ATI 5.9 Catalyst Driver
New ATI driver is avaiable now
Version: Catalyst 5.9
Date: 21-9-2005
Download here
Monday, September 26, 2005
Friday, September 23, 2005
Resetting of Ladder on 26-September 2005
1.19 Ladder Implementation
An updated version of the Warcraft III ladder Automated Match-Making System (AMM) will be deployed alongside the ladder reset on September 26. This is the technology that allows players to find opponent’s of similar skill to compete against on Battle.net ladders. Although
Season Three is focused on the solo competition, we’ve made updates to the ladder that we feel will positively impact the experiences of all players on Battle.net.
Search Times vs. Game Quality. There is a reverse correlation between the two. The longer the system waits to find an opponent of similar skill, the more likely it is to find a closely matched opponent. Conversely, we can reduce the search time for an opponent at the expense of making skill levels more disparate. We’ve re-evaluated this trade-off for all ladder formats.
Random Team. We’ve increased game quality of Random Team games significantly.
Solo. We’ve increased game quality of solo competition moderately.
Arranged Team. We’ve decreased search times for Arranged Teams significantly.
Minimum Game Requirements. Game requirements now scale better across the entire level range.These requirements have been slightly increased for players of levels 1-50 and significantly decreased from the existing numbers for players over level 50.
Less Sensitive Experience. The way experience is calculated has been modified to make it less sensitive moving away from the mean. The target level for the average player has not changed, but players will be distributed in a tighter group at the peak of the level bell curve. For the majority of Battle.net players, the achieved level will be similar between the old and new systems. However, for very strong players, it will be more difficult to progress into the higher levels.
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Patch 1.19 is out
Please click on here to download the latest patch 1.19.
Please read the following for the changes of 1.19
MAPS
(2)EchoIsles
Added range creep to expansion goldmines.
Replaced both Fountain of Health with Mercenary camps and changed the creep composition so that it’s not all piercing attack.
Replaced the mana fountain with a Market Place and changed the level 3 perm item drop to level 3 charged items.
Replaced one Troll Trapper with an equal level Ogre to the all troll trapper green camp next to each start location.
(2)TirisfalGlade
Added a tavern to each side of the map, reduced the creep level and item that guard the Mercenary buildings, and reduced two Orange creep camps and level of the item drop.
(4)TurtleRock
Opened areas of the map to help alleviate strong choke points that favor ranged unit combat.
(4)BrokenShard
Replaced the 4 center orange camps with 4 green camps.
Replaced two ranged units with two melee units to the creep camps guarding the Goblin Merchants.
Increase the Orange camps level near each start location and added an additional item to each of those camps.
(4)Hellfire
Reduced the creep level on the two middle Red creep camps.
Reduced the creep level on the East and West Goblin Laboratory creep camps.
(4)StonecoldMountain
All creep with the ability to posses units have been removed this map.
(4)LostTemple
Added a few trees to all the start locations to ensure better balance of lumber harvesting for all races.
(4)TwistedMeadows
Changed the level 4 charged item drops at the Goblin Merchant to level 4 permanent drops.
(4)SunrockCove
Added pathing room around Goblin Laboratory and removed the clump of trees in front of the Goblin Laboratory to enhance game play.
Lowered the goldmine creep camp from Red to Green
Pushed Blues West ramp further from it’s start location.
(6)GnollWood
Removed all Gnoll Assassins from the Goblin Merchant creep camps, replaced with Gnoll Brute’s.
(6)Typhoon
Fixed Red and Teal start location to be closer to the goldmines like the other start locations.
(6)SilverpineForest
Removed the Tavern from all start locations
Can now path across the center of the map, added a Tavern to the center of the map.
Reduced the Item and creep levels of the 4 Red camps in the center of the map.
The 6 center goldmines have been reduced in difficulty of creep camps.
(6)Dragonblight
The two center creep camps have been pushed away from pathable area to prevent accidental attacks.
The players alliance settings have been changed to favor 2v2.
(6)Moonglade – New Map File
Two center creep camps and buildings have been removed.
Added two tavern to the center of the map.
Opened up all chokepoints.
Added some tree to all start location to help harvesting.
(6)Everfrost
Added a few trees to Yellow and Teal start location to ensure lumber harvesting balance.
Added ground Anti-Air units to the East and West Red creep camps.
Bonus Maps Added to Battle.net
(2)Shrine of the Ancients
(2)Terenas Stand
(4)Phantom Grove
(4)Deathrose
(6)Everfrost
(6)Sunrock Cove
(6)Emerald Shores
(6)Duststorm
(8)Full Scale Assault
(8)Hurricane Isle
(8)Cherryville
(10)Skibis Castle TD
(12)Worm War BALANCE CHANGES
Items
Creep-dropped item sell prices have been standardized. Items of the same level will now generally sell for the same amount.
Undead
Skeletal Mastery research time reduced to 30 seconds from 45 seconds.
Skeletal Longevity research time reduced to 15 seconds from 30 seconds.
Exhume Corpses research now costs 75 gold / 50 lumber down from 125 gold/ 100 lumber.
Destroyer armor reduced to 3 from 4.
Orc
Spiritwalkers now have the passive Resistant Skin ability. This causes some spells such as Cyclone and Slow to have a much shorter duration when used on a Spiritwalker. Resistant skin also grants immunity to certain other spells such as Polymorph and Possession.
Ensnare duration reduced from 15 seconds to 12 seconds.
Batrider hit points reduced to 325 from 400.
Night Elf
Tree of Life build time increased to 120 seconds from 110 seconds.
Human
Human Towers (Guard, Cannon, Arcane and Scout) now gain 1 armor per masonry upgrade, down from 2. WORLD EDITOR CHANGES
Trigger Editor
The "Image" category and actions now appear after the "Item" category.
The "Ubersplat" category and actions now appear after the "Unit Group" category.
Fixed script generation errors when using the "Terrain Pathing Is Off" function. This is now a Boolean function.
Fixed script generation errors when using variables of the following types:
Attack Type
Combat Sound
Damage Type
Effect Type
Pathing Type
Sound Type
Sorted lightning type presets.
Appended "Cliff" to cliff terrain types, to distinguish them from non-cliff terrain types.
Renamed "Life Drain" and "Mana Drain" to "Drain Life" and "Drain Mana", respectively.
Cleaned up the name, grammar text, hints and/or sorting order for the following trigger functions/calls:
(Boolean) Environment - Terrain Pathing Is Off (was Terrain Pathable)
(Unit) Event Response - Damage Source
(String) Game - Ability Name
(String) Game - Ability Effect Art Path (was Ability Effect Art)
(String) Game - Ability Effect Sound Name (was Ability Sound)
(String) Hero - Hero Proper Name
(String) Trigger - Trigger Name
(Real) Lightning - Red Color of Lightning
(Real) Lightning - Green Color of Lightning
(Real) Lightning - Blue Color of Lightning
(Real) Lightning - Alpha Value of Lightning (was Alpha Color of Lightning)
Cleaned up the name, grammar text, hints and/or sorting order for the following trigger actions:
Environment - Change Terrain Type
Environment - Turn Terrain Pathing On/Off (was Turn Pathing On/Off)
Floating Text - Suspend/Resume
Floating Text - Permanent/Expires
Floating Text - Change Color
Floating Text - Change Lifespan
Floating Text - Change Fading Age (was Change Fadepoint)
Floating Text - Change Age
Game - Enable/Disable Selection (was Enable/Disable Select)
Game - Enable/Disable Drag-Selection (was Enable/Disable Drag Select)
Game - Enable/Disable Pre-Selection (was Enable/Disable Pre Select)
Image - Create
Image - Change Color
Image - Change Render State
Image - Change Render Always State
Image - Change Above Water State
Lightning - Create Lightning Effect (was Create Lightning Effect At Points)
Lightning - Move Lightning Effect (was Move Lightning Effect To Points)
Lightning - Set Lightning Effect Color
Unit - Add Classification
Unit - Remove Classification
Unit - Issue Drop Item Order (was Drop Item On A Point)
Unit - Issue Move Item In Inventory Order (was Drop Item In Slot)
Unit - Issue Give Item Order (was Drop Item On A Unit)
Unit - Damage Area
Unit - Damage Target
Unit - Decrease Level Of Ability For Unit
Unit - Increase Level Of Ability For Unit
Unit - Set Level Of Ability For Unit
Ubersplat - Create
Ubersplat - Change Render State
Ubersplat - Change Render Always State
Added an event and three new trigger functions for future tournament support:
(Trigger Event) Tournament Event
(Real) Tournament Time Remaining
(Integer) Tournament Melee Score
(Integer) Tournament Finish Rule
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Thursday, September 08, 2005
Asrock 939 Dual SATA2 motherboard
Very good motherboard to introduce to all, economic yet powerful and feature rich. The lockable PCI and AGP bus sure a good news for all overclocker. Read details here...
http://clanbala.4.forumer.com/index.php?showtopic=40
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
Using Dual Channel Correctly
Using Dual Channel
Dual Channel requires at least two modules for operation. It is recommended that the modules you use be of the same size, speed, arrangement etc. Dual Channel is optional on the original nforce2 motherboards and nforce2 ultra400. You can choose to run in single channel mode on these motherboards. Nforce2 400 boards are singe-channel only. Most dual channel capable nforce2 motherboards come with three slots. On these motherboards the first memory controller controls only the first slot (or the slot by itself), while the second memory controller controls the last two slots (which are usually closer together). Name them slots 1, 2 & 3 respectively. To implement Dual Channel, it is necessary to occupy the slot 1 (channel 0) and either one of the two slots that are closer together, slots 2 or 3 (channel 1). The entire config would be running in 128 bit mode.
You can use three modules in Dual Channel Mode, by filling the third unoccupied slot. With three sticks, slots 1 remains as channel 0 while slot 2&3 become channel 1. To maintain 128-bit mode, with all three slots filled, each channel must have an equal amount of memory. For example, slots 1 should be filled with a 512 Mb module, while slots 2 & 3 are populated 256 Mb modules. If you were to use three modules of the same size, then only the first two modules would be running in 128 bit Dual Channel Mode. Example, using 3x 256 Mb modules will have the first 512 Mb running in 128 bit Dual Channel mode, while the remaining 256 Mb will be in 64-bit Single Channel mode. Intel dual-channel systems are different. The have either two or four slots, and to run dual channel mode must have either one or two pairs of (hopefully) matching modules.
Running three modules on a P4 system will force it to run in single channel mode, and is therefore to be avoided. Consult your motherboard manual for instruction on exactly which slots exactly to use.
Friday, September 02, 2005
Clan Bala New Forum
We have changed the new Clan Bala to new host. The new and most important feature in this forum is to allow member to upload the files in the forum.
http://clanbala.999.org
The old forum will be remained active for 2 weeks. Kindly update or backup your information as soon as possible.
Thank you.
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