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Jer99
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Canada8159 Posts
May 10 2015 22:08 GMT
#10761
On May 11 2015 04:55 scott31337 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 09 2015 07:47 Jer99 wrote:
Noticed when i play a youtube video, most of the time it'll black screen at the start of video, and seemingly at other random times throughout the video. If i pause and play the video, it goes back to displaying the video again

the audio continues to play, but the video cuts to black. Any ideas?


Do you use firefox, perchance?


chrome
StrategyTaeJa #1 || @TL_Jer99 || "seeker seeked out his seeking"
skyR
Profile Joined July 2009
Canada13817 Posts
May 10 2015 22:44 GMT
#10762
Did you try disabling hardware acceleration in Chrome's advanced settings?
Chrisboy
Profile Joined April 2010
Australia118 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-05-14 10:17:32
May 13 2015 12:09 GMT
#10763
I am trying to do a clean windows 7 install on an old computer I have frankensteined together. The cup, motherboard and ram have carried over from my old comp, but the power supply, hard drives and graphics card are 'new'. The problem I am having is that when I boot off the disc and get to the first menu (select language etc), the keyboard and mouse won't work. They are an old ps2 mouse and keyboard that work in my new comp and work ok if I boot into bios. All my google searching brings up is people having the same problem but with usb keyboard. Any ideas?

Edit: So far I have tried the following with no success:
Tried 32 and 64 bit windows 7 disc (both legit) and a less legit windows 8.
Connected the hard drives to my working Comp and formatted them so they are blank

Very frustrating because I know the mouse and keyboard work, and the keyboard works on boot into bios etc.
That's why I beat you almost half the time!
Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17287 Posts
May 14 2015 22:15 GMT
#10764
You probably are just going to have to use a PS/2 plug to get it to work. See if you have a USB to PS/2 converter lying around.

There's also sometimes a setting in the BIOS to enable USB kb/mouse.
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micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24777 Posts
May 15 2015 03:09 GMT
#10765
On May 05 2015 09:51 micronesia wrote:
For a while now (months) I've been noticing more noise than normal coming from my CPU fan. I have removed the fan many times and cleaned all the dust off, but it doesn't seem to help. The noise has gotten worse lately... what's my best bet?

PC: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/tech-support/137554-computer-build-resource-thread?page=1016#20317

So I replaced the fan on my cooler successfully, and I think it eliminated some fan noise, but I'm noticing some extra noise coming from the GPU fans. My GPU is:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150521

Is there anything I can do about this, or does it make more sense to just replace the GPU?
ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
geokilla
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada8247 Posts
May 15 2015 05:13 GMT
#10766
My APM is at 150APM and sometimes when I input a key very quickly, say a double tap to build SCVs for example, that double tap doesn't get registered. I already formatted my computer thinking there was a driver conflict but still the same problem. Is my CM Storm Quickfire Ultimate not polling correctly? I bought this keyboard a year ago because I thought it was my keyboard holding back my progress.

What could be limiting my FPS in 200/200 fights in SC2? MY computer specifications are as follows:

Intel Core i5-3570K @ 4.4Ghz
XFX 7950GB 3GB with a modded BIOS that was used to improve cryptocoin mining. 990/1400
Kingston 8GB RAM
Samsung 840 Pro 128GB SSD
Corsair AX750

My graphic settings are as follows:

Texture Quality: High
Shaders: High
Lighting: High
Shadows: High
Terrain: Medium
Reflections: Off
Effects: Medium
Post-Processing: Medium
Physics: Medium
Models: High
3D Portraits
Anti-Aliasing: Off
d_runk
Profile Joined March 2013
124 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-05-15 16:37:11
May 15 2015 16:36 GMT
#10767
What's on the mystery partition nested between the EFI (system reserved partition) and the primary partition on my boot drive? Is that safe to remove? I'd need to extend my EFI partition to install the latest round of updates but can't until I find out how to deal with that thing.

[image loading]
Disk is a Samsung EVO 240 250GB SSD.
"You just offended like 90% of the world -I'm fine with that. 90% of people are pretty stupid" Jinro
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20333 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-05-15 16:55:20
May 15 2015 16:48 GMT
#10768
On May 15 2015 14:13 geokilla wrote:
My APM is at 150APM and sometimes when I input a key very quickly, say a double tap to build SCVs for example, that double tap doesn't get registered. I already formatted my computer thinking there was a driver conflict but still the same problem. Is my CM Storm Quickfire Ultimate not polling correctly? I bought this keyboard a year ago because I thought it was my keyboard holding back my progress.

What could be limiting my FPS in 200/200 fights in SC2? MY computer specifications are as follows:

Intel Core i5-3570K @ 4.4Ghz
XFX 7950GB 3GB with a modded BIOS that was used to improve cryptocoin mining. 990/1400
Kingston 8GB RAM
Samsung 840 Pro 128GB SSD
Corsair AX750

My graphic settings are as follows:

Texture Quality: High
Shaders: High
Lighting: High
Shadows: High
Terrain: Medium
Reflections: Off
Effects: Medium
Post-Processing: Medium
Physics: Medium
Models: High
3D Portraits
Anti-Aliasing: Off


Your CPU limiting performance for sure, there will be almost no graphical load. You should put physics off, leave reflections off. Effects changes CPU-limited performance, but you used to need them on medium to see some important things.

Other graphical settings will just increase GPU load (from some low amount to some other low amount) and you'll probably see no notable change in min FPS with them because you're just waiting for the main game thread to finish on one CPU core for every frame long after the GPU is idle.

RAM also matters for performance in sc2. You say 8GB of RAM, but nothing about it (frequency, timings, if it's in dual channel correctly etc)


The keyboard thing - it's a usb keyboard, which is not ideal. ps/2 is better. It's pretty hard to diagnose issues like that, especially if they're infrequent
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
Baatun88
Profile Joined May 2015
14 Posts
May 15 2015 17:47 GMT
#10769
SC2 has a terrible Engine and does not use CPU-Cores well. No machine on this planet can play SC2 in crazy 200v200 fights with 100+ FPS.
Sovano
Profile Joined November 2011
United States1503 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-05-15 20:33:17
May 15 2015 20:32 GMT
#10770
Hey everyone, I'm hyped for The Witcher 3 coming out next week but before pre-ordering I want to get some feedback on whether or not my desktop could run this game smoothly or not.

My specs:
i3-4130 CPU @ 3.4 GHz
Geforce GTX 750 Ti
8 GB RAM
256 GB SSD

The minimum and recommended requirements listed on the steam page:
[image loading]
d_runk
Profile Joined March 2013
124 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-05-15 20:45:08
May 15 2015 20:37 GMT
#10771
On May 16 2015 05:32 Sovano wrote:
Hey everyone, I'm hyped for The Witcher 3 coming out next week but before pre-ordering I want to get some feedback on whether or not my desktop could run this game smoothly or not.

My specs:
i3-4130 CPU @ 3.4 GHz
Geforce GTX 750 Ti
8 GB RAM
256 GB SSD

The minimum and recommended requirements listed on the steam page:
[image loading]


Your GPU might be strechted a bit thin, but if you are happy with low/med textures and shaders, I think you'll be fine, especially on 720p.

Edit: No Idea how much the game will rely on multi-core performance (seeing as they provided a quad-core even as minimum), but your CPU should still be OK.
"You just offended like 90% of the world -I'm fine with that. 90% of people are pretty stupid" Jinro
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20333 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-05-15 20:55:15
May 15 2015 20:54 GMT
#10772
I'd be most worried about them completely locking out dual core CPU's, but that's probably unlikely as only a few bad devs have done it. i3 4130 is better than a phenom II x9 940 though, and GPU should be fine for console-like settings and performance.
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
Sovano
Profile Joined November 2011
United States1503 Posts
May 15 2015 21:02 GMT
#10773
Thanks for the input! Pre-ordering it now
Kupon3ss
Profile Joined May 2008
時の回廊10066 Posts
May 15 2015 21:18 GMT
#10774
the locking of dual cpus was limited to G3258 anyways. Since i3s are multithreaded that should be fine
When in doubt, just believe in yourself and press buttons
geokilla
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada8247 Posts
May 16 2015 04:49 GMT
#10775
On May 16 2015 01:48 Cyro wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 15 2015 14:13 geokilla wrote:
My APM is at 150APM and sometimes when I input a key very quickly, say a double tap to build SCVs for example, that double tap doesn't get registered. I already formatted my computer thinking there was a driver conflict but still the same problem. Is my CM Storm Quickfire Ultimate not polling correctly? I bought this keyboard a year ago because I thought it was my keyboard holding back my progress.

What could be limiting my FPS in 200/200 fights in SC2? MY computer specifications are as follows:

Intel Core i5-3570K @ 4.4Ghz
XFX 7950GB 3GB with a modded BIOS that was used to improve cryptocoin mining. 990/1400
Kingston 8GB RAM
Samsung 840 Pro 128GB SSD
Corsair AX750

My graphic settings are as follows:

Texture Quality: High
Shaders: High
Lighting: High
Shadows: High
Terrain: Medium
Reflections: Off
Effects: Medium
Post-Processing: Medium
Physics: Medium
Models: High
3D Portraits
Anti-Aliasing: Off


Your CPU limiting performance for sure, there will be almost no graphical load. You should put physics off, leave reflections off. Effects changes CPU-limited performance, but you used to need them on medium to see some important things.

Other graphical settings will just increase GPU load (from some low amount to some other low amount) and you'll probably see no notable change in min FPS with them because you're just waiting for the main game thread to finish on one CPU core for every frame long after the GPU is idle.

RAM also matters for performance in sc2. You say 8GB of RAM, but nothing about it (frequency, timings, if it's in dual channel correctly etc)


The keyboard thing - it's a usb keyboard, which is not ideal. ps/2 is better. It's pretty hard to diagnose issues like that, especially if they're infrequent


Should I turn up the GPU graphics then? I do want to enjoy my eye candy.

It's not infrequent. It occurs in every single SC2 game I've played for the last year or two since I owned this keyboard. Should I buy a PS/2 adapter? Or are all mechanical keyboards plagued by this problem? If so, it's hard to imagine how players like Polt, who has a low APM, plays at a high level. Pretty how all mechanical keyboards use USB and not PS/2.
FiWiFaKi
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada9859 Posts
May 16 2015 09:03 GMT
#10776
What are the top3-top 5 tech websites out there?

I have several questions, but a lots of answers on TL have mostly been through personal experience and stuff like that... And I was looking for a "R1CH" explanation.

I just want to get a more fundamental understanding about computers, not have everything explained in layman terms, which results in really fragmented knowledge. I currently enjoy AnandTech.
In life, the journey is more satisfying than the destination. || .::Entrepreneurship::. Living a few years of your life like most people won't, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can't || Mechanical Engineering & Economics Major
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20333 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-05-16 15:07:21
May 16 2015 14:29 GMT
#10777
On May 16 2015 18:03 FiWiFaKi wrote:
What are the top3-top 5 tech websites out there?

I have several questions, but a lots of answers on TL have mostly been through personal experience and stuff like that... And I was looking for a "R1CH" explanation.

I just want to get a more fundamental understanding about computers, not have everything explained in layman terms, which results in really fragmented knowledge. I currently enjoy AnandTech.


I would vote www.overclock.net.

Honestly the state of tech websites is pretty bad. After gaining more knowledge in some areas, i've found very bad/misleading stuff posted by a lot of the sites that a lot of newbies follow (tomshardware was one for example) ~ anandtech has posted stuff about haswell and water cooling where they got bad results because of nothing but user error and then claimed that the hardware was at fault/bad (cpu, motherboards, water cooling as a whole) which was then read by probably tens or even hundreds of thousands of people. A lot of tech sites regularly post things like RAM testing while GPU bound - or GPU testing while CPU bound - and make a conclusion that's actually just wrong.

OC.net is a community site where there are quite a few educated people, lots of pretty good guides and everything up for nitpicking from people who actually know what they are talking about on the subject, just have to avoid the links to clickbait speculation sites and the GPU arguments

I used to read quite a few of those sites religiously, but now i don't really at all (aside from reviews on review sample hardware, where it's best to scan through pretty much every review posted or at least 2-3)

www.blurbusters.com is pretty good, but is kinda a niche site for those interested in motion blur and input lag on displays
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
Myrmidon
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
United States9452 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-05-16 17:18:12
May 16 2015 17:16 GMT
#10778
The guy has less articles here these days, but real world tech, for CPU/GPU architecture and process tech:
http://www.realworldtech.com/

For normal review sites, Anandtech does still have decent analysis at times, but more for some areas than others (not the benchmarking / tweaking / enthusiast cooling, overclocking, etc. / peripherals side). The Tech Report and PC Perspective are about in that boat: some of the analysis and ideas are worthwhile, but plenty is not necessarily great or can be found elsewhere.

There are other sites for more specific and narrow categories, especially those less abstract.

I don't really check tech forums, but those tend to be better at gathering specific knowledge from experience (say, what matters for overclocking a certain chip on a certain motherboard) than deep technical analysis. You do see some of the latter, but from very few posters. There's a lot of noise.

If you want to learn about computing and computers on a more fundamental level, there are textbooks.
Incognoto
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
France10239 Posts
May 17 2015 11:07 GMT
#10779
I kind of laughed about the GPU arguments thing. oc.net is nuts sometimes
maru lover forever
Divine-Sneaker
Profile Joined August 2010
Denmark1225 Posts
May 17 2015 15:19 GMT
#10780
Correct me if I'm just ignorant, but I find TFTcentral pretty damn good for that niche.
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