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Epic Games – Homeworld Remastered Collection Free between 27th July 27th and 3rd August

This is an amazing free giveaway, the Homeworld Remastered Collection includes:

  • Homeworld Remastered Edition
  • Homeworld 2 Remastered Edition

Experience the epic space strategy games that redefined the RTS genre. Control your fleet and build an armada across more than 30 single-player missions. Choose unit types, fleet formations and flight tactics for each strategic situation. Utilize advanced research to construct ships ranging from light fighters to huge carriers and everything in between.

The Homeworld games have been painstakingly re-mastered with key members of the original development team and taking critical influence and assistance from the passionate fan community. The Homeworld Remastered Collection introduces Relic’s acclaimed space strategy games Homeworld and Homeworld 2 to modern players and operating systems using the newest sophisticated graphics rendering technology, plus a fully remastered score and new, high fidelity voice recordings by the original actors.

Key Features:

  • Build and battle with more than 100 space ships
  • Updated high-res textures and models
  • New graphical effects
  • Support for HD, UHD, and 4K resolutions
  • New audio mix using original source effects and music
  • Cinematic scenes recreated in beautiful high fidelity by original artists
  • Mod support and mod tools

Intel Rapid Storage Technology Driver Revision History (AHCI and RAID)

Intel Rapid Storage Technology Driver Revision History (AHCI and RAID)

19.5.2.1049.5
19.5.2.1049.4
19.5.1.1040.3
19.5.1.1040
19.2.1.1006
18.7.6.1010.3
18.6.1.1016.1
18.30.1.1138
18.1.0.1028.2
18.0.1.1138.1
17.11.3.1010.2
17.11.0.1000
17.9.1.1009
17.5.2.1024
17.5.1.1021
16.8.5.1014.5
16.8.0.1000
15.9.8.1050
15.9.0.1015
15.8.1.1007
15.7.0.1014
15.5.0.1051
14.8.16.1063
14.8.14.1063
14.8.14.1061
14.5.0.1081
12.9.0.1001
12.5.0.1066 – 05/03/2013 – http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=22271

11.7.0.1013 – 12/06/2012 – http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=22270

11.6.0.1030 – 09/13/2012 – http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=21852

11.5.0.1207 – 07/24/2012 – http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=21592

11.2.0.1006 – 06/11/2012 – http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=21407

11.0.0.1032 – 02/10/2012 – http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=20868

10.8.0.1003 – 11/11/2011 – http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=20624

10.6.0.1022 – 11/29/2011 – http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=20707

10.1.0.1008 – 11/29/2010 – http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=20104

Please feel free to comment on your results with the latest Intel Rapid Storage Driver

[RESOLVED] 32 Bit Application or Game with the /LARGEADDRESSAWARE option running on a 64 Bit Version of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows SBS 2008, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows SBS 2011 may generate an error message

When you run a 32 Bit Application or Game with the /LARGEADDRESSAWARE option on a 64 Bit Version of Windows you may receive one of the following errors

  • WSANO_DATA
  • ERROR_NO_DATA (232)
  • ERROR_NOACCESS (998)

These errors will occur if the application consumes large amounts of memory, the kernel denies read or write access to the address and returns an error to the application.

The Microsoft Knowledgebase article KB 2588507 provides a hotfix to address these issues http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2588507/en-gb

To apply this hotfix, you must be running one of the following 64 Bit operating systems:

  • Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2)
  • Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2)
  • Windows 7 (RTM)
  • Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 (RTM)
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1)

ATI / AMD Catalyst 12.1a Preview Driver Released

ATI / AMD have released the Catalyst 12.1a preview driver, you can obtain the new driver from here:

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/Catalyst121apreviewdriver.aspx

Release Notes from ATI/AMD are as follows:

The AMD Catalyst™ 12.1a Preview driver includes all of the features found in AMD Catalyst™ 12.1 Preview

Additional changes for upcoming update of Rage

  • Resolves some new texture corruption issues introduced by the latest version of the game
  • Improved performance ~5%
  • Smoother game play and reduces multicore sync points
  • Fixed mapbuffer failures when switching maps on 32-bit systems
  • Fixed a game crash when switching maps back and forth on 32 and 64bit systems

Happy Gaming 🙂