Welcome to LanPartyGuide.com!

Tricked out computers, Mountain Dew, pizza, cold cathodes, and PC games... OH it's a LAN Party! I've put together this website to help others get their LAN games up and working.

I've definetly had my fair share of trouble with lanparty games, so I figured I would share my knowledge with everyone.

Also, CONTACT ME if you have ideas!

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This beta driver supports all cards starting with GeForce 6 and up, including the upcoming GTX 295 and GTX 285. It also includes the 8.11.18 PhysX Driver.

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Does the PS3 play Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD MA? It's asked everywhere online, and I've got the definitive answers.

PS3 Audio FAQs

Another day, another driver. This driver is compatible with XP and Vista, both 32bit and 64bit versions.

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This download is a driver providing Microsoft® Windows Vista® and Windows® XP support for Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ series of audio devices.

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Another day, another driver. This driver is compatible with XP and Vista, both 32bit and 64bit versions.

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Here is the latest PhysX driver avaialble. Obviously, you need an 8 - GTX200 series card.

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A patch has been released updating Command & Conquer: Kane's Wrath to v1.02. This patch is squarely aimed at making 'numerous' economic balance changes across all 9 factions.

C&C: Kane`s Wrath v1.02 English Patch

Here is the latest patch from Ubisoft. This patch includes a widescreen POV fix for the single player mode of the game.

Far Cry 2 v1.02 Patch

Crytek has released a patch updating Crysis Wars to v1.3. This patch fixes an issue where custom assets in downloaded maps did not load correctly, and adds two new maps (new Power Struggle Map Frost, and New Team Instant Action Map Savanna).

Crysis Wars v1.3 Patch

This v1.06 patch offers new and improved automatch system! Automatch with lightning speed! Plus a balance exploit fix, no more "Crane Exploit".

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 v1.06 Patch (EN)

ATI has released a new Catalyst driver. Download it NOW you noobs!

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Windows XP

Very useful and informative tool. Displays everything there is to know about your videocard.

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This driver is compatible with basically all 6 - GTX 200 series cards. This includes the PhysX 8.10.13 driver.

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Since this driver doesn't include the newest PhysX driver, you can download that too. PhysX 8.10.29

This trailer fills me with so much joy and hope that it's hard to contain myself. The people who are making this game actually have taken the time to do it RIGHT, instead of just cashing in on the franchise by making some terrible POS game. THANK YOU!!

This v1.05 patch fixes several exploits and bugs, improves balance, provides assorted user interface enhancements, includes the DRM de-authorization tool and more.

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 v1.05 Patch (EN)

Here is the latest PhysX driver avaialble. Obviously, you need an 8 - GTX200 series card.

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Very useful and informative tool. Displays everything there is to know about your videocard.

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Another day, another driver. This driver is compatible with XP and Vista, both 32bit and 64bit versions.

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First of all, if you don't know what this is, then get out of your cave. A group of very talented people have been re-creating the entire original Half Life using the Source Engine. It has been in the works FOREVER, many believed it to be dead. GOOD NEWS, they released an official trailer on the 30th!! Coming 2009!! :D :D :D

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Obviously you wanted to play Starcraft today right? Well good news! Blizzard has released a new patch! The fixes/changes are as follows:

• In-game chat is now saved in replays. Note: whispers are not saved.
• Hitting the Escape key while in the chat room will clear your typed text.
• “/reply” (or just “/r”) will send a whisper to person who most recently whispered you.
• Fixed localization issues with “from” and “to” in whispers.
• Starcraft now only uses as much CPU as it needs to run smoothly
• Fixed an exploit which allowed Zerg players to gain minerals through mutations.
• Fixed an exploit which allowed Zerg players to recycle an upgrading building.
• Fixed an exploit which allowed Zerg players to extend their creep with a drone.
• Fixed an exploit which allowed Zerg players to move Drones over impassable terrain.
• Fixed an exploit which allowed Terran players to drop a nuke anywhere on the map.
• Fixed an exploit which allowed players to pause the game while in the pre-game lobby.

Starcraft 1.16.0 patch

Broodwar 1.16.0 patch

This driver is compatible with basically all 6 - GTX 200 series cards. This does not include any PhysX driver.

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PhysX Driver 8.10.13 just in case you wanted it too.

This driver is compatible with 8800, 9, and GTX 200 series cards, and claims up to a 13% performance boost over the previous 178 series drivers.

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Realtek's latest HD driver.

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This patch fixes various problems, but mainly addresses balancing issues.

Crysis Wars v1.2 Patch

This patch for Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 improves the reporting of online games to the ladder and player's stats. This patch also changes player names in online lobbies to be listed alphabetically.

C&C: Red Alert 3 v1.04 English Patch

ATI has released a new Catalyst driver. Download it NOW you noobs!

Vista

Windows XP

Here is the first patch available for Call of Duty: World at War.

Call of Duty: World at War v1.1 Patch

New DirectX! Download it to have the latest version and ensure compatibility for the latest games!

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This patch fixes a number of things, including the issue with keys remapping and other multiplayer tweaks.

Far Cry 2 v1.01 Patch

Here is the first patch available for Crysis Wars.

Crysis Wars Patch 1

This patch removes aggressive patch checks, which could result in slugishness.

C&C: Red Alert 3 v1.03 English Patch

Realtek's latest HD driver.

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Day one of the game being available, and a patch is already out. Congratulations EA, you fail.

RA3 1.01 Patch

Well apparently FarCry 2 has followed in the footsteps of Bioshock with its lack of true widescreen support. If you have a widescreen display, you are only viewing a cropped version of the 4:3 image. I have posted a fix on the FarCry 2 page.

FarCry 2 Page

Nvidia has released it's beta 180.43 drivers. Yes this post was just about the 180.42 the other day, but another newer beta driver has appeared. These drivers are optimized for FarCry 2, and also include some new options for PhysX and multi-monitor gaming. Only for GeForce 8 - GTX200 series! Includes PhysX 8.10.13.

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Just before the release of FarCry 2, ATI has released a hotfix which 'improves performance for DX9 on CrossFire' as well as 'improves performance for DX10 on single and Crossfire' configurations. There are links to both the Vista and XP version of the hotfix after the jump. Also, this game will be epic.

FarCry 2 ATI Hotfix

This latest beta driver from Creative only supports a select few X-Fi products. Please refer to the list after the jump.

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The latest version of CPU-Z has improved support for Intel Core i7, Intel Atom, AMD Kuma, and an alternate clock computation method based on 'duty cycles' for Intel Core 2 processors.

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Nvidia's newest graphics driver. It is WHQL certified, and includes the PhysX 8.09.04 driver. Compatible with 6 - GTX200 series cards.

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ATI has released a new Catalyst driver. Even though their previous driver was 8.9, they named the new one 8.10. Maybe they forgot that 9 comes after 8.9, not 8.10.

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GTX260 vs GTX260 Core 216: I have run some benchmarks to see the difference between the cards. Is it worth the extra money? Find out!

GTX260 vs GTX260 Core 216 Benchmark

Holy crap, it has been in the making FOREVER. Alvin Earthworm has FINALLY released episode seven! If you have no idea what I'm talking about, go watch 1 - 6 (6 is by far the best up to this point).

OMG CLICK HERE TO WATCH IT FINALLY

This is the latest beta driver available. Supports GeForce 6 - GTX200 series.

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Windows Vista 64bit

Fraps is a very easy-to-use, lightweight program that can display the framerate of any game. It can also be used to take screenshots, or even record video!

- Fixed games such as Stalker not being detected in 2.9.5
- Fixed video capture corruption in FSX on multi monitor setups
- Fixed codec crashes in large projects
- Fixed Fraps not starting with Windows when running on battery power
- Fixed Fraps closing when switching to battery power
- Fixed OpenGL video capture not recording correct viewport in some applications
- Fixed sound sync when recording started while rendering paused

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This is the latest driver for Realtek HD Audio. It supports Windows 2000, XP, XP 64, Vista, and Vista 64.

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This is the latest WHQL driver available. Reports of 7% or more gain in many benchmarks versus the 175.19 driver! Also includes the latest PhysX driver. Supports GeForce 6 - GTX200 series.

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Here's the newest release of GPU-Z. You can find out everything about your videocard, and what driver version you are using.

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This is the latest driver for Realtek HD Audio. It supports Windows 2000, XP, XP 64, Vista, and Vista 64.

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And with the official release of this game, comes my help section along with it. I have already created an Intro-video remover, and also have instructions on how to view the framerate.

ALSO: You no longer need to hack files to get the "very high" graphic settings! By default, all 4 tiers of graphical quality are available. Also, this game was eating up over 1.2GB of memory on my machine. That was ONLY the game.

Link to help section

ATI has released a new Catalyst driver. Supports custom 1080p @ 50z mode, OverDrive for QUAD CrossFireX, OpenGL 3.0, and many other fixes.

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New PhysX Driver!

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I managed to get my hands on a few cards, and decided to benchmark them.

See the results!

Apparently Blizzard has not forgotten about StarCraft. This new patch removes the need for a CD, as well as offeres a few other fixes.

StarCraft v1.15.3 Patch

StarCraft: Brood War v1.15.3 Patch

Fraps is a very easy-to-use, lightweight program that can display the framerate of any game. It can also be used to take screenshots, or even record video! This latest build features many compatibility fixes for Vista, as well as other general fixes.

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This is the latest Realtek driver for HD Audio. This driver is for Windows XP & Vista 32bit / 64bit.

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This is the latest beta driver available. Apparently some people are having trouble with Digital Vibrance, but others are reporting higher 3dmark scores. Also, it looks like it may only work with GeForce 6 - 9 series.

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The first image is Cosplay, the 2nd is from the actual movie...What else can I even say? :'( WHY HOLLYWOOD WHY?!?

ZOMG WTF? Yeah you read right. Ghostbuster 3 MOVIE. Not game. I know this is a game and lan party website, but what lan party goer does NOT like Ghostbusters? So stfu and read it. According to i09.com:

"The trades are finally announcing that Columbia Pictures wants to make the Ghostbusters 3 dreams come true. The original cast of New York's supernatural finest are possibly coming together to ask you all one more time: Who ya' gonna call?"

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(From guru3d.com) Fujitsu Simens released a new NFORCE Driver, for the whole nforce motherboard series. The new revision build is Version: 19.06

These drivers are WHQL signed 32bit nForce chipset drivers. They are part of the brandnew nForce chipset driverpacks v19.06 dated 08/13/2008, which obviously were designed for MCP79 chipsets, but they do support a lot of other chipsets too. The Vista drivers are compatible with all NF4-7 chipsets (except nForce4 Intel Edition). The included binaries are:

• Ethernet Driver (v67.86) WHQL
• SataIDE Driver (v10.3.0.39) WHQL
• RAID Driver (v10.3.0.39) WHQL
• RAIDTOOL (v10.3.0.39)
• SMBus (v4.67) WHQL
• SMU (v1.58) WHQL
• Audio Driver (v1.00.0.33) WHQL
• AwyMode driver (v.6.0.6000.107)WHQL
• Installer (v6.08)

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NVSCENE is the name for the creative section at NVISION. This is where independent parties are able to create things, let their ideas flow, and compete. Posted below are the top 5 demos to come out of the show, and the top demos to limit themselves to 4k!

Top 5 PC Demos

Top 4-kilobyte Demos

This program, also known as NiBitor, allows advanced users to tweak their graphics cards to perfection. This allows access to many hidden features such as memory timings, voltages, fan speed adjustment... along with access to the bios version, bios date, vendor etc...

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