I hear what you're saying but don't forget that these second-gen Ryzen's aren't hitting 4.3+ GHz either. That's a single-core, temporary peak boost speed, which we won't know more about until after the reviews. The highest all-core base clock that is comparable to an overclocked first-gen Ryzen is ...
Surprised that is all you are getting, your GPU is much more powerful than my 7850 2GB... What sort of res are you pushing out? I've been playing PS2 for roughly 4 years, sad to say almost exclusively. I just can't get into games because of time constraints with work and kids. I've done a lot of fi...
CPU performance has been degrading again and really hates AMD; 50 in the biggest fights is a bit of a tall order, but with 3200C14 and shadows turned down it should be close. Disregard that, turns out model quality is the trick (animation LOD distances). Of course none of my testing caught that (un...
At least on an R7 1700 / ASRock AB350 Gaming-ITX/ac / 1.0.0.6b, it trains every time (and always has), regardless of RAM settings. POST takes maybe 15 seconds at 2666C14, 10 seconds at 2133 JEDEC, and could be 30+ if pushing the limits. 1st boot is no different, and 3x fail to boot (settable to 2x o...
I'm stuck on a GTX 960 at the moment, so can't Freesync to test it. I do have one idea - if smoothing isn't turned on (checkbox in graphics settings), certain arrangements of physics objects in the game can cause some very heavy microstutter (alternating slow/fast frames) for nearby players. I've se...
At this point we have just been playing Planetside 2 and Path of Exile. Once the GPU market is somewhat normal and we can get with more punch we will probably start playing Ark Survival again and a few other resource intensive games. I wouldn't say we have a target frames either at this point, just...
In reality, low latency benefits absolutely everything, all the time. Bandwidth only matters if there is a lack of it, in which case the difference between 3000 and 3200 is going to be negligible. Rarely is there a lack of bandwidth for a program as a whole, but individual algorithms may easily be ...
Pretty sure the memory training runs on every boot regardless of settings, it just takes a lot longer when the memory is on the edge. Assuming Windows' boot isn't taking too much of that 64 seconds, it doesn't sound very happy at all with whatever you've got dialled in. What's the memory kit you're ...
I don't know anything about the clock reporting or remember which (if any) Threadrippers have the thermal offset, but the thermal offset (where it exists) goes the other direction. If it has it, ~75C reported translates to ~55C actual. Given the OC, 75C seems likely to be the legitimate number. You ...
People have very strong expectations about what MS can and can't do with the non-UWP environment. If nothing else, there's a ton of legacy software there that they don't want to throw under the bus (and there'd be serious uproar if they somehow did). With UWP though, not only do people have much wea...
Games do seem more potentially troubled by MS shenanigans than average software, since they're less able to run in a browser, but the non-UWP Windows environment is going nowhere fast and supports pretty much everything, including both DX12 and Vulkan. If they get serious about putting non-UWP stuff...
On performance, trying something is dirt cheap (even cheaper than checking retcodes IIUC), and the slow part is when an exception actually gets thrown.
As far as I know, those games are single player games. CPU is stressed out and effects overall performance on multi-player scenerios. Espacially, something like 64 player Battlefield 1 map shows extreme load on CPU's and creates stutters. I'm quite sure it's the CPU because same amount of RAM and s...
That does all look normal. It isn't having the problem at the moment though, right? There not being much to debug at the moment, I guess it's just an idea to stow in case it flares up again.
IIRC we were on the drivers tab, looking at execution times (sorted by the max execution time column).
Maybe LatencyMon could reveal something interesting? It gives a lot of useful info beyond just the DPC latency numbers. I debugged a really weird one for a friend lately - a 7700HQ+1050Ti machine had ceased being able to hold 60 fps in Rainbow Six Siege sometime in January, going more like 20-30 fps...
Temperature and voltage reporting is pretty minor in the grand scheme of things, and it's the only Linux-specific issue I've run into with my R7 1700. The real test is their Linux graphics drivers, and AMDGPU is competent at this point.
In that case I'll just stick with C++ and a few suitable scripting languages. Maybe take a look at the Godot gaming engine? Something I haven't seen mentioned lately is that once you can program in one language, learning others is comparatively very easy. It doesn't even matter as much as you might...
Actually Manjaro doesn't require me to reboot after every update unless the kernel/device drivers has been updated. AFAIK all Linux package managers do all their work with the system active and rely on some Linux filesystem magic to keep everything working smoothly until the next reboot. Files alre...
On Arch, $DEITY help you if you don't think to check the webpage before installing updates with pacman. Pacman thinks nothing of installing an update that will break your system if you don't do exactly the steps detailed on Arch's front page, nor (last I used it) will it even notify you "hey, ...
BTW, whm1974, I have a Manjaro VM (along with various Fedoras and Ubuntus and others) and to my eyes, it looks a lot like macOS. There are FAR more Manjaro updates to deal with than Windows 10 updates (like, thousands more). There is maybe one minor Win10 update a month, maybe. The UI is coming alo...
Ned can back me up here, but that's not how card data works (anymore). To be PCI compliant, most stuff these days is tokenized and little to no card data is ACTUALLY saved within the system. Data is encrypted in a token that stays in the system for a prespecified amount of time so they can do refun...
Quick question: How many of those bitching about Win10 telemetry/privacy use debit cards or NFC phone payment methods out in meatspace? Conversely, how many of you solely use cash? We all shed megabytes of data on a daily basis, 99.999% of which is completely out of our control. One's choice in OS ...
You can avoid 100% of all Windows issues by simply not doing updates. If you're only using it for a Wintendo it doesn't matter anyway. In Pro and Enterprise versions there's a policy called "Configure Automatic Updates" that you can simply set to Disabled. I use Portable Update to install...
Speaking of launchers, I bind the most frequently used applications to global hotkeys. WinKey+Alt+W = web browser, WinKey+Alt+F = file manager (just to give a couple of examples). Applications which get used fairly regularly but less frequently (e.g. Audacity, GIMP, K3B...) have launcher buttons on...
But isn't that why Microsoft is actually releasing a tool that will allow you to look at the telemetry that you are sending back to them, since they seem pretty commited to be transparant about the whole thing. In my world, there are much worse things out there to be worried about. And I'm working ...
I also configured Ctrl+WinKey+Alt+T to launch a double-width terminal window, since I found myself doing the "launch terminal window, then resize to make it approximately double-width" thing really frequently, There's a good idea I may have to try! For short-lived or launcher terminals, 8...
Yes, but it isn't nearly as bad as in Win 8.0. At this point it's mostly just a bit of benign multiple-personality UI, which you're probably already used to as a Linux user. The store and other aspects like that are mostly avoidable.
