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dennis13 // User Search
dennis13 // User Search
Feb 7, 2001, 7:21pm
It'll come out anytime now. Last month it came out like a couple weeks after
the month began I believe.
[View Quote]"internal affairs" <ji0414 at starlinx.com> wrote in message
news:3a81b707 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> It's already the 7th of February and the old January newsletter is still
up.
> I recall that monthly newsletters are supposed to come out every month,
> right? Is someone getting lazy over there not wanting to update the
webpage?
>
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Feb 8, 2001, 9:56am
And I noticed www.fileplanet.com had it out like a week or two earlier
before Microsoft posted it onto their site.
[View Quote]"builderz" <sawran at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3A81FDC4.411F306D at yahoo.com...
> Microsoft DirectX version 8.0a has been released on February 5. You can
> download it for Windows 9x & Windows Me systems at
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=27741 and for
> Windows 2000 at
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=27742. Please
> take this into consideration, however: "The DirectX 8.0a run time cannot
> be uninstalled. The installation process changes core components and
> makes numerous registry changes within your operating system. Microsoft
> does not support uninstallation." Microsoft may not support
> uninstallation, but I have seen freeware utilities that can successfully
> uninstall DX 8.x from systems, in case something goes wrong. I haven't
> encountered any problems upgrading to DX 8.0a on my Win9x, WinMe, and
> Win2000 computers and all of my previous games and D3D accelerated
> programs work fine with DX 8.0a installed (some users complained that
> newer versions of DX "broke" games and programs that were intended to be
> used with an older version of DX, but that has yet to happen to me).
>
> Also, new NVIDIA Detonator 3 reference drivers (version 6.50) for
> Windows 9x, Me, NT, and 2000 have been released. Many people in the AW
> community use NVIDIA based graphics cards (myself included) and would
> probably benefit from updating your drivers. The drivers will work for
> the following NVIDIA chipsets/GPUs/processors (whatever NVIDIA calls
> them): TNT, TNT2, Vanta (including Vanta LT), GeForce (including DDR),
> GeForce2, Quadro and Quadro2. Go to
> http://www.nvidia.com/products.nsf/htmlmedia/detonator3.html to download
> the drivers.
>
> Now, you might be asking, "What does this have to do with the AW
> community, Builderz?" Well, Active Worlds 3.x uses DirectX for 3D
> graphic acceleration and I know some people that have not upgraded to
> the latest version of DirectX yet. Furthermore, as I've stated above,
> many AW citizens use NVIDIA graphics cards, and updated drivers usually
> fix visual bugs or try to improve upon performance. Installing DX 8.0a
> and/or the new NVIDIA drivers may or may not improve YOUR framerate(s)
> in AW, but in certain areas they have for me. I just thought some users
> would like to know about this information.
>
> -Builderz
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