HW News - Rockstar AMD Fix, NVIDIA Driver Security, & 50TB HDDs
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Date: 2020-05-06
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ZiGa:S
This planting tree propaganda really bothers me. It only shows you how easily corporations can manipulate people in doing the right thing. Like do it for the children's sake. For example: you are going to plant many trees, but you are printing all of your notes for videos on more than 4 papers. Growing a tree from seed also requires a lot of resources! They probably use synthetic fertilizers because it is cheaper. But the problem is that synthetic fertilizer is made from ores that are in limited supply like oil. And another problem is that if you just plant a tree somewhere it does not mean it will not die. You need to know where and how to plant it so that the seedling does not go to waste. And there is another aspect of destroying the seedling. Linus and probably there are also others. So to recap, we are going to produce many seedlings with synthetic fertilizers in limited supply. And then plant them somewhere unknowingly if they will grow there or even worse overtake native species. And who guarantees you that they are not scamming you! This makes me really sad: (
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This planting tree propaganda really bothers me. It only shows you how easily corporations can manipulate people in doing the right thing. Like do it for the children's sake. For example: you are going to plant many trees, but you are printing all of your notes for videos on more than 4 papers. Growing a tree from seed also requires a lot of resources! They probably use synthetic fertilizers because it is cheaper. But the problem is that synthetic fertilizer is made from ores that are in limited supply like oil. And another problem is that if you just plant a tree somewhere it does not mean it will not die. You need to know where and how to plant it so that the seedling does not go to waste. And there is another aspect of destroying the seedling. Linus and probably there are also others. So to recap, we are going to produce many seedlings with synthetic fertilizers in limited supply. And then plant them somewhere unknowingly if they will grow there or even worse overtake native species. And who guarantees you that they are not scamming you! This makes me really sad: (
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TheXev
I am not surprised NZXT is moving into audio. NZXT needs to move into any space that Corsair occupies in RGB. I have an NZXT S30 Elite and a Kraken X31 AIO, but when I replace the X31 I will be with SOMETHING Corsair. I want ONE software to control all of my RGB and other Corsair products (K68 Keyboard, Ironclaw RGB, Void Pro Wireless, so I might as well have a Corsair AIO since I prefer the usability of iCUE to NZXT's CAM. CAM's new release is a solid start to a replacement for CAM, but for me it's too little too late from NZXT. I expect NZXT to move into mice and keyboards eventually as well for the same reason. I am likely to look at Corsair cases first before NZXT in future products. the H series simply do not have the same flair as the S30's and that is a bit of a letdown. It makes me want to open up and look at other case brands, even though I REALLY like the look of the S30 and S30 Elite. I know the S30's don't have as good of airflow, but I really like how they look.
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I am not surprised NZXT is moving into audio. NZXT needs to move into any space that Corsair occupies in RGB. I have an NZXT S30 Elite and a Kraken X31 AIO, but when I replace the X31 I will be with SOMETHING Corsair. I want ONE software to control all of my RGB and other Corsair products (K68 Keyboard, Ironclaw RGB, Void Pro Wireless, so I might as well have a Corsair AIO since I prefer the usability of iCUE to NZXT's CAM. CAM's new release is a solid start to a replacement for CAM, but for me it's too little too late from NZXT. I expect NZXT to move into mice and keyboards eventually as well for the same reason. I am likely to look at Corsair cases first before NZXT in future products. the H series simply do not have the same flair as the S30's and that is a bit of a letdown. It makes me want to open up and look at other case brands, even though I REALLY like the look of the S30 and S30 Elite. I know the S30's don't have as good of airflow, but I really like how they look.
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Game
AMD's added market share is where they should be anyway. They have been behind where they should have always been for many years. Now that they have a competitive product is good but this will not be David toppling Goliath. They are both David. One was just a little quicker attacking the giant which is the market. There is more market than Intel can handle now with the world market growing so rapidly. Therefore, AMD rose up just in time to share in it. Intel had shortages for a while. Now with Intel ramping up 3 fab plants things should be rolling along for both by next year end. The stars just happened to line up in everyone's favor here. But the key is there is more market than just one company can handle. And Intel is trying to produce more than just CPUs as most readers know. They aren't going anywhere. AMD is not going to cut them down. Everyone always just thinks desktop and servers all the time There is much more that both companies can and do sell to.
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AMD's added market share is where they should be anyway. They have been behind where they should have always been for many years. Now that they have a competitive product is good but this will not be David toppling Goliath. They are both David. One was just a little quicker attacking the giant which is the market. There is more market than Intel can handle now with the world market growing so rapidly. Therefore, AMD rose up just in time to share in it. Intel had shortages for a while. Now with Intel ramping up 3 fab plants things should be rolling along for both by next year end. The stars just happened to line up in everyone's favor here. But the key is there is more market than just one company can handle. And Intel is trying to produce more than just CPUs as most readers know. They aren't going anywhere. AMD is not going to cut them down. Everyone always just thinks desktop and servers all the time There is much more that both companies can and do sell to.
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Jonathan
I'm not impressed by what I see right now in terms of headsets on those pictures by NZXT. To be had, right now, I'm not really satisfied by the offerings of any company. I've switched headsets several times over the last few years. A lot of them have the roll up microphone and I just don't like those. With time, they degrade quite a bit. I would love to have something with a swivel microphone. I had one of those more then a decade ago and it was great. I also find that often, the pads on a lot of headsets aren't thick enough and just rub my ears raw. I would also love to do away with the dongleseption madness going on right now. I've had some real bad experiences with dongles of late. It's more connections that can break, and unfortunately, they do break since the point where the dongle connects tends to hang midair between me and the computer. Got a wireless right now and I'm enjoying it, but I do wish that the signal would reach a bit further.
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I'm not impressed by what I see right now in terms of headsets on those pictures by NZXT. To be had, right now, I'm not really satisfied by the offerings of any company. I've switched headsets several times over the last few years. A lot of them have the roll up microphone and I just don't like those. With time, they degrade quite a bit. I would love to have something with a swivel microphone. I had one of those more then a decade ago and it was great. I also find that often, the pads on a lot of headsets aren't thick enough and just rub my ears raw. I would also love to do away with the dongleseption madness going on right now. I've had some real bad experiences with dongles of late. It's more connections that can break, and unfortunately, they do break since the point where the dongle connects tends to hang midair between me and the computer. Got a wireless right now and I'm enjoying it, but I do wish that the signal would reach a bit further.
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Ravi
As someone that has invested quite heavily into pro audio gear, I would be really wary of the MXER. 24-bit/96kHz audio, while it does retain better high frequency fidelity, doesn't mean squat unless your actual source material is using audio of that quality or better. Many games ship their audio at 16/44. 1 or 16/48, and your DAC operating at 24/96 provides almost no advantage here. Some games do ship with uncompressed audio that also happens to run at a high enough bitrate for this to make a difference. In those games, I would expect you should see a decent difference, assuming the DAC is actually a high quality DAC and not just a PoS one a la razer electra. As Steve said, NEVER pre-order these things. Always wait for reviews to come out, but hey, this is the GN community. Y'all are smarter than the average consumer
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As someone that has invested quite heavily into pro audio gear, I would be really wary of the MXER. 24-bit/96kHz audio, while it does retain better high frequency fidelity, doesn't mean squat unless your actual source material is using audio of that quality or better. Many games ship their audio at 16/44. 1 or 16/48, and your DAC operating at 24/96 provides almost no advantage here. Some games do ship with uncompressed audio that also happens to run at a high enough bitrate for this to make a difference. In those games, I would expect you should see a decent difference, assuming the DAC is actually a high quality DAC and not just a PoS one a la razer electra. As Steve said, NEVER pre-order these things. Always wait for reviews to come out, but hey, this is the GN community. Y'all are smarter than the average consumer
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Jarryd
I cant help but feel super lucky. I have had almost NO issues with RDR2 on PC. And I'm using Vulkan on a Ryzen 9 3900X with 2x 2080Ti's. The 3 most common factors that the people have reported as having issues with. Vulkan over DX12, an AMD CPU and a Multi GPU Setup. I have had NO issues with the SP Story. Only in Online. I have had only 2 crashes for no apparent reason, except during one crash I WAS alt+tabbed out and using a firefox, that may have done something (prob not though. Otherwise, my biggest issue with RDR2 is the dropouts in online. But I cannot launch the game from ANY shortcut. Only directly through the launcher. But it does launch every time. Good luck to yalls out there having trouble with rdr2. I hope a solution is available for yas soon.
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I cant help but feel super lucky. I have had almost NO issues with RDR2 on PC. And I'm using Vulkan on a Ryzen 9 3900X with 2x 2080Ti's. The 3 most common factors that the people have reported as having issues with. Vulkan over DX12, an AMD CPU and a Multi GPU Setup. I have had NO issues with the SP Story. Only in Online. I have had only 2 crashes for no apparent reason, except during one crash I WAS alt+tabbed out and using a firefox, that may have done something (prob not though. Otherwise, my biggest issue with RDR2 is the dropouts in online. But I cannot launch the game from ANY shortcut. Only directly through the launcher. But it does launch every time. Good luck to yalls out there having trouble with rdr2. I hope a solution is available for yas soon.
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skyserf
Regarding Red Dead Redemption 2, I tried excluding RDR2. exe and the Rockstar Games launcher, disabling the firewall, compatibility mode, administrator authorization, disabling the internet connection and a few other things. Nothing worked. I started a ticket with Rockstar and sent all my diagnostic files and screenshots. They wrote back saying to allow the launcher to start and download an update. That didn t work. I actually had a bios driver update available from Gigabyte for my X570 Aorus Xtrem. I flashed the bios, I think it was initially version F2 from 6/26/2019. Newest version was F10a 10/11/2019. Opened the Rockstar Games launcher and started the game first try. Just ran the benchmarks as well. Hope this helps someone.
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Regarding Red Dead Redemption 2, I tried excluding RDR2. exe and the Rockstar Games launcher, disabling the firewall, compatibility mode, administrator authorization, disabling the internet connection and a few other things. Nothing worked. I started a ticket with Rockstar and sent all my diagnostic files and screenshots. They wrote back saying to allow the launcher to start and download an update. That didn t work. I actually had a bios driver update available from Gigabyte for my X570 Aorus Xtrem. I flashed the bios, I think it was initially version F2 from 6/26/2019. Newest version was F10a 10/11/2019. Opened the Rockstar Games launcher and started the game first try. Just ran the benchmarks as well. Hope this helps someone.
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Milo
Rockstar, red dead redemption. yeah, another reason to not buy AMD. That has been my experience going all the way back to my AMD k6 233 vs. my intel 200mmx, then my dual AMD 1900+MP system going up against my single 2. 0GHz Pentium system, then my AMD X64 3200+ up against my i7 920 system, then my AMD FX 4400+ system going against my i7 2600k system and that was pretty much the last nail in the let's build another AMD system coffin as EVERYTIME there were serious problems with the AMD systems while the Intel sysems ALWAYS WORKED, this leads to my hesitation to purchase a Threadripper 3950X, SO i purchased a i9-9900KS system instead. Ironically i really like AMD GPU's, which is pretty funny in my mindset.
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Rockstar, red dead redemption. yeah, another reason to not buy AMD. That has been my experience going all the way back to my AMD k6 233 vs. my intel 200mmx, then my dual AMD 1900+MP system going up against my single 2. 0GHz Pentium system, then my AMD X64 3200+ up against my i7 920 system, then my AMD FX 4400+ system going against my i7 2600k system and that was pretty much the last nail in the let's build another AMD system coffin as EVERYTIME there were serious problems with the AMD systems while the Intel sysems ALWAYS WORKED, this leads to my hesitation to purchase a Threadripper 3950X, SO i purchased a i9-9900KS system instead. Ironically i really like AMD GPU's, which is pretty funny in my mindset.
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EndlessLands
Data hoarder here. I need 50 TB drives 2 year ago. Just saving footage from streaming gameplay footage at about 6 mbps adds up to about 2. 2 GB per hour. And that is for 720p 60fps video and that is pretty poor 720p quality at that (for full scene motion. I already have about 18 TB of data and that is being extremely conservative in what I keep. It feels bad to be playing a game at 1440p 120fps while recording at 720p at 60fps. Not sure how people are going to be recording 4k 120fps in coming years with the current extraordinarily tiny hard drives. By 2026, anything less than a 250 TB drive will be completely inadequate.
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Data hoarder here. I need 50 TB drives 2 year ago. Just saving footage from streaming gameplay footage at about 6 mbps adds up to about 2. 2 GB per hour. And that is for 720p 60fps video and that is pretty poor 720p quality at that (for full scene motion. I already have about 18 TB of data and that is being extremely conservative in what I keep. It feels bad to be playing a game at 1440p 120fps while recording at 720p at 60fps. Not sure how people are going to be recording 4k 120fps in coming years with the current extraordinarily tiny hard drives. By 2026, anything less than a 250 TB drive will be completely inadequate.
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Blair
Uninstalling and deleting registry entries that had anything to do with Rockstar plus bios update(3700x Gigabyte X470 Gaming 7 F42E) got me past the launcher error. When the game finally launched i got a black screen. The cause of that was HDR; it was enabled by default in the game which triggered the windows 10 HDR. After loading the game in safe mode, i was able to turn off HDR. The game loaded fine after relaunching. Now just recently, the game started crashing every 30-45 minutes no matter the API or settings i try. Serenity Now!
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Uninstalling and deleting registry entries that had anything to do with Rockstar plus bios update(3700x Gigabyte X470 Gaming 7 F42E) got me past the launcher error. When the game finally launched i got a black screen. The cause of that was HDR; it was enabled by default in the game which triggered the windows 10 HDR. After loading the game in safe mode, i was able to turn off HDR. The game loaded fine after relaunching. Now just recently, the game started crashing every 30-45 minutes no matter the API or settings i try. Serenity Now!
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