DatScrubBoi

Hello, I'm a beginner with networking and managing servers so forgive the ignorance. I got my NAS up and running and managed to set permissions for data sets so that I have my own personal folders, my roommates have their own personal folders, and there's a shared folder space for everyone. But I'd like to access my NAS from the VR/HTPC setup in the living room, and it would be a convenience to be able to access my personal files only I have access to. I was thinking maybe I could make a "Public" user that would be able to access shared content normally, but I could still see my personal folder and potentially have to enter a password when trying to access it. But it would have to only be the public user because I don't want to deal with a password every time on my main PC. I don't know if something like that is possible, I can't find any info while searching. I appreciate any help.

It's with the enclosure with some drives taken out of the same system, and also switched to a second PC. But admittedly, the 2nd PC is a little weird... and I haven't had trouble with this enclosure before but that could be it. I'd do more testing but I only have these 2 systems available right now, and I had to get out the enclosure because one of my few SATA ports on this new motherboard just fell off. I guess I just got a little heated and worried that when I RMA this board I might have some issues. So it might not actually be that big of a deal, but I would still love to know of a way to disable it.

I've found tons of tutorials on how to recover data and switch a GPT drive to MBR, but I can't do that in this case. I'm trying to move some data between drives right now, because of a lack of SATA ports I'm having to use a USB enclosure for some of them. I soon will also have to get a new motherboard and I want to fresh install Windows. Using the USB enclosure with the same machine or swapping drives between machines is causing the drive to lock up as a "GPT Protective Partition." But I can't just make everything MBR because that only supports drives up to 2TB and most of the ones I'm working with are larger. Is there a way to just disable this stupid feature so a drive containing non-sensitive data can just be read by any machine? I don't even see the point since tons of applications can just recover the data on a protective partition. I can't find any info on if there's a way to format GPT without the drives becoming protective. This isn't really about how to deal with my drives right now, I can deal with it, I just want to save myself this headache in the near future. Thanks for any help.

There are splitters that can take an HDMI input and spit out 2 identical HDMI signals for two screens. I would love to be able to find a splitter for a displayport cable, but it just doesn't seem to exist. All the splitters I can find digitally show up as two separate displays, and to clone the signal you have to use Window's duplication feature but that's not an option for what I'm trying to do. I would need one of the signals to end up being HDMI as well, so if there was such a theoretical dongle it could have displayport to displayport and HDMI or I could just adapt one of the two displayport outputs. Does anyone know of a splitter for displayport? I'm at my wits end searching

put in "graphics cards" and not "displays" because I figured it was more of an issue with how the GPU and its drivers are behaving

I have a 144hz monitor and a capture card that runs at 60hz. I'm trying to duplicate my main monitor to the capture card. When I do this, it caps my main display at 60hz. I've seen this talked about before although the Reddit posts were archived and nothing anyone said on their worked for me. The GPU scaling trick did not work for me either. I want to know, has anyone figured this out yet? Also, this might be part of the issue... I have two GPU's. A GTX 1080 for my main 3 monitors and my Vive, then a secondary GTX 1050 ti used to plug in more monitors, mainly my drawing display, an ultra-wide I turn on for video editing, and the output I'm using for my capture card. As of testing I only have the main display plugged into the 1080, and the stream output plugged into the 1050. I would like to try to avoid putting the capture output on the 1080 because I don't want the Vive to have to be plugged into the secondary card.

Hello there, I have an issue I have a filter on a source that masks it. It's a GIF that is set to only play once (not loop) that fades from white to black, fading out that source when you switch to that scene because of the color mask. However, that filter doesn't reset when I leave the scene, so when I come back to that scene that source is still invisible. I have to remove and reapply the filter to get it to reset. Is there any way I can force the filter to reload when switching away from it? Just plopping that GIF into a scene makes it reset every time I come back to that scene so I don't think it's the fact that it's only set to play once.

CPU is a 9600K. Yeah I thought about using the iGPU but I know that results with that can be a little hit-and-miss sometimes and I'm not sure what kind of hit my CPU would take for that, I do love my multitasking and it's already hard enough to even watch a video when Hammer is compiling a CS map and pegging my CPU, so I was hoping a dedicated card might help with that a little. I'm open to whatever suggestions. Thanks for any help

I have a GTX 1080 and I I'm using 4 of it's video outputs, which seems to be the maximum that most graphics cards support. I'm using the HDMI for my vive, and the 3 displayports for my 3 monitors. I'd like to duplicate the feed of my center monitor and send it to a capture card over HDMI. I can't seem to find a displayport splitter that doesn't act like 2 separate displays instead of just mirroring the input (and I can only use 4 display outs) and I'm also worried about that introducing a little lag or not being able to support 144hz to my monitor. If I was to buy a low-end GPU like a GT 1030 or a GTX 750, could I pop that in and use it to mirror my center screen in Windows display settings and not cause much of a hit to my performance?

Thanks, but if I have this right, the system *should* render a game on the GTX 1080, and I'll setup Windows to duplicate the display and the rendered video will be send through the PCIe slots into the smaller card and out of its HDMI port? Also, I've seen some people use their onboard Intel graphics with their GPU for more outputs, even sending video from the GPU through the CPU and out the motherboard's HDMI port. Does that seem like a viable option?

My setup is configured with: An EVGA GTX 1080 (so 3 displayport outputs, one HDMI and a DVI), three 144hz monitors running on each displayport connection, a vive plugged into the HDMI port, and then... I would like to essentially have a copy of my center monitor sent to the capture card in my capture PC, and also a copy sent to my TV for couch gaming with friends and family. It seems that most graphics cards are locked at 4 display outputs, and with my 3 monitors and the vive I'm at my limit. When I use a DVI to HDMI adapter to plug in my TV it just refuses to connect (until I unplug the vive, then it works fine). Also, I pefer to run games in borderless windowed mode because I'm always tabbing out to Discord or whatever else on another screen and sometimes fullscreen games will freeze everything for a few seconds. Also, when a game doesn't have the option to run in borderless and must be fullscreen, duplicating my center screen across the HDMI and displayports in Windows can have some really bad effects when tabbing out. I think the best way to go would be to have a box with a displayport input that duplicates your screen across a displayport AND HDMI output, then split that HDMI output to the capture PC and the TV. Unfortunately I can't seem to find anything like that, and pretty much all displayport splitters I've seen make all outputs of the box show up as separate screens, not just duplicating the signal. Does anyone know of any device that might be able to do something similar? Secondly, I was wondering if adding another, smaller graphics card would allow me to connect more screens. If I could buy something like, I dunno, a GTX 1030, could I plug that in and use it to connect more monitors, duplicating the center display to 2 more outputs? Would there be any unwanted effects or slowing in performance? Any help would be greatly appreciated. ?

I'm using an Elgato HD60 Pro capture card in OBS on a secondary streaming computer. The image is fine except for some weird artifacts. Straight lines and elements with lots of complex color like a photo are fine, and decently small text like that of the body of a webpage looks fine too. However, larger, round objects on screen, like larger text such as around the "P" in the forum logo at the top of the screen, or round icons on the desktop have a jagged edge. Actually it's also on angled edges like the 45 degree angle of the edge of a document (the part that looks like the paper of the document is folded over), so what I would describe this as is a lack of anti-aliasing in a game. I can provide a picture but I'd have to grab a screenshot from the other computer and I figured that that explanation would be enough, it's literally just like a lack of anti-aliasing or similar to stretching a smaller sized desktop icon to be full-sized. Again this doesn't seem to happen on smaller items like small text, and I can clearly see a single pixel when placed in photoshop on a blank canvas, so I guess it's a part of the compression or something but it seems very strange. I also played around with the sharpness and it wasn't that. Just wondering if anyone knew what I was talking about and if there was a way to lessen that, isn't really a big deal but would be nice if I could fix it

Thank you all for your insight! @Syntaxvgm wow that's nuts

Thanks. Any insight as to why this is though? Is it supposed to be an option to use a higher wattage 4 pin connector, or really really expensive PSU's with all the necessary connections, or maybe we'll start seeing PSU's with this skew normally

I bought a new motherboard, the power draw of my new CPU isn't that much greater than what I had before, and my 650W PSU is fine for the job. However, I didn't notice until later that the mobo has 2 power connectors, and 8 pin like my previous mobo, and an extra 4 pin, so 12 total for CPU power. My power supply only has the one 8 pin CPU out, and I can't find a PSU that has both an 8 pin and 4 pin power out for the CPU power. What's that about? What do I do?