• CIPWTTKT&GC v0x24 (v36): That Ain't Thermal Paste
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is it weird that i want to use os x again i tried for a couple of months each time but always end up crawling back to windows, but then i get this subtle itch to use it. just to realize i don't like it again
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;48135667]but who applies msaa in csgo[/QUOTE] Me. 4xMSAA, 1080p, on a 660M, no problems.
Talking of old machines, i managed to nab a q6600 desktop off the side of a road. The RAM, HDD and ODD were missing and the motherboard looks to have blown but both the q6600 and 9600 work a treat. Not bad. The case was completely buckled and i didn't trust the PSU so they went straight out.
[QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;48135741']Talking of old machines, i managed to nab a q6600 desktop off the side of a road. The motherboard looks to have blown but both the q6600 and 9600 work a treat. Not bad.[/QUOTE] I found a Q6600 system on the side of the road a couple years ago. Worked perfectly fine, just needed a drive and the case was beat up. Picked up a $40 case, hard drive I had laying around, and windows key. Sold it a month later for $350
[QUOTE=Genericenemy;48135565]I'm curious to see if this tech could be applied to picture upscaling. Has the potential to make DVDs on a HDTV look so much better. If they can, its going to be interesting to see if how it will react with interlaced material and stuff that was shot on videotape that has PAL and NTSC picture artefacts as a result.[/QUOTE] See [url=https://github.com/nagadomi/waifu2x]Waifu2x[/url] (which was posted here a few posts ago actually). It upscales anime-ish images with a neural network, in far better quality than anything seen before for things it works well on, and with some loss of detail for everything else. They also trained a model on photos a short while ago, but I haven't tried it. The problem with using it for video is it takes some seconds per frame even for SD video. However, I believe using a much simpler neural network, batch processing and better training data it should be possible to get similar quality in real time, and in fact I'm working on this right now.
[QUOTE=DrTaxi;48134851]you know how so many computer illiterate people think CSI's "Enhance!" is a real thing and we all laugh at them because that couldn't POSSIBLY work well [URL="http://people.csail.mit.edu/celiu/FaceHallucination/fh.html"]shit[/URL] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/TQiZYfh.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] I'm still tentative. That image has a lot of contrast and won't help at all with the 60p shit-smeared recordings of convenience store security footage. I know it's a proof of concept, but there's a lot more you're capable of in the right conditions.
[QUOTE=Levelog;48135756]I found a Q6600 system on the side of the road a couple years ago. Worked perfectly fine, just needed a drive and the case was beat up. Picked up a $40 case, hard drive I had laying around, and windows key. Sold it a month later for $350[/QUOTE] Core 2 era machines still have tons of life left in them. Hopefully hosing all the crap off the board and leaving it for a few days to dry could coax it to work again. I may even try overclocking it.
Cortana is pretty good for music and stuff where you don't want to stop what your doing to change it.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;48135863]Eww.. CSGO is like the only game I don't apply any AA at all.[/QUOTE] Why not? AA is usually one of the last options I turn on, but if I can run a game with 8xSSAA, of course I'm going to do just that.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;48135667]CSGO is a good example of being cpu bounded to fuck you could have a hd7750 but if you got a 2500k expect still to push 120~ on the lowest at 1920x1080 until you start applying msaa but who applies msaa in csgo[/QUOTE] If you can run it with MSAA, then why not? As opposed to FXAA, MSAA improves image accuracy and detail. From left to right*: No AA, FXAA, Proper AA (MSAA/SSAA) [IMG]http://puu.sh/ig1qh.png[/IMG][IMG]http://puu.sh/ig1rt.png[/IMG][IMG]http://puu.sh/ig1sW.png[/IMG] While FXAA makes the image softer and somewhat less jaggy, MSAA actually improves the readability and image accuracy. [sp]*If you don't have a 1080p screen, it's more like top to bottom[/sp]
this is the fourth or fifth time I'm erasing my drive trying to get Hackintosh to work with Windows. I think I got it this time, but if I don't, then fuck me again
i used to really like vista, tempted to install SP1 vista and compare it to 8.1 in terms of speed either it'll be a wake up call or something way fucking hilarious
[QUOTE=Sand Castle;48136001]i used to really like vista, tempted to install SP1 vista and compare it to 8.1 in terms of speed either it'll be a wake up call or something way fucking hilarious[/QUOTE] The UI changes are so big that Vista seems unfinished in comparison. Not because it was, but because Aero was completely new with Vista.
[QUOTE=DrTaxi;48135763]See [url=https://github.com/nagadomi/waifu2x]Waifu2x[/url] (which was posted here a few posts ago actually). It upscales anime-ish images with a neural network, in far better quality than anything seen before for things it works well on, and with some loss of detail for everything else. They also trained a model on photos a short while ago, but I haven't tried it. The problem with using it for video is it takes some seconds per frame even for SD video. However, I believe using a much simpler neural network, batch processing and better training data it should be possible to get similar quality in real time, and in fact I'm working on this right now.[/QUOTE] I wonder if you could just render the video like it beforehand so to work around that issue. Seems like an obvious solution.
[QUOTE=Genericenemy;48136020]I wonder if you could just render the video like it beforehand so to work around that issue. Seems like an obvious solution.[/QUOTE] They literally have instructions on how to do that, in the README.md
[QUOTE=Warship;48136016]The UI changes are so big that Vista seems unfinished in comparison. Not because it was, but because Aero was completely new with Vista.[/QUOTE] i used to like how the start orb popped over the rest of the taskbar, but i think i've swung the other way on it.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;48135663]Well, yeah. Display resolution only affects GPU load, unless the game is for some reason doing some CPU-side rendering. If you're currently CPU-bound, decreasing resolution will do nothing for your framerate.[/QUOTE] CPU-side rendering is probably what's going on, more players = more cpu usage = less frame rate from what I've seen.
I loved Vista when it first came out, the desktop gadgets, the little games etc.
[video=youtube;-IfnjBHtjHc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IfnjBHtjHc[/video] [editline]6th July 2015[/editline] Seriously though. It sucked :v Nostalgia is a bitch eh?
[QUOTE=Leestons;48136179]I loved Vista when it first came out, the desktop gadgets, the little games etc.[/QUOTE] I miss the little note gadget and the gadget that told me how much RAM and CPU I was using. Then I switched it to RainMeter and installed RainMeter onto my XP machine YEARS AGO.
[QUOTE=Leestons;48136179]I loved Vista when it first came out, the desktop gadgets, the little games etc.[/QUOTE] It had lots of good ideas, just the initial release was plagued with problems. Vista SP2 is plenty usable though. Its pretty much Windows 7.
[QUOTE=Genericenemy;48136020]I wonder if you could just render the video like it beforehand so to work around that issue. Seems like an obvious solution.[/QUOTE] Of course you can, but that's still really fucking slow. At 1 second per frame (and the speed really is in the range of that on a fast modern GPU), a 25 minute 24fps TV episode would take [B]10 hours[/B] to upscale.
didn't windows 7 have gadgets? they just weren't enabled by default but i definitely had one going for a little while
Yes. But they were removed due to security issues iirc.
I decided to go back to memory lane and check out the videos I made 6 years ago on YouTube. Typing shit on notepad while screen recording was the shit back then. I did an unboxing video for my old camcorder, it's a shame the camcorder wasn't HD to begin with or I'd probably still use it today for stuff. I did some news related videos with narration, like on news TV. Fast forward to the present and now I'm doing various videos projects, working for a huge Canadian TV broadcaster.
[QUOTE=garychencool;48136329] Fast forward to the present and now I'm doing various videos projects, working for a huge Canadian TV broadcaster.[/QUOTE] Teach me your ways~~ Although I'm going to make a short video about myself and send it to some TV channels and such and see what happens, I'm not sure that'll get me a job.
[QUOTE=garychencool;48136171]CPU-side rendering is probably what's going on, more players = more cpu usage = less frame rate from what I've seen.[/QUOTE] That's... not what CPU-side rendering means. CPU-side rendering would be "have the CPU generate a texture, then copy it over to the GPU, where it's rendered as a full-screen overlay". Or worse, "have the GPU render a frame, copy it over to the CPU to do a gaussian blur, then copy it back to the GPU for scanout", which I seem to recall being horrified to learn some game actually did. What you're talking about is just the CPU doing a lot of work.
managed to leave myself with only OS X, again. does OS X not install or format the disk as GPT? I might just buy another drive to put Windows on
[QUOTE=gman003-main;48136386]That's... not what CPU-side rendering means. CPU-side rendering would be "have the CPU generate a texture, then copy it over to the GPU, where it's rendered as a full-screen overlay". Or worse, "have the GPU render a frame, copy it over to the CPU to do a gaussian blur, then copy it back to the GPU for scanout", which I seem to recall being horrified to learn some game actually did. What you're talking about is just the CPU doing a lot of work.[/QUOTE] [B]shrug[/B] I don't know this shit :v:
[QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;48135741']Talking of old machines, i managed to nab a q6600 desktop off the side of a road. The RAM, HDD and ODD were missing and the motherboard looks to have blown but both the q6600 and 9600 work a treat. Not bad. The case was completely buckled and i didn't trust the PSU so they went straight out.[/QUOTE] I love q6600s that was the first thing I ever did any real overclocking on (I had done plenty of mild overclocks before, just nothing crazy) and I made it to 5.2 GHz on air
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