Robin88

I get what some of you are saying about paid mods shouldn't exist, 'cause I loathed the idea at first, but here's the thing, would you like it if instead of getting paid for what you do for your job, prefer that your boss gets paid instead for your work and all you get is a little thumbs up? I bet you fucking wouldn't, so why should the same exist for modders? Some, not all mind you, of modders put months or even years into their creations, and they have every right to earn a bit of money to support them, and yes, there is a lot of shit in the modding scene but the same could be said of full games, there's a ton of shit, but why should the makers of actual good stuff suffer because most games are crap? I would have agreed with most of you that are outraged about this had you asked me when the topic first came up, but now I realise that it isn't fair that modders should get nothing for putting in just as much work if not more than the original devs did, yes their work is based on prior art, but so are a lot of full games, and we don't generally lambast game devs for that now do we? If paid mods helps a modder go on to get a job in game development or even just allows him to keep making mods then I'm all for it, if you don't support paid mods then go on Nexus Mods and get them from there, but if you're gonna do that, then at least tip them a donation and make it possible for them to keep making the things you enjoy. Actually, on the topic of tips, of those of you asking for a tip jar, can I just ask, how many of you would legitimately give a tip? I best most of you wouldn't, in fact I bet none of you would, but you'll happily buy DLC that should have been part of the game wouldn't you? And there's the hypocrisy of some of you, you'll pay for DLC that should have been included in the game on release, but you won't give a dime to modders who actually need that money.

Agreed 100%, Valve also should reconsider their slice of the pie too, it's way too much for practically zero effort, it really should be Modders get 50%, Bethesda 35% and Valve 15%, and there should be no minimum sales clause as well, a modder should get paid regardless of how well or how badly it sold, but at the same time there should be a maximum sale price for mods depending on the scale of the mods so that it stops modders from charging ridiculous amounts for next to nothing.

Thank you very much for the info, I can upgrade then without worrying too much about it, and so can my mum as she has the same system, I'll probably hang fire for a few weeks until I have a better understanding of the bugs and other issues, but at least that's one thing I wont have to worry about

It appears they aren't, Qualcomm have said they don't have a separate version of the 810 and it's been confirmed by Sony, HTC and Samsung that the only version available is the 2.1 version that everyone else has, so One+ are lying about them having a special low heat output version. It may be a good idea in theory, but if that was the case then why aren't we seeing significantly better battery life from it? As soon as you do anything on a phone it's gonna kick in those high powered cores and power consumption will skyrocket. If it has figured out power consumption then paint me red and call me Mary, cause from where I'm sitting all I can see are devices struggling to make 18hours of runtime before they need charging, and the only devices making it further are lower end devices or ones with enormous batteries in them. You could argue it's the screens taking the battery life, but in that case we should still be optimising power consumption from the SOC to mitigate the issue until better screens are available. It's a fake octa-core because 1. it's two dies merged into one, one has 4 high power cores and the other with low power cores, and 2. they weren't designed to run concurrently, you're meant to use the low power ones when doing none intensive tasks and the high power ones for intensive tasks, and it's marketing speak to call them octa-cores, yes there's 8 distinct cores on the SOC, but you're only ever meant to use 1 set of four or the other, not both at the same time. And that's why I said it'd be an interesting experiment to try iOS on an Android device and answer the question once and for all, I know it can't be done at the moment, but it'd finally end the argument of who is better and give us concrete info on just how good Apples designs really are, but right now as far as benchmarks are concerned Apples Ax series can and do keep up in single core performance with everything Android runs and does it at half the core speed, and half to 1 quarter of the cores on Android, how much of that is optimisation cannot be answered until someone can port Android to iOS or vice versa. Don't get me wrong, I am in no way an Apple fanboy, I cannot stand iOS, it's frustrating to use and too locked down for me, but I can't deny that Apple have very powerful hardware while needing far less of it to pull similar numbers as what Android does, and again, until someone ports iOS or Android we cannot say why that is with 100% certainty. Not wanting to argue with you, when we can emphatically state why Axx SOC's are faster than SD 8xx SOC's then I'll revise everything I have said and you can say "I told you so" but until then I'm gonna say that at least on the face of it, I don't believe that optimisation is the whole answer for the difference.

I use MakeMKV to rip the DVD to a MKV file and then use Handbrake to make an MP4 version of that for use on my phone. With MakeMKV you can set the language, the subtitles if you want them and even rip the extras if you want, the only problem is the MKV file will be as big as the DVD is, usually around 4.5GB but can be as much as 50GB for a Blu-Ray disk. I recommend this route for DVD ripping, it's fairly quick and you can use the presets in Handbrake to make sure the files work on whatever device you're wanting to play the films on

LLC stands for Load Line Calibration, and it's supposed to make sure that the voltage is closer to what is set in the BIOS at the risk of potentially of overvolting the CPU, if the LLC is too aggressive then it'll push the voltage too high. But at the same time the motherboard could be really sloppy with it's power delivery and could be overvolting even with it turned off. Adaptive voltage could be the issue actually, I've had issues with my mobo where on one boot it'll set the base voltage to 1.22V and then add the +0.105V offset on top, but the very next boot it'll set the base voltage at 1.45V and also add the +0.105V on top of that, so it could very well be that adaptive voltage is causing it to overvolt. In your case it isn't anywhere near as extreme as mine is, but it's a possibility, I loathe to use adaptive voltage and I prefer to use fixed voltage, but on my motherboard it refuses to boot even at stock clocks while using fixed voltage, so it's a case of needs must

It'd be an interesting experiment then, either running Android on an Apple device, or iOS on an Android flagship and see which is better. I have a strong feeling that Android would still struggle on an Apple device because of the lack of RAM, but as far as the CPU performance goes I reckon Android would see similar performance to what iOS does on the same hardware, in benchmarks at least. If we could run that test then we could answer the question of who is better once and for all. Although, no matter who wins, the fanboys will never stop crowing about it.

Yeah I get where you're coming from, but it always seems to be the same thing, it's coming in the future, and that's not really going to help market adoption of the store when the only stuff on there currently is rubbish, the average Joe isn't going to care what will be there in the future, they only care what's on there now. Their new Universal framework is cool, but what about performance? If you're porting an Android app that was developed in Java then performance is going to suck, games especially will suffer and when everyone sees how poorly a ported game runs on Windows then no one will want to use it, iOS apps shouldn't have this issue but there's still the potential for bad performance, unless MS figured it out already and have something in place to cover that possibility. MS Edge is looking promising, but I'll wait for official reviews of the finished version before trusting MS's performance figures, they've been known to fudge things like this before, although to be honest even a fart in a hurricane is more efficient than what Chrome is, so I can sort of believe it to be less resource intensive than what Chrome is, the only thing that bothers me is I have an electricity topup meter, and I have to use Internet Explorer to use the home topup kit, and I'm concerned that it won't work with Edge, I don't want to have to keep a VM of Windows 7/8 just to topup the electricity.

That's basically what I said, they should have gone for a plain quad core rather than trying to stuff a SOC with as many cores as they can get in to it. ^__^ Intel doesn't use the Big.Little design, they have Hyper-Threading or genuine dual/quad cores, and Apple also use (I think) a plain dual core design rather than farting around with the Big.Little design. But in any case I agree, Qualcomm need to stop fannying around with Big.Little and figure out proper scaling of clock speed and voltage like Intel does instead of trying to market a fake octa-core as being the best thing ever. When Apple can match a flagship device using a quarter of the cores, half the clock speed and a third of the RAM then you know your design sucks, and they should take a good long look at their design team and figure out which one needs stringing up by his nuts

Ah, I see, that's good to know, sandboxing would be useful to prevent Malware completely hosing a system, and if they can get devs to put their stuff on the store then great, but many apps would never get on there in the first place, most useful stuff isn't designed around a touch interface, and if I have to choose between apps with ads loaded into them and the security of sandboxing or searching for the app on the internet then I'll take searching the internet any day. For people more likely to get infested with malware then I'll push them to use the store, but for myself I'd rather get it from the devs website or sourceforge or wherever if I can.

I'm not that clued up on the whole 810 overheating issue, but as I understand it, in the race for higher clock speed and more cores, Qualcomm ran head first into the same issue that is slowing Intel's penetration into the mobile market and found out the hard way that it isn't Intel's lack of ability when it comes to chip design, but it's rather the fact that making high performance chips use less than 5W of power is bloody hard. Although One+ could do with perhaps telling the truth instead of talking twaddle and perhaps realise that they can't claim bullshit and get away with it for long. Qualcomm need to focus on making just a quad core design and get single core performance up and power consumption down and catch up to Apple in those regards, it must be embarrassing when a flagship SnapDragon ship is trounced by a dual core running at nearly half the clock speed. The 810 imo is not a phone processor, it's a tablet processor, it's too hot running and power hungry to realistically be used in a phone and the 808 is perhaps the one that should be Qualcomms flagship phone chip. But in any case, One+ are idiots for trying to mislead customers and the press. If Qualcomm had made a "special-sauce" 810, then you can bet your left nut that HTC, Samsung and Sony would have used it, there's no way in hell that any of them would let an upstart like One+ get away with having the better chip, and there is no way would Qualcomm design an 810 that's cooler running just for One+, it would hurt their customer relations too badly.

Nothing against you GoodBytes, this mini news post is incredibly useful to know exactly what limitations there is on Apps on Windows 10, but having been looking through the Windows Store I'm having a hard time trying to figure out why exactly anyone would care about how many installs of apps you can make, almost everything on there is a total crock of shit, and it's worse than the Play store for crap and that's saying something. There's probably some really cool and useful stuff on there but having been through 16 pages of apps the most useful thing I found was a camera app, and I have no idea how good it is at that. On mobile versions of Windows I can sort of justify using the Windows Store, but on desktop I would rather dig my eyes out with a spoon than use the garbage on the store, I can find applications using google that do so much more than what is on the store that I cannot think of a compelling reason to even bother opening the application when I get Windows 10. Still, at least it has reasonable restrictions on number of concurrent installs, even if there's nothing worth installing to begin with

Can you try setting LLC to a higher value and see if that curbs the high voltage, it shouldn't be overvolting like that, if you already have LLC enabled can you try dropping it and test again, IBT gets CPU's hot, much hotter than anything would reasonably get a CPU to, but it shouldn't be that hot, nor should your CPU be overvolting unless that motherboard is too aggressive with LLC or is sloppy with controlling the voltage.

It sounds like your overclock is unstable, can you try bumping the CPU vCore by 0.01V and try running Intel Burn Test or OCCT and see if the BSOD occurs please? Overclocking CPU's causes them to degrade over time, and you've been running with one for long enough for that to start happening, so see if upping the voltage fixes it, just be aware that the longer you run the overclock the worse it gets, so eventually it'll start happening again even if you stop it from happening now and when it does you'll have to bump the voltage again. Btw, 0x124 BSOD's usually mean an unstable CPU, and you'll see it around 90% of the time when overclocking, if your memory controller is unstable then you'll see 0x101 BSOD's accompanying it as well, but in your case you probably won't see it.

I know many of you are saying that these dates are just for the RTM and that as updates are rolled out it will be extended, but I don't think it is, the way I understand it is that you can only defer updates for a short period of time, and that only enterprise users will be able to defer updating for any significant amount of time, but will have to update eventually and everyone running Windows 10 will be updated from the RTM version by the time those dates come around. So the way I see it, is that if Microsoft is serious about Windows 10 being the last major release of Windows, then why are they announcing cut off dates for it? If it is going to be a continuous rolling update cycle and that updates will be forced regardless of the users wishes then technically support should never end because no one should be able to get that far out of sync with updates, unless Microsoft are indeed going to be releasing either service packs or a new version of Windows in the near future. Even enterprise users can't defer updates for 5 or even 10 years according to Microsoft's update cycle timetable, so again, why have a cut off point for support if no one will be running that version of Windows 10 by the time 2020 comes along, let alone 2025, I have a feeling they're not telling us everything regarding Windows 10 and that we're either looking at a series of service packs every couple of years, or there will be a new version of Windows within the next few years. And lets face it, if this really is the last version of Windows, then how will they keep up with technology advancements without either significant service pack releases or an entirely new version of Windows?

AMD needs Zen, but I was looking at AMD's roadmap and if the 40% increase in IPC compared to Excavator is to be believed then it only puts about level with a 5820K/5930K, and while that's a damn sight better than the 8350, I'm worried that it won't be enough to save AMD, and that is all assuming that Intel doesn't increase performance by the time Zen releases. Zen will have to undercut Intel in price by at least £50 compared to the 5820K for it to be worthwhile buying, and it needs to have all the latest bells and whistles to go with it, but if they do that then making money back on Zen will be almost impossible. At this point it's looking like the only thing that can save AMD is a buyout. I desperately want AMD to be competitive again, I want to be in the thick of a renaissance of AMD and see what it was like in the glory days of AMD like what they had in the Athlon 64 days and I want there to be real competition in the market again, but as it currently stands it's looking doubtful. Zen will not only have to have high IPC, but high clock speeds, good overclocking headroom and low power consumption for it to succeed, anything less will be dead in the water.

I'm 100% certain I read that the law for the TV license does not cover streaming, that's why the law is going to change soon, I even read that on BBC's website, I'll see if I can find the link, but afaik the TV license law has not been updated yet to cover streaming, and are trying to scare people with that notice. Sorry, I misread the original link, for live broadcast content you do need a TV license, but for stuff that is not being live broadcast you don't need a TV license currently, I stand corrected ^__^;

At the moment you don't have to pay the TV license for streamed content, even on the BBC iPlayer you don't have to pay a TV license to watch the content on there, the law will change soon though. But yes, paying the TV license is stupid if you don't watch BBC stuff, but a lot of content on other channels is paid for from the license fee or was originally broadcast on the BBC, so the only way to effectively police a TV license is to make sure everyone pays for it, and it sucks. Although having said that, the license does pay for the local BBC run radio stations, rights to some shows and channels from America, and pays for the upkeep of all the broadcasting houses in the UK and of course pays for the TV service, and a license covers you no matter where you are and no matter on what device you use to watch TV or listen to radio, and it hasn't increased in price for at least 5 years now, so it isn't that bad of a deal, oh and if you have multiple people in a household you only pay once a year and it covers those people so long as they continue to live at that address (Obviously people in flats have to pay a license per flat, but for a family, you only pay it once per year) It also means that adverts are not a thing on BBC channels, the only advertisements on the BBC are for BBC's own stuff, and there's never more than 3 minutes of adverts per break, it's also not expensive in the grand scheme of things, £145 a year for a colour TV license, which compared to the cost of a streaming service subscription is actually not bad, Netflix is about £72 a year, and only covers you for 1 device, the TV license is £145 a year and covers you and everyone in your household for any device and any free-to-air channel and radio broadcast for 1 year.

This is absolutely disgusting imo, Kojima has had a very real hand in the fortunes for Konami and like others have said his franchise has earned them more money than almost all their other works combined except maybe Silent Hill, and it doesn't matter in what situation Kojima's studio was disbanded, his team and himself worked hard on that game, and he should be credited along with his team, to do anything else is basically stealing their work. Although having said that last part Konami probably took the rights to the game and the name when Kojima signed his contracts, so I guess that there is nothing he can do about it unfortunately. It's an awful situation, because if you boycott the game then the devs don't get the money they rightly deserve and I doubt Kojima would want that, but on the other hand if you buy the game Konami get the impression that their actions don't matter and that it's basically okay to pull shit like this and get a shed load of money to boot for basically zero effort, while riding the coat tails of an incredibly talented dev and producer. At least Kojima can now focus on doing what he wants to do and maybe he'll go on to even greater things while Konami flounders around trying to produce shitty mobile games that earn next to nothing. I guess that's the positive we can take from this, Kojima won't be dragged through the mud when Konami start pissing around with mobile games and he can do what is right for him and his team.

Can you do the following please? Click on "Tools" in the menu bar along the top of the window and then click on "Options" (Firefox may have an orange button in the top left, if this is the case then click on that and then look for "Options" in the list available) If you're using the most recent version of Firefox then a new tab will open with all of the options contained within it. Look in the General section for the text box with the words "Home Page" next to it. In this box type without quotes "about:home" and the text should change to an italicised font with the words "Mozilla Firefox Start Page" Now change the drop down list that is next to the words "When Firefox Starts" to the option titled "Show my home page" if it is different and then restart your browser to see if the changes have taken effect. You're really not having much luck with these forums because of all the stupid that seems to have crawled out of the woodwork lately are you? I'm sorry that so many morons seem to think that "change it to default" is actually helping.

Can you download and run MalwareBytes please? It's a free application that can shift even the worst offenders, if it finds anything, then let it remove them and then reboot and attempt to delete the files that are locked and unremovable. If the files still won't delete after that then boot into Safe mode and run the command prompt as administrator from there. If you want a free video editor/rendering software then try Davinci Resolve Lite, you can download it for free from there and you don't even have to enter any real personal details, just any old rubbish will do, it has most of the features that paid software does and while it is tricky to learn how ot use, once you get used to it, it's an immensely powerful bit of software and you can do a heck of a lot with it.

You would have been better off buying better parts from the start as you'll only end up spending more in the long term than what you would have if you had bought higher end parts from the start. Having said that if you don't need overclocking and you don't think you'll be doing anything intensive with the system I would say get the i3, you'll get decent performance from it, and having the hyper threading will keep it relevent for longer compared to the G3258, and you'll have a decent upgrade path when you do decide it isn't enough any more. If you wish to overclock then get the i5 if you can afford it, yes the system will be unbalanced, but if you get a G3258 you'll find that some games you wish to play won't work on anything less than an i3, the Pentium is great for messing around with and learning how to overclock but I wouldn't say it's worth using as a daily driver any more unless you're on an ultra tight budget. It's up to you at the end of the day though, if you cannot afford the i5 then get the i3 until you can afford something better, if you're not concerned with performance, and you're on a tight budget and you know for definite that you'll never play anything that needs 4 cores then get the Pentium, but just temper your expectations a little, it's a great overclocker, but it's a dual core and dual cores are fast being left behind as software takes better advantage of multithreading, and I would argue that it is already obsolete for most use cases.

Can you go into Control Panel on the File Server, and then type "Advanced Sharing" without the quotes into the search bar at the top of the window and then click on the first option titled Manage Advanced Sharing Settings. Now in the Home or Work profile can you change the following settings please? Change Network Discovery to On Change File And Printer Sharing to On Turn Password Protect Sharing to On Make sure Homegroup connections is set to Allow Windows to Manage Connections and finally click Save. Do the same for all the desktops and laptops you wish to allow to connect to the File Server and in the File Server, set a password for the user account. This step is important, Windows has a weird thing going on where it will sometimes not connect to Network Shares if it isn't password protected. Now go to your computer and click on the File Server in Windows Explorer and connect to the File Server, it should ask for a username and password, enter the username you have on the File Server and enter the password for that user account, and check the box titled Save Credentials and connect to the File Server, you should now be able to copy a file to the File Server, if not then let us know.

Thanks, taking a look now, will update once I've been through it Edit: The BSOD seems to be linked to MSRPC.sys, and that particular BSOD is incredibly generic, 0x7a could be a failing hard drive, bad cables, failing RAM, malware, and an incorrectly seated add in card, or even a bad update. I would try a new SATA data cable first, if that doesn't fix it, then try going through and carefully checking for updates that were installed around the same time as the BSOD started, it could be a faulty update that's causing it. In the meantime, can you also try running Memtest86 to check your RAM and make sure nothing has been knocked loose inside the computer, also could you check for updated drivers for your computer on Dells website, some of your drivers are a few years old and there may be newer versions avaliable to download, and finally, can you make double sure to back up any important files just in case it is a failing hard drive. I hate BSOD's like this, there's no clear cut cause of the BSOD and it's a case of trial and error and trying different things until we figure it out.

I just tried accessing the BSOD and it's asking me to sign in, I don't have a DropBox account so can you make the file public please? I have a feeling it might be a faulty SATA data cable, you could try replacing it and seeing if that fixes the issue, but it could also be the motherboard failing, and without access to the memory dump we'll never know.