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On August 11 2014 06:25 BreakBad wrote:Hi, I have another (hopefully) simple questions. I want to create an image for a stream I want to create. I see a lot of streams with almost no production value, and I want to have my stream stick out from the bottom streams. Look at this image here, this is what I mean. http://i.imgur.com/JHcd1i5.pngThe game is on the right, and an image is on the left. Basically, it is just a filler for the side of the screen that the game isn't on. How do I create an image like this? I'm sure there is some technical photoshop stuff that I will mess around with, but I will play with that. What kind of dimensions or image size do I need to create? Should I use my native desktop background resolution? Should I use a png or jpg or does that even matter? What are things I should consider?
You should make the image the same size you want to display it in, or maybe for example 2x or 4x width/height
so if you wanted to display 100x100, maybe make 200x200 or 400x400. It's easy to downscale with very good quality that way.
PNG is best to use as it's lossless but still achieves lower file sizes than raw data in some ways
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Thinking of getting a gpu for someone new to gaming, but don't want to spend $100 (about the cheapest for a decent new one).
If there's nothing wrong with the card, is $40 a good deal for a used GTX 650?
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On August 11 2014 10:32 Cyro wrote:Show nested quote +On August 11 2014 06:25 BreakBad wrote:Hi, I have another (hopefully) simple questions. I want to create an image for a stream I want to create. I see a lot of streams with almost no production value, and I want to have my stream stick out from the bottom streams. Look at this image here, this is what I mean. http://i.imgur.com/JHcd1i5.pngThe game is on the right, and an image is on the left. Basically, it is just a filler for the side of the screen that the game isn't on. How do I create an image like this? I'm sure there is some technical photoshop stuff that I will mess around with, but I will play with that. What kind of dimensions or image size do I need to create? Should I use my native desktop background resolution? Should I use a png or jpg or does that even matter? What are things I should consider? You should make the image the same size you want to display it in, or maybe for example 2x or 4x width/height so if you wanted to display 100x100, maybe make 200x200 or 400x400. It's easy to downscale with very good quality that way. PNG is best to use as it's lossless but still achieves lower file sizes than raw data in some ways
I think that question was about image manipulation / editing / desktop publishing type programs. You'd just whip up something in Photoshop or whatever. Make some kind of background, put text on it, put image on it? That's fairly simple enough. GIMP is free if you want something with definitely greater-than-Paint features.
On August 11 2014 10:51 domane wrote:
Thinking of getting a gpu for someone new to gaming, but don't want to spend $100 (about the cheapest for a decent new one).
If there's nothing wrong with the card, is $40 a good deal for a used GTX 650?
Yeah, there's not much of a low-end graphics card market these days. $40 is pretty good for that.
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I'm looking to get a new tablet to replace my ipad 2, and the nvidia shield tablet caught my eye.
I'd love to be able to play some decent games on the go so if I do buy it I'll get the shield controller for $60, however I'm really confused as to whether all that extra GPU power will be useful at all - the thing runs on android, and so far I have not come across a single android game that I haven't been able to run smoothly with my galaxy s4. Also, I saw a portal demo the other day running on the shield, so what's all that about?
TL;DR: other than the play store (android games), can the shield run Windows games as well?
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It streams the games from a PC to your tablet. There may be limitations or whatever, I haven't read much into it.
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On August 12 2014 04:31 EngrishTeacher wrote:I'm looking to get a new tablet to replace my ipad 2, and the nvidia shield tablet caught my eye. I'd love to be able to play some decent games on the go so if I do buy it I'll get the shield controller for $60, however I'm really confused as to whether all that extra GPU power will be useful at all - the thing runs on android, and so far I have not come across a single android game that I haven't been able to run smoothly with my galaxy s4. Also, I saw a portal demo the other day running on the shield, so what's all that about? TL;DR: other than the play store (android games), can the shield run Windows games as well?
Of course it can't run Windows games. You can't even run Windows games on x86 hardware on Linux or Mac OS (okay, sometimes you can via some level of Windows emulation).
You need games that are properly ported to Android. Some stuff is seemingly only available and/or just optimized for Nvidia mobile products. See TegraZone, also just Nvidia's Shield page. Note that a port of Trine 2, for example, comes preloaded on the Shield Tablet. You can't get that off the normal Play Store, and I think the port uses hardware features not available on most modern Android devices anyway (not to mention requiring higher GPU performance). There's a Portal port for Tegra 4 devices and apparently a graphically less neutered one for Tegra K1.
But yeah, for most generic Android games the extra GPU power is a waste. Nvidia wants people to buy in and get more of an ecosystem going, but it's not that expansive at the moment.
Steaming games from a computer to the tablet is separate functionality than running games or specialized games on the hardware itself.
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Ahh thanks for the quick reply, I guess it's a waste to buy the shield with very few games to actually take advantage of all that extra GPU power.
Probably going to get a used surface pro now, thanks again!
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I think most passive splitters don't do what you might expect it to do (what you want).
Unfortunately, I don't know enough about the low-level handshaking (if any) and other control info, whatever else that goes on in HDMI to say why. I think there may be some kind of master/slave setup where there's really no provision for the host device to be able to talk to multiple things downstream. Either that or some kind of issue with the signal when connected to two input devices.
Anyway, search passive HDMI splitters and you find a lot of upset people with setups not working. An active splitter (which I'm assuming would just take the info and retransmit two different places downstream), which is much more expensive, should do it.
If you're trying to split the output of a computer, why not just use two video outputs and have the displays cloned in the OS? (audio would need to be handled separately though)
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On August 12 2014 08:21 Myrmidon wrote:
I think most passive splitters don't do what you might expect it to do (what you want).
Unfortunately, I don't know enough about the low-level handshaking (if any) and other control info, whatever else that goes on in HDMI to say why. I think there may be some kind of master/slave setup where there's really no provision for the host device to be able to talk to multiple things downstream. Either that or some kind of issue with the signal when connected to two input devices.
Anyway, search passive HDMI splitters and you find a lot of upset people with setups not working. An active splitter (which I'm assuming would just take the info and retransmit two different places downstream), which is much more expensive, should do it.
If you're trying to split the output of a computer, why not just use two video outputs and have the displays cloned in the OS? (audio would need to be handled separately though)
Thnx for the post!
Actually, its to split my PS3. I know it may sound weird but... I want to be able to have the game on my monitor AND on a secondary so that other people can view it
I'll look into the mentionned splitter!
About used GPU. Yay or nay?
I'm having more frequent crashes with my current GPU and I fear it might be dying 
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Thanks Cyro. You always answer my questions.
I have another one now. How do you stream console games onto Twitch? Along side that question, how do you record your game footage and put them on YouTube?
Once I get them on Twitch, it's easy because I just download the file and send it to YT (or have Twitch do it). How do I get it on Twitch though? I hear about these boxes but is there another way? If this is the only way, which box would you recommend?
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On August 13 2014 04:48 BreakBad wrote:
Thanks Cyro. You always answer my questions.
I have another one now. How do you stream console games onto Twitch? Along side that question, how do you record your game footage and put them on YouTube?
Once I get them on Twitch, it's easy because I just download the file and send it to YT (or have Twitch do it). How do I get it on Twitch though? I hear about these boxes but is there another way? If this is the only way, which box would you recommend?
I think that XB1 and PS4 have functions to do those built into them, at limited settings. I've heard people talking about the "streams from xb1/ps4" section of twitch having like 50 viewers total in it, though, so not sure how good it is
For previous consoles, or alternately, i think people use capture cards paired with a desktop/laptop system (usually windows) and some software like OBS. That's expensive though, it needs two gaming systems and like a $100 capture card so instead of say $400 for a new console or a comparable PC, you're looking at a cost of ~$400+~$400+~$100 if you don't already have that hardware.
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On August 09 2014 14:05 Craton wrote:My NAS is assembled at this point. With some "gentle persuading" I got the case in shape enough to partially screw in the PSU (it's bottom mounted), so it doesn't budge more than about 1mm when pushed. Everything is connected properly best I can tell, when power is pressed it all springs to life with the HDDs spinning on and the fans (including heatsink) whirring to life. No POST beeps, but I don't think I have a mobo speaker or any diagnostic LEDs. Problem: no picture. I'm connecting directly to the motherboard D-Sub, but I can't get picture to show up. I've tried everything from a monitor that accepts D-Sub to adapters that turn D-Sub to HDMI, but nothing comes up. There is no graphics card installed. I have to hold down the power button for several seconds to get it to shut off. Thoughts? Mobo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157414CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116998Tried swapping the RAM (installed a different, single stick), no effect.
So I bought a motherboard speaker and installed it - total silence.
Do I just assume the mobo is faulty at this point?
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Is 400w enough for a i3 4130 and a single 750ti?
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On August 13 2014 22:15 Intact wrote:
Is 400w enough for a i3 4130 and a single 750ti?
That's the kind of setup that will use under 100w running some games. Reaching the ideal efficiency range for a 400w unit isn't possible because the power draw it too low to be near 50% draw on it
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Got a graphics card noise issue, which happens to be the chassis bumping into the heatsink and due to vibrations of the fans that's pretty annoying:
So just holding the chassis down by like 1mm (or even up) with my hand did solve the issue.
Can I put something in there, kind of like a placeholder just to get that tiny 1mm more distance to get rid of that noise? I've got some rubber spaceholders for mounting my HDD / SSD which seem to work like a charm when placed between chassis and heatsink. But that was only a 5 second test and no idea if that'd become a problem if it actually heats up.
Behold my mighty paint skillz:
+ Show Spoiler [it looks something like this] +
Pretty sure it's either that little thing on the left that's making the noise or it's the plastic parts bumping into the metal parts due to vibrations.
Don't mind the outer part being able to fly without being attached to anything please.
So like I said, if I put 2 of those rube spaceholders between the chassis and the metal heatsink it actually stops being annoying. Other solutions? Will my solution cause my house to catch fire and burn down if implemented?
It's not even 1mm distance that's needed... more like 1/10th of a millimeter
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Nah, I see no reason for the rubber heating up to be a problem. They use rubber joints for water coolant in cars (I know this for having replaced such things), that water is HOT. The rubber is fine though. So you should be fine. It's not like you're using cardboard or something.
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New laptop for studying, Thinkpad E330. i3 3110m, HD graphics 4k, 1.5 gigs of RAM. Good enough for Starcraft, Dota 2, or CSGO?
EDIT: I'll buy memory sticks for this laptop, and I'll find some time to get to the service center if they can help me installing 64-bit windows instead of this 32 bit crap
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On August 13 2014 23:27 Cyro wrote:Show nested quote +On August 13 2014 22:15 Intact wrote:
Is 400w enough for a i3 4130 and a single 750ti? That's the kind of setup that will use under 100w running some games. Reaching the ideal efficiency range for a 400w unit isn't possible because the power draw it too low to be near 50% draw on it
So going with a lower wattage PSU would be better? Started wondering because the GPU said minimum 400w....
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Power requirement recommendations made by manufacturers have to account for low-end power supplies, different setups, and environments. A 400w power supply like a Rosewill Capstone 450 is very overkill for a core i3 + GTX 750 Ti setup.
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