Lars Weinand

Samsung, well known for its TFT displays, still believes in the future of CRT.

The game Half-Life 2 seems to be almost done. Valve started the preload of the game on its Steam servers.

With Samsung SDI already turning out production 1.7" OLED modules, Sony has announced that for technical reasons, it won't be ready to supply the market before the end of 2004 as it had predicted.

Users running their PC in Dual Display configuration with a NVIDIA 6800 card will face low FPS and drops down to 3-4FPS in some areas of Doom III. But there's a way to fix it.

ATI is making a pre-release version of its upcoming CATALYST 4.9 driver available to its customers. This driver should result in better performance of Radeon Cards in Doom III.

DirectX 9.0c in finaly available. Microsoft put the Redistributable and the SDK Summer 2004 update on its servers. The web installer is not here yet.

The new patch comes with a bunch of game optimizations but no word on Shader Model 3.0 support for NVIDIA GeForce 6800 cards.

The new NVIDIA graphics drivers v61.72 add support for GeForce 6800 series and all PCI Express models.

FRAPS is a game benchmarking, screen- and video capturing tool. Check out the new version.

XGI released a new driver for Volari based graphic cards.

The new Patch v1.2 with Shader Model 3.0 support is still not available yet.