Its been a few weeks since Filefront had an Open File installment but things are still happening on the many Filefront affiliated websites so without further delay lets jump into this weeks edition. The files listed in this feature are selected by the Filefront Hosted Site admins and each week they highlight the most exciting add ons, maps or mods for some of the hottest games in the PC gaming universe.
It has been over seven months since Firing Squad last took a look at Windows Vista performance versus Windows XP. In that series of articles, Firing Squad found that both AMD and NVIDIA's Vista performance was lacking in comparison to Windows XP, although NVIDIA's showing in Vista was much worse: Vista performance was in some cases substantially slower than Windows XP, features were missing, and SLI was unsupported entirely. Meanwhile, AMD's biggest problem was the OpenGL portion of their Vista driver, OpenGL-based games like Quake 4 scaled poorly in performance in comparison to WinXP and Firing Squad encountered numerous visual artifacts. CrossFire support was also limited.
The DX10 patch for Company of Heroes has been released, bringing to v1.70 this real-time strategy game set in World War II and developed by Relic Entertainment. A DX9 vs. DX10 trailer also available.
Relic Entertainment announced today a stand alone expansion of their very popular title Company of Heroes. Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts will feature two campaignes, one of British and one of German.
Firing Squad points out a new patch for Company Of Heroes has been released, bringing the Relic-THQ WWII RTS game up to version 1.3. In addition to the usual balance changes and bug fixes the new patch adds a new multiplayer map and new replay mode features.
The creators of two of this year's most successful RTS titles - Dawn of War and Company of Heroes - have two RPGs in the work. Could they be making one with the Warhammer license?
Microsoft has officially begun its unified Games for Windows program at stores today with the release of two titles, Traveller's Tales' LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy, and Relic Entertainment's Company of Heroes.
LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy and Company of Heroes blast off on the Windows scene with the new Games for Windows packaging, branding and game features available only on the Windows platform.
THQ's Sean Dunn has confirmed on Relic News' now-offline forums that Company of Heroes has gone gold!