Tuesday, November 20, 2007

XNA GAME STUDIO 2.0 (BETA) IS NOW AVAILABLE

As announced by the XNA Team, the beta version of the awaited XNA GS 2.0 has been released!!!

So go and visit the following:

  1. The official announcement :)
  2. The "What's new" page, and
  3. The beta home page.

Don't forget to check the new "Project Upgrade Wizard", the newly updated demo sample projects, and the "Net Rumble Starter Kit".

Enjoy!

Monday, November 05, 2007

NVIDIA PERFHUD 5.1

It's been a long time since my last post but I think this news deserves it ... the new version of nVidia's PerfHUD tool supports XNA builds.

Don't believe me? Just read this: "... PerfHUD 5.1 Highlights:

  • GeForce 8 Series support on Windows Vista and XP (older GPUs are also supported)
  • Microsoft Windows Vista support (DirectX 9 and 10)
  • New in 5.1! Instrumented driver updated to 163.71
  • New in 5.1! Compatibility with Managed and XNA applications ...".

To download this great real-time perfomance analysis tool, just navigate to this page.