Bill Gates had been interviewed many times over the last dozen-or-so years by the BBC regarding many aspects of his life and his business. This times things were a bit different however. For this time instead of asking them questions from BBC writers, they asked Gates questions from the gamers themselves in this video interview. Brilliant. Read More
New AW M15X is out from Alienware, the first ever 15.4-inch notebook equipped with an Intel Core 2 Extreme CPU and the GeForce 8800M GTX for unrivaled gaming abilities in a truly portable rig. This is the fastest 15″ on the market, and even beats out most 17″ notebooks. There is a lot of power in this tiny laptop which is pretty crazy since it is only 1.3 inches thick and still has enough batterly life to run for up to 5 hours. Sexy little laptop!
Thanks to Fragloser for the tip!
Hit the jump for an example configuration.
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With the much anticipated launch of Crysis around the corner, November 16th, a lot of gamers have been wondering what kind of a super computer they will need in order to get in some Crytek fun. Crytek and the folks at EA aren’t just looking at whats available now, but also what they might be able to do in the future as well a couple of years from now.
Here are the minimum and recommended system requirements from Crytek and EA:
Minimum System Requirements:
OS – Windows XP or Windows Vista
Processor – 2.8 GHz or faster (XP) or 3.2 GHz or faster* (Vista)
Memory – 1.0 GB RAM (XP) or 1.5 GB RAM (Vista)
Video Card –256 MB**
Hard Drive – 12GB
Sound Card – DirectX 9.0c compatible
* Supported Processors: Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz (3.2 GHz for Vista) or faster, Intel Core 2.0 GHz (2.2 GHz for Vista) or faster, AMD Athlon 2800+ (3200+ for Vista) or faster.
** Supported chipsets: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT or greater; ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (Radeon X800 Pro for Vista) or greater. Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported. Integrated chipsets are not supported. Updates to your video and sound card drivers may be required.
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You can score a free copy of Shadowrun for the PC when you purchase a copy of Halo 2 for PC at your local Circuit City. A great deal if you have Windows Vista and can run the two games. So you end up paying $39.99 for two sweet games and you can play Shadowrun cross consoles (with the Xbox 360 people) and get live on your PC, this makes for some nice gaming. Happy hunting!
Halo 2 for Windows Vista will be available June 2007 and comes with much anticipation. Many gamers believe FPS games are best played with a mouse and keyboard, since I played hundreds of hours on the Xbox already I think I will pass on this one.
A couple of things that do interest me in the Windows Vista version are the map editor, which will alloy people to edit and make their own personal versions of maps and the 2 new multiplayer maps that are specific to the PC version, District and Uplift.
The PC version will get it’s own servers to play off and will actually allow gamers to now play the game from the disc, this mean no more having to load the entire game on your hard drive, but instead playing it like you would off your console.
From the press release:
Key Features:
• Exciting single-player gameplay. Experience firsthand the epic struggle between Master Chief and the Covenant armada. Brandish dual-wield weapons and Covenant arms, while piloting human and non-human vehicles and aircraft to battle intelligent AI alien enemies.
• Unmatched online gaming. “Halo 2” for Windows Vista will tap into the power of Games for Windows — LIVE to deliver online matchmaking for its Gold account members. The service will enable Windows Vista gamers around the globe to connect via their PCs and play in an innovative and competitive online forum.
Microsoft and Bungie dropped a new Halo 2 PC trailer today. If you have a beefy Windows Vista computer, Halo 2 is your first DirectX 10 eye candy.
The textures look better than the 360 version and the included map editor looks to add a lot of depth to the game.
Have you been having issues with installing Windows Vista? A lot of people have, with incompatible hardware, software, and the like. Well, Anthony Cumia, of Opie and Anthony fame (listen daily on XM 202), decided to make video tutorial of how to properly install Vista. He had a hard time on his main computer, so decided to install it on a second machine with terrific results. Check the video…
So I decided to do an upgrade to Vista Ultimate on my laptop instead of a clean install. I figure, if it doesn’t work out well, I can always do a clean install. To jump the gun… I love Vista! The Aero interface is terrific. And it’s working almost perfect…
The install itself took, I shit you not, 5.5 hours. It’s not like I have a slow computer either. My laptop rocks a 2.16ghz Intel Core 2 Duo with 2GB DDR2-667 RAM. Not too shabby. It’s just painfully slow to do an upgrade. Once I finally got into Vista, I had a few issues with programs that needed to re-installed because they lost their activations, particularly AVG AntiVirus and Nero 7. I can’t install the Visual Studio 2005 SP1, but I hear that’s more a common thing than a Vista issue. Few small things here and there (sleep settings for my laptop, sync’ing with my BlackBerry), but everything seems to be up and running fine. I only have 2 programs that don’t work under Vista, both having to do with my Nikon dSLR. The first is Nikon Capture NX, their Raw processing software. Second is DxO Optics Pro 4, which also is a Raw processing and image enhancement software. Both assure me that new versions will be available “shortly”, but both also said they don’t have a definite ETA. I guess I’ll just run that stuff on my desktop PC for now.
Overall, it went fairly smooth, other than than ridiculous amount of time it took. I’m happy I made the upgrade. Now just waiting for Office 2007 Enterprise to arrive…
In case anyone hasn’t heard, and you live in a bubble somewhere, Windows Vista officially launches today. Most of the big retailers are offering some free things with Vista today. I know Staples is giving away a free PNY 1GB USB flash drive, and rebates for some software that you buy along with it.
Be careful about that update though, there’s still alot of software that doesn’t work properly, and some hardware doesn’t have good drivers yet…
So after speaking with Drunk Black/White Large Animal last night about his issue with Microsoft Vista updates and Quickbooks, Microsoft seems to be having issues with Wikipedia as well.
