I’ve been wanting to establish a place to blog about things for a while now, and I’ve finally settled on this as being my home. At least, for the time being.
I wanted to start blogging on my personal web space, but I seem to have forgotten the password for getting me in to my control panel. Oh well, I should have thought to save my important emails the last time I formatted my hard drive. I’ll just have to contact the support team first thing in the morning. It doesn’t help that my hosts are running an older version of cPanel - apparently, the new version of the software would allow me to request a lost password.
I’ve spent most of today waiting around on other people, namely couriers that don’t turn up. It’s a pain in the ass when you have to wait on someone else before you can get anything useful done. I wanted to go out shopping this morning, as I could do with a new pair of casual shoes because my other pairs of shoes seem to be getting a little long in the tooth, or unfashionable - they’re not from the ‘05 range!
Instead, I spent the day waiting for a CityLink van that didn’t turn up. While frustrating, it was beneficial in another way - it meant that I finally had some time to myself. I had planned to take a day off after a tough week that has had its fair share of travelling to and from meetings, while still having to find the time somewhere to write up an article.
On the subject of articles and reviews, I’ve got an increasing number that are in an orderly queue at the moment that I work through in my own merry way. I’ve recently changed a few of the game titles that I use in video card reviews, and that has meant that I really needed to get a decent way through a few of the new games that I recently got hold of in order to decide whether they are good enough to be used as a base for evaluating video cards. One of these titles is Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. This arrived on my door step at the beginning of the week, but due to many bit-tech commitments taking over the early part of the week, I had not had the chance to remove the plastic wrapping until this morning.
I had noted several performance issues with the Demo, specifically on NVIDIA’s hardware, but the full version of the title seems to address these issues. I must admit, I really enjoy the job I do, it allows me to keep my mind ticking over, while doing something that I have a great passion for. One of the perks of the job is being able to experience the top game titles in a way that not many people can. How many of you can say you played Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory on two GeForce 6800 Ultra’s at 1600x1200 with all of the ‘candy turned on…? 
Ok, I’ll stop rubbing that in now…
I have to say, that it is one of the nicest, if not the nicest-looking PC game at the moment. Those of you who own a GeForce 6 series video card should check it out - the HDR lighting is absolutely fascinating, while not having the massive performance hit that was experienced with Crytek’s implementation in FarCry patch 1.3 - you may be able to experience this on a GeForce 6600 GT if you give it enough steroids.
I’m working through several different articles at once at the moment, with the new-look bit-tech coming very soon. I’ve got a pretty large treat in store for when the long-awaited new-look arrives over the next few weeks or so (providing poor Rich doesn’t suffer too many set backs!).
Many of you will know that I haven’t really commented on NVIDIA’s SLI at the moment - this is coming soon. I just keep on hitting more and more questions every time I fire up a new title. I’ll save my overall impressions on SLI until I release the series of articles, but the series seems to keep getting longer and longer. It’s hard to say exactly how good or bad I think it is right now, as I often don’t know until I’ve written several thousand words on the subject. This is when am am at the point where I begin to sum things up in my (usually long winded) concluding remarks.
There should be plenty to chew on by the time I am finished anyway.
I’ve got an Ebay auction ending soon, so I guess I should go and attend to that.
Take Care.