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Nicholas Steel
Posted on 19-02-24, 12:22 in New Realtek website... where are the audio drivers!?? (revision 9)
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Please help me, I can't seem to find where they've put the audio drivers on the new website. I can only find network drivers. The search box also doesn't seem to help. Apparently they switched to UAD style drivers and I'd like to see if they still support the ALC1200 chip.

Hmm, okay I've found this https://www.realtek.com/en/component/zoo/category/pc-audio-codecs-high-definition-audio-codecs-software but it doesn't list any UAD/DCH/whatever format driver they now use.

Edit: I might just use the drivers from the Windows Update catalog, they're over a year newer than what's on the Realtek website (and Realtek's v2.82 has busted software but working driver so there's no detriment to switching to the Microsoft driver). I'm looking through this site for info on what the latest compatible driver actually is: https://www.tenforums.com/sound-audio/
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Hmm... the latest Microsoft supplied drivers were a bad idea >.>" today I got a PFN_LIST_CORRUPT error for no reason not long after I began using Firefox and 5 minutes after power cycling the PC I got a Quota_Underflow BSOD while I was again attempting to use Firefox.

So after the 2nd power cycle of the PC I immediately went to Device Manager and uninstalled the audio drivers & software. I'll leave it like this for a bit but so far everything seems to be back to stable condition.
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Nicholas Steel
Posted on 19-02-25, 14:45 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Yeah the font isn't distorted on my end in Firefox 65.0.1: https://imgur.com/a/rYR500L
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Nicholas Steel
Posted on 19-02-25, 18:05 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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The intro to this video worried me for a moment, since I had literally been experiencing those style of errors today while watching Youtube videos...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eM4wjgXsJI
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Nicholas Steel
Posted on 19-02-26, 08:28 in New Realtek website... where are the audio drivers!?? (revision 4)
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Posted by funkyass
I take it your motherboard maker doesn't have win10 drivers for your audio?
Nah, but the Realtek drivers from the Realtek website (not my motherboard website) up to v2.820 seem to work fine. Drivers after the last v2.7x release however don't have functioning software (when you try to open the Realtek Audio Manager it will briefly appear in Task Manager then silently close and the Realtek Systray icon never loads).

Realtek haven't released on their website any drivers newer than the v2.82 release (2017 release), but there are newer releases of drivers available from motherboard manufacturer websites, Microsoft etc.

I just wanted to see if newer drivers would work and see if they can improve stuff like better handling at lower buffer sizes so I can get the audio more responsive.
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Posted on 19-02-26, 09:16 in Mozilla, *sigh* (revision 6)
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Posted by funkyass
There was an extension that adjusted the font rendering for ff, i wonder if its still available?
If it's the Anti-Aliasing add-on I'm thinking of, no, it's not still available (not compatible with the Web Extension format).

All setting values for gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode

Font smoothing using sub-pixel anti-aliasing/positioning

//     -1 or 0 = use default for font & size;
//     4 = Natural;
//     5 = Natural Symmetric

GDI emulation (whole pixel rendering)

//     1 = aliased;
//     2 = GDI Classic;
//     3 = GDI Natural Widths;

I usually used a value of 3 (I think) via the Anti-Aliasing Tuner add-on for Firefox, I guess I have to manually make that change now that the add-on no longer works. Edit: Maybe I didn't use a value of 2 or 3, GDI font looks nasty >.>
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Nicholas Steel
Posted on 19-02-27, 10:36 in Is it good to use the High Preceision Event Timer (HPET)? (revision 4)
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There's lots of conflicting information about it out there on the internet about whether or not it improves general performance stability. There's also an option to disable Dynamic Ticks.

A lot of people allege that disabling HPET and to a lesser degree, disabling Dynamic Ticks improves gaming performance stability. A lot of places that suggest turning off HPET mention that it should lower the clock frequency to around 3.8MHz but in my experience it's 10MHz while disabled (14.bunch-of-numbers-MHz when HPET is enabled). So... I can't even achieve the state that's allegedly optimal lol.

Using Wintimer I've noticed that if I disable Dynamic Ticks the ratio between QueryPerformanceCounter and GetTickCount hovers around 1.0000 where as with Dynamic Ticks disabled it hovers around 0.90000 (no clue if a ratio of 1.0000 is a good target to aim for)
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Nicholas Steel
Posted on 19-02-27, 13:29 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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It hasn't been redesigned in a stable build yet thankfully, but that does look worrying. Can you still double click an entry to edit it or must you click the small Edit button on the right of each entry?
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Nicholas Steel
Posted on 19-02-27, 14:31 in Is it good to use the High Preceision Event Timer (HPET)? (revision 4)
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Apparently the Dynamic Ticks functionality (only available in Windows 8.1 and 10) does something similar to the Enhanced Halt State (C1E) function that you can enable in most Intel motherboard BIOS's. From my own observation disabling Dynamic Ticks causes https://www.resplendence.com/latencymon to no longer report my computer as unsuitable for media activity (DPC Latency is much lower on average), so the DPC latency spikes that occur while Dynamic Ticks is enabled are erroneous aberrations caused by a power saving technology.
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Posted on 19-02-27, 14:35 in Nintendo Switch emulation is now among us (revision 1)
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Posted by BearOso
ZSNES couldn't quite reach full speed (with transparency, no skipping, etc) on our P2-333, so the notions of it being fast enough to run perfectly on the original pentium are uninformed.

No, ZSNES is perfectly capable on a Pentium 1 so long as it's the MS-DOS version (which also supported the transparency effects etc.) The Windows versions of ZSNES need something like a Pentium 3 though >.>
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Posted on 19-03-03, 07:49 in Nintendo Switch emulation is now among us
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Perhaps my experience with ZSNES before we got a computer with a VIA Cyrix III 600MHz CPU, was with a version before v1.00. Iirc it definitely worked fine on a Pentium 1 with MMX.
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Posted on 19-03-03, 07:55 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 9)
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Our Samsung TV from 2016 always had AntiVirus (there's an option to toggle it on/off), I never understood how this 2019 Mcafee/Samsung news is... news.

CaptainJistuce I find 1920x1080 to be exceptional, when watching a Bluray and Full HD Free-to-Air TV is very good too. Upscaling of standard definition media is terrible though, but that's usually because such media is also using significantly inferior encoding & compression quality.
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Posted on 19-03-03, 15:25 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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I don't think colour banding will go away until HDMI 2.1 becomes common. Until then 4k displays can't be 10bit, 4:4:4 chroma subsampling and support HDR all at the same time afaik.
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Nicholas Steel
Posted on 19-03-04, 02:31 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 2)
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Posted by sureanem
A TV signal is much worse than DVD quality. DVDs don't have grain, and have much higher resolutions. And at any rate, it's absolutely pointless and a waste of time to display either signal on a 4K monitor. The same goes for consoles, except maybe for the rare few who don't output through composite. The TV won't be your bottleneck, the signal will.

In Australia all Free-to-Air TV stations now broadcast in a digital format (so there is no grainyness in the signal), while there are still some standard definition channels most of the good channels are 720p or 1080i, the 1080i channels are nearly as good as a blueray and also utilize the .h264 encoding.
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Posted on 19-03-04, 14:20 in Computer Hardware News (revision 2)
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Intel has released their Thunderbolt 3 protocol royalty free, it's planned to be integrated in to USB 4.0: https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-takes-steps-enable-thunderbolt-3-everywhere-releases-protocol/

Edit: Post here instead: https://helmet.kafuka.org/bboard/thread.php?id=67
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Posted on 19-03-05, 04:42 in Upcoming game announcements/news (revision 1)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtvO81nsfKU
Trine 4 announcement trailer.
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Posted on 19-03-05, 04:44 in Board feature requests/suggestions
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Have you considered adding support for Youtube embeds? When I use the [youtube] tags with just the tail end of the URL it restores the whole URL instead of embedding the video...
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Posted on 19-03-05, 11:03 in Board feature requests/suggestions (revision 13)
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Posted by creaothceann
Wasn't it omitted because page loads would get very slow?
I... never had an issue with it on Byuu's forum and I'm using an ancient CPU (though with videos performance is largely dependent on the video card and the number of videos simultaneously playing).

The website you linked to only consumes 13% of my CPU and 3% of the GPU.

I've had issues with some websites when I had a Geforce 760 video card like:
* Horizon: Zero Dawn website Multiple Full HD and HD videos auto-playing in the background and can't be paused, 100% GPU utilization and very high CPU utilization. Edit: looks like they've changed it so there's only 1 background video.
* Break image galleries. Often consisted of a lot of auto-playing videos per page so you'd have to scroll through pausing them all if you wanted any to playback correctly. Break is now dead.
* Endless scrolling Joyreactor website design. they ditched that a few years ago.

but it's no longer an issue since I upgraded to the Geforce 1070Ti (and I have very high expectation that a Geforce 1050 (non-Ti) wouldn't break a sweat either). Also Youtube video embeds don't automatically play afaik so other than the time it takes to load video players there shouldn't be much if any performance nor network impact until you click Play?
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Nicholas Steel
Posted on 19-03-05, 16:58 in PS4 randomly enters Rest Mode, even while gaming (revision 1)
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I now have my brand new Glacial White Slim PS4 500GB console with reliable, dependable, responsive tactile Power and Eject buttons (and got Spiderman for free with it too).

It also looks like the Slim model console correctly matches the RGB Limited/Full setting that my TV is set to. The original PS4 would require them to be mismatched to avoid washing out the picture. The new Slim model also supports 5GHz WiFi in addition to the 2.4GHz signal.

I'm in the process of installing my games to it at the moment so I haven't played any yet but I expect it to perform a lot more quietly than the original console. Edit: Yes, 50% quieter!
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