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F1 Race Stars

Submitted by skipclarke on 15 November, 2012 - 17:21

It is a kart racing game loosely based on the 2012 Formula One season, with circuits redesigned to feature loops, jumps and short-cuts. It is a spin-off from the traditional Formula One video games, and is the first kart-racing game developed by Codemasters.

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Open Source Future for SoftTH ???

Submitted by skipclarke on 15 November, 2012 - 02:41

WSGF member Thebutcher has posted an interesting thread here outlining a possible open source future for SoftTH. If you're not familiar with SoftTH, it is a software multi-monitor solution that dates back to the days of the Matrox TripleHead2Go (TH2Go). Hence the name "SoftTH" (Software TripleHead). It was originally a software solution that allowed gamers to enjoy multi-monitor without the pricey investment of a TripleHead2Go.

Fast forward a few years, and AMD and NVIDIA both offer native hardware solutions for multi-monitor. However, SoftTH still offers one key unique feature - it allows for "non standard" configurations beyond 3x1 with identical monitors. SoftTH is known specifically for it's support for "PLP" (Portrait-Landscape-Portrait), which many users with a 20" - 30" - 20" configuration. All three monitors are 1200px tall, with the horizontal resolutions being 1200-2560-1200 pixels. It also allows for 1+3 configurations, and for all three monitors to be included in the gaming desktop. In fact, SofTH can support basically any configuration of monitors you can throw at it.

The one downside is that it only supports DX9, which is a little long in the tooth now. Thebutcher has broached the idea of making SoftTH open source, so that the WSGF and SoftTH communities can support the future development. He has posted a forum thread outlining this idea. If you are interested in supporting this effort, please hit up the source link and reply to Thebutcher.

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Introduction for new members: "Ramblings of a Moron"

Submitted by Tamlin on 14 November, 2012 - 23:16

WSGF is a forum where user created content is of highest regard. Featured on WSGF for a while, is a review series called "Ramblings of a Moron", made by the seasoned gamer, Cynagen, who brings a fresh way of reviewing games. In his series, you can see what impressions he gets from various games.

Personally, I enjoy very much reading those, since game reviews often can have a stale, repeatative approach to them. His reviews gives something new and personal I often find lacking in regular game reviews.

Feast on his ramblings here:

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Medal of Honor Warfighter

Submitted by Mach1.9pants on 14 November, 2012 - 13:59

Medal of Honor: Warfighter is a first-person shooter video game developed by Danger Close Games and published by EA Games. It is a direct sequel to 2010's series reboot Medal of Honor (2010) and the fourteenth Medal of Honor instalment in the series.
The game picks up where Medal of Honor (2010) left off from before as it reveals Tier 1 operator Preacher returning home to find his family torn apart from years of deployment. The campaign also reveals that the terrorist enemies have become operational the United States.

Eyefinity Multi-Display Technology: Now in Laptops

Submitted by ViciousXUSMC on 13 November, 2012 - 20:03

I saw today a advertisement image for the new MSI GX60 laptop that comes equipped with the AMD 7970M GPU. In that advertisement it showed eyefinity running 3 monitors from the laptop directly by using the HDMI, Dispaly Port, and VGA connections together.

This may not be the very first laptop to do this, but its the first that I have seen that really is catered to mainstream users due to price and availability and also a sign perhaps that we may expect more of this in the future.

It takes a lot of power to run eyefinity, so I would not expect the latest and greatest games to run great on a system like this but if your into older games especially things like say the source engine games, this could be an interesting idea for you.

Intel unleashes new extreme desktop-processor and motherboard

Submitted by Tamlin on 13 November, 2012 - 19:15

Available today, the latest Extreme Edition Core™ i7-3970X processor and the Extreme Series Intel® Desktop Board DX79SR codenamed “Stormville” will unleash new PC performance for enthusiasts. This is Intel’s highest performance Extreme Edition processor with 6 Cores, Intel® Hyper-Threading technology, 15 MB cache, and 4 Channels of DDR3 memory.

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AMD releases Catalyst 12.11 Beta 7 "Blackops 2" driver

Submitted by Tamlin on 13 November, 2012 - 18:06

FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE AMD CATALYST 12.11 BETA DRIVER:

This driver introduces significant performance improvements for many games across ALL 28nm AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series products: HD 7700, HD7800 and HD7900.

Additional update found in AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta7:

Call of Duty Black Ops 2: AMD CrossFire performance has been improved in the AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta7 release (especially at higher resolutions – such as 2560x1600)

Please note that AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta 7 includes all of the fixes found in previous versions of AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta

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Mass Effect 4 to Use Frostbite Engine

Submitted by skipclarke on 13 November, 2012 - 03:52

In what can surely be perceived as good news, BioWare has announced that Mass Effect 4 will utilize the Frostbite engine from DICE. The Mass Effect trilogy (which used the Unreal Engine 3) has been plagued with problems for Eyefinity and Surround users. The first two titles simply offered no support, even after ME2 was teased as supporting Eyefinity. The final title offered support for Eyefinity users, but not NVIDIA Surround owners.

By way of comparison, recently released titles using the Frostbite 2 engine - Battlefield 3 & Need for Speed: The Run - were both Certified upon release for having perfect multi-monitor support. After years of poor to mediocre multi-monitor support, in 2009 DICE publicly came out in support of multi-monitor gaming. Whether ME4 uses Frostbite 2, or a possible future version such as 2.5 or 3.0, the move away from UE3 can only be good news for Eyefinity and Surround users.

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[H]ardocp Fall 2012 GPU and Driver Comparison Roundup

Submitted by Tamlin on 12 November, 2012 - 19:57

On October 23rd, 2012, both AMD and NVIDIA released new beta drivers that made claims of significant performance gains for their respective GCN and Kepler architectures. AMD released Catalyst 12.11 Beta, which AMD is claiming is its "Never Settle" driver. NVIDIA released ForceWare 310.33 Beta with up to 15% better performance in some games and improvements across the board. Voices cheered across the internet as more performance was unlocked for video cards for free, but we wanted to know whether it was a true game changer or just another press release.

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Nvidia releases GeForce 310.54 Beta Drivers: An Essential Upgrade For All Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 & Assassin’s Creed III Players

Submitted by Tamlin on 12 November, 2012 - 14:41

New in Version 310.54:

new and improved version of TXAA anti-aliasing to Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and Assassin’s Creed III
new Sparse Grid Supersampling feature for all GeForce GTX users that improves image quality when using the advanced anti-aliasing technique

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