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Sunday, July 31, 2005

Clan Bala In House Tournament





Clan Bala is conducting the in-house tournament.

Terms:
1) Only Clan Bala members can participate this tournament
2) Only 1v1 game on battle.net official map is allowed

How to participate:
1) Any time. any days and any opponent, you need to save the replay and send it to Bala_Chieftain@yahoo.com.sg
2) Your points will be added into the scoring chart as in the picture. 3 points to win, 2 points to draw and 1 point to lose.
3) All games must be attached replay -or- witness by Shaman or Chieftain -or- agreed by both players.
4) We will then determine the top 3 players in the Clan.
5) This table will be effective for 1 year, till Dec 2006.
6) Not all names of player appear at this moment, until the game being played.

You may leave comment at this post or to discuss it further in the forum. You may record your own challenge record in the forum too.

Saturday, July 30, 2005

nVidia New Driver Benchmarking by Clan Bala

nVidia has launched its new driver in June 2005, version 7772.

I have done the benchmarking and share with you the latest driver performance as compared to the version 6693 in April 2004.

Surprisingly that the new driver do not outperform the old driver and and giving me the lousy benchmark in 3Dmark2001.

6.14.10.6693
Test 1: 12451
Test 2: 12489

6.14.10.7772
Test 1 : 12376
Test 2 : 12319

Conclusion, new drivers does not mean giving you the better performance. My advise is to do some testing and benchmarking on the stability and the performance before using it..


Configuration of Test System

Operating System Microsoft Windows XP
DirectX Version 9.0
Mobo Manufacturer MSI
Mobo Model MS-6590
AGP Rates(Current/Available) 8x / 4x 8x
CPU Unknown 2172 MHz
FSB 166 MHz
Memory 512 MB
Graphics Chipset NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra
Driver Name NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra
Driver Version 6.14.10.6693
Video Memory 128 MB
Program Version 3DMark2001 SE
Resolution 1024x768 32bit
Texture Format Compressed
FSAA Disabled
Z-Buffer Depth 24bit
Frame Buffer Double
Rendering Pipeline D3D Pure Hardware T&L

War of Warcraft Skills Guides

Directions
Choose weapons wisely when beginning the game with a character. Its hard to change weapons later in the game. You can choose 1 gathering skill or 1 trading skill, or 2 of either. The gathering skills include: Mining Herbalism Skinning
Trade skills include:
Leatherworking (supported by skinning)
Alchemy (supported by herbalism)
Blacksmithing (supported by mining)
Engineering (supported by mining)
Tailoring (supported by killing humaniods for linen)

Secondary skills and miscellaneous skills include:
Fishing (secondary)
Cooking (secondary)
First aid (miscellaneous)
Enchanting (miscellaneous)

Now match the skills with their particular classes:
Druid: Skinning & Leatherworking or Herbalism & alchemy or mining and engineering.
Rogue: Skinning & Leatherworking or Herbalism & alchemy or mining and engineering. Shamen: Skinning & Leatherworking or Herbalism & alchemy or mining and engineering. Hunter: Skinning & Leatherworking or Herbalism & alchemy or mining and engineering. Paladin: Mining & Blacksmithing or engineering & mining.
Warrior: Mining & Blacksmithing or engineering & mining
Priest: Herbalism & alchemy or engineering and mining or tailoring.
Mage: Herbalism & alchemy or engineering and mining or tailoring.
Warlock: Herbalism & alchemy or engineering and mining or tailoring

In House 4v4 Replays

Latest uploads of 2 in house 4v4 replays for you to downloads.
The first one is Shaman vs Grunts and the other is the alternate fun game.

Please Click here to download it.

Friday, July 29, 2005

World of Warcraft Performance Guide



Make the CPU and GPU comparison, and use World of Warcraft as a benchmark tools. See which CPU and GPU perform better when playing this game.




Read more ...
[extrated from www.anandtech.com author: Anand Lal Shimpi]

Battlefield 2 - Games Tips and Cheats

Battlefield 2 - Tips
CODE: Show FPSDuring the game, press the tidle key (~) and enter the following code:
Code
renderer.drawfps
Shows you your FPS in-game.

Command
admin.listPlayers
Lists the players connected to the server. This command lists the players ID number, their player name and if the player is remote it also lists the players IP number. The players ID number is also available on the Scoreboard / Manage Tab

admin.runNextLevel
Forces the server to end the round and start the next map in the map list.
admin.currentLevel
Shows the map list ID number for the current map being played. The same as mapList.currentMap.
admin.nextLevel
Shows the map list ID number for the next map to be played.
admin.restartMap
Restarts the current map.
admin.banPlayer
[timeout] Enter the player ID number you would like to ban. Bans the player from this server by using their IP address.
admin.banPlayerKey
[timeout] Enter the player ID number you would like to ban. Bans the player from this server by using their CD key hash. You can also specify a time out. See admin.banPlayer for the time out list.
admin.addAddressToBanList
[timeout] Enter the IP number you would like to ban. You can also specify a time out. See admin.banPlayer for the time out list.
admin.addKeyToBanList
[timeout] Enter the CD key hash you would like to ban. You can also specify a time out. See admin.banPlayer for the time out list.
admin.removeAddressFromBanList
Enter the IP address you would like to remove from the ban list.
admin.removeKeyFromBanList
Enter the CD key hash you would like to remove from the ban list.
admin.clearBanList
Clears all ban lists.
admin.listBannedAddresses
Displays a list of the currently banned IP addresses.
admin.listBannedKeys
Displays a list of the currently banned CD keys.
admin.kickPlayer
Enter the ID number of the player you would like to kick.

Command
mapList.list
Every map on the server has an ID number, which is used for voting to change maps. This command lists those numbers, the map name, game mode and the number of players if specified
mapList.configFile
Used to specify the location of the _mapList.con The default is \My Documents\Battlefield 2 Demo\ServerConfigsmapList.load
Makes the server reload the _mapList.con
mapList.save
Saves the current map list on the server to the file _mapList.con
mapList.mapCount
Shows the total number of maps in the current map list
mapList.currentMap
Shows the map list ID number of the current map being played
mapList.clear
Clears the current map list. Warning: If there are no maps in the map list when the server starts loading a new map, all clients will be left on the loading screen.
mapList.remove
Removes the map you specify from the map list
mapList.append
[number of players] Add a new map to the end of the map list. You must specify the map name and the game mode. Number of players is optional, if not specified will default to the current server setting.
mapList.insert
[number of players] Exactly the same as mapList.append, but with this command you can specify at what map ID number to insert the new map into the list at.

[extracted from www.1up.com]

Thursday, July 28, 2005

Recommended Replays for all

2 replays have been selected and copy from internet, to share with all members here.
Download them here
Replay 001
Replay 002

Wednesday, July 27, 2005

World Cyber Games 2005 in Singapore

We may organize to go and view the The World Largest PC & Video Game Festival which hosted in Singapore this year !

  • Grand Final: Nov. 16, 2005 ~ Nov. 20, 2005
  • Participating Countries : Approx.70 countries
  • Participants of Grand Final
  • Players: Approx.800 players

Battle Net Season Two Solo Tournament

News from Battle.net
Warcraft III: Season Two Solo Tournament - AraxasBoth solo semi-final matches for Ladder Season Two have now concluded. Congratulations to 4K.Fury, who won 2-0 over SK.HoT, and to WE.Remind, who won 2-0 over ShowTime!

Click and Save the replay of the tournament (file in zip format)

Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Calling for Clan Bala Members

Calling all Clan Bala members to register as the blogger or to register as forum members. Lets make this an interesting blogger to allow members to share their opinions.

Members are allowed to post their own screenshot and share with others and etc. If you have interesting replays to share, please contact me at my email address.

I am also consolidating your email address so you will be updated whenever there are new updates about Clan Bala. You may add your email address in the forum.

Enter the forum here ... http://p2.forumforfree.com/clanbala.html

Bala Chatter Box

Clan Bala has launched our first chatter box on 26-July 2005 as requested by Clan Members. We seek your support to drop a line of words here to support our very own chatter box !

Monday, July 25, 2005

Launching of Clan Bala Blogger




Today is the official day of launching of Clan Bala Blogger.

You may post your comments and suggestions about our clan here.
Alternatively, you may visit our offical website at www.ClanBala.5u.com for more updates, download and forum.

Clan In House Ladder is available in the Clan Bala homepage too. http://www.clanbala.5u.com/favorite_links.html