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[–] [email protected] 28 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

A House-like TV show about troubleshooting computer issues would be absolutely fascinating to me and a dozen other people. All along you thought it must be drivers but it turns out that the exact RGB configuration used on the case fans combined with the anime waifu wallpaper caused a slight over-voltage on a RAM chip resulting in game crashes and only Hackerman was brilliant enough to see it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago

i would watch that lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

If you want the dumbass version, you can find videos of influencers without any experiece build computers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

even the experienced ones! do you ever watch Linus Tech Tips? it's so fun watching them rip up the water-cooling loops after realizing they put it together wrong, or trying and failing at different EFI hacks to get weird prototype cards to work or figure out why their mystery hardware isn't booting.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

After Emily came out, left the show shortly after, and then had guarded but definitely-not-positive things to say about LMG I've had a hard time watching. Nobody has explicitly said that she was dropped from the show for coming out as trans but if it walks like a duck...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

that's disappointing. I didn't know about that.

[–] fibojoly 6 points 1 day ago

Last time it was the drivers for me was Rage. That was some bullshit...

[–] [email protected] 166 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Delete and re-download the entire game, but use a 56k modem."

"My God house, the game launched fine! But how did the 56k modem have any effect?"

"It didn't, the reinstall would have worked either way, I just wanted to waste your time as punishment for being stupid."

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's an irq conflict and the lan cable isn't terminated.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Any cable that gives a network connection. So many different ones now I'm actually on board with LAN cable unless you need to be specific lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

Nope, joke was it was coax cable on a bus network with BNC connectors. Embrace packet collisions, you coward.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't know, it's Ians' cable, why not ask him?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

why does lan always hog the cables ;-;

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I had a minor loading/stuttering issue in games that plagued me for months. Turns out the SATA cable was loose. I had no idea those could BE loose.

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[–] [email protected] 135 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What about port blocking by the ISP? It could be a networking condition!

[–] [email protected] 110 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Which would be useful if telnet didn’t tell us the port is open.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

it could be a bad RAM chip. we should start Prime95, check for ECC faults..

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If she could afford ECC, she would wear nicer shoes.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

Absolutely false. Everyone I know with ecc ram would sell their shoes for more if they could.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago

Check the NAT!

[–] [email protected] 94 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What about 12VHPWR syndrome? Spontaneous GPU power connector inflammation could explain why other games are affected es well...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Whenever my games start causing crashes I replug my 4070Ti power cable and it runs again for 3 months. Thanks NVIDIA

[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Everyone: what the fuck is he doing

Dr. House: installing NixOS

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Flakes caused his issue. The user needs more flakes

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I had the exact fucking same thing happen with metal gear rising, except it wasnt the drivers it was the wine config missing a ddl library for, wait for it: a fucking vr support library. A 3d PS3 game that doesnt support vr in any way, needs a vr library to function. Still pissed about that

[–] fibojoly 9 points 1 day ago

Strong "I'm not printing that greyscale image, you're out of yellow ink!" vibe.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

I love this comment section

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (8 children)

What's the equivalent of "it's never lupus"?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

"Windows troubleshooting tool will never fix it"

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's never DNS, until you don't check that first.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

"It's never lutris"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

It's never solvable with

sfc /scannow

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

It's never a .NET compatibility issue

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

It needs more mouse bytes to run.

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