overview for v0rld

What is the worst experience you've had reading a book? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago

It's not just that characters make stupid decisions, the same characters keep making the same mistakes and nobody ever learns from those mistakes or grows as a character. It's so extremely frustrating.

Now we have them on our phones in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There are like 20 different calculator apps on F-Droid, ranging from basic to scientific. There's plenty of instances where the dystopia screws you, calculators ain't one of them.

Tim Sweeney emailed Gabe Newell calling Valve 'you assholes' over Steam policies, to which Valve's COO replied internally 'you mad bro?' in c/games

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The point is that an email address that is not in use except once to create that epic account is worthless to whoever buys it.

Tim Sweeney emailed Gabe Newell calling Valve 'you assholes' over Steam policies, to which Valve's COO replied internally 'you mad bro?' in c/games

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Well if they can turn [email protected] into money they honestly deserve the 50 cent they're getting for it.

IAMA former game developer, AMA. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

How did you get started in the industry and would you recommend it as a job?

Occasional crashes in games in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

No, all performance-related GPU settings are at default (and I already tried a factory reset through the driver install). Temps seem stable at ~70 after an hour of Grim Dawn, but I'll keep the overlay with the metrics on for a while.

Occasional crashes in games in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I didn't find such a setting but the fans are definitely running at more than 0 RPM once there is any GPU utilisation. But I'll check out the CPU game mode.

Occasional crashes in games in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The Windows install is only a couple of months old.

Occasional crashes in games in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Everything was on default. I'll lower the values and see if that helps. Thanks!

4

Occasional crashes in games (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

9 comments fedilink

I got a used PC from a friend, it works perfectly fine most of the time. But some games crash unregularly but reproducibly. When a crash occurs sometimes my screen just goes blank, other times I get a popup from the AMD driver saying "AMD software detected that a driver timeout has occured on your system."

Here are the specs:
Graphics: MSI Radeon RX 5700 XT (driver version: 23.12.1, but I also tried several earlier versions)
Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 8-Core
Mainboard: Asus Prime X570-P
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX, 2x8GB
OS: Win10

Some games crash more than others, for example:
GrimDawn crashes after a few minutes. TitanQuest runs for at least an hour.
Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous (and Kingmaker) crashes after a few hours.
Turbo Overkill crashed once (9 hours playtime so far).
Neverwinter Nights 2 crashes almost immediatly if it isn't the first game I play after a reboot.
Stellaris minimizes and I get the usual driver popup but continues to run fine afterwards (solid coding I guess).
A lot of other games sometimes crash. But there are a also games that never crashed for me including: Deep Rock Galactic, Factorio, Redout and Tyranny.
Older games tend to crash less than newer games, other than that I didn't really find a pattern in what games crash and which games run fine.

My friend says he never noticed any crashed, and given how some games are fine and how long even affected games can run before crashing I believe him.

I suspect the graphics card has some kind of fault, but is there any way I can verify that before I get a replacement? I already tried several GPU benchmarks, all ran through without a crash.

Legal | Sharing here coz I think this will come in handy... in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Finland, Austria and Germany are also wrong. I don't know the exact status of the written laws. But any application of Blasphemy laws would make the news and create major outcry.

Does C# (or any other languages) have an official style guide like python has pep8? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Is JavaScript a serious language? /s

Joking aside: One of Brendan Eich's books probably contains something resembling a style guide.

Does C# (or any other languages) have an official style guide like python has pep8? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago (12 children)

Since you specifically mentioned C# : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals/coding-style/coding-conventions

I'd be surprised if there is a serious language that doesn't come with at least some semi-official style guide. But usually they are not universally followed and everybody just does their own thing.