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bobbilljim
May 29, 2013

this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me
:shittydog::shittydog::shittydog:
yeah, it's bad. no dslam in teh cabinet, direct hookup to teh exchange almost 4 km away straight line and oftentimes teh old rear end cabinet has teh door hanging open and rain getting in

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bobbilljim
May 29, 2013

this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me
:shittydog::shittydog::shittydog:

Nintendo Kid posted:

step one: get an new nvidia, and ideally find some sucker to offload your double amd cards to

step two: get loving intel cpu already christ

its just as i feared....

wolffenstein
Aug 2, 2002
 
Pork Pro

bobbilljim posted:

so i got GTAV and after the 3 days of downloading I'm having a good time playing it. however I'm getting extremely bad texture pop in. The floor loads the 'far away' texture, but if i drive too fast over to it teh floor goes invisible, some pedestrians fall through screaming, and then (eventually in some cases) the higher rez texture pops in. CPU usage is fairly high while playign but i'm thinkign its teh lack of vram / crossfire thats killign it for me.

PC: amc quad core clocked to 4ghz, 2 radeon HD6870s in crossfire, lots of ram, too big motherboard

should i use this as an excuse to get a nice nvidia 970? or will a 760 be a huge upgrade? or will my cpu be too poo poo to play gtav anyway and i shoudl replace that?

or shoudl i reutrn gtav? mgsv runs really nicely on my machine
turn down all the graphics settings since your pc is slightly more powerful than a ps3

bobbilljim
May 29, 2013

this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me
:shittydog::shittydog::shittydog:
they dont go down any further, thanks. gtav is such a good game it doenst actually have settigns below "normal"

eg normal - high- extra high - utlra

spankmeister
Jun 15, 2008






Panty Saluter posted:

nice internet connection




for a clown to use

its their CDN, it's garbage
when i installed it it only got up to 4~5 MB/s and my connection can do 20 easy

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe
the thing is, if you get a nice nvidia and intel combo pc built today, it'll be good for ya vidya james for the next like 6 years
also


bobbilljim posted:

yeah, it's bad. no dslam in teh cabinet, direct hookup to teh exchange almost 4 km away straight line and oftentimes teh old rear end cabinet has teh door hanging open and rain getting in


move to glorious america as step 3

Panty Saluter
Jan 17, 2004

Making learning fun!

bobbilljim posted:

yeah, it's bad. no dslam in teh cabinet, direct hookup to teh exchange almost 4 km away straight line and oftentimes teh old rear end cabinet has teh door hanging open and rain getting in

well hopefully the connections are weatherproofed at least a little :v:

Panty Saluter
Jan 17, 2004

Making learning fun!

spankmeister posted:

its their CDN, it's garbage
when i installed it it only got up to 4~5 MB/s and my connection can do 20 easy

steam basically maxes my connection, it'll hold 120 mb/s

then again i have a straight shot to dallas so that really helps

bobbilljim
May 29, 2013

this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me
:shittydog::shittydog::shittydog:

Panty Saluter posted:

well hopefully the connections are weatherproofed at least a little :v:

i have heard faint conversations on my telephone when i pick it up off teh hook

e: also steam and netflix can somehow put 800KB/s down my lovely cnxn when everythign else seems way slower. so its good for me :V

Panty Saluter
Jan 17, 2004

Making learning fun!

bobbilljim posted:

i have heard faint conversations on my telephone when i pick it up off teh hook

e: also steam and netflix can somehow put 800KB/s down my lovely cnxn when everythign else seems way slower. so its good for me :V

sure its not just some am radio leaking in? it does that sometimes

spankmeister
Jun 15, 2008






Nintendo Kid posted:

the thing is, if you get a nice nvidia and intel combo pc built today, it'll be good for ya vidya james for the next like 6 years
also



move to glorious america as step 3

commence dickwaving

spankmeister
Jun 15, 2008






Panty Saluter posted:

steam basically maxes my connection, it'll hold 120 mb/s

then again i have a straight shot to dallas so that really helps

Steam can be hit or miss but when it's not busy like with holiday sales or w/e i can hit 20 MB/s consistently.

bobbilljim
May 29, 2013

this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me
:shittydog::shittydog::shittydog:

Panty Saluter posted:

sure its not just some am radio leaking in? it does that sometimes

hmm you know i never thought of that. could be really

Panty Saluter
Jan 17, 2004

Making learning fun!

bobbilljim posted:

hmm you know i never thought of that. could be really

its p. common with tele wires. bad grounding/bonding or mismatched conductor lengths. or just cheap phones :v:

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum

bobbilljim posted:

so i got GTAV and after the 3 days of downloading I'm having a good time playing it. however I'm getting extremely bad texture pop in. The floor loads the 'far away' texture, but if i drive too fast over to it teh floor goes invisible, some pedestrians fall through screaming, and then (eventually in some cases) the higher rez texture pops in. CPU usage is fairly high while playign but i'm thinkign its teh lack of vram / crossfire thats killign it for me.

PC: amc quad core clocked to 4ghz, 2 radeon HD6870s in crossfire, lots of ram, too big motherboard

should i use this as an excuse to get a nice nvidia 970? or will a 760 be a huge upgrade? or will my cpu be too poo poo to play gtav anyway and i shoudl replace that?

or shoudl i reutrn gtav? mgsv runs really nicely on my machine
def get a new nvidia, try to get at least a 3GB card too

bobbilljim
May 29, 2013

this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me
:shittydog::shittydog::shittydog:
im thinking ill buy the nvidia and if its still a piece of poo poo ill buy the intel cpu

Broken Machine
Oct 22, 2010

bobbilljim posted:

im thinking ill buy the nvidia and if its still a piece of poo poo ill buy the intel cpu

you didn't mention but is the drive you're running it on an ssd? I remember the ps3 version of gta v had similar issues with loading textures /models when it came out, but only on the downloaded version

Heresiarch
Oct 6, 2005

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that no single book is. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.
the dual band wifi dingus that a generous goon sent me arrived today and it's working perfectly, i've got a solid 150mbit connection and no packet loss

doing this helps, of course (i'm going to fix the cable and level the painting later):



the print is something my dad bought in the 70's, "la machine funambule" by renee lubarow, translates to "the tightrope-walking machine", which i have hanging over my pc for what should be obvious reasons

CrazyLittle
Sep 11, 2001





Clapping Larry
so now the real trick is to test throughput from that machine to a wired machine elsewhere using something like iperf to check real data speeds

bobbilljim
May 29, 2013

this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me
:shittydog::shittydog::shittydog:

Broken Machine posted:

you didn't mention but is the drive you're running it on an ssd? I remember the ps3 version of gta v had similar issues with loading textures /models when it came out, but only on the downloaded version

uhh... welll... my main drive is an ssd but teh game is installed on a pretty good disk... raided spinning drives in raid 5 hardware raid...

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

CrazyLittle posted:

so now the real trick is to test throughput from that machine to a wired machine elsewhere using something like iperf to check real data speeds

is there an iperf equivalent for windows 9x. i want to finally test the performance of the various pcmcia network adapters i have on my win9x laptops

SO DEMANDING
Dec 27, 2003

bobbilljim posted:

uhh... welll... my main drive is an ssd but teh game is installed on a pretty good disk... raided spinning drives in raid 5 hardware raid...

what the gently caress is wrong with you

please post full and detailed specs of your pc now, it sounds like an utter trainwreck of many years of bad decisions

Heresiarch
Oct 6, 2005

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that no single book is. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.

CrazyLittle posted:

so now the real trick is to test throughput from that machine to a wired machine elsewhere using something like iperf to check real data speeds

we don't have any wired machines in the apartment so whatever we get is fine, as long as it works. the problem with the previous one wasn't so much speed as it was incredible packet loss, making the connection unusable for file copying or video streaming and merely highly frustrating for web browsing

i'll probably run a benchmark later using my wife's macbook air (which is on 802.11ac and can be moved next to the router) but right now i'm just happy it's usable

bobbilljim
May 29, 2013

this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me
:shittydog::shittydog::shittydog:

SO DEMANDING posted:

what the gently caress is wrong with you

please post full and detailed specs of your pc now, it sounds like an utter trainwreck of many years of bad decisions

its exactly that, mixed in with some overconfidence and poverty

phenom X4 955 BE (overclocked obviously)
2x HD 6870 (not the same model / rev / cooler)
crosshair formula IV mobo (refurbished!!!)
4 x 4gb ram with the coloured heatsinks

im too embarassed to name the hdd brand.
ok fine its 2 hitachi deskstars and a WD i think as teh raid 5 (SB850 raid controller or w/e), all 1tb.. then i have anotehr 2tb wd drive by itself

samsung 850 pro ssd 256gb of course

win10 (upgraded from free win7 from uni)

sw8 case, with blue led fans

what else... $11 card reader, dvd drive

runs ok tho anyway. long term im gonna delete a bunch of porn and then back up all teh raid poo poo to the 2tb drive or an external and do it over in software :)

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006
shameful amd poverty rig

bobbilljim
May 29, 2013

this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me
:shittydog::shittydog::shittydog:
:smugmrgw::smugmrgw::smugmrgw::smugmrgw::smugmrgw:

Broken Machine
Oct 22, 2010

I don't know but I'd be tempted to say the disk is affecting it; you could clear some space and install it to your ssd to test

bobbilljim
May 29, 2013

this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me
:shittydog::shittydog::shittydog:
i know theres nothign wrong with it but i think it would cause me physical pain to install 65gb of teh worlds shittiest code onto my ssd

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

bobbilljim posted:

its exactly that, mixed in with some overconfidence and poverty

phenom X4 955 BE (overclocked obviously)
2x HD 6870 (not the same model / rev / cooler)
crosshair formula IV mobo (refurbished!!!)
4 x 4gb ram with the coloured heatsinks

im too embarassed to name the hdd brand.
ok fine its 2 hitachi deskstars and a WD i think as teh raid 5 (SB850 raid controller or w/e), all 1tb.. then i have anotehr 2tb wd drive by itself

samsung 850 pro ssd 256gb of course

win10 (upgraded from free win7 from uni)

sw8 case, with blue led fans

what else... $11 card reader, dvd drive

runs ok tho anyway. long term im gonna delete a bunch of porn and then back up all teh raid poo poo to the 2tb drive or an external and do it over in software :)

OK I change my previous reccomendation: ditching your like 5 or 6 year old AMD CPU is priority one

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
yeah get a modern amd cpu

enotnert
Jun 10, 2005

Only women bleed

Silver Alicorn posted:

yeah get a modern amd cpu

no don't

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

Silver Alicorn posted:

yeah get a modern amd cpu

Do not recommend self harm in yospos

bobbilljim
May 29, 2013

this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me
:shittydog::shittydog::shittydog:

Silver Alicorn posted:

yeah get a modern amd cpu

ugh. i didnt expect trolls in the 'pos. mods, lets get a ban on this rear end in a top hat

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
sorry. I meant get a modern amd apu

ahmeni
May 1, 2005

It's one continuous form where hardware and software function in perfect unison, creating a new generation of iPhone that's better by any measure.
Grimey Drawer

Silver Alicorn posted:

sorry. I meant get a modern amd apu

let us know if they ever make one

Panty Saluter
Jan 17, 2004

Making learning fun!
ide be genuinely curious to see what a basic i5 would yield for a performance improvement since the graphics cards arent bad

bobbilljim
May 29, 2013

this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me
:shittydog::shittydog::shittydog:

Panty Saluter posted:

ide be genuinely curious to see what a basic i5 would yield for a performance improvement since the graphics cards arent bad

well if my pc is still poo poo with the new gfx ill try this out for you

CrazyLittle
Sep 11, 2001





Clapping Larry

Nintendo Kid posted:

is there an iperf equivalent for windows 9x. i want to finally test the performance of the various pcmcia network adapters i have on my win9x laptops

dig up cygwin and compile iperf

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

bobbilljim posted:

yeah, it's bad. no dslam in teh cabinet

no islam where?

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bobbilljim
May 29, 2013

this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me
:shittydog::shittydog::shittydog:

echinopsis posted:

no islam where?

digital subscriber line access multiplexer

in the cabinet

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