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whats the justification behind devs locking games for CPU's with less than 3 cores?
are they saying a slow ass xeon 4 core under 2GHZ can compute their game's data faster than a haswell/skylake i3-4170/6100?
or did Intel try an pay them off since everyone figured out that i3's and even Pentiums are more than enough to then be paired with a 900 series Nvidia to try an force them to purchase i5's an i7's
>>55050610
Pretty sure an i3 would still work fine and it's still dual core.
Probably incompetent devs not letting the game run with 2 threads.
Can't wait for dx12 to become mainstream, hopefully for bf5.
There are patches that eliminate this. Almost every game has a patch.
Anyway, I think it's stupid to restrict what hardware your software can run on, but i use FREE SOFTWARE so this does not effect me.
>>55050634
yeah but only cause of the hyperthreading fooling the game into thinking its 4 cores
but my question is, why would devs do this, cause a shitty 4 core AMD gets mopped in any type of threaded action with most 2nd or even 3rd generation old Intel's with 2 cores
![firewire-ports[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/lbvtany.png "firewire-ports[1].png")
anyone else miss firewire?
Not really.
Brings back memories of waiting hours for DVCAM tapes to transfer into FCP.
>>55050468
Yes
>>55050491
As a professional editor I miss those days. Getting paid to babysit tapes being captured was chill af
Why aren't you giving your eyes a break tonight?
>F.lux (crossplatform)
https://justgetflux.com/
>Redshift (for Linux)
http://jonls.dk/redshift/
>Twilight (for Android)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.lux
Android 6.0 has this built in
>>55050471
A lot of Android phones aren't being upgraded to 6.0.
>>55050457
>implying I'm not running redshift right now on my gentoo x220
> implying I don't have f.lux running on my jailbroken iphone
> implying I don't have smart lights set to "orange" light at night
my melatonin game is strong nigger
Does knowing math makes you a good programmer?
*Maths you fucking retard
>>55050488
Don't tell me how to speak American you fucking red coat
>>55050488
>being non-american
kys
is installing linux a good way to force yourself to stop wasting time playing video games
No, that would be called a job.
>>55050253
if by "linux" you mean gentoo, then yes
tl;dr: install gentoo
>>55050253
There are many /g/ projects to stop wasting time on manchild hobbies such as playing vidya.
Start with seting up your personal cloud or email server
Does anyone know how to remove this shit?
It forced me to download windows 10 on my laptop, fuck no this isn't happening to my pc.
Microsoft are just being gay as hell, might actually consider going linux.
>>55050208
Never10
Oh look, it's this thread again.
FUCKING GOOGLE IT
I'm not even a shill or anything, but you really should upgrade anon. I just did last week, and it is literally so much faster than my previous version of windows! Everything is just so....snappy! I couldn't believe it at first, but now I'm glad I upgraded. Do it my friend, you won't regret it :)
>Using Linux
>Breaks easily
>Has no games
>No tech support
>Overly complicated
>Less than 1% installed
Jesus, why not just use windows for fucks sake. It can do everything Linux can, only better.
>>55050056
Where's my package manager?
>>55050094
You don't need one.
>>55050106
Yes I do
s340 vs h440 go
s340 razer edition
>>55050069
ahahahah nice one m90
>>55050087
the solid black one is glossy. if I was to buy a s340 i'd get the razer edition as well because it's matte black.
Found this piece of shit at work today, what can I do to make it run an internet browser without taking 30 seconds to switch tabs?
Can I ever make it run WoW?
>Processor: n/a
>>55050001
Give it back, Jamal.
>>55050023
That's curious, says it has an Intel Pentium T4500 on the sticker on it.
Anyone know why it wouldn't be showing up?
>>55050052
I clean out dorm rooms, what I find I keep. That's just how it is.
Previous - >>55041174
What are you working on, /g/?
>>55049900
Erste fuer D
Mona lizard. Right now I'm building one with 300 triangles and 1000 candidates for each. We'll see how that turns out.
>>55049915
D's shit and so is your waifu & favourite vidya
>Windows, OSX, or Linux (Any distro)
>iOS or Android
>RMS is the new jesus or just a lazy bastard
>>55049651
>doesn't matter
>doesn't matter
>doesn't matter
Cheers!
>>55049651
>op is a faggot
>>55049651
Debian
Android
Idc about rms one way or the other
Let's discuss the consumer laptop market
What trends are you guys noticing?
What machines do you find interesting/want?
Do you think the traditional laptop form factor is here to stay?
>Displays
FHD displays are showing up at lower prices. For example, ASUS is currently selling a "Vivobook", which is a 14 inch FHD laptop with 4gb ram and roughly twice the performance of N2840. I own a N2840 machine and it is sufficient for light use, the Vivobook is definitely a product I would buy. Acer has a gorgeous 14" chromebook with the same hardware (it's just like when we saw the HP Stream's N2840/2GB DDR3/32GB EEMC in everything) for $300. It claims a 12 hour battery life. You can install *nix natively. I would suggest this thing to anyone I know who isn't good with computers. They get roughly 3100 in Geekbench 3, compared to the ~5000 of the t420/2520m. I would consider that a good "deal".
>Gaming
We're seeing major GPU efficiency increases with 14nm lithography and I feel that this is going to be huge in the laptop market over the next year. Only HP has a 7th gen AMD computer for sale, a FX 9800p, because it seems Apple has bought all of the chips. This is a good sign. We may finally get to the point where a moderately priced, portable, laptop can play current gen games at console levels. Strong APUs able to play online games like CS:Go LoL and WoW will be very popular as these are the games that the most people spend the most time in.
FINALLY e-GPUs are catching on. They really are the best solution for mobile gaming. I have never appreciated Small FFs until I took my full tower with me all over the fucking country last year. With CPUs being as strong as they are, any decent laptop will be able to play AAA titles with an egpu. This will also hopefully drive OEMs to include faster I/O ports on entry priced machines. At this point it's just waiting for a reasonably priced one to hit the market, they're relatively simple as far as hardware goes.
>Input
Unfortunately it seems chicklet keys are here to stay for the foreseeable future. It would be nice to see some OEMs go back to decent keyboards but the general consumer doesn't want it/care. Same issue we saw with 1366x768 and optical med$
>CPU
There has been evidence of ARM based Macs coming found in xcode. This is going to open up all sorts of interesting form factors. I know here on /g/ we value practicality and price/pref over all but it's nice to have a toy like a 2-1 or so$
>>55049596
Just build your own. You can do that now. I have a Y510p and it is really nice, it is dated but it still holds up pretty damn well.
I've noticed there's a steep decline in performance increase with new generations
My 6-year old Acer Aspire (which I bought for £400) still has above-budget specs, and even has a dedicated GPU. A modern £400 laptop should be shitting on it, but instead we're getting silly shit like "2-in-1" solutions where companies are trying to sell tablets at laptop prices, cloud storage as an unironic alternative to large HDDs, this weird "2GB is enough RAM for Windows 10", this "1366x768 is enough for everyday use" nonsense, and no dedicated GPU as a sacrifice to thinness.
