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NEEDZMOAR
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
Sweden1277 Posts
December 21 2016 14:41 GMT
#12001
Playing wow tbc on a private server. If I remove vsync my CPU is going crazy (fans start to "whistle") but its literally only wow tbc. everything else is fine (this includes skyrim with mods, the witcher, dota sc2 etc).

whatsup with my pc?
R1CH
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Netherlands10341 Posts
December 21 2016 21:19 GMT
#12002
Turning off vsync runs the game as fast as possible. This means either your GPU or CPU is maxed out.
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XenOmega
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Canada2822 Posts
December 22 2016 02:37 GMT
#12003
My friend's laptop won't boot. (Black screen with a blinking "_" )

When I tried repairing the MBR with CMD with a windows Install disk, the HD still won't boot.

When I put the HD on my desktop, it won't boot neither. But when I use my normal HD to boot, I can see the "faulty" hardrive. I can even access the files (which I did to backup some stuffs).

Am I out of options (AKA reinstall Windows)? What else should I try?
Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17274 Posts
December 22 2016 03:28 GMT
#12004
Do you also get the blinking underscore on your machine?
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XenOmega
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Canada2822 Posts
December 22 2016 03:55 GMT
#12005
Yeah, I also get it on my machine.

Google suggested pressing F8 to activate the system recover or something. F8 doesn't work, neither on my machine, neither one my friend's machine.

Bios functions normally, both on desktop and laptop. HD shows up, no problem there.
FFW_Rude
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France10201 Posts
December 22 2016 10:45 GMT
#12006
On December 22 2016 12:55 XenOmega wrote:
Yeah, I also get it on my machine.

Google suggested pressing F8 to activate the system recover or something. F8 doesn't work, neither on my machine, neither one my friend's machine.

Bios functions normally, both on desktop and laptop. HD shows up, no problem there.


It's not always F8 i think. Might try to press "TAB" at the start to bring up the post (it masks every logo or graphic startup) and see if you see a message with something else than F8 ?

Maybe i'msaying BS but i remember having F2 on my laptop.
#1 KT Rolster fanboy. KT BEST KT ! Hail to KT playoffs Zergs ! Unofficial french translator for SlayerS_`Boxer` biography "Crazy as me".
FFW_Rude
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France10201 Posts
December 24 2016 11:29 GMT
#12007
Hello me again with a different problem.

I just installed a W7 on my server (virtual machine) and the partition is 64GB. After installing, i have only 20GB of freedisk space. That would tell me that W7 is taking 40GB !

Weird thing is... i just reinstalled because i only had 32GB of disk and windows was taking 30... So after a fresh install windows is 14GB larger.

But the thing is that when i show all folder and Properties it. It says that it's only 11GB large. So it seems i have 33Gb taken by something somewhere but... Where ?
#1 KT Rolster fanboy. KT BEST KT ! Hail to KT playoffs Zergs ! Unofficial french translator for SlayerS_`Boxer` biography "Crazy as me".
OsaX Nymloth
Profile Joined March 2013
Poland3244 Posts
December 24 2016 13:52 GMT
#12008
On December 24 2016 20:29 FFW_Rude wrote:
Hello me again with a different problem.

I just installed a W7 on my server (virtual machine) and the partition is 64GB. After installing, i have only 20GB of freedisk space. That would tell me that W7 is taking 40GB !

Weird thing is... i just reinstalled because i only had 32GB of disk and windows was taking 30... So after a fresh install windows is 14GB larger.

But the thing is that when i show all folder and Properties it. It says that it's only 11GB large. So it seems i have 33Gb taken by something somewhere but... Where ?


Download and check yourself: http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/treesize-free-portable

Very handy app. Once I was wondering why my C: drive suddenly is full. Turned out one of Firefox files swelled to over 20GB. Without that app I would be looking for it forever.
Twitter: @osaxnymloth
FFW_Rude
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France10201 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-12-24 17:44:04
December 24 2016 17:43 GMT
#12009
On December 24 2016 22:52 OsaX Nymloth wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 24 2016 20:29 FFW_Rude wrote:
Hello me again with a different problem.

I just installed a W7 on my server (virtual machine) and the partition is 64GB. After installing, i have only 20GB of freedisk space. That would tell me that W7 is taking 40GB !

Weird thing is... i just reinstalled because i only had 32GB of disk and windows was taking 30... So after a fresh install windows is 14GB larger.

But the thing is that when i show all folder and Properties it. It says that it's only 11GB large. So it seems i have 33Gb taken by something somewhere but... Where ?


Download and check yourself: http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/treesize-free-portable

Very handy app. Once I was wondering why my C: drive suddenly is full. Turned out one of Firefox files swelled to over 20GB. Without that app I would be looking for it forever.


Oh thx. I have two files "pagefile.sys" and hiberfil.sys that weight 35Gb. Can i delete them ?

I think pagefile.sys is some kind of swap (i have 20Gb of ram on the VM) but the other one... no idea.
#1 KT Rolster fanboy. KT BEST KT ! Hail to KT playoffs Zergs ! Unofficial french translator for SlayerS_`Boxer` biography "Crazy as me".
Ropid
Profile Joined March 2009
Germany3557 Posts
December 24 2016 18:19 GMT
#12010
You get rid of hiberfil.sys by running this command here:

powercfg /h off


You need to do this from a command prompt window that you've run as Administrator.

About the size of pagefile.sys, you can configure this somewhere in the window that opens when you click on "advanced system settings" on the left side of the "System" control panel screen. You can set it to a very small minimum size, and you can limit its max size. You can also completely disable it if you want to.
"My goal is to replace my soul with coffee and become immortal."
Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17274 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-12-24 18:32:13
December 24 2016 18:31 GMT
#12011
FYI a page file is used to temporarily store things when your RAM either is fully used or the data hasn't been accessed in awhile. Basically an extension of RAM.

The hibernate file stores your machine's state when your PC enters hibernate mode. This lets it reopen to where you left it instead of being a fresh boot up. I believe the space is pre-allocated to guarantee its availability.
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FFW_Rude
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France10201 Posts
December 24 2016 18:37 GMT
#12012
Oh ok so basicly, disable the swap.

@Ropid. Does this command prevent the file to come back ?
#1 KT Rolster fanboy. KT BEST KT ! Hail to KT playoffs Zergs ! Unofficial french translator for SlayerS_`Boxer` biography "Crazy as me".
Ropid
Profile Joined March 2009
Germany3557 Posts
December 24 2016 18:45 GMT
#12013
Yes, the command disables the hibernation feature. If you need it back in the future, you have to run "powercfg /h on".
"My goal is to replace my soul with coffee and become immortal."
Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17274 Posts
December 24 2016 19:25 GMT
#12014
You can also turn it on and off in the Control Panel > Power Options.
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FFW_Rude
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France10201 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-12-24 19:56:26
December 24 2016 19:56 GMT
#12015
Oh ok thx everyone That did the trick. I have no use for those features since i'm using this for a space engineers server

Now to pass christmas pull my hair out with endian config :p
#1 KT Rolster fanboy. KT BEST KT ! Hail to KT playoffs Zergs ! Unofficial french translator for SlayerS_`Boxer` biography "Crazy as me".
NEEDZMOAR
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
Sweden1277 Posts
December 26 2016 14:56 GMT
#12016
On December 22 2016 06:19 R1CH wrote:
Turning off vsync runs the game as fast as possible. This means either your GPU or CPU is maxed out.


Thanks! But how come its fine with way more (on paper) demanding games?
Karis Vas Ryaar
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States4396 Posts
December 26 2016 20:42 GMT
#12017
any good free audio recording software?
"I'm not agreeing with a lot of Virus's decisions but they are working" Tasteless. Ipl4 Losers Bracket Virus 2-1 Maru
OsaX Nymloth
Profile Joined March 2013
Poland3244 Posts
December 26 2016 22:20 GMT
#12018
Audacity?
Twitter: @osaxnymloth
Karis Vas Ryaar
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States4396 Posts
December 30 2016 19:56 GMT
#12019
On December 27 2016 07:20 OsaX Nymloth wrote:
Audacity?



thanks.
"I'm not agreeing with a lot of Virus's decisions but they are working" Tasteless. Ipl4 Losers Bracket Virus 2-1 Maru
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20323 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-12-31 03:13:59
December 31 2016 03:08 GMT
#12020
On December 26 2016 23:56 NEEDZMOAR wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 22 2016 06:19 R1CH wrote:
Turning off vsync runs the game as fast as possible. This means either your GPU or CPU is maxed out.


Thanks! But how come its fine with way more (on paper) demanding games?


Different games load hardware in different ways and very rarely max every CPU core and graphics card at the same time

Some games will be CPU limited at times with high load on a few cores, low load on the rest. At other times it might be CPU limit with high load across many cores, maybe GPU limited, etc.

Even when load percentages read the same, hardware can be utilized in different ways under the hood which affects power draw and temperature. WoW can draw unusually high amounts of GPU power though i'm not sure how many engine versions that goes back to.

If you have no FPS limit then WoW will keep going until your graphics card is busy 100% of the time or you have a CPU thread busy 100% of the time - doesn't get any more demanding than that. It's nice to have CPU cooling set up for this to never cause a bothersome increase in noise (100% load on one core will actually run a lot cooler than 100% across all cores, so if this triggers cooling issues then they would be a lot worse if you applied load across more cores) and to have a GPU clock / fan profile that works for it, too, many games will pin GPU @100% for hours and i have one specifically for WoW's high power draw.
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
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