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Sawsbuck October 26th, 2018 6:09 PM

Yeah that's what I had installed

Tsutarja November 4th, 2018 9:56 PM

My tenure of using an iPhone as my primary phone concludes this Tuesday. Went up and bought a OnePlus 5T and I'm looking forward to setting it up!

colours November 4th, 2018 10:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tsutarja (Post 9944872)
My tenure of using an iPhone as my primary phone concludes this Tuesday. Went up and bought a OnePlus 5T and I'm looking forward to setting it up!

I'm guessing you didn't go for the 6/6T because of the notch? xD

At any case, welcome to te 5T club!! I'm at least using mine until the OP7 or the Pixel 4 releases.

Tsutarja November 5th, 2018 8:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by colours (Post 9944886)
I'm guessing you didn't go for the 6/6T because of the notch? xD

At any case, welcome to te 5T club!! I'm at least using mine until the OP7 or the Pixel 4 releases.

Yeah, the notch was one thing that turned me down. :p However, price point on the 5T (under $500!), plus storage size and RAM were enough for me to settle on the 5T.

Incineroar November 5th, 2018 10:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tsutarja (Post 9945022)
Yeah, the notch was one thing that turned me down. :p However, price point on the 5T (under $500!), plus storage size and RAM were enough for me to settle on the 5T.

I'll be honest, the notch on my phone doesn't really bother me. I'm not constantly looking at it so it's not really bothering me. Besides, it's only using the space that's reserved for the notification bar, so it's not like there's anything important there to begin with.

colours November 8th, 2018 2:24 AM

I just think it's a boring design choice when every other phone in 2018 has a notch. It makes the phone itself feel... less unique.

Gotta say, only the OnePlus 6T so far did the notch right.

Tsutarja November 9th, 2018 7:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by colours (Post 9946240)
I just think it's a boring design choice when every other phone in 2018 has a notch. It makes the phone itself feel... less unique.

Gotta say, only the OnePlus 6T so far did the notch right.

Yeah, the OnePlus 6T's looks to be the best one I've seen to date. However, that still does not change my opinion on the notch.

Tsutarja November 11th, 2018 11:49 AM

My iPhone 6s Plus is dead, lol. I was trying to repair it and poof came flames and smoke.

colours November 13th, 2018 1:11 AM

oof. RIP.

Still considering what other phone I would even want at this point. I might just wait until 2019 because I'm not a huge fan of the notch craze going on.

Even if I'm going to get used to it eventually, I'd much rather just not have the notch there tbh.

Tsutarja November 14th, 2018 2:04 AM

I agree, I want the notch gone too.

Starry Windy December 26th, 2018 9:50 PM

Speaking of which, I got a new phone as the birthday present from my parents. Samsung Galaxy A7 (2018) looks good so far c:

colours December 26th, 2018 10:03 PM

I feel like I need a new phone by end of next year because my phone has issues charging (and it's not the charger because it works on other stuff), and I feel like it's going to end up going to the crapper soon. :\

Incineroar December 26th, 2018 10:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by colours (Post 9960749)
I feel like I need a new phone by end of next year because my phone has issues charging (and it's not the charger because it works on other stuff), and I feel like it's going to end up going to the crapper soon. :\

wait didn't you just get a new phone?????

colours December 26th, 2018 10:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Incineroar. (Post 9960758)
wait didn't you just get a new phone?????

well

that depends on your definition of "just got a new phone"

i got my phone the beginning of this year tbh

so i guess if anything lasting me a year wouldnt be awful

Incineroar December 26th, 2018 11:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by colours (Post 9960759)
well

that depends on your definition of "just got a new phone"

i got my phone the beginning of this year tbh

so i guess if anything lasting me a year wouldnt be awful

I really thought you just got a OnePlus phone like a few months ago around when Zach did. #oops

Tsutarja December 27th, 2018 9:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Incineroar. (Post 9960764)
I really thought you just got a OnePlus phone like a few months ago around when Zach did. #oops

Nah, I was late to that party.

colours December 27th, 2018 9:49 PM

I might actually go for the OP7 when that's a thing. Kinda curious to see what it'll be like.

Tsutarja December 27th, 2018 10:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by colours (Post 9961050)
I might actually go for the OP7 when that's a thing. Kinda curious to see what it'll be like.

hopefully without a notch, but one can only dream /shrug

colours December 27th, 2018 10:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tsutarja (Post 9961055)
hopefully without a notch, but one can only dream /shrug

i really feel that the whole notch thing is really just a gimmick for this year and it might not be a thing by next year.

.... Of course, that's just me either being optimistic and probably naive, but still.

EC February 7th, 2019 7:10 AM

Any ideas why my browser (Vivaldi) opens on start-up of my computer, even though it doesn't have an option for that in settings, and it's not listed in the list of programs that start on start up?

colours February 7th, 2019 7:28 AM

my Vivaldi doesn't really do that. o.o;

... but it's not on the list of startup apps on Windows 10, so that make sense why it wouldn't....

EC February 7th, 2019 8:45 AM

What's also bizarre about it is the fact that it loads with the pages I was last on before I turned the computer off, instead of the pages I have selected as my start pages.

Tsutarja February 7th, 2019 8:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EvilChameleon (Post 9976971)
Any ideas why my browser (Vivaldi) opens on start-up of my computer, even though it doesn't have an option for that in settings, and it's not listed in the list of programs that start on start up?

If you are on Windows 10, and shut down or rebooted with Vivaldi open, it's programmed to open up any programs upon startup that you had open when shutting down. I'm not sure if there's a way to disable this, but thankfully Microsoft didn't fully get rid of their old shut down procedures.

If you hold down Alt+F4 on your desktop with all programs minimized, a window will come up to prompt you for shut down, sleep, restart, etc. Doing this method will close all of your programs.

EC February 7th, 2019 9:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tsutarja (Post 9977006)
If you are on Windows 10, and shut down or rebooted with Vivaldi open, it's programmed to open up any programs upon startup that you had open when shutting down.

I close Vivaldi fully before shutting down, and it doesn't do this with any other programs.

Leviathan February 24th, 2019 3:39 PM

Hey folks, how's things? Hit a bit of a snag recently. I'm trying to save photos from my dad's iPhone 7 (front screen is a total write-off, but touch functions mostlyyyy still work), but it's been tricky. For one, when I copy photos onto my PC, half of them show up as 0 bytes in size, but they display fine on the phone. Any idea what's going on? I was speculating if this is a sign some files are corrupted maybe? 🤔 This is probably the first and last time I am going to be using an iPhone too, so 'free' solutions would be preferred! (I'm waryyyy of d/wing iTunes -- might put it on my old comp when I get the chance)

Also I can't believe Apple is really charging €1 per month for 50GB of cloud storage? It's gross how they advertise it in your face when your standard 5GB cloud is nearly full

Incineroar February 26th, 2019 10:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LeviathanX (Post 9983906)
Hey folks, how's things? Hit a bit of a snag recently. I'm trying to save photos from my dad's iPhone 7 (front screen is a total write-off, but touch functions mostlyyyy still work), but it's been tricky. For one, when I copy photos onto my PC, half of them show up as 0 bytes in size, but they display fine on the phone. Any idea what's going on? I was speculating if this is a sign some files are corrupted maybe? 🤔 This is probably the first and last time I am going to be using an iPhone too, so 'free' solutions would be preferred! (I'm waryyyy of d/wing iTunes -- might put it on my old comp when I get the chance)

Also I can't believe Apple is really charging €1 per month for 50GB of cloud storage? It's gross how they advertise it in your face when your standard 5GB cloud is nearly full

Have you perhaps checked that they might actually be saved onto his iCloud account? Or is iCloud simply not being used in this case? You should be able to pull them from internal storage but I haven't seen anyone have issues with it - my manager used my laptop the other day to copy everything from her iPhone X and had no issues with it.

Tsutarja March 26th, 2019 5:07 PM

Sooo my desktop front panel has a dead USB port 🙃

moon April 18th, 2019 9:28 AM

Dear techdiary,

It has now been 3 months since I had the fateful idea of building a PC. It led me to needing a keyboard, which led me to mechanical keyboards, which led me to now having 5 expensive mechanical keyboards in my possession, albeit 2 temporarily. The end is not on the horizon yet. In fact, I have another one coming soon.

Scared regards,
rika

Tsutarja April 18th, 2019 2:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Daenerys (Post 10007744)
Dear techdiary,

It has now been 3 months since I had the fateful idea of building a PC. It led me to needing a keyboard, which led me to mechanical keyboards, which led me to now having 5 expensive mechanical keyboards in my possession, albeit 2 temporarily. The end is not on the horizon yet. In fact, I have another one coming soon.

Scared regards,
rika

dear rika,

this is a great idea and we should make this its own thread!

<3,
zach

Incineroar April 18th, 2019 10:01 PM

I'm just happy with my one mechanical keyboard. Don't think I'll be upgrading it until it dies.

Tsutarja April 19th, 2019 8:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Incineroar. (Post 10008036)
I'm just happy with my one mechanical keyboard. Don't think I'll be upgrading it until it dies.

If my mechanical keyboard were to ever die I'd totally take the keys and make a fidget toy out of them!

Sami April 20th, 2019 2:26 AM

once you go mechanical, you never go back.

I adore my keyboard rn, only upgraded it when my old one dies or when I don't like using it anymore, which was the case with my old Logitech G710+

I tend to swap peripherals when things go bad in games :v

Aemsy April 22nd, 2019 2:19 AM

My keyboard has been working for four years,It will work......

moon April 22nd, 2019 6:51 AM

Ahaha and here I am already thinking about what to build next xD

Sami April 22nd, 2019 6:53 AM

build a TV rika you can do it

moon April 23rd, 2019 12:50 PM

Naaa maybe another computer tho

colours April 23rd, 2019 12:53 PM

im kind of ashamed i still dont know how to build a computer yet... my mind is making it out to be way harder than it probably is ;_;

Sami April 23rd, 2019 12:59 PM

I had the same mindset a few years ago till I started to upgrade my PC and realized it's easier than I thought it would be

and then I built my current PC and my sisters PC

CodeHelmet April 23rd, 2019 1:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by colours (Post 10010002)
im kind of ashamed i still dont know how to build a computer yet... my mind is making it out to be way harder than it probably is ;_;

I'll admit I'm in the same boat but it doesn't look to be that hard. Here's an example ;)

FlameChrome April 25th, 2019 2:03 PM

i havent build a computer yet either, just been learning the parts though of them.

Tsutarja May 10th, 2019 7:55 AM

Building a computer is very fun! I look forward to the day I can build another one 😊

Sami May 11th, 2019 1:11 AM

I need to prevent myself from rebuilding my PC

Taemin May 28th, 2019 3:55 PM

i haven't the slightest clue how to build one, but my ex was really good at it. He built his own twice.

I barely even know how to replace my graphics card LOL

Cid May 28th, 2019 7:20 PM

My friends love that kind of thing, building computers from parts. For me I'm just too intimidated by it. I feel like whatever I build will inevitable blow up on my face. ;(

CodeHelmet June 7th, 2019 2:14 PM

So today I watched the stream of AMD’s presentation at Computex in Taiwan a little while back(May 28th to June 1st if anyone was wondering) and they announced several things, including that their new line of Ryzen processors release next month and cost no more than $500(most expensive being a 12 core processor). In addition to being compatible to old Motherboards thanks to the AM4 socket, new Motherboards are coming to the market with a new chipset slated to take advantage of PCIe 4.0. This means faster data speeds for your hardware(like Graphics Cards) compared to PCIe 3.0.

TLDR: AMD is now the King of the Hill for the foreseeable future as Intel won’t be releasing 10nm Desktop CPU’s until 2020(and that’s a big if). Meaning for the rest of 2019 and likely all of 2020, AMD will hold the #1 title at a fraction of the cost of what Intel offers. Seeing as I intend to upgrade to a new Computer Rig later this year after roughly 9 years of abusing my current Computer, this latest Ryzen CPU will likely be my choice(3800x most likely at $400 compared to I9-9900k at $500(give or take $50)). Basically getting the same performance(if not better) at a much cheaper price.

Anyone else thinking of getting a new Computer in 2nd half of 2019?

Tsutarja June 8th, 2019 5:01 AM

The other day I upgraded my laptop's WiFi/Bluetooth chip from an Intel 3165 to the Intel 8260. It's working out very great and I couldn't be any more happy with the speeds it can provide over wireless now. The previous chip topped at a rate of only 433 Mb/s, but the new one tops at 866!

CodeHelmet June 8th, 2019 5:28 AM

Doubling speed is nice isn't it? From what I've been reading about PCIe 4.0 from AMD is that there's a new line of Solid State Drives slated to take advantage of it that can reach speeds of nearly 5 GB/second. That's just on Solid State Drives. No clue what advantage that will yield for Graphics Cards built for 4.0 and whether NVidia will respond to AMD's latest line of GPU's slated to be released next month solely for that purpose. Then there's ASUS claiming that their new line of Motherboards for AMD Zen 2(aka Ryzen 3000 series AMD just announced) can squeeze every last ounce of frequency from overclocking Memory(RAM). Apparently that's a significant boast since AMD CPU's rely on RAM to operate at their best.

Granted everything I'm reading is just pure speculation at this point. Everyone will know more when the CPU's release next month and even more when the latest AMD GPU's go live as well sometime in August(since I doubt a late July release is going to happen).

Sheep June 8th, 2019 11:08 AM

iPad Pro 12.9 inch (2018) was on sale today and $100 cheaper, so I finally caved and ordered along with an Apple Pencil (Generation 2), case, and matte screen protector. Sooo excited to finally be able to draw directly on a screen. My current tablet is one of the plug-into computer ones and it's okay, but I really would so much rather draw on something directly. Plus it hurts my arm. pls get here soon!!!

colours June 8th, 2019 11:17 AM

I have a laptop where I can detach the screen and use it as a tablet and honestly the convenience is amazing whenever I do need it so I don't blame you at all, Janna. xD

Sheep June 8th, 2019 11:29 AM

aaa yes! It is really convenient, I miss actually having my own tablet (got it from dad in high school and it died years back after lots of use, lol). Plus I can get an app that shares what I draw on the iPad to my Macbook screen so going back and forth will be really easy if there's anything I can better edit on the computer 👍

colours June 8th, 2019 11:31 AM

I'm no artist but I got this laptop mainly for taking notes in school. It costs a pretty penny but unfortunately I felt like it was the only one around that could fit my expectations of what I wanted in a note-taking laptop at the time. I refused to type up my notes and would rather use a tablet pen to write them myself, so I had to settle for this. I don't regret it though.

Tsutarja June 10th, 2019 5:50 AM

I want a Surface laptop so badly just so I can actually use it to write perfectly.

Taemin June 10th, 2019 8:12 AM

I've been craving an iPad just for art reasons tbh.

I have a tablet for my PC, but it old.

Tsutarja June 11th, 2019 4:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Green (Post 10030862)
I've been craving an iPad just for art reasons tbh.

I have a tablet for my PC, but it old.

I guess newer art tablets these days have higher precision and faster performance? I'm not an artist so I wouldn't know :p

Taemin June 11th, 2019 6:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tsutarja (Post 10031237)
I guess newer art tablets these days have higher precision and faster performance? I'm not an artist so I wouldn't know :p

Well the newer verisons have a screen on them, with mine you draw on the tablet but it shows up on the comp screen, so you have to learn to draw while not watching your hand. LOL

But it also starts wearing out, like the tablet and/or pen won't register properly and you have to toggle it for 30 minutes until you either give up, or can draw afterwords.

Also, sometimes the pen sensitivity dies.

colours June 11th, 2019 7:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tsutarja (Post 10030827)
I want a Surface laptop so badly just so I can actually use it to write perfectly.

A Surface Laptop or a Surface Pro? I don't know if you can write well on the Surface Laptop since the screen can't bend very far. As far as their Surface Pro line goes, hopefully their next iteration would include USB-C because for whatever reason in this day and age Microsoft hasn't included that yet. ._.

Tsutarja June 11th, 2019 7:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by colours (Post 10031310)
A Surface Laptop or a Surface Pro? I don't know if you can write well on the Surface Laptop since the screen can't bend very far. As far as their Surface Pro line goes, hopefully their next iteration would include USB-C because for whatever reason in this day and age Microsoft hasn't included that yet. ._.

I would honestly love to have a Surface Book if I had the money.

colours June 11th, 2019 7:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tsutarja (Post 10031314)
I would honestly love to have a Surface Book if I had the money.

The Surface Book 2 is amazing and if this was like... 2018 I'd be recommending it to everyone and their neighbour if they could spare the cash. But in mid-2019, it's probably smarter to wait until the Surface Book 3, whenever it becomes a thing.

But I cannot express enough how much I appreciate the screen detaching function, haha.

Flowerchild June 11th, 2019 9:50 AM

i can't stand surfaces. the keyboards are just about the worst things ever

colours June 11th, 2019 9:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rainbow (Post 10031356)
i can't stand surfaces. the keyboards are just about the worst things ever

excuse me?? idk about the keyboards on the pros/laptop but the surface book keyboards are hella comfortable. don't knock it until you try it; a comfortable typing experience is partially why I even got this thing.

Flowerchild June 11th, 2019 9:56 AM

i've tried it, a whole bunch. not a fan at all.
to each their own tho

colours June 11th, 2019 10:00 AM

fair enough. I can get not being on the surface pro train and typing on that but I wouldn't group the surface book line in that at all. even reputable tech reviewers (even though it's their own opinion on the matter, but I do take laptop reviews seriously) agree that the surface book typing experience is pretty good and comfortable

essentially, you get what you pay for in a surface product

Sami June 13th, 2019 1:00 AM

all i need is my old laptop which screen is completely messed up

but then again I dont need a laptop anymore

Tsutarja June 14th, 2019 5:03 AM

I have a laptop that does the job for the most part but I really wish it could game :<

Sami June 14th, 2019 5:34 AM

That's the downside with laptops, to be able to do that decently you need to shell out way more cash than with a desktop unfortunately.

I think id have to waste twice as much cash to get the same performance my desktop delivers

blue June 15th, 2019 12:53 PM

i've had windows laptops in the past but they've gone faulty or broken within a couple of years which always put me off. my desktop i've had since 2012 and it honestly runs just as smoothly as it did years ago. i've always preferred the reliability of desktops over laptops. the most reliable laptop i've purchased (and still currently have) is my macbook air which i got back in 2014 and that still works well 5 years on.

colours June 15th, 2019 1:01 PM

I should... actually try a Macbook and see what those are like. .__. I've always been on Windows laptops and they've been fine for me for the most part. Never really had a whole lot of issue with them.

But I'm willing to try something new when it comes to tech so I hope to experience what a Macbook is like in the future. :o

Sami June 15th, 2019 2:51 PM

I had a classmate who had a macbook and he could do so little with it in the course we had it was hilarious how many workarounds he had to use to do common things for said course.

blue June 15th, 2019 3:02 PM

yeah, there are a lot of things that you can't do with a mac that you can do with a windows laptop (i found out the hard way lmao). going from windows to mac takes a while to adjust though. even now i still sometimes get confused by the differences, but i have found it to easily be the most reliable laptop.

Megan June 24th, 2019 4:24 AM

My impression on Macs tends to be "shell out a lot of money for hardware and then shell out even more for the software". I've heard the majority of people who use one of those are either businessmen or artists, people who also spend a lot of money on expensive software.

I'll take any machine that is able to run Linux. If it has WIndows (which it probably has) then it gets replaced with my own setup. I'm currently on somewhat of a minimalist setup where I've gotten rid of a lot of software in favor of command line and shell scripts (most of which are assigned to some sort of keyboard shortcut).

That's something that bugs me about Windows in particular: most keyboard shortcuts are already in use and cannot be reassigned without major effort.

Tsutarja June 24th, 2019 5:45 AM

Minimalism is great if you know what you are doing. Unfortunately, a majority of end-users would be lost when it comes to solely using a command-line interface.

Meanwhile, over the weekend, I set up a FreePBX server and a SIP phone! I acquired a used Cisco 7941 IP phone that was sitting in the lab where I work, and learned a lot in the past three days about how SIP phones and IP phones in general work. It has paging and hold music.

Cid June 24th, 2019 5:57 AM

I wish I was technologically savvy enough to understand your second paragraph. :<

But yeah, re: minimalism, I appreciate the training I had to go through for my major, requiring familiarity with command line to more efficiently access Fortran modelling programs. Thanks to said training, when things are a bit minimalist, I wouldn't be too lost. Although I do prefer it when software developers make things easier for the end-user. It takes a lot of love to try to make things digestible by people like me.

Tsutarja June 24th, 2019 6:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Cid (Post 10036224)
I wish I was technologically savvy enough to understand your second paragraph. :<

It can be difficult to describe in Layman's terms, so I'll let this webpage do the talking on SIP phones:
https://www.3cx.com/pbx/sip-phones/

And then PBXs:
https://www.3cx.com/pbx/pbx-phone-system/

Pretty much any office or business that's not a small business would have a PBX system installed.

Sami June 24th, 2019 7:51 AM

So, a provider here in the Netherlands is having issues and even the national alarm number is affected by it and is offline at the moment.

Some 4G issue it appears to be

Circuit July 15th, 2019 3:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tsutarja (Post 10036251)
It can be difficult to describe in Layman's terms, so I'll let this webpage do the talking on SIP phones:
https://www.3cx.com/pbx/sip-phones/

And then PBXs:
https://www.3cx.com/pbx/pbx-phone-system/

Pretty much any office or business that's not a small business would have a PBX system installed.

My company (a hotel) is a good example of PBXs in use. Well both that and SIPs actually, but the main way to show them in use is that we have a bunch of phones each accessible over our Internet network, yet still also reachable from outside networks, being very personalised for the needs of the user of said phone network. Main an example of PBXs there but still something I'd very much like to set up amongst my roommates should they have need and/or use for a fixed telephone system which is unlikely. More it's something I'd love to try out but it's just not really feasible which is a shame.

Tsutarja July 16th, 2019 4:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Circuit (Post 10044332)
My company (a hotel) is a good example of PBXs in use. Well both that and SIPs actually, but the main way to show them in use is that we have a bunch of phones each accessible over our Internet network, yet still also reachable from outside networks, being very personalised for the needs of the user of said phone network. Main an example of PBXs there but still something I'd very much like to set up amongst my roommates should they have need and/or use for a fixed telephone system which is unlikely. More it's something I'd love to try out but it's just not really feasible which is a shame.

That sounds really awesome and let me know if you ever do set something up like this :)

I've been wanting to get a Raspberry Pi for my FreePBX/Asterisk setup for some time now, that way it's at least not running off a VM on my desktop and running on a physical device instead. And since my last post, I've figured out how to configure it to receive incoming calls from an Obihai device, but have yet to get outgoing calls working.

Circuit July 16th, 2019 8:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tsutarja (Post 10044496)
That sounds really awesome and let me know if you ever do set something up like this :)

I've been wanting to get a Raspberry Pi for my FreePBX/Asterisk setup for some time now, that way it's at least not running off a VM on my desktop and running on a physical device instead. And since my last post, I've figured out how to configure it to receive incoming calls from an Obihai device, but have yet to get outgoing calls working.

I definitely want to try it out, it's something that has been bugging me since I started living with roommates. But landline phones here for home-use are kinda costly, which is a shame.

I'd love to get one of those, or an Arduino, but more so to program various things around my room, like lighting for example. In my own place I have a lot more plans such as automated processes at home to do with ventilation, cleaning etc, but that's a way off I think. Definitely something I've got planned though. Also building my own emulator would be nice. My dad has already built one, along with an amplifier too.

Sami September 17th, 2019 11:16 PM

for some reason I think my Task Manager is broken. Yesterday I experienced a random crash and after some testing it would seem when I try to launch a game both my CPU and GPU rise up to 100%

now I have not been able to replicate the crash itself, but I find it odd that these two rise with even a low demanding game aswell as a very demanding one
best of all, performance isn't even affected at all and after 4 hours of testing I still have not crashed.
Also I find it very odd that when I look at the settings its supposed to use up 1/8th of the GPU, instead of it all.

Tsutarja September 18th, 2019 3:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TY (Post 10070806)
for some reason I think my Task Manager is broken. Yesterday I experienced a random crash and after some testing it would seem when I try to launch a game both my CPU and GPU rise up to 100%

now I have not been able to replicate the crash itself, but I find it odd that these two rise with even a low demanding game aswell as a very demanding one
best of all, performance isn't even affected at all and after 4 hours of testing I still have not crashed.
Also I find it very odd that when I look at the settings its supposed to use up 1/8th of the GPU, instead of it all.

Is this happening on all of your games or just one in particular? You might be experiencing a severe memory leak.

Sami September 18th, 2019 3:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tsutarja (Post 10070843)
Is this happening on all of your games or just one in particular? You might be experiencing a severe memory leak.

It's happening on multiple ones, but not every game has the same issue. For instance OpenTTD doesn't give the issues I described, but when I launch StarCraft: Brood War or Rainbow Six Siege (especially the latter is making it go bonkers to 100%) the whole CPU & GPU usage skyrockets on Task Manager

and strangely enough it doesn't impact anything and everything handles fine... that or it has been doing this for ages and I could get better performance oof

Tsutarja September 18th, 2019 3:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TY (Post 10070844)
It's happening on multiple ones, but not every game has the same issue. For instance OpenTTD doesn't give the issues I described, but when I launch StarCraft: Brood War or Rainbow Six Siege (especially the latter is making it go bonkers to 100%) the whole CPU & GPU usage skyrockets on Task Manager

and strangely enough it doesn't impact anything and everything handles fine... that or it has been doing this for ages and I could get better performance oof

In this instance, I would uninstall games you know for sure have the issue, making sure that all data is removed, then reinstall. If the problem does not go away, then run an elevated command prompt (Windows key + R), type cmd, then press Enter while holding down Control and Shift at the same time. From there, type sfc /scannow and that checks to see if any bits of your Windows install have become corrupt.

Sami September 18th, 2019 3:42 AM

Currently running a memory scan, will try that once it's done

Glad I got pretty darn great dl speeds otherwise it would be a pain to redownload up to 200GB of stuff lol

EDIT: was indeed some corrupted files, got them fixed


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