Archive for February, 2008
Frontlines: Fuel of War Patch 1.01
Posted by Wanderlust in First Person Shooters Friday, 29 February 2008 01:54 No Comments
Well here we go… Not sure what we have in store yet but I’ll post back results of the initial trial after it downloads. I pulled it down from FilePlanet first since the official server was slow as hell. Upon launch, I continually got messages that a file didn’t exist so my best guess is that I grabbed the digital download patch rather than the DVD retail, so make sure you grab the right one.
I’ll post more once I have the chance to check it out.
Frontlines: Fuel of War Released
Posted by Wanderlust in First Person Shooters Tuesday, 26 February 2008 04:07 No Comments
Tuesday marked the official release of Frontlines: Fuel of War.
Pick it up at Amazon (For the PC and Xbox 360):
Screenshots for Unreal Tournament 3
Posted by Wanderlust in First Person Shooters Thursday, 21 February 2008 01:07 No Comments
I finally added a few dozen UT3 screenshots. I also uploaded a view of a flak cannon in the standard and small weapon view.
Small & Standard Weapon Sizes:
Crossfire Blues
Posted by Wanderlust in First Person Shooters, Hardware Tuesday, 19 February 2008 01:52 No Comments
So I’ve had some odd back and forth issues with the 3870′s so far. It looks like quite a few games require me to disable Catalyst A.I. which essentially disables Crossfire since it’s required to run. I did some confirmation of this point by using 3DMark. With A.I. enabled, I get around a score around 13,800 and without it it comes out to about 10,600 and for all purposes the same as running a single 3870 card.
As for the problem, it’s constant flickering (or scrolling bars like the old TVs and the microwave) in UT3, BF2142 and I believe Crysis. CoD4 and Valve games (HL2/TF2) seems to handle having A.I. enabled and CoD4 has a setting to enable multiple cards. This is with the current 8.2 Catalyst drivers. So I’m disappointed right now that I dropped the cash on 2 of these bastards if I can’t run the games I play the most with Crossfire enabled even with the most current drivers. I have looked around quite a bit at the gaming forums at AMD and found much of the same. At least I didn’t go with dual 3870×2′s I guess.
The 3870 on it’s own competes well with my old eVGA 8800GTS and does give a nice 25% boost in 3DMark with the dual cards but who cares if they can’t be enabled on EVERYTHING.
I’ll keep things updated as I find more information…
ATI Catalyst 8.2 Released
Posted by Wanderlust in Hardware Friday, 15 February 2008 04:10 No Comments
The ATI Catalyst 8.2 drivers were released on February 13, 2008.
Link: Download Here
Release Notes: Read Here