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Craton
United States17271 Posts
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Argonautppew
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Ropid
Germany3557 Posts
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Emnjay808
United States10660 Posts
pretty sure i got a malware or virus of some sort. chrome wont launch at all. i ran into this problem before and i just renamed my application to "chrome1" and it started working again. but i really wanna try and find the root of the problem. i tried using chrome repair tool and reinstalling it. also used win10 scanner and it found nothing, even with the custom search on the application folder. anyone got a solution? | ||
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Craton
United States17271 Posts
Afterwards I'd just nuke all the Chrome folders on your machine if the uninstaller can't remove them and then install it fresh. C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome %localappdata%\Google\Chrome | ||
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Dingodile
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Tephus
Cascadia1753 Posts
A repeater will also add some small amount of ping. | ||
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MadJack
Peru357 Posts
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29 fps
United States5724 Posts
I've looked everywhere for information, but all I could find was examples of graphics cards and other hardware. Thanks! | ||
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Craton
United States17271 Posts
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evilfatsh1t
Australia8764 Posts
i moved house recently and i have a massive area of empty wall space about 4m from my bed and above my desk. im thinking of wall mounting a large monitor/tv up there and hooking it to the computer so i can watch stuff on it. i doubt ill use it for games or anything, just to watch things while im lying in bed. i dont think ive seen a monitor that is of appropriate size which means if have to start looking at tvs but i understand they dont work exactly the same way? what do i need to look out for? ill be getting a new computer as well so if i need a massively upgraded graphics card it isnt something i cant consider | ||
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Craton
United States17271 Posts
I'm not sure why you think they don't work the same. Amusingly this post was written from a laptop attached to a TV  | ||
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evilfatsh1t
Australia8764 Posts
how would a normal 40" tv display when connected to a computer? would a 1920x1080 resolution still be as crisp on a moderately sized screen? if i wanted a higher resolution on the tv (eg. uhd) i need a high end graphics card yes? | ||
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Simberto
Germany11640 Posts
However, if the TV is bigger, that means that there are less pixels per area obviously, since you have the same amount of pixels, but a larger area. If it is 4m from you, it honestly doesn't matter. If you sit right in front of a 70" 1080 TV, you will notice the bigger pixel than from the same distance on a 27" monitor. (If you want to go at it mathematically, the important thing is what angle a pixel covers from your watching position. So to estimate how something looks, calculate Monitor Diagonal/(distance to you*pixel amount). The smaller the number, the better. Compare it to stuff that you are used to and find ok). If you have a 1440p or 4k TV, once again the requirements to your hardware will be exactly the same as with a 1440p or 4k monitor. The main problem with TVs for gaming, is that they react slower to images. This means that you see the exact same stuff you would see on a monitor, but slightly later. Which feels like input lag to you. That is usually only a problem if you do high speed stuff. If you want to casually play something turn based on it, it won't be a problem. If you want to play competetive CS or Quake or whatever, you really want to avoid that input lag. If you don't really game a lot, it doesn't matter at all. | ||
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Craton
United States17271 Posts
The resolution of whatever TV/monitor is what's going to matter, so yes a "4K" UHD screen will be more taxing. Specifically, it will render a little over 4x more pixels than a 1080p monitor per second. A typical screen will output 60 frames per second. For reference: 1920x1080 = 1080p 4096x2160 = 2160p (more commonly known as "4K" or "4K UHD" or just "UHD") Calculate the total number of pixels by multiplying the two numbers and you'll get ~2 million for 1080p and ~9 million for "4K." If you happen to get a TV with a higher framerate (say 120fps) then the load would be further doubled. That said I don't really recommend that, since we're generally used to the judder and watching tv/movies at that framerate tends to look weird (google the Soap Opera effect). Also recorded video is essentially never >60fps and usually not even >30fps. Anyway, even with "4K" having 4x the load, simple things like watching video aren't particularly demanding. I do it just fine on my laptop (on a 1080p60 TV) with just the integrated IGPU (Dell XPS 12 - Intel Core i7 (4th Gen) 4500U / 1.8 GHz). Based on your requirements, you'll potentially be fine on integrated graphics, but maybe need a low end card. And as a frame challenge: consider if you even want to use a PC here. If you just want to watch things, a set top box (Roku, Amazon Fire, Chromecast + phone/tablet, etc.) may be sufficient. I have a Roku and it covers the major video sources (YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, Twitch). It doesn't support Afreeca, however. It also can't make use of adblockers, so the ads are very instrusive and pervasive. | ||
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evilfatsh1t
Australia8764 Posts
anyways thx for the responses. ill just find any tv thats a suitable size and plug it in with hdmi. hdmi is the right cable i should be using right? | ||
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Craton
United States17271 Posts
If you go 4K then HDMI won't be sufficient unless the PC and TV support HDMI 2.0 from the looks of it. I initially thought HDMI 1.4 would be enough, but it looks like that can only manage 4K at 24FPS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#Version_1.4 In the case of 4K TVs, the TV usually comes with HDMI 2.0+, but your PC might not. The spec sheet for your motherboard (if integrated graphics) or graphics card should tell you which version it has. DisplayPort, HDMI 2.0 or later, and DVI Dual-Link will all have enough bandwidth for 4K. For the record Mini-DisplayPort is functionally equivalent to DisplayPort and ThunderBolt is just an extension of Mini-DisplayPort, so those will also work. My personal advice on TVs is to go 1080p60. They're the biggest marketshare, which means the best selection of options and prices. You don't really get much out of 4K picture when you're sufficiently far away and with TVs you usually sit 2x or more farther than the optimal viewing distance. Combine that with the fact that there isn't much native 4K media available (almost no streams, some YouTube content, some DVD/Bluray content, TV content broadcasts at mostly 720p30/1080i30, etc.) --- As for registering a set top box account, it's not a big deal. In the case of Roku you just make a free account and link it so you can add "channels" (they're more like Apps, e.g. YouTube). You don't have to give CC info or anything. For external media you can set up a Plex server (you might want to do this even if you choose to go with a PC -- it makes sharing media on a network convenient). | ||
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Simberto
Germany11640 Posts
My Laptop sometimes refuses to connect to some public networks. It doesn't happen with all networks, it doesn't only happen with networks that require a login, and other devices have no problem connecting to the same network (usually my phone and/or my girlfriends tablet are fine. The message i get is "No connection to this network possible" (In German due to german OS), which could not be less informative. So far, it has happenend at the university eduroam network, but only sometimes. Sometimes it is fine. I have yet to figure out when or why it is fine and when it isn't. The password i enter for the network is correct. Meanwhile, the public network that seems to be emitting from the same hardware here in the university is working fine. It has also happenend in the ICE train, and in one random belgian train. In all cases, my phone had no problems connecting. It has worked fine in one overland bus. I have no idea where to even start looking for the problem or what information to gather, and a google for the exact wording of the error message did not lead to anything useful. Hardware: Asus Transformer Book T100TA Windows 10 Funny aside: Apparently some organisation in Germany has decided that TL is 18+, and thus i can not access it from that public network which seems to limit your access to some pages. I have done my duty and disputed that assessment on their page. | ||
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OsaX Nymloth
Poland3244 Posts
Link: http://www.rizonesoft.com/downloads/complete-internet-repair/ Typical: update driver for your WLAN card? Or this could be some random bs from W10~~ | ||
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Simberto
Germany11640 Posts
However, the problem seems to have something to do with how the known networks are saved on my laptop. When i delete the known networks, and add them again, it usually works for a few logins. | ||
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