| Nicholas Steel |
Posted on 19-04-11, 10:12 in Computer Technology News/Discussion (revision 4)
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Post: #181 of 426
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The next big update to Windows 10 is nearing completion (v1903). It has now entered the Preview Ring of testing. Aside from some minor glitches in 2 parts of the UI it seems to be working fine, it also restores my ability to use Intel VT-d functionality which was causing the O/S to freeze early in the boot up phase ever since v1803 (Creator Update) released. Edit: VT-d support is still busted in modern Windows 10 O/S. random hard hardware failure that results in the PC rebooting even though I've configured Windows to not reboot in the event of a BSOD. Event Viewer indicates it may have something to do with hyperviseriommupolicy being forcibly enabled (warning says it could potentially result in system instability), adding the relevant BCD entry to disable it doesn't stop Windows from thinking it's forcibly enabled... only disabling VT-d will stop Windows from thinking it's forcibly enabled. AMD Ryzen 3700X | MSI Gamer Geforce 1070Ti 8GB | 16GB 3600MHz DDR4 RAM | ASUS Crosshair VIII Hero (WiFi) Motherboard | Windows 10 x64 |
| Nicholas Steel |
Posted on 19-04-12, 06:23 in Help wanted: Windows dynamic rate control support
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Post: #182 of 426
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I believe he wants XAudio v2.1 to retain support for Windows 7, Vista and maybe XP. Newer versions are restricted to Windows 8 and newer. Byuu, during your current installation of the O/S have you run the DirectX Web Updater? It installs a bunch of stuff that the June 2010 Redistributable Package doesn't. AMD Ryzen 3700X | MSI Gamer Geforce 1070Ti 8GB | 16GB 3600MHz DDR4 RAM | ASUS Crosshair VIII Hero (WiFi) Motherboard | Windows 10 x64 |
| Nicholas Steel |
Posted on 19-04-17, 19:12 in MS is about to release a discless Xbone, this time for real! (revision 2)
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Post: #183 of 426
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PS5 is also said to have: Some variation of the AMD ZEN 2 CPU architecture GPU that supports Ray Tracing Backwards compatibility with PS4 (no clue how extensive the support will be) An SSD storage device Expect it in 2020. AMD Ryzen 3700X | MSI Gamer Geforce 1070Ti 8GB | 16GB 3600MHz DDR4 RAM | ASUS Crosshair VIII Hero (WiFi) Motherboard | Windows 10 x64 |
| Nicholas Steel |
Posted on 19-04-28, 05:34 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE
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Post: #184 of 426
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The Nintendo Labo VR updates for Super Mario Odyssey and Zelda: Breath of the Wild on the Nintendo Switch also improves general loading times as well as the performance of content streaming/loading (less intermittent stutter when traveling insanely fast across the overworld in Breath of the Wild for example). This means that the Switch version of BotW is now the best version in all respects and Super Mario Odyssey is now straight up better than what it was. AMD Ryzen 3700X | MSI Gamer Geforce 1070Ti 8GB | 16GB 3600MHz DDR4 RAM | ASUS Crosshair VIII Hero (WiFi) Motherboard | Windows 10 x64 |
| Nicholas Steel |
Posted on 19-04-30, 17:54 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Post: #185 of 426
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Meanwhile in Venezuela... https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/bj5wj5/watch_live_military_tank_runs_over_street/ NSFW: https://www.local10.com/news/venezuela/guaido-calls-for-military-uprising (Tanks run over protestors) AMD Ryzen 3700X | MSI Gamer Geforce 1070Ti 8GB | 16GB 3600MHz DDR4 RAM | ASUS Crosshair VIII Hero (WiFi) Motherboard | Windows 10 x64 |
| Nicholas Steel |
Posted on 19-05-01, 06:09 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE (revision 3)
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Post: #186 of 426
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It turns out the improvements to load times are a result of a system firmware update for the Switch console. It allows games to temporarily overclock the hardware, and that the 2 games I mentioned (Mario Odyssey, Zelda: BotW) are utilizing the mechanic during loading screens. Games need to be patched to take advantage of the overclocking function. AMD Ryzen 3700X | MSI Gamer Geforce 1070Ti 8GB | 16GB 3600MHz DDR4 RAM | ASUS Crosshair VIII Hero (WiFi) Motherboard | Windows 10 x64 |
| Nicholas Steel |
Posted on 19-05-09, 02:17 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Post: #187 of 426
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Avatar: The Last Airbender finally released on Blueray late last year (I already have The Legend of Korra on blueray). I've been waiting a while for this to come out on Blueray. https://www.jbhifi.com.au/movies-tv-shows/movies-tv-shows-on-sale/tv-childrens/avatar-the-legend-of-aang-complete-series/339926/ Annoyingly it has a different name so when you search the store for The Last Airbender it doesn't show up... AMD Ryzen 3700X | MSI Gamer Geforce 1070Ti 8GB | 16GB 3600MHz DDR4 RAM | ASUS Crosshair VIII Hero (WiFi) Motherboard | Windows 10 x64 |
| Nicholas Steel |
Posted on 19-05-09, 02:37 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Post: #188 of 426
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How... did you of all people not know Hotmail was still free? AMD Ryzen 3700X | MSI Gamer Geforce 1070Ti 8GB | 16GB 3600MHz DDR4 RAM | ASUS Crosshair VIII Hero (WiFi) Motherboard | Windows 10 x64 |
| Nicholas Steel |
Posted on 19-05-10, 02:17 in SNES Hardware Revisions, continued (revision 2)
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Post: #189 of 426
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Posted by creaothceann Is that why that Super Mario World Star Road level where you have to Spin Jump through blocks to reach the exit at the bottom has fairly loud buzzing when played on a console??? AMD Ryzen 3700X | MSI Gamer Geforce 1070Ti 8GB | 16GB 3600MHz DDR4 RAM | ASUS Crosshair VIII Hero (WiFi) Motherboard | Windows 10 x64 |
| Nicholas Steel |
Posted on 19-05-10, 02:32 in Board feature requests/suggestions
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Post: #190 of 426
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Forum needs advertisements, black jack and hookers in order to improve performance. AMD Ryzen 3700X | MSI Gamer Geforce 1070Ti 8GB | 16GB 3600MHz DDR4 RAM | ASUS Crosshair VIII Hero (WiFi) Motherboard | Windows 10 x64 |
| Nicholas Steel |
Posted on 19-05-10, 05:21 in SNES Hardware Revisions, continued (revision 1)
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Post: #191 of 426
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Yeah that level, whenever I play that specific level on my SNES there's a fairly loud buzzing sound along with the game audio. Every other level in the game doesn't cause it. Might be PAL specific? AMD Ryzen 3700X | MSI Gamer Geforce 1070Ti 8GB | 16GB 3600MHz DDR4 RAM | ASUS Crosshair VIII Hero (WiFi) Motherboard | Windows 10 x64 |
| Nicholas Steel |
Posted on 19-05-12, 05:33 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE (revision 1)
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Post: #192 of 426
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I now own Hob on PC! AMD Ryzen 3700X | MSI Gamer Geforce 1070Ti 8GB | 16GB 3600MHz DDR4 RAM | ASUS Crosshair VIII Hero (WiFi) Motherboard | Windows 10 x64 |
| Nicholas Steel |
Posted on 19-05-12, 11:43 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE (revision 5)
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Post: #193 of 426
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So far it's pretty good, certainly a lot better than that Oceanhorn game. You're right that it's pretty much Zelda and so far its focus has been a lot more on the exploration/puzzle aspects and less so the combat. I'm now up to the 3rd zone on what should be Hard difficulty, I certainly intended it to be on Hard. I got stumped for a little bit on the final puzzle for the 2nd zone, I wasn't thinking of bringing the crawler over... Edit: Just got a level 2 sword. AMD Ryzen 3700X | MSI Gamer Geforce 1070Ti 8GB | 16GB 3600MHz DDR4 RAM | ASUS Crosshair VIII Hero (WiFi) Motherboard | Windows 10 x64 |
| Nicholas Steel |
Posted on 19-05-15, 06:24 in Computer Technology News/Discussion (revision 4)
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Post: #194 of 426
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Microsoft finally corrected their article (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4073119/protect-against-speculative-execution-side-channel-vulnerabilities-in) with correct instructions on installing the Speculation Control Powershell package. Previously it was missing the Set-ExecutionPolicy and $SaveExecutionPolicy bits of the documentation for manual installation. So when you'd go to install it you'd get errors since you didn't have the right policy for installing scripts in effect. A lot of places which offer scripts to run, fail to provide this information and it's hard to google for if you don't quite know what to google. (Save current policy) $SaveExecutionPolicy = Get-ExecutionPolicy (Gain permission to install packages) PS> Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope Currentuser (Restore original policy) PS> Set-ExecutionPolicy $SaveExecutionPolicy -Scope Currentuser AMD Ryzen 3700X | MSI Gamer Geforce 1070Ti 8GB | 16GB 3600MHz DDR4 RAM | ASUS Crosshair VIII Hero (WiFi) Motherboard | Windows 10 x64 |
| Nicholas Steel |
Posted on 19-05-16, 04:26 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 3)
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Post: #195 of 426
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The original release of BLOOD for MS-DOS supports 16x9 aspect ratio displays... with the option of 848x480 resolution. Were there even any 16x9 displays available back then (May 1997)!?? Talk about forward thinking lmao. https://imgur.com/a/FMSiUkO AMD Ryzen 3700X | MSI Gamer Geforce 1070Ti 8GB | 16GB 3600MHz DDR4 RAM | ASUS Crosshair VIII Hero (WiFi) Motherboard | Windows 10 x64 |
| Nicholas Steel |
Posted on 19-05-17, 11:56 in Bsnes v.107.1 release: is it possible to use shaders?
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Post: #196 of 426
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And you must restart the emulator program after changing graphics driver iirc. AMD Ryzen 3700X | MSI Gamer Geforce 1070Ti 8GB | 16GB 3600MHz DDR4 RAM | ASUS Crosshair VIII Hero (WiFi) Motherboard | Windows 10 x64 |
| Nicholas Steel |
Posted on 19-05-17, 12:00 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 2)
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Post: #197 of 426
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Posted by SintendoVery cool, I've only ever laid eyes upon a small number of 16x9 CRT TV's. AMD Ryzen 3700X | MSI Gamer Geforce 1070Ti 8GB | 16GB 3600MHz DDR4 RAM | ASUS Crosshair VIII Hero (WiFi) Motherboard | Windows 10 x64 |
| Nicholas Steel |
Posted on 19-05-17, 12:02 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE
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Post: #198 of 426
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Yeah it's got weird as heck performance issues. In my case being in specific locations (ie: most of the main game content and pretty niche specific spots in the DLC) caused FPS to tank for no discernible reason. AMD Ryzen 3700X | MSI Gamer Geforce 1070Ti 8GB | 16GB 3600MHz DDR4 RAM | ASUS Crosshair VIII Hero (WiFi) Motherboard | Windows 10 x64 |
| Nicholas Steel |
Posted on 19-05-17, 17:46 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE (revision 1)
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Post: #199 of 426
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Huh I've never had any internet latency issues when doing online co-op in the original and in Enhanced Edition of Borderlands 1, admittedly I've only ever done co-op with 1 specific person who lives on the complete opposite side of Australia. We've had issues in the Enhanced Edition where NPC's often used their Echo Recorder dialog even when standing next to them and quest objective markers being incorrect for Clients (predominantly in the main game, DLC always showed correct quest marker locations for the Client). I made a fairly extensive list of problems with the Enhanced Edition here (some of the issues also occur in the original game): https://steamcommunity.com/app/729040/discussions/0/1813170373219248723/ AMD Ryzen 3700X | MSI Gamer Geforce 1070Ti 8GB | 16GB 3600MHz DDR4 RAM | ASUS Crosshair VIII Hero (WiFi) Motherboard | Windows 10 x64 |
| Nicholas Steel |
Posted on 19-05-21, 04:07 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Post: #200 of 426
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Posted by KawaIs that taking in to account that PS1 games were heavily optimized for CRT colour bleeding to enhance the visuals? Also it was really dumb of Sega to entice developers to *not* make 2D games on the Sega Saturn. "3D is the future, it'd look silly to still be making 2d games!" is what they presumably thought. AMD Ryzen 3700X | MSI Gamer Geforce 1070Ti 8GB | 16GB 3600MHz DDR4 RAM | ASUS Crosshair VIII Hero (WiFi) Motherboard | Windows 10 x64 |
