tech-support

[silk maple]

Basically shouldve activated the tp point, didnt notice that the path was blocked by blight before heading to the dijang for a bit

[summer pagoda]

made me choose before the main dl started

[rancid loom]

interesting...so the game lets you choose it in phones huh

[tall acorn]

pretty sure you can still navigate your way over there and unlock it

as long as you've finished the questline

[summer pagoda]

oh well, game is weird

[rancid loom]

or maybe I just couldn't remember if they let me choose the VO over the phone before

[silk maple]

Yeah ive finished it, just blocked
Cant go through the outside of the research center and inside

[tall acorn]

it's possible to reach the waypoint, you need to find the right pathway inside

i could probably help you navigate in a second

[rancid loom]

you mean to say || you've met Yvonne and repaired Tata already || but the game doesn't let you proceed beyond that?

[silk maple]

Thanks

[silk maple]

Yes, i forgot to activate the tp point before going to check on some stuff

[rancid loom]

aight

[tall acorn]

show me the main pathway inside and send me screenshots @silk maple

[silk maple]

Like this?

[summer pagoda]

it's from a sidequest

one of the guy npcs

Dusty Old Files

[tall acorn]

@silk maple, the original pathway is set in yvonne's room, take the elevator down and you'll be able to reach the exit on the other side of the building

my fault for the slow response time, had to go take care of something lol

[silk maple]

Omg thank you so much

[silk maple]

Its alr, i was out doing some stuff on the dijang while waiting

[tall acorn]

start here and navigate to the elevator directly to the right of the right room

[tall acorn]

go up the elevator and navigate the pathways until you're at the open area

[silk maple]

[minor rampart]

yeah lol, i got the windows now which works (hopefully) shaders just taking really long since i tried vulkan

[tall acorn]

yvonne's room is straight to the right of the open area

[tall acorn]

yvonne's room, if you cleared the blight to unblock it in the previous image

[rancid loom]

aight

let us know if you still have problems

[proven sundial]

I somehow got battlefield 6 working on linux

No secure boot and no klac

[toxic atlas]

Javelin not actively fucking up Linux?

[proven sundial]

I have to test it further though to make sure

Just played 2 matches

No problem so far

[golden zenith]

it amazing how you guys can do this

good to know in the future

[toxic atlas]

You know how it is
You either support Linux with your software
Or someone will be spiteful enough at one point to make it run anyway

[golden zenith]

fair point, still it is amazing

[proven sundial]

It's well worth trying to make it work

The freedom your os grants you makes it all the better

No more ai shouting DO YOU WANT TO ENHANCE YOUR PHOTO

😂

[golden zenith]

😂

[proven sundial]

Kinda glad i took some days off

With what happened yesterday

Otherwise i would have gone insane

[golden zenith]

well, it understandable. i reach the point where it is what it is

[proven sundial]

Yeah pure nightmare fuel

Ah well atleast i can set up some more ram systems

Just for protonvpn

Also molvad is pretty good

[minor rampart]

all good now thanks

[proven sundial]

Good to know it was a read issue

Have fun ❤️

[golden zenith]

is it Mullvad? i use their DNS filter

[proven sundial]

Yeah yeah Mullvad they use ram servers for their vpn

Same as proton

[golden zenith]

huh... well i rarely use VPN + i only know a little bit, so i didnt all this

[proven sundial]

Well you know now

[golden zenith]

more things to shove in my brain

[proven sundial]

That is the reason why i recommend them

Data never gets saved

[tall acorn]

also no pricing nonsense or "deals" which lock you in for years at a "lower" price

[proven sundial]

Yeah that's right

Just a nice sensible company

[tall acorn]

apparently you're saving 80%+, getting FREE MONTHS AS EXTRA, and there's a special sale going on, but only for one of them

[tall acorn]

1 month compared to expressvpn's 2 year plans, which are selected by default..

[tall acorn]

mark up the standard prices by 400%~, and call it "savings" where it isn't marked up

[proven sundial]

Yeah they typically do so

[tall acorn]

basic starts at $12.99 lol

pretty sure they also have auto renew on by default depending on what payment method you use, mullvad lets you manually pay by default whenever you need more time

[proven sundial]

Definitely but yeah i'd rather just have a flat price

And no auto renewal

I like it better that way

[rancid loom]

honestly I don't really need VPN that much

[steel swift]

Same

[rancid loom]

some may need it yeah and well I feel it's just a case-to-case basis

[steel swift]

Prob the only vpn I ever "need" is those Gaming vpn for low ping

[rancid loom]

unless you're always needing to go to stuff your domain doesn't allow you to

OR you want to hide yourself

[golden zenith]

It depends really, most of the time ppl use it for Region lock stuff or Security & Privacy

[rancid loom]

yep that's why I said "unless you're always needing to go to stuff your domain doesn't allow you to or you want to hide yourself"

[golden zenith]

Anyway, time to pray

[steel swift]

Why even bother updating

[proven sundial]

Just another windows update

[rancid loom]

wait what the

@golden zenith NO don't go to 25H2

it's not necessary

[steel swift]

My W11 always failed installing new update

[rancid loom]

it's just Windows sticking their AI slop that's why there's 25H2

[golden zenith]

they auto updated it KEK

[rancid loom]

24H2 is enough honestly

roll back motherfather

[proven sundial]

Why roll back when you run your own os

[rancid loom]

for Windows users I don't think that's applicable

[golden zenith]

welp it too late... i let you guys know if i enconter any issues

[proven sundial]

Be prepared for paint ai

Shouting in your ears

[rancid loom]

I mean I am on 25H2

there's no fricking difference aside from them adding some AI slop

but yeah I'm more worried about bugs for you @golden zenith

[steel swift]

Time to disable everything

[proven sundial]

Kinda glad i do 85 percent of my stuff on linux

[golden zenith]

it okay, it my bed & i sleep with error logs all the time

man my task scheduler is slow

what a terrible update

[rancid loom]

honestly I wasn't even wanting to go to 25H2 but I accidentally downloaded the 25H2 ISO when I tried to reinstall my OS after half a year using the USB I set aside for backup

so here we are

[proven sundial]

Don't you have the delay updates option ?

[rancid loom]

there is

[steel swift]

https://tenor.com/view/kung-fu-panda-oogway-accidents-there-are-no-accidents-destiny-gif-16270886

[rancid loom]

unfortunately, there are situations where Windows overrides it

[steel swift]

You only able to pause it for so long

[proven sundial]

Man fuck windows

[golden zenith]

There is pause for update, but microslop will push the update by itself

[rancid loom]

maximum is one month and a week

[drowsy cipher]

its possible to break the updatebroker so thoroughly it wont bother you anymore

i did that on w10

[rancid loom]

ye but then it also breaks your PC sometime in the future

[drowsy cipher]

6 years going strong

[rancid loom]

also after every update, if you have Edge and it's not your default, it fucking reverts it to Edge

[proven sundial]

On a baseline w10 i assume

[tall acorn]

you should disable windows updates

[rancid loom]

like

should I just go back to Windows 10 in this case?

like is it worth degrading my drive's lifespan just to revert back to it?

lmao

[tall acorn]

i personally would, but it's up to you

[drowsy cipher]

worked on every version i tried. fiddle and rename some files in the updateorchestrator in system32.

[tall acorn]

[proven sundial]

I mean w10 is not supported but honestly there is not a huge difference

[rancid loom]

question is, what performance gain can I get if I do?

I need more data

[tall acorn]

marginal performance gains, loss of some features, return of some features, considerably better but still bad OS

[golden zenith]

game loaded fine, but with 1ms.... terrible update

time for benchmark

[rancid loom]

ye that's the problem.. it's marginal

[drowsy cipher]

found the list: in c:\windows\system32\tasks\microsoft\windows\updateorchestrator
get rid of reboot, reboot_ac, reboot_ battery, uso_uxbroker and then remove permission to create files in there from Everyone and Anonymous login so it cant recreate the files
Disclaimer: works on my machine™, do at your own risk

[rancid loom]

in performance gain I mean but it's a cleaner UI for me than 11

[proven sundial]

The only benchmark for me is that i gained 20 fps with going to linux for endfield

And it uses 4gb ram less

[rancid loom]

I'll try to go Windows 10 tomorrow but that's gonna fck up my drive's lifespan

[proven sundial]

You're fine

It's on ssd right ?

[rancid loom]

Ye NVMe

[proven sundial]

Yeah all good nvme drives last like 500 TBW

[rancid loom]

So you're saying I go switch rn?

[proven sundial]

Up to you honestly

You are your own master

[rancid loom]

Fair point

[rancid loom]

Lemme try this then

Downloading Win10 ISO

Gonna go Rufus

[toxic atlas]

LTSC 2021?

[steel swift]

ltsc ftw

[rancid loom]

Should I use LTSC tho

[proven sundial]

Yeah you should

A lot less ram usage

And less processes

[rancid loom]

Aight will do that then

[weak lily]

Can i play Endfield inside a Virtual Machine?

[rancid loom]

you can

[weak lily]

Ah great

[rancid loom]

but pray that your PC can handle it

since running a virtual machine is already taxing enough

[steel swift]

Why you even need VM for EF

[rancid loom]

and then you want the game to run and it also needs your processing power

so double the trouble

[proven sundial]

The biggest benefit to a VM

It won't take down your system

[weak lily]

proton-dw is a bit of hassle

[weak lily]

^ this too

[weak lily]

I can, and i have done it before

But the RAM Usage holy

[proven sundial]

Ram usage ?

How much on dw proton is it using

[weak lily]

All of my 16GB RAM

It's also my first time seeing swap actually being used

[toxic atlas]

GE works as well now

[proven sundial]

Hmm odd i run cachyos and dwproton for endfield and it only uses 13GB of ram total

[weak lily]

GNOME uses 4GB, thus only 12GB for the rest of the application

[proven sundial]

Ahhhh i see

[toxic atlas]

Wow people actually use Gnome?

[steel swift]

4GB

[weak lily]

I do

[rancid loom]

question, LTSC and Enterprise are different or is it the same?

[toxic atlas]

Different

[rancid loom]

aiht

[proven sundial]

Different features

[weak lily]

I hate it but also love it

I love GTK, but I don't like how bloated GNOME is

[rancid loom]

non-IoT or the IoT one?

[proven sundial]

Non iot i'd say

[toxic atlas]

2021

Only 2024 (Win11 LTSC) has IoT / Non-IoT editions

Oh, wait
Nevermind I'm spreading misinfo
Forgot they added that exactly in 2021

[rancid loom]

so here's the problem

I have an account integrated with Microsoft

[toxic atlas]

Grab iso (check DM)
Then install, select Non-IoT

[rancid loom]

that has my digital license on it

[weak lily]

It's not going to work

[toxic atlas]

Pirating windows is morally acceptable

[proven sundial]

I commend this action

[weak lily]

I'm legally unable to share how to

[rancid loom]

fair point

[proven sundial]

Paying for a trash os is a crime

[weak lily]

Good thing ThinkPad has those embeded License thingy

[toxic atlas]

Paying for something and still getting bloat and ads should be a crime

[tall acorn]

press Windows Key + R and type in gpedit.msc, and press enter.

afterwards, navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update > Manage end user experience (Windows 11)

edit Configure Automatic Updates and select the disabled option, and then click apply and OK next.

finished for now @golden zenith @rancid loom @drowsy cipher

If you don't have an active pro license for windows (Required for access to the group policy editor) https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts

Step 1: Launch powershell and paste in irm https://get.activated.win | iex.

Step 2: Select and press the 1 key for [HWID] in the command prompt that launches. (it'll prompt you to launch as an administrator)

[steel swift]

Average new laptop

[weak lily]

This won't work if it was Windows Home Edition

[tall acorn]

obviously yeah

[golden zenith]

oh dont worry, i know... i perfer being a test dummy here

[weak lily]

Realistically, every consumer laptop nowadays come with Home Edition.

[tall acorn]

you can purchase a legitimate copy of windows 11 pro here https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/windows-11-pro/dg7gmgf0d8h4 ✅

[steel swift]

Purchase

[tall acorn]

👌

[golden zenith]

sooo pricy.... like microslop

[steel swift]

200usd is insane

[proven sundial]

What a nice price for a piece of poop in a bucket

[golden zenith]

meanwhile, online selling for $20

[tall acorn]

or you can just activate any edition for free https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts

[toxic atlas]

Who the fuck pays 200$ just to get ads in their OS?

[tall acorn]

nobody as far as i know lmfao

[golden zenith]

[tall acorn]

someone sent me that last year and i was just..

😔

[golden zenith]

it all microslop

[tall acorn]

$90 advertisement in your own start menu

reaching diabolical levels at that point

[proven sundial]

You know every time i have an image in my head when opening windows i get ganked from every side until nothing is left and then the image of linux is like a little kid in a candy store

So i'd rather have the candy store

[golden zenith]

Sound about right

[tall acorn]

discounted at $60 USD excluding tax is crazy

could go find some steam discounts and have enough games to play for the next year at that price

[proven sundial]

Yeah good old steam or gog

[weak lily]

ah well, at least i tried

[golden zenith]

oof, ACE can detect VM huh

[proven sundial]

There should be a bypass

On vm

[weak lily]

can i skip this annoying pop up? My driver is the latest driver that Lenovo ship to users

[tall acorn]

any modern anticheat will detect just running a basic VM instantly

[tall acorn]

just skip

[golden zenith]

just skip

[tall acorn]

every time you launch

[weak lily]

It's very obvious since the drive is called "QEMU HARDDISK" lol

[golden zenith]

ah, right

i never tried VM with windows b4 so i wouldnt know

[weak lily]

does GE works better than dw?

[proven sundial]

Anyway i am back to fiddling with battlefield 6 i have fully bypassed secure boot and klac

[toxic atlas]

Time to spoof VM

[proven sundial]

GE should be a little better

[toxic atlas]

Your driver is quite old
Just download official Intel drivers yourself

[lean dome]

https://tenor.com/view/hawk-cobra-kai-hawk-cobra-kai-eli-moskowitz-gif-27382355

[tall acorn]

alternatively, you can try you luck with forcefully updating the graphics driver manually through device manager

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/785597/intel-arc-graphics-windows.html

direct download link: https://downloadmirror.intel.com/874365/gfx_win_101.8509.exe newest

[weak lily]

Well it's the driver from Vantage

[rancid loom]

all good here, got the ISO, waiting for download...just gonna use Rufus to install it on the USB drive

[weak lily]

I have 31.xx on my drive but, it's already hard enough to put GPU into the VM

[rancid loom]

is this where we circle back to,

what's the reason you are even using a VM?

[weak lily]

I want to limit how much RAM the game (in this case, the entire machine) can use

It crashed my entire Windows when i run it on my Windows installation

[toxic atlas]

systemd-run

[rancid loom]

Microslop at it again omg

[weak lily]

I add pagefiles thinking it would relax the RAM but no

It uses more RAM

no idea why

[toxic atlas]

ACE, that's why

[weak lily]

My VM runs modified Windows that's really light. So i thought i should try it there

[toxic atlas]

Dude
Just shove it in the Faugus flatpak
And enjoy the game like everyone else

[weak lily]

[rancid loom]

SPAAAAM

[proven sundial]

Elon musk

Please give me money

[rancid loom]

Please give me money!

[proven sundial]

Contact me here right away

So i can track your ip

[rancid loom]

[proven sundial]

Dammit

[plucky river]

Super duper late reply
I did this and it solved the Alt Tab lag issue as well as the cursor "stubbornness" issue

Huge thanks!

Only issue left is the Snipping Tool taking a screenshot of the past instead of when I pressed it

[proven sundial]

Good to know it helped ❤️

Also reinstall snipping tool if needed

[steel swift]

Win + Prtscr
Or just use Lightshot

[golden zenith]

add it to the problem that you solve & send it to the staff

[plucky river]

is Win + PrtScr saved? If yes, where does it go?

[steel swift]

Your image folder

Default is onedrive/pictures/screenshot

[proven sundial]

I will eat the staff alive

[golden zenith]

please do, roast them as well

[plucky river]

omg thenks, I have instant screenies now :D
Can't crop or edit it like snipping tool... hmm i'll try reinstalling it

[tall acorn]

fixed the direct download link by the way

[proven sundial]

@toxic atlas you know anything similar to lossless scaling or optical scaler on linux ?

Since it does not work properly

[toxic atlas]

... You could just use FSR on gamescope

[proven sundial]

Hmm alright

Thanks

[plucky river]

turns out, it's Windows 11 Snipping Tool being absolute dog crap

It also has delays outside of Endfield
Endfield is fixed for me :3
Thenks again everyone

[proven sundial]

You're welcome

Have a nice day

[steel swift]

That's why I use lightshot instead

[rancid loom]

yeah Snipping tool lags a lot

did use it... it's slow to use af

[proven sundial]

Never had any issues with snipping tool

But that is probably because of my pc

[rancid loom]

lul fair enough

[golden zenith]

same with Xomori, nvr had any issues

[proven sundial]

But good to know snipping tool slows down a lot on other systems

[rancid loom]

on low end devices I suppose

btw @proven sundial returning to Win10 thru Rufus.

I'm installing it first on the USB drive

btw what's this cluster size?

[proven sundial]

Looks alright

And cluster size is about how much space

A file can take

[rancid loom]

so I just leave it be yes?

[proven sundial]

So just go with standard

[rancid loom]

aight

[proven sundial]

I'll be off for a while

So let me know how it went

[golden zenith]

next thing you know, your pc become curse like bird's

[rancid loom]

every time I see you sometimes I feel there's trouble

don't curse it man

[sudden sinew]

me exhausted as hell

hi btw

[rancid loom]

hi exhausted as hell

[golden zenith]

hi Fusion Wife

[rancid loom]

[sudden sinew]

@hazy venture

[sudden sinew]

gotta protocol my entire IT class for Industry session
and everything's to be explained again and again after 2 wks
me asking if they're birdbrains or smth

[rancid loom]

btw I'm downgrading from Win 11 to Win10

[sudden sinew]

Nvidia?

[golden zenith]

wdym you downgrading.... you mean upgrading

[sudden sinew]

[rancid loom]

donwngrading...in Windows terms

[sudden sinew]

btw work tmr yay

[rancid loom]

ofc it's upgrading in my terms

[rancid loom]

yey

[rancid loom]

I'm using AMD...just the OS swapping back to Win10

[sudden sinew]

or not...
(I hate one of my colleagues who vibecodes but can't explain)

[rancid loom]

depends

but hey at least no AI slop on Win10

[tall acorn]

disable all telemetry, updates, etc, etc, etc, etc again, before connecting to the internet @rancid loom

[sudden sinew]

He lets AI generate an entire sht and expect me to even fix it
I'm not depleting social but that's too unfair when others check stuffs by hands

[tall acorn]

otherwise there will be "slop" on your computer

manual install an update if you want it

[rancid loom]

aight

[tall acorn]

copliot will make it's way onto your computer if you don't do this

the second you connect to the internet

[rancid loom]

even on Windows 10 LTSC?

[tall acorn]

well if you go for a version aside from home/pro, you're looking at other issues you'll have to handle in the future

isn't worth it imo but it's up to you

don't recall the relevant reasons on why non home/pro versions have some downsides that come with the upsides

[rancid loom]

already downloaded the Windows 10 LTSC non-IoT tho

lemme research first

[golden zenith]

you should

[sudden sinew]

but atleast I got my work done in short time, sketch done, even prep'd stuffs at school
now time to test on my homelab and expect LAN throttling running Azure sht

[toxic atlas]

No need to, it's already debloated

[sudden sinew]

tbf, I'd slap hard PGQL onto the desk but since 2 not knowing PGQL in group I cannot run it

[toxic atlas]

LTSC is the most official bare version of windows available

[sudden sinew]

want to try too xD

[rancid loom]

oh I think I know what Zencrox is referring to

[sudden sinew]

kinda depends but yea

[rancid loom]

@tall acorn you referring to ACE issues amirite?

[tall acorn]

no

[rancid loom]

but is it one of them?

[sudden sinew]

atleast OK workers in team lmfao

[tall acorn]

if i'm gonna be entirely honest, i don't actually have a clue myself right now

just remember that back when i was doing an in depth dive on what windows version i should choose from (all of them), every extended version had some sort of drawback that was reasonable enough to outweigh the minor upsides that come with choosing that version

[sudden sinew]

just like choosing linux distros lmfao

[toxic atlas]

LTSC's downside is the older windows base version

And that's about it

[tall acorn]

you can effectively replicate everything you're trying to get out of the LTSC, and similar versions, by tweaking your pro installation

[toxic atlas]

Yeah but why
If it's already there

[rancid loom]

Thanks for the input

[sudden sinew]

shi forgor my bus stop

[toxic atlas]

Instead of messing with group policy

[tall acorn]

requires more work, but it's up to you to decide where you want to allocate your efforts

[rancid loom]

So... In my case I'd want the OS to do what it needs to without me tweaking it too much

So LTSC it is then

I mean if the LTSC functions like the Pro without tweaking then ye

[vestal shard]

Hey everyone, did the devs fix the high cpu temp/usage issue already? I've been away from the game for some days

[rancid loom]

Doing a clean install

@toxic atlas

Is it the one in N or not?

[toxic atlas]

Normal one, Enterprise LTSC

[rancid loom]

So the one in N got it

[toxic atlas]

N removes a bunch of media shit you might want

Iike codecs and media player

It's a headache to debug in games that use special codecs

[tall acorn]

holy blinked and already clean installing

[tall acorn]

not yet, possibly this month though

[vestal shard]

Well, guess I'll have to wait then. Thanks man!

[rancid loom]

What the

[golden zenith]

what wrong?

[rancid loom]

Wait let me try again

[golden zenith]

[rancid loom]

Earlier Windows failed to install lmao

[sudden sinew]

how to clean install ltsc

[rancid loom]

Lmao

[sudden sinew]

no drivers? lmao

[rancid loom]

No drivers

I dunno

Honestly this is the first time I'm installing an LTSC version

[sudden sinew]

glgl

[golden zenith]

btw, so far no issue after i update....

but when i tried to leave the game

[weak lily]

ouch

[golden zenith]

[drowsy cipher]

the most malware looking warning ive seen in a long time

[storm cairn]

smh this game is nuts

[weak lily]

well anyway.. i guess i could use waydroid to run ef

[tall acorn]

you're fine, just run the game as normal if it isn't broken or something tbh

[weak lily]

can't

it crashes every time

[tall acorn]

what was your original issue again?

[weak lily]

this is new issue

[tall acorn]

crashes on the start or during gameplay?

[weak lily]

it did run at first, but it crashes during loading. i had to restart and then it shows that

[golden zenith]

they on linux, trying to VM on Endfield

[weak lily]

it doesn't work, this is running with Proton ge

[golden zenith]

for now it a Proton issue, im not familiar with this. Xomori or Max know those better than us

[rancid loom]

Did I get scammed?

Welp time to fix this myself then

[weak lily]

yay i'm still able to login into my acc

[golden zenith]

we could also try pinging Teapot or Katsumi if you need help with linux as well

[hazy venture]

What 😭

[rancid loom]

Welp I trusted you guys man

[golden zenith]

[rancid loom]

And just when I needed help everyone just disappeared

Too suspicious I must say

[golden zenith]

Welcome to Tech Support

[rancid loom]

I still got my phone so it's still fixable probs

[storm cairn]

what happened?

[storm cairn]

even dw wont works?

[storm cairn]

ur fucked. are u sure this isnt some sketchy iso u got from a random site?

[rancid loom]

It's internet archive

[tall acorn]

you downloaded it from where specifically?

[golden zenith]

shouldnt it be from microsoft?

[rancid loom]

https://archive.org/details/en-us_windows_10_enterprise_ltsc_2021_x64_dvd_d289cf96_202112

[rancid loom]

I'll try to do what I can

If there's a will there's a way

[storm cairn]

try checking it hash

the chance is slim but it can be a broken download

[rancid loom]

I don't have a fucking PC right now man

[storm cairn]

hey

[storm cairn]

right right......

[toxic atlas]

I'm at fucking work

[rancid loom]

Sorry man, it's just bad timing I guess

[golden zenith]

meanwhile Max is putting out fire

in his job

[toxic atlas]

For real, just had an ESXi boot controller fail
Lost a VM host and now trying to recover shit

[golden zenith]

oh shit, that serious

[weak lily]

I don't wanna

That warning is scary to me

[rancid loom]

Anyways I think I'll need a different PC

[tall acorn]

i would've downloaded it from somewhere else tbh, hash is also different from a legitimate file i'm referencing

[storm cairn]

i think the os (like what build it is) also play a roll here too

[broken swift]

why don't you download it on Masgrave site?

[weak lily]

It's Fedora Linux

[tall acorn]

☝️

[rancid loom]

Didn't let me

[broken swift]

How?

[rancid loom]

Every time I click the link

[tall acorn]

https://buzzheavier.com/eaz0ug2ovut3 link to the download, not exe

[rancid loom]

This pops up

[storm cairn]

u can try nobara it works fine

also fedora too

[rancid loom]

And all it says is *The connection was reset

[broken swift]

Try using cloudflare warp while downloading it

[rancid loom]

I DON'T HAVE A COMPUTER

[toxic atlas]

It's gonna be a long Friday night...

[broken swift]

Cloudflare warp on phone?

[golden zenith]

PAIN😭

[rancid loom]

That's not the problem

[storm cairn]

i can toss the iso on my drive for u

[rancid loom]

Even if I try to download it how do I fricking install it when my USB can't be used and formatted to install it

[storm cairn]

right

[tall acorn]

what happened to your current installation..?

[rancid loom]

I need a different PC

[storm cairn]

the file is tampered it wont work

[rancid loom]

I'm borderline to crashing out man

[tall acorn]

yeah i mean the old one

[storm cairn]

uh fedex ur usb here ill format it for u

[rancid loom]

I'll just install things how I know it

[broken swift]

Ah you mean like another pc to use rufus and format the usb right?

[storm cairn]

i mean it cant be that hard looking for a net cafe in europe right?

[rancid loom]

Yes

[broken swift]

Or use gamehub/winlator on phone and install rufus there

[tall acorn]

wouldn't recommend clean installing or partitioning unless you're 100% sure on what you're doing and if it's going to work

try grabbing the massgrave file and see if that works, you should be fine tbh

later of course

[golden zenith]

hmm... do we have a version of rufus on phone?

[broken swift]

Well he still need a pc to format the usb...

[rancid loom]

I'm not in Europe

I'm in SEA

Namely the Philippines

[broken swift]

Winlator/gamehub might work

[storm cairn]

then its even easier

[rancid loom]

And it's scarce finding a net cafe here

[golden zenith]

for now, let solve the issue at hand first

right now we dont have a system with os

only we have a phone

[broken swift]

I will try booting rufus to see if it run or not

[golden zenith]

we might as well try this then

[storm cairn]

do he have a usb a to c tho?

[rancid loom]

No it's not

[golden zenith]

in Philippines, it late at night as well... so going outside is not an option

[rancid loom]

Well it's an option... i do have one in mind

But I'm gambling here to see if it's still open

[golden zenith]

well, best to do it tmr when you have the time

[broken swift]

Wtf it actually run ?

[toxic atlas]

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.depau.etchdroid
Time to write a Linux iso with your phone, then rewrite it with windows after booting up

[broken swift]

Well i don't have the usb to c converter to test if it recognizes the usb tho

[rancid loom]

Already downloaded the win11 pro

I mean the Win10 pro on my phone

[broken swift]

@golden zenith @rancid loom this could potentially work

[toxic atlas]

No access to USB though from winlator

[golden zenith]

Guess that leave Max option then

[storm cairn]

might need to wait quite a while.he dont have a converter

[golden zenith]

Can you connect your USB to your Phone, or do you not have a converter @rancid loom

[storm cairn]

buy a vxe r1 they have a converter included

great time to get a new mouse too

[golden zenith]

@storm cairn It LATE at NIGHT... they going to gamble IF it open

[broken swift]

The converter is 2-4$ but that mouse is 15$

[toxic atlas]

Y'all really advertising shit to a dude without a functional OS install?

[drowsy cipher]

[golden zenith]

ikr, for now focus on the issue at hand

[toxic atlas]

I'd honestly just start WinPE off the installer he already has, connect his phone to transfer the good iso and a copy of Rufus, start Rufus, then rewrite the USB live

Been there, nuked my shit as well, can recover

Though at the time I was rocking DriveDroid
If you know that name, you're an OG

[storm cairn]

where was the program when i searched for "windows intstallation with no usb drive"

[golden zenith]

Pardon.... What

[toxic atlas]

It's a really old app for rooted android

Like, really old

[broken swift]

Rufus has an unofficial android app. Will this work?

[storm cairn]

what u never searched for smth like that?

[toxic atlas]

Shit's a microtransaction scam

[tall acorn]

contains ads is crazy

[storm cairn]

aight nvm

[tall acorn]

lmfao..

[toxic atlas]

I'm fucking off again need to drop by the datacenter shit ain't getting revived remotely

[south mesa]

guys what is the best optimized graphic settings that improve performance with almost unnoticeable loss in graphical quality?

[storm cairn]

im thinking that the dude who uploaded the iso file on internet archive must have fucked with us intentionally

[broken swift]

Yea, i know but desperate time required desperate solution...

[storm cairn]

all low

trust

[golden zenith]

alright, take care

[broken swift]

2 ads per usb

[broken swift]

Bye

[south mesa]

for real?

[storm cairn]

alr take care of ur lungs

[storm cairn]

i see no different in low and medium

[south mesa]

the shadow casts distance is lower if you go low tho

[broken swift]

All max, let the gpu and cpu burn

[storm cairn]

except the vegetation one

[tall acorn]

what are your specs, if you don't mind sharing?

[storm cairn]

5600g with it own gpu

16gb ram yes

[steel swift]

Use better GPU

[broken swift]

Well all low with medium grass and reflection it is then

[tall acorn]

set everything to low and off, switch textures to high

render scale -> 1.0
special effects quality -> low/medium
texture quality -> high
ambient details -> medium
vegetation density -> medium

[storm cairn]

if ur that picky then just go low/medium?

[tall acorn]

if you really want shadows, set them to medium at the most

[south mesa]

I do have pretty limited setup. which is AMD ryzen 5 5600G with 16gb ram DDR4 3200mt/s (OC to 3600mt/s). No gpu, only iGPU.

I can run all high with 80% render scale fairly smooth, except when I'm in upper treasure grotto cave. that's the only place where I notice lag

[storm cairn]

although medium texture quality wont worth it with how much ram it taking

[tall acorn]

copy these settings @south mesa

[golden zenith]

@rancid loom If you still there, try this

[south mesa]

doesn't vegetation Option only provide high and low?

[tall acorn]

iGPU might be cooked with that though, i don't know

[broken swift]

I barely notice the difference with low and medium on my 7530u tho. Low is better cause vram/ram issue

[tall acorn]

set it to low then

[south mesa]

but the grass...

[toxic atlas]

I am about to fucking kill myself

[storm cairn]

set it to high

[tall acorn]

grass isn't going to look stupid crazy on a 1080p screen with a igpu

it isn't very intensive if you have a dgpu

[storm cairn]

dont worry u doing great

[tall acorn]

don't know how impactful it is on igpus

[storm cairn]

take care

[south mesa]

I am playing on 1366x768p as it's my max res in my monitor

[tall acorn]

you could be losing fps in the realms of single digits

[broken swift]

Igpus won't render them properly like dedicated normal gpu

[storm cairn]

the grass in wuling is quite noticible

[tall acorn]

[storm cairn]

but its not that impactful on ur hardware

turn off whatever it let you to

[south mesa]

what does ambient quality do?

[storm cairn]

those aint worth it

[tall acorn]

brother..

can you run the game at 60fps stable?

[golden zenith]

try touching grass irl, it better

[storm cairn]

fuck that i know i dont see a different

[tall acorn]

all high?

[broken swift]

There is difference at high vs low tho. Like the light and stuffs like that
*Fps hit is quite high

[south mesa]

I don't know if it's 60fps but it looks butter smooth, except in that one cave

[tall acorn]

set to 120fps and see what happens

monitor is probably capped at 60fps anyways though, so that'd be pointless

[storm cairn]

reflection is a must turn off one

it looks like shit

[tall acorn]

might be able to notice the difference with frame generation

[south mesa]

I set mine to 30fps cap because 60 will produce more lag

[storm cairn]

honestly turning off looking way more pleasing

[tall acorn]

disagree imo

[tall acorn]

more lag?

[south mesa]

yes

[tall acorn]

as in stuttering? what do you mean by lag

[broken swift]

Dude it only look bad if the gpu can't handle it tho...

[storm cairn]

with dlss on

[south mesa]

yes as in stuttering, micro stutter

[tall acorn]

disable vsync in-game

[broken swift]

4.5 preset M 🗿

[storm cairn]

isnt Max said its being exexcuted on cpu?

[tall acorn]

reflections in most games have too much noise

[storm cairn]

it looks grainy af i cant stand it

[tall acorn]

in this game, i notice the noise but it's not too bad

lms

[south mesa]

I did, but really, doesn't it make sense to have better performance when you have it on 30 instead of 60 because the system is working on less frame to process

[broken swift]

Yea, but still better than no reflection imo

[storm cairn]

the pre baked isnt that bad

[tall acorn]

honestly looks great from some of the screenshots i'm looking at

[golden zenith]

uhhh....

[storm cairn]

aight aight ill see how it is on high later

[tall acorn]

might be a resolution or DLSS setting difference though

[broken swift]

Dude your igpu is the same as my laptop igpu (vega7). It can't even do 45fps property

[south mesa]

yeah but I'm on pc

[broken swift]

Vega 7 on laptop vs pc is like only 20% difference at most...

[tall acorn]

you might have a general misunderstanding of how "performance" works in games unfortunately, with no disrespect intended of course

[broken swift]

And the 45fps is me being generous. It's actually 35fps 60% 1080p all low

So the pc vega 7 will do like 45 at most

[tall acorn]

well they're on 1366x768 which is literally close to half the resolution of 1080p

[golden zenith]

if i were to add on, it more towards stability instead of Performance

[tall acorn]

so they should have around 80% higher framerate

[broken swift]

I'm using 60% of 1080p (which is 6xxp)

[golden zenith]

oh well, people misunderstand thing sometime

[south mesa]

I see, I only went by that explanation as far as my limited understanding goes. So would you mind to explain how does it actually work?

I made that assumption as the game also put exclamation mark the higher the cap is. for example 120 has the (!) mark while 30 and 60 doesn't. and from my observation as well

[tall acorn]

set render res to 1.0 and turn everything else down.. if you can

[tall acorn]

sure

[steel swift]

Rare low end talk on #tech-support

[golden zenith]

it uncommon, but it still there

not many ppl will know

[golden zenith]

hmm... now that i think about, i can edit this sticker to a joke

[broken swift]

Well, at least there are no "why can't my (insert weak gpu/cpu) laptop/pc run at max 120fps" situations

[tall acorn]

the overloaded hardware notification is intended to indicate if the user might experience stuttering, low frame rates, or other issues, due to the hardware being unable to compute or handle the intensity of the current settings

[golden zenith]

[short ridge]

insert my laptop in that conversation

[toxic atlas]

Though it's a complete joke half the times

[tall acorn]

worst case scenario, you'll run out of VRAM and end up getting severe stuttering due to having your settings too high

but usually you'll just get lower framerates

and some stuttering (if your system actually can't handle the settings)

[steel swift]

You're getting new laptop?

[short ridge]

i wish, ion have funds for that

[golden zenith]

he still has warranty

[steel swift]

They dont have replace with new unit policy?

[tall acorn]

changing the framerate should be entirely fine, your computer will just work as hard as necessary to try and output the set framerate @south mesa

[broken swift]

For lenovo laptop? absolutely no

[tall acorn]

changing the settings will increase the intensity, which will lower your overall framerate or even cause stuttering if it's too intense

[short ridge]

nope, just for fixing

[tall acorn]

so you should stick with 60fps for your computer

and disable vsync in-game

[south mesa]

I see

[tall acorn]

☝️ Vsync explanation above

[south mesa]

Thanks! yeah the 60 doesn't have exclamation mark on my pc, only 120 does

[rancid loom]

Back, already got the Win10 Pro installed on the USB

[tall acorn]

120 has exclamation mark on nearly every computer rn lol

[rancid loom]

Thankfully there's srill an open net cafe near here

[broken swift]

Nice, let's gooo

[tall acorn]

sweet

[golden zenith]

noice

[steel swift]

Net cafe... good ol' days

[toxic atlas]

I miss net cafes

[steel swift]

yeah

[sudden sinew]

same

[sudden sinew]

no hug...?

[rancid loom]

Trying it again

[rancid loom]

Honestly I didn't want to go outside coz I have been drinking beer

[hazy venture]

hugs you wifeyyyy <3

[rancid loom]

Aight I think we're good people

[golden zenith]

as long you drink in moderation, you should be fine

[proven sundial]

I have returned

[rancid loom]

Ye I still know what I'm doing

[sudden sinew]

[toxic atlas]

Fuck beer I need myself some vodka tonight

Stressful ass day

[proven sundial]

Huh installing now ?

[sudden sinew]

[golden zenith]

😂 what a time to return, should saw what happened

[rancid loom]

You were the cause of my stress but it's cool

[south mesa]

drink milk bucket, it negates all the negative effect

[rancid loom]

[sudden sinew]

Everyone stressed

[rancid loom]

Nah coffee will do... And besides I'm not done yet

I still have one more bottle

[sudden sinew]

including me

[toxic atlas]

In other news
ESXi host is alive

RAID controller battery is fucked though, currently in bypass mode

[rancid loom]

It is okay now

[sudden sinew]

yippie

[golden zenith]

ctrl + shift + f3

go audit mode 🙃

[rancid loom]

Yeah no

[toxic atlas]

Let the man install windows in peace
The way he knows how to

[broken swift]

Not me i still have 2 more holiday days left.

[rancid loom]

No worries Max. At least I learned a thing or two so it's no biggie

[sudden sinew]

Lucky youuu

[toxic atlas]

Got a fucking scare and a half
VM Cluster auto-balancing kicked in all of a sudden and we're already overprovisioned on compute

[proven sundial]

So you are installing ltsc ?

[rancid loom]

No

[proven sundial]

Heh what happened

[toxic atlas]

Got a bad ltsc iso and now back to 10

[rancid loom]

It's Win 10 Pro

[golden zenith]

after what happened, i think it for the best

[proven sundial]

Welp

I should have stayed

But i needed my injections

Sooooo

[broken swift]

10pro doesn't have much bloat ware so it's almost as good as ltsc

[steel swift]

why not go linux tho

[toxic atlas]

https://tenor.com/view/hayasaka-kaguya-sama-kaguya-sama-love-is-war-hayasaka-lying-lying-gif-26172218

[rancid loom]

Hopefully but the AI slop might still be here since it prompted me about fcking Cortana

My head hurts man

[proven sundial]

Cortana is dead both in windows and halo

[rancid loom]

Dude I just biked about a mile just to go to the net cafe

[steel swift]

I read somewhere, Cortana is disc and now all they have is Copilot

It's only a mile

[proven sundial]

I have Rhetoric on windows best ai for detailed search

[broken swift]

Well at least "weapon" is still by Chief side

[proven sundial]

Weapon is but another copy

[steel swift]

Yeah I dont know who is rethoric, but I'm not touchin that

[rancid loom]

Already in Windows 10

Installing drivers

[proven sundial]

Rhetoric is like a glass cannon

Ultra fast searching and precise

But fragile

[rancid loom]

Her name is now Joyeuse

[proven sundial]

I will feed you pag-pag

If you say it again

@rancid loom use this https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

[broken swift]

I haven't played infinite much (3hrs in and dropped)

[proven sundial]

Infinite was pretty good honestly

Well the campaign

Multiplayer is a stinky mess

[broken swift]

It's cod but with halo skins lmao

[broken swift]

Hmm, i might give it another chance in the future

[proven sundial]

Yeah if only we had non microtransaction multiplayer

With map packs

[broken swift]

Halo 1,2,3,4 multiplayer are peaks. How did infinite turn into this ?

[proven sundial]

The money they wanted was too much

It's called gradual deterioration

Also

Playstation shut down blue point

Wtf are they thinking

[broken swift]

Wtf? Why?

To make concord 2?

[proven sundial]

They shut it down

Because it was not viable (financially)

[golden zenith]

it is worrying

[broken swift]

I really want a Bloodborne remake from them

[proven sundial]

Well they are gone now fucked by sony

And their live service

Ambitions

[toxic atlas]

Emulator time

[broken swift]

It's time to use Chadps4 with graphics mods

[proven sundial]

Unfortunately

I suppose

We could have a reform

But just indie

They were a 78 person studio

[rancid loom]

Aight later once I'm done with the driver updates

[broken swift]

They created demon souls remake with only 78 people ?

[proven sundial]

Yep they did

Same as shadow of collosus

Fully remastered

They even helped with titanfall 2 developement

[broken swift]

And sony chose to shut them down

[golden zenith]

yup

im listening to the news now

while figuring out this shit

my brain cooked as of now

[broken swift]

Good luck with that

[rancid loom]

While installing drivers...

BSOD: DRIVER POWER STATE FAILURE

When I was restarting

[golden zenith]

uh oh

[proven sundial]

Eh minor issue

Nothing to be worried about for now

[broken swift]

Well bye guys, i will now go to the dreamland

[golden zenith]

bye 👋

[proven sundial]

Goodnight

https://giphy.com/gifs/arknights-endfield-lasairfhiona-xC9MBUKCzUxjr9C9nu

[rancid loom]

Ye checked on Event Viewer, nothing major from what I see

[rancid loom]

Xomori u gotta stop using that, it feels like your words are threatening when you say that after posting this Perlica meme

[proven sundial]

I'm being kind

[golden zenith]

i think it just you

[rancid loom]

I know, I'm just joking

[proven sundial]

I can be very rude though

[rancid loom]

[golden zenith]

like that 1 guy with the monitor

[proven sundial]

He had it coming

Anyway

[rancid loom]

[proven sundial]

How is installing ?

[rancid loom]

Good so far. Installing the AMD gpu driver

[proven sundial]

Cool cool

[rancid loom]

I still definitely like the Win10 interface

[golden zenith]

as long there no issue

[rancid loom]

Looks so much cleaner

[proven sundial]

Win 10 was alright

Just a shame they made so many pc's obsolete

With w11

[south mesa]

does volumetric fog affect lighting significantly?

[rancid loom]

No it just adds a fog effect to the environment

[proven sundial]

In wuling it does

[rancid loom]

In Wuling it does yeah

[south mesa]

how significant?

[proven sundial]

It's like there 1/5 th of the time

[rancid loom]

For example in Straggler's Grove it's gonna have heavy fog most of the time

[south mesa]

ah so it's still not "lighting" but fog, right

[proven sundial]

Well it does affect lighting but not as much as you would think

Mostly the fog is affected by lighting

Thick smoke and debris

[south mesa]

is low preset good enough?

[proven sundial]

Low spec pc ?

[south mesa]

yes

[proven sundial]

Yeah either keep it medium or low

[south mesa]

above low, it starts to lag

[storm cairn]

5600g with vega 7

[proven sundial]

Ah makes sense

Yeah only good for 720p

Atleast on this game

[hazy venture]

:3

Be sure to enable pinging, otherwise Its difficult for me to see you replied

[rancid loom]

sigh

Another round of installing my games

[hazy venture]

Lol

[rancid loom]

This is gonna be a loooong night

[hazy venture]

What's your issue

[golden zenith]

installing a bad ltsc windows

[rancid loom]

Issue was already solved, it's just me sighing coz I reverted to Win10

[hazy venture]

Windows installing weirdly?

[rancid loom]

I did a clean install so all games have gone kaput

[hazy venture]

Hmm

[storm cairn]

how did u make it works btw

[hazy venture]

Tried to see if your bios was updated?

[rancid loom]

Win10 already installed. The OS is ok now

[golden zenith]

nope, no more ptsd for this guy

[hazy venture]

Lol

[rancid loom]

Went to a nearby net cafe and used rufus to install a Won10 pro official ISO on it

[storm cairn]

lmao crazy

[hazy venture]

Windows 11 was not installing properly?

[storm cairn]

windows 10

he got the iso on internet archive

[hazy venture]

Im asking akira

[golden zenith]

Won10, are you sure you installed the correct one

[storm cairn]

what

[rancid loom]

I was in Windows 11, wanted to revert to Windows 10

[hazy venture]

What

[storm cairn]

🥀

[rancid loom]

Sorry typo

[hazy venture]

So a clean install of windows 11 didn't fix your issue? :(

[storm cairn]

get rekt

[golden zenith]

dont worry, i know... just a joke

[rancid loom]

I was in Windows 11 and I wanted to downgrade to Windows 10

[hazy venture]

Why

[rancid loom]

istg it's not a downgrade technically

[hazy venture]

Why'd you downgrade

[golden zenith]

it not a downgrade, but an upgrade

[rancid loom]

I just liked Win10's interface and it looks cleaner

[hazy venture]

Well I thought win11 was faster than win10 based on some benchmarks I saw

[hazy venture]

Oh oki

[rancid loom]

Marginally

[hazy venture]

I prefer win11 cuz there's a search bar in task manager

AND its black mode

Lol

[rancid loom]

But when you add in the AI slop and the things you don't need inside Win11, it's not that much better

[hazy venture]

You can remove those tho

[rancid loom]

Win10 also has a dark mode too

[hazy venture]

Not task manager..?

[toxic atlas]

Process Hacker in the corner of the room...

[rancid loom]

In any case I'm back in windows 10

[hazy venture]

Woowoo

[rancid loom]

Time to use Chris Titus fix

[hazy venture]

You mean process explorer? Right? :(

[toxic atlas]

No... God I feel old

[golden zenith]

ahh that app, i normally use system explorer

[hazy venture]

I use atlas OS on win11 personally

[hazy venture]

Lmao

[toxic atlas]

System Informer is the new one, forked off PH2, which was forked off PH1

[hazy venture]

You mean phd-

[proven sundial]

And then we have people who use cheat engine

[hazy venture]

/jk

[hazy venture]

Goat of all semi offline games

Or offline

I used it in satisfactory, surprisingly it works.

[drowsy cipher]

how

[golden zenith]

i see, the more i know...

[toxic atlas]

Process Hacker 2 was just a better task manager than anything at the time, including Microsoft's

[hazy venture]

Is there anything like cheat engine but more optimized?

Yk what I mean

@toxic atlas

[drowsy cipher]

it came out post 2010, how can it make you feel old

[toxic atlas]

There's ArtMoney, but personally I'll take CE over it any day

[agile tusk]

hi chat, ive been stuck at this 'connecting to the endfield network' thing on pc. i can move my camera fine though. game works fine on phone. also worked no problems yesterday on pc. anyway, i've already tried restarting, going to my firewall settings, unplugging/plugging back in my ethernet cable, and verified game integrity. anyone know why this is happening? should i flush dns or something?

[drowsy cipher]

if you never used this you aint my homie

[south mesa]

I finally managed to run all HIGH without lag🥹

[rancid loom]

@proven sundial I became sober with all the TS I've done lmao

[proven sundial]

Seems more like a visual bug then anything else

[hazy venture]

Jeez that res is borderline unplayable

[agile tusk]

dang... i guess ill just play on phone for the time being so that i can start the quest with the kid (carly) 😔

[proven sundial]

Would be odd honestly to reroute via cloudflare warp or quad 9 on pc for that but maybe it can work

Just looks like a visual bug

[proven sundial]

The only thing you need is kombucha

[golden zenith]

it does looks like visual bug tbh, first time seeing that issue

[hazy venture]

TS means TeamSpeak.. right.. right???

😭

[proven sundial]

Teamspeak teamspeak haaaaa

[hazy venture]

[proven sundial]

Actually teamspeak is alright now

Before it was outdated

But now seems like a nice alt

[hazy venture]

Many people say its gonna replace discord 😭

[proven sundial]

I don't mind teamspeak

I used it so much before

And shit talked