Look, it could be anything from a glitchy GPU to messed up drivers or even a failing power supply. Have you tried overclocking anything? What kind of temps are we looking at for your components?
If you haven't touched the overclock settings and your temperatures aren't hitting the red zone, try this: wipe those GPU drivers completely using DDU, install a fresh set, and then give the game another shot. If it keeps crashing after that... well, you might have to borrow a different graphics card from a buddy just to see if the issue follows the hardware. And if it still goes down? Honestly, if I were in your shoes, I'd just go ahead and buy a new power supply.
Any tool you pick up can either wreck your brain cells or help build new ones. It’s all about how you use it. Every single instrument just gives back whatever you put into it. That’s why some guy with nothing but glass bottles and plastic buckets can end up sounding way more soulful than some kid sitting behind a high-end workstation with infinite digital possibilities at his fingertips...
Trying to force things into boxes where they don't fit—it always ends in a massive letdown.
One guy is all about being spiritual, while the other... well, he's definitely not. But sure, let's just completely ignore the second one because the first one is exactly what we're supposedly looking for...
Look, I don't have an issue with one of the Fellini films specifically. It’s more that... sometimes I just don't have the energy for movies that aren't going to leave a lasting mark—the kind of stuff that stays with you, haunts you, and sticks in your brain forever.
I stumbled my way into Jean-Jacques Beineix's Betty Blue somewhat reluctantly, and honestly? I'll never forget something that beautiful as long as I live.
Look, whenever I set up a fresh machine, I follow the same old routine:
7zip—handles RAR, ZIP, and basically everything else you'll ever touch. For video, I usually go with Windows Media Player—you're using VLC right now, which is fine, but honestly? I’d suggest switching to Windows Media Player... it handles pretty much any format you'll run into and it doesn't hog your system resources like VLC does. Revo Uninstaller. They still have a free version floating around, if they haven't pulled the plug on it yet... An audio player—Winamp. You can probably just stick with VLC for that, I guess. A PDF viewer—Foxit Reader. I prefer an older version because it actually respects your CPU. Using Adobe Acrobat Reader just to read a simple PDF is a total nightmare... it's way too bloated. Image viewing—FastStone Image Viewer. It's a fantastic little tool... fast, lightweight, and totally free for looking through your photos. Torrents—uTorrent 😁 PowerISO (not free, unfortunately)—only if you really need to mount media images and stuff like that. And hey, if you end up catching a virus, just grab some free Norton and hope for the best.
Larry Ortiz5 said:I keep telling him the same thing—I live in Washington, D.C., where there’s a damn tech shop on basically every street corner. Just imagine the headache if I had to wire him the cash, wait for him to send the gear, and then sit around for days waiting for the mail... it's way easier to just walk into a store, grab what I need, and call it a day. 😁
Look, a guy can be totally honest and ship your order within twenty-four hours, but that stick could still have a factory defect that makes it die after a month.
ironseal8 said:No, it's not the account—it's the sticks themselves. They're brand new. I've actually moved about 30 of them already; it’s a solid brand, totally reliable... I ended up with about 50 of them by mistake along with some software, and honestly, I can't seem to get rid of them...
He mentions a price somewhere, but there's zero warranty involved. 😁
I mean, seriously, why would anyone buy from you at some "whatever" price when they could just go buy it with a full manufacturer's warranty?
So, the USA recently rolled out these new privacy regulations that every single website is forced to follow now. I haven't actually sat down to read through the fine print myself—Lord knows who has the time—but apparently, it means you have to be explicitly notified about a site's privacy policy before you can do anything. It’s been happening to me lately where I can't even load certain sites at all because I get hit with some pop-up saying they don't meet the latest security standards... just a total headache. If you find yourself stuck in this loop where the exact same site keeps badgering you for an answer every single time you visit, there's a good chance you've got your Chrome settings dialed in to wipe out all your cookies every time you close the browser. If that's the case, you might want to try letting those sites keep their cookies permanent... otherwise, you're just going to be fighting the same battle over and over again.
The way those first two ports are acting up looks like a warning sign—like this mess might just spread to the rest of the slots. But honestly, I don't even see a point in trying, because the "geniuses" over at Gigabyte laid out the PCI Express lanes in the most ridiculous way possible... they positioned them so one graphics card completely hogs the space, leaving just enough room for the second slot to be practically unreachable. Even if I actually managed to jam a card in there, it would basically be suffocating against the GPU fan...
Yeah, it's PCI-E. My bad... totally slipped my mind. I don't even have a DVD drive anymore—modern life, right?—so I'm going to have to hunt down the files online and burn a bootable USB stick. Actually, you kind of answered my next question about the rollback process while you were at it. 👍
Were you able to just keep using your existing macOS installation, or did you have to go through the whole headache of a clean reinstall?
They basically screw you over on the first two high-speed ports—that's where the real trouble is. The rest seem fine for now, but honestly, I'm just wondering how long they'll actually hold up... I've already got 2x HDDs and 2x SSDs running on this thing.
I’ve actually chewed on that idea before, but I ended up passing on it for a whole bunch of reasons... Most of them only come with two memory slots, which just isn't enough for me. And the rest? Well, after doing some digging online, their build quality looks pretty questionable at best. Sure, you might stumble upon a high-end board every once in a while, but they always come with a ridiculous price tag attached. Not to mention the fact that everything out there is used—no warranty, no safety net, nothing.
My PCI-X bus controller is acting up on my motherboard. It’s an old setup, but honestly, I’m running an i7-3770K build that still packs enough punch for what I need—I really have no reason to go through the headache of swapping everything out right now... I’m looking at picking up this specific controller I spotted over at Best Buy. But here’s the catch—I’ve been digging around online and seeing people talk about how some motherboards just flat-out refuse to recognize these controllers, especially when you're looking at the budget-friendly options. And if I end up with one of those "cheap" versions that doesn't work, I'm basically throwing $50 down the drain. It’s already such a pain to even find this kind of hardware in the States, and my options are pretty much shot because I'm not touching PCI slots—my Windows installation is sitting on an SSD, so that's non-negotiable.
So, realistically speaking, what am I actually signing up for if I pull the trigger on this?
Justin Baker6 said:Alright, you caught onto that, and there's no argument there. But don't get obsessed with those lost causes. If you stare into the abyss too long, you become the abyss. Don't overdo it. If you think you're going to help them, you're taking a massive risk of catching some kind of psychosis—it creeps up on you the longer you stay in the game. There are way too many good people in mental wards who tried to help people like that. Way too many. The thoughts they have aren't even theirs; they belong to the people they were trying to help.
It’s a total phenomenon of taking on someone else's cross.
Well, I've been around the block enough times to know where the lines are drawn. But sometimes... just sometimes... I cross them just for the hell of it.
hollowpuma762 said:Right... so things only move forward when they suit someone personally. Got it. Makes total sense.
Prejudice, oversimplification, sweeping generalizations. Just the usual stuff.
Everything is personal. At the end of the day, your own little needs and biases dictate exactly how you're going to process any bit of information that comes your way...
hollowpuma762 said:Right... so things only move forward when they suit someone personally. Got it. Makes total sense.
Prejudice, oversimplification, sweeping generalizations. Just the usual stuff.