Fragfests and Imbas

Friend: hey i’m going into town for lunch. lugawan. wanna tag along?
Me: impeccable timing
Me: (my wife) just left
Friend: 
Friend: buying lunch?
Me: i didnt hear what she said; was bz gunning down people
Me: for all i know she mustv said
Friend: i’m leaving you now?
Me: "i found another man; im leaving you"
Me: i think I nodded
Friend: yeah hahahahaha.
Me: 
Friend: idjot.
Me: 
Me: ok lang 1st naman sa team roster
Me: 
Me: geek
Friend:

Update: Forceware 163.75 is now out. It has already passed WHQL testing. Download the Windows XP/200 32-bit version HERE. It supports GeForce FX, 6, 7, and 8 series GPUs. 

All those months of being driver-starved checking Nvidia’s site again and again and coming up with nothing; now that I am so busy, they deluge me with driver after driver after driver…..

The irony. 

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At 5am in the morning I whooped and did a quick jig. (No, you would not have wanted to see that.) I stopped, grimaced, gazed at my unit’s ceiling, and hoped the hardwood flooring above muffled my triumphant outburst. The neighbors continued to doze on, oblivious of the implications this piece of information will do for my PC’s performance.

News from my favorite site, Koroush Ghazi’s Tweakguides.com:

Forceware v162.18 is now out! 

For someone who has been stuck with v93.71 for some months now (and wasn’t even able to install v94 because of the rigors of work), this is, to say the least, wonderful, wonderful, news. I feel like Noah when the first drops fell. That ATI Catalyst sun has been shining for much too long.

Why am I so excited? "Why You Should Change Your Video Drivers" (for John, Anthony, and my cousin Scott) coming out in the early days of August! The reasons will be explained there.

For now work, work, work.  

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OLD UPDATE (about Forceware v162.18):  For now, do not change your video drivers to this version. I just installed it and even though it is a WHQL version, it has a bug. I cannot play any videos. I could play games just fine but my Animatrix CD gave only blacks, blues, and reds.

There’s a temporary fix here, if some readers have installed this version.  No FPS gains from this one but it delivered the most vibrant ingame colors I have ever seen so far. Still, with the video playback bug in it, it’s not worth installing.

First time this happened. What happened there at Nvidia?