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Post by jgf on Nov 9, 2022 17:28:44 GMT
Congrats! My 2008 Dell studio XPS tower is still holding together with its Intel Core i7 CPU 880 @ 2.80GHz. Did upgrade the graphics card a while back to a Radeon RX 580. With 854 active mods, the game crashes about every hour or two, but that's a trade-off I'm willing to make. Get around 40-60 fps, depending. Ah, did you learn nothing from Morrowind, lol. Well known that once you start racking up the mods TES games are good for about an hour or so before CTD (must be some inherent memory management flaw); thought of putting my chess timer by the monitor, when it rings do a complete save (never a quicksave), exit to desktop, then restart. Forgot all about that the last time I played ...two hours of drudge work - stashing loot at our headquarters, wandering around selling other loot, making the rounds of my homes to ascertain they were all well stocked with food, drinks, arrows, potions - back home, one final trip to a merchant, and CTD when I clicked on his door. Haven't the heart to return, knowing all that drudge work still awaits. FWIW, my so-called gaming rig is a 2009 era ASUS mobo with Athlon 64x4 3.0gig and GTX950 vid card (currently scattered over kitchen table getting new PS, SSD, HD, and optical drive); so am using a 2007 emachines (given to me in 2009) that's on its fourth PS, third vid card, second cpu, and second optical drive. But given that most of hte games I currently enjoy also date from that period, or earlier, I'm satisfied (especially when looking at prices of modern components - $600 for a cpu, $1800 for a vid card).
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Post by jgf on Nov 9, 2022 17:33:07 GMT
Nope, my nom de plume stands for Aminoacyl TransferRNA Synthetase. I use two 1920x1200 monitors, so 3840x1200 for this one. Lol, I have always wondered about that; couldn't decipher what language that name might be ...much less how to pronounce it.
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Post by Sniffles on Nov 9, 2022 20:10:18 GMT
Nope, my nom de plume stands for Aminoacyl TransferRNA Synthetase. I use two 1920x1200 monitors, so 3840x1200 for this one. How does the two monitors work? Two graphics cards? Requires two of those video card slots?
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Post by Aatrnasyn on Nov 9, 2022 22:41:26 GMT
One video card slot, one graphic card, but the card has both a DVI-D and and a display port output, and the two monitors each allow for a variety of inputs.
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Post by Sniffles on Nov 11, 2022 15:19:36 GMT
One video card slot, one graphic card, but the card has both a DVI-D and and a display port output, and the two monitors each allow for a variety of inputs. A question. I'm adding 8 GB more memory for 16 total. What improvements will this make? Will I be able to switch from virtual memory and save wear and tear on my SSDs?
So with my outputs on the video card which say the same thing, a DP 1.4, a DVI-D and a HDMI port it can run two monitors at once? And they both will suck eggs because the card has to work twice as hard?
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Post by Aatrnasyn on Nov 11, 2022 17:07:38 GMT
If your motherboard has 4 memory card slots, and you have your existing 8 GB RAM in one card slot, make sure you add your new 8GB to the RAM slot that will let the PC to take advantage of DDR (double data rate) data transfer. And your motherboard has to support 16 GB's of RAM, of course. Egg-sucking results will depend more on your video card's potency, I would think.
The G3D mark rating for my video card is a little better than the one you have, but not by much, and my GPU/CPU combo with 2 monitors handles 2x1920x1200 output quite well (and I only have 8GB RAM)
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Post by jgf on Nov 11, 2022 18:08:05 GMT
You always need a swap file, regardless of the amount of RAM; but more RAM means less swap file usage so the swap file can be much smaller. Some software checks for a swap file on the C drive and will not run if one isn't found there ...even if there is a huge swap file elsewhere. And windows uses the swap file for writing memory dumps. With 16g RAM a swap file of 200-400meg on the C drive should be sufficient; but not a dynamic file, specify the size (same min and max) or windows will constantly scatter files all over the drive.
On older systems, 2gig RAM or less, I put a 200meg swap file on the C drive and created a 4 gig partition on a different drive for a dynamic swap file, now all the file swapping takes place on a different drive than the OS.
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Post by Sniffles on Nov 12, 2022 3:50:12 GMT
You always need a swap file, regardless of the amount of RAM; but more RAM means less swap file usage so the swap file can be much smaller. Some software checks for a swap file on the C drive and will not run if one isn't found there ...even if there is a huge swap file elsewhere. And windows uses the swap file for writing memory dumps. With 16g RAM a swap file of 200-400meg on the C drive should be sufficient; but not a dynamic file, specify the size (same min and max) or windows will constantly scatter files all over the drive. On older systems, 2gig RAM or less, I put a 200meg swap file on the C drive and created a 4 gig partition on a different drive for a dynamic swap file, now all the file swapping takes place on a different drive than the OS. So best bet would be a partition on a SSD dedicated to virtual memory and very large so it isn't re-using the same bits over and over. I'm going to take my new Data drive and make a 20 GB partition just for the virtual. I keep all my static files, programs, on a different drive than the C: and only let it get filled 2/3rds full or so. So it's full and I'm putting in another SSD as Data2.
@aatmasyn Where my video card is abysmal is the memory clock. About 850. My old GTX 750 has twice that. Where this is noticeable is watching Youtube videos as it stumbles slowly along trying to access the memory. Frame Drops R Us. It's not as bad now with the new CPU.
I have two 4GB RAM and am going to install two more identical to those in slots 3 and 4. I assume the BIOS or OS will know how to handle the DDR stuff, yes?
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Post by Aatrnasyn on Nov 12, 2022 5:23:46 GMT
Sounds good. Next time, I think you get the DDR advantage if you install in slots 1 & 3, or 2 & 4. So with the new RAM sticks, you should not only get that additional RAM, but also get faster (DDR) access. (Hope I've got that right.)
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Post by Sniffles on Nov 12, 2022 8:18:56 GMT
Sounds good. Next time, I think you get the DDR advantage if you install in slots 1 & 3, or 2 & 4. So with the new RAM sticks, you should not only get that additional RAM, but also get faster (DDR) access. (Hope I've got that right.) I correct myself, they are in slots 1 and 3. The DDR confuses me. Do the two pairs each get it?
And why do I now have the beefiest zoomiest computer I've ever had and it is still bottom of the line slowest horse in the stable?
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Post by Aatrnasyn on Nov 12, 2022 12:45:41 GMT
Both'll get the DDR adv. Send me a plane tic and I'll come check it out. My son's in-laws live in Bangkok, so don't worry, I'll have a place to crash.
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Post by jgf on Nov 12, 2022 17:37:22 GMT
Many things can bottleneck a system, a quick general test is the Windows Experience index, it will give a performance overview of cpu, graphics, memory, storage without getting highly technical - everything rated 0-10, anything rated noticeably lower than the rest is the problem. GPU-Z (https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/) gives very detailed tech data on the vid card, but also includes a simple test to show if it is kicking into the proper PCI-e modes for 3D applications (I once had a system with vid card capable of PCI-e x16 but the mobo only supported x4, greatly limiting game graphics).
Often the solution is merely a BIOS setting, registry setting, or vid card driver tweak; of course finding that is the problem.
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Post by Sniffles on Nov 12, 2022 23:19:10 GMT
Looks like my Skyrim install is trashed. Once I manage to get the game to run the Escape key takes me to a character menu. Cannot get to the load, options or settings. And my old Skyrim install is from 2013 before various patches. Just a mess. And few if any of the updates and patches are on the disk so a reinstall would be another mess.
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Post by Aatrnasyn on Nov 13, 2022 1:36:41 GMT
steamcommunity.com/app/72850/discussions/0/810921273839903596/Kozmos Aug 17, 2021 @ 12:45pm Originally posted by Scroll Thief: Go in to your skyrim folder.. C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\skyrim Remove ControlMap_Custom.txt This will reset all the controls back to default. thanx this worked for me when i accidently saved a key binding over the menu option and was really in a predicament
[Edit] Hope that helps with your issue!
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Post by Sniffles on Nov 13, 2022 6:01:59 GMT
Both'll get the DDR adv. Send me a plane tic and I'll come check it out. My son's in-laws live in Bangkok, so don't worry, I'll have a place to crash. I happen to have a plane ticket right here, providing you want a round trip from Bkk to Denver and back. And you will have to explain to Squishy why she drove almost 400 miles to pick you up instead of me. steamcommunity.com/app/72850/discussions/0/810921273839903596/Kozmos Aug 17, 2021 @ 12:45pm Originally posted by Scroll Thief: Go in to your skyrim folder.. C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\skyrim Remove ControlMap_Custom.txt This will reset all the controls back to default. thanx this worked for me when i accidently saved a key binding over the menu option and was really in a predicament [Edit] Hope that helps with your issue!
Thanks! Except I don't have Steam and it can't be used here. Blocked and it attempting to phone home goes into an endless loop. And this also kills my installing the newest Skyrim Anniversary or SE edition. I don't know a thing about firewalls and blocking which everyone around here says is necessary.
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