Dabombinable
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While using my PS4 controller to prevent premature wear of the PS5 controller (already had to RMA the original on my first "faulty display out" PS5)...I've started missing the microphone button and less cramped design.
I don't miss the hand exfoliating though - that will always be my primary issue with the Dualsense. Before the "come loose" trigger springs. -
The day Windows 10 broke AMD's GPU switching was the day I really started to dislike Windows 10. My laptop which was genuinely at the time far better than most if not all sup $800 AUD laptops at the time (with both the CPU and graphics) became unusable overnight.
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Even newer DX11 games are known to artifact on it, mainly due to lack of up-to-date drivers. Performance is still pretty decent even with the artifacting.
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Loads of tabs across 2 windows = all the vRAM:
The reviewers who at the time said that 1GB vRAM would become the 512MB less than 2 years after release were right. 2GB cards really should have been the accepted minimum in 2012/2013.
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@MurasakiAparently it's one of Firefox's new themes - if I hadn't re-installed Windows I would still be using the original dark theme.
21 minutes ago, Levent said:Fun fact, if GPU acceleration isn't used neither is vram. 2013 was just around when GPU acceleration on browsers were taking a massive turn. I do agree that 2G should have been the minimum even in 2012 though.
HW acceleration is definitely used - I have to temporarily set the 650ti as the main screen to have videos decoding on it (with h264ify for the lack of VP9 decoding), and smooth scrolling. Compute benchmarks from back in 2012 saw it getting demolished by pretty much all of AMD's 7000 series.
Though in gaming it used to be a good 900p card (Skyrim was playable at 1080p because of the extra 1GB vRAM) - or for 1024x768 @ 85Hz max settings which is how I first used it for the first 6 months (ancient LCD monitor/TV)
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Looking up reviews of the 650ti that are relatively recent. And I'm either seeing the 650ti boost (which is 2GB and a lot faster) or 1GB model (which is near useless).
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I just hope it doesn't end up being a Fermi situation, with Kepler cards having issues even launching newer games (or launching with major artifacting). My 650ti is still my spare graphics card after all. Though it is barely able to play newer AAA (or AA) games at even 720p 60fps.
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The USB I was attempting to install ME off straight up didn't work. Turns out that the board only likes my USB FDD. Or perhaps I need to try to find my ancient 1GB USB (works with my OG Xbox).
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Feeling brave - I'm going to be installing Windows Me onto my Sempron 2800+ rig...off a USB stick. Even though I haven't had 98SE 100% stable. And I'm going to be enabling real DOS mode as well as using the memory patch for that sweet 1GB DDR400.
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2 hours ago, flibberdipper said:
I can't tell if this is feeling brave or feeling like you hate yourself and everyone around you.
I've legitimately had fewer problems getting Me stable in the past than 98SE. Then again, my best case scenario is my (reference with onboard Yamaha audio - true OPL2 as well) Intel SE-440BX-2, TNT2 Vanta with SLI Voodoo2 and Pentium III 650. Rock solid under any OS with Intel's provided motherboard drivers.
Edit: I've also dug out my copies of Office 2007 Pro and Vista Ultimate, I've got an empty 80GB HDD installed and I found my ball mouse that has a scroll wheel (not just a 3rd button)
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1 hour ago, Dabombinable said:I've legitimately had fewer problems getting Me stable in the past than 98SE. Then again, my best case scenario is my (reference with onboard Yamaha audio - true OPL2 as well) Intel SE-440BX-2, TNT2 Vanta with SLI Voodoo2 and Pentium III 650. Rock solid under any OS with Intel's provided motherboard drivers.
Edit: I've also dug out my copies of Office 2007 Pro and Vista Ultimate, I've got an empty 80GB HDD installed and I found my ball mouse that has a scroll wheel (not just a 3rd button)
To be fair I've also had much better luck with ME as opposed to 98SE, but installing off a USB... Ehhhhhhhh
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13 minutes ago, flibberdipper said:
To be fair I've also had much better luck with ME as opposed to 98SE, but installing off a USB... Ehhhhhhhh
Well I've just done it off DVD on the first try, and so far every single driver has installed flawlessly. And I've found a rather cool feature - I can see the % each USB device is using of the controller it is plugged into, or even disable error detection. Real mode DOS is also working.
My VIsta ultimate disc is actually just an upgrade...so I'll be digging my XP SP1a disc out. This is going to be fun.
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After having played Subnautica Below Zero (glad I bought it during early access - price reflected the final game's worth), it really does feel tiny compared to Subnautica (moving slower doesn't conceal that), and the story bad. It was also far easier, as when you meet your first leviathan you normally have the defense module from Marguerite's base. Which when used as soon as you get grabbed makes the Leviathan flee, and your Seatruck immediately snap around to face the direction it was originally traveling.
Re-writing the games entire story really butchered it as a whole, and hurt the game. I didn't get the full Snowfox BP until just before I was crossing the bridge BTW...and I just ran through in my prawn suit. Completely pointless edition to the game, much like the Seatruck (really does seem to only exist to slow the pace of the game).I'm putting this on Steam. Game was a disappointment.
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Or in the old days ate 400/512MB RAM...still have the install disc somewhere.
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AMD Radeon Pro W6800 appears on Geekbench with 32GB of VRAM
Dabombinable replied to Random_Person1234's topic in Tech News
It's not too much for a web browsing machine these days...even with the 5450 (mobile or desktop - 512MB sucked) -
Ah Norton. The Antivirus that let a flash based virus through at my school, and as a result nearly let the entire school network get rekt. School is still using it 12 years later due to long term contracts.
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I ran out of SATA ports again...next upgrade is a 4 port SATA card and another 4TB IronWolf (balancing out HDD to under 50% usage):
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1 hour ago, Grumpy Old Man said:
I did (the 4TB). F is an RAID 0 array:
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14 hours ago, Cyberspirit said:
Got my second 4TB Ironwolf drive a month or two ago just before they started rising the prices here. Really nice and quiet drives.
If I had the money to spare, I could actually get a second one $20 cheaper from the same store:
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In the 2 hours its taken Windows 10's installer to get to 46% checking updates, I've copied 1.5TB to my oldest 2TB Seagate HDD. 11 year old SATAII SSD aren't realistically that usable.
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I'm going to try re-installing Windows 10...but it took over half an hour between starting setup and having it actually launch. And another half an hour (in which I thought it had crashed+closed) for "checking your PC" to start.
