Sponsor |  patrickjluke | Oct 24, 2007 2:40pm | | Looks like the ole windows 98 image when it was defagging.Thanks KK I've been using that for a while now & my old computer is running sweet as. |
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|  TunaFishEnTonial | Oct 30, 2007 8:26am | Crysis demo performance in-depth @ TechSpot by Julio Franco on October 29, 2007, 1:10 AM |  incrysis.com [incrysis.com]
Crysis is a highly anticipated first person shooter developed exclusively for the PC by Crytek, the makers of the award-winning Far Cry. The demo offers PC gamers a quick look at what will possibly be the most advanced FPS ever created, you just have to swallow the huge 1.8GB download first. I'm sure many will agree that the demo is well worth the download though, offering the entire first level of the game which represents "roughly 45 minutes" of pure gameplay.
Today we are going to see how the various mid-range and high-end graphics cards handle this new and exciting first person shooter.
There will also be some brief visual quality comparisons along with some CPU scaling and DX9 vs. DX10 performance charts. The single-player demo supports both DX10 and DX9 rendering in Vista while Windows XP users are limited to DX9.
Update: We were able to run some preliminary benchmarks comparing 32-bit to 64-bit performance. Results look promising:
GeForce 8800 GTX (768MB) 32-bit
1440x900 = 38.6fps
1680x1050 = 30.8fps
1920x1200 = 25.8fps
GeForce 8800 GTX (768MB) 64-bit
1440x900 = 45.6fps
1680x1050 = 36.4fps
1920x1200 = 30.0fps
Read the complete article. |
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| | DaTechGuy | Nov 3, 2007 7:09pm |  October 30, 2007
Crysis DX10 Eye Candy Available Under XP
By Mark Hachman  Discuss this now (2 posts) As it turns out, the additional graphical features once thought to be exclusive to users who combined Microsoft Vista, a DirectX 10-compatible graphics card, and the hot new shooter Crysis, can now be run under Windows XP. Through some tweaks to the game's configuration files, a user at Crisis-Online managed to enable the DX10 features under Windows XP, including improved shadows, some excellent-looking bump-mapping effects, 3D waves, and other graphical improvements. Essentially, what the tweak does is allow DX9 users to use the "Very High" settings that are exclusively reserved for DX10 users. The tweaks are relatively simple. Users need to edit all of the files found in "\Crysis SP Demo\Game\Config\CVarGroups". First, back up the folder. (Since they're all text-based config files, the backup is just a few megabytes, if that.) You'll then need to edit each file, taking the first block of text and swapping it out with the text with the third option. In the example (sys_spec_Particles.cfg)below, take the text at the bottom (in italics) and replace it with the text at the top (in bold). [default]
; default of this CVarGroup
= 4
e_particles_quality=4
e_particles_lod=1
e_particles_max_emitter_draw_screen=32
r_UseSoftParticles=1
e_water_ocean_soft_particles= 1
e_particles_object_collisions=1
[1]
e_particles_quality=1
e_particles_lod=0.75
e_particles_max_emitter_draw_screen=4
r_UseSoftParticles=0
e_water_ocean_soft_particles=0
e_particles_object_collisions=0
[2]
e_particles_quality=2
e_particles_max_emitter_draw_screen=8
[3]
e_particles_quality=3
e_particles_max_emitter_draw_screen=16
Now, enter the game, and under the "advanced" graphics settings, turn up all of your settings to high. (Your system will still show the "high" settings enabled, even though the new eye candy is turned on.) After you've seen what the game looks like at its best, feel free to decrease some of the settings to improve performance. Feel free to post screenshots in the forums; or, if you want to see what it looks like after you make the tweaks, check out the Crysis-Online thread. I can confirm that the tweaks work. However, they don't work miracles, from a performance standpoint. I own an Nvidia 8600 card, and turning up the settings to "high" with the tweaks enabled gave me about 15 frames per second. But it looked fantastic. |
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Sponsor | | c3 | Nov 5, 2007 9:02am | How the Heck Do I get rid Of Vistas HIDDEN Shares.....
Oct 6, 9:28amPlug one of the Big holes in Vista....Hidden Shares
PCTipsBox Tips Tricks Central
Turn Off Hidden Shares
With all the attention that spyware, phishing, e-mails, and corporate hackers get on any given day, we mustn't forget that good ol' Windows itself can be the source of a security hole. It turns out that Vista has a back door that could permit someone else to read any file on your hard drive, and the same problem exists in Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP. But don't expect a fix anytime soon. This bug is a "feature."
Enter Administrative Shares, which let network administrators perform maintenance remotely. The feature--which is turned on by default--works by sharing your entire hard drive, and then hiding the share by adding a $ character as a suffix. But unless you're in a corporate environment, you have nothing to gain by leaving this back door open--and everything to lose. 
Plug the hole
In the Windows Registry (Start | Run, regedit), navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanserver\parameters, and create two new DWORD values, AutoShareServer and AutoShareWks, both set to zero.
Better yet Toss the Vista disk out the window. Company's like dell will be still sellinging OEM Version of Xp until June Next Year...
What does that tell you about Vista....Another WindowsME ?
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Sponsor | | rivalarrival | Nov 5, 2007 3:29pm | | 204: Or, avoid the hassle altogether and install the latest version of Ubuntu. Seamless distro upgrades every six months, much tighter security. Not to mention any software you could want, cataloged and installable on demand- Synaptics Package Manager is reason enough to ditch Windows. |
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Should be 8000kmps
Actual 4122 kbmps 291 kmps |
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