...ife was first released by Sierra Games on November 19, 1998. The game was developed on top of a modified Quake engine called GoldSrc. Half-Life is still believed to be the most played online game (exc...
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 16:02
... or custom coding. It's all handled for you, compliments of Azure.
Conclusion
Impervious to earthquake s, power outages, coup d'etats, famines, locusts, alien attacks, and pretty much everythin...
Monday, October 27, 2008 14:30
...dicated to explaining what Twitter is, and examples of how it is used, specifically focusing on the earthquake that occurred in Los Angeles on July 29 of this year. It goes on to describe Twitter’s us...
Monday, October 27, 2008 13:49
... for DirectX 10.1, CrossFire, and claims better gaming performance in Call of Duty, Devil May Cry 4, ET: Quake Wars, Crysis, Half-Life 2: Episode 2, and Company of Heroes, all in 1920 x 1200 high qual...
Thursday, October 23, 2008 08:45
...rty. Additionally there were even messages flagged due to the discussion of China’s handling of the earthquake aftermath. Apparently, the computers are also logging details of voice calls that were pl...
Friday, October 03, 2008 12:59
...n Gong, Taiwan independence, and also the Chinese Communist Party. Among the words are milk powder, earthquake , and democracy. Currently Chinese officials are getting flack for the way they handled ea...
Thursday, October 02, 2008 12:47
Apple apparently can withstand the earthquake s that are rocking the
financial world these days as analysts expect the company to once again
turn in record sales for the quarter. Market watche
Thursday, September 18, 2008 10:50
...11AM Wednesday August 27th. Most of the players battled it out on traditional LAN party games like Quake , Unreal Tournament and Team Fortress 2, but we did spy several people raiding and grindin...
Thursday, August 28, 2008 15:44
...hat capability, special effects like glass and mirrors become very easy tasks. Everything you see in the Quake Wars: Ray Traced demo is done over that API. Using that API the programmer has no need to...
Friday, August 08, 2008 01:06
...nce to win thousands
of dollars in prizes. The inaugural tournaments will be held at this
week’s Quake Con (Dallas, TX), Digital Storm (Vancouver, BC) and CmaxX
Enlarged in Germany. Sunnyvale ...
Thursday, July 31, 2008 15:15
...r pressurized carbon dioxide. The scientists created a map of specific sites that are isolated from earthquake s, hydrothermal vents, or other factors that might upset the system. Ongoing experiments ...
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 00:01
...efense
against the next natural disaster? These are the questions scientists
from the Mid-America Earthquake Center (MAE) are trying to answer in
order to prepare local, regional and federal govern...
Friday, June 20, 2008 18:00
...n the 3D Mark vantage benchmark under Windows Vista. The 4850 came in behind the 9800 GTX in Crysis, ET: Quake Wars, Stalker, Ghost Recon and Grid. Some may consider Nvidia as keeping the lead and e...
Thursday, June 19, 2008 14:03
...ims to have an advantage in overall gaming performance in Crysis, Call of Duty 4, world in Conflict, ET: Quake Wars, Oblivion, Lost Planet, Half-Life 2: Episode 2 and Stalker. ...
Thursday, June 19, 2008 10:31
Up until yesterday, Intel was showcasing its ray-tracing research using
Quake 3 and Quake 4, which were nice demos, but did not exactly reflect
fresh software. Over past several months, the c
Thursday, June 12, 2008 15:01
...
Three of Intel's chipsets, the G31, G33 and 945GC, are seeing an increase in price following the earthquake in Sichuan, China last week, according to sources at motherboard makers. Although Intel's...
Monday, May 19, 2008 08:59
...cribes people who don’t to use their PC exclusively for gaming, but only for an occasional game of Quake Wars, Command&Conquer 3, Half-Life 2 Episode 2 or other current titles. To support ...
Sunday, May 18, 2008 23:01
...a premium. Some of the vintage albums coming back for digital distribution include Joe Strummer's "Earthquake Weather," Grant Green's "Carryin' On," and Henry Mancini's "Hatari Soundtrack." Another ...
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 16:00
...on an Open Computer,” Psystar says. The video shows its computers running various operating systems and Quake 4 (supposedly with all the settings turned up). Psystar has been advertising a $399...
Friday, April 25, 2008 08:44
...ch a game would start out with a fixed budget and some other resources. It would have forest fires, earthquake s, floods, and massive storms. It would have crops and transportation issues, water usage ...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 13:21
... Pohl, a young German engineer who first got our
attention when he rewrote the rasterization engines of Quake III Arena
and Quake IV into full-blown ray tracing engines. Back then, Daniel
used Open...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 01:00
...part of our interview you implied that software rendering might be coming back. Daniel Pohl, who rewrote Quake 3 and Quake 4 using ray-tracing [and is now working as Intel's research scientist] recent...
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 09:18
...conversations between game developers and like. During a very interesting presentation by Daniel Pohl of Quake 4: Ray-Trace fame, The L-word (not the TV show Lost for those of you stuck in a cave for ...
Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:55
...he software leads up to the major 8.3 release in March, and includes minor patches for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, World of Warcraft, Doom 3 and TianXia2. AMD also claims that the driver accelerat...
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 13:42
...low-up releases, but a true new version never came. Over time, Duke’s game engine was changed from Quake to Unreal (2, 2.5, 3.0, 3.x), the physics engine switched to to Meqon, now known as a par...
Friday, February 08, 2008 11:29
...ynx and Mattel's "Football & Auto Race". EA's Pinball Construction, id's Quake , and Linden Lab's Second Life all received awards for best user-generated content/gam...
Tuesday, January 08, 2008 14:47
...good time to remember that something like this could happen to you. Floods, fires, theft, and earthquake s can be incredibly traumatic and you want to be focused on getting your family to safety ...
Thursday, November 01, 2007 11:36
...ite the need for a large cooling system, it nevertheless ran the recently released game Enemy Territory: Quake Wars throughout the keynote seemingly without a hitch. More here at DigiTimes......
Monday, October 15, 2007 10:03
...0, X1300, X1550), Call of Duty (+7% on Crossfire/single card HD 2400 and 2600 systems); Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (+23% on X1000, HD 2000); FEAR (+16% on Crossfire X1950 XTX, X1650 XT, HD 2400, X130...
Friday, October 12, 2007 12:01
... Ray tracing is a very demanding compute load on a system. Real-time demos have been shown running Quake IV, but it required an 8-core system to operate at decent frame rates. Still, Intel...
Thursday, October 11, 2007 08:16
...ted by US-based Games Media Properties, included melees of Counter-Strike, Gears of War, Guitar Hero II, Quake 4, and World of Warcraft. GMP already presented World Series of Video Games competitions...
Thursday, September 13, 2007 11:43
... Serious Sam 2. X1600, X1650 Pro, X1300 and X1550 cards should see a speed gain of about 9% when playing Quake 4 with Anti-Aliasing enabled, AMD said. More interestingly, the new driver introduces th...
Monday, September 10, 2007 14:35
...ut a sweeping change to a policy for one of their supercomputers. Now, in response to a major earthquake this new system will allow the entire compute load to analyze the event immediately. ...
Thursday, September 06, 2007 11:26
...nter (SDSC) to immediately allocate its resources in the event of an emergency. If, for example, an earthquake or other disaster takes place, these emergency jobs will be kicked off right away, provid...
Wednesday, July 11, 2007 10:23
... has recently started distributing downloadable videos that tell citizens what to do if there is an earthquake , biological disaster and other emergencies. The videos and accompanying text files ...
Tuesday, June 19, 2007 05:56
...er Windows Vista. Cards with this chip are estimated to see performance gains of up to 18% in Doom 3 and Quake 4 as well as more than 15% in Prey. The Radeon X1950 Pro and Radeon X1650 XT also see imp...
Friday, June 01, 2007 13:24
...series graphics cards. Users should see typical improvements of about 15% in game titles such as Doom 3, Quake 4 and Prey with enthusiast cards and configurations approaching 30%, AMD said. The drive...
Wednesday, April 18, 2007 15:00
...0 series cards running under Windows Vista. Gamers should see an increase of about 25% in Doom 3, 48% in Quake 4 and 21% in Prey, the company said. Catalyst 7.2 also comes with a new version of the ...
Wednesday, February 21, 2007 14:31
...essor's level of performance. We looked at the following benchmarks: AVG Antivirus for maintenance, Quake IV for gaming, Clone DVD for application performance, Lame MP3 for audio encoding, Window...
Saturday, January 20, 2007 15:06
Two powerful earthquake s are to blame for ruptures of undersea cables off the coast of Taiwan, causing disrupted Internet access for much of East Asia, with online service being unavailable for up to
Wednesday, December 27, 2006 17:52
... have logged the benchmark data for the following categories for each of our processors - AVG Antivirus, Quake IV, Clone DVD, Lame MP3, PCMark 2005 CPU, and Windows Media Encoder. We then translate th...
Friday, December 22, 2006 19:04
...by Tom's Hardware Guide, the Core 2 Quad had the same frames per second as the Core 2 Duo E6700 during a Quake 4 benchmark. You will see a slight improvement with photo editing software like Photoshop...
Thursday, November 02, 2006 05:22
...D for applications performance, Lame MP3 for audio encoding, Windows Media Encoder 9 for video encoding, Quake IV for graphics and gaming performance, and AVG AntiVirus for maintenance. Taking an aver...
Friday, October 06, 2006 18:08
...lines and performances in games such as Age of Empires 3, Black & White 2, Call of Duty 2, F.E.A.R., Quake 4, Serious Sam 2 and 3DMark06. Click here to see the latest version of Tom's Hardware's I...
Monday, August 28, 2006 15:40
...asing and 8x anisotropic filtering, and which tests the card's abilities with Microsoft DirectX drivers; Quake 4 at 1280 x 1024 resolution, with 4x anti-aliasing and 8x anisotropic filtering, and whic...
Thursday, August 24, 2006 20:44
...s. The company said that Radeon X1000-basec cards can accelerate game speed by 6.5% in Doom 3, by 18% in Quake 4, by up to 20% in Chronicles of Riddick and up to 16% in Prey. Overall 3DMark06 performa...
Friday, August 18, 2006 19:16
...ny of adrenaline-fueled awe. No, this time we're not talking about the Core 2 Extreme prototypes playing Quake 3 at the last E3. We're talking about where every performance machine wants to be when it...
Wednesday, August 09, 2006 15:40
...y easy for their own vaporware transgressions - namely Team Fortress 2. Originally released as a mod for Quake the First all the way back in 1996, Team Fortress 2 was originally scheduled to be a comm...
Monday, July 17, 2006 18:29
...Using GPS (global positioning system) data to measure how points on land move following an undersea earthquake could help geologists decide if the tremor will cause an ocean-wide tsunami. ...
Friday, June 30, 2006 18:35
Of course the Electronic Entertainment Expo is about games, but several hardware companies also show up. Intel gave us a sneak peak at an upcoming entertainment PC and you can see in our video how th
Wednesday, May 17, 2006 17:59
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