What’s a good title for a Quakecon blog?
It has to be about the “Future”…
“Last night, Darth Vader came down from planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn’t take Lorraine out that he’d melt my brain”. – George McFly
PMS Clan and a future gaming superstar on our Quakecon booth
Well, its day 2 at Quakecon 2009 and my brain hasn’t melted, but I have seen a Darth Vader or two… In thinking about the ‘right’ title for my blog, “The Future” was an obvious choice seeing as how we have packed up #Area64 and transported it all the way to Dallas.
What is #Area64 you ask, well, it’s the secret place in Austin where AMD has all of its unreleased products, engineering secrets and where we keep the flux capacitor. As one can imagine, we need to keep such a place heavily guarded and hard to find, so, what do a bunch of AMD gamers do, we packed it up and rebuilt it in the Gaylord Hotel for Quakecon. I am currently writing this blog from the heart of our mobile #area64, the sounds of next generation technology humming away behind me!
Pete and Chris from AMD showcasing our Quakecon shirts…
Wait a minute, Doc. Ah… Are you telling me that you built a time machine… out of a DeLorean? – Marty McFly
No, we didn’t bring our time machine but I am not going to comment on if AMD has built a time machine, that’s a completely different blog. But, we did bring what we expect will revolutionize the way you play games on PC’s in the future.
How does one gain access into #area64 and who gets access, great questions, here is what you have to do:
AMD will be limiting access to #Area64 to 100 almost random gamers, meaning anyone and everyone has a fair shot at “Seeing the Future”, just follow these AMD’ers on Twitter;
@IanMcNaughton – @Tweetoe – @Catalystmaker - @AMD_Unprocessed & @Caseygotcher
We will be tweeting hints and actions during Quakecon, it could be as simple as “The first 5 gamers who meet us at XX, gain access” or “Make a short video about Why you need or should have access to #Area64 and post to Youtube, gain access”.
Or, you could simply track us down and ask for an “on the spot action for access”.
Here are the shirts we are giving away, they are unique and numbered from 1-100, if you see anyone wearing them in the halls or BYOC, you know they have “SEEN THE FUTURE”!
The Future is Awesome!
As a special treat to all the readers of my blog, via this blog, you will be the first to download the latest ATI Catalyst 9.8 driver here:
XP
XP 32
Xp 64
Vista and Win7
Vista/Win7 32
Vista/Win7 64
[Update: Official ATI Catalyst 9.8 Drivers are available here]
Enjoy!
Cheers!
Ian “Cabrtosr” McNaughton
Ian McNaughton is senior manager of advanced marketing at AMD. His postings are his own opinions and may not represent AMD’s positions, strategies or opinions. Links to third party sites are provided for convenience and unless explicitly stated, AMD is not responsible for the contents of such linked sites and no endorsement is implied.
Awesome!!
(and i can haz linux drivers plz?!)
Hi ! Do you have any info about the linux drivers ? (Yeah we’re a bit boring, we linux fans, but why did you say “favorite community” speaking about linux users while only giving the drivers to the microsoft clients ?).
http://links.amd.com/Cat98 Catalyst 9.8 available now!
Thank’s, but when drivers for AGP cards under Windows Seven?
LINUX LINUX LINUX
still waiting
http://links.amd.com/Cat98
@Ian McNaughton,
Hi Ian,
Thanks for the link, but unfortunately did not work with my karmic 2.6.31-6 kernel..
Hope the Ubuntu developers fix it ..
@rafael,
kernel module problem with fedora 11 and 2.6.29 too
Please get ATI drivers working for latest stable Linux Kernel.
Thanks a lot !!!
Whom can I ask?
On Fedora 11 you have to blacklist radeon and drm drivers, and then run mkinitrd (http://fedorasolved.org/video-solutions/ati-yum-kmod).
But after entering X after reboot, everything freezes after a minute. I have also seen this reported by other users.
Using kernel 2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.x86_64
Catalyst v9.8 DOES NOT RUN on my Winfows 7 Ultimate x64 – it reaches the “Install – Uninstall” step and crashes when I click Install.
Windows 7 claims it’s incompatible and offers me the usual “using recommended settings” which then produces the same result.
Tried debugging in VS – it’s says full of unhandled exceptions…
Update: it DOES NOT WORK on a regular WINDOWS 7 PROFESSIONAL x64 workstation either (MSDN Retail version) – what’s going on, ATI?