Okay what the fuck.
Took my dads old laptop, started to install Ubuntu and during the keyboard layout phase I used the supposedly dead keyboard that suddenly now started fucking working. Last time I booted into windows (a new install) it didn't work. Last time I tried it in BIOS, it didn't work. And now, 2 weeks later, I start to install Ubuntu and it bloody works.
[QUOTE=tratzzz;52731990]Okay what the fuck.
Took my dads old laptop, started to install Ubuntu and during the keyboard layout phase I used the supposedly dead keyboard that suddenly now started fucking working. Last time I booted into windows (a new install) it didn't work. Last time I tried it in BIOS, it didn't work. And now, 2 weeks later, I start to install Ubuntu and it bloody works.[/QUOTE]
Reminds me of my brothers old computer, except it was the mobo's S-ata controller going haywire under windows.
Although it had noticeable degraded speed under Linux, so my guess is that while windows went belly up when trying to use it, Linux could compensate for the erratic nature of it at the expense of speed.
Graphics drivers on my desktop are fucked beyond repair, POSTs fine, loads bitlocker fine (because it's on the generic drivers at that point), loads the nVidia drivers and never gets to the login screen.
Works fine in safe mode, did a clean install of the nVidia drivers from there but it's still fucked.
Got a VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE bluescreen pointing to the graphics driver right before it completely fucked itself but wanted to be sure the monitor was fine. Started the game that I was playing at the time on the laptop and somehow spent 8 fucking hours on it. It's 1:30, the bed isn't made and I forgot to have dinner.
Noice, the keyboard doesn't work again. That has to be a motherboard error.
Have you tried taking it apart and checking the contacts on the keyboard ribbon cable?
It is a whole new keyboard so yes, I have reconnected it many many times. This was the first time it did work and it quit working when the laptop had been working for like an hour or two.
[QUOTE=tratzzz;52732228]It is a whole new keyboard so yes, I have reconnected it many many times. [/QUOTE]
ribbon cable connectors wear out after only a couple of connections
one ghetto trick to get it to work half the time is to just put a very tiny piece of cellulose tape on the non-contact side of the ribbon tip to just increase the pressure that the connector puts on the cable just enough
i also hose down pretty much every ribbon cable and connector with contact cleaner because i find it makes connections just that much more reliable
but if the connector's pins itself are bent up even that's a nogo
Is there any reason why you wouldn't want to game off a NAS server connected over SMB? Other then slightly longer initial load times?
[QUOTE=darksoul69;52732456]Is there any reason why you wouldn't want to game off a NAS server connected over SMB? Other then slightly longer initial load times?[/QUOTE]
Streaming latency. Initial load times is one thing, but any content it's streaming off disk is going to destroy you.
[QUOTE=wingless;52732461]Streaming latency. Initial load times is one thing, but any content it's streaming off disk is going to destroy you.[/QUOTE]
Right, so I hear. But I'm running games like ARMA 3 and Shadow of Mordor with no issue. For example, you can see [URL="https://i.imgur.com/qbwjhLf.jpg"]here[/URL] it's using 50MB/s from the NAS server during gameplay and I've seen it hit 75MB/s but no noticeable issues.
Is it because I'm running the NAS in a RAID-0 array?
[QUOTE=darksoul69;52732494]Right, so I hear. But I'm running games like ARMA 3 and Shadow of Mordor with no issue. For example, you can see [URL="https://i.imgur.com/qbwjhLf.jpg"]here[/URL] it's using 50MB/s from the NAS server during gameplay and I've seen it hit 75MB/s but no noticeable issues.
Is it because I'm running the NAS in a RAID-0 array?[/QUOTE]
Hey, if it's working who's to complain. But I will say probably won't hurt to use something other than SMB, gonna hurt latency and hurt seek capability. But if it works otherwise, that's kinda cool.
[QUOTE=darksoul69;52732494]Right, so I hear. But I'm running games like ARMA 3 and Shadow of Mordor with no issue. For example, you can see [URL="https://i.imgur.com/qbwjhLf.jpg"]here[/URL] it's using 50MB/s from the NAS server during gameplay and I've seen it hit 75MB/s but no noticeable issues.
Is it because I'm running the NAS in a RAID-0 array?[/QUOTE]
Arma 3 and shadow of mordor are games that usually don't have too much trouble with reading from disk in the first place because they cache well, but I'd expect games like Far Cry 4 and especially Minecraft which already hammer the crap out of the disk to hurt from it a bit
In reality though as long the game caches things smartly it's fine but otherwise if it has to read little things from the disk it may stutter here and there
[QUOTE=Protocol7;52729301]If that is ever in the plan, I'll be long gone before that happens. Can't trust a company that can't trust me.[/QUOTE]
Try working at a place with a complex where cars are briefly inspected and you badge in at security gates a half mile away
[QUOTE=wingless;52732497]Hey, if it's working who's to complain. But I will say probably won't hurt to use something other than SMB, gonna hurt latency and hurt seek capability. But if it works otherwise, that's kinda cool.[/QUOTE]
This is actually kinda my eventual goal, but it'll be on a SAN with a 10gb fiber channel. Leave all steam games on the SAN and I should be able to run them from multiple computers.
[QUOTE=Levelog;52732776]This is actually kinda my eventual goal, but it'll be on a SAN with a 10gb fiber channel. Leave all steam games on the SAN and I should be able to run them from multiple computers.[/QUOTE]
Only annoying thing is that some games would save things such as your graphics/game settings, the game's save file in your document folder or something, with absolutely no cloud syncing options. There's probably a way to make it work either way.
[QUOTE=PollytheParrot;52732651]Try working at a place with a complex where cars are briefly inspected and you badge in at security gates a half mile away[/QUOTE]
been there done that
tho i also had to use my CAC to swipe into my office, which i didn't have the first week so i had to call someone to let me in the building
i had a cool lanyard for it tho
We had biometrics at my old job but that's not too uncommon at a datacenter.
Does anyone have a link for that windows 10 debloatifier made by someone from facepunch?
Got my new set of G.Skill TridentZ 3200Mhz 14-14-14-34 2x16 sticks in.
Holy shit do they make a difference. In OW games where I'd sit around 150 average and drop to 110 which makes aiming feel different. I played a test game and sat at 270-280 and lowest I ever saw was 242.
Only issue is I'm bluescreening. At 1.1v SOC and 1.4 Dram I locked up about 15seconds into a MP match. With 1.15v SOC it took a couple minutes. So I guess I should push SOC more, maybe 1.18 or 1.2.
Ok this is fucking retarded. Safe mode works fine, disabling the display adapter then booting normally works fine, uninstalling the display adapter then booting normally works fine. Reinstalling the nVidia drivers after that installs the display adapter driver and everything goes to shit, screen goes off like normal during driver install then just never comes back on.
One day is not enough to reinstall this piece of shit OS and I'm going away next weekend so I can't wait to be down to shitty generic drivers for two fucking weeks and having to pull the laptop out any time I want to do something more advanced than web browsing.
I don't get it, shit was working fine yesterday morning. It's not the monitor, it's not the card (been used for a grand total of two days, and the backup card which is under a month old does the same).
Fuck computers.
[editline]1st October 2017[/editline]
But somehow DX11 works on generic drivers. This shit makes no sense.
ebay knows exactly what I'm looking for
[img]https://i.imgur.com/EfPu6jx.png[/img]
Well I just had a Ubiquiti 802.3af Instant-POE (converts to 24V passive POE) adapter fail which makes me sad.
[QUOTE=fishyfish777;52732533]Arma 3 and shadow of mordor are games that usually don't have too much trouble with reading from disk in the first place because they cache well, but I'd expect games like Far Cry 4 and especially Minecraft which already hammer the crap out of the disk to hurt from it a bit
In reality though as long the game caches things smartly it's fine but otherwise if it has to read little things from the disk it may stutter here and there[/QUOTE]
I spent some time in Minecraft and it seemed pretty playable to me. I don't have FC4 but I'll check out FC3 at some point tomorrow.
Everything I've read says using a NAS system for gaming is a solid no so this is surprising.
[QUOTE=helifreak;52733511]Ok this is fucking retarded. Safe mode works fine, disabling the display adapter then booting normally works fine, uninstalling the display adapter then booting normally works fine. Reinstalling the nVidia drivers after that installs the display adapter driver and everything goes to shit, screen goes off like normal during driver install then just never comes back on.
One day is not enough to reinstall this piece of shit OS and I'm going away next weekend so I can't wait to be down to shitty generic drivers for two fucking weeks and having to pull the laptop out any time I want to do something more advanced than web browsing.
I don't get it, shit was working fine yesterday morning. It's not the monitor, it's not the card (been used for a grand total of two days, and the backup card which is under a month old does the same).
Fuck computers.
[editline]1st October 2017[/editline]
But somehow DX11 works on generic drivers. This shit makes no sense.[/QUOTE]
Use an old driver from the C:/NVIDIA folder?
[QUOTE=Reagy;52729309][t]http://horobox.co.uk/u/reag/WP_20170929_17_20_41_Pro%5B1%5D.jpg[/t]
Time to [del]kill[/del]fix my gpu cooler tomorrow.[/QUOTE]
Update, fan replaced and card still alive, this vram cooling though, no wonder theres reports of them going pop, they don't even connect to that big heatsink, its just a lump of thick alloy which would work normally but these things are already clocked pretty high and get damn warm, thought they'd have better cooling than just a lump of metal slapped on top with no transfer.
[t]https://horobox.co.uk/u/reag/WP_20170930_23_24_20_Pro%5b1%5d.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=chipsnapper2;52734130]Use an old driver from the C:/NVIDIA folder?[/QUOTE]
Tried one from last year to no effect. Swapped PCI-E ports to no avail, put the 1030 in there too and it seems to be working but symptoms persist with cable swapped back to the 1060.
Software rendering managed 2 FPS at 95% CPU load.
i've had graphics cards fail like that before.
So still trying to get good speeds on my ram. I think maybe I just got unlucky with my memory controller. Booting 3200 cl14 on stock volts is no issue, but it's just not stable at that Even with high dram and high soc voltages.
2933 at CL16 on stock voltages seems to be... ok, but I just need to run prime95 for maybe another hour or so and move onto another stress test to make sure that is solid. This is also at stock CPU OC. So 3ghz base. I've played with ODT, 2T, geardown, even going to like cl18 timings, 3200 just doesn't seem to work right. I even went back to my old fav bios, 812 and same thing. Thing is, I'm most concerned with Overwatch Perf and I still can get 299Locked FPS, basically fps cap in the game at stock cpu, just with 3200 cl14. That game loves memory bandwidth. Hopefully in the future there are some more AGESA updates which can improve support, but given that technically like I think 2400mhz is the max officially support speed for Four total ranks of RAM, I'm cautiously optimistic.
Again boots and can idle at 3200 cl14, but locks up ingame quickly and reports errors within 30 seconds in stress tests.
Also typing this on my Laptop, so not the most elegant typing.
Edit: One thing I did notice is that even at almost the same timings and frequencies, something about the new ram modules with maybe different subtimings is that game performance seemed better by maybe 15-20%. Now to be clear, I mean Overwatch. People don't think ram makes a difference, but it does in overwatch. Going from 2666mhz 16-16-16-36 to 3200 16-16-16-36 took my avg fps from about 130-140 to 280. OW just loves the bandwidth. It seems to scale nonlinearly, especially for ryzen I'd imagine since the CPU can work with lower latencies perhaps.
[QUOTE=darksoul69;52734125]I don't have FC4 but I'll check out FC3 at some point tomorrow.[/QUOTE]
No issues with FC3. This is over regular 1Gbps ethernet with no fiber. I'm going to try using a green 1TB drive that isn't in a RAID array and will let you guys know what happens.
EDIT: It's not the RAID array it works fine on a single disk. I wonder if people tried to use wifi downstairs or something and that's where this myth came from.
I've had games on a gigabit nas via SMB for a while now, it's quite hit and miss. Some games work perfectly with just a little bit extra loading (MGSV), some games stutter when loading assets, and some games take so long to load it's not worth it (New doom).
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