AMD DX11 Leo Demo

For those of you that haven't seen it yet, AMD has posted its DX11 Leo demo for anyone with the hardware to run it. The demo weighs in at 733MB but you shouldn't have any issues getting it, the link is pretty damn speedy right now. I'll have a video posted soon for those of you that want to see more than just screenshots.

The Leo demo showcases a real-time, DirectX® 11 based lighting pipeline that is designed to allow for rendering scenes made of arbitrarily complex materials (including transparencies), multiple lighting models, and minimal restrictions on the number of lights that can be used -- all while supporting hardware MSAA and efficient memory usage. Specifically, this demo uses DirectCompute to cull and manage lights in a scene. The end result is a per-pixel or per-tile list of lights that forward-render based shaders use for lighting each pixel.

This technique also allows for adding one bounce global illumination effects by spawning virtual point light sources where light strikes a surface. Finally, the lighting in this demo is physically based in that it is fully HDR and the material and reflection models take advantage of the ALU power of the AMD Radeon HD 7900 GPU to calculate physically accurate light and surface interactions (multiple BRDF equations, realistic use of index of refraction, absorption based on wavelength for metals, etc).

999 Players in One Online FPS Match

Game technology developer MuchDifferent set its sights on a Guinness record, hoping to bring 1,000 players into a single multiplayer FPS battle. While the studio didn't quite reach its goal, it came damn close. At its peak, 999 players took part in the Man vs. Machine shootout yesterday, an accomplishment MuchDifferent heralds as the future of multiplayer gaming.

At 4:04 p.m. CET on Sunday, the Man vs. Machine battle reached 999 players, just one player away from MuchDifferent's lofty goal. And then the server crashed due to the number of players trying to get into the game. Once the game was back online, numbers reached a peak of 980 players.

Networking

A few days ago while I was doing some tutorials I fired up the NAS for some files and couldn't believe what happen next. The follow day before I picked up a CAT5 Networking cable to get the NAS back online, that same day I had no problems streaming videos to the WDTV Live from the Server until I tried accessing files from Windows 7 to Windows XP. So started running command after command switch after switch and I still couldn't access the damn NAS, after spending about two hours search forums I was just about to nuke the fucking drive. Also at the same time came across another problem in the Credential Manager Virtualapp/didlogical something I knew shouldn't of been there so had to deal with that shit Too.

Long story short all I had to do was set the fucking time on the Windows XP machine witch was set to August 2009 9:32AM, it came to me after I got access to the NAS I added faster Ram PC6400 800MHz from PC5400 667MHz to the system three weeks before and reset the CMOS because the system wouldn't past POST. Even Microsoft couldn't answer the Question or fine a fix to the problem so many people where having but Google did check out the links below and have a look through the eyes of a PowerUser.

Note: Always set the CMOS before installing any OS on the HDD and make sure you correct it after clearing the CMOS, I also had some problems with Windows Update because the Date and Time was set incorrect again I couldn't believe something so simple that could cause so much Havoc.

AMD Reveals Ultrathin Prototype, Roadmaps

Thursday during AMD's Financial Analysis Day, Engadget spotted an "ultrathin" ODM reference unit from Compal featuring AMD's upcoming Trinity APU. The chip was believed to be one of the lower variants -- either 17W or 25W -- housed within an 18-mm form factor. This particular model was reportedly one of many prototypes currently being shopped around to OEMs.

According to the site, the prototype featured plenty of connectivity onboard including two USB 3.0 ports, mini-DisplayPort and HDMI mounted on the left, and audio jacks, another USB port, Ethernet and power mounted along the right. AMD is looking to sell the final product at half the price of Intel's ultrabook form factor, ranging from $500 to $600 USD.

Gmail Man

Google's new privacy policy hasn't gone unnoticed, since sparking some controversy about how much the search giant will know about you. Microsoft has seen this as a prime opportunity to pounce on the offensive, kicking up some dirt towards Google's way in a new ad campaign. Through its social media channels, however, Microsoft has catapulted mud straight towards Google.

Microsoft posted to its YouTube, Twitter and Facebook pages a video originally made for the company's internal Global Exchange sales conference last summer. Now it's been officially promoted as another poke towards Google's new privacy policy.

Windows Media Center

So yesterday I was doing some tutorials from Seven Forums and for some reason I ended up in the Windows Media Center I think it was over a icon that can be added to Windows Media Center. Anyway I knew you could watch Netflix through WMC, so I went ahead with the idea of watching netflix through WMC and I wish I hadn't.

1. Add the Windows Media Center to Windows through Windows Features Type control appwiz.cpl,,2 in Run did that no netflix app under Movies.

2. Started searching the forums only to fine people with the same problems this is what I did next and remember that it started all over a icon. WOW

Quote: " Hi Ron, Many thanks for your suggestion! I did as you specified and for the first time, I got the Media Center updates to run without any errors, so there is obviously some issue with the DNS servers. I went to dnsservers.org, noted the recommended dns servers' IP addresses and entered the values for my network adapter. This seems a bit ridiculous as the MC program should never be that fussy anyway. So, after getting the updates to run without any errors, I still had no netflix or internet tv. I then did the following:

1) Removed Media Center using Control Panel>Programs and Features>Turn Windows Features on or off.

2) Restart computer. Then go to C:\Program Data\Microsoft\ehome folder. Remove all files and folders in ehome

3) Go to Control Panel>Programs and Features>Turn Windows Features on or off and activate Media Center.

4) Run Media Center Update from DOS prompt as administrator as follows: C:\windows\ehome\mcupdate.exe -u. Media Center update icon does not appear.

5) Run Media Center Update from within Media Center using "Download Now" tab. Media Center update icon does not appear.

6) Restart computer. TV guide now shows up in Media Center, but not Netflix or Internet TV.

7) Close Media Center. Run Media Center update from DOS prompt as Administrator. Media Center update icon now appears as update runs.

8) Restart computer. Start Media Center. Netflix and Internet TV now appear

I believe I've done all of the above steps many times before with one exception. I first went to dnsserver.org and followed your suggestion exactly.

Once again, MANY THANKS FOR YOUR SUGGESTION! I CAN'T BELIEVE I FINALLY HAVE THIS FIXED!!"

Source: experts.windows.com

3. The only thing I didn't do was the DNS aldo internet TV now appeared but still no Netflix app.

4. Click the link on page 6 from experts.windows.com to support.microsoft.com ran a few Commands again and the netflix app showed up under Movies to the left as it says in the tutorial from Microsoft, clearly there's a problem with the 64-bit versions of Windows 7.

5. Next I singed in only to fine more problems with it, netflix it self was under maintenance but it played fine using Firefox but not in Internet Explorer or Windows Media Center.

6. Made sure sliver light was installed and it was, so I though it could have something to do with the singing it and found this link the same error message I was receiving.

A) Authorization Failure
Our apologies - We could not authenticate your request.

7. After trying all the above witch took about a hour I never got netflix to play through Windows Media Center at the end. I said to my self that this part of the OS was going to be last, after all this shit to play a simple video from the internet and couldn't even do that. Plus when I fired it up today the damn netflix app was no here to be seen, what a fucking mess. You want to watch netflix just do it through the browser and forget about Windows Media Center fuck what a mess. I'll come back to this after I'm done with the other tutorials witch wont before awhile. Also I forgot about the first link that lead me to all this shit answers.microsoft.com again the above did fix the problem but the netflix app disappeared form Windows Media Center the following day.

What did I learn from this mess stop jumping all over the damn place and two switchs.

A) Start /wait "Means wait for the command to finish."
B) cd /d "Use the /D switch to change current drive in addition to changing current directory for a drive."