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TheRabidDeer
United States3806 Posts
On August 26 2012 12:34 Medrea wrote: Yeah its called a memory leak. All browsers leak memory for instance. Just shut down and restart your computer. I always knew of memory leaks, but figured they would be accounted for in the task manager. | ||
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AnachronisticAnarchy
United States2957 Posts
More specifically, my mouse occasionally decides that it wants to completely and randomly shut down either X-axis or Y-axis movement. It leaves one active and the other inactive. Sometimes it just slows it down so much it's the functional equivalent. It also randomly reactivates that axis of movement after a period of time that is usually no longer than a minute. I updated my drivers just in case, but it's still an issue. Any suggestions? | ||
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Rollin
Australia1552 Posts
On August 25 2012 22:48 djcube wrote: Does anyone use any recent or 2012 ultrabook as their primary machine? How is it going for you? Any shortcomings or areas where you wish you had a more powerful machine (aside from gaming)? If you're doing heavy encoding, perhaps, or heavy graphics work. The only things that are a problem are productivity if you have a shit resolution, screensize if you have bad eyesight, storage size concerns if you need it, and of course laptop keyboards are always shit compared to a nice mechanical one. I run autocad and matlab on mine fine, so for work purposes, it's more than adequate, but for 3D games... Nope. The x86 performance is very strong though, so anything that's not heavily graphically reliant is not an issue (barely slower than a regular i5 mobile chip). | ||
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AbztraK
United States26 Posts
processor: AMD Athlon II gfx card: Radeon HD 5870 Ram: 4GB HDD: 465 GB im not so good with listing pc specs or anything related but i think that should be all the necessary information if not please let me know i want to solve this issue maybe i need a better card... maybe i need 8 GB of ram. i just dont know! the game runs so shitty and according to the system requirment test it shouldnt be with my hardware.. any help will be greatly appreciated! | ||
GMarshal
United States22154 Posts
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AbztraK
United States26 Posts
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Medrea
10003 Posts
On August 26 2012 13:15 TheRabidDeer wrote: I always knew of memory leaks, but figured they would be accounted for in the task manager. Nope. Resource manager reports the resources in use by all active objects. When an object is released to the system resources are ideally also released as well, but because we are only human at programming not everything is resolved so you end up with resources that no objects point to. | ||
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Rollin
Australia1552 Posts
On August 26 2012 23:41 Medrea wrote: Nope. Resource manager reports the resources in use by all active objects. When an object is released to the system resources are ideally also released as well, but because we are only human at programming not everything is resolved so you end up with resources that no objects point to. This is primarily due to programs written with big-boy's languages like C, as opposed to new-fangled frivolous stuff like c++ and java, in which there are many redundant failsafes for poor programming skills. If people can't program, they should use an appropriate language >.< | ||
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bITt.mAN
Switzerland3693 Posts
Q: Is it worth it to bash through learning QWERTY real well with all the 'official key-finger relations' , or should I switch over totally to learning DVORAK-Left-Hande, so I can be efficient, awesome, and more productive by being able to keep my hand on the mouse? There are resources online to learn, that won't be an issue. Forseeable drawbacks are:
Reduced speed compared to typing DVORAK with both hands Having to 'switch out' every time I want to play a game (e.g. FPS) Ballancing two competing keyboard layouts in my musscle memory. What experience do you guys have with alternate keyboard layouts like this? I know it'd be relatively straightforward to switch layouts on a new computer, but doing that each time would be annoying. I will be focused on writing Academic Chemistry/Mathematics reports in TeX for the rest of my life, so I want to invest the time NOW in getting efficient at using my tools, so is it worth it to switch tools? Also, should I just necro this instead? http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=215506 | ||
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Krowser
Canada788 Posts
My computer is due for an upgrade, I have my system specs and a benchmark test result. Can I post them here and ask what I should upgrade or is there a website where I can do this? Thank you, | ||
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Medrea
10003 Posts
On August 27 2012 17:20 Rollin wrote: This is primarily due to programs written with big-boy's languages like C, as opposed to new-fangled frivolous stuff like c++ and java, in which there are many redundant failsafes for poor programming skills. If people can't program, they should use an appropriate language >.< Java is touted for its garbage collection actually. C++ is user controlled. On August 27 2012 22:57 Krowser wrote: Hey, simple question: My computer is due for an upgrade, I have my system specs and a benchmark test result. Can I post them here and ask what I should upgrade or is there a website where I can do this? Thank you, You can do that here if you want. We aren't a hardware enthusiast site so we won't say anything that doesnt make sense. | ||
micronesia
United States24741 Posts
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150521 When I went to bed last night everything was fine. Today when I woke up my monitors looked messed up (one was off). I rebooted the computer manually and a couple of thick vertical bars show up during post. If I boot in normal mode I lose all visuals. If I boot in safe mode I get horizontal blue lines across the screen. I just plugged my first monitor into the mobo dvi card and that's working ok (I unplugged my other monitor). I have no idea what I should do. Here is my mobo: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005HIRD50/ref=oh_details_o05_s00_i00 | ||
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
On August 27 2012 23:50 micronesia wrote: I built my computer a few months ago as per the advice of the computer build thread. The GPU is: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150521 When I went to bed last night everything was fine. Today when I woke up my monitors looked messed up (one was off). I rebooted the computer manually and a couple of thick vertical bars show up during post. If I boot in normal mode I lose all visuals. If I boot in safe mode I get horizontal blue lines across the screen. I just plugged my first monitor into the mobo dvi card and that's working ok (I unplugged my other monitor). I have no idea what I should do. Here is my mobo: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005HIRD50/ref=oh_details_o05_s00_i00 Reseat it, and while you have it out for that, clean out the heatsink with canned air. If neither of those works, start practicing swear words. | ||
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micronesia
United States24741 Posts
On August 27 2012 23:51 JingleHell wrote: Reseat it, and while you have it out for that, clean out the heatsink with canned air. If neither of those works, start practicing swear words. I don't have canned air. What types of places carry that? I'd order it online but I don't want to wait that long. Also, if I get to the swearing part, does that mean I need a new gpu? Is there a warranty for the old one? | ||
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
On August 27 2012 23:52 micronesia wrote: I don't have canned air. What types of places carry that? I'd order it online but I don't want to wait that long. Also, if I get to the swearing part, does that mean I need a new gpu? Is there a warranty for the old one? Wal mart, electronics stores. And warranty should cover it. But that still involves swearing. It doesn't guarantee you need one, but it certainly means it's reached pain in the ass levels regardless of the solution. Driver updates are good too, but this doesn't sound like drivers. Could also need re-pasting, Medrea has had heat issues from that with XFX cards lately, I believe, but I don't just automatically suggest that for everyone, since it's a bit of a pain in the ass. | ||
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Medrea
10003 Posts
Tell us what temps you get in a game with that card and such. | ||
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
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Medrea
10003 Posts
I had a 9800GT a couple years ago that had artifacting during POST and thats what it was. Card is dead. Talk to XFX and invoke the warranty. | ||
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
On August 28 2012 00:13 Medrea wrote: Actually I bet its the VRAM. I had a 9800GT a couple years ago that had artifacting during POST and thats what it was. Card is dead. Talk to XFX and invoke the warranty. Possible, but trying a reseat first can't hurt. I've had similar issues fixed by that. Granted, I also have a toddler who likes to unseat GPUs accidentally by throwing his toys around, but still. | ||
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GGOPphatpak
United States87 Posts
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