For my HTPC, I now have configured most things up, so it is all working just like it should be. It took a few OS reinstalls to get it exactly where I wanted it, but I more or less have it, just have to sort out Blu-ray & HDDVD playback sorted first.
Here is a [...]
Wordpress 2.6 was released today and there are some new tidy features on the backend which I wasn’t expecting.
The plugins page has been transformed from a useful administration page in to a brilliant administration page. You can now delete those inactive plugins which aren’t going to use anymore without going in to FTP and deleting [...]
After nearly 5 years of no updates, the ePSXe team have released v1.7.0 of their very popular Playstation emulator for Windows. The Linux version is still at 1.6.0.
You can download the new updated version from the ePSXe website and clicking Downloads on the left.
It has been long time since the previous ePSXe status update. During [...]
I recently installed Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on my PC forgetting that I have an X-Fi sound card and that it wouldn’t work. I have used Ubuntu previously, 6 and 7.
But I thought that things may have changed, much like the ease of graphics card driver installation.
Previously I have ended up enabling on board sound and using that with ALSA within [...]
If you get the above message it is because you have for some reason lost your sndvol32.exe file from %WIN_DIR%\SYSTEM32.
If you do have this problem is is likely that you do not have access to the first Advanced button, which will be greyed out and you will get the error message about the volume control [...]
By default Nero 8 does not include a decoder for FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) files. This should also work in prior versions of Nero as well.
This is tested and working in Windows XP and Windows Vista.
Here are some benchmark results for a medium-high spec PC running Crysis on Microsoft Windows Vista x64.
The PC in question is the following specification:
Intel Core2Duo E6750 overclocked to 3.2GHz
4GB DDR2 PC6400 RAM
250GB SATA 7200RPM HDD
Nvidia 8800GTS 320MB overclocked to 560MHz core, 850MHz memory
This including case and PSU etc, excluding monitor and [...]
I have played the demo on both the Xbox 360 and the PC and without a doubt in my mind the Xbox 360 version is a hell of a lot better.
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