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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:On the .exe file, go to Properties > Compatibility > Change high DPI settings and fiddle with the settings there, see what makes a difference. Try the regular compatibility settings too, particularly changing to an older Windows version and checking the box to run it in 640 x 480 resolution. Thanks, no luck fiddling with the settings but it looks like it was a bug in the official Radeon driver which didn't enable GPU scaling. I've installed an unofficial driver and it seems to have done the trick!
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Tea Bone posted:Hi thread, Look up your games on https://pcgamingwiki.com. Lots of solutions for all kinds of problems including yours, plus a bunch of other neat poo poo that you wouldn't have even thought to look into. E: and nah, your MBP isn't the problem. Windows is who's in charge regardless of the hardware, and old games just get fucky like that. Hipster_Doofus fucked around with this message at 14:45 on May 28, 2020 |
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Hipster_Doofus posted:Look up your games on https://pcgamingwiki.com. Lots of solutions for all kinds of problems including yours, plus a bunch of other neat poo poo that you wouldn't have even thought to look into. Wow this is amazing. I never finished AssCreed 4 because I got a 21:9 monitor and it looks goofy on there but that Wiki has a fix!
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Article from PC Gamer from a day ago with the original developer of task manager. PC Gamer: 25 years later, Task Manager's creator shares a bunch of cool tips for using it. https://www.pcgamer.com/15-years-later-task-managers-creator-shares-a-bunch-of-cool-tips-for-using-it/ quote:
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I've used Ctrl + Shift + Esc to launch the task manager ever since Vista added that splash screen to Ctrl + Alt + Delete. Another handy tip is killing explorer.exe (and manually relaunching it should it not restart automatically) if you have shell issues.
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May 28, 2020 19:21
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netBuff posted:I've used Ctrl + Shift + Esc to launch the task manager ever since Vista added that splash screen to Ctrl + Alt + Delete. i think i discovered teh bolded by accident on W95? I was probably 7 or 8 and pretty intrepid from growing up on DOS anyway and said gently caress it, if this PC isnt gonna play ball im gonna hit this big red button; and it worked beautifully?
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May 28, 2020 19:26
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Win 10 2004 report: Ho-hum, nothing seems different? I've always had good luck with Win10 builds/upgrades, though. Biggest note is that start menu web search has to be blocked at the firewall now.
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May 28, 2020 23:56
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EoRaptor posted:Win 10 2004 report: Ho-hum, nothing seems different? I've always had good luck with Win10 builds/upgrades, though. Biggest note is that start menu web search has to be blocked at the firewall now. Is there some documentation about this because I have like 3-4 local group policies set to prevent that in these previous versions.
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May 29, 2020 00:05
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EoRaptor posted:Win 10 2004 report: Ho-hum, nothing seems different? I've always had good luck with Win10 builds/upgrades, though. Biggest note is that start menu web search has to be blocked at the firewall now. these guys usually have a pretty good rundown of the things https://www.howtogeek.com/438830/whats-new-in-windows-10s-20h1-update-arriving-spring-2020/
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May 29, 2020 00:46
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astral posted:Is there some documentation about this because I have like 3-4 local group policies set to prevent that in these previous versions. Open up the Windows Firewall, click on Outbound Rules, scroll all the way down to the predefined Windows Search rule, and change it from allow to block. Start Menu will still have a web results tab/option to expand, but doing that will just show an error. (Previous versions of Windows have called this rule Cortana or Cortana Search, but in 2004 it's Windows Search)
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May 29, 2020 01:09
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EoRaptor posted:Open up the Windows Firewall, click on Outbound Rules, scroll all the way down to the predefined Windows Search rule, and change it from allow to block. Start Menu will still have a web results tab/option to expand, but doing that will just show an error. Whoops, I meant documentation about the previously-existing options not stopping web search any longer; sorry about that.
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May 29, 2020 01:14
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astral posted:Whoops, I meant documentation about the previously-existing options not stopping web search any longer; sorry about that. I know the polices were removed from Home long ago, and Pro lost them somewhere in the insider ring in the run-up to 2004, but I don't know when. They should still work on Enterprise. If you want documentation with exact timing, you'll need to go back over insider build histories or ask MS.
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May 29, 2020 01:31
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EoRaptor posted:Open up the Windows Firewall, click on Outbound Rules, scroll all the way down to the predefined Windows Search rule, and change it from allow to block. Start Menu will still have a web results tab/option to expand, but doing that will just show an error.
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EoRaptor posted:I know the polices were removed from Home long ago, and Pro lost them somewhere in the insider ring in the run-up to 2004, but I don't know when. They should still work on Enterprise. If you want documentation with exact timing, you'll need to go back over insider build histories or ask MS. I'm not seeing anything recent about this on the internet. Could you point out exactly what you were doing before that stopped working? Last year one of the updates made the group policy be ignored, but that was a bug and MS eventually fixed it. And in the meantime there were registry edits that kept it blocked. e: the relevant group policy being "Don't search the web or display web results in Search"
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May 29, 2020 04:08
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Klyith posted:I'm not seeing anything recent about this on the internet. Could you point out exactly what you were doing before that stopped working? I had both the policy and registry locations set in 1909, along with the toggle switch in settings to turn it off. Web search wasn’t present on my start menu. After upgrading to 2004, there is no longer a toggle in settings, the registry settings were still present but didn’t seem to do anything, and group policies had been reset, but re-enabling them also didn’t do anything.
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2004 lookin' good for people itt? The past week or so I've been backing up and taking inventory and sacking up to do a fresh install as the current one has been going for quite a few years now and I've gone and hosed up my files beyond organizing. Planning to do the fresh one just to have a clean C: slate and set everything up the way I'd like from scratch e: Just saw the link for the "What's New in 2004" article, thanks for sharing
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May 29, 2020 20:34
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I've had 2004 on my gaming PC for a few months and it's been smooth sailing. I haven't put it on my laptop or work PC yet.
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Do virtual desktops (Task View, not virtualization) allow audio to be associated with a desktop? Like if I have Spotify in one desktop and switch to another, the audio can pause/stop? I recognize that most people probably don't want that, but is it an option? VVV bummer, thanks. beefnoodle fucked around with this message at 00:25 on May 30, 2020 |
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May 29, 2020 23:55
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No.
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I noticed that Edge (which I use exclusively for Netflix b/c there's no other way to get a quality stream) will pause Netflix when I switch desktops. Maybe it will do that for other things.
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May 30, 2020 01:26
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Posting to say that developer documentation is getting loving atrocious. I've been looking up some Powershell stuff, and it's loving useless. I think I like the return type stuff the most. It just lists what object type it returns as bolded non-hyperlinked type string. loving thanks, Microsoft. Certainly helps. Like with enumerations and poo poo. Or like in the current case, trying to set VM integration services via Powershell, and it'd sure help to have a loving list of them. --edit: Can't believe that I need an MSIL disassembler to make sense some of the cmdlets. --edit: Yay, at least I have RDP over VMBus working now. If that GPU paravirtualization would work for regular Hyper-V VMs now, that'd be sweet. Combat Pretzel fucked around with this message at 20:04 on May 30, 2020 |
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May 30, 2020 19:29
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doctorfrog posted:I noticed that Edge (which I use exclusively for Netflix b/c there's no other way to get a quality stream) will pause Netflix when I switch desktops. Maybe it will do that for other things. It doesn’t for YouTube but I’ll check other stuff in a browser, thanks.
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I get some sluggishness in Chredge when playing a Twitch stream on the other monitor. I checked the resource monitor and everything is using GPU acceleration like it should and CPU usage was normal. Is there anything else I could look at?
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Fallom posted:I get some sluggishness in Chredge when playing a Twitch stream on the other monitor. I checked the resource monitor and everything is using GPU acceleration like it should and CPU usage was normal. Is there anything else I could look at? Do the monitors run at different refresh rates? Is it an NVIDIA card?
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Have Microsoft been loving around with Windows Defender recently. It's been periodically pegging my processor to 100% for 20 mins or so at a time making my laptop basically unusable. Windows Defender itself only takes 15% or so when that happens but all other processes also balloon in processor usage when that happens, be it Edge, Firefox, and/or Discord. It's not a scheduled scan and if I open the Windows Defender control panel it doesn't mention that it is doing anything in particular. It happens few times a day and once or twice it has coincided with my plugging in my mobile via USB.
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Hed posted:Wow this is amazing. I never finished AssCreed 4 because I got a 21:9 monitor and it looks goofy on there but that Wiki has a fix! Glad to help. 
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Okay, so I stupidly tried to update via the update tool to 2050. Got stuck at 99% for 6 hours, so I followed MS’s tips and did the media copy, reboot, copy media back tip. That got stuck at 31% so I decided to give up until I officially get passed the update but on cancelling, I’ve been stuck on “Please wait while setup is exiting” for over half an hour. There’s no button and I have no idea if I should just hard reboot. My data is backed up and safely not on my primary drive. What should I do? EDIT: gently caress it, I hard rebooted and everything seems ok now. Snuffman fucked around with this message at 04:03 on May 31, 2020 |
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Don't know if this is a Windows issue, or bluetooth, or my specific devices, but I have trouble with paired bluetooth devices all the time. I don't use headphones with my pc very often, but when I do a lot of the time I'll have to re-pair them because I can't connect otherwise. I've had similar issues with a dualshock 4, but I could see that being the fault of the custom drivers.
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Rinkles posted:Don't know if this is a Windows issue, or bluetooth, or my specific devices, but I have trouble with paired bluetooth devices all the time. I don't use headphones with my pc very often, but when I do a lot of the time I'll have to re-pair them because I can't connect otherwise. somehow even having an xbox controller paired to my laptop is enough to screw up bluetooth performance, even if the controller isn’t actually powered on at the time. i have no idea how that’s even possible but unpairing it and using it wired solved my other bluetooth problems
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Rinkles posted:Don't know if this is a Windows issue, or bluetooth, or my specific devices, but I have trouble with paired bluetooth devices all the time. I don't use headphones with my pc very often, but when I do a lot of the time I'll have to re-pair them because I can't connect otherwise. I get the impression its dependent on the Bluetooth chipset. What you got? Ive had really good success with the latest Intel Wifi 6 chipset on a desktop board. No pairing issues, can talk to a keyboard, mouse, and bluetooth amp at the same time.
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redeyes posted:I get the impression its dependent on the Bluetooth chipset. What you got? Ive had really good success with the latest Intel Wifi 6 chipset on a desktop board. No pairing issues, can talk to a keyboard, mouse, and bluetooth amp at the same time. the most problems on desktop with an intel 100 series chipset, but i've had similar issues on my laptop with a qualcomm QCA61x4A adapter
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astral posted:Do the monitors run at different refresh rates? Is it an NVIDIA card? Yes to both - my primary is 144Hz and the secondary is 60Hz on a 1080Ti. I thought one of the recent updates was supposed to fix this? I think I'm on 1909. Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 18:54 on May 31, 2020 |
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Munin posted:Have Microsoft been loving around with Windows Defender recently. It's been periodically pegging my processor to 100% for 20 mins or so at a time making my laptop basically unusable. Windows Defender itself only takes 15% or so when that happens but all other processes also balloon in processor usage when that happens, be it Edge, Firefox, and/or Discord. Nvm, looks like it is tied to either my phone waking up or getting plugged into the USB. How can I check if the phone is hosed in some way or that something is up with Windows and my laptop instead?
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Munin posted:Nvm, looks like it is tied to either my phone waking up or getting plugged into the USB. How can I check if the phone is hosed in some way or that something is up with Windows and my laptop instead? Easiest would be to try it with a different computer or phone and see what happens.
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Snuffman posted:Okay, so I stupidly tried to update via the update tool to 2050. Got stuck at 99% for 6 hours, so I followed MS’s tips and did the media copy, reboot, copy media back tip. Might be worth running those integrity-checking commands to make sure everything's okay (admin command prompt): code:Fallom posted:Yes to both - my primary is 144Hz and the secondary is 60Hz on a 1080Ti. I thought one of the recent updates was supposed to fix this? I think I'm on 1909. I haven't followed the issue too closely, so I'm not sure. Do you already have the latest Nvidia drivers? astral fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Jun 1, 2020 |
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NotNut posted:how do you get this to come up Also I don't know why there isn't a menu option to go to the program volume level setting directly when you right click the test icon.
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Right click volume tray icon, go to Sounds, then Playback.
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syntaxfunction posted:Right click volume tray icon, go to Sounds, then Playback. "Sounds" is not one of the options on that icon's context menu
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Right-click the tray icon for 'Open Sound settings' and under 'Related Settings' on the right-hand side select 'Sound Control Panel' It couldn't be easier!
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