Daily Archives: March 27, 2016

El fundador de Oculus viaja hasta Alaska para entregar las primeras Rift

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Palmer Luckey, el fundador de Oculus, ha tenido el detalle de querer entregar en persona la primera versión para consumidores de sus gafas de realidad virtual. Para ello se ha ido hasta Anchorage (Alaska), donde Ross Martin, un desarrollador…

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Oculus Rift Launches Tomorrow

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Yesterday, Palmer Luckey personally delivered the first consumer Oculus Rift to the first guy that pre-ordered it, taking what he seems to be trying to establish as his trademark Hawaiian shirt all the way to Anchorage, Alaska. So begins the great wave of modern VR, which, depending on who you talk to, is either going to fundamentally change both the world and our relationship with technology or sort of fizzle out like the last time we were told that was going to happen. Computers are a touch more powerful today than they were in the mid-80s, of course. I’m bullish on the whole thing, but it’s an experience that can be hard to describe. Luckily, thousands more will soon get the opportunity to experience it for themselves.

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Big ‘Leak’ Claims Nintendo NX Is More Powerful Than PS4, But Be Careful

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It appears that the Nintendo NX is the hot thing to leak/hoax about these days. Last week, Forbes and plenty other gaming websites reported two separate “leaks” about the new console’s controller: both turned out to be hoaxes, one of them exceptionally complicated. Now we’ve got another set of leaks coming from reddit, once again from someone claiming to be a AAA developer with access to the Nintendo NX development kit. They’re claiming that the controllers don’t really look like the two hoaxes from last week (a safeish bet), that the console will be more powerful than the PS4, and that it has some of those same second screen mechanics that served the Wii U oh so well. Overall, however, the post says that the console leans more traditional than the Wii U, echoing desires cropping up across the video game blogosphere. No verification, of course.

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A Win-Win Theory About Who Negan May Kill On ‘The Walking Dead’

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We are marching toward the finale of The Walking Dead season six, and with only two episodes left, it seems pretty clear that we?re going to see Negan?s arrival at last, very soon. There’s a new theory about which character he may kill, based on the events of last week’s surprising episode.

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1.9 – FAQs via /r/Minecraft

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1.9 – FAQs

This post will be updated in sync with Minecraft Forum's FAQ Thread. Please do not ask for tech support here; use #minecrafthelp IRC Chat for that.

 

1. Downgrading

As always, downgrading is not, was never and will never be officially supported! Please do not run 1.9 worlds in 1.8.

 

2. Intel Integrated GPU and Random Crashing

Some people with Intel integrated GPUs may see the game crashing from memory access violations. The crash log looks like this:

# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment: # # EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x00007ffb84b1172c, pid=7928, tid=9892 # # JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (8.0_25-b18) (build 1.8.0_25-b18) # Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (25.25-b02 mixed mode windows-amd64 compressed oops) # Problematic frame: # C [ig8icd64.dll+0x60172c] # # Failed to write core dump. Minidumps are not enabled by default on client versions of Windows # # If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit: # http://ift.tt/19dgsTD # The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code. # See problematic frame for where to report the bug. #

This is because of a memory leak caused by Intel's drivers (i.e. faulty drivers). This mainly affects 7th to 9th Generation Intel HD Graphics (ig7xxxxx.dll, ig8xxxxx.dll, ig9xxxxx.dll) which ships with 3rd Generation to 6th Generation Intel Core Processors. In layman's terms, if your Intel CPU is Ivy Bridge (Model number ix-3xxx), Haswell (4xxx), Broadwell (5xxx) or Skylake (6xxx), you may be affected.

Until Intel fixes their drivers, to work around this issue, make sure you have the latest drivers installed and set VBO and VSync to On in Video Settings (Options -> Video Settings). Additionally, try allocating more RAM to Minecraft.

(Bug report here)  

3. OpenGL Requirements

The OpenGL requirement for 1.9 stays at OpenGL 1.3 (according to internal sources). Please report back if you have a OpenGL 1.3 only system that refuses to run Minecraft even at very low graphics settings.

4. Graphics Glitching For No Reason After Upgrading

Minecraft 1.9 makes use of even more advanced OpenGL features than before. If your graphics suddenly started giltching since upgrading to 1.9, chances are that your graphics drivers are out of date.

Make sure you have the latest drivers installed and set VBO and VSync to On and set Mipmap to 0 in Video Settings (Options -> Video Settings -> Use VSync/Use VBO -> On) If you are on a laptop with switchable graphics, you may also want to check that your computer is indeed using the dedicated graphics card.

Nvidia Optimus Instructions

AMD Switchable Graphics Instructions

(Bug report pertaining to AMD GPUs here)

5. Getting random block lag?

If you are suddenly getting block lag in 1.9, try lowering your render distance in Video Settings (Options -> Video Settings) to something below 16 chunks. Also, try allocating more RAM to Minecraft.

 

Common Issues We Are Aware Of

Here are some common issues we are aware of that is not listed above. We at #MinecraftHelp are constantly investigating the cause; if you think you have more information, please drop by #minecrafthelp and ask to speak of one of the ops. Thanks!

Submitted March 01, 2016 at 11:47PM by tyteen4a03
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