Root Access

12:00 AM

Rerunning it full-screen.

It was stuttering early for nonobvious reasons.

@bwDraco I agree that Smart Meters are here to stay. But it's a shock to people in my community as to why, and especially how they rolled them out

bwDraco

It's smoother this time around.

allquixotic

I'm only getting 100 Mbps downstream on the benchmark coming from FFXV servers... must be overloaded :D

Bob

0

Q: Where was the Willowsoft Overture File System (OFS1) used?

While chatting about data recovery, an obscure filesystem came up. It apparently claimed the MBR partition ID 0x20 and was named "Willowsoft Overture File System (OFS1)". In the modern world, it seems to only be seen when a partition table is corrupted. Digging back a bit, it's possible to find ...

@JourneymanGeek @bwDraco ^

(got the go-ahead on meta: retrocomputing.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/549/…)

bwDraco

CPU load hovering around 60% during the combat portion of the benchmark.

NVIDIA users: Note that Ansel is available in the benchmark.

Bob

12:05 AM

@allquixotic oof, that sounds bad

bwDraco

Peak load was about 80%.

Score this time: 9229.

1080p, full-screen on high settings.

Graphics card is overclocked, +50 core +300 memory.

allquixotic

huh... I guess your score will depend hugely on your screen res

bwDraco

gamersnexus.net/game-bench/…

Hmm...

allquixotic

mine will probably be way lower at 3440x1440

bwDraco

1440p is not an option, oddly.

It only allows 720p, 1080p, and 2160p.

It's a benchmark first and foremost; the game proper will have more options.

But the score at 1080p is very promising and bodes well for when the game actually comes out.

I should say that FFXV is one of the most graphically demanding games ever built for PC. I must say I'm surprised it hit an 8C/16T processor that hard.

gamersnexus.net/news/…

> MaxFramerate=240

Great. I was worried it might be locked to 60 fps.

allquixotic

12:19 AM

@bwDraco benchmark.finalfantasyxv.com/result/… -- 1080p, standard quality, fullscreen, 8700K + 1080, score of 10414

bwDraco

Standard quality. Can you try high?

On my system, it was mainly GPU-limited, but with brief moments where the bench was obviously CPU-limited.

allquixotic

looks like the standard benchmark for a GTX 1080 on high quality, 1080p, is 7482

let's see what I get

FML Cat

Whoops, nearly set the kitchen on fire... Again

Managed to burn/melt two totally new pans

Bob

Windows 7 is almost 10 years old! :O

allquixotic

@bwDraco 7625 on high, which is 143 points higher than the average for the GTX 1080 at that quality and resolution

bwDraco

12:29 AM

Hmm...

So I wonder what to expect in terms of frame rate at 1440p...

FML Cat

@Bob Windows XP is almost double that!

And the payment terminals on our busses use something even older, possibly Windows 2000

bwDraco

"Why bother upgrading if it works?"

allquixotic

@bwDraco the average for the 1080 Ti on high is 9165

you're 64 points above par for your GPU; I'm 143 points above :P

probably because we both have better than average CPUs but my single thread perf gives me a few more frames

bwDraco

I kinda suspect CPU bottlenecking. What's your clock frequency?

allquixotic

I didn't OC anything though

just stock clocks on both CPU and GPU

bwDraco

12:34 AM

If your monitor has an FPS counter, what does it say?

(mine doesn't)

allquixotic

mine doesn't either

I think it does but I have it off

looks like my CPU occasionally throttles up to 4.4 GHz but doesn't stay there

that game is obviously built to run on a future Volta Ti card if you want max detail and high fps

you might be able to get somewhat close with Pascal, but ultimately you will fall short, especially if you go higher than 1080p

bwDraco

It allows up to 8K rendering. This is pretty much the Crysis of 2018.

in The Bridge, Jul 21 '13 at 2:51, by DragonLord

I have a feeling that FF15 will end up being the performance behemoth Crysis was almost six years ago...

@allquixotic Most like beyond. I'd suspect the TITAN V is just barely hitting 60 fps at 4K.

And not every GameWorks feature is even enabled.

(a gaming Volta card will likely perform a bit better, but this game is practically future-proof)

Bob

I think the current Willowtech might be my best lead so far; sent them an email (cc @JourneymanGeek @bwDraco)

Journeyman Geek

lol.

Rabbithile much? ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Yup! :D

Journeyman Geek

12:42 AM

> MQ Client for SGI IRIX

wait. what?

(Irix has been discontinued for over a decade)

Bob

@bwDraco Ehhh... I'd judge the "future-proof"-ness of a game by its gameplay rather than just shiny graphics.

@JourneymanGeek That's why they're my best lead! :P

Who better to ask about a 20+ year old possibly nonexistent filesystem than a company about that old, with the same name, dealing with decades-old software? :P

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek "discontinued" is more of a suggestion to consider moving within the lifetime of the organization's youngest current employees to some IT shops

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic Its discontinued cause it runs on hardware that hasn't really been made in over a decade...

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Only a decade? :P

*cough*mainframes*cough*

Journeyman Geek

@Bob much more specialised tho

Bob

12:46 AM

@JourneymanGeek It doesn't get much more specialised than IBM WebSphere :P

allquixotic

@Bob to be fair, IBM supports old mainframe hardware just about forever (as long as you're willing to pay for support), and continues to have software maintenance and patches, and even makes new hardware for the platform that can run Linux on zArchitecture and modern stuff like Python, Java and Node

Journeyman Geek

oddly enough my 20something year old SGI still boots. I just don't know the password and am not motivated to break into it

allquixotic

@Bob don't remind me; we just lost a month of productivity because of a Websphere bug

Bob

Heck, didn't @allquixotic work with WebSphere?

oh, yes :P

allquixotic

oh yeah, all the time

Journeyman Geek

12:47 AM

@allquixotic SGI's old headquarters is now the googleplex and they're basically a rackspace brand name

allquixotic

we had a servicesIndex.xml generation failure related to a mandatory security update for Struts that shipped a new version of log4j that had the new Java 9 "Multi-Release-Jar:" attribute in MANIFEST.MF, and shipped versions of itself for Java 8 and Java 9

the WebSphere annotation scanner for the Java 7 runtime WebSphere was running under was scanning the Java 9 log4j classes and crashing, and not generating servicesIndex.xml, so we got no web services and the deploy failed

took a month of our time to find the root cause: we hadn't patched WebSphere up to 8.5.1.14

we were only on 8.5.1.11

Bob

@allquixotic Heh, I wonder if you're running some Willowtech thing

FML Cat

Guess I have some polymer fume fever to look forward to...

Polymer fume fever

Polymer fume fever or fluoropolymer fever, also informally called Teflon flu, is an inhalation fever caused by the fumes released when polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE, known under the trade name Teflon) reaches temperatures of 300 °C (572 °F) to 450 °C (842 °F). When PTFE is heated above 450 °C the pyrolysis products are different and inhalation may cause acute lung injury. Symptoms are flu-like (chills, headaches and fevers) with chest tightness and mild cough. Onset occurs about 4 to 8 hours after exposure to the pyrolysis products of PTFE. A high white blood cell count may be seen and chest x...

Journeyman Geek

0_0

FML Cat

1:10 AM

Hmm I can get renewable electricity at 9.6p per kwh, but am currently being charged 16.3p

That, and overclocking, would increase my Ethereum mining profitability from $1.34 per day to $2.10 per day, over 50%

Company website looks pretty sketchy though

outfoxthemarket.co.uk

ToxicFrog

I find it extremely doubtful that there isn't something you can do with that electricity that's worth more than ten cents an hour.

FML Cat

> Outfox The Market are proud to partner with DONG Energy, the world leader in wind technology

Dong energy...

@ToxicFrog If you know another way of passively generating a profit using only electricity with zero capital outlay while I sleep, let me know!

allquixotic

1:25 AM

@FMLCat Dong energy: our turbine blades are giant dildos?

FML Cat

Not too shabby for "unlimited" 4G for £35 a month. Granted, speeds are 1/10th of that at peak time and it's not meant for tethering, but hey no contract, and the tethering block is so easy to get around my phone does it automatically.

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic not exactly...

but I'd have to kick myself for the joke I'd have to make, and that would be arkward.

@FMLCat ODDLY ENOUGH

boingboing.net/2017/10/10/the-climactic-conclusion-to-do.html

they might change their name, or might have

FML Cat

I guess ~~DONG~~ Danish Oil and Gas isn't an appropriate name for a company trying to be 100% renewable and who have sold off their oil business...

Bob

2

A: Connector Placement

Neither of your options is stronger or weaker than the other. Think, how are you going to disconnect a cable without using any violence? Be sure that you have room to do it. Designer's nose start easily to attract serviceman's fist if this is not thought. You can quadruple that attraction by mak...

Journeyman Geek

0_0

Bob

1:42 AM

Is this some kind of elaborately layered pun? Charlie -> C -> "C" is pronounced Si (spanish for yes) -> yes — BlackThorn 7 hours ago

Ave

2:43 AM

oh my god

Basically I try to maintain an api of the turkish post on a github repo of mine

it had been up since april 2016 and stuff, nearly 2 years

Michael Frank

..and then?

Ave

So basically the api script doesn't work rn. So what do I do? I download the mobile app, extract apk, decompile it.

It's the exact same endpoints and same authentication method.

I go and try tracking on mobile app...

They shut down APIs and didn't a) set up an alternative b) update app to remove tracking functionality c) remove app from store

Journeyman Geek

does the mobile app work?

Ave

nope

they shut down apis as I said

Journeyman Geek

ugh

Bob

2:46 AM

@Ave how do you know they shut them down and it's not, say, an outage?

Ave

because it's not 500 or anything like that

it's 404

and it's the 404 of the main site, not the api part.

Journeyman Geek

0_0

Bob

3:32 AM

@Ave I've seen sites that default to 404 for every error including 500.

It's not good practice, not even remotely. But it does happen.

Journeyman Geek

blarg

Bob

blorg?

Journeyman Geek

ah, moddy stuff. came across an upvoted answer that primarily consists of links

and is kinda on the verge of other castleness

2

A: Windows 10 fails to boot after HDD clone to SSD

Since you have a way of booting into Windows on the SSD, you can do a Repair install of Windows 10 by performing an in-place upgrade without losing anything. You should first verify the partition alignment as described here.

Bob

"that avatar looks familiar"

@JourneymanGeek Eh, the link part looks alright.

Suggest what to do (core of the answer) and link to detailed steps.

Journeyman Geek

eh, its kinda borderline to me

Bob

3:40 AM

Even if the links die, the core is still searchable. Which is fine.

Journeyman Geek

But if it was easy, I would be doing, not blehing ;p

Bob

It doesn't fall under link-only IMO.

Now, whether it actually applies to the question, idk

@JourneymanGeek To me, the test is "if the links were not included, would it still be ok?"

In this case, yes. Because it is still a complete answer even without detailed step-by-step instructions.

Journeyman Geek

well, to an extent, technical correctness/incorrectness is handlable by voting

Bob

The links are added value. They do nothing more than save a 2 min trip to google and maybe endorse a couple of known-good resources

Journeyman Geek

and the answer makes sense if you have a certain idea of what's doing ;p

yup

Bob

3:44 AM

@JourneymanGeek I've got two confirmed tests that toaster is working :D

Journeyman Geek

XD

Bob

third guy drowned his PC, soo...

Journeyman Geek

0_0

lol

Bob

@JourneymanGeek github.com/BobVul/GrowlToToast/issues/11#issuecomment-362087852

Journeyman Geek

I need to get it set up again ;p

Bob

3:45 AM

@JourneymanGeek bonus, it's (probably) easier now :P

Journeyman Geek

oh, the troublesome side isn't the windows side

Bob

ah

Journeyman Geek

and I might rebuild the download box once qbitorrent fixes the webui

(which is broken for me)

Bob

4:47 AM

@allquixotic @bwDraco superuser.com/questions/1290922/…

Bob

6:42 AM

5

A: Are we living in a simulation? The evidence

Statistics As soon as you establish that creating a simulated universe is possible it becomes more likely that you are within a simulated one. Imagine someone creates a simulation of a town, an exact replica. If you're a member of this town it is now a 50/50 chance that you're in a simulation v...

Getting a bit philosophical, but it's an interesting take...

Also, statistically, a program is more likely to be running on a VM than not? :P

(cc @allquixotic)

Journeyman Geek

Oo

My bus has USB ports on every pair of seats.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Don't go sticking things into them without protection!

Journeyman Geek

Lol

Bob

interpersonal.stackexchange.com/questions/9953/… @_@ the choice of names is making me rather uncomfortable

Michael Frank

That whole Q is very bizarre.

allquixotic

7:05 AM

issuetracker.google.com/issues/36956898

Bob

@allquixotic wtf

Journeyman Geek

7:32 AM

whoot

got one of only 4 reversal badges on the site so far :)

superuser.com/help/badges/47/reversal

Michael Frank

7:51 AM

> One or more videos have been removed from the playlist because they were deleted from YouTube.

I wish it would tell you what was deleted. :|

Bob

8:04 AM

@MichaelFrank copy the video link if you can, and google for the id

djsmiley2k

@Burgi Why? it's working - i left the controller in a cupboard in a bag, exposed to the elements for 2 years, and it's even still charged!

Michael Frank

@Bob Nah, this message just appears at the top of playslist/Watch Later lists when something you had on the list was removed.

Bob

@MichaelFrank oh. welp.

Bob

8:29 AM

Journeyman Geek

... they might have a point there.

djsmiley2k

9:05 AM

@Bob how easy is it to run a vm in a vm in a vm in a vm....

if not easy, then the chances become vastly less

if it is easy, then hugely more

if you are simulating inside a simulation, surely there's a limit to the level of simulations you can do

Burgi

@djsmiley2k #PCMasterRace

djsmiley2k

lul

#GotNoGraphicsCardsBcuzMinersBro

Burgi

someone was talking about how bitcoins are killing the planet

djsmiley2k

oh :D

Bob

@djsmiley2k pretty easy

djsmiley2k

9:20 AM

hmmm k

but there's some point at which it all breaks down?

Bob

well, it'd get progressively slower (unless you're using containers) and you'd also eventually run out of RAM

Burgi

ALL OF THE RAM!!!!

Journeyman Geek

hm

barlop

10:19 AM

is there any reliable https proxy server online that anybody here knows of?

Journeyman Geek

err

I just use tunnelbear these days. Whatchaneeditdfor?

djsmiley2k

@Bob nod, ok

yeah I fire up my free tunnelbear account to do whatever I need to 'do'

That Brazilian Guy

11:52 AM

Bonjour mes amis et amies! Comment ça vas?

@barlop Realiable? As in stability or as in trustworthyness?

For both I use my own server, either as a VPN or a socks proxy

Journeyman Geek

@ThatBrazilianGuy Brazilian French?

Man, it sounds almost like a different language from Brazillian Spanish

That Brazilian Guy

Je n'ai aucune idée de quoi tu parles. Je parle espagnol! Omellet du fromage! Petit-gateau! Baguette!

100% espagnol brésilien, évidemment!

Journeyman Geek

"I have no idea what I'm saying. I speak spanish, cheese omlette! small cake! Baguette!" ? ;p

pretty sure you made the last word up

That Brazilian Guy

I don't make bread. Once I helped foreign ~~dogs~~ people make bread, but that's all ;P

> I have no idea what ~~I'm saying~~ you're talking about.

At least, according to my ~~friend~~ ~~Google translate~~ native Brazilian Spanish language.

Journeyman Geek

@ThatBrazilianGuy that was an japanese copy of austrian bread ;p

That Brazilian Guy

12:03 PM

Brazilian Spanish just happens to sometimes look juuuuuust like French. Specially on the first Friday of February.

Journeyman Geek

made by a Brazillian, cause globalisation!

That Brazilian Guy

And cooked in Singapore!

Journeyman Geek

quite!

That Brazilian Guy

What's the meaning of "quite" in this context?

Journeyman Geek

Its actually amusing how much we bake for folks who don't have any baking in our culture

@ThatBrazilianGuy quite true?

That Brazilian Guy

12:06 PM

Oh ok.

djsmiley2k

12:34 PM

@ThatBrazilianGuy a confirmation of the previous such statement.

Ave

1:01 PM

@JourneymanGeek better than turkish polish I guess

(google gives me polish text all around, which is the dumb joke I guess)

(and that's TOTALLY not because I have 6in4 configured to route my network from Poland)

That Brazilian Guy

Hm. First time I've heard about 6in4.

Journeyman Geek

ooh

HE?

That Brazilian Guy

1:43 PM

Noooooo my firefox crashed (I totally didn't hit some key combo by mistake) and upon restart my tabs are all goooonnnnnnnnne

allquixotic

@Bob That defect is patterened with an easter egg, I'll bet

ChatBot John Cavil

@allquixotic @Bob That defect is patterned with he now praises the ipad an easter egg, I'll bet (source)

allquixotic

Apparently this is a common thing with bots

That Brazilian Guy

OKAY WHO WAS THE IDIOT AT MOZILLA WHO DECIDED TO ASSIGN CTRL+Q TO "CLOSE ALL TABS IN ALL WINDOWS WITH NO 'ARE YOU SURE' DIALOG AND NO RESTORE SESSION FUNCTIONALITY"

Journeyman Geek

Probably Bill

That Brazilian Guy

1:48 PM

cLASSIC bILL

FF 58.0.1
Click "x": "are you sure"?
ALT + F4: "are you sure"?
fat-finger CTRL + Q: BOOOOOOMMMM

MAH TAAAAAAAABSSSSS

allquixotic

bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=406947 bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52821 bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1427310

> Reported:
18 years ago

have fun

> Status: NEW

for context, 18 years ago, Windows XP was not released and most people running X11 on Linux did not have 3d-accelerated direct rendering

That Brazilian Guy

Reported: 18 years ago // Modified: 3 days ago // Status: NEW

allquixotic

hell, Mac OS X wasn't even released AFAIK

yup, first Mac OS X public beta was in September 2000, final release 2001

so when that bug was reported, people were running Firefox on like, Windows 9x, Windows NT/2000, Linux on XFree86 (before X.org), or Solaris 8 (which was super advanced at the time)

Bob

@ThatBrazilianGuy that's only on Linux iirc

That Brazilian Guy

XFree86... Now that's ~~a cake I ain't had to bake for~~ something I haven't heard in a long time.

@Bob Try it, I dare you ;^)

Bob

2:00 PM

it also shouldn't bypass session restore

allquixotic

@ThatBrazilianGuy I just tried it on Windows, and nothing happens

Ctrl+Q is literally a no-op on Windows

Bob

@ThatBrazilianGuy I hit that key combination all the time on Windows

especially on the new keyboard

I remember running into this during my short stint on kubuntu 6 years ago

That Brazilian Guy

So, turns out I lost my work HDD last month, reinstalled Firefox and forgot to check "restore previous windows and tabs" and had been restoring from the FF dialog all this time.

djsmiley2k

lol

allquixotic

So do the "Intel chipset drivers" on modern Windows actually do anything besides provide more specific names for components initialized off your PCH?

djsmiley2k

2:03 PM

it's ctrl+shift+Q here on windows.

That Brazilian Guy

@djsmiley2k it does nothing on Fedora 26

FML Cat

@allquixotic mostly no

allquixotic

nice, MSI has a newer version than Intel's public site

Bob

@ThatBrazilianGuy you should still be able to restore from the menu

@JourneymanGeek that retro question seems to be well received, though not answered yet :P

Journeyman Geek

@Bob its seriously obscure ;p

XKCD

2:54 PM

People with all six of those names agree that it's weird that we have teeth, when you think about it for too long. Just about everyone agrees on that, exceptâin a still-unexplained statistical anomalyâpeople named "Trevor."

Burgi

meh

djsmiley2k

3:11 PM

statistics are hard, this comic doesn't help.

4/10 dead dogs agree.

Journeyman Geek

:(

jokerdino

good morning

djsmiley2k

@JourneymanGeek nothing personal!

jokerdino

personnel*

That Brazilian Guy

3:58 PM

Can I ask a PHP question here?

1

Q: Multilple single-use widgets with the same output callback

I have this scenario where I need to provide various single-use widgets. They're all displayed the same way, so I don't feel the need for a different display functions for each widget. However, if I use the same callback on all wp_register_sidebar_widget instances, only the last one is active. ...

widgets

(actually it's WordPress)

Bob

eww, php. eww, wordpress.

3

That Brazilian Guy

😢 😭

2

djsmiley2k

4:38 PM

lol

JakeGould

Hey folks! This question should be closed. Too broad and demanding. superuser.com/questions/1291415/…

djsmiley2k

@JakeGould ...

your comment saying you can't get around it is clearly wrong though

However, 'should SU help people getting around website blocks' is a interesting moral debate

JakeGould

4:56 PM

@djsmiley2k Well, of course you can get around this. Scrape a site the way the pros do: Using a VPN or a small fleet of could servers where you can switch IP addresses. But if you look at the rest of the original posters comments they are basically complaining about it being “unfair” that someone would do that to them. To me that does not seem like someone who knows or even understands what they are doing or is capable of taking real steps to understand how things like that work.

djsmiley2k

Hah, I'm a 'pro'

2

JakeGould

@djsmiley2k They barely understand how an IP address works on a router versus and external address. Is it our job to waste time explaining this stuff to someone who wants to scrape content?

djsmiley2k

@JakeGould I'm.... not sure I follow, I'll leave this one to the mods

JakeGould

@djsmiley2k They don’t know what they are doing and what can anyone here do to explain how this all works to them.

djsmiley2k

lots of people go to work every day and do things, where they don't realise the impact of what they are doing.

I'm sure the scientists working on the manhattan project didn't go 'lets blow up loads of japanese people!'

JakeGould

5:01 PM

@djsmiley2k I’m talking about the scope of some “script kiddie” asking for basic advice. How can anyone explain to someone that they are blocked by the website and there is no simple way around that. That is all. Sorry to be blunt, but who cares past this.

djsmiley2k

'Your external IP is blocked, fixes may include: 1. rebooting your router, 2. contacting your ISP to get a new IP, 3. using a vpn or other tunneling service to hide your external IP, 4. using tor, 5. using a mobile connection, 6. using a web cafe.'

JakeGould

@djsmiley2k That is not an answer. It’s a list of generic advice provided to someone who barely understands why they were blocked. They clearly want to be unblocked so they can scrape the site again. Can you guarantee that your generic advice will allow them to get around the block and scrape the site again?

jokerdino

bleed rep?

Animesh Ashish

5:33 PM

My Benefactor is his fan. Who am I? imgur.com/a/NwVrG (Refer image)

bwDraco

5:43 PM

backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-2017

@JourneymanGeek ^^

Canadian Luke

5:59 PM

Shameless plug: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/365133/follow-the-path-of-what-i-know-then-try-to-implement-correct-coding-practices

I'm shocked at how many up/down votes it's getting....

djsmiley2k

6:18 PM

!!shamelessplug

ChatBot John Cavil

Canadian Luke

I'd definitely like to know how many DVs vs UVs though

djsmiley2k

can't you see on your rep page?

Canadian Luke

No :( Just that I have +51 rep from it

So I know at least 10 upvotes

Oh whoops

You're right

djsmiley2k

yeah, the timeline

showsd each up and down vote i think?

Canadian Luke

6:28 PM

+9/-2

Didn't even think to look there :-P

I want to know why the downvotes though

... Clippy, I'm sure you can't help with that one

bwDraco

Somebody got a reference or cheat sheet for all the controls on the PXC 550 Wireless? I'm having trouble with some of the gestures.

djsmiley2k

6:58 PM

@CanadianLuke because you asked a question.

Canadian Luke

Thanks...

I totally forgot :-p

djsmiley2k

7:35 PM

:D

Canadian Luke

7:59 PM

I feel I need a vacation... But I can never take one when I need one... Cause there's so much work to do when I need to take one, but I don't want to take one when it's slow...

And now, I'm cleaning out 267 GB of "Windows Error Reporting files" on a lab system... -.-

DavidPostill

8:46 PM

Sennheiser PXC 550 touch sensitive trackpad gestures / commands + buttons functions

►

bwDraco

I have the manual on my phone but I have trouble understanding the call controls.

(if Sennheiser would add a controls reference to the CapTune app, that would be great)

@CanadianLuke softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/reputation

bwDraco

9:01 PM

wccftech.com/final-fantasy-xv-windows-edition-generation

allquixotic

@bwDraco If true, would you expect to see the next console generation in 3-4 years, which will have an affordably-produced chip comparable to a GTX 1170 (Volta), shipping a "FFXV HD Edition" or something?

basically offering up what 1080 Ti / Titan V users are running on PC this year?

bwDraco

My gut is telling me they're going to use an AMD-built MCM of sorts. Zen-based cores on one die, Radeon Vega on another (32 or more NCUs), and 4 GB of HBM2, all on the same package. Up to 16 GB of DDR4 (or GDDR5X or GDDR6) will be on the board, near the processor package.

The CPU and GPU will be linked via the Infinity Fabric, and the HBCC would allow the GPU to use the DDR4/GDDR5X/GDDR6 as extra graphics memory.

7nm Vega and Zen 2 cores. I would want to think they'd probably have 48 or even 64 NCUs on the GPU block, but that'll depend on how much progress AMD makes on the Radeon front.

allquixotic

unless Intel successfully sells EMIB to the console makers @_@

if they're already running x86_64, it would be an easy hardware transition, and AMD could still make the GPU... or even Nvidia

that's the thing: Intel now has a proper MCM solution that would work great with consoles

bwDraco

Like I said... AMD has their own proprietary interconnect.

I think they're working on something like EMIB, possibly an evolution of their existing interposer technology.

allquixotic

I know what would most likely cause AMD to win the next console hardware bidding war:

PRICE

it's all about the cost per unit; AMD can bring it lower than Intel/Nvidia or Intel/AMD, imo

and Intel doesn't yet have a competitive in-house GPU because they haven't ever shipped a first-party Intel GPU with performance competitive with full-fat, current-gen desktop cards like the GTX 1060 or better; the Iris Pro was competitive with something like a 940MX, considerably shy of even a 1050

bwDraco

9:19 PM

That's the point. AMD is the only semiconductor company capable of delivering a fully-integrated solution.

allquixotic

Intel's fatest GPU ever was a 1.1 TFLOPS Iris Pro Graphics 580 back on the Skylake generation, with a paltry 128 MB of eDRAM, 0 dedicated GDDR or HBM, mostly reliant on system memory, with 72 execution units roughly comparable to a CUDA core but way lower clocks (capping out at 1000 MHz)

bwDraco

That's why they were chosen for this generation.

allquixotic

and with Kaby Lake and Coffee Lake, they abandoned producing full-scale GT4e Intel graphics solutions, they've stopped with "Iris Plus" GT3e which is slower than Skylake's GT4e

bwDraco

(Qualcomm doesn't count because they don't make desktop-class hardware)

allquixotic

yet we waste a huge portion of every non-enthusiast Intel CPU die on graphics... feh

Coffee Lake is even worse than Kaby Lake; so far they've only launched GT2 chips

This might take a few years to see a product launch

Malachi

9:55 PM

@Ramhound that is an old post.

I am able to change the code editing window, but not theme of the application

that link that I posted shows it was possible at some point.

I am curious if they removed this ability....

Ave

10:33 PM

yay

ordered a second yubikey

Ramhound

-1

A: Very high CPU usage for Windows Audio service

I have a similar problem. When i use for example google maps or the amazon webside, my explorer.exe goes up to 40% cpu usage and the websites do get really laggy and sluggish. If i restart explorer.exe everything is ok for a time...but in the end this happens again and again. I downloadet the ki...

@Malachi - I downloaded and launched the program, I played with the settings, what I submitted is my answer. They renamed the option, and likely, changed on theme styles worked entirely. I know VS did something similar.

@Malachi - All I know is Twlight is obviously the name of a "theme", like I said, seen it for years

Ramhound

11:35 PM

-2

A: Microphone detected but not working on Win10

I really hope somebody answers this because I am having SAME ISSUE AND GOD MERCY US PLEASE. Really drives me crazy.

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