Tuesday, November 5, 2013

IT News Head Lines (Rage3D) 11/6/2013

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Valve: Steam's "Offline Mode is designed to be indefinite"
Steam's Offline Mode has been the subject of criticism for years now, thanks to its inconsistency in allowing access to games while it's enabled. Despite speculation to the contrary, Valve has clarified on the Steam forums this isn't by design, and isn't intended as some kind of DRM scheme. More,...

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Eidos-Montreal signs on for Mantle
Developer Eidos Montreal (Deus Ex Human Revolution, Thief), have partnered with AMD to support its new Mantle API (http://www.rage3d.com/board/showpost.php?p=1337344587&postcount=1).

Likely, this means Thief will offer the option to enable Mantle, though this is not confirmed as of yet. Future...

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Microsoft acknowledges Win8.1 mouse lag, promises fix
If you've upgraded to Windows 8.1 and game a lot, you've probably noticed various mouse lag issues plaguing various titles (http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?threadid=34004942). Microsoft has acknowledged the issues through its support community, and assured that a fix is coming, though...

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DICE adding and updating Battlefield 4 servers now to address stability
While the actual gameplay in DICE's Battlefield 4 has gotten a lot of praise, its stability has been a cause for scorn since its launch earlier this week. That could be fixed or at least improved now or shortly, as the developer is in the middle of rolling out new servers and updates current ones...

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Steam adds download-queue management
A new Steam update launched recently, and brought with it a significant addition: download-queue management. After updating Steam, you can prioritize certain downloads over others, not just for game downloading, but update downloading, too.

Other changes include improved performance "enumerating...

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