The "Quick Questions that does not Deserve a Thread"...Thread. V3 - Hardware & Software

I've edited this crap little thing which is crap using VideoPad editor free. It's the closest thing to a slightly more advanced windows movie maker that doesn't cost a tonne. When I exported it, WMP plays it fine. However, When I import it into windows movie maker , and ultimately youtube, the timing messes up, as if the images sync to the sound rather than their respective positions. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq8lxUI0qo8[/media] The hideous fart sound at the beginning shouldn't have the telephone in view, it should actually appear at the second fart sound, which for some reason, the guy's image has replaced. I have no idea why this is happening at all. Is it the export settings?

My two month old Seagate (st500dm002-1bd142) just flipped a tit with a Reallocated Sectors Error. Any suggestions of what to do, or should I be expecting a Hollywood-esque explosion of fragments and drive disks?

[QUOTE=ramirez!;39330922]My two month old Seagate (st500dm002-1bd142) just flipped a tit with a Reallocated Sectors Error. Any suggestions of what to do, or should I be expecting a Hollywood-esque explosion of fragments and drive disks?[/QUOTE] Generally if it's just the one or two, you should be fine. Only if the number starts slowly increasing then it's time to backup your data and prepare for the worst. Do a long test with SeaTools. It will detect any other bad sectors which haven't been found yet and attempt to repair them. If the drive is in bad shape, it should give you a support number and tell you to contact Seagate. To be on the safe side however, a backup won't hurt.

[QUOTE=RoboChimp;39326268]Not really, no. It would be similar to having and Radeon and Geforce in the one machine.[/QUOTE] I'm doing so and have yet to run into a problem [QUOTE=RoboChimp;39327076]Are you telling me you can run a game on multiple monitors with 2 different cards. I believe you could do it with the desktop, but I've never seen it work with games.[/QUOTE] softTH works well enough with that too

Ever since I reinstalled Windows, Flash Player 11 has stopped grinding my system to a halt (so I can finally move away from Flash 10, whoo!), however, it's not completely problem free: It's been throwing runtime error 217 at me at pseudo-random times. It's a rare occurence, and when it happens I can just click "OK" and it'll work fine again, but it's still annoying as shit. Anyone have an idea where to start?

Hey guys Posted in here earlier, swapped out hard drives and all that fun stuff. I've got four drives in my tower right now - Two of them Seagate 250s, two of them WD 500s. The problem is, whenever I plug in the fourth Seagate, my computer will start, all LEDs and fans and all that running, but it won't flash the logo screen nor clear POST. No video goes out at all, until I unplug it. Then everything is fine and dandy. Specs below PSU: Raidmax Hybrid 630W mdl RX-630SS Motherboard: Gigabyte 970A-UD3 socket AM3 CPU: AMD 965 Black Edition Vidya: XFX HD6850 RAM: Team Xtreem 8GB SDRAM DDR3 1600 (whooo Newegg package deals)

Can a GTX 690 do 4096x2160 via display port?

[QUOTE=RoboChimp;39339854]Can a GTX 690 do 4096x2160 via display port?[/QUOTE] Display port as a connection can, so the video card can. Actually, I'll hook my ZR30 via DP to maybe push it to 3840

Just bought a Cooler Master Silent Pro 600W for 20 euro. Used obviously, but with everything intact. Good deal?

I'd say so. I have a Silent Pro Gold 1000 and I love it.

[QUOTE=Brt5470;39341468]I'd say so. I have a Silent Pro Gold 1000 and I love it.[/QUOTE] I have a silent Pro Gold 1200 Beat that :smug:

[QUOTE=Rents;39347979]I can't get Dark Souls to work with my wired PS3 controller, I'm using MotioninJoy, everything else detects it as a 360 controller and works fine, I can bring up the GFWL overlay with it, but the game doesn't respond at all to my button mashing :gonk:[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Rents;39348146][/QUOTE] Set it to the default controller in the gamepad/joystick dialog (or whatever it's called), and make sure you don't have any other controllers plugged in.

I don't see a default option, but it's the only one I have.

In windows, I mean. You might have things being detected by the poorly programmed game as a joystick, any input device might be. I've had problems with some games thinking my wacom tablet is a joystick, my contour input device thing, etc. [editline]24th January 2013[/editline] you can get to the settings by going to start->devices and right clicking the 360 controller

[QUOTE=Shadaez;39348318]In windows, I mean. You might have things being detected by the poorly programmed game as a joystick, any input device might be. [B]I've had problems with some games thinking my wacom tablet is a joystick, my contour input device thing, etc.[/B] [editline]24th January 2013[/editline] you can get to the settings by going to start->devices and right clicking the 360 controller[/QUOTE] This happens a lot with older valve games

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[QUOTE=Shadaez;39348318]In windows, I mean. You might have things being detected by the poorly programmed game as a joystick, any input device might be. I've had problems with some games thinking my wacom tablet is a joystick, my contour input device thing, etc. [editline]24th January 2013[/editline] you can get to the settings by going to start->devices and right clicking the 360 controller[/QUOTE] Someone in the Dark Souls thread let me know a patch I installed to make the mouse controls less awful disables gamepads :v: Guess I should've read the FAQ for it

My PC monitor is a 1920x1080 monitor, using DVI, which is great. But I just remembered I have a smaller VGA monitor downstairs and I was wondering if I could add it as a secondary display for looking at stuff while playing games etc. If so how would I do it? Do I just plug it in (using the other DVI output + a DVI to VGA converter)?

[QUOTE=tom1029;39352967]My PC monitor is a 1920x1080 monitor, using DVI, which is great. But I just remembered I have a smaller VGA monitor downstairs and I was wondering if I could add it as a secondary display for looking at stuff while playing games etc. If so how would I do it? Do I just plug it in (using the other DVI output + a DVI to VGA converter)?[/QUOTE] Yep. Then right click your desktop and go to "screen resolution" and enable the second monitor. Make sure your main monitor is set correctly to the 1080p monitor and you're good to go.

How do I fix chrome so that thumbnailed images on facepunch don't make the page freeze or slow down a lot (and by a lot I mean A LOT)?

What do you guys think would be better for video editing, two normal HDD in RAID 0 or one hybrid drive? (specifically a Seagate Momentus XT the "new" one with 8gb SSD cache) I don't really care about boot times (I turn on the computer in the morning and turn it off in the evening) so I guess RAID 0 or even a single better (compared to the HDD part of the hybrid) drive would be faster when working with fairly big files (500MB to multiple GB) like copying, transferring etc. I guess the hybrid would only help with booting, applications load times (the ones that are cached) and not much else while most of the time actually being slower than a good HDD when using the conventional (spinning) part of the hybrid. This is for a laptop by the way which can take up to two drives (which rules out any fancy RAID that requires more than two drives) and SSD are out of my ideal budget and I think I won't see much improvement per cost so I would rather spend for a more powerful CPU and more RAM since I only usually open a few programs and keep working on them for hours. Also SSD don't make very good media drives I guess with the constant writing they would need quite a bit of maintenance to keep them in tip top shape. Basically I kinda already answered my own question but I'm looking for some confirmation in case I completely misunderstood how this stuff works. Thanks.

[QUOTE=Roll_Program;39353332]How do I fix chrome so that thumbnailed images on facepunch don't make the page freeze or slow down a lot (and by a lot I mean A LOT)?[/QUOTE] you could try going to chrome://flags/ and enabling or disabling GPU accell, threading compositioning and other stuff but it might just be your PC, resizing lots of large images and moving them that can take a lot of power. [QUOTE=BoSoZoku;39353468]What do you guys think would be better for video editing, two normal HDD in RAID 0 or one hybrid drive? (specifically a Seagate Momentus XT the "new" one with 8gb SSD cache) I don't really care about boot times (I turn on the computer in the morning and turn it off in the evening) so I guess RAID 0 or even a single better (compared to the HDD part of the hybrid) drive would be faster when working with fairly big files (500MB to multiple GB) like copying, transferring etc. I guess the hybrid would only help with booting, applications load times (the ones that are cached) and not much else while most of the time actually being slower than a good HDD when using the conventional (spinning) part of the hybrid. This is for a laptop by the way which can take up to two drives (which rules out any fancy RAID that requires more than two drives) and SSD are out of my ideal budget and I think I won't see much improvement per cost so I would rather spend for a more powerful CPU and more RAM since I only usually open a few programs and keep working on them for hours. Also SSD don't make very good media drives I guess with the constant writing they would need quite a bit of maintenance to keep them in tip top shape. Basically I kinda already answered my own question but I'm looking for some confirmation in case I completely misunderstood how this stuff works. Thanks.[/QUOTE] You're correct, a hybrid drive won't help you with rendering in most cases. [editline]25th January 2013[/editline] I'm going to say that you'd be better off getting a desktop PC for rendering but you probably know that.

[QUOTE=Shadaez;39353505]I'm going to say that you'd be better off getting a desktop PC for rendering but you probably know that.[/QUOTE] My main concern is mostly the speed at which it'll move big files around but I guess the hybrid would still lose to a good performance HDD. By the way yes I actually already have a decent desktop (i7 930 although only with 6gb of ram) but I need a new laptop anyway and I found a good deal so I could kill two birds with one stone and get a pretty powerful laptop (i7 3740qm, 16gb) to edit/render on the go or mainly use as a second computer for distributed rendering thus speeding up my render times. Looking at some benchmarks (Cinebench and encoding) the i7 3740qm seems to be sadly (for my beloved desktop) faster than my i7 930 so it should come in real handy.

Hybrid won't increase the performance at all for writing from what I know, it's just caching files used a lot basically.

I have a MAJOR problem. Recently (last 3 times) I have put my computer to sleep, it shuts down some time while its asleep. When I turn it back on again, it tells me that it was shut down suddenly. Also, when it is starting up and I can start using it after login, its EXTREMELY slow. I built the computer my self a year ago (with no problem), and I run windows 7. What is happening? Has my power supply gone bad?

[QUOTE=notlabbet;39354323]I have a MAJOR problem. Recently (last 3 times) I have put my computer to sleep, it shuts down some time while its asleep. When I turn it back on again, it tells me that it was shut down suddenly. Also, when it is starting up and I can start using it after login, its EXTREMELY slow. I built the computer my self a year ago (with no problem), and I run windows 7. What is happening? Has my power supply gone bad?[/QUOTE] I have never had luck with low power/ sleep modes on my computer, so much can go wrong. I suggest looking up your motherboard model and maybe getting the latest BIOS, resetting your BIOS to defaults and making sure ACPI settings are correct in the BIOS. Alternatively use Hibernation, probably less likely to fail, though it can take longer to start up.

Considering upgrading from Vista to 8, how much more efficient would this be on my system? Would it free up memory for my games and other programs?

[QUOTE=Codename 47;39355252]Considering upgrading from Vista to 8, how much more efficient would this be on my system? Would it free up memory for my games and other programs?[/QUOTE] Very much so I'd say. Vista was a hog for no reason. 7 actually used those resources for performance, windows 8 does a subjectively better job.