Sunday, September 13, 2009

IT News HeadLines (Elite Bastards) 12/09/2009


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AMD's Ian McNaughton on DirectX 11 - More supporting titles revealed

In the continued build-up to the launch of AMD's (and indeed the world's) first DirectX 11, the company's senior manager of advanced marketing has posted a new official 'blog entry discussing what to expect from DirectX 11 (something that we covered some time ago here), while also perhaps more interestingly revealing a few more titles that will be supporting DirectX 11.

Now, if you are a gamer you undoubtedly will be asking me “What games are going to support DirectX 11″? This is always a tightrope to walk for us as we are unable to pre-announce our technology partners titles and the specs around those titles; still, we want to give the consumer confidence that we’ve been assured there will be substantial titles in the market that take full advantage of your ATI Radeon DirectX 11-compliant graphics card. So, as this blog is published, here are the future DirectX 11 games we can talk about:

Dirt2 by Codemasters
BattleForge by EA
S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Call of Pripyat by GSC Game World

As well as these listed titles, the post also features a video interview with Rebellion's Chris Kingsley, a man currently responsible for work on Aliens versus Predator, which should probably give you a good hint as to that title's graphical feature set too.

Regardless, you can find the full post at Ian's AMD 'blog.

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Forza Motorsport 3 goes gold, Xbox Live demo this month

I'm sure I'm not the only big fan of the Forza Motorsport franchise around these parts, and if like me you're looking forward to the release of the third game on the Xbox 360 then there's plenty to be excited about over the next couple of months.

Good news for fans of the Forza racing series as developer Turn 10 Studios has today announced that Forza Motorsport 3 has gone gold.

To coincide with that milestone, Turn 10 has also announced that a demo of the hugely-anticipated title will be made available via Xbox Live Marketplace on Thursday September 24th.

For more about the demo and the full game's release date, check out HEXUS.

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AMD release Catalyst 9.9 drivers

We're less than half-way into September, but already it's time for AMD's latest monthly Catalyst release for their range of graphics boards.آ Here's what's been fixed this time around:

- Anti-Aliasing support for Ghostbusters
- ATI CrossFireXâ„¢ support for Resident Evil 5
- Graphics corruption fix for Sims 3
- Catalyst Control Center - Basic now responds properly after exiting Quick Adjust Video Settings
- Edge enhancement and de-noise sliders in Catalyst Control Center no longer lags or appears out of sync with mouse movement
- Launching Hotkeys Manager in Catalyst Control Center no longer causes an unhandled exception error
- The "Desktop Rotation" page in Catalyst Control Center no longer shows additional information for the second display when the secondary adapter is connected
- HDMI is now detected properly as DTV (HDMI) instead of DTV (DVI) when the HDMI display is hotplugged for the first time
- Catalyst Control Center no longer displays error message when specific HDMI displays are hot unplugged and hotplugged back
- Intermittent failures no longer occur with MediaShow Espresso once a transcoding process has been completed

As always, you can download whatever flavour of Catalyst driver you require from the AMD Game web site.

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