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Penumbra:Requiem released

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Penumbra: Requiem is an expansion for the horror game Penumbra: Black Plague and takes off where the last game ended. Requiem sees Philip, the game protagonist, falling deeper into madness and has to fight inner demons as well as outer ones.

Graphics driver updates by AMD, NVIDIA and Intel

AMD | NVIDIA | Intel 2.5.1

AMD released version 8.11 of its propietary graphics drivers.
Excerpt from the Release Notes:

  • This release of ATI Catalyst™ Linux introduces support for the following new
    operating systems:
    • RHEL 4.7 support
  • This release of ATI Catalyst™ Linux introduces support for display scaling to
    resize the display devices that support TV timings (480i/p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p)
    through either digital (DVI or HDMI) or analog (component) interfaces.
  • enables users to verify whether an application is running in ATI CrossFireX™ mode.
    The new option found, in the ATI Catalyst™ Control Center, will allow users to verify
    whether on OpenGL application is running in ATI CrossFireX™ mode,
    the “ATI CrossFireX” logo will be shown onscreen when the application is running.

NVIDIA released version 177.82 of its binary drivers.

Release Highlights

  • Added support for the following new GPUs:
    • Quadro NVS 450
    • Quadro FX 370 LP
    • Quadro FX 5800
    • Quadro FX 4800
    • Quadro FX 470
    • Quadro CX
  • Fixed a problem on recent mobile GPUs that caused a power management resume from S3 to take 30+ seconds.
  • Fixed a problem with hotkey switching on some recent mobile GPUs.
  • Fixed an image corruption issue seen in FireFox 3.

Intel released version 2.5.1 of its display drivers. For release notes and download urls read this message.
They also released version 2.4.3 of their driver. This is the last update in the 2.4.x line.