Statements that trigger tech fans.

[Mira Yurizaki]

The one that gets me is people saying NVIDIA doesn't have a DirectX 12 card.

 

This just tells me they're drunk off the AMD Kool-Aid. Or they have no idea what, oh, I don't know, DirectX feature levels are or how they work.

 

Or the fact that Asynchronous Compute is not a requirement of DirectX 12 and as far as I know, Vulkan.

 

EDIT: Oh and one more, calling a laptop a labtop. Where the deuce did this come from?

[JoeCoke]

Anything an Apple fanboy has to say. Like my cousin. He insists to this day that his 2011 iMac can destroy my PC. Hell, my old overclocked to hell and back Core 2 Duo 9800GT machine ran circles around it.

 

He also insists that Macs are indestructible and never have problems while PCs are nothing but problems. Which is why I laughed extra hard when his Macbook Pro had a battery bloat up and cooling fans fail. Meanwhile I still have my Optiplex GX110 from like 2000 that I still use as a music player pretty much daily.

 

He also says "hollywood uses macs" as proof that they're the best. AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

[KemoKa]

"my computer isn't working" Slaps monitor (or case, but particularly the monitor)
 

mrw:

[Mira Yurizaki]

27 minutes ago, 2Buck said:

He also says "hollywood uses macs" as proof that they're the best. AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

I saw movies that used Dells and Androids. What now?

[Drak3]

2 hours ago, Tam3n said:

Fun fact, way back when, the low end computers and high end computers could be physically identical, but have different SKUs due to effective hardware.

Thos floppy would modify the firmware on ypur Mac to reclaim RAM that was faulty, but if you actually got to using the RAM...

[Storytellar]

"but it has been working fine before...?" 

[marten.aap2.0]

calling the monitor 'computer' and the tower 'cpu'

[TacoSenpai]

"Did you try turning it off and turning it on again?"

[Sauron]

"I didn't do anything and it just doesn't work!"

 

*later it turns out they hadn't inserted the power plug properly*

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1 hour ago, M.Yurizaki said:

EDIT: Oh and one more, calling a laptop a labtop. Where the deuce did this come from?

I have never seen or heard that in my life, I assume it's just a typo.

[Mira Yurizaki]

Just now, Ryan_Vickers said:

I have never seen or heard that in my life, I assume it's just a typo.

It seems to be an east coast thing from what I experienced.

 

Urban dictionary has an amusing entry on it though.

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2 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

It seems to be an east coast thing from what I gathered.

 

Urban dictionary has an amusing entry on it though.

I looked it up on Google after reading this and much to my disappointment, it appears you are right

 

To clarify, I'm not disappointed you're right, I'm disappointed this is a thing

[marten.aap2.0]

1 hour ago, M.Yurizaki said:

calling a laptop a labtop

A university close to where I live has Labtops in the laboratories, just a bad pun

[Mira Yurizaki]

8 minutes ago, marten.aap2.0 said:

A university close to where I live has Labtops in the laboratories, just a bad pun

So they have computers on the roof of the lab?

[marten.aap2.0]

Just now, M.Yurizaki said:

So they have computers on the roof of the lab?

it took me way to long to understand it, I first thought I made some stupid typo

[Klemmbrett]

2 hours ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

5 hours ago, hey_yo_ said:

When the sales guy who is trying to reach sales says something like "solid state hard drive". 

The thing is, that's actually a thing.  SSHD, form Seagate (iirc).  It's got like an 8 GB SSD build in as a cache, but is otherwise a normal HDD.  Not the best name imo but it is a real one.

SSHD = Solid State Hybride Drive or lets just call it marketing bullshit.  

[Tiberiusisgame]

1 hour ago, Drak3 said:

Fun fact, way back when, the low end computers and high end computers could be physically identical, but have different SKUs due to effective hardware.

Thos floppy would modify the firmware on ypur Mac to reclaim RAM that was faulty, but if you actually got to using the RAM...

I'm sorry to tell you this but I have one of those disks from when I ran an Apple IIci. That's not what it did...

The RAM Doubler actually compressed the memory. You can't correct faulty RAM.

[2FA]

35 minutes ago, LordTaco42 said:

"Did you try turning it off and turning it on again?"

That may trigger tech fans but I can guarantee it fixes a hell of a lot stuff from my experience in tech support.

[TacoSenpai]

Apple.  @mrchow19910319

[KE2012]

Anything a computer salesman will say to get a sale. I've had to interrupt a good few times from false facts or statements to sell 'tech ignorant' people crap in my years as a techie. 

[mrchow19910319]

8 minutes ago, LordTaco42 said:

Apple.  @mrchow19910319

wut... 

[TacoSenpai]

10 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

That may trigger tech fans but I can guarantee it fixes a hell of a lot stuff from my experience in tech support.

I hate to admit that you're right but you are. 

Just now, mrchow19910319 said:

wut... 

Chickenbutt

[mrchow19910319]

the beliefs that "as long as I don't like product A/brand A, whoever does is a dumb ass". 

 

now insert your brand name there people. 

 

come on, be creative. 

[Drak3]

26 minutes ago, Tiberiusisgame said:

That's not what it did...

The RAM Doubler actually compressed the memory. You can't correct faulty RAM.

In the case of this particular brand, it appears ypur partially right. It both compresses and creates virtual memory.

But there have been plenty of RAM doubler products that reclaim faulty RAM, and they work until your data hits a bad register. It doesn't correct the RAM. The modern equivalent would be the RX480 4GB=>8GB VBIOS mod.

[Marinatall_Ironside]

What about "$1,500 is what everyone should be spending on their computers!"

As if they didn't take monitor resolution and preferred in-game settings and preferred FPS (Is it 60 or 144 FPS?), and the games themselves into consideration, or what their personal tastes are. Not everyone plays their games at 1080p (even though that's what the majority plays on according to Steam Hardware Surveys, not that that's the most reliable source, but most PC gamers use it )

 

Plus "x game's FPS is low on my system, so therefore it's unoptimized!"

 

First off, what, and how do you define "optimized" as? Is it because it gets 60FPS at 1080p maxed out on your measly computer? Is it because you can get 100+ FPS at 1080p at max settings? Is it because the game's engine can properly utilize computer resources. Does the game use new, alien technology that can't run optimally on even the most cutting-edge consumer hardware? How do you define it?

With that said, you can say "Crysis is super-demanding, so therefore it's unoptimized." Fist off, that game introduced a new form of ambient occlusion called Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (or SSAO for short). You also have to take into account that its engine (CryEngine 2) had over a million lines of code (which amount to 3000+ pages total), 85,000 shaders, and 1GB of texture data, and the game used high-resolution, high-poly models. The game engine at the time was among the first to use the DirectX 10 framework (which was introduced in Windows Vista). At its time, the hardware requirements for 1080p maxed out for that game was considered unfeasible. And 1080p at the time would be the equivalent of 8K in today's time.

 

How do you think the catchphrase "But can it run Crysis?" came about?

 

Mass Effect: Andromeda, on my system (when it had a GTX 960 4GB), didn't run so well at 1080p, and it ran decently at 720p, albeit with medium settings. When I upgraded it to a GTX 1080 Ti, I can now run that game at 4K with an FPS range of 40 to 60FPS (My preferred range). The results are still very interesting to say the least. On the Tempest, the FPS drops down to as low at 24FPS when entering the bridge to use the Galaxy Map, but outside of the Tempest itself, it runs perfectly. What that amounts to is that in the Tempest, there are lots of shaders, lots of lighting, and lots of objects that are not exclusive to the interior of the ship. Plus the resolution of the objects are rather high as well (which results in smoother-looking models). And everyone knows what engine that runs on, which is Frostbite 3. BF4 runs really well on a wide range of hardware at 1080p.

 

Bottom line is how do you use the engine, and what are you putting in your game.

 

Although not a programmer by any stretch myself, I've been working on a concept engine of my own, which aims for a few things: physical correctness, tremendous hardware usage scalability (imagine a game running on an over-the-top, fire-breathing monster truck computer configured with 4 NVIDIA TITAN Xp's and an Intel Core i9-7980XE Extreme Edition and properly utilizes all four GPUs (99% GPU usage with excellent scaling) and attaining at least 40% utilization across all 36 threads, or your midrange computer with 4 cores and 8 threads and a single GPU, and does it well), and usage of the latest graphics technologies (like Voxel Global Illumination and high-performance ray tracing technologies to attain the physical correctness), and leverages GPGPU to accelerate object physics and AI (which can work together in teams and can learn your playstyle and can exploit weaknesses in your playstyle (oh you like using cover? Frag grenades away). This would mean that this hypothetical engine can be used to create any game, and create the most demanding game that can easily supersede Crysis itself. What inspired this engine are Luminous Studio (that powers Final Fantasy XV), Unreal Engine 4, and CryEngine V.