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All your questions about the great nemesis of graphics, and some of its cures, answered in one fell swoop. Would you kindly jump right in?
New stable and unstable versions of Envy were made available this week by Alberto Milone.
Envy is a really practical Linux (Debian-based) application written in Python that automatically detects your video card, and then downloads and installs the latest driver version available for it.
Envy is a really practical Linux (Debian-based) application written in Python that automatically detects your video card, and then downloads and installs the latest driver version available for it.
While most of the Santa Rosa announcements in the ast week or so were based on Intel or NVIDIA GPUs, it looks like HP decided to use the upcoming ATI Mobility Radeon X2600 in their high-performance 15.4" Compaq 8510p Santa Rosa notebook. This is the first sighting of an OEM…
At the same time as their announcement of the GeForce 8M family, NVIDIA also quietly released the GeForce 7050 PV + nForce 630a combo, which is a single-chip MCP/Motherboard GPU. It's an incremental update to MCP61, so there's not much new except HDMI and HDCP content protection, but NVIDIA claims…
Our reporter, Carl Bender, always intrigued by compelling displays of technology, interviews Scott Kirkland, technical director of Evolution Studios, the UK based makers of the WRC series on the PlayStation 2 and of Motorstorm on the PlayStation 3. The latter - and its engine - are at the centre of…
NVIDIA is releasing the notebook versions of their GeForce 8 Series GPUs today, specifically the G84 and G86. The highest-end model is the GeForce 8600M GT, which is unsurprisingly clocked slightly lower than the desktop equivalent but shares all of its new features, including PureVideo HD and DirectX 10 support.
Jon Peddie Research has released their Q1 2007 PC GPU Shipment numbers a few days ago, with the press release available on our very own JPR portal - in addition, Digitimes has posted an extra snippet not available in the press release regarding desktop IGP market share. It looks like…
Darryl Still, Director of Content at NVIDIA, has announced that he will be leaving the graphics company to take a position with Russian software publisher 1C. A desire to spend more time with his wife and family is also cited, and both sides insist that the separation is on…
Resurrecting a SKU descriptor they last rolled out over three years ago with NV40 and GeForce 6800 Ultra, NVIDIA have announced the pending availability of the GeForce 8800 Ultra. With the same PCB, memory arrangement and GPU setup as GeForce 8800 GTX, the Ultra bests GTX in clocks and cooler…
Nintendo announced last week their fiscal results, for this yearly occasion Stefan Salzl, our never-afraid-of-statistics reporter, decided to take a close look at these said results. The outcome is an in-depth review of the last year market performance of the Kyoto based company.
One of the most obvious accessories that missed the PlayStation 3
launch was the EyeToy, the USB camera. Sony Computer Entertainment
Europe (SCEE) corrected that situation when they announced yesterday
the arrival of their PS3 USB camera dubbed PlayStation Eye.
According to Bloomberg (Link) Sony may post the biggest 4th quarter loss in 4 years, mainly due to lower demand for Sony’s new PlayStation 3 game console.The projections would put Sony’s overall net loss at 75.8 billion yen ($630 million) in…
Media Create released the sales numbers for the weeks April 23th to 29th and April 30th to May 6th, i.e Golden Week, a string of public holidays, and the week preceding it.
NVIDIA released their financial results for Q1 Fiscal 2008 yesterday, which corresponds to the period from January 29 to April 29, 2007. It came up very slightly above analysts' expectations, with gross margins hitting the magic 45%. GeForces had a record quarter, but on the other hand nForces were…
N'Gai Croal in his "Level Up" gaming Blog has recently added substance to longstanding Wii GPU architectural rumors. Performing some detective work after claims made by Microsoft's Robbie Bach that the Wii is the graphical equivalent of the original XBox,…
NVIDIA officially announced the GeForce 7200 GS today, which remains based on the 90nm G72 core that also powers the 7300 and 7500 product families. It is incredibly similar to the OEM-only GeForce 7300 SE, but uses faster RAM. The catch? Half the pixel pipelines have been disabled, as well as one…
In a recent interview with eWeek, Robbie Bach, president of the Entertainment & Devices Division of Microsoft, talked about the public reception to XNA, the problems MS is facing in process of creating a viable publishing channel for the games created with XNA. Bach also talks about his business…
JPR's Kathleen Maher expounds on the state of OpenGL application performance under Microsoft Windows Vista in our latest JPR @ Beyond3D editorial. There's been more than a little confusion about how much of a first class citizen OpenGL is under Microsoft's latest operating system, so Kathleen takes…
In this week’s edition, we have lots of good stuff: earnings reports from console manufacturers like Microsoft and Nintendo to publishers like Ubisoft, Sony’s retiree Ken Kutaragi, the successor of the EyeToy camera and its new sibling for the PSP and last but not least news about the…
Microsoft has reported record profits for the financial quarter ended March 31st, with net income rising 63% relative to the year-ago period to $4.9 billion today. Revenues were up sharply as well, reaching $14.4 billion compared to $10.9 billion in Q3 of '06. Both results were driven primarily by the…
Sony announced Thursday (April 26) that Ken Kutaragi, the creator of the PlayStation and chairman and group chief executive officer at Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., will step back from his current position and will now serve as Honorary Chairman of SCEI and senior technology…