General computer talk/advice

I don't think anyone was being sarcastic. We all genuinely believe that there are better languages to learn as first time languages than C++.

 

the thing is, take a woodwork shop. Lots of cutting tools and stuff, all with well designed safety guards that don't even get in the way of your work (at least for newbie level). You wouldn't let a newbie in there and then remove all the safety guards and personal safety equipment (goggles and shit) would you? That is C++. Assembly would then be like turning the lights off at night in there
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programming is great and all. I've even gotten involved in teaching it. But c++ is really the deep end and not recommended for newcomers by anyone.
I'd quite like to know why he chose it as a first language actually

 

ok I changed my mind to java

 

Will an R9 380 run Beam at max settings at 1080p, and how fast?

 

You should get 60fps with as good as all maps on mid-high settings and AA turned down. Your Q9650 will bottleneck it in some games (*cough* BeamNG *cough*), but not too badly I think. Let's say it's as if you had an AMD FX.

 

Coming from someone who has a 380, it's heavily map dependent. Maps like Small Island will run very smooth and nice, where as maps like East Coast will choke very heavily, especially in the town. It's important to remember that Beam currently still has a graphical bottleneck somewhere in the game, though.

 

I have a 290x and it's the same deal on my end. @Ouerbacker made a map called crimson valley. Not only is it one of the best hi speed driving maps period, i would expect it to run on just about anything. The trees in ECA are what I think slows everything down.

 

solid mesh collision is slowing eca down for many this last update I think

 

Truly inspiring.

 

That's okay, I'm getting an i5 soon. And yes, the i5 is attached to a MoBo. And yes, the motherboard is in a case which we will be using.
I don't use AA on any games, I don't see the point. I barely notice.

 

Then you're golden. That thing with a 6400 or 4460 would be a great 1080p-rig.

 

wowMy old laptop feels like new with Windows 10
Windows 10 + 2GB DDR2 + singlecore Intel Celeron 540 1.86Ghz = 10/10

 

Might be pretty slow though... With 2GB of RAM you have 1.5 used, which is only half of what Windows wants to use, so it only loads half the Kernel in, so it's even slower than it should be. Why I know that? Well, we have a 10-year-old Medion with a Pentium M 740 @1.73Ghz standing around, except... there's still Windows 7 on it. Something about the driver for the hotkeys on the right of the laptop.

 

What?

 

That's at least what I heared. Sorry if I'm wrong. :/
I meant that if you open the Task Manager, you can see that Windows takes up like 3 Gigs of RAM. On a machine with 2 Gigs it only takes up 1.5. And it's extremely slow.

My concluion was that. ^^

 

Actually it seem to only use 0.8GB when idling

1.2GB used when there are eight MS paints running at the same time and still everything works smoothly

 

I have under 3gb used with applications open....

 

Alright, seems like I either have a lot of junk running or... Yeah, don't know any explanation other than that.

 

holy. crap. holy. crap. i have a laptop that i have been trying to get working for 2 YEARS. it wouldnt read any floppy disks. its got a cherry mx blue keyboard. AND IT JUST STARTED READING FLOPPY DISKS. im really freaking happy.

 

You know. if you remove the floppy drive and open it up you can clean the heads with isopropyl, dirty heads are the main cause of drives failing to read, you just have to be very gentle, they're very delicate. The heads are on either side of these arms that clamp down, they're white, pull the top arm up gently, just enough to get a qtip in between them, and clean them with said qtip that has been dipped in isopropyl, the drive will now last you another 20 years.