Posted 10/29/08 at 02:15:17 PM by Paul Lilly

ATI recently updated its Catalyst driver package, and now the company has released a hotfix to address problems gamers might have been having in Far Cry 2, Stalker Clear Sky, and Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway. Specific fixes include:

• Performance boost in Far Cry 2 with DX9 and CrossFire
• Performance boost in Far Cry 2 with DX10 on both single-card and CrossFire setups
• Performance boost in Stalker Clear Sky with DX10 and DX10.1 on both single-card and CrossFire setups when running "higher resolutions"
• Addresses a corrpution issue in Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway on the 'Black Friday' level

The hotfix applies to both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Vista and XP starting with ATI's Radeon X1600 series and moving on up to the Radeon HD 4800 graphics cards.

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Posted 07/17/08 at 07:29:26 PM by Mark Edward Soper

In a recent Handler's Diary entry on the SANS Internet Storm Center website, Lorna Hutchison points out that the survival time for unpatched systems is currently around 4 minutes. In other words, if you connect an unpatched system to the Internet without a router or firewall, it will probably be infected in about 4 minutes.

Whether you work in a large enterprise, small business, or are the network guru to your own home's PCs, the pressure to connect a new system right now can be overwhelming. To find out how you can head off trouble by hardening a new (or reloaded) system before it gets its first whiff of the Internet, join us after the jump.

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Posted 07/09/08 at 03:02:23 PM by Mark Edward Soper

Tired of Windows Vista telling you you can't spell? Update KB955020 adds "Friendster," "Nazr," "Obama," "Klum," and "Racicot" to the system's spell-checker (the update also works for Windows Server 2008).

If you run automatic updates or have checked Windows Update manually today, you probably have this update already. But if not, or if you're terminally curious about exactly what gets changed in your system, go to the KB article for more information and links to updated files.

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Posted 06/06/08 at 01:52:49 PM by Mark Soper

It's that time of month again, so here's a sneak preview of what Redmond will be patching come June 10th, as well as updates for Vista Media Center, Windows XP users with AMD processors, and others.

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Posted 02/11/08 at 07:47:18 PM by Mark 'Marcus_Soperus' Soper

After a quiet January, February's Patch Tuesday brings a dozen security updates. Find out what Windows versions and other programs are up for fixes - and why.

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Posted 01/25/08 at 05:22:46 PM by Mark Soper

Windows XP has problems with big (over 4GB) SDHC cards - and guess what the new Canon DSLR uses? Here's how to get the update you need.

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Posted 01/07/08 at 04:39:55 PM by Christopher Null

We can't make Vista perfect, but our guide to tweaking the OS will certainly make it much more tolerable.

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Posted 12/11/07 at 05:22:14 PM by Mark Soper

Windows Vista SP1 includes 479 security and hotfix updates. Find out what's changing.

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