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Oh so you aren't actually assigning a keypress to the macro key, just trying to bind it directly in SWTOR? I don't really see how that would work though.. You could assign each macro key to something odd like Alt-P, then bind alt-P in swtor to the potion hotkey. |
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Hm I actually tried it both ways, doing on-the-fly, and pre-programmed.. as well as application specific SWTOR macros.. had no issues. Maybe you need to run SWTOR as admin as well? (My account is an admin account with UAC turned off) |
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Hmm I had no issues creating macros on my X6 with SWTOR just now. Is your Intellitype software up to date ? |
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I don't think that's actually any bigger than the 6970 is. The 79xx is rumored to have a 384-bit memory bus btw so that is definitely in line with the rumor. |
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I would buy a 120GB SSD, make it your main OS drive with your MMO's on it, and keep your mechanical hard drive in there for mass storage with the power saving set to shut it down after 5 minutes of inactivity. Hard drives in laptops are an even bigger bottleneck than in desktop systems because the physically smaller hard drives. The outer track of a hard drive is the fastest because it covers more surface area in one spin than the inner track. A laptop hard drive is missing 1" of outer track, and is tuned to run cooler (re: slower). Most laptops have the processor speed and memory capacity to be very snappy, but they aren't, because the hard drive chugs.
Heat buildup is also a big issue in gaming laptops. My buddies have 3 gaming laptops and they all have to use those laptop stands with fans to stop their laptops from BSOD'ing. This is why I suggest never putting 2 HDD's in RAID in a laptop - there's almost no performance gain, and it doubles the heat output. I don't know if you've ever touched a HDD while it's been running but they can get VERY hot. SSD is the opposite - almost no heat output, and performance is great. |
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You still use a CRT? |
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Been seeing this noted a couple times. There is a Digital Vibrancy option in the nVidia drivers if you want the colors to pop more, I'm pretty sure it's on by default these days to the point that it's more vibrant than ATI. Digital Vibrancy is basically just bumped up color saturation though which there is a slider for in both ATI/nVidia drivers. ~115 is pretty nice on ATI. |
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Gonna suggest a memtest86+ run. It's easy to do and bad memory can cause the weirdest problems so it's a good test to run first. You can also try disabling the XMP memory profile in the bios to run the memory at JEDEC standards which is a lot easier on it. My buddy has had to RMA his memory for his i5 twice now, seems to be lower quality control these days :( |
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Hmm the SSD still sounds suspect. You could install the OS again to your mechanical drive and see if it still crashes, at least then you would know it's something else. Not sure how else to test that SSD for stability while the OS is on it. There's probably something you could do with an Ubuntu bootable CD then run some test on the SSD. |
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Interesting, I have 2 friends that own Razer mice that also had issues. One was fixed with a firmware update, but the other still has to unplug his Razer mouse+keyboard and plug back in sometimes. Personally I just don't find them all the comfortable. |
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I don't actually have any experience with this mouse but it looks ergonomically the best multi-button placement to me, if you really want a ton of buttons on your mouse. |
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http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/Catalyst1111aperformance.aspx Catalyst 11.11a is the best to get at the moment. I had no issues with Skyrim on 11.9 either though, but 11.11a has a slight performance improvement for Skyrim. Btw, Catalyst version numbers are in the yy.mm format - 11.9 was released 9/2011, 11.11 was 11/2011, etc. And they are updated every month. |
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For keyboards - I bought a G15 last year, but I didn't like the layout of the media control buttons, which also felt a bit cheap plastic, and I never used the LCD panel. The macro keys are the same height as the other keys so I kept hitting the macro key when I reached for the ESC key. The software seemed a little unstable, and the Windows SideShowGadget app needed to be set to not monitor the keyboard or Windows Media Player would hang.
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I have never had an issue mixing ram speeds, and they are *suppose* to work with each other. In the rare event that they don't, you would likely find a BIOS update for your motherboard that improves memory module support. But your computer is in pretty good shape as is. Is there a specific reason you need more memory? Almost all games can only use 2GB as a limitation on 32-bit apps imposed by Windows, so 4GB leaves quite a bit left over for Windows and background apps. I would get every program running you would have running in your heaviest workload scenario, hit CTRL+SHIFT+ESC, and check the Physical Memory usage % in the bottom right corner. If you aren't above 90% usage I wouldn't throw money at a memory upgrade. |
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I had similar behavior on a build for a friend. Setup would take forever, just hang at a % for hours, finally installed and was unstable. We thought it was the drive and tested different drive out but same issue.
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Eh, I've seen computers on LCD and Plasma TV's and they equally lack clarity at that size. The problem is just scaling up 1920x1080 to 47"+ loses fidelity because of the pixel size, nothing to do with the differences between LCD and plasma.. |
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Plasma has 0 response time though, which is nice for gaming.. |
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I've never had a problem just uninstalling Pando media booster, but something could be reinstalling it. You should use hijackthis to analyze your start up programs.. If you can't figure out what's running that keeps reinstalling Pando post a log file here. |
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It's been months...still not sure about this computer build...
Hardware « General Discussion 11/03/11 4:43:49 AM
Whenever I've had to call the 1-800 number it's been completely automated - just punched in the code Windows had given me and it activated it for me. Also, if you are using a Windows upgrade version you're only suppose to use it when you have a previous version of Windows installed, but I like starting with a freshly formatted drive. You can still install it to an empty drive and then set a registry flag to bypass the requirement. |
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It's been months...still not sure about this computer build...
Hardware « General Discussion 11/02/11 9:42:36 PM
A hard drive will last on average 5 years under normal use. But the spread is anywhere from 0-10 years and could even last well beyond that.
Rotational speed of the platter (7200 RPM)
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