daniellearmouth

Hi there. It's been a while. I recently had to upgrade my PC, because either my CPU or motherboard had given up the ghost, and considering whether it was worth dropping money to keep the old girl running or just replace those components, I went with upgrading. So, I got a Ryzen 7 3700X paired with an ASUS Prime X370-Pro, and on top of that I have a Corsair MP600 1TB SSD to take advantage of PCI Express 4 shenanigans. Overkill, sure, but it's still cool. What's slightly less cool is that I've had this consistent issue with games that run OpenGL or Vulkan. If I run a game like Forza Horizon 4, F1 2019, or Civilization VI - games which run DirectX - I have no issues and they run buttery smooth. Games like Minecraft, No Man's Sky, and Ion Fury, however, is a different matter. What happens is, when loading those games in fullscreen, my second monitor goes black. It then flashes whenever my primary monitor refreshes, and the frame rate is so poor that navigating menus becomes difficult. I don't know how or why, but playing anything that uses OpenGL or Vulkan is simply impossible. For a time, I was able to sidestep this issue with Borderless Gaming, which enabled me to play at least some of these games without issue, but Ion Fury isn't taking to it (and I really want my oldschool shooter fix). As for trying to resolve the issue, I've attempted uninstalling the drivers several times through DDU, installing just the driver (without GeForce Experience), running games without drivers, and even though the last one did appear to be somewhat effective, nothing has really worked. I've tried using MSI Afterburner to see what I can do to resolve this, but I don't know what I'm looking at. The only thing I can think of that I could probably try that I haven't is closing as many programs down to see if it's a program, but besides that, short of reinstalling Windows, I don't know what more I can do. Any advice is welcome, and any info that you need, if I can provide it, I will give. Thanks in advance.

Hello. My first post in a while, and I wish the circumstances under which I was posting this were better. Last month, our Samsung Smart TV from 2013 gave up the ghost, as it was going into a reset loop and the picture was suffering significant distortion in doing so. We decided to buy a new Sony Bravia TV, and the purchase was helped with us getting Sky Q installed at home. 4K and all that jazz, so we're happy as can be. Until earlier today. My mother woke up and turned the TV on, to discover that there was no picture. At all. There was a backlight, and there was audio from the TV, but there was no picture and no OSD. After I woke up we went through troubleshooting steps such as turning the TV off for a few minutes and turning it back on, and unplugging it for a few minutes and letting it reset. We got to the point where we had to perform a factory reset as we saw no other option, and even that was unsuccessful. In fact, the factory reset has effectively turned our £700 radio with a dysfunctional screen, to just a £700 noise machine. We bought the TV just a little over a month ago, so if need be, we can get it sent for repair or replacement, but it's disappointing nonetheless that we bought a TV, and it goes duff weeks later. Do I just go through with the RMA or try hunting around for things to solve the problem (ideally ones that don't involve opening the TV up)?

If the past is anything to go by, with a lot of difficulty and wangjangling.

Why is Stevie Nicks' voice so good?

Yeah, can confirm. Goddamn flash shortage and mining craze (slash some companies inflating the prices of some cards arbitrarily)...

Been listening to a bunch of 80s stuff again recently and thought I'd listen to some Nena.

Think of it like a book. You're reading words on a page, or you're writing onto the page.

Get a USB stick, plop the BIOS you wanna use on it, go into the UEFI and update from there.

Use a dry lint-free cloth to clean off dust, and a slightly moist cloth with mild soap (dishwashing soaps are a good option) to wipe down to remove smudges. Don't spray anything on the screen or try to soak it, and dry it down with another dry cloth.

Very solid build! Really good CPU, a good GPU, a PSU that isn't gonna fry...it's all pretty neat! One thing, though - where's the hard drive? I know there's an SSD but it will fill up fast, so you may want to drop some money on a hard drive at some point. Other than that, no problems here.

Ah yes, Seagate Barracudas. Question: how old is this computer? If it's, like five years old or round about, that's likely gonna be the problem. I remember having the same issue where my Barracuda 2TB drive would give up in some things. Not to mention, it died days after the warranty period ended.

nah m8 the average person dusn't see past 24fps just stick with teh cinematic experiens :^) But for real, as someone who uses a 144Hz panel along side a 60Hz panel, and I can honestly say there is a substantial difference. However, as with most things, displays suffer from diminishing returns once you get past a certain point with frame rates. When they go past 100Hz they start to kinda blur together almost, making the differences feel somewhat negligable. I would personally go with the 144Hz panel simply because it's cheaper.

https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Integrating_Lua The Unreal Engine wiki features a guide on how to utilise Lua in UE4. However, if you want to make games in full you will likely want to learn how to utilise the engine's Blueprint language, or C++.

Can't say I've had nightmares since I watched the second episode of the revived Doctor Who. And that's with having played games like System Shock, BioShock, F.E.A.R., Amnesia, Penumbra, Silent Hill, Resident Evil......I know, dove far into the sea of horror games, amirite?

It's largely just transistioning between DDR3 and DDR4, since DDR4 is now the current standard.

That particular issue is a bit more complicated than just the pound being weaker than piss now. It's because there's a shortage on DRAM modules which, until the end of this year, is gonna persist.

Hmmmm, not really. The 'typical' RX460 costs $100, generally at a minimum, and that's largely to clear stock for the RX550 and RX560. Outside of that, most are still in the ballpark of $120, and this is all on Amazon.com. It's normal to expect cards to fall in price upon the announcement of a new line of cards, and equal comparisons between the US and the UK are pretty much impossible, since prices have to be adjusted for tax and dollar-to-pound value over here.

Hooray for import tax.

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