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How to join 2 videos together to form 1 using free software

Posted on Sun, 2008-04-27 11:11

This will guide you through the simple process of joining 2 AVIs in to 1. This tutorial takes in to account that the 2 videos are the same resolution bit rate etc.

Software needed:

VirtualDubMod is an enhanced version of VirtualDub and is completely OpenSource.

Creative continue to release poor drivers - No shock there then

Posted on Tue, 2008-03-04 21:51

Creative Logo Creative continue to release absolutely shitty drivers for the X-Fi range and I am sure their other ranges as well. After finding certain parts of the audio configuration weren't available I decided to reinstall the drivers. While reinstalling I checked the Creative website and found there was a new beta driver out from January 08.

I thought there can't be that much wrong with them, I am sure they can't be any worse than the old drivers.

Ha ha ha. I really am stupid.

Crysis - 32bit vs 64bit on Windows Vista x64

Posted on Sun, 2007-12-23 11:46

After finding out the performance of Crysis on a Windows Vista x64 machine running in x64 mode in DX10, I wondered about how much different it made over 32-bit.

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Crysis Benchmark - DX10 Vista x64

Posted on Thu, 2007-12-13 20:12

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 speakers can be bought for around £700-£750, which isn't really a lot, bringing it around £1000-£1200 with speakers and 22" widescreen monitor.

The benchmark was carried out on Windows Vista 64-bit edition in DirectX 10 mode.

The benchmark tool used was the Crysis Benchmark Tool made by the team at Crymod and can be downloaded from Crymod or Guru3D.

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Bioshock and Securom

Posted on Sun, 2007-09-02 20:55

Everyone is blaming Sony for the DRM fiasco involving Bioshock but what people seem to be forgetting is that 2K Games actually paid for Securom to be put on Bioshock. Securom has been known for a long time to cause problems.

Upon recieving my copy of Bioshock, I installed which all went fine, then the installer tried to download a patch, so I allowed it. The patch failed to download properly, so I retried....and retried.

At this point I clicked cancel, which resulted in the whole installation being cancelled.

I restarted the computer and tried again, same thing happened again except this time, rather than closing the installer down, I went to the start menu and tried to run Bioshock.

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