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    Windows 8.1, so far so good

    I've been using Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center 64-bit since I upgraded from Windows 8 Pro the weekend before last. I've found Windows 8 itself to be OK although I'm not a fan of the Start screen at all; it's pretty much useless for me, particularly as I've been using Start8 more or less...
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    Killing "Not Responding" Processes in Windows 8... why can't I do that anymore?

    I upgraded to Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center 64-bit from Windows 8 Pro with Media Center the weekend before last, ahead of its official release, as ever since I did a clean install of Windows on my new Haswell i7-4770K system back in June of this year I've been unable to play The Raven...
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    Nvidia drivers version 326.01 for Windows 8.1 preview

    I downloaded this GTX TITAN driver from Internet Explorer 10: http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/ScopedViewInline.aspx?updateid=82fad0a4-4a8e-46b2-9609-02ec610d6176, extracted the CAB file and was able to install the drivers without any problems or INF modifications just by running...
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    Weird Windows Experience Index Score

    Yeah, I have noticed the same issue as JCNiest5 and consequently only score 6.7 in the W.E.I. test with SLI but 7.8 if I force Single GPU mode. Not a big deal, I know, but the idea behind W.E.I. was to assign a rating to your PC so that you'd know whether a game would run well or not (via Game...
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    ASUS HD 7970 DirectCU II Video Card Review @ [H]

    Thanks David. I thought as much but I thought I'd ask as I'm waiting for new drivers from NVIDIA to fix the constant freezing I'm getting with Tomb Raider.
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    ASUS HD 7970 DirectCU II Video Card Review @ [H]

    On the second page, you refer to using v314.70 beta drivers for the NVIDIA graphics cards at the bottom of the page (but v314.70 WHQLs in the Video Card Configuration graphic; is that a typo and you meant v314.07, which are WHQL certified, or are you using an as yet unreleased driver, one that...
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    Tomb Raider - Crash fix

    This game is absolutely excellent but despite having the hardware to run at maximum settings at 1920x1200, 2xSSAA, 16xAF with tessellation, High Precision and TressFX on (the benchmark returned at ave. of 50 fps), I had two total system freezes that required a hard reset at the point where Lara...
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    Dark Souls is on Steam

    The news that this game is locked at 1024x720 and 30 fps reads to me like the developers have ported the console engine over literally without any real optimization. I'm betting that if we could set resolutions higher than 1024x720 that performance would diminish and show just how poor the...
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    Adobe Releases Firefox Flash Player Crash Fix

    I was getting at least one or two crashes per browsing session when I had Firefox 13.0 and Firefox 14.0 beta 7 installed with Flash 11.3.300.257. However, I was able to fix those by using the ProtectedMode=0 in the Flash MMS.cfg file. I'm now using Flash 11.3.300.262 with Firefox 14.0 beta 8 and...
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    Max Payne 3 Performance and IQ Review @ [H]

    Erm... why is it? I mean NVIDIA cards perform better than AMD cards in DiRT 2 and 3, both AMD Evolved games, but that doesn't mean it's sad, just that their drivers are better optimised for those games. :confused:
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    Max Payne 3 Performance and IQ Review @ [H]

    I saw one post on the Guru3D forum (I think) that claimed SSAO looked better than HDAO and, sure enough, when I tested it I found that it did look better. HDAO has very thin, faint shadowing whereas SSAO looks bolder and more obvious. Maybe HDAO is more realistic in terms of ambient occlusive...
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    Max Payne 3 Performance and IQ Review @ [H]

    Since the patch the retail and non-Steam versions now work with MSI Afterburner and EVGA Precision X's OSD and it appears the VRAM usage is correct from my testing as I'm using 0xMSAA + FXAA=Very High and it shows around 1.9 GB of memory out of 4 GB available required (the VRAM is doubled...
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    Max Payne 3 Performance and IQ Review @ [H]

    Ah but 2 GB is not enough for 8xMSAA in this game though at 1920x1200 so they may have a point after all! :p
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    Max Payne 3 Performance and IQ Review @ [H]

    P.S. I should add that Max Payne 3 is a great game. Apart from the embarrassing custom install issue, which caused the game to not load if there were spaces in the pathname (thankfully this issue was fixed in the patch released within a week of the game's launch), and the apparently broken MSAA...
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    Max Payne 3 Performance and IQ Review @ [H]

    Great article but I'm a little disappointed at how poor MSAA looks in this game. As you can see in my lossless PNG comparison *HERE* MSAA barely offers any anti-aliasing at all compared with FXAA. What is even more puzzling, at least on my setup as the issue may be specific to my PC, is that...
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