Posts by Drew Sanchez82

Do you think it might be worth holding off on the purchase for a bit, just so you can build up a bigger budget and snag some even beefier components later on?

Just a heads-up, watch how you word things. You're skating pretty close to being offensive.

Frank Moore4 said:Why on earth would those two be competing with each other? 😬 Honestly, if I had known nobody here actually gets a joke, I wouldn't have bothered posting anything in the first place. 🤦 😒

Oh, give me a break. Your jokes don't always land perfectly, you know. 😛

I haven't actually watched that series, but since you mentioned it has a similar vibe to this movie, I just meant they wouldn't really be stepping on each other's toes in that sense.

Frank Moore4 said:Drew Sanchez82, I think you're totally misreading the situation. 😬 This series is absolute gold. 😉

Maybe, but I just don't see it going toe-to-toe with that movie.

Frank Moore4 said:You totally missed the point—it’s not actually a show about Steve Jobs. 😬

It's actually a really funny comedy about a bunch of tech geeks trying to launch a startup. That guy with the beard is basically playing the lead, even though he clearly doesn't know a thing about coding. He keeps bringing up Steve Jobs, which makes sense because, honestly, Lucifer has all the worst traits of both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. 😁

I get that it isn't a biopic or anything, but based on that poster, I could smell the garbage from a mile away 😁 and the way they described the show... 😁 just total wannabe vibes.

Here’s the plot breakdown from IMDb.

The IMDb plot summary said:His passion and ingenuity have been the driving force behind the digital age. However his drive to revolutionize technology was sacrificial. Ultimately it affected his family life and possibly his health. In this revealing film we explore the trials and triumphs of a modern day genius, the late CEO of Apple inc. Steve Jobs.

Frank Moore4 said:They’re already filming a series about "Steve Jobs" called Silicon Valley. 😬

Man, I can already smell the trash coming from this one. 😁

Eric Patel7 said:The movie with Ashton Kutcher—who was actually great, if you ask me—was decent enough, but they skipped over so much stuff.

Ashton Kutcher is basically a comedy guy through and through, so I honestly think Michael Fassbender is going to nail this role way better.

I don't really see Ashton Kutcher pulling off a role this heavy, so I think Michael Fassbender will be a much better fit. Honestly, his career has been on such a massive upward swing lately.
It’s pretty common for actors not to look exactly like the people they're playing, anyway.

Seth Rogen is alright, though I'm not quite sure how he'll mesh with the rest of the group. I am digging the casting so far, especially Jeff Daniels.
That bit from the teaser was killer. Steve Jobs / Michael Fassbender: ''You are the only one who see's the world the same way I do'' Jeff Daniels: ''No one see the world the same way you do''

Universal Pictures just dropped a teaser trailer for the biographical drama Steve Jobs, which is being helmed by director Danny Boyle and written by Aaron Sorkin.
Back in 2013, there was actually a biopic about this story starring Ashton Kutcher, but honestly, the reviews were pretty rough. Now, we’re getting a remake featuring Michael Fassbender. It focuses on Steve Jobs, one of the founders of that massive tech giant headquartered right here in California.

The cast is pretty stacked: Michael Fassbender, Seth Rogen, Kate Winslet, Jeff Daniels, Katherine Waterston, and Michael Stuhlbarg.

It hits theaters on October 9th.

Steve Jobs - Teaser Trailer

Storyline said:“set backstage AT Three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with The unveiling of The iMac , The film takes US behind The Scenes of The Digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of The brilliant man AT its epicenter”

Might be worth checking out.

Nice, another Vacation movie after ages. Chevy is basically the king of this kind of comedy 😁 One of my favorites has to be Spies Like Us.
It’d be a shame if his son didn't get to play opposite Anthony Michael Hall again.
I’m not expecting it to hit quite like those 80s classics, but I'll definitely tune in just for little Applegate 😁
That scene with Hemsworth 🤣🤣

Man, that poll is brutal since you can only pick one single franchise.

lonehound2 said:

Another Stephen King novel is heading to the big screen. This one is "Cell," an apocalyptic horror story triggered by cell phones. It all starts on a typical day in America when everyone who answers their cell phone receives a "pulse"—a sudden electrical surge straight to the brain. This pulse turns users into mindless, bloodthirsty monsters. The survivors, those lucky enough to have been away from their devices, have to band together to find a way to survive. The film features heavy hitters Samuel L. Jackson and John Cusack. Keaton Rydell (played by John Cusack) is an artist from Maine getting ready to celebrate landing a deal with a new publishing house. But on his way there, a mysterious signal hits the global network, turning phone users into killers. Shaken by the chaos, Keaton begins searching for other survivors, eventually crossing paths with Tom McCourt (Samuel L. Jackson), who seems to have some answers. Filming kicked off back in January.

I don't know about you guys, but this whole thing just smells like total garbage to me. 🤣
The world’s going to hell in a handbasket because of smartphones. Honestly, what kind of dystopian mess is Hollywood going to cough up next?

So, I just heard that The Last Witch Hunter is coming out soon. It’s an upcoming supernatural action flick directed by Breck Eisner. Sounds like it could be a fun ride.
So, Vin Diesel lands the lead role here. He plays this immortal Witch Hunter who’s basically tasked with stopping a plague from tearing through modern-day New York City.
So, the movie hits theaters on October 23, 2015. It looks like a pretty solid lineup too—we've got Vin Diesel leading the charge, joined by Rose Leslie, Elijah Wood, Michael Caine, Darri Ólafsson, and Julia Engelbrecht. Definitely one to keep an eye on.

Cast : Vin Diesel as Kaulder Rose Leslie
Cast : Vin Diesel as Kaulder Rose Leslie
Rose Leslie as Chloe Elijah
Elijah Wood as The 37th Dolan
Michael Caine as Father Dolan
Ren Owen as Glaeser
Julia Engelbrecht as Witch queen Ólafur
Darri Ólafsson as Belial
Isaach de Bankolé as Lotte Verbeek
Lotte Verbeek as Helena

Written by Cory Goodman, D. W. Harper, and Melisa Wallack

Music by Steve Jablonsky

The production heavyweights behind this one are Emmett / Furla, Oasis Films, Lionsgate, Lakeshore Entertainment, Mark Canton Productions, and One Race Entertainment.

Lionsgate Entertainment handled the distribution.

The Last Witch Hunter - official teaser trailer

The Last Witch Hunter - official teaser trailer Quote : Synopsis says: “The modern World holds many secrets, but The most astounding Secret of All is that witches still live amongst us.” kaže:
The modern world is full of secrets, but honestly, the biggest kicker is that witches are actually still out there living right alongside us. We're talking about vicious, supernatural creatures that are just waiting for the right moment to unleash the Black Death on everyone.
For centuries, armies of witch hunters have been locked in combat against an unnatural enemy all over the world. That includes Kaulder, this incredibly brave warrior who actually pulled off the impossible by taking down the almighty queen WITCH, wiping out most of her followers along the way.

Right before she kicked the bucket, the queen WITCH slapped Kaulder with a curse of immortality. It was a cruel move—basically ensuring he’d be stuck on this side of the veil forever, totally cut off from his wife and daughter in the afterlife. Now, Kaulder is basically the last of his kind, spending centuries tracking down rogue witches while just wishing he could finally reunite with the people he lost.
But here’s the kicker—Kaulder has no idea that the queen WITCH is actually coming back to life. She’s out for blood, looking to settle the score with the guy who took her down, which basically sets the stage for this massive, epic showdown. It’s one of those high-stakes battles where the whole fate of humanity is hanging in the balance.

You can always put together a rig for low-to-mid settings. What kind of budget are we looking at? Honestly, though, the better question is how your current setup is actually holding up when you're playing.
I don't know much about the budget-friendly components myself, so I can't really give you a solid recommendation, but I'm sure someone in this thread can whip something up for you.

analogtiger19 said:So, how exactly is this issue showing up for you? (Sorry if you already mentioned it, I totally missed it). I actually had that same thing installed back when I was on version 3.4.2, but I wiped it and haven't dealt with that software or the glitch since... Honestly, I didn't even have issues before, I just stumbled onto the program or maybe Norton flagged it for me, I can't quite remember. 🤔

Is your PC running smoothly now that you've ditched 3.4.2?
Was it eating up your GPU usage before? That’s the only way I usually run into this kind of stuff.

Larry Ortiz5 said:Just wipe your C drive and leave the other partitions alone..

Even if I "just" format 700GB, I'm still losing a ton of data.
I'll see if picking up a GTX 970 fixes things. There's a pretty good chance my current graphics card is the culprit, especially since I was messing around with overclocking right around the time everything started acting up.

Larry Ortiz5 said:Just take a full day off, pop in a new graphics card, wipe the hard drive, and boom—problem solved. I mean, you aren't exactly reinstalling Windows every single morning, so it shouldn't be that big of a deal (at least not for me)

It wouldn't be an issue if I didn't have a mountain of files on here. My drive is sitting at about 1.4 TB right now...
So there is absolutely no way I'm formatting this thing.

Jeremy Fowler4 said:I personally stick with uTorrent 2.2.1 and it works perfectly fine. I just made sure to go into the settings and kill off any automatic updates or anything that tries to nag me for them. Hope that helps you out.

P.S.: Happy Easter, everyone!

I actually tried downgrading to 2.2.1 by reinstalling over the 3.4.2 version, but man, that miner issue is still hanging around. :/
Honestly, I'm at my wit's end trying to scrub this junk out of my system. I'm genuinely worried it's gonna chew through my next graphics card once I finally pick one up.

It’s not just some "optical illusion" with WTM. The GPU actually settles down—you can literally hear the fans quiet down once it stabilizes.
I really hope this doesn't mess things up for my 970 once I finally get my hands on it...
I went ahead and wiped out all those scanners from those random sites and ran through every cleaning tool I could find, but my CPU is still pegged at full load. It's just eating up resources constantly.

I really need to run a Windows repair, but my buddy's a total moron and lost my recovery DVD. Now I'm stuck without any way to patch things up.
I’m honestly drawing a blank on how to go about rebuilding or wiping the whole system again.

So, I was digging around online trying to get to the bottom of this mess, and from what I can tell, it looks like someone basically hijacked the driver to run a miner. It’s pretty shady stuff. Honestly, at this point, just swapping out the graphics card might be the easiest way to wipe the slate clean and fix the whole headache.
And this on top of everything else:

I ran into the exact same headache. In my case, I noticed that as soon as I disabled my network adapter, both my CPU and GPU usage finally dropped back down to earth. After some research i found out that the file Rundll32 was the culprit—it was linked to a folder at C:\ProgramData\adob which was just eating up all my resources. I tried disabling it directly in the Task Manager, which actually caused my display driver to crash for a second, but it recovered quickly enough. Once it did, the CPU and GPU loads plummeted right back to normal idle levels. To be safe, I just went ahead and nuked the entire C:\ProgramData\adob folder, and everything has been running smooth ever since.

I've been poking around, but all I can find is that .dll file sitting right inside the System32 folder. Honestly? I'm too terrified to even touch anything in there.

Another thing you could try is just nuking uTorrent from your system entirely. I’ve heard a few people mention that it can come bundled with a hidden Bitcoin miner, and honestly, a ton of folks ended up downloading it thinking it was just a standard torrent client without realizing what was actually tucked inside.
So, I was digging around on my own machine the other day and realized I had some junk running that I definitely didn't authorize. If you're dealing with that uTorrent EpicScale Bitcoin miner on your Windows PC, it can be a real headache because it kind of sneaks its way into your system resources. After some research i found out that the file Rundll32 might be involved in how these things execute, so keep an eye on that. Honestly, it’s one of those things where you think you've cleaned everything up, and then your fan starts spinning like crazy again. Here’s the best way to handle it: First, check your installed programs. It sounds obvious, but sometimes these things hide under a slightly different name. If you see anything related to EpicScale or suspicious Bitcoin mining software, yank it out immediately through the Control Panel. Next, you really want to run a deep scan. I personally swear by Malwarebytes for this kind of stuff. It’s much more reliable than the basic built-in tools when you're hunting for specific miners that try to piggyback on legitimate software like uTorrent. If it's still hanging around, pull up your Task Manager. Look for any processes that are eating up your CPU cycles for no reason. If you see something suspicious, right-click and hit "End Task," but don't be surprised if it pops right back up—that's how they stay alive. Just take it step by step. It’s annoying, sure, but you'll get your speed back once you clear out the clutter.
Funny enough, I’m running that exact same version, 3.4.2.
I just need to double-check which version of uTorrent is actually safe to use these days.