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Daft Souls 20: Building a PC, Industry Aggression

Added 2014-09-04 13:59:45 +0000 UTC

Ta-da! New Daft Souls.

Daft Souls 20: Building a PC, Industry Aggression

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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXaNovnk1yM" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXaNovnk1yM</a> Is this the noise your hard drive is making? If so it is a bearing problem, which can be intermittent. Get a new one before it seizes up all together and you lose your data. @Yann Best: You are probably correct as to why Matt needs to boot into windows from a different drive. @Iain Lambert: Your diagnosis is the same only fan bearings rather than drive bearings. :-)

2014-09-08 19:08:47 +0000 UTC

Hi Matt, don't think I've ever commented on your videos but felt you were being overly unfair towards PC vs Consoles. a) the service you suggested is kind of a bad way to do it; if you respect your pc and do your due research (on the parts you are getting) to know exactly what you're getting and how it works, then you shouldn't have any need for such a site/service. The more "complete" it is the more likely (some) builds were pulled out of their ass and never tested or researched thoroughly. There is no PC magic formula, and I kind of imagine the service you talked about isn't even done by humans if it's as complete as you say. b) if you are scared about the pc parts lego the way to go is simple: find a friend who has a nice PC, build the same thing (only maybe add more ram or more hdd space, etc if you need to). I don't believe you would have a problem finding such a friend but if you do, simply find a build that's been done by a lot of people on the internet instead of making your own; build guides on tech oriented channels are fairly frequent and the builds in them are pretty stable; popular streamers also usually have their builds on their stream page and you can just ask the person how he feels about it directly so that's another way. There is no shame in it, to build your PC from scratch requires a lot of research and things you might not even know you dont know; understandably not everyone has the time or wishes to risk it--since your first (serious) PC (which I assume yours is) is probably the harder one. c) if you use your PC like a console it will never break; so for example if you just install non-shady games and only play games on it and install a browser that doesn't auto-update and such and nothing else then everything on the system will stay nice and stable. But lets face it, why would you do that when you have so much more you can do? All the other junk you try/install/mess-with on your PC are things that can potentially lead to a broken PC and the situation would not change if a console would do the same thing. It's not the PC's fault you're using it for 1000 more things but only giving it the same respect as a console when it comes to keeping it stable. In your case I believe it's a case (and no offence meant) of you botching your hardware build and likely creating a mess by getting into the "I'm never going to lose a program even when upgrading operating system" which if you're on windows is a pretty bad idea; on linux you can separate your stuff from the operating system stuff on os install and have the benefit of being able to format the entire system with the snap of the fingers yet keep practically all your stuff every time (partially true if you switch distro). But I digress, if you want a console-like experience just treat your software as close as possible to a console like experience: install things like steam games on a separate partitions (steam auto-recognizes them back post install), keep software folder somewhere where you just place all the drivers that work for you, keep a list of the software you need to install; backup your settings. If say your PC completely breaks and its not a hardware problem just re-install then re-install the programs as need arises, its probably faster then getting depressed over it for days (modern OSes are pretty damn fast to install). d) I use AMD, I like AMD, I like how AMD approaches things and I think nvidia are a bunch of a-holes, but the people that are telling you that if you wanted "simple" you should have gone nvidia are unfortunately correct at this point in time. e) Finally, PC's kind-of-sort of have divides, I know you like to think it's all happy-land but truthfully (while nowhere near as extreme as between consoles) there essentially "sub-platforms" on PC when it comes to the following: type of graphics card (nvidia, amd, or intel if you consider integrated), power of graphics card (lowend, highend), and of course OS. Graphic card power + architecture + yearOfManufacturing pretty much amount to a unique platform that needs to be supported. You can also consider "indie games" and "games build on tried and tested long standing engines" as being on two seperate platforms; please dont stick early access and others as representative either. The bar for games "existing" on PC is also non-existent, early-access along with greenlight have greatly degraded this further. So your comparison is kind of unfair. Of course it works on consoles, they delay it for months! to make sure it does, and unfortunately people on PC have spoken against that practice: we want it now, even if it might not-work/break. --- Small rant 1: You want backwards compatibility in your consoles right? Well PC is what backwards compatibility gets you. Though I imagine fixing all your "not-works" problems with a thumbstick might be quite painful :P Small rant 2: Can we stop with the half-assed hardware journalism? You're a journalist, I would consider it your (and your colleagues jobs) to be understanding of the differences, not complain about it on a personal level. Yes, "enjoyment" is not measurable, but "does it start" sure as hell is measurable, and for how many people does it start is also measurable. A review should first and foremost inform the consumer if the product actually works (as in it's functional), and for which people it might not be functional; and I dont think hardware requirements is an unfair category for "does it work". If you don't specialize in reviewing the game from a hardware level, that is perfectly understandable, it's quite the workload and hence why we have specialized PC tech sites, but then I feel that removes your right to ever complain about it since you are not in a position to accurately determine if it's the game's fault or specific to "you." For all we know you didn't update your drivers in 5 years or have some really stupid settings somewhere. People like TB are a good example of what not to do! I'm too lazy to get the exact words so obviously this is me paraphrasing: "Oh this game runs so well" ...if everyone runs their games on two titans/nvidia. "This game is shit, doesn't have option lines in the option menu" ...game has essentially all the usual effects/post-processing pre-enabled and runs well on lowend machines hence no need for the option. What developer wants to add a useless "make my game look crappier for no reason" option menu? "This platformer is pretty smooth, doesn't have too many options but that's fine" ...platformer in question when tested requires about 16gigs of ram, can not be sure about other specs but probably taxing on the processor. Long story short: don't talk about options/hardware/etc about a PC games if you don't know: - exactly how it works - exactly how it works from a developer point of view - exactly how it works for the engine/system the developer build his game in - how that works for a person on a low end PC - how that interacts with hardware architecture (feature X might require OpenGL something-something to work, and the game might not function or look awful if feature X is essential to it) - how that scales... just FYI, just because you have say a video card that has say 2gigs of vram doesn't mean the game actually manages to make use of it, it might just use less then 1gig of vram, yet still be laggy for other reasons; obviously scaling down is also a factor so getting back to the vram example how much does it require minimum before it either fails or just laggs to hell ...you'd be surprised how many of those minimum specs are pretty bullshit (of course vram here is just for the sake of the example; its far from end-all/be-all)

2014-09-07 10:41:05 +0000 UTC

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