Merry Christmas all. Hope everyone gets want they wanted and many many many more hours of their favourite games in 2009

Its definitely going to be a busy year and with the run-up to 2010, im sure we are all a bit anxious. Right now, I think its important to take the next few days off between new years, do the things you want to do, go places you want to go and see people you want to see. Of course if you wish to play games then be all means ill be on the battlfield sometime today :p

Recently blogged about by Chris on iMod. I thought Id elaborate a bit more from a players perspective rather than one of an advertising nature. AIX2 brings a showcase of new vehicles, maps and weapons, everything a BF2 player lives for. Its a little change from our favourite vanilla version and can be a welcomed break from the routine mayhem that happens on the local normal servers.

It adds a new 32 aircraft into the game, 37 custom weapons and 7 custom kit classes, 14 new maps and 10 Dice remakes, add another 30 custom maps with the headhunters mappack, a new army (United Nations), stationary health stations along routes in maps, stationary weapons kits that can be picked up at any time. Theres a few new vehicles as well. They have done pretty well by adding an accuracy based points scoring system for snipers sniping at long distances. Get more for those targetted headshots while the guy is running flat out for cover… It also displays distance etc, quite handy. It seems to be me that theyve improved the accurance of the weapons as well, although not adding any difficulty to the game, its still nice to get high scores

Bots have been implemented for Co-Op play with humans, so in server config files you can change bot skill and various other settings. When a player joins a server with bots, one bot will be kicked to balance the field, this is an optional setting though, and thus if there isnt anybody else to join you, bots will have to do. And they arent 2 bad either.

My favourite part of this mod is the jets. As you may have noticed I am a fan of flying, and well getting to fly a bigger variaty in my favourite game while taking out enemies is awesome. Some really strong jets are the harriers, A-10 warthogs and the Su-47 is crazy. One could play on for hours just flying around. The maps are much bigger and vehicles move faster to counter the size. There are some maps that give a tank per player, the game gets pretty interesting after that.

Its great fun to play and I recommend to all. If you would like to download a copy of the mod locally, get it here, you will also need the core map pack and the Headhunters map pack.

Local server = 196.25.200.210

Thanks to telkoms Do Gaming service and the chaps making it happen.

So we all know the issues with laptops and dedicated graphics drivers, as well as other device drivers. One tends to always misplace the original cd and then battle for hours trying to find the correct drivers that actually work. Graphics for me has always been most important, not only for my pc but for which ever laptop I may be using at the time.

My current laptop has a dedicated Nvidia Go 7300 series card and the standard drivers from the asus website im sure are pretty out of date. I never bothered to check the version when I installed them a month or two ago.  So anyway as im browsing for updated drivers for my PC gfx I happened to notice something very neat indeed

So as you can see this is definitely a new edition to their website. They must have added before xmas as a treat, although thats what Im hoping To download updated drivers for your Nvidia card, visit Driver Downloads.

Youd be suprised at the amount of laptops that can run battlefield 2 Update the graphics and play along..