Сегодня выпущен патч для игры Diablo II. Патч содержит внушительный, по сравнению с патчем 1.12а, список изменений. Патч 1.13с доступен для PC и Mac платформ, для Original и Expansion версий игры. Список изменений патча (на сайте Blizzard пока не опубликован): A new Mystery has been revealed!
* Adventurers of Sanctuary are hereby warned once again, that a new challenge awaits you. Within Diablo's Bosses, spanning across the world from the ancient Monastery Catacombs to the Throne of Destruction, is where you'll find what you seek...
Major Bugs
* Fixed an item dupe bug. * Video improvements for Intel Mac machines with OS 10.5 or greater. * Fixed an issue where some players could kill other players while in town ("TPPK"). * Fixed an issue where some players could disconnect other players when they had too many active states. * Fixed two issues where players could stack auras in an unintended way.
Minor Bugs
* Uber Mephisto now checks for both Uber Baal and Uber Diablo to be killed before spawning summoned minions (Before he would only check for Uber Baal). * The game will no longer stop and then restart the game music after the window loses and then regains focus. * Fixed an issue where the game window would minimize when running in windowed mode when it lost focus. * Fixed an issue where the game window wouldn't center properly when it was created. * Fangskin should now properly drop loot in Hell difficulty. * Fixed an issue where auras were not re-applied to your mercenary after it was resurrected. * Fixed an issue where if you had two items which provided auras to a mercenary and you unequipped one, the aura from the remaining item never became active. * Fixed an issue where the Paladin class runeword 'Principle' wasn't having all of its stats applied properly. * Fixed an issue where the Paladin's Charge ability would become locked out if Holy Shield faded while charging. * Fixed an issue where the Barbarian's Leap ability could become locked out if they were hit when they started to leap.
Specific changes/improvements
* Respecialization is now possible! Completing the 'Den of Evil' quest will now additionally reward 1 free respec which can be saved. Players who have already completed this quest should receive 1 free respec in Hell difficulty. * Increased the drop rate of high runes. * Support for blit scaling in windowed mode. The game can now be maximized to the largest 4:3 resolution supported (hooray widescreen users). * Some rare drop items now have an orange color. i.e. Runes and items required for Uber Tristam. * Modified the gold bank limit to be a flat cap not bound by level. * Removed the requirements to create a hardcore character. * Greatly reduced the explosion damage dealt by Fire Enchanted monsters. * Uber Mephisto and Uber Baal's summoned minions no longer give experience. * Removed Oblivion Knight's Iron Maiden curse. * Hellfire Torch Firestorm proc rate has been reduced to 5%. * Users can now toggle the display of text over the Health and Mana globes by clicking on the bottom area of each orb. * When creating a single player game, each difficulty button is now bound to a unique key: Normal 'R', Nightmare 'N', and Hell 'H'. * The 'Enter Chat' Button in the battle.net waiting room is now bound to the 'Enter' key. * Added the windows system buttons to the game window (MIN, MAX, CLOSE). * Added new command line parameter '-nofixaspect' which allows users to not fix the aspect ratio to 4:3 when maximizing in windowed mode. This lets the game 'stretch' to fill your monitor. * Added support for '-sndbkg' command line switch. This enables sound in background. * Added the following aliases for pre-existing command line options, '-nosound', '-window', and '-windowed'.
Revised Skill balance for Player Character classes
Amazon o Immolation Arrow - Increased radius of Explosion effect by 33% and Immolation effect by 50%. o Immolation Arrow - Explosion effect damage increased by 20%. o Immolation Arrow - Increased base duration by 33%. Assassin o Drgon Claw - Synergy receives 4% additional damage per point of Claw Mastery. o Dragon Talon - The bonus to Attack Rating per point has been increased to 35. o Shadow Master - Increased resistance range per point from 5-80 to 5-90. o Combo points awarded by combo moves now last 15 seconds, up from 9. Barbarian o Whirlwind - Reduced initial mana cost by 50%. o Masteries - Changed critical strike chance from 0-25 to 0-35. Paladin o Blessed Hammer - No longer ignores resistances of undead and demons. Druid o Werebear - Damage bonus increased by 15% across all ranks. o Werebear - Increased health by 25% and armor by 1% per point. o Shockwave - Synergy from Maul adds 5% damage per point. Necromancer o Blood Golem - Removed negative shared life effect (player no longer loses life when the golem takes damage). o Corpse Explosion - Increased base damage dealt from 60% - 100% to 70% - 120% of corpses health. o Poison Nova - Increased base damage by 15%. Sorceress o Firewall - Synergy receives 1% damage per point of Inferno and 4% per point of Warmth. o Blaze - Synergy receives 1% damage per point of Firewall and 4% per point of Warmth. o Hydra - Increased base damage by 15% per rank. o Hydra - Increased base speed of Hydra projectile. o Hydra - Reduced cooldown by 25%.
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Компания GigaByte опубликовала некоторые подробности о процессоре Intel Core i7 875K, который будет первым процессором от Intel с разблокированным множителем.
Частота процессора составит 2,93 ГГц, то есть как и у Core i7 870, остальные характеристики почти идентичны у обоих процессоров. Единственным отличием является то, что у Core i7 875k будет полностью разблокирован как и множитель, так и FSB.
Эти два четырёхъядерных процессора основаны на 45nm архитектуре Lynnfield Nehalem со степпингом B1. Компания Gigabyte утверждает, что материнская плата Gigabyte GA-P55-UD5 (Rev. 1.0) с BIOS F6 готова к работе с процессором Core i7 875K, который должен появиться в начале июня.
Почти за неделю до выпуска видеокарт NVIDIA с поддержкой DirectX 11, Unigine выпустила вторую версию своего уже достаточно популярного графического бенчмарка Heaven.
Unigine Heaven поддерживает большое число 3D API, включая DirectX 9, 10, 11 и OpenGL, но самым популярным является DirectX 11, так как при его использовании можно протестировать возможности тесселяции с помощью специальных сложных сцен с интенсивным использованием тесселяции.
Версия 2 является расширенной версией первого Heaven и включает ряд дополнительных геометрических тестов, содержит большее число объектов, больше динамического освещения, SSAO и т.п. Новая версия также позволяет установить уровни тесселяции: режимы "extreme" и "moderate".
Вышла новая версия драйвера Realtek HD Audio Codec R2.45, который предназначен для всех аудио устройств ее производства, а также для аудиочипов Realtek, установленных на видеокартах ATI Radeon.
Это официальный пакет драйверов, который включает файлы драйверов и центр управления для Realtek HD-аудио устройств, работающих в среде Microsoft Windows XP, Widnows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 - x86/x64.
Заявлена поддержка: - Для Windows Vista WHQL: ALC882, ALC883, ALC885, ALC888, ALC889, ALC861VD, ALC660, ALC662, ALC663, ALC665, ALC670, ALC260, ALC262,ALC267, ALC268, ALC269, ALC272, ALC273, ALC275, ALC887 - Для Windows 2000/XP WHQL: ALC880, ALC882, ALC883, ALC885, ALC888, ALC889, ALC861VC, ALC861VD, ALC660, ALC670, ALC662, ALC663, ALC665, ALC260, ALC262, ALC267, ALC268, ALC269, ALC272, ALC273, ALC275, ALC887 - HDMI WHQL: видеокарты ATI Radeon
Новая версия R2.45 вносит изменения в панель настроек.
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