Best Programs for Your Gaming PC: How to Check Thermals, Bottlenecks, & Use Command Prompt
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Date: 2021-05-13
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Fuji
A lot of the regular viewers might look at this and think it's all common sense, but honestly videos like this are phenomenal and my younger-self would have LOVED to have a cheat sheet to get started with home benchmark and troubleshooting tools like this.
To add one to the list, I'd say for beginners, the built-in windows tools event viewer, task-manager, and performance monitor are very powerful and fall in line with the tools mentioned, but a lot of fresh starters have no idea how to navigate them. Additionally, as a super-charged task-manager, a tool called Process Explorer can be incredibly helpful when a particular application is driving you crazy, and right alongside that, another similarly named tool Process Monitor is sort of like a tell me what happened tool , that can record things like registry changes, errors, etc - not quite to Event Viewer what Process Explorer is to task manager, but Process Monitor is a great tool to use in conjunction when you need logging beyond what event viewer can show you!
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A lot of the regular viewers might look at this and think it's all common sense, but honestly videos like this are phenomenal and my younger-self would have LOVED to have a cheat sheet to get started with home benchmark and troubleshooting tools like this.
To add one to the list, I'd say for beginners, the built-in windows tools event viewer, task-manager, and performance monitor are very powerful and fall in line with the tools mentioned, but a lot of fresh starters have no idea how to navigate them. Additionally, as a super-charged task-manager, a tool called Process Explorer can be incredibly helpful when a particular application is driving you crazy, and right alongside that, another similarly named tool Process Monitor is sort of like a tell me what happened tool , that can record things like registry changes, errors, etc - not quite to Event Viewer what Process Explorer is to task manager, but Process Monitor is a great tool to use in conjunction when you need logging beyond what event viewer can show you!
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Mart
On the subject of vbios flashing: If 'blind' recovery is too difficult for you or you haven't prepared that option, it's way easier of course if you have a secondary way of putting out display. Integrated graphics is one way, a secondary dedicated gpu is another.
Reset motherboard bios (if necessary) and usually the iGPU will be used. Or move secondary gpu to first pcie 16x slot.
From there if you get back into the flash utility, find the 'borked' gpu and reflash... Just make sure you have the correct one selected. So for example if you use 2 dedicated gpus and depending on utility its usually something like 'gpu 0' is in the first pcie16x slot and 'gpu 1' is in the second pcie 16x slot.
This is not a complete list of 'how to' for this but maybe it'll help someone...
Good luck all!
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On the subject of vbios flashing: If 'blind' recovery is too difficult for you or you haven't prepared that option, it's way easier of course if you have a secondary way of putting out display. Integrated graphics is one way, a secondary dedicated gpu is another.
Reset motherboard bios (if necessary) and usually the iGPU will be used. Or move secondary gpu to first pcie 16x slot.
From there if you get back into the flash utility, find the 'borked' gpu and reflash... Just make sure you have the correct one selected. So for example if you use 2 dedicated gpus and depending on utility its usually something like 'gpu 0' is in the first pcie16x slot and 'gpu 1' is in the second pcie 16x slot.
This is not a complete list of 'how to' for this but maybe it'll help someone...
Good luck all!
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Tom
You guys know what you're doing and I need a hand with something...
Stuck with a GT 710 2GB Fanless GPU, got like 5 fans in my case so U can afford to overclock the fanless potato of a GPU, but I've tried using MSI's Overclocking program, but I can change the voltage and it doesn't respond to anything else (Heat up, etc.)
Is there anyway to OC my horrible GPU so I can get more than 20 FPS in games like SCP Secret Lab :')
Basically, I want to thrash the heck outta this card and dump it when RTX 30 series are in stock next year or year after, to a point where it can handle basic games at minimum graphics
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You guys know what you're doing and I need a hand with something...
Stuck with a GT 710 2GB Fanless GPU, got like 5 fans in my case so U can afford to overclock the fanless potato of a GPU, but I've tried using MSI's Overclocking program, but I can change the voltage and it doesn't respond to anything else (Heat up, etc.)
Is there anyway to OC my horrible GPU so I can get more than 20 FPS in games like SCP Secret Lab :')
Basically, I want to thrash the heck outta this card and dump it when RTX 30 series are in stock next year or year after, to a point where it can handle basic games at minimum graphics
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Nordern
Other suggestions for more editing and video:
FFMPEG Batch Converter, a UI FFMPEG program to do any kind of video processing, transcoding, remuxing, resoluton changes, proxies etc
Or just FFMPEG for the CMD line, use .bat files like mentioned in the video to do video processing!
VoiceFX: Nvidia Broadcast/RTX voice plugin for editing programs!
Virtual Audio Cable: Virtual and up to 256 audio drivers, really useful for splitting audio so OBS can record different programs on different tracks
Everything: A search function in Windows that actually works!
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Other suggestions for more editing and video:
FFMPEG Batch Converter, a UI FFMPEG program to do any kind of video processing, transcoding, remuxing, resoluton changes, proxies etc
Or just FFMPEG for the CMD line, use .bat files like mentioned in the video to do video processing!
VoiceFX: Nvidia Broadcast/RTX voice plugin for editing programs!
Virtual Audio Cable: Virtual and up to 256 audio drivers, really useful for splitting audio so OBS can record different programs on different tracks
Everything: A search function in Windows that actually works!
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Kernelpickle
Professional IT guy here with a cool command line trick for networking issues.
Instead of using ping and traceroute (tracert), try using pathping. Pathping does the job of both and it shows some slightly different information than the standard traceroute.
Run it from cmd or PowerShell using the format pathping . I tend to use it with IP addresses exclusively, but I m pretty sure you can drop a URL in there and get results. You can always type pathping /? to view the man page for more info.
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Professional IT guy here with a cool command line trick for networking issues.
Instead of using ping and traceroute (tracert), try using pathping. Pathping does the job of both and it shows some slightly different information than the standard traceroute.
Run it from cmd or PowerShell using the format pathping . I tend to use it with IP addresses exclusively, but I m pretty sure you can drop a URL in there and get results. You can always type pathping /? to view the man page for more info.
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Andrew
Dang, I didn't know anyone else really used FastStone. I used it way back in the early Win 7 days when it couldn't handle large .TIFF files.
I now use it for batch resizing. We take a ton of field photos for adding into reports or future recall. With phone cameras now making massive file sizes, it chews up HDD space quickly. Resizing 100s of pictures at once in a few clicks makes it incredibly easy and now I don't have to be so cognizant with how many pictures I'm taking.
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Dang, I didn't know anyone else really used FastStone. I used it way back in the early Win 7 days when it couldn't handle large .TIFF files.
I now use it for batch resizing. We take a ton of field photos for adding into reports or future recall. With phone cameras now making massive file sizes, it chews up HDD space quickly. Resizing 100s of pictures at once in a few clicks makes it incredibly easy and now I don't have to be so cognizant with how many pictures I'm taking.
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Subrezon
You really shouldn't launch cmd as admin all the time, because some of the things you can do there would only be visible to other admin apps. Example: if you mount a network share as admin, it will only appear in Explorer if you launch that as admin too.
Been on wild debugging goosechases a couple of times, and sometimes admin cmd commands were the cause.
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You really shouldn't launch cmd as admin all the time, because some of the things you can do there would only be visible to other admin apps. Example: if you mount a network share as admin, it will only appear in Explorer if you launch that as admin too.
Been on wild debugging goosechases a couple of times, and sometimes admin cmd commands were the cause.
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kdcadet
Great information. Thank you!
Note: You can do retroactive video capture with OBS. EposVox has a video where he shows how to set this up. In his video, he actually shows how to do instant replays with a special transition effect for a streaming scenario, but you could just use the part he shows with retroactive recording file saving.
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Great information. Thank you!
Note: You can do retroactive video capture with OBS. EposVox has a video where he shows how to set this up. In his video, he actually shows how to do instant replays with a special transition effect for a streaming scenario, but you could just use the part he shows with retroactive recording file saving.
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qlimaxmito
Two notes about the recording programs you suggested:
- OBS also has a retroactive record function, but unlike ShadowPlay and ReLive the buffer must be stored in memory, which might not be viable for everyone.
- With a simple hack it's possible to bypass the login requirement for using ShadowPlay, there are tutorials online.
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Two notes about the recording programs you suggested:
- OBS also has a retroactive record function, but unlike ShadowPlay and ReLive the buffer must be stored in memory, which might not be viable for everyone.
- With a simple hack it's possible to bypass the login requirement for using ShadowPlay, there are tutorials online.
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Elivai
When I subbed to the Patreon it was because the content was good and I learned so much, but your output lately is genuinely next level and I'm super proud to be a supporter. I hope everyone at GN knows how amazing they are, looking forward to what you do next! Also the new intro/outro looks and sounds great.
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When I subbed to the Patreon it was because the content was good and I learned so much, but your output lately is genuinely next level and I'm super proud to be a supporter. I hope everyone at GN knows how amazing they are, looking forward to what you do next! Also the new intro/outro looks and sounds great.
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