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Saboteur Launch Plagued By Problems With ATI Cards 230

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday December 09, 2009 @01:58AM from the more-or-less-finished dept.

An anonymous reader writes "So far, there are over 35 pages of people posting about why EA released Pandemic Studios' final game, Saboteur, to first the EU on December 4th and then, after knowing full well it did not work properly, to the Americas on December 8th. They have been promising to work on a patch that is apparently now in the QA stage of testing. It is not a small bug; rather, if you have an ATI video card and either Windows 7 or Windows Vista, the majority (90%) of users have the game crash after the title screen. Since the marketshare for ATI is nearly equal to that of Nvidia, and the ATI logo is adorning the front page of the Saboteur website, it seems like quite a large mistake to release the game in its current state."

Comment In need of advice (Score 1) 756

by NXprime on Tuesday August 25, 2009 @07:01PM (#29194169) Attached to: Behind the 4GB Memory Limit In 32-Bit Windows

We have a first gen Heidelberg 9110 with Version 4 software ON THE PRINTER. Can't upgrade since each version upgrade (currently 7.0) costs $$$$ which is a waste of money for a printer that's near it's EOL. We have used the same Dell PC with Windows 2000 SP2 since 2000 when the company purchased both products. Vista 64 bit drivers currently are available for the 7.0 version PC driver only. Version 4 is good for 2000, maybe XP.

So where did we spend our money? On THREE 250ppm b&w printers and a brand new Dell Studio PC with Intel Core i7 920, 6gb of ram, and Windows Vista 64bit OS. The problem is that this is to spool large files over as quickly as possible using PCL drivers. Variable addressing data per page. Times a few million, you get the idea of the number crunching. Only thing is we have a USB key with a license code to send this over to the printers for one PC. Can't use the old PC without ripping out the $30,000 license key and placing it back in the old PC to send files to the Heidelberg. Not an option at this point. Would Version 4.0 Win 2000 drivers work on Vista 64 bit? Haha, no. We could try the 7.0 64bit PC drivers (independent of the 4.0 software on the printer), but not sure they're all that compatible. Or downgrade to Windows XP 32 bit. Now you start to see the problem? We would lose half the ram on the PC if we downgraded and so a software hack might be useful in our case. Printer spool sizes do go up to 2gb from time to time and cause headaches with each page spooled around 100mb each. We can't wait 10 minutes sending files over. Personally, backwards compatibility is a dead issue if we get rid of the Heidelberg soon. Thrown over Niagara Falls preferably. :)

So, would all 6gb be helpful in this case? Would the hack help us spool large files?

Comment Not sure... (Score 1) 383

by NXprime on Sunday February 22, 2009 @12:31PM (#26949063) Attached to: Is Flash Really On 99% of Net Devices?

I don't think one can expect all business PC's to connect to the internet at all, so those wouldn't count as web 'enabled'. Lots of firewalls and site blockers out there that could mess with the stats. However, I do think once someone uses the internet for 5 minute they'll eventually be asked to install flash to show a webpage properly. Youtube, Hulu... ect. Very important part of the web browser to have that installed.

Submission + - DirectX10 drops Hardware Acceleration for Audio.

Submitted by

shrewd

on Sunday February 11, 2007 @06:42AM

shrewd writes: ""Imagine your surprise when you fire up one of your favourite games in Vista — say World of Warcraft or Prey — only to find your fancy EAX-endowed soundcard and 5.1 surround speakers are dribbling out flat, unenhanced stereo sound. Then, in a vain attempt to spruce up the audio by enabling EAX, you get a nice taut error message saying EAX is not detected on your hardware. What's going on? Welcome to the world of Vista audio. And a brave new world it is.""

Submission + - Senate introduces strong privacy bill

Submitted by

amigoro

on Wednesday February 07, 2007 @09:58AM

amigoro writes: "US Senators yesterday introduced a bill that better protects the privacy of citizens' personal information in the face of data security breaches across the country. Key features of the bipartisan legislation include increasing criminal penalties for identity theft involving electronic personal data and making it a crime to intentionally or willfully conceal a security breach involving personal data, giving individuals access to, and the opportunity to correct, any personal information held by commercial data brokers, requiring entities that maintain personal data to establish internal policies that protect the personal data of Americans, requiring entities that maintain personal data to give notice to individuals and law enforcement when they experience a breach involving sensitive personal data and requiring the government to establish rules protecting privacy and security when it uses information from commercial data brokers, to conduct audits of government contracts with data brokers and impose penalties on government contractors that fail to meet data privacy and security requirements."

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