We've got a quick follow-up to our survey. We've got four questions about Steam Game Night and what you'd like to see for reviews and benchmarks. Thanks for your feedback, and we appreciate your help.
Update: I lied, it now has five questions.
The WSGF recently posted a site survey, to help direct us as we move the site forward in our 10th year. I want to thank everyone who took the survey, the response was more than what I had anticipated and am grateful for everyone who took the time to give us their opinions. With just a week of being live, the survey has collected 250 completions. Again, I am surprised at how quickly we amassed these results, and I am very grateful.
I thought I would share the results here, and provide some of my thoughts as well. Additionally, we've posted a short follow-up survey, to ask some questions we forgot and get a few more bits of info. You can click on any graph to embiggen it.
Looks like AMD is on a roll, and now we get updates faster then ever!
Keep up the good work AMD. This we like.
Windows 8 includes an updated “DirectX 11.1 Runtime” that supports Direct3D 11.1, updates Direct2D and DirectWrite, DXGI 1.2, and a revision of the Windows Imaging Component (WIC).
Portions of the “DirectX 11.1 Runtime” are being made available on Windows 7 Service Pack 1 via the Platform Update for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (KB 2670838) included with the Internet Explorer 10 Release Preview for Windows 7. This includes the updated components above, but is limited to WDDM 1.1 drivers on Windows 7.
I got wind that the Dell U2913WM 21:9 Ultra Widescreen was available for sale this morning, by way of a tweet this morning. It pointed out the DP 1.2 OUTPUT on the panel, and linked to the product page. In addition to the DP 1.2 output, it also has a Mini-DP input. This would be welcome to all the AMD users who have Mini-DP outputs, and the MacBook Pro users (like myself) who have Thunderbolt outputs.
I've got a panel on order, and will start testing games (and playing) as soon as it gets here. Expect a lot of news, videos and updates once we get the panel in house.
It is a kart racing game loosely based on the 2012 Formula One season, with circuits redesigned to feature loops, jumps and short-cuts. It is a spin-off from the traditional Formula One video games, and is the first kart-racing game developed by Codemasters.
WSGF member Thebutcher has posted an interesting thread here outlining a possible open source future for SoftTH. If you're not familiar with SoftTH, it is a software multi-monitor solution that dates back to the days of the Matrox TripleHead2Go (TH2Go). Hence the name "SoftTH" (Software TripleHead). It was originally a software solution that allowed gamers to enjoy multi-monitor without the pricey investment of a TripleHead2Go.
Fast forward a few years, and AMD and NVIDIA both offer native hardware solutions for multi-monitor. However, SoftTH still offers one key unique feature - it allows for "non standard" configurations beyond 3x1 with identical monitors. SoftTH is known specifically for it's support for "PLP" (Portrait-Landscape-Portrait), which many users with a 20" - 30" - 20" configuration. All three monitors are 1200px tall, with the horizontal resolutions being 1200-2560-1200 pixels. It also allows for 1+3 configurations, and for all three monitors to be included in the gaming desktop. In fact, SofTH can support basically any configuration of monitors you can throw at it.
The one downside is that it only supports DX9, which is a little long in the tooth now. Thebutcher has broached the idea of making SoftTH open source, so that the WSGF and SoftTH communities can support the future development. He has posted a forum thread outlining this idea. If you are interested in supporting this effort, please hit up the source link and reply to Thebutcher.
WSGF is a forum where user created content is of highest regard. Featured on WSGF for a while, is a review series called "Ramblings of a Moron", made by the seasoned gamer, Cynagen, who brings a fresh way of reviewing games. In his series, you can see what impressions he gets from various games.
Personally, I enjoy very much reading those, since game reviews often can have a stale, repeatative approach to them. His reviews gives something new and personal I often find lacking in regular game reviews.
Feast on his ramblings here:
Medal of Honor: Warfighter is a first-person shooter video game developed by Danger Close Games and published by EA Games. It is a direct sequel to 2010's series reboot Medal of Honor (2010) and the fourteenth Medal of Honor instalment in the series.
The game picks up where Medal of Honor (2010) left off from before as it reveals Tier 1 operator Preacher returning home to find his family torn apart from years of deployment. The campaign also reveals that the terrorist enemies have become operational the United States.
I saw today a advertisement image for the new MSI GX60 laptop that comes equipped with the AMD 7970M GPU. In that advertisement it showed eyefinity running 3 monitors from the laptop directly by using the HDMI, Dispaly Port, and VGA connections together.
This may not be the very first laptop to do this, but its the first that I have seen that really is catered to mainstream users due to price and availability and also a sign perhaps that we may expect more of this in the future.
It takes a lot of power to run eyefinity, so I would not expect the latest and greatest games to run great on a system like this but if your into older games especially things like say the source engine games, this could be an interesting idea for you.
