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Mod Releases / Re: [44.12] Meph's Fortress Defense III - 60 civs to siege, trade, steal.
« on: March 22, 2019, 11:28:28 am »
Nice, might have to add a few of these to my next game.
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General Discussion / Re: if self.isCoder(): post() #Programming Thread
« on: September 06, 2017, 08:05:04 am »Just be glad you're not using Blender and Unreal Engine 4. Because then you get to ask what setting you messed up that made your model 100x too big or small. Or causes it to explode violently when ragdolling. Or causes some animations to go nuts.
UE4 is also another Y-up engine. It's a PITA, honestly.
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Life Advice / Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« on: March 17, 2017, 01:44:17 am »
IIRC Windows doesn't schedule defragging any more, it does it continuously in the background when the PC is idle (plus is better about allocating files in the first place). I've not seen a significantly fragmented drive since the 9x days, so it seems to work.
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Life Advice / Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« on: March 16, 2017, 04:50:30 am »I'm looking at getting a newer tablet. It's kind of a toss-up between the Asus Zenpad S and the Nvidia Shield K1. I'm trusting I'll be able to plug my controller in and emulate PSP things on either, but word is that the battery drains a little quick on the Shield since it's carrying a lot of beef, relatively speaking. Is the battery drain going to happen faster as a result of having more processing power available, or is it going to drain at the same rate for either device if you're only using a moderate amount of performance.
I ask, of course, because I've got an xbox controller that I dongle into my present tablet, and, well, you only get the one port. If I'm going to kill the battery faster running Super Mario 64 on the one over the other, I'm probably going to reach for the thing with longevity.
With as tech savvy as I am, I should probably know these things.
Generally speaking, faster CPUs are less efficient, and use more power to do the same work. This is because while CPU power use increases linearly with frequency, increased frequency requires increased voltage and power usage increases with Voltage squared. So even a relatively minor change, e.g. 1.1x frequency, 1.1x Voltage would be a 1.1 * 1.1^2 = 1.331 times more power use.
Another consideration is that if the chip is larger (more cores or more graphics units) it will use more static power, that is power which is used regardless of the work it is doing.
There are many other factors to consider, but generally a slower chip will give you better battery life - if the battery is the same size!!!
... which it's not. The Zenpad's is ~75% the size of the Shield's.
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Life Advice / Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« on: March 13, 2017, 09:34:13 am »32 GB of RAM?High end workstations and mid-size servers can easily have that amount installed.
Yeah it's a high-end workstation, I'm a game dev. It's actually only half populated (8 slots, 4 filled with 8GB sticks = 32 GB). I've definitely used over 16 GB before, but 32 GB is definitely plenty.
High end servers with hundreds of GB (or over 1 TB!) of ram are awesome.
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Life Advice / Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« on: March 08, 2017, 05:11:02 am »
To be honest, a large page file is not too useful these days. You used to be recommended to have it at 2.5x your RAM size, as using the page file was expected. These days it's so slow that restricting it to the size of your ram of even half your ram or lower is much better. You always need some as there are occasional apps that insist on using the page file and will crash if it's disabled. Having it too large will just cause a misbehaving app to make your PC unusable, so it's best to set a limit so that runaway apps will crash instead.
On my work PC I have 32 GB of ram and Windows only recommends a 5 GB pagefile!
On my work PC I have 32 GB of ram and Windows only recommends a 5 GB pagefile!
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Life Advice / Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« on: March 03, 2017, 09:52:14 am »
When I try using the search, I have to explicitly choose to search the web, by default it only returns local results. I think it used to be different before the Win10 anniversary update, but that's ages ago now.
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Life Advice / Re: Jumping on the 64 Bit Bandwagon!
« on: February 20, 2017, 12:59:06 pm »Quote
Both run Win 10 perfectly.Hell I have a <£50 tablet which runs 10 well. It has an Intel Atom and 1GB of ram. 10's significantly lighter than 7. (It's still not a great tablet OS, but I digress)
The start menu is horribly cluttered by default, but you can uninstall / unpin everything just by right-clicking on them, and resize to something more minimal.
In return you gain things like the built-in game recording tools, all the UI improvements (disk stats in task manager!) and Direct-X 12 support for games.
EDIT: Oh and OS support that extends beyond just security updates. 7's now in extended support and won't be getting anything except security updates for the next 3 years (and then even that ends).
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Life Advice / Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« on: February 14, 2017, 01:37:19 am »
Personally I use a separate mic and headphones, but they are likely more substantial than you're looking for, as I use them with a desktop:
Mic: Logitech USB desk mic
Headphones: Sennheiser wireless with charging stand (I forget the model)
They are however amazing
Mic: Logitech USB desk mic
Headphones: Sennheiser wireless with charging stand (I forget the model)
They are however amazing
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Life Advice / Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« on: January 29, 2017, 03:50:18 am »
I would blame your motherboard drivers (and maybe bios), I would recommend looking for updates.
This has nothing to do with that performance option mentioned by "weird", that only affects writing and you are having trouble reading the stick.
This has nothing to do with that performance option mentioned by "weird", that only affects writing and you are having trouble reading the stick.
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Life Advice / Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« on: January 16, 2017, 01:55:36 am »
I believe the built-in media streaming (DLNA) can only stream from your media libraries. It is possible to create libraries, perhaps you could create a "Streamable" library?
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DF General Discussion / Re: Who has always used the Original ascii pack of DF?
« on: January 12, 2017, 11:44:06 am »
I used to play with graphics, but now I play in ascii, using my own tileset. Actually I mostly use a 2x2-upscaled version of it (so 12x16).
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Life Advice / Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« on: December 21, 2016, 04:45:00 am »Is there anyway to upgrade a graphics...system(?) for a laptop? Inquiring ahead because a friend/family shared Fallout 4 though they mentioned it was graphics intensive and I wondered 'ok let's try it out', and it lags a ton on this laptop of mine that has been my PC since half a decade.
PTW in this thread too! And thanks in advance!
No.
(sorry)
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Life Advice / Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« on: December 20, 2016, 12:41:04 pm »
Haha Unturned may not be AAA (I've just looked it up) but it is an early access game. These tend not to be optimised and may run even worse than an actual AAA release!
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Life Advice / Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« on: December 20, 2016, 02:09:41 am »
Intel HD is still not really capable of AAA gaming. Graphics ram has very little to do with performance, but even if you could assign more ram to it (I believe the poster above saying it has 128MB of physical ram is wrong, it certainly has never been the case in the past with Intel chips) you can never expect more than 12-20 FPS from The Division even on lowest settings (that's still much better than it used to be for Intel!). 30 FPS is generally considered to be an absolute minimum for playability of an action game (and many people would argue for higher), so that falls far short.
Sorry but if you want to play vaguely recent AAA games like The Division then you need a proper dedicated graphics chip, either nVidia or AMD. Unlike Intel, you can sometimes get away with AMD's integrated graphics, but you still have to severely compromise on settings.
Interestingly AMD and Intel appear to have signed a new tech sharing agreement which looks to have given AMD access to hyperthreading patents (though they won't call it that, their next CPU ("Ryzen") appears to be hyperthreaded) and may have given Intel access to some of AMD's integrated graphics technology in return (this is unconfirmed). There could be interesting times ahead for CPUs!
Sorry but if you want to play vaguely recent AAA games like The Division then you need a proper dedicated graphics chip, either nVidia or AMD. Unlike Intel, you can sometimes get away with AMD's integrated graphics, but you still have to severely compromise on settings.
Interestingly AMD and Intel appear to have signed a new tech sharing agreement which looks to have given AMD access to hyperthreading patents (though they won't call it that, their next CPU ("Ryzen") appears to be hyperthreaded) and may have given Intel access to some of AMD's integrated graphics technology in return (this is unconfirmed). There could be interesting times ahead for CPUs!