So when I’m firing my ar15 carbine at the zombies in left4dead, the half-life engine is (almost certainly) doing a ray-hit-versus-triangle test, testing the line out of the barrel of my gun against the triangle mesh that is the zombie in front of me. When it detects a hit (and it will, because I’m ...

Confirmed: Subversion is not about streets!

More to the point, the whole demo integration thing with the 360 is wonderful – downloading demos is as easy as it could be. No installation issues, no bittorrent, no searching for a download mirror that doesn’t cover my screen in adverts and make me click “yes download this file now” and “no I don...

This is still an issue with 1.71. Hasn't anyone else run into this?

I can never watch any of these videos. I've got XVID installed but the file never plays: I can drag the slider along, but it won't move of its own accord and never get any audio or video. Is there anything wrong with providing a WMV version too?

There doesn't seem to be a 1.5 for the standalone version yet..?

Driver version 1.65, the latest. The menu "music" never fades out and plays behind the in-game sound. No obvious issues apart from this!

DX10?

Could you guys set up a feed for blog posts? They aren't widely-reported enough for me to be able to rely on news sites. And I'm never going to remember to check by myself.

A warning to anyone with the same issue as me (and a word in IV's ear!): Defcon does not like Catalyst AI when set to Advanced - at least on mobility X1800 cards.

If your screen looks like this, move the Catalyst AI slider, found under the 3D menu option, to Standard.

Steam makes no difference. This affects all of IV's games on my system, standalone or Steam.

I just caught Defcon using 100MB+ of memory, when I hadn't even started a game. I'd closed it from the taskbar on account of the poor performance and it duly disappeared - but didn't actually terminate and kept eating more and more MB.

If you are talking about my rolling demo, then no. I was referring to framerate.

Edit: dear god, even Uplink crawls! What did I do to deserve this?

Things have improved for no apparent reason. The menu still runs at with single-figure FPS, but it is far more responsive and I was even able to start a rolling demo - at which point everything collapsed again, but it still wasn't as bad as it had been at first. Only change has been the recent Steam...

I can run the games if I forced windowed mode. However, neither scratch even 1FPS on the lowest settings. There is no way Defcon's menu is this demanding - it's all down to CPU overload anyway, even for Darwinia. There was a thread about this sort of thing on dual core systems last time I was here, ...