Recent content by ROShay

This is a throwback to the AGP days, but I've always found it's a best to install the chipset drivers, in your case for the AMD 880G/SB710, immediately after the OS. Then finish up with whatever else you have. (Audio, LAN, etc.) I hate to recommend you install from scratch yet again, but this...

Nvidia acquired 3dfx right around the time Windows 2000 surfaced. A beta driver from 3dfx was available, but I always thought it was a bush-league move on Nvidia's part not to offer a few WHQL drivers to soften the blow of having one's video hardware orphaned. As in, "Welcome to the family...

"After all of this, one thing we notice missing from the packaging is the length of the warranty for this unit. If you dig in the product documentation you can find a single line that says "All SilverStone power supplies come with a 3 year warranty" and this is also found on the warranty page. A...

Outstanding! I'll never understand why anyone might think that an adult, regardless of age, shouldn't be playing games, PC or otherwise. If it's socially acceptable for someone to sit in front of a television for several hours a day and watch whatever, why is it any less acceptable to sit in...

The only outfits I can think of that are still producing discrete graphic cards are Matrox and S3. (Not even really sure about the latter.) Anyway, I'm thinking neither has much to offer for the majority of people inhabiting the [H] Forums. The list of companies involved in developing and/or...

I went 4 and 56 on those cosplay photos in terms of recognizing who was what. I think that is due to not ever owning a console. I absolutely love my Fallout sneakers, although mine are the Vault 101 variety. They're actually pretty durable. The radioactivity is marginal, and makes them easy...

The principal objection to the Nano is the price. And, to a lesser extent, the omission of HDMI 2.0. Fiji's HDMI support-level is internal; it's intrinsic to the current GCN architecture it's based upon. Some seem to think that HDMI 2.0 is something that is "bolted-on." That it is something...

I would like to thank the fine citizens of Philadelphia for doing the right thing. (I think this is known locally as a "Kensington Mouthwash.") The only mistake made was not tossing the remains into the Delaware River. Or, ditching them in Camden.

I recall when I came across this in Limansk, playing STALKER: Clear Sky, the frame-rate on the GTX 9800+ would seriously tank. Too many vertices, polygons or whatever. The old HD 4890 shrugged it off.

Fiji isn't a top-to-bottom new design. It's more of a derivative of Hawaii and Tonga. All these designs have four Shader Engines with a maximum possible 16 ROPs each per engine. (Tonga has 8 ROPs per engine.) I think AMD went as big as they could while staying within the existing GCN...

I really don't have a horse in this race. I don't really care about HBM, HDMI versions, overclocking, crossfire, etc. I don't even care about either card, as there is no way I'm spending $650 on 28nm. I do care about the fact that there is an assertion that 2 cards, any 2 cards, that are...

Maybe because a cash and resource-strapped AMD couldn't see any point in producing three or four entirely new GPUs at 28nm to begin selling in mid-2015, just in time for the curtain to come down on 28nm. The same crowd currently whining about re-brands would then undoubtedly start bitching about...

I honestly don't know. The affected processors can run Win 8.1 32-bit, so it might be possible to transition from that to Win 10 x86. (Assuming there is a 32-bit Windows 10. I haven't been paying that close attention.)

Some older Intel and AMD CPUs can run Win8 x64 just fine, but lack certain instructions/functions to run Win8.1 x64. Things like PrefetchW, CMPXCHG16b, LAHF/SAHF and some others are required.

How long has this game been in development? Two weeks? 48 hours before launch and you announce it doesn't run properly on an AMD card? So, when did they find that out? 12 hours before that? Nobody in that studio has a rig with a Radeon? WTF? I mean really, WTF?