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Post by askew on Jan 14, 2022 10:08:07 GMT
PC gaming, eh? Mostly works, until it doesn't.
Yesterday I had a recurring issue across games where they would open and be running, but I could never foreground them. I could see them running when I hovered over the window preview in the taskbar. This was happening across game launchers and engines, but not consistently: Halo was fine; Horizon Zero Dawn was fine. My last Nvidia driver update was last week (to latest), and games have been fine in that period.
Has anybody else experienced it, or know of what to do when that happens?
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crashV👀d👀
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Jan 14, 2022 12:56:51 GMT
Have you disconnected a monitor recently?
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Post by Psiloc on Jan 14, 2022 13:02:03 GMT
You're lying, PC gaming is completely trouble free these days and how dare you say otherwise
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Post by stixxuk on Jan 15, 2022 15:37:35 GMT
So, I played a little Age of Empires 4 today, and it gave me an error message on boot, which I've seen before and usually ignore, saying I have less than 4gb of RAM free (I'm on a fairly old PC with 8GB total, Win10). I ignore and carry on but after about 30 mins the app crashes out saying it's run out of memory.
This led me to check the usage in task manager and it seems to be consistently above 50%, even when apps are all closed.
That seems a bit odd, right? I added up all the processes in task manager and that got me to just under 2gb. What could the rest of it be? Am I doomed to a clean Windows install and if I do that, could I do it to a new drive and switch back to my existing if I wanted? Think I've got about 4 hard drives in there, could probably do with ditching the old mechanical HDDs anyway.
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Post by knifeyspoony on Jan 15, 2022 18:16:45 GMT
How much memory does your PC say is available on system info? Might be that it's not seeing one of your modules assuming you have 2x4gb sticks.
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Post by stixxuk on Jan 15, 2022 19:46:11 GMT
It is recognising the full 8gb just seems that 4 to 5gb is in use even when the system is basically doing nothing!
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Post by askew on Jan 15, 2022 20:08:51 GMT
Have you disconnected a monitor recently? Nay. Got a feeling this is one of those annoying idiosyncratic issues that flared up once and then buggered off. |
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Post by dfunked on Jan 15, 2022 20:44:44 GMT
4GB memory usage is pretty standard for Windows these days. It tends to chew up at least half of what you have until you start getting into 16/32GB territory.
You can try a clean install, but at the end of the day 8GB really isn't a safe minimum any more. You should be able to get 16GB cheaply and sell the old modules. (hell, if it's DDR4 I've got some that I could whack in the post)
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Post by GigaChad Sigma. on Jan 15, 2022 20:56:50 GMT
How many RJ45 ports do you have?
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Post by stixxuk on Jan 15, 2022 21:55:07 GMT
4GB memory usage is pretty standard for Windows these days. It tends to chew up at least half of what you have until you start getting into 16/32GB territory. You can try a clean install, but at the end of the day 8GB really isn't a safe minimum any more. You should be able to get 16GB cheaply and sell the old modules. (hell, if it's DDR4 I've got some that I could whack in the post) Pretty sure it's DDR3 actually! Presumably I can grab another 2x4gb as a cheaper alternative to replacing and selling the existing modules? |
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Post by sport✅ on Jan 15, 2022 21:58:05 GMT
Might need to tweak memory settings in Autoexec.bat
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Post by dogbot on Jan 15, 2022 22:05:08 GMT
4GB memory usage is pretty standard for Windows these days. It tends to chew up at least half of what you have until you start getting into 16/32GB territory. You can try a clean install, but at the end of the day 8GB really isn't a safe minimum any more. You should be able to get 16GB cheaply and sell the old modules. (hell, if it's DDR4 I've got some that I could whack in the post) Pretty sure it's DDR3 actually! Presumably I can grab another 2x4gb as a cheaper alternative to replacing and selling the existing modules? I've got 2x4GB DDR 1600s (Elite+) DIMMS and an 8GB DD3 1600 DIMM (Crucial Ballistix), if any of that's any use to you? Long since out of use to me. |
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Post by stixxuk on Jan 15, 2022 22:13:55 GMT
The 2x4gb would probably be good for me, how much would you want for it?
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Post by dogbot on Jan 15, 2022 22:20:05 GMT
The 2x4gb would probably be good for me, how much would you want for it? You can have them. If you want to, DM me your address and I'll find some packaging and get them posted. 👍🏻 |
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Post by stixxuk on Jan 15, 2022 22:50:20 GMT
The 2x4gb would probably be good for me, how much would you want for it? You can have them. If you want to, DM me your address and I'll find some packaging and get them posted. 👍🏻 That's very kind of you, DM on its way! |
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Post by stixxuk on Jan 22, 2022 17:06:45 GMT
Just thought I'd post here before putting it on a local facebook page or something, inspired by dogbot kindly sending me some extra RAM. I've got a perfectly good (but old) 650w PSU here, Corsair TX-650W Replaced it last year because I couldn't get my PC to switch on but it turned out to be the CPU that was the problem. Free to a good home if anyone wants it. |
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Post by Blue_Mike on Jan 23, 2022 3:01:22 GMT
Had an issue lately I couldn't seem to pin down where my machine suddenly started booting to the BIOS every time rather than to the desktop. No hardware changes, examined everything to make sure nothing had vibrated itself loose. Every time, I would exit the BIOS and it would go straight to desktop successfully, so it was more of an annoyance than anything. Couldn't narrow it down to any specific thing in any troubleshooting guides, neither general or for my specific motherboard.
But then I noticed something else. Every time it would reach the desktop, I would have to force it to update the date and time. And that was what cracked it - it was the fucking CMOS battery on the motherboard. Somehow, it needed replacing despite having been in operation for less than a year on a board that was only released in 2020. Popped it out, stuck a new one in, problem solved. Currently blaming ASUS for shipping motherboards with shyte batteries.
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Post by dfunked on Jan 23, 2022 9:30:29 GMT
Blimey, that's a bit soon. I have an Asus Z370 board that had a dead CMOS battery last year, but that must've been bought in 2017. Seemed to be a common complaint when I googled it (honestly didn't think it'd be the battery so soon either at first)
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Post by GigaChad Sigma. on Apr 20, 2022 9:06:57 GMT
Non gaming but latest Windows update has screwed up my display.
Anyone have a similar issue? I don't want to spend all morning fucking about with the settings. Hoping there's a quick fix.
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Post by drhickman1983 on May 20, 2022 13:35:10 GMT
I have an Excel document on a shared work drive.
The document keeps saying that it is locked by myself.
I am absolutely not in it.
It's a long shot but does anybody have any suggestions? I can make a copy but then the old version persists and I'm wary of version control incase it unlocks itself. Can't delete it or rename it either, due to it being locked by me.
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Post by gray on May 20, 2022 13:39:33 GMT
Do you have access to the file server?
You should be able to (or request to) close open file via MMC->Computer Management snap in
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Post by dfunked on May 20, 2022 13:43:55 GMT
Could also be a temp file that's hanging around like a bad smell. If you show hidden files and delete the temporary file with the same name that starts with a tilde (no idea how to find that on a mobile keyboard) it should stop showing the locked message.
It could also be that someone else is locking it (which you'd need to sort via computer management on the file server as above) but the temp file was created by you. It pulls the locking user name from the temp file as far as I remember, not who is actually locking it.
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Post by 😎 on May 20, 2022 13:50:19 GMT
Reboot all workstations you’re using. On rare occasion the MS suite decides to keep sending keep alive pings to server hosted documents and keeps the server lock in place indefinitely, even after killing the processes. Rebooting stops the keep alive and will have the server release the lock after 30 minutes or so.
This is presuming you’re using a relatively recent version of the suite and not some old ass 2010 install, anyway.
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Post by H-alphaFox on May 23, 2022 9:12:22 GMT
I´m pretty sure my PC is causing our internet to crash but given the importance of having internet for wfh I´m reluctant to switch it back on and troubleshoot it at the moment. Really hope it´s nothing more than an iffy ethernet cable but what I do know is turning off and unplugging the PC brings the internet back. Just odd and frustrating as the internet cable goes straight to the router so no idea why the PC is cocking it up for everything else.
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Post by dominalien on May 23, 2022 9:36:58 GMT
You set a manual IP address that’s interfering with something else and fucking up routing for everything?
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Post by H-alphaFox on May 23, 2022 10:03:51 GMT
Not that I am aware of, I haven´t made any sort of change like that which I can think of recently.
We often get the internet cutting out and normally a restart of the router fixes it but this time it´s different, was saying network cable is unplugged. There are googleable troubleshoots if that is the actual problem but for now need to keep the wife connected for work so won´t monkey with it just yet.
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Post by H-alphaFox on May 23, 2022 13:16:59 GMT
Well it happed again this time with the pc turned off and unplugged so can't be the actual pc.
Managed to get it going again after resetting the adaptors and switching the pc back on.
Wonder if it's an ISP problem due to being cgnat?
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Post by Dougs on May 23, 2022 13:38:29 GMT
Are you using Home Plugs?
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Post by dfunked on May 23, 2022 13:46:07 GMT
If it's mobile broadband (which I'm just guessing from the mention of cgnat) then probably just the Huawei router being a massive bag of dicks (another guess)
They really are rubbishy little things. I hate them with a passion!
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Post by H-alphaFox on May 23, 2022 14:14:23 GMT
No home plugs and our internet is a wi-max system.
Just happened again, I can get it back by hard rebooting but it just drops out again shortly after.
We've been down the router road and upgraded to a beefy Asus as it was happening before and it still happens.
Most days are fine and then it plays up on us like this. If we do contact the ISP they say to leave everything on and in a day or so it comes back and they send a ticket saying fixed shedding no light on anything.
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