Sigh...Home gets 5 years, Pro gets 10. It has been this way since Vista and since its written into the contracts they sign with corps and governments? Isn't gonna change.
The ONLY change between 10 and Vista/7/8 is they are getting rid of SPs for a combo of rolling fixes and updated.ISOs, THAT IS ALL. And even THAT ends up being because of contractual obligations since their support agreements (many of which go on well past 2020 for the big corps) says "For 5 years after release or two years after the release of the latest service pack whichever comes latest" (or there abouts, they have changed the EOL page to a "warm and fuzzy" Win 8 style which is full of warm feeling mess) so by getting rid of the SPs they don't have to worry about the SPs throwing a snooze alarm on the EOL dates.
So its really not that hard, Home gets 5, Pro gets 10, and if they follow every single release since Vista (which there is no reason to think they won't) for 6 months to a year before and during a new release you'll be able to get it cheap if you want to upgrade your old hardware.
You don't have to wait for MSFT, just use WSUS Offline. I've used it for many years, in fact I still have the WSUS Offline.ISOs for Win2K and WinXP and it works like a charm, lets you use DVDs or USB sticks, will even include.NET and Office if you like. Oh and you're welcome;-)
Well from what I read they had it up and running in alpha stage and that they basically rewrote a HUGE chunk of NTFS and combined it with MS-SQL. The problem? Forbes.
Ballmer kept promising that Longhorn would be just "whipped out" like they did with 95-98-98SE-ME but the actual engineers was trying to make real progress by coming up with a truly "next gen" OS. Ballmer saw it would take 5 years to get it out, got ridiculed in Forbes for being behind, and had them shitcan ALL the work they had done and just slap a new skin (And a bunch of crappy DRM, because Ballmer was ALL about DRM) onto Win2K3 and voila! Vista.
Of course we all know what a disaster THAT was, 3 months of fighting Vista was enough to convince me to stick with XP X64 (which was 2K3 X64 minus DRM and bullshit) until Win 7 X64 came out, but you'd think that somebody would have used such a great idea, but nope, instead we get more iCandy on OSX and Linux? More text editors and bad ripoffs of the Win/OSX GUI, in other words SSDD. Its a damned shame though as with today's multicores a FS that did like WinFS would not only be doable, I doubt the average user would even feel the 5-10% CPU on the initial run.
Win 7 GUI (with Win2K Pro GUI as classic mode) with WinFS** from Longhorn Alpha and WIMBoot from Win 8.
**-What is sad is that the WinFS demo was in 2003 and here we are in 2015 and we have YET to see anybody give us what they showed in that demo! Where is the file system that can just scan vids and pics and assign metadata like "girl in blue dress" or "white truck" and let me find any file by using human expressions without requiring the user to fill in the blanks?
Well I looked on the forums and apparently RAGE used some VERY Nvidia specific OpenGL "tweaks" that gave a couple of cards a problem (namely 7970,7990) unless you did a little editing on the.ini files to bypass the bullshit.
Does it suck that in this day and age we still have to occasionally edit.INI files like its Win95? Yep but as long as you have one side playing dirty (Look on the forums about Nvidia Gameworks, looks like they have been trying to "pull an Intel" and code certain features to purposely gimp the framerate on Intel and AMD GPUs) or refusing to use standard APIs? Shit like that WILL happen. Maybe I'm just lucky in that I never get the top tier, preferring to stay at least 1 rung below, in that these kinds of problems almost never happen.
But I can say I went from the Athlon X2 7550 to the Phenom II X4 965 to X6 1035T to my current FX8320E, and from the HD4650 to HD4850 to HD7750 to R9 280 and my gaming experience? Nothing but candy and cookies. And the money I saved allowed me to get 6TB of HDD, an SSD for boot, and 16GB of RAM which makes all my games just as smooth as butter. The only "problem" I'm having is getting used to using a flight stick again after all these years (what can I say, got addicted to War Thunder) and getting used to (finally) giving up my trusty 20 inch 1600x900 monitor for a 27in 1080P, now everything is soo big.
But I'm glad Nvidia is working out for you, but after Bumpgate I wouldn't take one of their cards if it was hand delivered by Playboy Bunnies. Say what you will about AMD but that 4650? STILL RUNNING in a PC I sold awhile back, the twin Nvidia cards I had before that? Yeah they are in a landfill. Fool me once...
You are lucky that you didn't get the flipside, which is when it syncs a bunch of shit you don't want!
The Gmail account I use for phone sync is one I use at the shop for mostly dealing with companies, requests for RMAs, parts inquiries, stuff like that.....can you guess what the new Hangout/SMS did the first time my new smartphone sync'd up? If you said "overload your contacts with tons of worthless contacts" you are correct! All those "do not reply" addresses sending me RMA info, companies I hadn't dealt with in a couple years that I had one or two dealings with, its obvious they just scraped every single email address they possibly could from that account and dumped ALL that shit into my contact list! I ended up having to download a third party tool just to clean that shit out, immediately followed by me dumping Wangout (love that name, so apropos) for Go SMS.
The Google Fanboys can throw shit at me all they want, but I have been using Android since Donut and since going public Google has really gone downhill. Before they were like these cool crazy engineers just cooking up shit because "Hey this is something we'd like to have" and now it feels like its being run solely by MBAs standing in front of a powerpoint going "Our focus group says the crucial 18-35 demographic likes" followed by drivel somebody that reads Forbes would think kids like and it fucking stinks.
Lets hope Google gets their collective shit together or one of the alternatives (C'mon Cyanogen!) gets some real traction because right now I feel like the choices in smartphones are just trying to find the least amount of suck and frankly ALL of them have pretty high degrees of suck right out the gate.
Did you contact Steam support? Because it sounds like you were having an issue, the question is WHY were you having the issue? Did you test the memory of the GPU with a stress test? You may have had defective cells in that particular card. I've seen that happen at the shop too and most never think to check that.
But I can tell you that I have the exact same game (got the Deluxe Edition) from the same place (Steam sale) and on a stock HD7750 I was getting consistent 30FPS+ with most settings medium or above. So if I was able to get those numbers and you weren't, despite having 2 generations more powerful hardware? Yeah I have to wonder if there was something wrong with your particular card, as you should have been getting 3 times what I was easily.
Uhhh...he asked for a bunch of shit to be integrated into the OS which just FYI but NOBODY integrates into their OS by default (even your mainstream Linux distros don't come with an IDE and compiler in the base install) which was obviously designed to either 1.- Make it so the only OS which could fit his:criteria" would be Lunix, or 2.- Appeal to programmers, which again less than 1% of the population is a fucking programmer.
So if you are one of the above? The world does not care about you, sorry and I ain't gonna sugercoat shit for your consumption, that is the job of your mommy not me sweetheart. As I told the other dumbass quit your damned whining, get your cheap ass employer to pony up for a decent IDE and compiler because the other 99.2% of the planet? Has ZERO fucks to give about your needs.
Actually talked to the oldest today....he went back to the last Presto version and disabled updates because of them pulling shit like that LOL, once a diehard Opera user always a diehard Opera user. BTW I hear some of the ex-Opera team are making their own browser, maybe the oldest will get lucky and they'll make a new port of presto.
Luckily this isn't the bad old days where it was just IE and netscape, today you DO have options! There is Comodo Dragon (what I use, better security features and no phone home to Google) Chromium, SWIron, and Opera which my oldest boy swears is the greatest thing ever (boy is he still pissed they quit using presto) and on the gecko side there is Firefox, PaleMoon (the other browser I use, I prefer the UI over IceDragon and it seems snappier), SeaMonkey, IceDragon, if you need really low resource there is always Kmeleon which runs really well even on a P3 running Win98SE and if you want to avoid BOTH the Chromium and Gecko engines you can go with QTWeb which is just what it says on the tin, a cross platform browser that uses Webkit and QT.
Or maybe, juuuust maybe, I'm just throwing this out there....we should actually take the words of Dr King to heart and judge people by the content of their character instead of making quotas based on racism?
Remember boys and girls, reverse racism is STILL racism and two wrongs? Never make a right.
Exactly, why leave money on the table when you don't have to? Those that are care about gaming (instead of bragging rights) will pick up the AMD version and use the savings for increased RAM and SSD space which will make for a faster system overall (since games haven't been CPU bound in years) and those that want to brag "I got teh fastest of teh fastest!" can grab the Intel...and AMD gets paid either way, smart move.
Just remember boys and girls do NOT buy your CPUs based on the benchmarks because Intel came right out and admitted they rigged them (which just shows you how toothless the DoJ is these days, I have zero doubt the CEO of Intel could walk out on stage and drop his drawers and tell the DoJ to kiss his ass and the only response would be the DoJ asking what color lipstick he preferred) and this is backed up by Phoronix which shows that with GCC you "magically" get a 30%+ performance boost and their numbers match up almost perfectly with Tek Syndicate who has the $140 FX8350 trading blows with Intel chips costing more than twice the price.
I know I've got to try just about every Intel and AMD chip at the shop and using real world applications side by side and testing them? Yeah....you'll be lucky to get 8% difference in real world uses, sorry. Now sure if you buy a $1000 Intel chip you might get 20% higher....for an increased cost of 600%+, in my book that math don't work so good. I can say I was impressed enough with the FX chips I grabbed the FX8320E and I'm loving every minute of it, its a multitasking beast and even after 6 hours of transcodes I have yet to be able to break above 118F and paired with an R9 280 I can play all the latest games with all the purty and never have a skip nor shudder. If you want to build a badass gaming rig cheap? Go with the FX chips, you will NOT regret it!
Lets see...don't care as I'm not a programmer,don't care as I'm not a programmer,Ninite has LO...yeah why don't you try a little harder to just list "shit nobody but Linux users gives two shits about" huh? Maybe you should add GIMP and those googly eyes or the rotating cube desktop crap?
NEWS FLASH less than 1% of the planet is fricking programmers, hence why Linux user base is so low its listed as "other". If this really bugs you so much may I suggest you try thinking different? And to suggest Windows should come with a fricking IDE and compiler...BWA HA HA HA, why should MSFT load up the OS with crap that won't be used just to please the 1% of the world that is programmers? Get your boss to spend a buck or quit whining and find a better boss, LOL!
Uhhh...why would you do that? Windows can take care of drivers through WU, if you just have to have the ones that came with the board? Most come with a CD that has a "1 click install" option. As for third party...Ninite. All automated, NO ADWARE, just pick what you want and run the installer...you're welcome:-)
As you can see here...BTW when is everybody gonna wake the fuck up and realize they are using this trivial bullshit to get us to ignore the corporate fucking they are trying to sneak through the back door with the TPP fast track?
It wasn't the drivers dude, if I were to hazard a guess it was your OS, specifically the registry and Windows love of reinstalling drivers on reboot. The reason it didn't affect your Nvidia card? Because that would have written new entries in the registry.
Next time you have an issue like that? Uninstall the drivers and then use a good registry cleaner to blow out the registry along with removing the old driver from the driver store BEFORE you install another driver. All your driver switching simply added good code on top of bad code and just made the mess that much bigger. I've seen it countless times in the shop, this is one place where MSFT fucks it up BIG time.
Remember if you haven't removed the driver from the Windows Driver Store Windows will reinstall it the second you boot back up,so the only way to truly install clean on Windows 7 and above is remove the particular drivers from the driver store.
Let me translate..."Wahh I don't like the laws as written because it hurts the OS I wave a flag for, so its "exploitation" to use the patents as the law intended"...is that REALLY your position?
If you don't like the laws? Form a PAC, do a ton of E-Begging, then bribe congress critters until you get the law changed.....but don't be surprised when you go to big Linux corps like Google and Red Hat and they tell you to pound sand, because the current system benefits them too by raising the barrier of entry to potential competition....or is it your position that GOOG and RHEL are "exploiters" too?
Citation please? Because the last press release I saw from AMD on the subject said they were releasing docs as fast as the lawyer could sign off on them and that they hoped to replace their binary blob in the future with the FOSS driver. To that end they had gone so far as to hire a couple extra devs to work on the FOSS drivers to help them get closer to release parity.
Now I can understand why you will never have certain features supported by the FOSS drivers, why? AMD doesn't own the rights and thus has no legal way of releasing that code, for example HDMI with HDCP is owned by Intel and I'm sure their codecs are covered by the MPEG-LA patents but from what I understood AMD has been releasing all their docs not affected by others patents including the APUs which I would assume to be of most benefit to Linux users. Have they changed their position?
Uhhh...except its bullshit? I know because I HAVE the same game, got it on the Steam sale same as he did, and on the HD7750 which is more than 3 tiers below his card? Yeah....never dropped below 35 FPS with most of the game set to medium or better.
If he bought it at release? Sorry but he is a beta tester, he should have known that the game devs are sticking to the "get it out now, fix it later" mentality, just look at Arkham Knight which runs like ass on pretty much every system no matter how powerful. I watched a YouTube vid the other day and the guy reviewing had SLIed Titans and the thing STILL dropped below 15 FPS! A smart player waits for 90 days at the earliest before buying a game, by then all the shitfits from players have born fruit as patches and the game should be playable.
But if my HD7750 could run it over 30FPS for the entire game? Yeah....he's doin it wrong..
Unless you are pushing for serious OCing? Its really not needed as long as you have a decent case so it doesn't end up a hot box. You'd be surprised how many times folks spend all this money on CPUs and GPUs and slap 'em in some shitty old Dell box and then are shocked! that the thing is overheating and shutting down constantly.
And the bitch is PC cases that are good really aren't expensive and will last for many years so its just a dumb move to cheap out in this area. I built my PC using a Rosewill Thor as the case and with a Sapphire R9 280 along with an FX8320 using a ZALMAN CNPS11X Performa which is about as cheap as one can get when it comes to CPU coolers and the highest I have been able to get either the CPU or GPU is 118F, and that was after 6 hours of War Thunder booming and zooming. Within 4 minutes of stopping the game? Back down to below 85F.
So as long as you use a PC case with good airflow? Temps really aren't a problem at stock speeds. Sure if you want to crank up the OC liquid cooling will help but that is a pretty niche group and most of my gamer customers whom ask me about going liquid? After talking to them it turns out they stuffed all their parts into some uber cheapo shitty case.
15 yard penalty, FUD on the field! There is NO REASON to upgrade to the "latest and greatest" unless your PC is your ePeen and you are trying to reach the top of some benchmark board...that's it, because nearly every game will play (and look better than the console version) on even modest or ancient kit.
Take myself for example, from 2010 to 2014 I gamed on an HD4850 which I picked up for $100. I played all the big names, the Bioshock series, the L4Ds, the Just Causes and Crysis games...all played fine and looked great. From the same period up until 2 weeks ago the CPU they were running on was a Phenom II X6, which again cost me $100 at the time, I think with the board and 8GB of DDR 2 it was $170 something before MIRs and $145 after. Last year I upgraded to an HD7750 as I had a customer who was selling his for cheap and for nearly a year it played all the games I wanted just fine, I would still be using it if I hadn't come into a little money and my boys said "You spend so much on us, treat yourself for once in your life".
I ended up with an FX8320E with 16GB of RAM, a new 750w PSU, an R9 280 with 3GB of RAM, new Asus board, and to top it off a nice 27 inch Asus screen to replace my aging 20 inch....must have cost a fortune, right? Nope around $750 before MIRs, around $650 after (moral of the story kids, always take the MIRs) and more importantly those parts I pulled from mine? All still playing games for other family members, the oldest got the board and CPU, the youngest took the PSU, and the wife took the HD7750 so she can plug her tower into her TV as an HTPC.
So yeah PC gaming is REALLY not expensive, I could have not upgraded a thing and kept right on playing and I have ZERO doubt that this current setup will be playing the latest and greatest games in 2020 with little effort, and again looking better and costing less than the consoles.
It isn't because of "reasons" its because MSFT, like any large software company, has a huge patent warchest that Linux and Android infringe upon. When you consider that MSFT has patents into the hundreds of thousands and were there at the beginning it would be amazing if they DIDN'T infringe, because just as MPEG-LA owns just about every possible way to make a codec so too does MSFT own a shitload of the fundamentals of file systems. Look up the FAT32 patents sometime, the way its worded one could argue they own just about every way of extending the file through attributes.
So I'm sorry but Linux and Android DOES infringe, which is why Google refuses to indemnify OEMs of any patent violations WRT Android, I'm sure their lawyer told them that its a patent minefield. Why do you think companies that hate each other like ATI and Nvidia, Intel and AMD have cross licensing agreements? Because if they didn't and one side decided to pull the trigger they could nuke each others products with patent infringements. Google COULD have made a cross licensing agreement, they did not, so now the OEMs (and you the customer) pay the price in increased cost per unit.
When it comes to "social" scientists or anything involving race or gender studies? They pretty much just outright ignore or reject anything that doesn't follow their political narrative. Watch "This Week In Stupid" by Sargon Of Akkad on YouTube and you'll see case after case of science and even common sense ignored to push the political narrative.
As for TFA as long as they have the choice and are not being forced to choose against their own desire? Leave 'em be and let 'em choose what they like. I am so sick of political bullshit trying to treat women as boys with inverted penises, its just as sexist as telling women they should stay barefoot and pregnant! Boys like some things girls do not, girls like some things boys do not....its called biology, estrogen and testosterone affect thought processes as well as likes and dislikes...should we start pumping girls with male hormones so they fit the political narrative?
This is why classical liberals like myself and SJWs will never get along, we classical liberals celebrated our differences and valued the individual, as long as the state wasn't trying to force you to be something you didn't want to be or limiting your choices? Then feel free to choose what is best for you as an individual. But to ignore the fact that females and males have different tastes? Is just stupid and ignores reality to push politics which never ends well.
Screencaps? In fact ANY evidence? Because I have used these cards before, have a customer at this very moment who is still happily using hers with Windows 7 and there aren't any "hacked drivers", all I did was point Windows driver updater to the folder....that's it, that is ALL THAT IS REQUIRED and the ONLY difference between that method and the normal driver is you don't get Catalyst. You of course won't get above WDM 1.0 because that IGP is simply not capable of supporting higher so no Aero but as far as functionality goes? It works perfectly fine. It sleeps, it wakes, it plays video, hell you can even download KLite Codec Pack and get hardware accelerated DVDs if you want.
So don't blame the company when its a case of "ur doing it wrong" or as the FOSSie faction is happy to parrot....Works For Me!(TM)
And yet again you bring up the drivers despite the fact multiple people on multiple occasions have given you the correct drivers which work perfectly well on anything from Win 7-Windows 10.
Since your Google-Fu must sucketh yet again here it is and yet agaion here is the step by step on how to install..1.-Extract drivers to folder of your choice, 2.- Right click on video card in device manager, choose "update driver", 3.- Choose manual over having Windows hunt for a driver, 4.- Point Windows to folder where you dropped the driver.
That is it, that is literally all there is to it and I have a customer with one of those chips and it took me less than 5 minutes to get it up and running perfectly fine in Windows 7. If you don't want to actually do the four steps you can always download driver booster or driver magician and either program will do it for you, its REALLY not that hard.
The fact that you are STILL harping on, despite multiple people pointing you to the correct download AND walking you through the frankly noob friendly install? Yeah, starting to wonder if shill or fanboy would be an appropriate label here, especially since you seem to go out of your way to post this to every. single. AMD. article. whether it has anything to do with GPUs or not.
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Sigh...Home gets 5 years, Pro gets 10. It has been this way since Vista and since its written into the contracts they sign with corps and governments? Isn't gonna change.
The ONLY change between 10 and Vista/7/8 is they are getting rid of SPs for a combo of rolling fixes and updated .ISOs, THAT IS ALL. And even THAT ends up being because of contractual obligations since their support agreements (many of which go on well past 2020 for the big corps) says "For 5 years after release or two years after the release of the latest service pack whichever comes latest" (or there abouts, they have changed the EOL page to a "warm and fuzzy" Win 8 style which is full of warm feeling mess) so by getting rid of the SPs they don't have to worry about the SPs throwing a snooze alarm on the EOL dates.
So its really not that hard, Home gets 5, Pro gets 10, and if they follow every single release since Vista (which there is no reason to think they won't) for 6 months to a year before and during a new release you'll be able to get it cheap if you want to upgrade your old hardware.
You don't have to wait for MSFT, just use WSUS Offline. I've used it for many years, in fact I still have the WSUS Offline .ISOs for Win2K and WinXP and it works like a charm, lets you use DVDs or USB sticks, will even include .NET and Office if you like. Oh and you're welcome ;-)
Well from what I read they had it up and running in alpha stage and that they basically rewrote a HUGE chunk of NTFS and combined it with MS-SQL. The problem? Forbes.
Ballmer kept promising that Longhorn would be just "whipped out" like they did with 95-98-98SE-ME but the actual engineers was trying to make real progress by coming up with a truly "next gen" OS. Ballmer saw it would take 5 years to get it out, got ridiculed in Forbes for being behind, and had them shitcan ALL the work they had done and just slap a new skin (And a bunch of crappy DRM, because Ballmer was ALL about DRM) onto Win2K3 and voila! Vista.
Of course we all know what a disaster THAT was, 3 months of fighting Vista was enough to convince me to stick with XP X64 (which was 2K3 X64 minus DRM and bullshit) until Win 7 X64 came out, but you'd think that somebody would have used such a great idea, but nope, instead we get more iCandy on OSX and Linux? More text editors and bad ripoffs of the Win/OSX GUI, in other words SSDD. Its a damned shame though as with today's multicores a FS that did like WinFS would not only be doable, I doubt the average user would even feel the 5-10% CPU on the initial run.
Win 7 GUI (with Win2K Pro GUI as classic mode) with WinFS** from Longhorn Alpha and WIMBoot from Win 8.
**-What is sad is that the WinFS demo was in 2003 and here we are in 2015 and we have YET to see anybody give us what they showed in that demo! Where is the file system that can just scan vids and pics and assign metadata like "girl in blue dress" or "white truck" and let me find any file by using human expressions without requiring the user to fill in the blanks?
Well I looked on the forums and apparently RAGE used some VERY Nvidia specific OpenGL "tweaks" that gave a couple of cards a problem (namely 7970,7990) unless you did a little editing on the .ini files to bypass the bullshit.
Does it suck that in this day and age we still have to occasionally edit .INI files like its Win95? Yep but as long as you have one side playing dirty (Look on the forums about Nvidia Gameworks, looks like they have been trying to "pull an Intel" and code certain features to purposely gimp the framerate on Intel and AMD GPUs) or refusing to use standard APIs? Shit like that WILL happen. Maybe I'm just lucky in that I never get the top tier, preferring to stay at least 1 rung below, in that these kinds of problems almost never happen.
But I can say I went from the Athlon X2 7550 to the Phenom II X4 965 to X6 1035T to my current FX8320E, and from the HD4650 to HD4850 to HD7750 to R9 280 and my gaming experience? Nothing but candy and cookies. And the money I saved allowed me to get 6TB of HDD, an SSD for boot, and 16GB of RAM which makes all my games just as smooth as butter. The only "problem" I'm having is getting used to using a flight stick again after all these years (what can I say, got addicted to War Thunder) and getting used to (finally) giving up my trusty 20 inch 1600x900 monitor for a 27in 1080P, now everything is soo big.
But I'm glad Nvidia is working out for you, but after Bumpgate I wouldn't take one of their cards if it was hand delivered by Playboy Bunnies. Say what you will about AMD but that 4650? STILL RUNNING in a PC I sold awhile back, the twin Nvidia cards I had before that? Yeah they are in a landfill. Fool me once...
You are lucky that you didn't get the flipside, which is when it syncs a bunch of shit you don't want!
The Gmail account I use for phone sync is one I use at the shop for mostly dealing with companies, requests for RMAs, parts inquiries, stuff like that.....can you guess what the new Hangout/SMS did the first time my new smartphone sync'd up? If you said "overload your contacts with tons of worthless contacts" you are correct! All those "do not reply" addresses sending me RMA info, companies I hadn't dealt with in a couple years that I had one or two dealings with, its obvious they just scraped every single email address they possibly could from that account and dumped ALL that shit into my contact list! I ended up having to download a third party tool just to clean that shit out, immediately followed by me dumping Wangout (love that name, so apropos) for Go SMS.
The Google Fanboys can throw shit at me all they want, but I have been using Android since Donut and since going public Google has really gone downhill. Before they were like these cool crazy engineers just cooking up shit because "Hey this is something we'd like to have" and now it feels like its being run solely by MBAs standing in front of a powerpoint going "Our focus group says the crucial 18-35 demographic likes" followed by drivel somebody that reads Forbes would think kids like and it fucking stinks.
Lets hope Google gets their collective shit together or one of the alternatives (C'mon Cyanogen!) gets some real traction because right now I feel like the choices in smartphones are just trying to find the least amount of suck and frankly ALL of them have pretty high degrees of suck right out the gate.
Did you contact Steam support? Because it sounds like you were having an issue, the question is WHY were you having the issue? Did you test the memory of the GPU with a stress test? You may have had defective cells in that particular card. I've seen that happen at the shop too and most never think to check that.
But I can tell you that I have the exact same game (got the Deluxe Edition) from the same place (Steam sale) and on a stock HD7750 I was getting consistent 30FPS+ with most settings medium or above. So if I was able to get those numbers and you weren't, despite having 2 generations more powerful hardware? Yeah I have to wonder if there was something wrong with your particular card, as you should have been getting 3 times what I was easily.
Uhhh...he asked for a bunch of shit to be integrated into the OS which just FYI but NOBODY integrates into their OS by default (even your mainstream Linux distros don't come with an IDE and compiler in the base install) which was obviously designed to either 1.- Make it so the only OS which could fit his :criteria" would be Lunix, or 2.- Appeal to programmers, which again less than 1% of the population is a fucking programmer.
So if you are one of the above? The world does not care about you, sorry and I ain't gonna sugercoat shit for your consumption, that is the job of your mommy not me sweetheart. As I told the other dumbass quit your damned whining, get your cheap ass employer to pony up for a decent IDE and compiler because the other 99.2% of the planet? Has ZERO fucks to give about your needs.
Actually talked to the oldest today....he went back to the last Presto version and disabled updates because of them pulling shit like that LOL, once a diehard Opera user always a diehard Opera user. BTW I hear some of the ex-Opera team are making their own browser, maybe the oldest will get lucky and they'll make a new port of presto.
Luckily this isn't the bad old days where it was just IE and netscape, today you DO have options! There is Comodo Dragon (what I use, better security features and no phone home to Google) Chromium, SWIron, and Opera which my oldest boy swears is the greatest thing ever (boy is he still pissed they quit using presto) and on the gecko side there is Firefox, PaleMoon (the other browser I use, I prefer the UI over IceDragon and it seems snappier), SeaMonkey, IceDragon, if you need really low resource there is always Kmeleon which runs really well even on a P3 running Win98SE and if you want to avoid BOTH the Chromium and Gecko engines you can go with QTWeb which is just what it says on the tin, a cross platform browser that uses Webkit and QT.
Or maybe, juuuust maybe, I'm just throwing this out there....we should actually take the words of Dr King to heart and judge people by the content of their character instead of making quotas based on racism?
Remember boys and girls, reverse racism is STILL racism and two wrongs? Never make a right.
Exactly, why leave money on the table when you don't have to? Those that are care about gaming (instead of bragging rights) will pick up the AMD version and use the savings for increased RAM and SSD space which will make for a faster system overall (since games haven't been CPU bound in years) and those that want to brag "I got teh fastest of teh fastest!" can grab the Intel...and AMD gets paid either way, smart move.
Just remember boys and girls do NOT buy your CPUs based on the benchmarks because Intel came right out and admitted they rigged them (which just shows you how toothless the DoJ is these days, I have zero doubt the CEO of Intel could walk out on stage and drop his drawers and tell the DoJ to kiss his ass and the only response would be the DoJ asking what color lipstick he preferred) and this is backed up by Phoronix which shows that with GCC you "magically" get a 30%+ performance boost and their numbers match up almost perfectly with Tek Syndicate who has the $140 FX8350 trading blows with Intel chips costing more than twice the price.
I know I've got to try just about every Intel and AMD chip at the shop and using real world applications side by side and testing them? Yeah....you'll be lucky to get 8% difference in real world uses, sorry. Now sure if you buy a $1000 Intel chip you might get 20% higher....for an increased cost of 600%+, in my book that math don't work so good. I can say I was impressed enough with the FX chips I grabbed the FX8320E and I'm loving every minute of it, its a multitasking beast and even after 6 hours of transcodes I have yet to be able to break above 118F and paired with an R9 280 I can play all the latest games with all the purty and never have a skip nor shudder. If you want to build a badass gaming rig cheap? Go with the FX chips, you will NOT regret it!
Lets see...don't care as I'm not a programmer,don't care as I'm not a programmer,Ninite has LO...yeah why don't you try a little harder to just list "shit nobody but Linux users gives two shits about" huh? Maybe you should add GIMP and those googly eyes or the rotating cube desktop crap?
NEWS FLASH less than 1% of the planet is fricking programmers, hence why Linux user base is so low its listed as "other". If this really bugs you so much may I suggest you try thinking different? And to suggest Windows should come with a fricking IDE and compiler...BWA HA HA HA, why should MSFT load up the OS with crap that won't be used just to please the 1% of the world that is programmers? Get your boss to spend a buck or quit whining and find a better boss, LOL!
Uhhh...why would you do that? Windows can take care of drivers through WU, if you just have to have the ones that came with the board? Most come with a CD that has a "1 click install" option. As for third party...Ninite. All automated, NO ADWARE, just pick what you want and run the installer...you're welcome :-)
As you can see here...BTW when is everybody gonna wake the fuck up and realize they are using this trivial bullshit to get us to ignore the corporate fucking they are trying to sneak through the back door with the TPP fast track?
It wasn't the drivers dude, if I were to hazard a guess it was your OS, specifically the registry and Windows love of reinstalling drivers on reboot. The reason it didn't affect your Nvidia card? Because that would have written new entries in the registry.
Next time you have an issue like that? Uninstall the drivers and then use a good registry cleaner to blow out the registry along with removing the old driver from the driver store BEFORE you install another driver. All your driver switching simply added good code on top of bad code and just made the mess that much bigger. I've seen it countless times in the shop, this is one place where MSFT fucks it up BIG time.
Remember if you haven't removed the driver from the Windows Driver Store Windows will reinstall it the second you boot back up,so the only way to truly install clean on Windows 7 and above is remove the particular drivers from the driver store.
Let me translate..."Wahh I don't like the laws as written because it hurts the OS I wave a flag for, so its "exploitation" to use the patents as the law intended"...is that REALLY your position?
If you don't like the laws? Form a PAC, do a ton of E-Begging, then bribe congress critters until you get the law changed.....but don't be surprised when you go to big Linux corps like Google and Red Hat and they tell you to pound sand, because the current system benefits them too by raising the barrier of entry to potential competition....or is it your position that GOOG and RHEL are "exploiters" too?
Citation please? Because the last press release I saw from AMD on the subject said they were releasing docs as fast as the lawyer could sign off on them and that they hoped to replace their binary blob in the future with the FOSS driver. To that end they had gone so far as to hire a couple extra devs to work on the FOSS drivers to help them get closer to release parity.
Now I can understand why you will never have certain features supported by the FOSS drivers, why? AMD doesn't own the rights and thus has no legal way of releasing that code, for example HDMI with HDCP is owned by Intel and I'm sure their codecs are covered by the MPEG-LA patents but from what I understood AMD has been releasing all their docs not affected by others patents including the APUs which I would assume to be of most benefit to Linux users. Have they changed their position?
Uhhh...except its bullshit? I know because I HAVE the same game, got it on the Steam sale same as he did, and on the HD7750 which is more than 3 tiers below his card? Yeah....never dropped below 35 FPS with most of the game set to medium or better.
If he bought it at release? Sorry but he is a beta tester, he should have known that the game devs are sticking to the "get it out now, fix it later" mentality, just look at Arkham Knight which runs like ass on pretty much every system no matter how powerful. I watched a YouTube vid the other day and the guy reviewing had SLIed Titans and the thing STILL dropped below 15 FPS! A smart player waits for 90 days at the earliest before buying a game, by then all the shitfits from players have born fruit as patches and the game should be playable.
But if my HD7750 could run it over 30FPS for the entire game? Yeah....he's doin it wrong..
Unless you are pushing for serious OCing? Its really not needed as long as you have a decent case so it doesn't end up a hot box. You'd be surprised how many times folks spend all this money on CPUs and GPUs and slap 'em in some shitty old Dell box and then are shocked! that the thing is overheating and shutting down constantly.
And the bitch is PC cases that are good really aren't expensive and will last for many years so its just a dumb move to cheap out in this area. I built my PC using a Rosewill Thor as the case and with a Sapphire R9 280 along with an FX8320 using a ZALMAN CNPS11X Performa which is about as cheap as one can get when it comes to CPU coolers and the highest I have been able to get either the CPU or GPU is 118F, and that was after 6 hours of War Thunder booming and zooming. Within 4 minutes of stopping the game? Back down to below 85F.
So as long as you use a PC case with good airflow? Temps really aren't a problem at stock speeds. Sure if you want to crank up the OC liquid cooling will help but that is a pretty niche group and most of my gamer customers whom ask me about going liquid? After talking to them it turns out they stuffed all their parts into some uber cheapo shitty case.
15 yard penalty, FUD on the field! There is NO REASON to upgrade to the "latest and greatest" unless your PC is your ePeen and you are trying to reach the top of some benchmark board...that's it, because nearly every game will play (and look better than the console version) on even modest or ancient kit.
Take myself for example, from 2010 to 2014 I gamed on an HD4850 which I picked up for $100. I played all the big names, the Bioshock series, the L4Ds, the Just Causes and Crysis games...all played fine and looked great. From the same period up until 2 weeks ago the CPU they were running on was a Phenom II X6, which again cost me $100 at the time, I think with the board and 8GB of DDR 2 it was $170 something before MIRs and $145 after. Last year I upgraded to an HD7750 as I had a customer who was selling his for cheap and for nearly a year it played all the games I wanted just fine, I would still be using it if I hadn't come into a little money and my boys said "You spend so much on us, treat yourself for once in your life".
I ended up with an FX8320E with 16GB of RAM, a new 750w PSU, an R9 280 with 3GB of RAM, new Asus board, and to top it off a nice 27 inch Asus screen to replace my aging 20 inch....must have cost a fortune, right? Nope around $750 before MIRs, around $650 after (moral of the story kids, always take the MIRs) and more importantly those parts I pulled from mine? All still playing games for other family members, the oldest got the board and CPU, the youngest took the PSU, and the wife took the HD7750 so she can plug her tower into her TV as an HTPC.
So yeah PC gaming is REALLY not expensive, I could have not upgraded a thing and kept right on playing and I have ZERO doubt that this current setup will be playing the latest and greatest games in 2020 with little effort, and again looking better and costing less than the consoles.
It isn't because of "reasons" its because MSFT, like any large software company, has a huge patent warchest that Linux and Android infringe upon. When you consider that MSFT has patents into the hundreds of thousands and were there at the beginning it would be amazing if they DIDN'T infringe, because just as MPEG-LA owns just about every possible way to make a codec so too does MSFT own a shitload of the fundamentals of file systems. Look up the FAT32 patents sometime, the way its worded one could argue they own just about every way of extending the file through attributes.
So I'm sorry but Linux and Android DOES infringe, which is why Google refuses to indemnify OEMs of any patent violations WRT Android, I'm sure their lawyer told them that its a patent minefield. Why do you think companies that hate each other like ATI and Nvidia, Intel and AMD have cross licensing agreements? Because if they didn't and one side decided to pull the trigger they could nuke each others products with patent infringements. Google COULD have made a cross licensing agreement, they did not, so now the OEMs (and you the customer) pay the price in increased cost per unit.
When it comes to "social" scientists or anything involving race or gender studies? They pretty much just outright ignore or reject anything that doesn't follow their political narrative. Watch "This Week In Stupid" by Sargon Of Akkad on YouTube and you'll see case after case of science and even common sense ignored to push the political narrative.
As for TFA as long as they have the choice and are not being forced to choose against their own desire? Leave 'em be and let 'em choose what they like. I am so sick of political bullshit trying to treat women as boys with inverted penises, its just as sexist as telling women they should stay barefoot and pregnant! Boys like some things girls do not, girls like some things boys do not....its called biology, estrogen and testosterone affect thought processes as well as likes and dislikes...should we start pumping girls with male hormones so they fit the political narrative?
This is why classical liberals like myself and SJWs will never get along, we classical liberals celebrated our differences and valued the individual, as long as the state wasn't trying to force you to be something you didn't want to be or limiting your choices? Then feel free to choose what is best for you as an individual. But to ignore the fact that females and males have different tastes? Is just stupid and ignores reality to push politics which never ends well.
Screencaps? In fact ANY evidence? Because I have used these cards before, have a customer at this very moment who is still happily using hers with Windows 7 and there aren't any "hacked drivers", all I did was point Windows driver updater to the folder....that's it, that is ALL THAT IS REQUIRED and the ONLY difference between that method and the normal driver is you don't get Catalyst. You of course won't get above WDM 1.0 because that IGP is simply not capable of supporting higher so no Aero but as far as functionality goes? It works perfectly fine. It sleeps, it wakes, it plays video, hell you can even download KLite Codec Pack and get hardware accelerated DVDs if you want.
So don't blame the company when its a case of "ur doing it wrong" or as the FOSSie faction is happy to parrot....Works For Me!(TM)
And yet again you bring up the drivers despite the fact multiple people on multiple occasions have given you the correct drivers which work perfectly well on anything from Win 7-Windows 10.
Since your Google-Fu must sucketh yet again here it is and yet agaion here is the step by step on how to install..1.-Extract drivers to folder of your choice, 2.- Right click on video card in device manager, choose "update driver", 3.- Choose manual over having Windows hunt for a driver, 4.- Point Windows to folder where you dropped the driver.
That is it, that is literally all there is to it and I have a customer with one of those chips and it took me less than 5 minutes to get it up and running perfectly fine in Windows 7. If you don't want to actually do the four steps you can always download driver booster or driver magician and either program will do it for you, its REALLY not that hard.
The fact that you are STILL harping on, despite multiple people pointing you to the correct download AND walking you through the frankly noob friendly install? Yeah, starting to wonder if shill or fanboy would be an appropriate label here, especially since you seem to go out of your way to post this to every. single. AMD. article. whether it has anything to do with GPUs or not.