hangs with SLI mode enabled.

NVidia ForceWare 91.28 Driver Released!

protoNium — Wed, 24 May 2006 02:11:31 +0800

Go to their ftp and download :

The driver is available for Win2000, WinXP 32 Bit, WinXP 64 Bit

ftp://download1.nvidia.com/Windows/91.28/

or go to nZone to download

http://nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_rel70betadriver.html

Whats new in here is a long awaited new control panel for Nvidia Display Card

and some report that, it has a new version of OpenGL

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Issues Resolved in Version 91.28

The following are changes made and issues resolved since driver version 84.43:

. NVIDIA Ex Support
This is a performance optimization for nForce 590 motherboards. This
optimization can be enabled through a BIOS setting on the nForce 590
motherboard. The GPU Ex setting should only be enabled with Optimized
NVIDIA Ex ForceWare Release 90 drivers.
Single GPU Issues Resolved
. GeForce 7600 GT/GS, GeForce 7900 GT: With LCD and HDTV
enabled under Clone mode and the HDTV set to any mode other than
480i, the HDTV mode switches to 480i upon reboot.
. Windows XP: Corruption occurs when running the Timburry
Buglooker demo.
. GeForce 6800, Windows XP Media Center Edition: While Windows
Media Player 10 is playing a video file, MCE shows a blank screen
when launched.
. GeForce 6800: Shadow corruption occurs in the game Lineage II.
SLI Technology Issues Resolved
. GeForce 7800 GTX/GT, SLI: Stuttering occurs in NHL2006 with SLI
AA enabled.
. Windows XP, GeForce 7800 GTX, SLI: F.E.A.R. may not run on the
AMD FX-60 with Asus A8MSLI32.
To work around this issue, adjust the hypertransport settings in the BIOS as
follows:
. K8 to NB frequency: 5x
. NB to NB LinkWidth: 16/16
. SB to NB frequency: 5x
. SB to NB LinkWidth: 16/16
. GeForce 6800, SLI: The audio is corrupt during the intro videos in FlatOut when SLI is enabled.
. GeForce 6600, SLI, Windows XP: Double image of the scene appears
when running Star Wars Republic Commando.
. GeForce 6600, SLI, Windows XP: Corruption occurs along the SLI
split line when playing Grand Theft Auto : San Andreas.
. GeForce 6600, SLI, Windows XP: With antialiazing enabled from the
NVIDIA panel, car textures are corrupted in Need for Speed Most
Wanted, and ghosting occurs in FIFA 2006.
. GeForce 6600, SLI, Windows XP: Gameplay and menu performance
drops when running Kohan 2: Kings of War in SLI mode with 4x
antialiasing enabled.

Hitman - Blood Money Discussion

protoNium — Tue, 23 May 2006 04:36:07 +0800