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Mozdk
Denmark6989 Posts
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OsaX Nymloth
Poland3244 Posts
On June 29 2014 19:32 Incognoto wrote: Is it possible to lock the cursor to one monitor in a dual monitor set up? That way I can do whatever without fearing my cursor leaving the first monitor. Ideally, I'd have to hit a hotkey or something to allow the cursor to go the second screen. Display fusion is pretty good but since I'm only using the basic version (cba to pay $30) I don't get all its features. I'm not even sure if DF can even lock the cursor with the pro version? This is quite ok and free: http://dualmonitortool.sourceforge.net/swapscreen.html | ||
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Incognoto
France10239 Posts
On June 30 2014 08:46 OsaX Nymloth wrote: This is quite ok and free: http://dualmonitortool.sourceforge.net/swapscreen.html Ah you "beat" me to it. I've been doing some google this morning and I found this tool and indeed, it works great. It's free, exactly what I needed. Sorry skyR, even for $5 DF is too expensive for me since I'm only going to use the basic features. The little tool that osax linked me is that one that I found this morning; it works perfectly fine for locking the cursor to a single monitor! ^^ Thanks Craton as well, though I'm not going to lie, I didn't find the program you were talking about. Didn't do more than 3 minutes of google for it though, admittedly. I found DMT in the mean time though. :p | ||
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WindWolf
Sweden11767 Posts
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Cyro
United Kingdom20335 Posts
Some other forms of AA cause significant increases in VRAM usage, so if you use Supersampling (rendering above resolution then downsampling) to help deal with jaggies instead of those, your VRAM usage might not rise so much, but no AA vs Supersampled is probably a sizable increase | ||
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Incognoto
France10239 Posts
First off, I would like to know if it's possible to split up where steam games are installed. My SSD is actually getting just a bit full, was wondering if it would be possible to put all the steam games I have except for one on my HDD while keeping the one game where SSD level load times help on the SSD. Is this possible? Secondly, I'm getting the feeling that firefox is kind of slow. I loaded up Opera during Proleague since firefox was acting up and I didn't want to restart, I noticed that overall Opera seemed quite a bit faster. So I'm either going to switch to Opera or I'm going to fix up firefox. Firefox has noscript which is the biggest reason I use it. Does opera have an equivalent? or, is there something wrong i'm doing with firefox that could be slowing it down? | ||
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WindWolf
Sweden11767 Posts
On June 30 2014 18:44 Cyro wrote: If by SSAA you mean Supersampling then yea, you're just rendering the game at (extreme example) 4k instead of 1080p. There might be some less VRAM used with the final frame outputs being 1080p (depends on implementation and i lack a ton of understanding there) but i'd expect more as if or almost as if you were using the target resolution Some other forms of AA cause significant increases in VRAM usage, so if you use Supersampling (rendering above resolution then downsampling) to help deal with jaggies instead of those, your VRAM usage might not rise so much, but no AA vs Supersampled is probably a sizable increase Yes it was Supersampling I was talking about. I know Euro Truck Simulator 2 has some kind of SSAA built in (They call that setting Scaling, which can also work as "reverse supersampling"), and the reason for wondering was that I thought that the game might be a good stress test for my new computer's GPU. | ||
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Incognoto
France10239 Posts
What other games do you have? Witcher 2, if you have that, also has super-sampling I think, I noticed a good FPS drop when having it on. Skyrim with lots of mods probably does decently as well. Or you could just use Heaven benchmark. | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20335 Posts
On June 30 2014 18:53 Incognoto wrote: OK so now I have two more questions. First off, I would like to know if it's possible to split up where steam games are installed. My SSD is actually getting just a bit full, was wondering if it would be possible to put all the steam games I have except for one on my HDD while keeping the one game where SSD level load times help on the SSD. Is this possible? Secondly, I'm getting the feeling that firefox is kind of slow. I loaded up Opera during Proleague since firefox was acting up and I didn't want to restart, I noticed that overall Opera seemed quite a bit faster. So I'm either going to switch to Opera or I'm going to fix up firefox. Firefox has noscript which is the biggest reason I use it. Does opera have an equivalent? or, is there something wrong i'm doing with firefox that could be slowing it down? If i go to install a new game, it asks where i want to install it and i can put it on either drive. I'm not sure what you can do if you already have them installed, or if copy/paste works | ||
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WindWolf
Sweden11767 Posts
On June 30 2014 18:56 Incognoto wrote: What do you mean by stress? You want to benchmark your GPU or you want to stress test an overclock? What other games do you have? Witcher 2, if you have that, also has super-sampling I think, I noticed a good FPS drop when having it on. Skyrim with lots of mods probably does decently as well. Or you could just use Heaven benchmark. More like a general test to see how well the new GPU can handle heavy workloads. I think ETS2 will do for me (or any other game made with the same engine). I bought Skyrim during the sale but I'm not gonna play that game just yet. | ||
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Incognoto
France10239 Posts
On June 30 2014 19:01 Cyro wrote: If i go to install a new game, it asks where i want to install it and i can put it on either drive. I'm not sure what you can do if you already have them installed, or if copy/paste works Oh really? I'd have to uninstall then but that's not something I'm too afraid of doing. Thanks | ||
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Craton
United States17290 Posts
I'm not sure what you can do for splitting it after the fact. I think there is a way to manually point steam to a folder, so you might be able to copy the game folder to another location and point it. | ||
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Ropid
Germany3557 Posts
On June 30 2014 19:36 Incognoto wrote: Oh really? I'd have to uninstall then but that's not something I'm too afraid of doing. Thanks On June 30 2014 20:43 Craton wrote: You can move the entire steam directory and reinstall on top of it to fix registry entries without losing any game data. It's great for new Windows installations. I'm not sure what you can do for splitting it after the fact. I think there is a way to manually point steam to a folder, so you might be able to copy the game folder to another location and point it. You can move a game manually and it's easy. It works like this: If you go into the Steam folder or a SteamLibrary folder, you will find a "SteamApps" folder. Here's how that looks like for the Steam installation I have here: http://i.imgur.com/IMjHPLV.png (it's exactly the same on Windows) So that screenshot is showing the "SteamApps" folder inside the Steam folder. There's a bunch of .acf files which are text files. The "common" sub-folder is where the actual games are. If I wanted to move Civ5 somewhere else, I'd move those two objects I have selected in the screenshot, and that's it. The game's .acf file goes into the other library's "SteamApps" folder, the game's folder goes into the other library's "common" sub-folder. You need to quit the Steam client first when you do this. When you start it again after you are done moving the files, it will just work. You can find out the .acf file name for the game through the store page without looking inside the .acf files. The store page is the same number as in the file name. For example Civ5's store page is 8930: http://store.steampowered.com/app/8930/ If a game has issues, perhaps because of things in the Registry, I suppose what you can do is delete the .acf file but leave the game's folder on the drive. If you then reinstall the game in the Steam client, the download should complete fast as it will find the old folder and won't download everything again. That's just me guessing. Moving things always worked for me. | ||
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Incognoto
France10239 Posts
will get around to doing this, should work np | ||
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Doodsmack
United States7224 Posts
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236111 I'm wondering whether I would notice a big difference with a new monitor. I kind of want to try Samsung and am looking at this model: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824001779 The spec differences I notice are 2ms vs 5ms, 10,000,000:1 vs 1000:1 contrast ratio. | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20335 Posts
On July 02 2014 13:11 Doodsmack wrote: I'm currently using this monitor from 3 yrs ago: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236111 I'm wondering whether I would notice a big difference with a new monitor. I kind of want to try Samsung and am looking at this model: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824001779 The spec differences I notice are 2ms vs 5ms, 10,000,000:1 vs 1000:1 contrast ratio. Maybe worth switching to a new monitor, 1080p60hz to 1080p60hz is kinda weird unless you wanted to go from tn to IPS for example. You can't really trust those specs though, like g2g response time or contrast ratio's, on the store pages | ||
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Dingodile
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I changed "target fan speed" to lvl6 (from lvl9) I am very happy to have a silent pc now. According to CPUID HWMonitor none gets over 40°C during sc2. | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
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