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skyR
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Nabutso
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skyR
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Blitzkrieg0
United States13132 Posts
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skyR
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Blitzkrieg0
United States13132 Posts
 Is the most effective way to upgrade from 32 -> 64 to just wipe everything and reinstall or is there some more effective means? I don't really have anything to lose at this point so wiping everything shouldn't matter, but if there's some mystical way to keep everything so I don't have to install again why not. | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
Easiest way is to format and do a fresh installation. | ||
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Medrea
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When it comes to technical specifications PS/2 blows USB out of the water in every category since it usually features full NKRO. PS/2 devices also dont get polled at all, they use hardware interrupts. They have a direct hardware line straight to the processor (or really the board) so keystrokes must be processed immediately whereas USB drivers and controller malfunction can delay or deny keystrokes. They used to make motherboards with a separate USB controller just for the keyboard but that is cost prohibitive so they stopped doing it. They were isynchronous as well so they were very nearly as good as PS/2. Instead we have shitty default USB which from an engineering standpoint makes no fucking sense at all. So when it comes to legacy devices I doubt we will see PS/2 phased out anytime soon since it is quite frankly the superior option for keyboards. | ||
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kaisr
Canada715 Posts
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Juvant
United States723 Posts
My SC2 is not letting me view recent replays, there isn't even an option to view my most recently played game. I searched through all of my SC replay folders and am coming up empty... Any way to remedy this? Any help would be appreciated. Edit: The files are nowhere to be found, guess I wasn't really clear... I have it set to save all replays, but even if that were not the case, I should be able to view my most recent game, no? | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
On February 08 2012 05:19 kaisr wrote: Quick question: For some reason my monitor dims whenever I look at darker places in sc2, or whenever I fullscreen a youtube video or VLC video and the scene is darker. When I go and look back into a brighter foreground, it takes a couple of seconds for the brightness to return. I'm not sure if I'm explaining myself clearly. Basically it is as if there is some weird global DivX dimmer setting that occurs whenever I look at dark places and this dimming effect reverses slowly when I look at brighter places. As far as I'm aware it just started happening randomly one day, and i didn't install any monitor dimmers or anything. Check the monitor settings for some type of dynamic contrast ratio option (may be called something else) and turn it off. Or maybe it's something similar in software? | ||
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Zay
England14 Posts
Haven't been able to find an answer to my question so thought i'd look here. My problem is that whilst watching streams, i push and hold Alt to speak on voice servers, however this causes the stream to lag and eventually stop completely, this only occurs whilst watching the stream on full screen... Any suggestions to fix this? Many thanks, Zay | ||
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TheToast
United States4808 Posts
On February 10 2012 08:51 Zay wrote: Hi guys, Haven't been able to find an answer to my question so thought i'd look here. My problem is that whilst watching streams, i push and hold Alt to speak on voice servers, however this causes the stream to lag and eventually stop completely, this only occurs whilst watching the stream on full screen... Any suggestions to fix this? Many thanks, Zay This could be an issue with flash, I've run into my fair share of freezing when full screening the flash player. However, I'm thinking this is more likely a bandwidth issue. Most streaming content, when full screened, will bump up it's quality automatically. It couly be that you do not have enough bandwidth to support both streaming at 480p or 720p while using voice chat. Voice over IP is transferring more data than you think. If you are watching streams on twitch, try setting the quality to all the way down to 240p, and see if the issue continues to happen. | ||
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Zay
England14 Posts
On February 11 2012 00:38 TheToast wrote: This could be an issue with flash, I've run into my fair share of freezing when full screening the flash player. However, I'm thinking this is more likely a bandwidth issue. Most streaming content, when full screened, will bump up it's quality automatically. It couly be that you do not have enough bandwidth to support both streaming at 480p or 720p while using voice chat. Voice over IP is transferring more data than you think. If you are watching streams on twitch, try setting the quality to all the way down to 240p, and see if the issue continues to happen. Hi, Just did what you suggested and i still get stream lag / freeze when i press alt on mumble (on 240p and all other resolutions). Any other thoughts? | ||
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kaisr
Canada715 Posts
On February 10 2012 08:33 Myrmidon wrote: Check the monitor settings for some type of dynamic contrast ratio option (may be called something else) and turn it off. Or maybe it's something similar in software? yep ur absolutely right, its dynamic contrast. Must've hit the random monitor buttons by accident while trying to turn my monitor off or something. Thanks a lot! | ||
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TuckFexas
United States154 Posts
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-2670QM, 6MB L3 Cache, 2.2-3.1GHz GPU: AMD® Radeon HD 6990M 2GB GDDR5 | ||
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jaj22
United Kingdom1376 Posts
On February 11 2012 06:28 TuckFexas wrote: what would be the bottleneck on my computer running somthing like skyrim? CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-2670QM, 6MB L3 Cache, 2.2-3.1GHz GPU: AMD® Radeon HD 6990M 2GB GDDR5 Probably heat. Run HWMonitor, run Skyrim for a bit, check maximum CPU & GPU core temps. | ||
Womwomwom
5930 Posts
On February 07 2012 18:13 Medrea wrote: PS/2 doesnt support anything on a keyboard other than your basic keyboard functions so if you are a user with backlights, a lot of macro keys, or media functions keys and all that, it doesnt work. When it comes to technical specifications PS/2 blows USB out of the water in every category since it usually features full NKRO. PS/2 devices also dont get polled at all, they use hardware interrupts. They have a direct hardware line straight to the processor (or really the board) so keystrokes must be processed immediately whereas USB drivers and controller malfunction can delay or deny keystrokes. They used to make motherboards with a separate USB controller just for the keyboard but that is cost prohibitive so they stopped doing it. They were isynchronous as well so they were very nearly as good as PS/2. Instead we have shitty default USB which from an engineering standpoint makes no fucking sense at all. So when it comes to legacy devices I doubt we will see PS/2 phased out anytime soon since it is quite frankly the superior option for keyboards. It makes perfect sense. The PS/2 port is only used for legacy input devices while USB is ubiquitous so the ubiquitous standard gets used. No one gives a shit about NKRO, p.much the only good thing about PS/2, because how often do you reach 6KRO? Yes its better. Its better in ways no one cares about. Its like saying one motherboard is better than the other because it has a parallel port. | ||
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Maeldun
Australia169 Posts
a SSD ( http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=210_902_903&products_id=17344 ) and a Radeon HD 6870 ( http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=193_1164&products_id=15875 ). Is this motherboard going to bottleneck any of my other components? Should I upgrade it? Not sure about those SATA2 ports you see. (looking at something like this: http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=138_711_1183&products_id=18146) | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
In theory running an Agility 3 60GB on a SATA2 interface will bottleneck it in some situations, but they will be rare. Agility 3 60GB is one of the slowest current-generation SSDs, so the interface will not realistically make much difference at all unless you're benching max sequential speeds with synthetic data that can be compressed very heavily. But it's still an SSD, and these things are way faster than mechanical storage regardless. More importantly, the firmware still has some reliability issues. edit: wait, maybe I misinterpreted you. If you already have that motherboard, then no, it's definitely not worth replacing. I can hardly imagine that anybody would consider such a thing, replacing one motherboard for another of the same socket. Furthermore, you're looking at a motherboard of the same generation of chipset. It's a huge waste of time and money. | ||
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