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While many SF'ers currently have BF:BC2 fever (myself included), it's nice to see that SF's activity on TF2 hasn't really taken a hit. We're happy to welcome those of you who may be finding us for the first time through Bad Company 2. And now on with the show...
We have two new additions to the TF2 admins this month: Crush - 2fort Kool-Aid - Turbine
And let me say to the MANY of you who applied for BF2 admin, don't worry if you didn't get accepted. I know Fluffy's just waiting to see who sticks with the game over the long haul.
Well after extensive work from [--Rebo--], Oni, Brizad, Eclyps, Davy, and more, the new registration system is up. It does require Adobe Flash. It is also open only to Stompfest Subscribers and Admins at the start. If you have any issues, please PM me, [--Rebo--] or post in Stompfest LAN forums.
One of the discussions that arise anytime we bring up a new graphics card from ATI or NVIDIA is about which company has the better drivers. Well, this should help sway the argument a little bit. It would seem StarCraft II Beta players were among the first to notice low frame rates while using the latest drivers from NVIDIA, and further digging has uncovered that the automated fan-controlling part of said firmware was failing to act as intended. The result? Overheated chips, diminished performance, and in some extreme cases, death (of the GPU, we think the users will be okay). The totality of it is that you should avoid the 196.75 iteration like the plague, and NVIDIA has temporarily yanked the update while investigating the reported issues. Shame that the company hasn't got any warnings up on its site to tell those who've installed the update but haven't yet nuked their graphics card to roll back their drivers, but that's what you've got us for, right?