shacknews I finally got around to sharing this little trick with a friend the other night and thought a lot of you guys might enjoy it. All Quake3 engine based games have the ability to play in widescreen letterbox mode. I'm not talking about adjusting your FOV, but actual non-distorted widescreen mode [ screenshots here !]. 856x480. The only trick is getting your videocard to recognize the resolution correctly. That takes a bit of .INF or registry magic

overclockers When I do general Q3 testing of the CPU/FSB/RAM, I like to take the video card as much as I can out of the picture.. so I run with everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) off. That includes r_picmip 10, sound off, cg_draw2d 0, and in 640x480.

Anyway, after profiling these dll's, I gained 50 FPS, from 400 to ~450fps in 'four'.

In a demo I made in NV15Demo I went from 91 to 96 fps. This is in WinXP on my AMD Tbird 1.0 @ 1.61, 140fsb, 4x agp, full memory tweaks, etc.

While these do not give any better 3DNow support, it definitely does help Tbirds. When I get an AthlonXP this Christmas, I'll re-compile it with -QxiK. I would expect further improvement, due to the XP being able to use SSE.

A new version of The All-Seeing Eye has been released and it's upto v1.6.5!

Those complaining that the just-released Medal of Honor: Allied Assault demo only offers deathmatch will be pleased to see this.
Bluesnews got word of a hidden teamplay mode that can be accessed within the demo. This mode is available when the game is launched with the following command line:

mohaanetdemo.exe +set developer "1" +set ui_console 1 +set g_gametype 2 +map dm/mohdm6

UPDATE: There are a few cacheind error but the level loads and you can choose a team!! To play with a maximum of 16 players and more than 1 use this shortcut:

MOHAANetDemo.exe +set developer "1" +set ui_console 1 +set g_gametype 2 +sv_maxclients 16 +map dm/mohdm6

Medal of Honor Hidden Mouse sensitivity.

1) Look into the folder MOHAANetDemomainconfigs
2) Back up unnamedsoldier.cfg
3) right click on unnamedsoldier.cfg -> select open with... -> chose wordpad or notepad or whatever other editors you have.
4) Search for seta rate "20000", set it to "40000"

Big Thx to AlliedAssault

Electronic Arts has now released the multiplayer demo of Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, allowing you to try out 2015's first-person shooter. The demo weighs in at a massive 133.9 MB and offers one deatchmatch level set in the "war-torn cityscape of Stalingrad," three Allies and three Axis player models, and the full range of weapons.

Blue's News have got their hands on the brand new Return to Castle Wolfenstein Single-Player Demo! :D

The demo includes two missions from the beginning of the game, titled "Escape from the Castle" and "Surviving the Catacombs" complete with the associated cinematics.

Sierra has a new patch for AVP2 available. The patch brings the gane up to version 1.0.9.2. This patch is also available from the game's auto-updater. This patch contains: Fixed the crash bug on the Join screen. Added a "[D]" to the end of server names that are dedicated... Added player rename functionality mid-game (i.e. ' Spanky') Added PageUp and PageDown support to the server list. Added mouse wheel support to the server list. Added double click join support to the server list. Fixed a couple of bugs that could cause long waiting times on the server list menu. Made it so you can hit Escape to cancel a server list refresh. Plus several other bug fixes. Download it here: FTP: AVP2_US_092.EXE - FTP 1
FTP: AVP2_US_092.EXE - FTP 2

Activision's Caryn Law sends word that the Return to Castle Wolfenstein single-player demo will be released tomorrow. So for those of you who haven't bought it yet, keep an eye out on their

Hehe, due to some technical problems (meaning not a big deal, BUT couple of beta testers responsible were put in front of punishing squad and kicked in the butt several times), there were two different versions of the installer of Serious Sam: The Second Encounter Demo, uploaded to various mirrors on the Internet. Now, depending on where you have downloaded it from, running a dedicated server from the start menu might or might not work (would report that the level does not exist).

EA Games to release a one level internet multiplayer demo of Medal of Honor MP this Friday!

The demo will contain one of the eleven huge maps that will ship with the full retail version on January 22, 2002. You can choose the type of model that you want to be in the game, including Axis military models, and select from 14 different weapons including the Browning Automatic Riffle, Bazookas and the Colt .45.Each demo game will accommodate up to 32 players

For screenshots and more information on multiplayer modes for the retail version, please click here

Croteam and Take Two Interactive have now released a playable demo of Serious Sam 2: the Second Encounter,Serious Sam2 is a high-adrenaline action packed shooter.

Entcity was browsing on Dicreet's website ( The makers of 3ds max ) and there they stumbled over some pretty interresting new stuff :

Based on the world's best selling 3D modeling, animation and rendering platform, 3ds max?, gmax? is actually two distinct products

This 1.16f patch for Civ3 fixes a lot of errors and introduces a lot of new features. The most important error it fixes is the scroll error for some nVidia cards/drivers (important to nVidia owners offcourse). On the page there is a lot of detailed information: Civilization III patch 1.16f

Blue's News now offers downloads of a demo player for Return to Castle Wolfenstein that plays RtCW multiplayer demos from within Windows Explorer, can play multiple selected demos, supports demo looping, timedemo, and free RtCW configuration options for playing demos. The program has been tested with W2k Pro SP2 and WinXP Pro.

Download Wolfenstein Demo Utility

XGR outlines the changes that will be made to Return to Castle Wolfenstein to allow it to be released in Germany. Citing "my source over in Germany," they report, the German version of the game will have "replaced the Nazis with a cult called The Wolves" and "renamed Heinrich Himmler to Heinrich Höller."
A post on Shacknews also quotes CEO Todd Hollenshead who basically confirms the story, going on to explain the fairly obvious reasons behind the move.

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Here is a great demo to the sequal of the popular third-person action/adventure title. As Raziel, return to Nosgoth in your relentless pursuit of your Vampiric enemy, Kain.Put the bite on a few vampires in the demo for the action-packed Soul Reaver 2

Download Soul Reaver 2 Demo

Rage3d reports that Croteam has released a new patch, version 1.05 for their shooter Serious Sam. What´s new?
added support for DirectX 8 due to clipping optimizations for non-T&L cards and GeForce2 series, mirrors now work much faster in OpenGL added iFeel support for tactile feedback mice support for ATI Truform (N-Patches) both in OpenGL and D3D added support for playing Ogg Vorbis music files added MOTD (Message Of The Day) on server better support for MODs in Serious Editor and some more fixes and improvements... Read more and download by using the above link!

Beachhead 2002 follows on the success of BH2000 with ease of use and hard-core, non-stop 3D shooting action in a photorealistic and accurate environment. Players will be assigned to an inland defense perimeter, protecting a command post to repel an expected airborne assault. It has more depth and game play variations, smarter troops and with more weapons to choose from. Continuos day and night fighting with searchlights and night flares and much, much more.

Download BEACHHEAD 2002 Demo

The Strike Force team have updated their Unreal Tournament military mod to version 1.65 . The 57MB upgrade requires you to have version 1.60 installed, and offers 7 new maps and new weapons.

BlueNews are reporting that a post in German on Swiss gaming site GBASE ( here's a Babel Fish translation ) has word that "Aufgrund von 'unvorhersehbaren Verzögerungen'" ("Due to 'unforeseeable delays'"), the German version of Return to Castle Wolfenstein will not be available when the game is released in the rest of Europe on Friday , but is now expected around the middle of December. Based on past occurrences, it is easy to speculate that this is due to long-standing German sensitivity to the distribution of violent video games, which are certainly likely to be heightened in this case, as the game is also based on their participation in World War II.