Archive for May, 2008

WC3Banlist 3.0 Download – Ban Noobs in Dota

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

WC3Banlist 3.0 is a great software for anyone who hosts Dota games and is sick of leavers. WC3Banlist is a local database (to which you can add people yourself) where you can ban any leaver or a backdooring noob and adding him/her in so next time they come in, you’ll get a message that they were banned due to which reason.

Latest Changes in WC3Banlist 3.0:

- extensive redesign of the interface:
- new snooping tab showing all facts about the game and their players
- slot reservations can be done without using commands
- completely revamped local database tab
- bans and infos have been supplemented with fields for date and time of the last change
- a new score database and rating interface (for private use only so far)
- a new game database, including management of screenshots and replays
- nice icons
- a first-run wizard (made by heftig) helps newbies to set up the elemental settings
- new commands for rating and capturing screenshots
- a NIC detector which helps to find the right network card for WinPCap
- $param variable for phrases and custom comments, allowing to place the additional text given behind the keyword when using a command
- friend list support (used for anti-download exceptions and reservations)

WC3Banlist | Official Website
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nHancer 2.4.1- Download | Improve your games performance

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

nHancer is a great tool which gives you access to nVidia’s alternative control panel with which you can tweak your gaming settings very easily and improves your gaming performance. nHancer lets you tweak all those 3D rendering settings which are normally very difficult to get right. nHancer is a tool to improve the usage of nVidia’s existing features and anyone using it will see the advantage of it. nHancer 2.4.1 is the latest update for the software and it’s latest Changes are:

nHancer

* New graphical design for the logos, the splash window and the about window, made by Eberhard Klauke
* Completely redesigned user interface for the profile management
* Support for all GeForce 9×00 cards and all GeForce (formerly Forceware) drivers up to 175.x
* Even the fixed settings in nVidia’s predefined profiles can now be altered, including the “forbidden” flag used in some profiles to disallow anti-aliasing. All profiles can also be reverted to their original state just by clicking on the “delete” button
* Added additional anti-aliasing modes for GeForce 8×00 and 9×00 cards. The mode “8xSQ” is especially interesting, it gives 2×2 supersampling and 2x multisampling
* Added new SLI modes for triple and quad SLI
* Added support for Hybrid-SLI
* Added anti-aliasing compatibility flags for DirectX 10
* Added OpenGL multi monitor and multi GPU options
* If nHancer is started with full administration privileges, it runs fine even without the nHancer support service. It’s possible to deny the installation of the service altogether during nHancer’s installation procedure
* A load of minor improvements and corrections

On a note, you would also need .NET Framework 2.0 to run nHancer

Download .NET FrameWork 2.0
Download nHancer 2.4.1 for 32 bit Systems – (1.5 MB)

Download nHancer 2.4.1 for 64 bit Systems – (1.5 MB)
nHancer | Official Website

WoWus 1.06 Download | Update your WoW Addons Automatically

Monday, May 19th, 2008

WoWus 1.06 is a great tool who maintains your World of Warcraft add-ons by downloading and installing patches automatically. WoWus 1.06 is a freeware World of Warcraft / WoW Updating System which scans your add-ons folder and displays all the available updates that you may need. WoWus 1.06 lets you choose which updates you want to install and WoWus will then download and install them for you automatically.

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WoWus 1.06 Changelog:

- Added: Change Location Registry Key to the Settings – General area.
- Added: Ping Server to Settings – Mirrors area.
- Added: Categories to Compilation Lists.
- Fixed: Save List wasn’t working correctly.
- Fixed: Foldernames and Dependencies columns were displaying incorrect information.
- Fixed: Crash when downloading certain corrupted addons.
- Fixed: Crash when column sorting if the Updated date column wasn’t visible.
- Fixed: Corrected Exclude Addon window to look correct in Windows Vista.
- Other: Removed Database Manager (was never enabled) and Addon Browser.
- Other: Changed deletion character in compilation lists to a question mark.
- Other: Management – Installed Addons Size column now show addon sizes.
- Other: Executable filesize is now almost 200KB smaller.

WoWus 1.06 | Download
WoWus | Official Website

Game Accelerator 7.3 | Download | Run your games Faster!

Monday, May 19th, 2008

Game Accelerator 7.3 is an amazing game optimization tool. Game Accelerator allows you to run your games at the best possible performance giving you more power to own =).. Game Accelerator tweaks and get rids of all the stability and performance problems that cause your games to run slower than the usual. Hard to believe? it shouldn’t be.. with Game Accelerator you can run your games faster (depending on your system’s hardware) with some easy clicks.

Game Accelerator 7.3 Features:

* Simple and easy to use
* Full support for all the latest hardware technologies, such as the latest CPUs and graphics cards
* Special game optimisation settings for over 1000 games including, Oblivion™, Half-Life® 2, Doom™ 3, World of Warcraft™, City of Heroes™, EverQuest™, Brothers in Arms™, Jedi Knight®: Jedi Academy™, House of the Dead™ 3, and many more
* Quick access to the game optimisation tools through the system tray icon
* Slim system monitor taskbar
* Frees up memory to create a stable gaming environment
* Maximises frame rates and screen resolution
* Easy configuration to suit your PC system
* Access to online program updates with Game Accelerator
* Integrated game-matching tool so you can join multiplayer games fast
* Integrated game-orient web browser so you can get game-related content with ease

Game Accelerator 7.3 | Download

Top Warcraft Replays – 17/05/08

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

Since, I’ve been suggested to provide good replays and top matches of warcraft “The Frozen Throne” along with top Dota Replays.. I’m starting a Top or Best warcraft replays from this point Onward. Any good warcraft or Dota match that I confront, be sure to find it here :)

I’ll start off with a cool replay for starters

MYM]Grubby(Orc)-vs-ПпGg.XyLigan(Humans) – Frozen Throne

Twisted MeadowsMap: Twisted Meadows
Length: 00:43:09
Version: v1.21 TFT
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How to play Warcraft through Hamachi

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Hamachi is a great freeware application which establishes direct links between computers, through lan or over the internet, giving you access to play warcraft etc without (almost) any lag. Hamachi works with your existing firewall and it doesn’t requires any additional configuration. It is simple, secure and one of the best ways to play games with each other.

hamachi

Hamachi Features:

• LAN over the Internet Arrange multiple computers into their own secure network, just as if they were connected by a physical cable.
• Remote Access Remote control any machine on your network with Remote Desktop.
• Files and Network Drives Access critical files and network drives.
• Zero-configuration Works without having to adjust a firewall or router.
• Security Industry leading encryption and authentication.

How to play Warcraft through Hamachi:

1 – Download Hamachi

2 – Install and setup Hamachi

“Join the network that you all will be using.”

3 – If you are the host, Run Hamachi and then run Warcraft.

4 – Host a game by going into local area network and create game.

5- Other players should have LanCraft which allows you to play TCP/IP games through Lan.

6 – Download Lancraft

7 – Type in the IP address of the host which is shown in Hamachi

8 – Start Warcraft and goto local area network. It will show the hosted game. Join and play.

Problems / Trouble shooting:

1- Open tcp ports 12975 and 32976 on your router.

2 – Set your Hamachi network device at top priority. Go to advance settings in your network device listing to do this.

3 – You may may need to open port 6112 on your router.

4 – Disabling firewall can help sometimes too.
Enjoy :)

GTA 4 Broke Guiness World Records

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

GTA 4 Broke all the guiness world records and now it’s the world’s highest sold out game in so little time! GTA 4 sold 3.6 million copies of and earned around $310 million in it’s first day of release. GTA 4 is now titled for the Highest Grossing Video Game in 24 Hours and the Highest Revenue Generated by an Entertainment Product in 24 Hours. These records establish GTA IV as the most profitable entertainment release of all-time, far surpassing other video game, film and book releases. According to Guinness World Records™, this is how the game stacks up against the competition:

Fastest-selling video game in 24 hours: Halo 3 at $170 million Fastest-selling theatrical movie in 24 hours: Spider-Man 3 at $60 Million Fastest-selling book in 24 hours: Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows at $220 million.

Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix | Video

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix is in the making and will nerf some of the original characters. The game itself is looking SO HOT!!!! Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix matches between certain characters are going to be more evenly balanced in this upgrade and maybe some hardcore fans might not like it.

Check out Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix Interview Video:

World Of Warcraft 2.4.2.8278 Patch Download (Direct links)

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

World of Warcraft 2.4.2.8278 has been released as we all know, Here is the direct download link to the patch (Source).

WoW-2.4.1.8125-to-2.4.2.8278 Direct Download Links:

WoW-2.4.1.8125-to-2.4.2.8278 | enUS-patch
WoW-2.4.1.8125-to-2.4.2.8278 | enGB-patch
WoW-2.4.1.8125-to-2.4.2.8278 | deDE-patch
WoW-2.4.1.8125-to-2.4.2.8278 | frFR-patch
WoW-2.4.1.8125-to-2.4.2.8278 | esES-patch

World Of Warcraft 2.4.2.8278 Patch

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

World Of Warcraft 2.4.2.8278 Patch has been released today. Check out the Changelog below.This patch will go live today and I’ll post the direct download link soon.

Changelog World Of Warcraft 2.4.2.8278:

Druids

* Talent: Primal Fury (Rank 2) will now be properly unlearned when it is untalented.
* Talent: (Restoration)- Natural Perfection will no longer proc by normal melee attacks.

Hunters

* Aspect of the Viper: This ability now grants an additional amount of mana each 5 seconds equal to 35% of the hunter’s level.
* Boar Charge: This ability will no longer make Growl cast immediately after it generates excessive threat.
* The pet ability Growl will no longer scale with pet Attack Power.
* Dire Ravens in Blade’s Edge Mountains now tameable.
* Scare Beast: The range on this spell has been increased to 30 yards and it is now instant cast.
* Tamed Drywallow Snappers now will know Bite 5 (instead of Claw 5.)

Mages

* Talent: Improved Blink (Arcane) now reduces chance to be hit by 13/25% and the duration of Rank 1 has been increased to 4 seconds.
* Completing the quest “Arcane Refreshment” will now properly teach the spell Conjure Water (Rank 7).
* Polymorph: Mounted creatures will no longer remain mounted while polymorphed.
* Mage Armor no longer reduces the duration of beneficial magic buffs.
* Molten Armor will now do damage while a damage absorption shield is active.

Paladins

* Flash of Light and Holy Light will now work properly with castsequence macros.
* Seal of the Crusader: This ability now increases the damage dealt by Crusader Strike by 40%.
* Crusader Strike (Retribution) will now properly receive a damage increase from Seal of The Crusader.
* Talent: Precision (Ranks 1-3) will no longer improperly display daggers and staves as a weapon class in the tooltip.
* Paladins that already have Apprentice Riding skill can now properly learn Summon Warhorse from the trainer.

Priests

* Fear Ward will no longer be consumed while under the effects of cyclone.
* Mana Burn: This spell can no longer trigger effects that require the target to be struck with a critical hit.
* Power Word:Shield now has the correct sound associated with it and can no longer be heard from large distances.
* Talent: Power Infusion will now consume the correct amount of mana when cast on yourself.

Rogues

* Ability: Blade Flurry: This ability can no longer hit critters as its secondary targets and will now use a proper range calculation for all secondary targets.
* Talent: Mutilate (Assassination) will no longer incorrectly appear multiple times in the combat log when used.

Shaman

* Ability: Frostbrand Weapon: Rank 6 damage has been increased very slightly.

Warlocks

* Drain Soul: Channeling of this spell will now always stop when a player target dies.
* Pets: Using a sacrifice effect to kill your own pet will no longer trigger effects that should only occur when killing an enemy.

Warrior

* Sweeping Strikes: This ability can no longer hit critters as its secondary targets and will now use a proper range calculation for all secondary targets.

PvP

* Arenas
o If a character’s personal rating is more than 150 points below the team rating, they will earn points based on their personal rating instead of the team rating.
o If the average personal rating of the players queuing for a game is more than 150 points below the team’s rating, the team will be queued against an opponent matching or similar to the average personal rating.

Professions

* All 23-hour profession cooldowns are now 20-hour cooldowns.
* All 4-day cooldowns are now 3 days, 20 hours.
* Enchanting
o Removed the cooldown from Void Shatter.
o Void Shatter recipe now correctly requires 375 enchanting.
* Engineering
o The Engineering supply item Delicate Copper Wire will now properly fit into engineering bags.
* Jewelcrafting
o Brilliant Glass no longer requires a forge.
o Brilliant Glass now has a small chance to make an epic gem.
o Quick Dawnstone, Reckless Noble Topaz, Forceful Talasite are now all available at the Quel’danas gem vendor.
* Leatherworking
o Completing the quest “The Journey Has Just Begun” will now properly teach how to make an Onyxia Scale Cloak.
o Greatly reduced the reagent cost for Glove Reinforcements. Also reduced the skill gain range slightly.

Quests

* The categories for the quests “Wanted: Sisters of Torment” and “Wanted: The Signet Ring of Prince Kael’thas” have been fixed to now properly read as Magister’s Terrace.
* The Shadowy Disguise will no longer be applied to druids while they are in Moonkin or Tree of Life form for the quests “Who Are They?”
* Jailor Eston and Jailor Marlgen for the quest “The Rescue” should now respawn more frequently.

Dungeons and Raids

* Black Temple
o Illidan will no longer despawn if a raid group wipes during his death speech.
* Karazhan
o Nightbane’s Charred Earth ability will now properly deal Fire damage.
* Magister’s Terrace
o Vexallus is no longer immune to taunt on Normal difficulty.
o Kael’thas is no longer immune to taunt on Normal difficulty.
o Wretched Skulkers, Wretched Husks, and Wretched Bruisers will now reset properly.
o Sunblade Imps will now reset properly.
o The doors in Heroic Magister’s Terrace will no longer respawn after a soft reset if a boss has already been killed.
* Sunwell Plateau
o Hellfire will no longer remove Dark Touched in the Eredar Twins encounter.
* Tempest Keep: The Eye
o Void Reaver’s Arcane orbs now generate combat log entries.

Items

* Arcane Charges now deal arcane damage.
* Abilities and trinkets that trigger after killing an opponent that gives experience or honor will no longer activate after killing mobs during bombing quests.
* Battlecast’s Garb should now properly grant pushback resistance in addition to interrupt resistance.
* Borderland Fortress Grips have had their stats updated.
* Botanist’s Gloves of Growth have had their texture corrected.
* Bow of Searing Arrows and Red Whelp Gloves will no longer break crowd control effects.
* Brann Bronzebeard’s Lost Letter: This item will no lonber display a damage range in its tooltip.
* The Cloak of Swift Mending now has a level requirement (70).
* Crusader’s Scaled Battlegear: Tooltip spelling corrected.
* Elixir of Demonslaying: This elixir now grants ranged attack power against demons as intended.
* Goblin Jumper Cables are no longer a trinket item.
* Hazza’rah’s Charm of Healing Haste rating reduced.
* Items that enchant other items no longer have tradeskill requirements (Mithril Spurs, Shield Spikes, Weapon Chains, etc.).
* The Helm of Fire has had its casting range reduced.
* The Magic Candle has had its casting range reduced.
* Many items sold by Consortium vendors are now bind on pick up: Formula: Enchant Weapon- Major Striking, Design: Delicate Blood Garnet, Design: Shifting Shadow Draenite, Design: Lustrous Azure Moonstone, Design: Thick Golden Draenite.
* Many items sold by Aldor reputation vendors are now bind on pick up: Design: Gleaming Golden Draenite, Design: Royal Shadow Draenite.
* Many items sold by the Shattered Sun quartermaster are now bind on pick up: Naaru Ration, Design: Ember Skyfire Diamond.
* The Lower City reputation item, Recipe: Flask of Chromatic Resistance, is now bind on pick up.
* Most Main-Hand weapons are now One-Hand weapons.
* Naturalist’s Preserving Cinch have had their stats updated.
* Nightfall now has a chance to fail on targets over level 60.
* Ravager: Judgements will no longer auto-refresh and break the effect from this item while its effect is active.
* Reins of the Black War Elekk spell and buff now correspond to the item name.
* Renataki’s Charm of Trickery has had its energy reduced.
* Rocket Boots Xtreme and Rocket Boots Xtreme Lite now properly share the same cooldown.
* The Romantic Picnic Basket will now display the blanket properly.
* Shard of Azzinoth no longer shares any cooldown with Shaman elemental totems.
* The socket bonus modifiers of some items will now properly display the bonus healing.
* The reduced cooldown of Shaman Nature’s Swiftness provided by the 4 piece set bonus from the Seer’s Ringmail Battlegear PvP armor will now apply properly.
* Shattered Sun Pendant of Might: The triggered effect from this item will no longer break Scattershot or other crowd-controlling affects. The visual on the Scryer version has been updated.
* Shifting Naaru Silver: Using this item no longer puts players into combat.
* Silithyst Dust: The bonus from turning this item in no longer works for players above level 63.
* The Skyshatter Helmet’s gem socket bonus will now properly reflect the plus damage in the tooltip.
* Shadowsong Panther will no longer prematurely despawn.
* Talasite Owl: This trinket will now properly restore full mana as described.
* Ten Storms Set: The Chain Heal bonus from this set has been reduced by 5%.
* Troll Male off-hand items are now the same size as the main hand item.
* Tauren weapons while sheathed have had their graphic readjusted to their pre-patch (2.4.0) state.
* The Winterfall Firewater buff is no longer dispellable.
* Wushoolay’s Charm of Nature Haste rating has been reduced.

User Interface

* Black Lotus will now show up under the Herb subcategory in the auction house.
* Primal Nethers will now show up under the Materials subcategory in the auction house.
* Mailboxes can now be tracked on the minimap.
* For additional notes on Lua and XML changes please visit the UI & Macros Forum.

World Environment

* Creature versions of the Polymorph spell no longer heal the affected target.
* The dragons in Blade’s Edge Mountains will no longer instantly knock you off your mount.

Mac

* Fixed a bug causing ATI kernel panics; all spell effects should now be visible.
* Weather effects are again visible on systems with ATI 2×00 graphics such as aluminum iMac.
* Fixed a bug that precluded use of the FireWire iSight microphone with voice chat.
* Symlinks can be used again for Interface and WTF folders and subfolders.
* Cinematics playback is working again.

Bug Fixes

* Fixed an issue where secondary sound effects would not work with the Use Hardware option enabled in the Sound options of the User Interface.
* Fixed an issue where attempting to use some instant cast spells with Auto-Dismount in Flight checked in the interface would fail.
* Items that have multiple charges will now properly display the amount of charges.
* Fixed an issue where chain damage spells were chaining to critters.
* Female Draenei horns will now correctly protrude through certain plate helms.
* The Vengeful Gladiator’s Rifle will now play the proper sound when used.
* The Cursed Vision of Sargeras now gives the buff, “Sense Demons” which can be canceled normally. Additionally hunters and druids are able to track two things at once while using the item.
* It is no longer possible for pets to get stuck in place after exiting the Spectral Realm in the Kalecgos encounter.
* Blood Elf Priest: Consume Magic will now require the buff to be active in order to work properly.
* Undead and Blood Elf Priest: Touch of Weakness will now properly reduce the melee damage of the attacker.
* Fixed an issue where some spells had extraneous Floating Combat Text messages when using the Auras option.
* Fixed an issue where sometimes debuff icons on a target did not scale properly to indicate the spells had been cast by you.
* Ritual of Souls (Warlock) and Ritual of Refreshment (Mage) will no longer be placed on cooldown without having completed the summon.
* Looting a boss while a player is outside of the instance will no longer cause the corpse to despawn in 2 minutes if the player still has loot on the corpse.
* Whirlwind now has the correct sound associated with it.

Source | World of Warcraft