Browse by Tags

• .Net
• Visual Studio

• Splinter Cell Double Agent -- Not On My System (Yet)

  Due to Santa being nice enough to stuff a gift certificate to Best Buy in my stocking this year, I recently picked up Splinter Cell: Double Agent . What I didn't do was read the fine print: You must have a video card that supports shader model version 3.0 . I have an ATI 800XL, which is a pretty bangin' card for the money I paid for it 2 years ago, however it doesn't support v3.0...SCDA comes crashing down within 30 seconds of firing it up. *sigh* The reviews over on the Newegg page aren't very encouraging... Posted Jan 02 2007, 10:58 PM by Jayson Knight with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Gameage, Irks

• XNA Studio Express -- Requires C# Express?

  While I don't plan on being the next John Carmack , I was pretty stoked to see that XNA Studio Express went RTM recently. Except for one small problem...XNA will only run on machines with C# Express installed; the full blown non-express SKU's (Professional, VSTS, etc) aren't compatible. I do realize that an XNA Professional release is in the pipeline, but I'm not going to install C# Express just to play around with the XNA Express bits (even though it's very tempting). I think it's kind of silly... Posted Dec 13 2006, 02:32 AM by Jayson Knight with | with no comments Filed under: .Net, Visual Studio, Gameage, Irks