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[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 5 days ago (2 children)

A House-like TV show about troubleshooting computer issues would be absolutely fascinating to me and a dozen other people. All along you thought it must be drivers but it turns out that the exact RGB configuration used on the case fans combined with the anime waifu wallpaper caused a slight over-voltage on a RAM chip resulting in game crashes and only Hackerman was brilliant enough to see it.

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

If you want the dumbass version, you can find videos of influencers without any experiece build computers.

[–] uuldika@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

even the experienced ones! do you ever watch Linus Tech Tips? it's so fun watching them rip up the water-cooling loops after realizing they put it together wrong, or trying and failing at different EFI hacks to get weird prototype cards to work or figure out why their mystery hardware isn't booting.

[–] StarMerchant938@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

After Emily came out, left the show shortly after, and then had guarded but definitely-not-positive things to say about LMG I've had a hard time watching. Nobody has explicitly said that she was dropped from the show for coming out as trans but if it walks like a duck...

[–] uuldika@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

that's disappointing. I didn't know about that.

[–] callyral@pawb.social 5 points 5 days ago

i would watch that lol

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago

Last time it was the drivers for me was Rage. That was some bullshit...

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 168 points 1 week ago (7 children)

"Delete and re-download the entire game, but use a 56k modem."

"My God house, the game launched fine! But how did the 56k modem have any effect?"

"It didn't, the reinstall would have worked either way, I just wanted to waste your time as punishment for being stupid."

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[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 137 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What about port blocking by the ISP? It could be a networking condition!

[–] Skyline969@lemmy.ca 111 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Which would be useful if telnet didn’t tell us the port is open.

[–] uuldika@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

it could be a bad RAM chip. we should start Prime95, check for ECC faults..

[–] truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If she could afford ECC, she would wear nicer shoes.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Absolutely false. Everyone I know with ecc ram would sell their shoes for more if they could.

[–] jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 week ago

Check the NAT!

[–] notso@feddit.org 96 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What about 12VHPWR syndrome? Spontaneous GPU power connector inflammation could explain why other games are affected es well...

[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago

Whenever my games start causing crashes I replug my 4070Ti power cable and it runs again for 3 months. Thanks NVIDIA

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 71 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Everyone: what the fuck is he doing

Dr. House: installing NixOS

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[–] WILSOOON@programming.dev 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I had the exact fucking same thing happen with metal gear rising, except it wasnt the drivers it was the wine config missing a ddl library for, wait for it: a fucking vr support library. A 3d PS3 game that doesnt support vr in any way, needs a vr library to function. Still pissed about that

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 days ago

Strong "I'm not printing that greyscale image, you're out of yellow ink!" vibe.

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago
[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I had a minor loading/stuttering issue in games that plagued me for months. Turns out the SATA cable was loose. I had no idea those could BE loose.

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[–] eighty@aussie.zone 27 points 1 week ago (8 children)

What's the equivalent of "it's never lupus"?

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago

"Windows troubleshooting tool will never fix it"

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

"It's never lutris"

[–] uuldika@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 week ago

it's never bit flips?

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

It's never solvable with

sfc /scannow

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[–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I recently had a game tell my my NVIDIA driver was out of date by like a year.

Ngl I just ignored it, that's like a 500mb update and I'm just not interested in the time it takes unless something breaks.

[–] ech@lemm.ee 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mate, how do you play any games if 500mb takes too much time?

[–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Because I already have them and don't need to download them again. 500mb on a mediocre day is like 2 hours.

If you mean online games, I tend not to because they often work poorly. For some strange, totally inexplicable reason that definitely has nothing to do with my terrible internet.

[–] Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 week ago (11 children)

dang, sometimes i think my shit is slow, my heart goes out to you.

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[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

It needs more mouse bytes to run.

[–] Ansis100@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

I love this comment section

[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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