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Tech Review Central has a new story today discussing PCI Express and how it will replace AGP. The Sims 2 players and other Gamers will know immediately what this means, more speed and better graphics performance for their PC games. PCI Express first takes aim at replacing AGP8X, and eventually all standard PCI slots on future motherboards. Customer’s feel it’s about time, since about everything else on the motherboard has been improved, such as the new SATA drive controllers, and the PCI bus limitation is long overdue for a faster successor.

The Sims 2 Storybook Viewer Alpha “test” 0.8.2 Release No. 7 is now available. After a long snooze development has resumed on this editors choice tool for The Sims 2. Two important improvements in this version are a better full screen mode viewer and a fix for that critical issue where storybook text was not appearing when viewed within the game. Did you see text that read “Change Snapshot Size” while using the in-game story viewer? This release addresses that issue for the first time. Here’s why…

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The Sony rootkit virus is a form of DRM (Digital Rights Management,) an evil technology that will impact music fans, gamers, and computer users in general by restricting personal computing freedom and privacy. Sony has resorted to using a virus to keep people from copying Sony music. Other companies such as Macrovision also develop anti-copy technologies such as those used by Sony, and EA Games. Copy protection goes too far when it invades your privacy and puts Trojan horse virus programs on your computer. We found this excellent story on a site called Expressive Opposition that provides an in depth discussion of DRM copy protection and what it means to all computer users, including those of you who play The Sims 2. Keep in mind that EA Games is just as guilty as Sony in squashing your freedom and trying to remote control your computer to prevent you from copying games, even for legitimate backup purposes.

Our hosting provider notified us that a Mr. Jason Barlow, identified as “J” pronounced us crazy free thinkers here at The Free Sims 2 Nation as unauthorized redistributors of his precious Sims 2 Mod, InTeenimater. Well here’s some cheese for your wine Jason, we plan to expand our file sharing despite your commie file hording and offer even more content! All mods created by me, Don Lothario, are free as in beer, and thanks to our site, so are your mods my friend!

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Armed with the Radeon X1800, deep-pocketed Sims 2 gamers may have an edge over traditional high-end Nvidia performance card users. ATI has announced that the Radeon X1800 XL and Radeon X1300 cards are now being shipped. More Radeon X1800 configurations, such as the X1800 XT, and Radeon X1600 cards are scheduled to ship late October or early November. Gamers looking for a head-to-head comparison will certainly be interested in finding out how the latest ATI cards compare to Nvidia’s offerings.

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