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Best Gaming CPUs For The Money: September 2011

Submitted by Anonymous on 28 September, 2011 - 11:56

Tom's Hardware has published their latest iteration of Best Gaming CPUs 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 Gaming CPUs For The Money: September 2011

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Tags: Toms Hardware, cpu

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Rusty Hearts Triple Monitors ~4K Video

Submitted by Anonymous on 27 September, 2011 - 15:43

A new ~4K videos is up, Rusty Heart Online Multiplayer Hack and Slash Roll Play Game, it natively supports multi monitor resolutions but HUD elements are pinned to the side of the screens. Once again if your monitors width is larger than 1920 pixels and you have lots of bandwidth, set the quality to original and play the video in full screen for a much higher quality. The game is free to play on Steam or via direct download from their website.

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Tags: rusty hearts, you tube, 4k

AMD Releases Catalyst 11.10 Preview Driver (aka "Battlefield 3 Driver")

Submitted by skipclarke on 26 September, 2011 - 22:17

AMD has just posted a preview of the Catalyst 11.10 driver. It provides improvements to Battlefield 3 performance, as well as inclusion of 5x1 Eyefinity support into a release driver branch. Highlights include:

Improves performance in Battlefield 3 Open Beta release for both non-Anti-Aliasing, and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 Series for single GPU configurations

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Tags: amd, catalyst

Nvidia Releases GeForce 285.38 Beta Driver (Battlefield 3 beta driver)

Submitted by Tamlin on 26 September, 2011 - 21:57

New in Release 285.38

Increases performance in Battlefield 3 by up to 38%i.
Improves overall stability and image quality in Battlefield 3.
Added or updated SLI profiles for Battlefield 3, Dead Island, Diablo III, Dragon Age 2, Need for Speed: The Run, and Saints Row: The Third.
Fixed a performance regression in 285.27 beta running Crysis 2 (DirectX 9).

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Tags: nvidia, geforce

FPS limiter has been added to a future Nvidia driver

Submitted by Tamlin on 23 September, 2011 - 21:24

According to ManuelG (from Nvidia's techincal support over at nvidia forums) in a response to thread "FPS limiter included in the driver petition":

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Unpinning this topic as it has been added to a future driver.

For those that are not familiar with using FPS limiter, here is a link to another version with explanation as to what it does and what its good for.

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Battlefield: Bad Company™ 2 Update Released today with fixes for multi-monitor users

Submitted by Tamlin on 21 September, 2011 - 13:58

According to my Steam account, there is an update today with fixes especially aimed for multi-monitor users. Hopefully this fixes some of the problem our users have had:

Battlefield: Bad Company™ 2 Update Released

- Removed some memory leaks
- Fixed crashes when the game attempted to render lots of content (high detail, high FOV or multiple-monitor modes); this should particularly help multi-monitor users
- Chat window no longer causes lag spikes
- Chat window reworked opacity & visibility-time is controllable through settings in settings.ini

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Tags: dice

HEX Editing Tutorial Updated

Submitted by skipclarke on 19 September, 2011 - 18:20

I found this great forum post from Tanuki that outlined all of the common HEX values for resolutions and aspect ratios. I've added it to our existing HEX Editing Tutorial. This information should be immensely helpful for people working to find Eyefinity and Surround solutions, when "simple" fixes such as .ini and Registry tweaks fail.

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Tags: wsgf

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WSGF Cafe Press Store Relaunch

Submitted by skipclarke on 19 September, 2011 - 06:55

Over the weekend we re-launched the WSGF Cafe Press Store with a host of designs from AussieTimmeh. All of the designs are available on t-shirts, coffee mugs, glasses and other beverage containers. The design categories feature the WSGF logo and the site "definition, the WSGF logo and an array of flags that represent our international community, and the merging of the WSGF logo and Air Force logos from around the world. We're hoping this last set will be of particular interest to flight sim fans, as well as current and ex-military from around the world.

Hit up the "store" link in the top nav, which showcases all of the designs on t-shirts. There is a link to the full store at the bottom of that page. Additionally you can find the full store link here - http://www.cafepress.com/wsgf

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AMD 7000 Series Confirmed for Q1 2012

Submitted by ViciousXUSMC on 17 September, 2011 - 01:29

If the information is correct posted over at Lenzfire we may not have too much longer to wait until we see the next generation AMD 7000 series. It's looking to be capable of a 50% increase in performance power as compared to what we have now.

Wonder what kind of great things the next generation may bring to the table in not just terms of processing power but in features. Will they had advances in the multi-monitor eyefinity technology? Will profiles finally start to save your scaling preference? (joke but i'm serious lol)

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Tags: amd, nvidia, 7000, HD, eyefinity

Nvidia Releases GeForce 285.27 Beta Driver

Submitted by Tamlin on 15 September, 2011 - 22:28

New in Release 285.27:

Performance

Increases performance for GeForce 400 and 500-series GPUs in several PC games vs. v280.26 WHQL drivers. The following are some examples of improvements measured on Windows 7. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration:

GeForce GTX 580 Performance Improvements

Up to 5% in Call Of Duty: Black Ops
Up to 7% in Civilization V with SLI
Up to 5% in Crysis 2 DX11 with SLI
Up to 7% in F1 2010 with SLI
Up to 5% in Lost Planet 2 with SLI
Up to 5% in Mafia 2 with SLI