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Simberto
Germany11638 Posts
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RaFox17
Finland4581 Posts
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Aveng3r
United States2411 Posts
I waited until 1:30 last night to play the new call of duty and eventually gave up. How can a company that has done like 5 of these midnight launches now be so unprepared that their servers crash for that long? | ||
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Craton
United States17269 Posts
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felisconcolori
United States6168 Posts
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Craton
United States17269 Posts
Basically there's a ~3 year gap between each studio releasing a title. There's also new code every time that needs testing, differences in infrastructures, potentially brand new gameplay engines, and just many things being different in the IT world after 3 years. Obviously the studios do load testing, but it's pretty hard to actually test all the possible combinations of things. Typically this is one of the big factors in why games will do a brief open beta shortly before release. It gives them a lot real testing and a chance to fix any lingering issues ahead of time. But even then there's no substitute for peak, simultaneous load (which is also why many games release midweek at a late-morning hour, as it means lower load and a better chance of detecting and fixing issues before it cripples things). I know one of the developers on one of the COD releases from a few years back. They basically worked crazy hours leading up to the release (6-7 days a week, 12+ hours a day), which continued for a month or three after the release while they really did work around the clock to churn out rapid fixes and get things stable. And that's with years of lead time developing and testing things. | ||
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james1024
118 Posts
iccup mcalauncher in 2017... where are my black bars??? please help... tried everything. really want the black bars on the side. | ||
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R1CH
Netherlands10341 Posts
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james1024
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KOFgokuon
United States14899 Posts
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OsaX Nymloth
Poland3244 Posts
Other thing would be running memtest for at least 2 full passes to make sure it's not RAM problem. | ||
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Simberto
Germany11638 Posts
If the second is the case, then my guess would be that your monitor takes longer to start up for some reason and the whole thing has nothing to do with your PC. | ||
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KOFgokuon
United States14899 Posts
*edit* all hard drives came back like 99-100% healthy (depending on the drive), ram scans also checked out ok Might be an issue with my video card i'll play around with removing some of my monitors (currently have 2 DVI-D and one HDMI HDTV plugged in) and see if that helps | ||
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FFW_Rude
France10201 Posts
I wanted to add some RAM in one of my computer but the RAM i have inside isn't sold anymore. It was some DDR3 HyperX Predator 2666Mhz. Now i want to add another 8Gb but... What to choose ? What i have : https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B008YAI6IQ/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 (it's in French) Also i want to change an HD6970 but i don't know what to get... Radeon seems far behind so... 1050ti 4gb ? | ||
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Deleuze
United Kingdom2102 Posts
On November 22 2017 22:35 FFW_Rude wrote: Hello, I wanted to add some RAM in one of my computer but the RAM i have inside isn't sold anymore. It was some DDR3 HyperX Predator 2666Mhz. Now i want to add another 8Gb but... What to choose ? What i have : https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B008YAI6IQ/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 (it's in French) Also i want to change an HD6970 but i don't know what to get... Radeon seems far behind so... 1050ti 4gb ? Do you know what motherboard you have? | ||
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FFW_Rude
France10201 Posts
Yes of course, it's an Asus Z-97K. Why ? | ||
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FiWiFaKi
Canada9859 Posts
My twitch keeps buffering every 20 seconds~, when viewing 1080p streams, seems like when it's 5Mbps+ stream. It's only really been happening to me for the last 3 days or so. I have Telus 50 internet, it's very solid, I always get 50-60MBps download, and no other service buffers, for example when I watch 8k youtube videos and look at my task manager, I see that my internet is working hard at 50-55Mbps the whole time, it's only with twitch. At first I thought maybe my wifi drivers aren't working properly, or my network adapter needs to be switched, but when I looked into it, no it's not. The transfer rate vs time graph is very characteristic for live streams, with peaks and troughs every 3 seconds or, as it's a constant feed of say 6Mbps, where it'll send me the chunks in like 3 seconds increments, and then it takes my computer say 0.5 seconds to download the packets, and then the download speed slows down again. So really all I can think of now is either twitch servers are not able to keep up (but when I asked if anyone else in chat was experiencing stuttering, I didn't hear anyone else say yes). I'm not sure exactly how the servers are laid out, maybe it's very geographic, and only this very specific server in Canada cannot keep up. The other thing I can think of is that my internet connection being throttled by my ISP for twitch? How can I check to find out which of those two it is? I tried on my brothers computer, and he had the exact same issue. | ||
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FiWiFaKi
Canada9859 Posts
On November 22 2017 22:49 FFW_Rude wrote: Yes of course, it's an Asus Z-97K. Why ? RAM is a very black and white thing. A 64 bit sending a signal at a specific clock, with a few tens of timings that specify the time between sending the information and being able to access it again. The bad thing is your RAM has rather obscure speeds, voltages (yours is 1.65V), and timings... Not some generic 1333-1866Mhz RAM. If you found a RAM with the same voltage, frequency, CAS timings, then it'll most likely work (heck, pretty much all DDR3 RAM was created by two different companies and rebranded - Samsung and SK Hynix), so I'd buy it from a local place, 95% chance it works. And upon further inspection, according to here: https://www.hyperxgaming.com/us/memory/predator-ddr3?Speed=2666MHz&Total (Kit) Capacity=8GB&Voltage=1.65V&Channel Config=Dual It says that the 2666MHz RAM is supported in only 8GB capacity, so even if you found it, it probably wont work. The issue you run into is as you increase RAM capacity your speeds decrease, because the additional transistors are further away from the CPU, and therefore the latency increases (quantum mechanic limitations to real signal propagation), and since your didn't change the CAS timings, the RAM just becomes unstable. With this RAM, I think best case scenario you'll have to down clock it to 1866Mhz and lower the voltage to 1.5V, and manually adjust every primary and secondary timing until it matches your new stick. But first you should check if all of these setting are available to you in your BIOS. If they are, try changing your RAM to those settings and see if you achieve stability. If you're stable, then proceed with buying a new stick. Hopefully the above paragraph also explained why we need to know the motherboard, because that tells us about your BIOS, and allows us to look what settings can be modified. A lot of basic mobos don't let you play with timings or voltages. edit: As for what Graphics card to get... My recommendation would be to spend a little bit more and get a GTX1060 (I'd recommend going for the 6GB, but the 3GB model is alright if you plan to stick with 1080p gaming for the foreseeable future, depends in the price difference due to regional pricing if you're purchasing in France). It's a big step up in a generation that made great progress, it'll last you a while. AMD prices are still inflated due to cryptocurrency mining, if they were both being sold at MSRP, their performance/dollar is about the same, but the AMD cards use significantly more power (so also more heat and more noise to cool it). | ||
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Ropid
Germany3557 Posts
There's a tool named "streamlink" that can connect to Twitch video streams bypassing the normal website. That tool can be tweaked to use several connections at the same time to download video. That introduces delay, but it might manage to do smooth playback for you. On top of that streamlink thingy, which is a command line tool, there's a graphical tool to make it nicer to use named "Streamlink Twitch GUI". Here's the links to that GUI tool: https://streamlink.github.io/streamlink-twitch-gui/ https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink-twitch-gui Here's the download for "streamlink": https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/releases The guide on how to use the stuff is here: https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink-twitch-gui/wiki | ||
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FFW_Rude
France10201 Posts
On November 23 2017 14:13 FiWiFaKi wrote: RAM is a very black and white thing. A 64 bit sending a signal at a specific clock, with a few tens of timings that specify the time between sending the information and being able to access it again. The bad thing is your RAM has rather obscure speeds, voltages (yours is 1.65V), and timings... Not some generic 1333-1866Mhz RAM. If you found a RAM with the same voltage, frequency, CAS timings, then it'll most likely work (heck, pretty much all DDR3 RAM was created by two different companies and rebranded - Samsung and SK Hynix), so I'd buy it from a local place, 95% chance it works. And upon further inspection, according to here: https://www.hyperxgaming.com/us/memory/predator-ddr3?Speed=2666MHz&Total (Kit) Capacity=8GB&Voltage=1.65V&Channel Config=Dual It says that the 2666MHz RAM is supported in only 8GB capacity, so even if you found it, it probably wont work. The issue you run into is as you increase RAM capacity your speeds decrease, because the additional transistors are further away from the CPU, and therefore the latency increases (quantum mechanic limitations to real signal propagation), and since your didn't change the CAS timings, the RAM just becomes unstable. With this RAM, I think best case scenario you'll have to down clock it to 1866Mhz and lower the voltage to 1.5V, and manually adjust every primary and secondary timing until it matches your new stick. But first you should check if all of these setting are available to you in your BIOS. If they are, try changing your RAM to those settings and see if you achieve stability. If you're stable, then proceed with buying a new stick. Hopefully the above paragraph also explained why we need to know the motherboard, because that tells us about your BIOS, and allows us to look what settings can be modified. A lot of basic mobos don't let you play with timings or voltages. edit: As for what Graphics card to get... My recommendation would be to spend a little bit more and get a GTX1060 (I'd recommend going for the 6GB, but the 3GB model is alright if you plan to stick with 1080p gaming for the foreseeable future, depends in the price difference due to regional pricing if you're purchasing in France). It's a big step up in a generation that made great progress, it'll last you a while. AMD prices are still inflated due to cryptocurrency mining, if they were both being sold at MSRP, their performance/dollar is about the same, but the AMD cards use significantly more power (so also more heat and more noise to cool it). Hello. Thank you for your answer. Never buying OC RAM again then... it's for a gift so... i can't even fiddle the computer or she'll just find out... As for the GTX 1060.. Well "a little more" as you say is 130€ turning into 350€ (which is more than double). If i buy this this will be her only gift for Christmas so i don't know... She mainly plays WoW and 7DTD. (well she plays witcher 3 too from time to time which is where the 6970 starts caughing). Oh and. Proc is 4690K (stock. I know i know but for some reason it was cheaper than the normal). Would 1060ti Bottleneck hard ? Or is that proc enough ? | ||
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