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[–] [email protected] 170 points 1 week 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] 12 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 139 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 113 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

Check the NAT!

[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 week 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 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Everyone: what the fuck is he doing

Dr. House: installing NixOS

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Flakes caused his issue. The user needs more flakes

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week 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 11 points 1 week ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week 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] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

i would watch that lol

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] Daefsdeda 6 points 1 week ago

I litteraly have one where the plastic around the gold connectors have come loose, still works after 5 years but once I disconnect the cable, the drive is gone

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (8 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

"It's never lutris"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

it's never bit flips?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

It's never solvable with

sfc /scannow

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

It's never a .NET compatibility issue

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I recently had a game tell my my NVIDIA driver was out of date by like a year.

Ngl I just ignored it, that's like a 500mb update and I'm just not interested in the time it takes unless something breaks.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mate, how do you play any games if 500mb takes too much time?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Because I already have them and don't need to download them again. 500mb on a mediocre day is like 2 hours.

If you mean online games, I tend not to because they often work poorly. For some strange, totally inexplicable reason that definitely has nothing to do with my terrible internet.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (11 children)

dang, sometimes i think my shit is slow, my heart goes out to you.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How much do you pay? Is it DSL?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I have about the same speeds. I'm paying $65/mo, it's 5G, and it's better than every other option around.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Mobile data. Used to be ADSL, that wasn't faster. I am rural af.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

It needs more mouse bytes to run.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Still better paru -Syyu --noconfirm

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

I love this comment section

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

I hate Safe Mode.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I had this same fucking situation recently in an issue on GitHub.

It wasn't the drivers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Does anyone else get a crazy weird robotic static echoey sound on Arch (CachyOS)? It's like it starts fast then gets slower and more drawn out. It is very sporadic so I haven't been able to record it well. It's happened on a USB headset as well so I know it's not my speakers.

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[–] fibojoly 6 points 1 week ago

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

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