DJ_Deedahx

R.I.P., we're still using GSM in Haiti. Some of us are way too fucking poor to buy a smartphone.

My hard drive gets defragged on a daily basis btw, but thanks for trying to help :3 @Luc401: Yep. It is in a laptop.

*** BEFORE READING, here's my hard drive: Hitachi HTS545050A7E380 (Travelstar Z7K500, 5400 RPM, 2.5", owned since December 25, 2012) // OS: Windows 8.0 *** Could someone please explain? Randomly, out of nowhere, I hear my computer making noise and I see this message: "Windows detected a hard disk problem." First thing I do, backup everything I need onto my external drive. I ran chkdsk and it says there are NO errors on my hard drive! Now looking at CrystalDiskInfo, I see that my hard disk health is at "Caution", and C5 (Current Pending Sector Count) has a yellow icon before it. OS : Windows 8 [6.2 Build 9200] (x64) Date : 2015/06/15 19:30:10 -- Controller Map ---------------------------------------------------------- + AMD SATA Controller [ATA] - Hitachi HTS545050A7E380 - Slimtype DVD A DS8A9SH - Microsoft Storage Spaces Controller [sCSI] - DAEMON Tools Virtual SCSI Bus [sCSI] -- Disk List --------------------------------------------------------------- (1) Hitachi HTS545050A7E380 : 500.1 GB [0/0/0, pd1] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) Hitachi HTS545050A7E380 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model : Hitachi HTS545050A7E380 Firmware : GG2OA6C0 Serial Number : TE85123RCU2T4W Disk Size : 500.1 GB (8.4/137.4/500.1/500.1) Buffer Size : 8192 KB Queue Depth : 32 # of Sectors : 976773168 Rotation Rate : 5400 RPM Interface : Serial ATA Major Version : ATA8-ACS Minor Version : ATA8-ACS version 6 Transfer Mode : ---- | SATA/300 Power On Hours : 8258 hours Power On Count : 2982 count Temperature : 44 C (111 F) Health Status : Caution Features : S.M.A.R.T., APM, 48bit LBA, NCQ APM Level : 4001h [ON] AAM Level : ---- C5 100 100 __0 000000000008 Current Pending Sector Count

The truth hurts, but thanks anyway. Are any multi-threaded emulators like such out there? Or will the chance of lagging decrease when the emulator is run on Intel hardware (better single-thread performance)?

Yes, and I'm afraid to say this, but it was horrible. It lagged harder than no$GBA, the pixels were broken, etc. no$GBA 2.8a is a tad better but does not solve my issue... What I need is how to make this software run on all of my CPU cores.

I've had this issue with my NDS emulator, no$gba, for quite a while now. I have a laptop with a single-core Intel Celeron M CPU on which I used to run no$gba. Surprisingly, it ran very well, with little to no lag (except for intensive areas, this was a really old laptop). Then in 2012, I got my new ASUS K55N laptop, which has a quad-core AMD A8 APU. Compared to my 8-year-old Intel laptop, which ran Pokémon Platinum Version like a boss, my ASUS laptop LAGGED unbearably. I thought it was AMD's fault, since "their APUs were always cheap and low-quality", I used to think... I could tweak whatever I wanted in the emulator's settings. All it did was make the game run faster on 1 core, not all 4, which never worked. It wasn't until now that I discovered that no$gba was using 25% of my CPU power, which meant it was using ONLY ONE core to run the game. I realized: the lower the number of cores and threads... the better it will run. *facepalm* Is there a way how I can actually make no$gba to run on all of my 4 cores? OS: Windows 8.0 / CPU: AMD A8-4500M Quad-Core 1.9 GHz / RAM: 4 GB EMULATOR: no$gba 2.6a

AMD A8-4500M. CONFESSION: I'm using a $400 laptop to make videos ._. FIX: Also, my computer tends to overheat a lot and I have a cheap Targus cooling base.

Ok, let's try an example with a custom DESKTOP PC build. A PC user had Windows 8.1 Pro installed on his SSD. His motherboard was an ASUS Z97-A. (not specifically talking about ASUS mobos here, just for filler ) One day, his motherboard fails, and he replaces it with an ASUS Z97-K. Is the user allowed to legally reuse the key he has or does he have to get another licence?

Dxtory doesn't record in Nestopia... Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. How do I record with this again? AMD user here, but thanks for helping.

No, I'm not talking about the load that your computer has to bear while screen recording. I have been using Camtasia Studio 8.4 for quite a while and I found out that the recorded file's audio (or video) is delayed by about a second. (Not immediately at the beginning however) Is this normal? I recorded both System Audio and Microphone (separated by headphones). Could someone here issue a fix for this? Please? I use this thing for YouTube videos ;-;

So Windows 8/.1 licensing stuff is stuck onto the BIOS/UEFI of the mobo?

Well, I think that's the problem. Prime95 "overvolts your CPU" <- @tmcclelland455 Therefore, most of us here do not recommend it.

If Broadwell doesn't release, then Skylake might as well be 5th Gen, and Intel had better change the CPU names from 6700K to 5700K. <- I got that from WAN Show

Ok, so I was planning to start a music YouTube channel. But instead of posting videos showing just a picture of something... I wanted to put an audio visualizer in the video so that it could be a bit more entertaining. (I know that there might be some people who like watching visualizers, and I have nothing against that ) But I found out that all of these require After Effects to make... and the computer I use on a daily is just a mainstream $400 AMD laptop. Specs are as follows: ASUS K55N-DS81 15.6" AMD A8-4500M Quad-Core @ 1.9 GHz Samsung 4 GB DDR3L-800 CAS 11 AMD Radeon HD 7640G (Integrated Graphics) 512 MB, 650 MHz Core, 800 MHz Memory 1366x768 Display Hitachi Travelstar 500 GB 5400 RPM 2.5" Are these specs enough to make a 720p audio visualizer in After Effects (any version)? I'm planning to get After Effects CS3; are audio visualizers supported in this version? CPU rendering ONLY! I don't mind playing the waiting game, and GPU rendering makes my CPU overheat and crash...