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Download Xtreme-G 180.84 drivers – More FPS, better graphics quality

Posted: 09 Dec 2008 04:30 AM CST

Xtreme-G drivers are modded and tweaked versions of official nVIDIA and ATI display drivers aimed at harnessing optimal gaming performance from your GPU. This post is about the Xtreme-G 180.84 drivers which are based on nVIDIA ForceWare v180.84 released several days ago. I tested these with my Grand Theft Auto 4 installation and observed an 1-3 FPS increase over the official v180.84 drivers. Plus the overall quality of graphics looked better (sharper edges, etc) with the modded drivers.

Xtreme-G 180.84 drivers work with almost all Geforce 6,7,8,9 series and GTX 260/280 graphics hardware. Although most people will get a performance boost and better graphics quality with these drivers, keep in mind that Xtreme-G is not officially supported by nVIDIA.

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[Click Here] to download Xtreme-G ForceWare 180.84 for Windows XP and Windows Vista from FileFront

[Click Here] to visit TweakForce forums discuss about Xtreme-G drivers

BiTTuRK – Torrent tracker with BRRips, BDRips and other general content

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 03:01 PM CST

Bitturk is a private torrent tracker which tracks general content (Movies, Games, Music, TV Shows, Appz etc) and zero day releases. It's not a scene releases only tracker - both scene and p2p releases are indexed. At the time this post is written, Bitturk tracks ~6100 torrents. Exact number of users on this tracker is unknown. As you may have guessed from its name. Bitturk is a torrent tracker of Turkish origin. It however does track a lot of English releases – this includes BRRip and BDRips (Two new XViD encoded movie release formats – ripped from Blu Ray discs) of popular English movies.

If you are unaware of BRRip and BDRip release formats, I suggest you read this FSF article first. Bitturk indexes releases from major BRRip and BDRip release groups such as D-ZON3, ALiS, PRoDJi, and FLAWL3SS (all P2P groups).

Use keywords BRRip OR BDRip to search for Blu Ray rips

Torrent description pages at Bitturk are very informative. For example, description page of a movie torrent lists everything from the release NFO to screen captures. This is a very useful feature especially for non Turkish users. Some of the releases on Bitturk have Turkish audio - make sure you check the 'Audio language' of a release before you download.

Although Bitturk does have a lot of movies, it must be said that it is not a dedicated movie tracker. It's a general tracker which index other releases such as games and music as well. Signups are currently open and interested readers may join for free.

Site Name: BiTTuRK Tracker (http://www.bitturk.net)

Signup URL: http://www.bitturk.net/signup.php

Note: Click on the US flag (on the logo) to view site in English language.

Keep an eye on our Private Trackers section in the coming days. We plan to post about several more trackers with lots of BRRips and BDRips.

RARBG receives takedown notice from BREIN, Site moves to Sweden

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 10:31 AM CST

If you are a frequent reader of FILEnetworks Blog, you should be familiar with the site Rarbg.com. We've posted about this tracker several times in the past and it was even included in our latest private tracker watch update. For those of you who don't know, RARBG is a huge private torrent tracker with over 40000 indexed torrents and over 100000 registered members. A short while ago, we received an interesting E-mail from the RARBG staff. Quoted below is a part of that E-mail:

We(rarbg.com) have just received a take down notice which we have to comply with within 48 hours. However we are going to move our servers to sweden as fast as we can(1-2 days). The requestor for takedown is brein ( http://www.anti-piracy.nl/english/english.asp).

If you've been keeping up with file sharing news in the recent past, the name BREIN [Wikipedia Article] should be familiar enough. They're a major anti piracy group that has been waging a war against BitTorrent trackers hosted in the Netherlands for the last few years. Although BREIN sent takedown notices to many public and private BitTorrent trackers, most sites simply moved out of the Netherlands and evaded any legal action.

Demonoid, SCC and ArenaBG are just a few examples of popular trackers that are still online despite being targeted by BREIN (SCC was only down for about 9 hours). With RARBG's plan to move to Sweden, this looks very much like yet another failed attempt to shut the doors of file sharing. Sweden is the home of 'The Pirate Bay' crew and as far as we know BitTorrent sites are not illegal according to Swedish law. If you experience any slowdowns or downtime with RARBG.com in the coming days, it will most likely be due to the server move. There is no reason to worry as RARBG sure as hell are not planning to be 'taken down'.

P.S. – RARBG signups are currently open. If you want to show your support, you can probably start by signing up :D No mandatory ratio requirements!