Re: General discussion chat oh gosh, i really need to stop reading tales from tech support, so much faith in humanity lost, SO MUCH FAITH, oh man
Re: General discussion chat Working on a roadsystem for Unity. Auto conforms to terrain. Poly density is tweakable. Normals still need some fixing (imported from here) (imported from here)
Re: General discussion chat I haven't played Skyrim in 2 years and I popped it in. I honestly don't know if I should restart... I don't remember what I was doing... I'm level 35 with a house in Riften.
Re: General discussion chat I don't see why you guys have so much piled into your hard drives. Here's mine: (imported from here) Three people share my computer.
Re: General discussion chat My first computer had a 20GB Maxtor HDD. With Windows installed, I had about 2GB to spare. Ever since then, I've been hard-wired for maximum space saving. Everything is compressed, uninstall everything I don't use, uninstall windows feature (IE, Windows games), disable page file, etc etc. I have 1TB of total capacity on my computer now and I've used about 60GB.
Re: General discussion chat My last computer had a 4GB Maxtor hard drive. It was running Windows 98. Memory management is something which i learned fairly well over the 7 years i had that computer. My tablet is also doing just fine for space. But my PC is currently a bit of a mess. About 70% of that is games though. The problem i have is that i never really used my old computer to do many things. While this computer has to do everything. I use it for programming, 3D CAD, Coursework, Web browsing, Backing up phone, Photo storage, Gaming, Playing music, Photoshop. The list goes on. - - - Updated - - - My Galaxy S2 running lollipop just turned into a bad ass. Yeah sure its not chart topping but damn its close to the HTC One (Ok, the one is like 50% faster but still). The HTC One has a Quad core 1.7Ghz snapdragon 600. My S2 has a dual core 1.2Ghz Samsung chip. Dayum.
Re: General discussion chat Since we're posting storage space again: (imported from here) The first drive is an SSD of course, used as a boot drive and nothing else. Works great despite its age, I normally go from power on to the login screen in around 8 seconds from a cold boot. I've seen a few people recommend larger drives for OS drives because Windows won't fit on a 40GB drive, but my install is Windows 8.1 Pro x64, one of the biggest combinations possible. As you can see that fits fine on my drive, normally about 4GB free but there were some temp files residing on the drive when I took the screenshot. But like I said if you're looking for bare essentials and no games on your SSD, 40GB works fine, even after the space you lose from rounding/formatting. The 2TB drive is for everything but Windows. Mainly space taken up by my huge Steam and Downloads folders, probably typical usage like everyone else's. I wouldn't recommend disabling it altogether. In my experience, even with 8GB of RAM, removing the pagefile results in a lot more crashes because Windows can't allocate more memory when necessary, similar to how even dedicated GPUs will hog your RAM. Games would crash out on me a lot when my pagefile stopped working, constantly complaining about not being able to render or running out of memory. If you have to save space in some way, either move it to another drive or limit its space slightly. Also, disable the hibernation file, that's not a critical file and hogs a few GBs of space.
Re: General discussion chat GABEY! Also, on the topic of storage space (imported from here) Simple. Who knows what the game is?
Re: General discussion chat Yeah, I've heard this before, and it is totally valid. I should have elaborate that I shrunk my page file size down to a very small size, either 256MB or 512MB. With 8GB of ram and possibly 16GB in the future, this is more than enough and actually improves the speed of the computer, as Windows 7 still clings to the pagefile far more than it should, because it's still very much Win NT. While totally disabling it leads to the crashes you said, giving it this small amount of space forces Windows to utilize more ram and write less to my SSD, while still giving Windows the pagefile if something goes wrong. I've been doing it this way for a number of years now and have yet to ever experience any sort of crashes or even minor bugs, even with GTA IV running while I render a video. oh and of course hibernation if off
