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Xenomorph posted:While not x64, I've had CCC 9.3 installed on my ThinkPad T43, which has a Radeon Mobility X300, an unsupported chipset. I know this is from a few pages back, but I have an HTPC with an X1900 that I would like to migrate from Vista to 7. Will this be a bag of hurt, or is it pretty easy to trick 7 into using the Vista drivers, as there is no official driver for X1900s on Windows 7? I actually traded my 8800GT for an AM2 CPU & Mobo and 8800GT because the 8800GT was so loud in a media center PC. I didn't know that ATI would stop making drivers for a decently powerful card.
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il serpente cosmico posted:Are there any downsides to using windows update to install new drivers for my 8800GTS? I'm pretty lazy when it comes to doing it manually, and it'd be nice to have windows do it for me. They will likely be a little older, if you game frequently then it is worth it to manually update your drivers, especially if a new title comes out and has a hotfix driver. Otherwise, no.
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Crotch Fruit posted:I was working on my Dad's PC and noticed that one of the other individuals he went to for tech support installed a program called TeraCopy, I had never heard of this before. I liked the interface of TeraCopy a little better than the standard windows copy dialog simply because it looked like it had a little more information. Google says that TeraCopy can copy files faster than Windows alone, but Google also says there a lot of other free copy replacement programs out there. Are any of these programs worth looking into, will they actually make much difference in speed when copying files? I love Teracopy on Windows 7 or older, but find the Windows 8 file copy utility good enough. YMMV.
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Jun 1, 2015 19:35
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:My windows directory on my desktop is up to 38gb, and that's after I nuked all the temporary files I could find. Is there a reliable way to cut down that bloat any without nuking? A fresh install is closer to 20GB, which is a huge amount of difference on a 160gb SSD. I'm in a similar position to this and doing a flatten and reinstall because my Windows director is 43GB for some reason. Being able to wipe and reload at any time also enforced good backup / offsite data storage practices.
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Jun 2, 2015 18:30
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Nintendo Kid posted:I've had the same Windows 7 install for nearly 6 years, have transferred it between 3 laptops and at least 3 different hdds/ssds and it's only this big: I wish that I could tell you what happened to my Windows 7 directory, but it's still over 40GB after running Disk Cleanup with "Clean Up System Files". All that I've really had on here is lots of games, dev environments and tools.
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Jun 2, 2015 19:31
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-Dethstryk- posted:This isn't ever clear, but you have to reboot after running that. It finishes the process then. Cleaned up system files, rebooted, it's still 43GB. Flatten & reinstall here I come. Let me see whats big in it with WinDirStat. Edit: winsxs is 16.3GB, whats in there? Then it's Installer with 9.0GB and assembly with 5.4GB.
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Jun 3, 2015 01:38
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Nintendo Kid posted:OEM copies are totally legal. Also any half-recent Windows 7 media will already be SP1. Bad news: In windows 7 and 8.1, OEM licenses are specifically not to be used by people building their own PCs. Nobody's going to call the cops on you, but it's a violation of the license and technically an unauthorized Windows install. http://www.howtogeek.com/197232/microsoft-is-misleading-consumers-with-windows-8.1-system-builder-licensing/ Edit: If you manage to track down a Windows 8 (not 8.1) OEM copy, that's fully legit for self builds. Windows Vista and earlier also allow usage of OEM licenses for homebuilt PCs.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:This is going to be another stupid question. I know 32bit systems recognize a max of 4gb of memory with 3.5 of it useable. That's all super. But does video ram from a dedicated GPU count against that cap or is it entirely separate? Read posted:Separate. I can't find a great summary, but this isn't always true. Vista and newer handle this consistently better than 32 bit XP, and games that use DX7, 8, and 9 are most likely to need to have VRAM mapped into normal system RAM. Here's somebody's effortpost about this And here's a Microsoft KB talking about how the new Windows driver model in Vista fixes this problem. If you're looking at building some type of vintage machine running XP or older, I'd really want 1GB or less VRAM. If you're just doing general computing on a modern machine, it won't matter either way. There's just one sticky spot of games that use DirectX pre-10 on 32 bit XP. Long story short: Friends don't let friends run Windows XP in 2015. Edit: Things got even better with Windows 7: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-graphics-ram-desktop-memory,7644.html I had no idea it was this bad, actually. 4GB GPUs on 32-bit XP or Vista might be outright dicey, I've never tried it. Tom's Hardware posted:The DWM (desktop window manager) is responsible for drawing the desktop with the GPU, which obviously requires the application window data in video memory. The same application window data is duplicated again in system RAM for the CPU to render independent of graphics hardware. This was inefficient obviously because of data redundancy. Twerk from Home fucked around with this message at 05:52 on Jul 21, 2015 |
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:One of the games I was going through all the trouble of building an older machine for just received its first official update in 11 years that fixes it for modern computers. What game is this? I love seeing ancient games get patches.
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Jul 21, 2015 20:27
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:Is Sourceforge safe to download from again? Weren't they going through some poo poo before where new owners were packaging malware with installers and such? My qBittorent is bugging me to update, but the built-in auto-updater takes me to sourceforge.... You could also always build qBitTorrent from source, just checkout the release you want and build it: https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent
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Jul 21, 2015 21:11
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Mak0rz posted:Nah, I just read it from a one-sentence summary on Wikipedia. So exFAT is fine for this drive, then? exFAT is the best answer for a shared non-OS drive that has to be usable between OSX and Windows.
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Jul 27, 2015 18:52
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GreenNight posted:Yeah, I did that. I meant if there was still bandwidth issues trying to download it. I'm grabbing it from MSDN @ 100MBit, their servers seem fine.
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Jul 29, 2015 19:52
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Shinjobi posted:Upgraded from Win 7 Ultimate to Win 10 Pro, I guess? What advantages does 10 Pro have over the usual? Or, better phrasing: are any extra features worth a turd? Bitlocker, Hyper-V, and remote desktop? I'm sure there's some other stuff.
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Abel Wingnut posted:what's the best video player for windows nowadays? VLC? I'm going to be one more vote for MPC-HC over VLC.
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Can somebody point me to a good media player that will automatically switch display refresh rate to match content refresh rate? Looking to avoid 3:2 pulldown without doing it manually as I have been.
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Jun 28, 2016 15:04
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Stumpus posted:I have an issue where my speakers play during test but they don't play anywhere else. I have a 5.1 setup, but for some reason the front speakers register as rear in the test. Central and sub test fine. No sound from anything when I play a YouTube video or Netflix. Is it connected via HDMI, TOSLINK, or analog? In the Windows sound menu, are you set up as 5.1, stereo, or something else? I'd check that all the cables are in the right place for the rears registering as front. I had an issue where I had all sorts of sound issues, "no sound device detected" no audio in Source engine games when my windows sound was set to 3.1. I set it to stereo instead, and games started working again (in stereo), but Netflix and other media are all correctly using the Dolby Digital or DTS surround sound tracks, center channel and all. Also, are you using Netflix in a browser? That doesn't get surround sound right now. If you use the Netflix app in the Windows store, that gets 5.1.
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Jul 11, 2016 16:29
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Stumpus posted:It is connected via analog. The windows settings are set to 5.1. The only way you'll get sound through the center channel with in browser audio is if your PC or your receiver is doing some remixing. Browser netflix only sends left and right channel audio, no center. If you've got a 5.1 setup and want to watch Netflix on a computer, I'd heavily recommend the Windows store app. Browser audio can be multichannel, but netflix doesn't.
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Jul 11, 2016 19:07
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Arsten posted:CrashPlan is okay, but when people says it'll take awhile to upload Terabytes of data, they mean it. You'll find a lot of reports on the internet about good initial speeds which then plummet to like 50k/s after an hour or so. Its best use is to backup to local/network storage where speeds aren't an issue. What about using services like Crashplan / Backblaze to backup your NAS? I'm assuming it's the servers on their end that eventually throttle you, but something like a NAS is on 24/7 anyway and however long it takes to do the initial sync, the future rate of change will probably be pretty easy to keep up with.
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Jul 25, 2016 15:07
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Any suggestions for freeware blu-ray playing software? To elaborate some, it costs money to license the codecs to decode commercial blu-rays, so it's impossible to have free blu-ray playing software and typically it's cheaper to buy a standalone blu-ray player box. You can also go the aforementioned rip method and use MakeMKV to rip them, and the rips play flawlessly on any modern media player. You're violating US law by doing so though. The industry really doesn't want you watching blu-rays on a computer.
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I'm not gonna lie, I've always preferred 7zip just because it's free vs $30. Aren't they both LZMA2 like xzip anyway?
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Gozinbulx posted:Not sure if this is the right thread but: If you want a more-GUI route, you can use game streaming software like OBS to capture and stream your display to an RTMP server which then redistributes it to clients like VLC that show the stream: https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-set-up-your-own-private-rtmp-server-using-nginx.50/ I'm certain that ffmpeg alone can also do this with a lot of tweaking, but I don't have a complete guide, just a basic reference: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/StreamingGuide
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:So what's up with /r/microsoftsoftwareswap? Are these pirated keys or what? Yeah, they're keys being distributed / used in violation of some flavor of academic or developer license agreement. Paying money for piracy feels like the worst of both worlds.
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Michael Scott posted:Sounds like it's 'illegal' in the sense that it's against EULAs, but not actually criminally illegal correct? The law is a mess, the only people that have faced criminal charges in the US have done so because they uploaded or re-shared content. Violating EULAs can still create a civil copyright infringement liability. Because of the law being slow to adapt to this stuff, you end up seeing insanity like this guy who is profiting off of a loophole in Canadian anti-piracy laws.
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Abu Dave posted:Anyone know of a program that can play videos forward AND backwards? So I'm not 100% sure about this, but I don't think that codecs like H.264 can be easily played backwards because frames depend on information in previous frames. You might need to go to AVI, any video editing tools should be able to reverse a video but it might potentially take a while.
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Dylan16807 posted:There are typically keyframes every second or so. In theory playing backwards is simple, just decode each segment into a big buffer. I can't name any programs that do that, though. Anybody feel like doing this and then sending a patch to VLC? Ha.
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Uziel posted:Has anyone set up a video streaming app on an internal corporate network? My team is being asked to either purchase, install, or create a Netflix-like experience for our internal employees to play our company's commercials and training videos. I am going to give Plex a shot but wasn't sure how that would work since we'd want users to be authenticated by their active directory logins (meaning if they are on the network, they are good to go), and there is a desire to also have the app work on mobile. If that doesn't work out for you, I'd put an Emby server behind some type of AD-authenticating middle layer. I'd recommend Emby over Plex just because there's a better "direct connection to server, no involvement with the outside world" story there. As well as hardware transcoding that could let a very, very lightweight server serve dozens of video streams at once.
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Uziel posted:That would be great, but what exactly would the AD-authenticating middle layer be? So, I haven't done this and generally avoid IIS like the plague, but I'm assuming that IIS can act as a reverse proxy requiring AD auth? This could also be unfeasible. Somebody correct me. Along these lines? http://weblogs.asp.net/owscott/creating-a-reverse-proxy-with-url-rewrite-for-iis
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C-Euro posted:In MS Word (or any Office program really), is there a way to encrypt a file with a password, then remove that encryption later? Essentially I want to password-protect a file, move it and work on it elsewhere, then unlock the file and send it to someone else for review. If you remotely care about having a robust, proven encryption scheme, you should use GPG. This is a well solved problem. You could also use something like 7zip's encryption, which is just another face on the same underlying technology. AES-256 should do just fine. https://www.gpg4win.org/
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HenryEx posted:That doesn't sound good. I'm on Kaby Lake now and not really keen on stepping down again, but i'm not sure i want to upgrade to 10 either (yet). You're at the point where you need to either move to older hardware or a newer OS. It's likely that you're going to be fighting an uphill, constantly changing battle to keep using Win7 on unsupported hardware, and unlike running MacOS on commodity hardware there's not going to be a community working hard to keep finding workarounds. If you have a dependency on software that only supports Windows 7, maybe run a Win7 VM for that? Edit: Looks like I'm wrong, there is a community that will keep finding workarounds to use Windows 7. Sure, give that a shot.
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ufarn posted:Looks like the IrfanView people are acting like complete dumbasses (ie 99% of FOSS maintainers), so what's a good, simple image viewer that supports HEIC? I don't see any yet. I've been googling around, and it looks like right now you have to convert to jpeg to view things on Windows. You might go to the "request a small app" thread if you really just want a viewer. I'm also seeing guides that suggest you buy a Mac. Edit: Found one! $49/year subscription to view photos: https://www.zoner.com/ Twerk from Home fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Sep 20, 2017 |
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ufarn posted:Yeah, I saw that too. I downloaded the trial just for the hell of it, and it just bombarded me with pop-ups urging me to do god knows what. I don't think Safari on MacOS does either. This really seems to be purely about saving storage space both on-device and in cloud backups, and whenever you share a photo on any other platform then it'll get converted to jpeg.
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Severing posted:Let me get this straight: ufarn's problem with IrfanView is that they won't support a niche standard that only Apple has implemented? It's not really a "niche standard" when more than 1/3 of phones are now shooting it by default: https://www.macrumors.com/2017/03/15/ios-42-of-smartphone-market/
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andrew smash posted:Does anybody know of a FLAC -> mp3 (etc) conversion tool that is both free and not riddled with malware? I would like to be able to load some of my music onto my iphone. I use Foobar2000, you can use that and download lame binaries from somewhere, or you can just get ffmpeg.
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What modern higher-compression compression format would normal users be most likely to figure out? I'm specifically looking for something better than .zip / .gz, and I don't know if people would be more likely to be willing to deal with .7z, .xz, .rar or .zst. I'm in a mostly Mac / Linux environment dealing with huge volumes of very compressible data, and the effort of getting people to use zstd instead of gzip has been really fruitful. What's the situation in Windows-land?
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