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Quote:None of the boosters do.Originally Posted by Dr_Darkspeed
Do the items not have the US version also available link under them? Thats how I buy stuff for my US account.
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Quote:Erk. He's right.Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Video card however isn't as the old school original 8800GTX is about 25% faster than the HD 5670.
Have a leaf through Anandtech's review of he 5670, comparing it to the GeForce GTS 250. The 250 is highly similar to an 8800GTX; it's a bit faster than the 8800, but it's a good point for comparison. -
Quote:Chimpanzees are not neanderthals, and Vista is not 7. Vista platform updates don't bring all 7 features along, but they do add things to ensure broad compatibility.Originally Posted by je_saist
bzzt. WRONG
Windows Vista and Windows 7 are the SAME BLOODY OPERATING SYSTEM
If you work with Vista, you have to make sure that you grab the latest service pack and the DirectX 11 platform update to bring your system into synch with the Windows 7 release. -
Damn, man. I never even knew the US site had better write-ups. I gotta read this.
Quote:...huh. Why have I never heard about THIS guy?One unusual rumor about the Skulls that has sprung up since the Rikti War is the story of a lone wolf hero obsessed with the destruction of the gang. His or her name is unknown, though some of the street tales suggest his (or her) family was killed by Marrow Snap and Marrow Drinker.
Pffaaahahahahahah...! MY COKE, NOOOOQuote:Some stories describe him as a feral hero, barely able to communicate. He pulls in new heroes to his cause with a terse, muttered phrase, Go. Hunt. Kill Skuls."
A million infinity internets to who wrote that. -
I'm an EU user, which should make me the worst candidate for this sort of thing, but I can pull CoH down at 1.6MB/s. Yeap, megabytes per second. On my old ISP, it never broke 50KB/s, but Be allow me to max the line out on getting CoH. It's all about the ISP, folks.
Naturally, if you try and download stuff during the launch of a new issue, you're asking for trouble. -
Quote:S'cool man. My first post had it spelled Windows Life Essentials. We all screw up. -_-;;Originally Posted by PerfectStorm
Oops ... my bad. You are absolutely correct. Sorry about that - brain malfunction. Microsoft Essentials used to be called Microsoft Live OneCare... Well, I got the "Live" part right.
<sigh> I hate when my brain does that.
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Quote:What? Is not possible. Windows Live Essentials is a group of MS software, including Windows Live Messenger, WL Movie Maker, photo gallery, parental controls and other stuff. MS Security Essentials has no relation to Windows Live.Originally Posted by PerfectStorm
Windows Live Essentials IS Microsoft Security Essentials. They've changed the name of it to Microsoft Security Essentials (probably because a lot of people, myself included, won't use Windows Live anything).
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Just FYI, CoH Helper gives my video card drivers the same funky date, and I can assure you that they're tip top. There's no need to immediately suspect foul play.
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Quote:I've had the PC do heavy VRay rendering very recently. This is as strenuous as Prime95 on all four cores. It never broke a sweat.Originally Posted by Scene_EU
It could also be the PSU at fault by not generating enough power. I had one blow a capacitor in it, but it still managed to work, but was running at half the power. I didn't even notice tbh, until I started playing a game, and then either the gfx card would go nuts, or one or more of my HDDs would spin down and back up, creating lots of read/write errors.
Just a thought though before you go forking out for a new mobo
I've got external hard drives up the jacksie. Reinstalling Windows was no inconvenience, as I had already started using other drives for important data. Heck, I even use a portable install of Firefox on one of the hard drives.Quote:Originally Posted by PumBumbler
Sorry to hear you are having issues. I have nothing to add in terms of the recommended solutions but I'll put in my 2 inf.
1. The data you have stored is the most important stuff you have there. If you don't have a backup strategy, consider doing it now. Daily/weekly offsites, mirrored drives, scripted/timed backups are necessary if you want to keep the data. If it's not stored in triplicate for me I guess I wanted to lose it.
2. Adding a good UPS(es) was the best thing I ever did for the stability of my systems. I used to blame occasional errors and bluescreens on the OS or software configurations, and even hardware failures, even though I always made sure to use name brand quality gear.
Ever since I got everything on the UPS system, nothing has failed, and my system has been rock solid since. Even things like failing power supplies have disappeared (crosses fingers) from my list of common problems. Must be the UPS conditioning the power (ie., no spikes or brownouts) making the components less stressed. -
Hard drive crash number 5. It must be the motherboard.
Ideas for replacements would be nice. I'm eyeing up the Asus P6X58D-E; some reviews say it overclocks extremely well for a board of that price (220 BClk) and it boasts USB 3 and sATA 6GB/s. Second opinions from some fellow techies would be nice, but for university reasons I must place my order before 5:00 PM BST. -
It's 10.4a, which is (oddly) dated after 10.4 WHQL.
I could drop back to 10.1, but as I say, the issue cleared up with a reboot and I don't know what triggered it. I'd be waiting a while.
My temperatures are well in the green. All four cores stay under 45 degrees under load (using CoreTemp, which more accurately reads D0 Q6600s due to a correct maximum temperature value) and my GPU stays under 55 degrees. -
Like, I am SO messed up, brah, I can't even... duuuuude...
Best trip EVER, man...
AlrightI'mdone.
For reasons unknown, my CoH crashed and upon restarting it I was confronted with... that. Restarted again, I got the exact same corruption. Booted up Team Fortress 2, no errors of any kind; played AvP, all graphics are fine; went back to CoH, still corrupted. Tried the test client, still corrupted. Restarted the PC and all is well again.
What could cause this?
---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.2.0.2---
DxDiag gathered at May 3, 2010 02:12 (+01:00)
Operating System: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_gdr.100226-1909)
System Manufacturer: System manufacturer
System Model: P5K Premium
BIOS: BIOS Date: 03/19/08 11:51:41 Ver: 08.00.12
Central Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.4GHz
Memory: 4096MB
.Net Memory Report: 1781MB out of 4095MB available
Page File: 6987MB (3185MB currently in use)
C Drive: (SAMSUNG HD103SJ) 916437MB out of 953766MB (96%) free
D Drive: (Atlas71RAID) 263077MB out of 947727MB (27%) free
E Drive: (Hitachi HTS545032B9A300 USB Device) 57734MB out of 305242MB (18%) free
I Drive: (Hitachi HTS545050B9A300 USB Device) 475248MB out of 476821MB (99%) free
X Drive: (Atlas71RAID) 5MB out of 6143MB (0%) free
F Drive: (ASUS DRW-1814BLT) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\Windows
DirectX: DirectX 11
DirectX Diag version: 6.01.7600.16385 (64-bit version)
Display Notes: No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.
No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.
Monitor:
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
Manufacturer / Chip: ATI Technologies Inc. / ATI display adapter (0x6899)
Video Memory: 2797 MB
Driver Version: 8.723.5.0
Driver Date: 01/01/0001 00:00:00
Driver Language: English
Sound Device Description: Speakers (Creative SB X-Fi)
Driver File: ctaud2k.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.1373
Driver Date: 06/04/2009 02:49:08
Sound Device Description: SPDIF Out (Creative SB X-Fi)
Driver File: ctaud2k.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.1373
Driver Date: 06/04/2009 02:49:08
WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: P5K Premium
Motherboard Version: Rev 1.xx
BIOS Manufacturer: American Megatrends Inc.
BIOS Name: BIOS Date: 03/19/08 11:51:41 Ver: 08.00.12
BIOS Version: A_M_I_ - 3000819
BIOS Release: 20080319000000.000000+000
(CoH Helper was unable to read my CoH registry information for some reason, running as an admin or not. I can see the registry entries myself, so I have no idea why it is failing. My graphical settings are simple to describe: Everything is on, all UM features are at max, Ambient Occlusion is at Strong/colour bleeding / Super high quality / Trilateral, Antialiasing is off, world detail is 200%, physics are Medium.) -
I'm pretty sure the game already has some mild specular highlights, but nothing glossy. Which is a pity.
Quote:A concept enters my head. "Behold, for I am... the Great Painter! Unhand that lady's purse, or I shall lay a coat of PAIN upon you!"Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
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It's true that metal is very rarely truly black. What we see as black metal (if it doesn't involve thrashing death guitars) is metal that's been painted, or perhaps galvanized. Like a simple mailbox:
It's reflective enough to show up the sky, but details of the surrounding environment aren't strong enough to be seen.
If we want to be really anal, we can say that from a concept point of view, all of our characters would use painted or galvanized metal armor/skin/plating/whatever to make them look black, rather than hunting out some rare, esoteric and possibly weak metal which is naturally black. Well, yours might. Mine doesn't. -
Disable Ultra Mode and take the same screenies. You will find that the regular "fake" reflections don't show up at all on black costume pieces.
Example: Disable environmental reflections, enter the costume editor and add one of the metallic visors to your head. Change the colour around, and rotate.
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I've had the board for over two years. The problem is very recent. It'd be nice if a BIOS update fixed it, but unlikely.
An overnight memtest confirmed my suspicions that the CPU and RAM are fine. All I can do is try to get my work done using an external hard drive; if it breaks again, I will re-install windows and AutoCAD, then pick up where I left off. If it breaks again, rinse and repeat. Once the project is behind me I'll see about getting a new board.
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Something else to note: my RAID array of two drives has remained intact for years.
I'm gonna turn in now, folks. Will continue this in the mornin'. I feel much too tired after raging at my PC, and all the adrenaline has drained out of me. -
Quote:I should clarify: that HAS happened. The new Samsung hard drive suffered the "Disk read err r" problem.Originally Posted by Back_Blast
I wonder how old the Seagate is. In any case, I'd run a scan for bad sectors on it. I suspect you just have a bad drive. It does happen, can happen, and will happen. Hard drives are far from immortal. Now if the new drive starts doing this, then there's definitely something else in play here. Or is that what has happened?
I appreciate all the input, guys. You have absolutely no idea how much it eases me knowing there are people who can help me out.
I've tried swapping the sATA cable, and plugging it into a different port. We shall see if that does owt. Right now I'm running a MEMTEST86+. After about 5 runs, I'll call it in and say that the CPU and RAM are not culprits. It will be either the sATA cable, the sATA port on the board, or the southbridge (hard drive controller) on the board. Hopefully it was something as silly as the cable. -
The hard drive is screwed into an anti-vibration caddy, along with two other healthy hard drives. Above it is a DVD drive, but there's a large gap. The caddy has a fan on it, cooling all drives.
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In January, my PC died. An error of some kind made the main partition on my hard drive unrecoverable. I backed my data up with an Ubuntu live CD and re-installed.
In February, my PC died again. This time the Live CD was unable to recover any data, and I had to use a deep-scan recovery tool to get my stuff.
Last week, my PC died. Another error made the Windows Explorer on my hard drive non-workable, and I had to back my stuff up by command line.
Today, my PC died, with the error message "Disk read err r, Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart". Yes, it said "err r".
I have bought a brand new hard drive of a different make. The old one was a Seagate 7200.12 500GB, the new one is a Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB..
My ideas: CPU, motherboard, sATA cable. These could cause errors.
Memory errors are far more general than this, causing lock-ups, BSODs and the like. This is a VERY specific problem, as my RAID array has never died during this. Only my main hard drive, with partition C:\, bites the bullet.
Go. Now. I need my PC fixed for university. Dealing with large AutoCAD files takes a beast of a PC and I need it done for thursday. I maybe have time to buy one new component in time.
I am at the end of my rag and have visions of failing university. -
With Issue 17, all current ATi issues are gone. Depth of field, water effects, and FSAA all work perfectly.
All Ultra Mode features work perfectly too! But you can't use antialiasing with ambient occlusion at the same time. This is the one last remaining niggle, and it should be sorted before it hits live. -
Quote:/visscale is a (HIGHLY NOT RECOMMENDED) setting that controls your world detail. The value 4 means 400%. Again, HIGHLY NOT RECOMMENDED. This really hurts with Ultra Mode. If your CoH crashes, your PC dies, your wife leaves you, or your house burns down by the use of this command, expect no sympathy. I used it only to show CoH off at its very best.Originally Posted by Brimstone_Bobby
How/where do you make that entry? And what does it do? i have noticed that some things aren't appearing as far away as i am used to (SG portals, parts of the scenery) and was wondering what setting to use to fix that.
(Aside: While in Talos teaming with a netbook-using friend around the Dark Astoria door, I had him type that command while looking towards the city. About 5 minutes later, I got a response: "do not want") -
Quote:<cough>/visscale 4<cough>Originally Posted by Evilanna
Awesome! Thank you both!
Also, if I'm mistaken, have they increased the draw distance with Ultra Mode?
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Quote:Do it, brah. It ain't my game.Originally Posted by Evilanna
Hey, is it OK if I borrow some of these screenshots to post at various websites around the internet?
(Asking both bAss and Necrotron.) But if you use any of my toon, wouldja name him as me?
...Nah, I'm kidding. Do as you like.
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Quote:Aside from the rocket boots, every single costume piece on that character is reflective. I never intended that. Who knew?Originally Posted by bAss_ackwards
It's a shame that other costume pieces don't reflect as well as the Metallic pieces. Enforcer comes close though.
The reflections are intentionally more subdued than Metallic. That set is "I am a piece of walking chrome", while Tech Sleek et al are "I am a hunk of METAL."
Pay special attention to the reflections on the edges of the body. Now my scrapper looks less like a plastic figurine and more like a die-cast metal figurine.
