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Long-Awaited KOTOR II Mod Restores Missing Content, Faith in Humanity Bioware's original Knight's of the Old Republic (KOTOR) was a smash hit on both the XBox and PC when it launched back in 2003. Anxious to mint fresh cash from its Star Wars IP, LucasArts commissioned the second title: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords. Obsidian Entertainment was tapped for the task and given just a year to develop a sequel to what was considered one of the best (if not the best) games of 2003. KOTOR II began promisingly; early stages of the game offered at least as much immersion and character development as the original. As players progressed, however, the unfinished nature of the product became increasingly apparent. KOTOR II doesn't reach a climatic finale so much as it just stops. That cheesed some Star Wars fans off. Once modders realized that Obsidian had actually shipped a tremendous amount of half-completed content, characters, storylines, and even revisions to the game's ending, the chase was on to bring these goodies back into the game and "restore" KOTOR II to what its designers originally envisioned. Nine times out of 10, these ambitious mod projects go nowhere, but KOTOR II is an exception. As of a week ago, the Restoration Content Mod (maintained and headed by DeadlyStream forum member Stoney) entered open beta. Ars Technica has details on the mod's full contents, but this is no dialog tree update with a few animations tossed in; the changes introduced into the game are themselves significant. On a related note, the Restoration Content Mod is not the same thing as the Sith Lords Restoration Project that's headquartered over at Team-Gizka. That particular mod is still under development (the team lead has sworn to finish it, though he gives no time frame). Team-Gizka's restoration is rumored to be even more complete than the open beta of RCM that's now available—hopefully gamers will have the chance to download both flavors and compare them. KOTOR II was a good game that could've been great—hopefully the RCM pushes the title over the wall. http://www.deadlystream.com/showthread.php?t=339 http://www.deadlystream.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=10 mirror 1 http://www.beer-garden.org/bg2/modules/wfd...d=1&lid=197 mirror 2 http://swmod.com/mods/TSL_Restored_Content_mod_vers_14.rar 1. Description: ---------- Restores a lot of cut content in KOTOR (TSL) 2. Install: ---------- IMPORTANT NOTE! THE INSTALL WILL FAIL IF THIS IS NOT DONE FIRST! 1) The following files in the "Modules" folder, located here "C:\Program Files\LucasArts\SWKotOR2\Modules" by default must have "Read-only" unchecked for the installer to function properly: 211TEL_dlg.erf 401DXN_s.rim 401DXN_dlg.erf 702KOR_dlg.erf 702KOR_s.rim 853NIH_s.rim The following files are located in the LucasArts\SWKotor2\lips folder 301NAR_loc.mod 303NAR_loc.mod 601DAN_loc.mod 602DAN_loc.mod 605DAN_loc.mod 610DAN_loc.mod To do this quickly right click on the "Modules" folder and select "Properties". Under the "General" tab near the bottom uncheck "Read-only" and click the "Apply" button (if "Read-only" was not checked skip to step 2). A new window will pop up. Select "Apply changes to this folder, subfolders, and files" and click OK. 3. Uninstall: ---------- The files listed below may have been modified during the installation of this mod: 4.Mod compatibility: Prologue - Peragus - Harbinger Correction Mod (1.1) by Ulic Sion's Arrival to Peragus Fix (2.0) by Zbyl Coruscant - Jedi Temple by DeathDisco 5.Mod Incompatibility: As of now M478 will not work with this mod. USM will need a patch Distribution Notes: ---------- A special ThankYou to Kreia/Jinger for allowing us to include his Dantooine_Rebuilt_Enclave mod as part of this restoration. He did an awesome job and there was no way to improve it! Thank you to Usagi of the Voice Acting Club http://voiceacting.proboards.com/index.cgi? For her role as Kaevee. A big Thanks to SWfan28 for a lot of the scripting and help he gave. As always thanks to Stoffe for the TSL patcher and the help over at LF and to Fred Tetra for creating Kotor Tool and the many others at Lucas Forums for their help. Thanks to Lord of Hunger for Beta testing and ideas to improve the mod. Thanks to HassatHunter “zealous bug hunter” for his bug finding abilities. Thanks to TriggerGod , Pra_Viilon, Garfield ,JoeW J,Vpuppet and DarthDac for Beta testing Thanks to DeadlyStream for giving us space on his forums This mod may not be modified or distributed without the explicit permission of the authors. THIS MODIFICATION IS PROVIDED AS-IS AND IS NOT SUPPORTED BY BIOWARE/OBSIDIAN ENTERTAINMENT OR LUCASARTS OR ANY LICENSERS/SPONSORS OF THE MENTIONED COMPANIES. USE OF THIS FILE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK AND THE ABOVE MENTIONED COMPANIES OR THE AUTHOR IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE CAUSED TO YOUR COMPUTER FOR THE USAGE OF THIS FILE. It is recomended to have a fresh install of TSL and official patch 1.0b the movie and sound patches are optional. Also it would be best to start a fresh game with no old saves and please follow the readme or the install will fail. Other than that enjoy and this is for all of you!

New single-handed controller full circle from pong to this now we can drink beer and game again :vio37:

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You talking about pictures? Be our guest with that, we our a pretty open group. If you want to interview any of the founding members I also do not see that as being an issue, I am down and I am use the rest our too. Awesome. Thank you so much, this is going to help a TON with my production. I might arrive early and do a couple interviews then. Friggin' psyched for this. I've got L4D (sucked not having it at the April LPE) and I'm getting BF2 this week... any other recommendations specifically for the LAN? orange box for TF2

Oh, awesome. I'll be sure to get time off for it. I'm also looking to haul my Canon XL-2 along and get some B-roll footage of the event for a production I'm doing this semester, would that be okay? I'm also looking to do an interview with someone who knows a bit of history surrounding the WNYGC. Wouldn't be more than 15-20 minutes of their time. If you'd like, I can contact whomever it may concern in private with more details. i charge 100 dollars an hr minimum 1 hr for my image to be used during an event :vio37:

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Diamond thermal paste: update http://hackaday.com/2009/09/06/diamond-thermal-paste-update/ http://www.overclock.net/cooling-experimen...tml#post7116893 To create the heater, I soldered 7 x 1.8 Ohm resistors together in series. I then wrapped the resistors with copper braid and soldered the braid to a small steel plate. The steel plate was purposely unpolished in order to see the performance of the TIM's. A power supply of 19v was attached to the resistors providing an output of 28.6W. This may seem small to some, but the results can be scaled up easily, and this was the maximum the resistors could handle. Using a multimetter, the exact values for voltage and resistence gave an output of 29.8W. The heatsink is an old OCZ model that has three heat pipes passing through a copper block at the cpu end. The heat pipes then pass through aluminum fins at the fan end. I actually didn't have a motherboard that could mount my heatsink so I used a piece of wood, I hallowed out a cavity in the wood for the resistors to fit into and then mounted the steel plate on top of the wood. I then made anchors for the heatsink to attach on either side of the steel plate. The contact area between the steel plate and the heatsink is 3.5cm X 3cm. On the steel plate off to one corner was securely attached a thermocouple which ran to a multimeter to read its output. I drilled a small hole in the copper block of the heatsink and ran another thermocouple inside. This thermocouple was connected to a dedicated display module. I used a small amount of Ceramique on the thermocouples to ensure good contact. Each thermocouple was calibrated such the results at any given temperature differed by less than 0.3F. Materials: Air - I ran the system completely dry as a control. AS5 Ceramique Dow Thermal Fluid - Dow Corning make their own special TIM. It is just silicone oil and zinc, but it is very viscous (90,000cs). Pure Silicone Oil - Also from Dow Corning but has a viscosity of 10,000cs. DC is very generous with their free samples. Silicone and Diamond Slurry - This is the DC silicone oil with 100,000 mesh diamonds add with a ratio of 1:1 oil to diamind by weight. Dow Fluid w/ Diamonds - This is the DC thermal fluid with 100,000 mesh diamonds add with a ratio of 3:1 fluid to diamond by weight. Inventgeek.com Remake - Lastly, I attempted to follow the procedure of the inventgeek article. I used 100,000 mesh diamonds and for the silicone grease, I used one with PTFE particles already in it: click. The diamond to everything else ratio was 5:2 by weight. Procedure: To make the DIY TIM's, I placed a small glass container onto a scale, measured out the amount of diamond and grease, and then mixed it by hand using a toothpick. There was no danger of inhalation as mentioned in the inventgeek article. The particles were sufficiently dense and clumped together that they didn't go anywhere. I then finished the mixing using a dremel and a special attachment that made it like a batter mixer. For all of the TIM's that I made for myself (except for the inventgeek batch), I placed them inside of my vacuum chamber to remove air bubbles. (warning, I'm going to get nerdy here) I wanted to know what pressure I need to pump my chamber down to in order for a majority of the bubbles to be removed. In order to do that you need to combine the Young-Laplace equation with the Ideal Gas Law. You end up with a third order polynomial. I solved the equation with matlab for different bubble radii. As you can see below, even with absolute zero pressure, some bubbles will only double in size. Meaning that in a very viscous fluid, they will not float out that much faster. With the vacuum chamber I created, I can get down to 26 to 26.5 in Hg vacuum. This means that for my altitude most of the bubbles greater than 10 um will join and float out. When vacuuming the TIM's I left them in the chamber for an hour to get the majority of the bubbles out. (It is really cool when you pump down the chamber and your TIM looks like it's boiling. I actually did end up boiling water using the chamber to verify that the pressure readings were correct.) For the actual testing, I first tried out all of the different fluids on the test rig to both see how each of them would spread and to thoroughly get the surface contaminated by all of them. I wanted to make sure that the order in which I did the experiments did not effect the results. The procedure for a standard test was to clean the steel plate and the heatsink with a dry rag. Then I would clean both surfaces using rubbing alcohol and a lint free cloth. I would place a dime sized amount of the TIM in the center of the steel plate, and then press down on it with the heat sink until it could be attached to the wood. Once the heatsink was attached, the fan was turned on and allowed to run for 30 mins to cool down the entire system. The test rig was positioned in the center of an air conditioned room. The ambient air temperature was taken to be the average of the two thermal couples after the 30 min cool down. This was consistently ~71 F and was used as the starting temperature in the data. The heater was then turned on and a stopwatch was used to track the time. Measurements were taken at 1,2,3,4,5,10,15,20,25,30,and 60 mins. Each TIM was tested three times and the average of all three runs was used. The order of the testing was random with each of the three runs for a particular TIM spread out over the course of all testing. In the preliminary testing, I experimented with spreading the TIM across the entire heatsink with a razor before attaching it. That always caused an drastic decrease in performance. For this reason, that method was not used. Results: T1 is the steel plate temperature. T2 is the heatsink temperature. The margin of error is +- 0.3 F. The first figure shows the temperature difference between the heat sink and the ambient air temperature. As you can see for all the runs that even though the different TIM's caused different delays in reaching an equilibrium temperature, they all reached the same equilibrium temperature. This is expected since the amount of the heat it is outputting (31W) is the same regardless of the TIM used. The time axis is graphed in log form in order to see all the data points. The lines in between the data points are just for continuity. This image has been resized. Click this bar to view the full image. The original image is sized 1170x760. Next is a figure showing the the temperature difference between the steel plate and the ambient air temperature. The worst performing TIM is obviously air. Next is the mixture mimicking the directions from inventgeek. It was the only DIY TIM that was not put in the vacuum chamber. This image has been resized. Click this bar to view the full image. The original image is sized 1172x752. Lastly, we have the temperature difference between the heatsink and the steel plate. I've excluded the air run so that we can distinguish the results better. As you can see at equilibrium, AS5, Cermaique, and the Dow Corning Thermal Fluid were all very close to one another with AS5 being the best out of the group. For pure silicone oil, you can see that it is better than the inventgeek mixture. This is most likely because of the air trapped inside of the mixture. It could have also been because the mixture was so viscous that it did not thin as much as the oil. Once we add the diamonds, we improve the performance of the silicone oil but not by that much. Perhaps if I added more diamonds, the performance would increase, but the mixture was already pretty viscous and dry. When we added diamonds to the Dow Thermal Fluid, it improved its performance. It was actually the best performing out of all of them. The catch is that it did not improve it by all that much. As you can see, there isn't much room for performance anyways. The temperature difference between the heatsink and the steel plate for the best performing TIM's was in the 5-6 F range. This image has been resized. Click this bar to view the full image. The original image is sized 1173x760. Conclusion: The adding of diamonds did improve the performance of the of both the silicone oil and DC Thermal Fluid, but it did not improve them by that much. A few things might be effecting this. The mixtures might not be mixed well enough leaving clumps of diamonds. The problem with increased mixing is that it introduces more sub mm and um sized bubble. And since we cannot remove the smallest of these bubbles, increased mixing might lead to worse performance. Also, the amount of diamonds may have been too small. The problem with adding more is the viscosity of the slurry increases. Since slurries behave like solids and liquids, this may effect the mixtures ability to thin once the heatsink is added. Playing with juts these two variables adds two orders of magnitude to the complexity of the problem and that is why I did not explore them further. However, it is safe to conclude that you will not stumble upon the optimal mixture as inventgeek seems to suggest they did. The best performing TIM turned out to be the DC Thermal Fluid with diamonds. It preformed slightly better than AS5. One may wonder why I didn't add diamonds to AS5. That is because I'm not made of money. It may have also decreased performance if I added too much or if the mixing added too many bubbles. But in the end, performance could not be improved by that much anyways. If we take the temperature difference between the the plate and heatsink to be the average temperature across both interfaces, then the overall performance of the best performing TIM's are 4700-5700 Watts/F*m^2. Even if you were to drastically improve that, since the temperature of the heatsink is fixed by its own performance, you'd only be able to get 4-5 F improvement at the very extreme. These results are for ~30 Watt output but they can easily be scaled up. For 60 watts, the temperature difference for the heatsink to ambient would roughly double, 6.5F --> 13F. The same would happen for the temperature difference between the steel plate and the heat sink 5F --> 10F. So with the same ambient temperature of 71F, doubling the heat output with take the heatsink equilibrium temperature from 83F to 94F. Reducing the area, will have a similar effect. When you look at this as cost vs performance, the Dow Corning Thermal Fluid wins hands down. They sent me 1 kg of it for free. It works better than Ceramique and will be good enough for 99% of applications. As you can see the diamonds did not perform any sort of miracle as reported by inventgeek, nor can it. All of the inconsistencies in their procedure and advice (don't add the diamonds to a zinc oxide grease as I did for the best results), combined with their insane results which are non reproducible makes me conclude that this was all a big joke played by them. Lastly, here are some images of my setup and experimenting. Also, I've attached the data from all of my experiments. Thank you and good night. Materials Vacuum chamber I didn't have a picture of the fire extinguisher before I cut it. So I included an artists rendering of what it looked like before. Test rig front Test rig side Finally, here is the Dow Thermal Fluid with diamonds that beat AS5. I might try this later on an actually cpu and post results but I'm done for now. Attached Files data.xls (29.5 KB, 14 views) Last edited by freddyman : 1 Day Ago at 05:40 PM

http://hackaday.com/2009/08/03/diamond-thermal-paste/ [Jared Bouck] over at InventGeek writes about his experience making his own thermal paste. Diamonds can be up to five times as thermally conductive as silver, the primary ingredient in most popular thermal compounds. He combines 60,000 mesh diamond dust he ordered off eBay with non-conductive silicon grease using a special mixer he constructed to keep down the dust. After some experimentation he achieved a max load temperature of 38 degrees Celsius versus a leading silver paste’s temperature of 57c on the same system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_conductivity List of thermal conductivity values Main article: List of thermal conductivities This is a list of approximate values of thermal conductivity, k, for some common materials. Please consult the list of thermal conductivities for more accurate values, references and detailed information.Material Thermal conductivity W/(m·K) Silica Aerogel 0.004 - 0.04 Air 0.025 Wood 0.04 - 0.4 Hollow Fill Fibre Insulation Polartherm 0.042 Alcohols and oils 0.1 - 0.21 Polypropene 0.12 [1] Mineral oil 0.138 Rubber 0.16 LPG 0.23 - 0.26 Cement, Portland 0.29 Epoxy (silica-filled) 0.30 Epoxy (unfilled) 0.59 Water (liquid) 0.6 Thermal grease 0.7 - 3 Thermal epoxy 1 - 7 Glass 1.1 Soil 1.5 Concrete, stone 1.7 Ice 2 Sandstone 2.4 Stainless steel 12.11 ~ 45.0 Lead 35.3 Aluminium 237 (pure) 120—180 (alloys) Gold 318 Copper 401 Silver 429 Diamond 900 - 2320

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Uhh ... you said kick him in the Jimmy!

First off the starting blocks will be ATi's Radeon HD 5800 series of cards (starting with the HD 5850 and 5870), which should be hitting stores as early as next month. Nvidia's first line of DX11 cards - the GT300 range - will follow in December. Suddenly, my 8800 GT doesn't look so trusty anymore. http://kotaku.com/5350558/here-come-the-fi...irectx-11-cards http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20090901PD204.html DIGITIMES Nvidia and AMD readying for DirectX 11 Monica Chen, Taipei; Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES [Tuesday 1 September 2009] Nvidia and AMD are preparing to launch their latest DirectX 11 supporting GPUs in the second half of 2009, according to sources at graphics card makers. Nvidia is scheduled to complete engineering samples of its DirectX 11-based GT300 GPU at the end of September in order to start shipping in December at the earliest, the sources noted. Meanwhile, AMD is prepared to launch its DirectX 11-based Radeon HD 5800 series (RV870) in late September and will start mass shipping in October. AMD will launch two models initially, the Radeon HD 5850 and 5870, the sources added. AMD declined the opportunity to respond to this report saying it cannot comment on unannounced products. Nvidia was also contacted, but did not respond by the time of publication

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http://www.instructables.com/id/Rework-a-U...ssive-Capacity/ Those UPS devices you buy for your computer usually have a gel-cell battery that lasts for a few years. Less if your power goes out a lot. When you replace them, you pay a bundle, even if it's a standard cell. This short Instructable will demonstrate how to rework an older UPS for more capacity with cheaper battery power. The picture shows some sample UPSs and an example of the gel cell from one of them. The UPSs come in various capacities and, although you can boost the capacity, the output power is fixed. When you start out, make sure that the UPS you're going to modify will provide the volt-amps and power that you need. Also note that the volt-amp rating is higher than the power rating. The difference is because AC powered devices have a power factor. Check online for more info about this. Another, similar Instructable, also warns against trying to max out the capacity of your UPS because some use transformers that will run continuously at the rated output. It really depends upon the quality of the UPS, but plan to run at not more than about 75% of rated output capacity. Another thing to consider is whether or not your scrap UPS has AVR or Automatic Voltage Regulation. You'll want this if you can find it....

the trailer http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/926419/id-te...iler_81309.html looks cool

cool i want to play maybe we can all get in a zombie kill fest if Nate can go!

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