Although it didn’t have anything like the fancy wireless wands or web browsing capabilities of the Wii, there was always something quite enchanting about Nintendo’s N64. Ultimately it was never going to beat the PlayStation in terms of its market share, but the 64 still brings back fond memories of endless nights blasting the hell out of each other on Goldeneye, or missing dozens of lectures to concentrate on Super Mario 64. The chances are that as soon as the GameCube came along, your N64 went out with the rubbish – a decision you’ve probably lived to regret if you’re anything like us. Thankfully, Project64 helps you to transport yourself back to those halcyon days by allowing you to emulate all your old favourite N64 games on your PC.

The application is designed to play ROM files, which are essentially 'images' of the data inside an N64 cartridge. Graphically, the games are pretty good, although not quite as sharp as we remember, with a few too many jagged lines and blocky sprites for our liking. This is understandable, given that the games were originally intended to be played on a TV, which has a completely different way of perfecting pixels. Nevertheless, the overall visual experience is quite authentic, and is complemented by crisp audio reproduction.

In terms of its performance, Project64 is able to handle most ROMs without any problems and we didn’t experience any compatibility issues. Be warned though, that you’ll need a decent amount of RAM and a fairly good graphics card if you want to avoid any jerkiness when playing some of the more sophisticated games, such as Super Smash Bros. There are lots of options within the emulator for tweaking the visuals, including changing the screen resolution, running in full-screen mode or applying anti-aliasing. However, the audio functions are limited to a bog-standard volume control.

Thankfully, the fun of playing N64 games with your pals isn’t lost in this emulator and Project64 supports up to four players. As you can imagine, it’s pretty tricky fitting four people around one keyboard, so you’re best off using USB controllers if there’s more than two of you. Another nice touch is the inclusion of a cheat mode, which provides you with the opportunity to power-up your games or access special options, much as the old Action Replay cartridges used to. Each game has its own set of cheats, which is great for prolonging the life of a game or getting through particularly tough levels.

Project64 is the closest thing you’ll get to the N64 without actually buying the console itself and it performs better than other Nintendo emulators, as well as generic solutions such as MAME. It may not be a pixel-perfect recreation of the device, but it’s certainly entertaining enough to keep you off work for a few days.

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DirectX is a package of special libraries developed by Microsoft that attempt to improve and optimize audiovisual performance on your system.

These DirectX drivers enable you to make the most of modern graphic cards with 3D capabilities, which makes them generally advisable for multimedia tasks and an absolute must-have for gamers – in fact, DirectX is usually a compulsory requirement to install certain games.

Installing DirectX on your computer is as easy as launching the executable file, which in turn will download some necessary components from the web. Then just follow the wizard's instructions and you're done. This installer will keep you updated with any 9.0c and previous versions of Direct X. Direct X 11 is not available as a standalone download, but is downloaded as part of installation processes.

Note that, when installed, this new version will overwrite any other previous versions you may have of Directx.

DirectX is an indispensable package of drivers and libraries to achieve an optimal level of performance in games and multimedia on your system.

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Morrowind sets a new standard in gaming with its incredible graphics, in-depth gameplay, and innovative character development. In Morrowind: Enjoy hundreds of hours of gameplay as you explore Vvardenfell and its many exotic locations, including epic dungeons, detailed cities, and vast landscapes.

In Tribunal: Visit the capital city of Mournhold, the Clockwork City of Sotha Sil, each complete with new creatures, quests, armor, weapons, and much more.

In Bloodmoon: Venture into the frozen island of Solstheim, filled with even more challenges for high level characters, or become a werewolf and indulge your thirst fo rthe hunt.

System Requirements. Windows ME/98/XP/2000. Processor: 500 MHz Intel Pentium III, Celeron, or AMD Athlon o Memory: 256 MB. Graphics: 32MB Direct3D Compatible video card with 32-bit color support and DirectX 8.

1. DirectX: 8. 1. Hard Drive: 1GB free hard disk space. Sound: DirectX 8. 1 compatible sound card. © 2003 Bethesda Softworks LLC, a ZeniMax Media company.

The Elder Scrolls, Morrowind, Tribunal, Bloodmoon, TES Construction Set, Arena, Daggerfall, Bethesda Softworks, ZeniMax and their respective logos are registered trademarks or trademarks of ZeniMax Media Inc.

All Rights Reserved.

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Supports up to 4 players on a single machine, or. 16 players online. Five unique campaign environments with over 20 gigantic levels:Suburban Nightmare, High School Hell, The Shopping Maul, Cemetery Scary, The Dark Castle.

Over 70 different Monster enemy types. , each with unique attacks and strategies to keep players on their toes. Build and upgrade your home-made weapons.

from everyday parts scattered throughout the levels. Quickly alternate between melee and ranged weaponry. Look-up and look-down to attack enemies in 3 dimensions.

Interactive environments, full of destroyable elements and physical objects. , which can be used as makeshift barricades or even as weapons. Each campaign level has unique mission objectives,.

including physics-based puzzles, hold the fort¢‚¬ scenarios, and escape sequences. Powerful Boss Monsters await the player within each environment.

Drivable vehicles for 1-4 players including:Go-Kart, Hovercraft, Mech-Walker, UFO, and more. They can be acquired for bonus use during regular missions, and certain missions focus exclusively on vehicular combat.

P. ower-up items to transform player characters into one of four power monsters:Mummy, Vampire, Zombie, or Werewolf. Mix online and offline players, over Internet or Local Area Network.

Competitive modes include Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, and Survival, with over 10 unique competitive levels. Deadly traps and environmental hazards make each battle a different experience.

Minimum System Requirements. Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista. 1. 5 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor. 512 MB RAM (Windows XP). 1 GB RAM (Windows Vista).

800 MB free hard disk space. 128MB Direct3D compatible video card and DirectX 9. 0 compatible driver. DirectX 9. 0c (included),. Keyboard, Mouse. Broadband Internet Connection.

Recommended System Requirements. Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista. 2 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor. 1 GB RAM (Windows XP or Windows Vista).

3 GB free hard disk space. 256 MB Shader Model 3 Compatible,. Direct X9 Video Card. DirectX 9. 0c (included). Keyboard, Mouse. Broadband Internet Connection.

Broadband Internet Connection.

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All game objects are 3D, as well as the terrain itself. The units also possess unique, dynamic physical properties. For example, vehicles move faster on hard soil than they would in sand.

There are three parties in the game: the USA, Russia and Iraq. Each faction allows the player to select two campaigns, consisting of 5 missions on average.

Each campaign begins and ends with a rendered film scene. Features. Fully 3-D terrain. Day/night cycles and variable weather conditions affect the game and its strategy Highly detailed, realistic vehicles and weapons systems based on current military hardware.

Units gain combat experience during the fight. Kamikaze units "Technology Tree" weapons research system. Tunnels, trenches and interconnected underground tunnel systems) Ability to modify the 3D terrain (flattens terrain, create bulwarks or dig ditches using Army bulldozers) Build bridges.

Defence systems (missile defence, decoys and anti-chemical filters) Camouflage and jamming systems (Stealth Units etc. ) Electronic Battle System (eavesdrop on enemy communications, computerized firing control).

System Requirements. WindowsTM 9x, ME, 2000. PentiumTM MMX 300 MHz. At least 32 MB RAM. 200 MB free disk space. DirectX-compatible graphic card. Hardware-acceleration with Direct3D, OpenGL or Glide.

Mouse.

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There is no simple linear story in Gothic III. every game will be different and unique. but all will ultimately lead to you deciding the fate of Myrtana.

Features. Specially designed easy combat system. Clear main goals - story driven yet dictated by player's choice. Huge free-roaming world - virtually no boundaries.

Advanced human behavior AI for hundreds of individual characters with full audio dialogues. Countless side-quests for the player to choose from.

Over 50 different monsters and animals and dozens of human enemies. Over 50 different powerful spells and over a hundred different weapons. Unique class-free character development.

System requirements. Minimum. CPU: 2,0 GHz Pentium or 100% compatible. 1024 MB RAM. 3D-Graphic card: 128 MB Direct3D (DirectX 9. 0c April 2006 compatible graphics driver) Grafikkarte: ATI X1900 Series, ATI X1800 Series, ATI X1600 Series, ATI X850 Series, ATI x800 Series, ATI x700 Series, ATI x600 Series, ATI Radeon 9800 Series, ATI Radeon 9700 Series.

Windows 2000/XP.

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Paraben's Screen Capture can also convert your images into any of these file formats. This software can capture screen-shots of Direct X, Direct3D, regular windows, 3dfx Glide Games (Voodoo series cards), and a few video/DVD players.

With Paraben's Screen Capture, users can customize hotkeys to use as the start button for capture for easier use. This software also contains tools in order to modify capture images with various graphic editing functions including text insertion, color mods, highlighting, cropping, and others.

Capture and modification of screen-shots are covered by this softaware. This software is useful for PC owners in need of a screen capture software including a graphic editor.

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RivaTuner is a complete powerful tweaking environment, providing you everything you may need to tune NVIDIA GPU based display adapters.

The widest driver-level Direct3D / OpenGL and system tuning options, flexible profiling system allowing to make custom settings on per-application basis, both driver-level and low-level hardware access modes, unique diagnostic and realtime hardware monitoring features and exclusive power user oriented tools like built-in registry editor and patch script engine make RivaTuner's feature set absolutely unmatched.

RivaTuner supports all NVIDIA display adapters starting from Riva TNT family up to the latest GeForce 7 series and widest range of NVIDIA drivers starting from the oldest Detonator 2.08 up to the newest ForceWare drivers family.

In addition to complete NVIDIA hardware support, RivaTuner also provides limited support for display adapters based upon ATI RADEON 8500 and newer ATI graphics processors. All RivaTuner's features besides driver-level tuning options are also available on supported ATI hardware.

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Bsnes is a Super Nintendo emulator that's been around since 2004 and is known for its efforts to reproduce Super Nintendo games in pixel perfect accuracy.

The emulator also gives special focus to ensuring that your gaming experience is as bug-free as possible. However, in order to reproduce the speed and playability of SNES games, the RAM load of Bsnes is quite high and you may experience some freezes if you're working on a slower system.

It doesn't help that Bsnes heavily utilises Direct3D, OpenGL, DirectSound and DirectInput to get such good results but the payoff is probably worth if you're running a faster machine. However, even if you do have decent hardware, you'll probably experience a few bugs and crashes as it is still very much a work in progress.

If you had a Snes or loved the old console, then Bsnes is surely one of the most accurate emulators out there.

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aTuner is an easy-to-use tweak-tool for GeForce-, Quadro- and Radeon-graphiccards, to modifify aspects of your 3D configuration such as Direct3D.

The most important aspects you can change are Antialiasing, Anisotropic filter and the VSync configuration. aTuner is a practical tool which handles support for two monitors and extensive configuration menus.

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On the surface of it you might wonder why you would need to download a program that records images of your screen, let alone pay for one. The irony is it’s not really until you’ve used one, especially a capture tool as slick as Mr Captor, that you realize how useful they can be. Whether you’re a developer or designer that wants to collect examples of cool designs from the web, or just someone who wants to make a snapshot of your desktop for reference purposes, this nifty app will sort you out.

Mr Captor’s interface can be customized to display small or large buttons, both of which create an intuitive working environment to perform your captures. This simple GUI hides a surprisingly large number of features that could lead you to think screen capturing was a branch of science. You can perform operations such as capturing windows, scrolling to capture whole web pages, and full screen capture. It’s probably best to steer clear of the ‘Hide Before Capture’ option though, as it creates a lot of confusion trying to switch between Mr Captor and the program that you’re trying to capture.

Unfortunately this isn’t a piece of freeware, though the developer includes just about enough to justify the cost. For instance, there’s a video capture tool which records movement on your screen, allowing you to record your computer actions or even garner video from streaming sources or games. While it’s easy to use, the video quality isn’t perfect and it’s unable to record sound at present. However, with additions such as Flash slideshow creation, colour sampling and an image gallery, Mr Captor is worthy of its place among the big players of the screen capture world.

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ATITool is an overclocking utility designed for ATI video cards. It is characterised by the following features:

• No limits overclocking
• Finding maximum core and memory overclock by rendering into a Direct3D window and scanning the output for visual artifacts
• Temperature monitoring and fan speed control (on supported cards)
• Removal of Catalyst overclocking lock for 9000/9200/9550/9600 series
• Artifact scanning mode for non-ATI cards - use together with a 3rd party overclocking utility
• Loading a predefined clock profile on Application/Windows startup
• Hotkeys that can be used any time to load clocks from a profile
• 3D application detection (Direct3D 8, Direct3D 9, OpenGL) to overclock your video card only when required
• Gamma control

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OGRE (Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine) is a scene-oriented, flexible 3D engine written in C++ designed to make it easier and more intuitive for developers to produce applications utilising hardware-accelerated 3D graphics. The class library abstracts all the details of using the underlying system libraries like Direct3D and OpenGL and provides an interface based on world objects and other intuitive classes.

OGRE v1.0 [Azathoth] represents the culmination of 4 years of continuous development, resulting in what is now regarded by many as the leading open source real time 3D rendering engine. OGRE is packed with features to make your development life easier, whether you're making games, architectural visualisation, simulations, or anything else which requires a top-notch 3D rendering solution.

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