October 01, 2023
Impressive visuals
So after a water leak messed up my GTX 980 card on Himawari, a friend sold me his GTX 1070 card for a c-note. I was never able to really put it to the test because of the problems Himawari was having doing anything at the time (I could play DVDs fine, but watching YouTube would case dropouts, pink video ports, and bluescreens), Instead I kept using the really old 650 card I didn't realize I still had that I'd put in before I bought the 1070.
Well before this Himawari had been so unstable I couldn't even run World of Warships - which is why I was running it on Etna at minimal video settings for a while, and getting about 30FPS.
Enter Purah, and I decided to go for a little while running the built-in graphics, which could handle YouTube just fine, even at 1440P, and never crashed on anything (Well, Chitubox may have bombed out once, but it merely exited and didn't take anything down with it). At the minimum graphics settings it ran WoWS at around 70 FPS, which is still faster than the TV's refresh rate.
I was considering leaving it like that, or maybe buying the latest hotness in Video cards, but my demands aren't really that high. But then I decided I'd want to see the difference between the built-in graphics and that 1070 card. Just to see if it was faster and to take some load off the CPU. After all, I had it, why not use it?
At those minimum graphics settings, WoWS ran at an absurd 500 FPS, more or less. After clicking the auto settings in the preferences, it turned the graphics all the way up on every setting, and still ran at 80-100 FPS.
I think that's quite good enough for now. True it supports more than the 1440P I'm running it at, but it's comfortable for how I'm set up at the moment.
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I have a Motorolla SB6120 if you want it. It's a DOCSIS 3.0 modem, compatible with IPv6. I used it until I moved to Texas. E-mail me to my address associated with this comment.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at October 05, 2023 08:14 PM (LZ7Bg)
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I have an Arris Surfboard S6183, I think it's similarly featured. I'm not sure what causes the speed drop (maybe it's Comcast detecting torrent activity, but they've been pretty cool, even about DMCA claims (which is why I stopped getting American TV shows, aside from the fact they sucked).). I might consider putting a timer on the power line to reset it at 5 in the morning prophylactically.
Posted by: Mauser at October 06, 2023 05:57 PM (BzEjn)
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When I had a DSL modem with a problem, I made a power interruptor. I found a reed switch that allowed 110V with an appropriate amount of milliamps at RadioShack. I don't remember where I found the activation coil. I powered the coil from a DTR signal of a serial port, which allowed me to control the power of the modem from software.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at October 07, 2023 08:02 PM (LZ7Bg)
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Heh, I think my last motherboard had a COM port header, but that's damn near impossible to find these days.
The annoying part is I have to hit something like Speedtest to see if it's working. I can't seem to access the modem through the router easily. It's been quite some time since I connected my PC directly to it.
The annoying part is I have to hit something like Speedtest to see if it's working. I can't seem to access the modem through the router easily. It's been quite some time since I connected my PC directly to it.
Posted by: Mauser at October 07, 2023 11:14 PM (BzEjn)
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Oh, I found the manual online and found the proper way to address it. Nifty.
Posted by: Mauser at October 07, 2023 11:22 PM (BzEjn)
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Unfortunately the status screen tells me nothing about why it slowed down.
Posted by: Mauser at October 09, 2023 07:30 PM (BzEjn)
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