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Videos from the AMD HardOCP Texas GamExperience Event

Submitted by skipclarke on 13 August, 2011 - 22:42

When I attended the Texas GamExperience event, I shot some video. I've put together three different videos that I've post on YouTube:

XFX Girl Cami Magnuson playing Dirt 3 in Eyefinity on 30' projection screen, plus a quick interview about her experiences as a girl gamer
Video montage reel of Dirt 3 in Eyefinity on the 30' projection screen and D-Box pneumatic sim chair
Video montage of WSGF members playing in the TF2 tournament

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Tags: wsgf, youtube, amd, eyefinity, hardocp, events, xfx, dirt3, tf2

Nvidia Releases GeForce 280.26 WHQL Driver

Submitted by Tamlin on 13 August, 2011 - 11:21

New in Release 280.26

nVidia SLI

Enables SLI technology on SLI-certified motherboards with AMD chipsets: 990FX, 990X, and 970.

nVidia 3D Vision

With Release 280 drivers, the 3D Vision Controller driver is now included with all GPU driver installations. Users are no longer required to install a separate 3D Vision Controller driver or CD driver. This driver includes the 280.10 3D Vision Controller driver. For more information, please view this knowledgebase article for more information.

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Tags: nvidia, geforce

Best Graphics Cards For The Money: August 2011

Submitted by Anonymous on 12 August, 2011 - 14:05

Tom's Hardware has published their latest iteration of Best Graphics Cards For The Money, so if your in the market for an upgrade, and have a fair idea of what your budget is, you should check this article out.
Best Graphics Cards For The Money: August 2011

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Tags: Toms Hardware, gpu

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Dungeon Siege III

Submitted by thales100 on 9 August, 2011 - 23:06

Dungeon Siege III is an action role-playing game developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Square Enix. Chris Taylor, the original creator of Dungeon Siege, served as an advisor during the development of the game. It is the third game in the series not to be developed by Gas Powered Games, (after DS: Legends of Aranna by Mad Doc Software and DS: Throne of Agony by SuperVillain Studios) and the first to be published by Square Enix after it acquired the complete ownership of the Dungeon Siege franchise.

Soldier of Fortune

Submitted by thales100 on 9 August, 2011 - 18:21

Soldier of Fortune (also known as SoF) is a first-person shooter game created by Raven Software and published by Activision on March 27, 2000 for Microsoft Windows. It uses a modified id Tech 2 game engine. Two sequels were later made to the game as well.

Zotac Releases DisplayPort to Dual HDMI Adapater

Submitted by skipclarke on 4 August, 2011 - 14:13

Zotac has announced a pair of passive DisplayPort adapters. Both convert the DP signal into two 1080p HDMI outputs. The two versions differ in that they connect to either DP or Mini-DP as their source. Both adapters will retail for $50.

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Tags: amd, eyefinity, zotac, hdmi, dp, displayport

Blizzard Confirms No Eyefinity/Surround for Diablo III

Submitted by skipclarke on 2 August, 2011 - 20:38

One of our forum members linked to a forum topic over at Battle.net. In it Blizzard confirmed that Diablo wouldn't support multi-monitor such as Eyefinity or Surround. The specific response is quoted below:

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It's a single-monitor only game, and that's because the game literally only pulls info from the servers for a specific distance away from the character for bandwidth reasons. The game is also built with those limitations in-mind: edges of maps don't extend way out.

Also, being able to see way out to the left or right of your character really wouldn't help that much. Triple monitor is cool for first/third person where you're getting a larger peripheral view, but in a fixed isometric camera it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Hit the source link for the battle.net forums, and be sure to bitch and moan a little about it. ;-) Hit this WSGF forum thread for discussion here.

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Tags: blizzard, diablo iii, eyefinity, surround

Stereoscopic 3D Gaming FAQ

Submitted by thales100 on 1 August, 2011 - 19:17

Overview
Humans have two eyes which are capturing light from slightly different positions and therefore produce slightly different images. The difference in observed images is unconsciously processed by the human brain and results in sensation of depth, or 3D sensation.
Stereoscopic 3D refers to a technique for creating or enhancing the illusion of depth in an image by presenting two offset images separately to the left and right eye of the viewer. Both of these 2D offset images are then combined in the brain to give the perception of 3D depth.

Nvidia Releases GeForce 280.19 Beta Driver

Submitted by skipclarke on 30 July, 2011 - 16:21

NVIDIA has released the first beta in the Release 280 series. Major improvements and updates in the driver include:

NVIDIA SLI on AMD Chipesets - Enables SLI configurations on SLI-certified motherboards based on the AMD chipsets: 990FX, 990X and 970.

NVIDIA 3D Vision Controller - With the Release 280 drivers, the 3D Vision Controller is now included with all GPU driver installations. Users no longer need to install a separate 3D Vision Controller driver.

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Tags: nvidia, geforce

AMD Releases Catalyst 11.8 Preview Driver

Submitted by skipclarke on 27 July, 2011 - 16:36

In addition to the 11.7 Driver release, AMD has released a preview of the 11.8 driver. It includes several key updates for gamers and Eyefinity users:

AMD HD3D - Enables support on DisplayPort panels such as the Samsung 750 and 950 series displays.

Eyefinity 5x1 - Includes support for Eyefinity 5x1. Support for 5x1 is considered "beta" by AMD, and has not been included in every driver release. The last driver to include this support was the 10.4 Preview driver.

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Tags: amd, catalyst

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