I haven't been able to play properly for a month or so, i'l hopefully have new desk sorted out to get some hours in before the WoW expansion hits in 9 days - i'l be busy for a bit after that too
Keyboard is going good, the accidental actuations didn't entirely stop yet. I think if i could set any force and actuation distance for a linear switch i'd go a bit heavier and lower, maybe 50-55cn at 1.5 - 1.6mm instead of 45cn at 1.2mm; somewhere between MX black (black and red actuate at 2mm; black is heavier) and MX speed silver. The actuation distance and the force both feel great but the combination of light and fast is difficult to reliably control at times so i'd like to fall back a bit on both of them.
RIP. I've never spoken to him, but it's always sad.
Update from my side: I've been moving to a new appartment and am completely settled. Without days off to move it has taken quite a while to get everything together.
I thought it would increase my ability to play, but because of the afternoon position of the sun, and the colour of my curtains, it's extremely bright in my room in the afternoon. So, mania at 'high level' is pretty much not doable for me. I still have the intention to get better, so I'll have to figure something out. Coming soon (tm)
In the mean while, I've been playing taiko again. Because I'm bad, the brightness is no deciding factor in playability. Sadly almost no one plays taiko. Very little mp rooms and you don't need to be good to get a decent rank. I'm almost 4k now, while basically casually playing. And my pp amount in taiko is already higher than mania, fml.
Moving cost me more than I thought, so I don't want to spend too much on hardware (at least not now), while I still am interested in a new keyboard at least. The MX speed silver at least looks really good, based on specs.
I did talk to lewa one time fairly recently (in the last ~year) but we didn't say much, just a few words. He seemed kinda upset at the time so i didn't spam him with messages but i didn't imagine it would be that bad.. maybe it would have been appropriate to ask.
because of the afternoon position of the sun, and the colour of my curtains, it's extremely bright in my room in the afternoon
I had that problem too
The lag on the keyboard circuits from the design and polling rate if applicable is probably more important than the switch type for me. Brown and Silver are both great, red and black probably are too - they work with their own feel, any are valid choices and they're all leagues better than membrane. Added latency can significantly hurt any keyboard (especially >>+10ms for rhythm games) but unfortunately there's very little good data about the latency on most keyboards.
I...had no idea about thelewa until I decided to check up here. Damn.
In better news, my new PC is finally 100% complete (for now).
Motherboard: Asus TUF B350m-Plus Gaming Ram: 2x 8GB G.Skill DDR4 3200 (not sure EXACTLY which) currently still only running at 2400. CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 GPU: Zotac GTX1070 Mini Case: Corsair Crystal 570x RGB SSD: Samsung 960 EVO 250GB M.2 Misc storage scavenged from old laptops And the final piece: Acer Predator 241YU 1440p 144hz GSYNC Monitor OC'd to 165hz. (this is honestly the single piece I was waiting on for a while because I had to save up the money. Got lucky and amazon had it for 150 off for prime members, so that was nice)
Maybe now I'll have the motivation to start playing some mania again. Now I won't JUST have rust as my excuse for being terrible. I can blame the completely new setup AND rust. (Seriously though, going from playing on a 17in laptop to this thing with MX red switches is a big fucking change)
Oh yeah. I actually got it cheaper thanks to amazon prime too. Originally its 650 cad, but it was 500 for prime members.
I will say the speakers are a bit disappointing sounding though. Not exactly a huge gripe considering everything else, but it sounds a bit too tinny.
Still, it's damn nice. And the 1070 still manages 1440p pretty well too. I still get nice framerates on the games I've checked out. Of course, I havent plaued anything too graphically demanding, but I dont play a ton of aaa games now anyway. And most of the ones I do play are a bit older, like say borderlands 2.
One thing I need to sort out is getting the PC to boot off my ssd without telling the bios to boot from it every time. I've got an old hdd in there from an old laptop that is beginning to die and whenever it boots it forces me to hit f1, go into the uefi and manually select my ssd to boot from... Then I have to bypass the checkdisk thing. It never wanted to boot directly into windows without selecting my boot drive in uefi, even though its top of the list for boot order.
I should dig around and see if I'm missing anything. Never had a pc with uefi before and theres a lot more stuff in this than I'm used to. Still gotta figure out timings to get my ram going at 3200 too. When I first put things together and tried it the system failed to every time I tried, but I havent touched it in a while so maybeI was doing something wrong.
You've probably got a one-click option somewhere prominent to use a profile saved in the RAM sticks. If not, or if you want manual control then you could set several things to start with:
Frequency to advertised Primary timings listed on kit or website descriptions for when it's running at that frequency (e.g. 16-18-18-36) Memory voltage (Vdimm), probably to 1.35v.
In some cases you may need to adjust some CPU memory controller settings or might not be able to clock that high. Intel's been comfortable above 3200 for a while now (i'm running 4000mhz limited by motherboard), ryzen 2000 should be able to handle it fine AFAIK but you're on first gen ryzen so you could have issues especially if you have the wrong type of RAM. I don't have enough info there to know if you got a kit that works well with first gen ryzen memory controller or not.
If those types of issues were to prevent you from clocking to 3200mhz easily, you could set the three settings above but just fall back on the frequency e.g. 3000mhz or below rather than setting 3200. The same timings and voltages will work fine on a lower frequency.
The kit advertised it as being ryzen compatible so it should work. I'll look into bios updates and try fiddling with some things sometime. Theres no one click option for it though (that I know of) so timings will be manual, which kinda sucks.
Usually there aren't many in the kit anyway, motherboards are responsible for all or almost all of the secondary and tertiary timings and usually do it badly
I noticed a ton of other timing options in the bios and had no idea what to set them to. When I look into it I'll post here with the defaults in case you see something I should change. Maybe theres something there that was the problem.
Almost everyone runs with them on Auto. It depends on the specific type of RAM and CPU that you have and is generally way more complicated than the gains are worth for most people
Updated my uefi. Then I noticed an option, googled it, and realized it was an equivalent to XMP. Not sure if it was there before, but now my ram is running at 3200 fine. Nice.
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