Dylan Stanco

TL;DR The windows over lay sucks, find your exe files and disable full screen optimization (doesn't work for all games )also horrible screen flicker just in general on second display. So I was always under the impression that windows without an activation key was a benign little hinderance at the bottom of my screen. But recently that overlay has been the bane of my existence. I just built my pc with many hiccups in between. I had a hard drive failure and at first thought it was my GPU due to smite crashing every time it loaded. But further investigation showed corrupt files associated with smite and DirectX11 in general. I ran sfc/ scannow in the command prompt and my SSD had unfixable corrupt files. So I loaded my OS onto another drive of mine and boom no problems. But about 2 or 3 hours of gaming, i noticed a stutter in all my games. At first I thought it was just Apex but every single game from Witcher 3 to low end games like Bullets Per Minute having this ridiculous stutter. But the weird thing was, I wasn't dropping frames. In Apex i was still hitting 100+ frames with no major drops. I was very confused. So I tried doom eternal, again same issue. I'm over my frame limit with freesync enabled and still getting horrible stutter. so I come to the conclusion I have a faulty GPU. 2 to 3 hours of gaming and then horrible stutter? sounds like I have a crappy GPU, and not to help it, my GPU is the XFX 5700 xt, a card known for being hot. So I start a return with the retailer. I go on to some forums cause I don't want to return this card, I have been building this computer for over a month now. But I saw a post on how OC ram may cause stutter in game, so I returned my ram to stock stetting and BOOM no stutter. I canceled the return and hopped on apex and was having a blast. However the stutter returns and I am pissed. I could not for the life of me figure it out. Eventually I noticed if I reset my computer the stutter goes away, which in itself is odd, but still seemed like a GPU issue. But then i noticed that the windows activation water mark was missing. That's when I put the two together. I scoured the internet for similar problems. I found very few but it seemed like it was my issue. So eventually I found the fix on steam and that is to find the .exe file for your game and to right click and then go to combability and turn off fullscreen optimizations. Fixed most of my issues. When the watermark is present, there is horrible screen flicker especially on my second display which is horrible for my eyes. Overall I am going to buy a cheap windows home key.

Well my laptop is a gaming rig. so the heat some times hits low nineties quite often for extended periods of time. Especially when playing The Witcher 3 and even low intensity games like Furi. I may be paranoid, but the advise for cleaning the heatsinks and fans will not go unnoticed. Should I use a Q-tip soaked in 91% isopropyl? I ran out of compressed air.

Hello all, I have had my current laptop for almost a year. I have undervolted the CPU and OC the Nividia GPU. This was done quite a while ago and I periodically reapply the UV when ever my laptop shuts down in an unintended way (usually an app crashes, the UV is relatively stable, curse Fallout 4). However, I have noticed that my laptop is getting much hotter, especially in the CPU. I see a lot of people talking about not needing to reapply thermal paste, but usually this is about a desktop rig and not a portable one which gets hotter then the stereotypical laptop. I already purchased thermal compound off of amazon, which was Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut. I am most definitely gonna replace it for the experience of doing a full teardown of my laptop. I was just wondering if it was redundant to replace thermal paste in a laptop. I believe due to higher heat out puts that it is not, for I have seen others on YouTube doing it as well. However I will not use liquid metal. I know its relatively safe, but the risk is too high. Just wondering if anyone has some insight. Thanks and have a good day/night

right click on the home screen and then go to nivida control panel, after that click "set psyhx configuration" and change it from cpu to your graphics card. Also go to "manage 3d settings" and go to preferred graphics card and choose your dedicated graphics.

Go to mouse and keyboard and click the chroma setting.

THE FREAKING CHROMA SETTING IN KEYBOARD AND MOUSR WAS MAKING MY FRAMES STUTTER!!! WOW. thanks for the help guys but really that was the issue and I'm facepalming so hard I've given myself a hemorrhage.

Funny. I don't have DX only open gl and vulkan for doom.

Is open gl the same as DX? And vulkan kinda helped it. Idk it may be placebo but it still stutters.

No. There are a few games that run with slight issues. Dead space one and two but I hear that across the board with many people. But the witcher 3 runs like butter on high settings. But for some reason the doom is just a stuttering mess.

I will try vulkan again , but there was the same issue with vulkan if I remember correctly. Ive also done all the settings down to the lowest and still manage to dip under 50. its aggravating. Im over speced and still it runs like cottage cheese

I recently got Doom 2016 for my Dell G7. Now I have ran games that were much more graphically intensive then Doom. However, for some reason my frame just tank for no good reason. I have 8gbs of DDR4 RAM, I'm booting and loading the game from a separate SSD which is a Samsung 850 evo. i7 8750h with an undervolt of -.140. A 1060 max-q with and overclock on the cores 220mghz and 320mghz on the VRAM. I tried so many things. I turned off vsync and that just created screen tearing. I tried adaptive vsync. pretty much everything. I just want to know if any one else has had the issue and found a remedy for such. Have a good day.

Ok. I was gonna say, 8tb of ssd is like $1000+. I recommend getting a low capacity ssd. Either a 128gb or 256 for a few programs and the OS. Totally makes speed and boot so much faster.

Are you working with like audio/video/3d editing? If so, 16gb is pretty rock solid. And a 1050ti actually wouldn't be to bad. Also 8tbs of hdd? Or ssd?

Can you afford a better gpu?? I would at least get a 1060. 1050tis are kinda underpowered now. I would sacrifice some ram before a gpu. Tbh, 8gbs of ram is more then enough if your just gaming. But 16gb isn't bad either. It's all about user preference.

I totally loved playing on console a few years back. I wouldn't knock it. But the difference between 30 fps vs 60 fps is like night and day. But consoles have their place. Pc gaming has a nuance that many people don't under stand. Their is a lot of tweaking hardware to get the best quality. But this nuance is what makes pc gaming a different breed. But consoles are streamlined and have exclusives that pc may never get a port of *cough* spiderman. Either it be pc or console gaming is gameing.