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On December 09 2014 13:25 LimeNade wrote:
Hey guys so I recently got a second monitor and have been running mostly streams on source full screen on the now former main monitor. My new monitor is now my main display and I was having a lot of problems with stutter lag on my main monitor when gaming with a stream on. However, I found out the problem is the Aero Theme color setting for windows 7. So I was wondering am I losing any color quality on my new monitor by using Windows 7 Basic Color and not using Windows 7 Aero Theme ?
EDIT: I turned off transparency in the aero theme window's color settings and that eliminated any kind of lag issue. Also was able to change the color of the borders/task bars so it doesn't look so ugly ^_^. Still get a little stutter tho when closing windows of applications
You won't lose color quality.
Also.. http://cryer.deviantart.com/art/Windows-7-Basic-Black-166606584
you can change colors of basic theme too.. Without having vsync muddy cursor of the other themes.
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On December 09 2014 14:17 Cyro wrote:Show nested quote +On December 09 2014 13:25 LimeNade wrote:
Hey guys so I recently got a second monitor and have been running mostly streams on source full screen on the now former main monitor. My new monitor is now my main display and I was having a lot of problems with stutter lag on my main monitor when gaming with a stream on. However, I found out the problem is the Aero Theme color setting for windows 7. So I was wondering am I losing any color quality on my new monitor by using Windows 7 Basic Color and not using Windows 7 Aero Theme ?
EDIT: I turned off transparency in the aero theme window's color settings and that eliminated any kind of lag issue. Also was able to change the color of the borders/task bars so it doesn't look so ugly ^_^. Still get a little stutter tho when closing windows of applications You won't lose color quality. Also.. http://cryer.deviantart.com/art/Windows-7-Basic-Black-166606584you can change colors of basic theme too.. Without having vsync muddy cursor of the other themes.
wow that's awesome haha never knew that existed
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On December 09 2014 14:38 LimeNade wrote:Show nested quote +On December 09 2014 14:17 Cyro wrote:On December 09 2014 13:25 LimeNade wrote:
Hey guys so I recently got a second monitor and have been running mostly streams on source full screen on the now former main monitor. My new monitor is now my main display and I was having a lot of problems with stutter lag on my main monitor when gaming with a stream on. However, I found out the problem is the Aero Theme color setting for windows 7. So I was wondering am I losing any color quality on my new monitor by using Windows 7 Basic Color and not using Windows 7 Aero Theme ?
EDIT: I turned off transparency in the aero theme window's color settings and that eliminated any kind of lag issue. Also was able to change the color of the borders/task bars so it doesn't look so ugly ^_^. Still get a little stutter tho when closing windows of applications You won't lose color quality. Also.. http://cryer.deviantart.com/art/Windows-7-Basic-Black-166606584you can change colors of basic theme too.. Without having vsync muddy cursor of the other themes. wow that's awesome haha never knew that existed
Yea i don't use it, just because i didn't bother to set up that or similar stuff, but basic theme is the only option if you want a responsive OS, sadly - at least you can enable it in windows 7, because some other OS's don't have that option or require you to use some hacky tricks to disable visual stuff that causes lag
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Thanks, works perfectly. 
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I have a Hitachi HDD that starts clicking after 15 minutes of idle time, so it's probably some energy-saving deal. This means the clicking stops if I do something to wake up the drive, so I try to stop whatever I'm doing and access a file real quick to stop the clicking ASAP.
Not only is it irritating as shit, it sounds pretty damaging (click of death, but only in a low power state). Nothing of importance is on the drive, but it's been doing this on and off for years so I'm not immediately worried.
I can't find anything else that would be causing the drive to behave differently after 15 minutes though. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/6WNtqOC.png)
Any ideas?
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On December 11 2014 07:33 z0rz wrote:
I have a Hitachi HDD that starts clicking after 15 minutes of idle time, so it's probably some energy-saving deal. This means the clicking stops if I do something to wake up the drive, so I try to stop whatever I'm doing and access a file real quick to stop the clicking ASAP.
Not only is it irritating as shit, it sounds pretty damaging (click of death, but only in a low power state). Nothing of importance is on the drive, but it's been doing this on and off for years so I'm not immediately worried.
I can't find anything else that would be causing the drive to behave differently after 15 minutes though.
Any ideas?
HDD Firmware power saving thing? Maybe after awhile the drive figures you're good, and goes to park the head somewhere - but is tapping the case or something?
Just shooting in the wind. Usually when I hear a drive clicking it's not long until it's dead but you say it's been doing it for years - so maybe it's not tapping the platters.
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Yeah, that was my thought. Either firmware or some Windows/BIOS setting that I'm too lazy to find :D
I've been keeping a close eye on SMART - "Current Pending Sector Count" gives up the caution flag but it's been sitting at 129 for years. I figure if that (or any other) value changed, then I'd start to really worry.
The fact that I hate the noise so much is probably keeping the drive alive longer than normal haha
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Is there a better free program than Spybot Search and Destroy for malware removal? It gets the job done but I wonder if maybe it misses shit
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Can you guys connect to EU Battle.net right now? It says that I cant connect, "may be temporarily unavailable or your internet connection may be down". What do if it IS me? I did the Pathping test and it says "Access Denied", not sure what that means though ...
Edit: I can play Hearthstone on EU, its just sc2 :o
edit 2: Ok, theres a problem with login server right now: + Show Spoiler +
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z0rz, check if hitachi do a disk diagniostic utility, search for one if they dont.
I think it was some WD raptors I had which had a habit of clicking too, annoying as hell, but both did it from day one, never had an issue with them, wont harm running a utility to see if anything gets flagged though.
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just need some place to test post while I'm adjusting internet settings; as some things weren't working when I tightened up my settings to deal with some issues i'ev been having.
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Of some reason I cannot type into a specific Skype group I'm in on my PCs (One is Windows 7, the other one Windows 8.1) but I can perfectly type into it on my phone (Samsung S4) and neither of the members has blocked me or anything like that. the only thing that I did was that I chatted with the group on my phone before return home.
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Something happened to Chrome recently and I dont know what it was -- it looks like it turned clear-type or text-smoothing of some kind and it's just hurting my eyes now. I wanted to see if it was windows or something but ClearType is off. so I tried looking in FF and it looks fine on there. This is how the browsers look right now. Chrome's really hurting my eyes argh.
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Yesterday I opened up my laptop to clean it. When I took out all the immediate dust inside and put everything back together, my display stopped working. At first I thought I broke something but I connected it to an external monitor and it was showing. I tried googling and there were a lot of explanations that turned up so I'm not really sure. I think it's just the monitor cable getting loose inside the laptop. Can anyone more knowledge shed more light on my situation? Also, are there any general ways to take apart a laptop? There aren't any videos specific to my laptop model (ASUS K61iC) probably because it's pretty old.
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Is the avago a9800 sensor any good?
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No, it's among the worst used in "mid-high range" mice and should be avoided if you value tracking consistency (cursor always moving the same distance when you move the mouse the same distance, as opposed to randomly moving more/less than expected)
3310 is go-to atm
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Ta! Nothing is ever easy hey >_<
The search continues.
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