When I want to game, I bring it into crossfire mode. That shuts off the video output on the second card which disables the two 17" LCDs and leaves the 21" CRT active. When I'm done gaming and want to reactivate the two LCDs, I flip off crossfire mode which requires a reboot. Upon startup though, the system may reboot 4 or 5 more times.
I'm not sure what you're doing wrong, but my two 4850's didn't force me to reboot under Windows XP to enter or leave crossfire mode, and neither do they do it under Windows 7...
So unless you have some app running that keeps using Direct3D (which obviously would be something that prevents toggling crossfire) something's very weird on your end...
Is it just me, or is EMI not suing the Beatles (half of which aren't even going to show up in court), but really some fuckwad that sold illegal copies of their songs?
np: Burial - Distant Lights (Various - 5 Years Of Hyperdub (Disc 2))
You can say about Creative's products what you want, but not supporting the latest version of Windows upon release isn't one of the things that happen with them...
np: Mr. Scruff - Eardrops (Keep It Unreal (Disc 2))
The page has deteriorated with spam comments so it's now about 3% article, 7% on-topic comments and 90% SPAM, most of which is of the "undecipherable asian characters" variety...
np: The Beatles - A Day In The Life (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)
Nah, we're used to energy efficiency stickers. What's "intrusive" and "takes away freedom" is the bit where we have to replace our new 58" TV because the law requires a "high-efficiency TV". That way we get to spend more money on the new TV than we'll ever save on electricity.
If you had read TFA you'd have seen that it's the shops that need to remove those TVs, not you - they aren't allowed to sell them anymore, but you don't have to junk the TV you already have...
np: Blamstrain - List (No Xivic Remix) (Blamstrain Remixed)
I'm running 2 Radeon 4850 crossfire'd and always use 2 monitors - with crossfire enabled you just can't use the display connectors of any additional cards past the first one you have in your machine (I disable it for watching movies, and being able to keep the projector hooked up to the other card is nice...)
np: Jonas Bering - Who Is Who (Various - Kompakt Total 10 (Disc 1))
Well, Mirrors Edge is 16:9 all the way through - which of course prompted people to ask why the game is broken, showing those white/black bars at the top and bottom all the time...
Can't please everyone I guess.
np: Tim Exile - Don't Think We're One (Listening Tree)
If graphics card development in the last 10 years is anything to go by, nVidia's plan is that the GPU will become 570 times larger, draw 570 times more power and the fan will spin 570 times faster
At that point, it would effectively become a helicopter, no?
A flaming, almost flat helicopter that makes the horns of Jericho sound like a kazoo?
I'm happily running 2 ATI Radeon 4850's in CrossFire (when needed) on my P45-based Gigabyte mainboard, so I think you've got something mixed up here...
I've seen 32" 720P sets for under $300. So it's only 50% true I guess.
Of course, I'd expect any version of windows installed on a TV to be much cheaper than $150 or the same in Euros.
True - though I'd expect it more to be Windows Mobile or Embedded instead of the regular kind.
Nonetheless, a 32" TV will be plenty big enough for a large number of folk - especially in Europe with typically smaller living rooms, and adding a windows license would substantially increase the price of those sets.
Well, we (living smack in the middle of Europe) have got a 42" LG Full HD LCD-TV in the kitchen of our apartment, which isn't exactly a huge room...
Then again it's mostly my mum using it; I prefer the two monitors (17" 5:4 and 20" 16:10) and the projector I have for watching DVDs in my room (NOT the basement:D)...
np: Jamiroquai - Too Young To Die (High Times (Singles 1992-2006))
I suppose I could have been clearer. I'm talking about gpu decoding of HD video, conspicuously absent on AMD drivers in Linux, fully functional on NVIDIA.
Fixed that for you. Or does installing Linux somehow magically unsolder the video decoding part of AMD's GPUs?
np: Death Cab For Cutie - Information Travels Faster (The Photo Album)
GIMP is crash-prone on Windows. I swear I've caused it to crash by missing a toolbar button and clicking inbetween.
I envy you. All I ever manage in GIMP is to have it lock up in an infinite loop - but not crashing - at the most inappropriate time whenever I use it's menus...:(
Is it just me, or is GIMP a good paint program hampered by an abysmally unstable (at least on Windows) GUI toolkit?
I didn't say anything bad about any other music players. They could be great for all I know. I was simply pointing out that managing a music player's contents manually doesn't scale well with large music libraries.
But at least foobar2000 lets me fill my iPod without ever having to use the abomination that is iTunes... what's not to like?
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When I want to game, I bring it into crossfire mode. That shuts off the video output on the second card which disables the two 17" LCDs and leaves the 21" CRT active. When I'm done gaming and want to reactivate the two LCDs, I flip off crossfire mode which requires a reboot. Upon startup though, the system may reboot 4 or 5 more times.
I'm not sure what you're doing wrong, but my two 4850's didn't force me to reboot under Windows XP to enter or leave crossfire mode, and neither do they do it under Windows 7...
So unless you have some app running that keeps using Direct3D (which obviously would be something that prevents toggling crossfire) something's very weird on your end...
Don't look at me like that - I already tagged it "stupidtitle" when it still was "in the mysterious future"...
np: Kode9 - 9 Samurai (Quarta330 Remix) (Various - 5 Years Of Hyperdub (Disc 2))
Is it just me, or is EMI not suing the Beatles (half of which aren't even going to show up in court), but really some fuckwad that sold illegal copies of their songs?
np: Burial - Distant Lights (Various - 5 Years Of Hyperdub (Disc 2))
Try finding a soundcard on the shelf that even lists Vista-compatibility, let alone 64-bit...
Hello.
You can say about Creative's products what you want, but not supporting the latest version of Windows upon release isn't one of the things that happen with them...
np: Mr. Scruff - Eardrops (Keep It Unreal (Disc 2))
The page has deteriorated with spam comments so it's now about 3% article, 7% on-topic comments and 90% SPAM, most of which is of the "undecipherable asian characters" variety...
np: The Beatles - A Day In The Life (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)
Nah, we're used to energy efficiency stickers. What's "intrusive" and "takes away freedom" is the bit where we have to replace our new 58" TV because the law requires a "high-efficiency TV". That way we get to spend more money on the new TV than we'll ever save on electricity.
If you had read TFA you'd have seen that it's the shops that need to remove those TVs, not you - they aren't allowed to sell them anymore, but you don't have to junk the TV you already have...
np: Blamstrain - List (No Xivic Remix) (Blamstrain Remixed)
double long long, of course.
np: David Sylvian - The Department Of Dead Letters (Manafon)
Dig at Apple?
Now all we need is a fully working unrestricted C64 emulator for it and people will be switching from Apple's iPhone in droves... :D
np: David Sylvian - The Greatest Living Englishman (Manafon)
...can it also receive, store and send email? No? Didn't think so...
(Just moving my courier setup from one machine to another, incidentally...)
np: Yagya - Their Blood Is Black And Yellow (Will I Dream During The Process?)
I'm running 2 Radeon 4850 crossfire'd and always use 2 monitors - with crossfire enabled you just can't use the display connectors of any additional cards past the first one you have in your machine (I disable it for watching movies, and being able to keep the projector hooked up to the other card is nice...)
np: Jonas Bering - Who Is Who (Various - Kompakt Total 10 (Disc 1))
Boy, that Matt Barton sure did a lot to cover up his marketing tracks, like writing a book about vintage games or being an assistant professor in Minnesota.
He's also listed right above the marketroid you mentioned - freak coincidence or the usual /. conspiracy?
You decide... (that is - if you've read that far...)
In other news, Pong was a hit on its home platform, but now seems to have fallen into obscurity.
Naaah, it probably just got banned in the US for the sexual references... :D
Well, Mirrors Edge is 16:9 all the way through - which of course prompted people to ask why the game is broken, showing those white/black bars at the top and bottom all the time...
Can't please everyone I guess.
np: Tim Exile - Don't Think We're One (Listening Tree)
If graphics card development in the last 10 years is anything to go by, nVidia's plan is that the GPU will become 570 times larger, draw 570 times more power and the fan will spin 570 times faster
At that point, it would effectively become a helicopter, no?
A flaming, almost flat helicopter that makes the horns of Jericho sound like a kazoo?
Could be.
np: SCSI-9 - Together (Easy As Down)
I tried the RTM on Friday. No Remote Server Administration Tools. Google turns up a blog on technet with a dead link to RSAT beta.
I guess going to download.microsoft.com, typing "Remote Server Administration Tools Windows 7" into the search box and hitting enter is too hard?
Because that would have - surprisingly, I know - worked?
np: Kode9 & The Spaceape - Addiction (Memories Of The Future)
I'm happily running 2 ATI Radeon 4850's in CrossFire (when needed) on my P45-based Gigabyte mainboard, so I think you've got something mixed up here...
np: RJD2 - Hidden Track (Deadringer)
I've seen 32" 720P sets for under $300. So it's only 50% true I guess.
Of course, I'd expect any version of windows installed on a TV to be much cheaper than $150 or the same in Euros.
True - though I'd expect it more to be Windows Mobile or Embedded instead of the regular kind.
Nonetheless, a 32" TV will be plenty big enough for a large number of folk - especially in Europe with typically smaller living rooms, and adding a windows license would substantially increase the price of those sets.
Well, we (living smack in the middle of Europe) have got a 42" LG Full HD LCD-TV in the kitchen of our apartment, which isn't exactly a huge room...
Then again it's mostly my mum using it; I prefer the two monitors (17" 5:4 and 20" 16:10) and the projector I have for watching DVDs in my room (NOT the basement :D)...
np: Jamiroquai - Too Young To Die (High Times (Singles 1992-2006))
I'm not really sure why this is marked Funny, in the case of anything less than a top-end TV it's 100% true.
You can get middle-end HDTVs for 150 EUR nowadays? Sweet!
But why didn't you guys tell me until now? :(
np: Orbital - The Naked And The Dead (2Orbital (Disc 2))
Actually, it's a teaser for the upcoming dupe two days from now - with a link yet pointing to the mysterious future... ;)
np: Death Cab For Cutie - Styrofoam Plates (The Photo Album)
I assume you're talking about the hockey puck mouse, rather than the ADB Mouse II that's pictured on the top of the page.
How's this for a replacement?
I got one of those for free, but "painful" doesn't begin to describe it...
np: Orbital - Lush (Herve's Tree And Leaf Remix) (2Orbital (Disc 2))
I suppose I could have been clearer. I'm talking about gpu decoding of HD video, conspicuously absent on AMD drivers in Linux, fully functional on NVIDIA.
Fixed that for you. Or does installing Linux somehow magically unsolder the video decoding part of AMD's GPUs?
np: Death Cab For Cutie - Information Travels Faster (The Photo Album)
GIMP is crash-prone on Windows. I swear I've caused it to crash by missing a toolbar button and clicking inbetween.
I envy you. All I ever manage in GIMP is to have it lock up in an infinite loop - but not crashing - at the most inappropriate time whenever I use it's menus... :(
Is it just me, or is GIMP a good paint program hampered by an abysmally unstable (at least on Windows) GUI toolkit?
np: B12 - Pantone 137 (B12 Records Archive Vol. 6 (Disc 1))
I didn't say anything bad about any other music players. They could be great for all I know. I was simply pointing out that managing a music player's contents manually doesn't scale well with large music libraries.
But at least foobar2000 lets me fill my iPod without ever having to use the abomination that is iTunes... what's not to like?
np: Orbital - Sad But True (2Orbital (Disc 2))
More like "bad software is a virus" - have you looked at iTunes on a Windows system? Yeeech... >_<
np: Orbital - The Naked And The Dead (2Orbital (Disc 2))
Do yourself a favour and don't google for "Austropop"...
np: Musicology - Unkown Future (B12 - B12 Records Archive Vol. 2 (Disc 2))