Aren't there already a ton of these? I find it odd that this one requires you to sign in with Twitch or Discord instead of Steam.

That's nice, but the damage they caused can't be undone. The trade deals we lost aren't coming back.

How does he know how much meth costs?

RogueSix wrote on May 12, 2025, 20:43:
No problems whatsoever.

This is the first time I've had any serious issue with their drivers. I usually install the latest driver once a month when I apply Windows' updates. I skipped last month though. I had downloaded the driver the night before, which I believe was a hotfix driver. Then the next day there was yet another hotfix release, so I decided wait until things settled down.

RogueSix wrote on May 12, 2025, 17:25:
It might possibly help that I'm not using the nVidia App and I'm always doing a manual custom slim *and* clean install, i.e. I extract the driver.exe, delete the bloat, run setup.exe and always do a custom clean install of the drivers only.

I've never used Geforce Experience or the new nvidia app on this PC. I tried GFE once when it came out, and I promptly removed it and never installed it again.

I also extract the driver package and delete the bloat and preform a clean install.

RogueSix wrote on May 12, 2025, 17:25:
P.S.: To the guy with the start menu crash, well, that doesn't sound like a nVidia driver issue at all but more like a dying Windows install or even an impending hardware failure. I'd start a deeper system investigation (including but not limited to virus/malware deep scans ... sfc /scannow and all that jazz etc.).

Well I haven't had a single issue with the system since I built it in January. I had no issues the whole time I was using 572.70. As soon as I installed 576.28 I get issues, which went away and haven't happened again after installing 572.83.

It was more than an just explorer crash, I didn't want to write a short novel about it. The longer version if you're interested; Before we started Reforger that night, I had been playing DCS all day by myself working on and testing a mission for us when we play DCS next.

After we finished playing Reforger, I downloaded and installed 576.28. While the drivers don't tell you to restart after updating, I do it anyway. After the restart, I started DCS to finish some stuff in the mission before going to bed. I had only been in DCS for maybe 5 minutes when suddenly the mouse got extremely laggy as if it were at 10 FPS. I thought DCS had crashed, but none of the shortcuts for task manager worked, and CTRL-ALT-DEL didn't do anything. Then the system froze completely and I had to reset it.

The first thing I do if I have to restart a system without a clean shutdown is run chkdsk on all my drives, and no problems were found. What's weird is that I could open the start menu once, after that it refused to open. I could right click it and open file manager, terminal, etc., but left click did nothing. I could click and start programs pinned to the task bar and switch between them. If I clicked the task view button though, that's when explorer would restart and I got one more use of the start menu. I just happened to use that one time use start menu after installing the newest driver to launch DCS.

Running sfc /cannow was the next thing I did after noticing that was happening since I did have the lockup and had to force restart, but no problems were found. I then uninstalled the 576.28 driver, and installed 572.83 and it's been fine since.

I've been on 572.70, but I was playing Reforger with friends this weekend and had a couple of crashes saying GPU hang. There are a lot of people having that issue on the forums and it was recommended to install an older driver. My friends weren't having crashes, so I asked my friends what drivers they were using and one was on 572.83.

I decided to try the latest version first, which was 576.28. After installing, I restarted Windows, and then every time I clicked the start menu, explorer.exe crashed. I installed 572.83 and it's been fine.

If you have a driver's license, why would you not have gotten it by now? I've had a Real ID driver's license for over 10 years. I'd pretty much forgotten that was a thing until I saw the panic over it today. I don't remember having to do anything special to get it. I remember when I renewed it, they just asked if I wanted it.

Maybe some unintentional good might come out of this as people eat less of this garbage and discover better things. As far as cheap fast food goes, McDonald's would be the last place I would voluntarily eat. I never really liked McDonald's food to begin with. The only thing I ever like (tolerated) from there was a regular cheese burger, chicken nuggets, and their fries. A year or two ago I ate McDonald's for the first time in over a decade of not touching the stuff. It was only because someone else paid for it, but it was disgusting. They must have changed since I last ate there because I remember their fries were like crack, but they were sad and pathetic looking and tasted like salty grease sticks.

I had the same reaction with soda. I quit drinking soda ~20 years ago. A couple of months ago, for the first time since giving up soda I had a caned Coke, and I couldn't finish it it was so disgusting. It makes me wonder how I ever liked it in the first place.

El Pit wrote on May 2, 2025, 12:37:
Apple: "Trust us! It now says 'Made in NOT China' on a sticker on the phones. We're totally honest! Just don't check the trade routes, please!"

That would probably fool Trump.

Braden wrote on May 1, 2025, 12:07:
I stopped buying consoles after the XB360 and went back to PC gaming exclusively. Haven't regretted the decision.

The last console I owned was a SNES.

I though I read that they replaced the original character creation and level up mechanics with a dumbed down system similar to Skyrim.

Jivaro wrote on Apr 24, 2025, 18:26:
I found myself thinking of Redeye9 and this site quite a bit yesterday and today.

Same here. I got to wondering after my post that if I might know some of you IRL. I don't do social media and don't like to share personal information online. If any of my current friends use this site, they just don't post or use an alias. They would know me by this name. I'm from a small town, and we didn't get an ISP until late '95 or early '96. I found out about this site from a friend at the time and I've been a regular visitor since, although I didn't register and post on the forums until 2003. I've lost touch with most of my friends from those days, some of which did visit the site for gaming news. The few that I've heard from quit PC gaming. I wonder if any of the others still game or visit this site. Anyone from those days wouldn't know me by this name. I used to go by Reaper back then.

I haven't been as active here lately. I still try drop by to read the news every day, but lately it's been every 2-3 days and I have to catch up. I missed yesterday, so I didn't catch the news about RedEye9 until this morning. Is far as I know, I don't actually know any of you, but it still feels like losing someone I know when I read about a member's passing.

RogueSix wrote on Apr 23, 2025, 05:55:
64GB RAM has also been the default recommendation for DCS World for many years.

I went with 64GB on my new build in December, and I have yet to see a game use all of it. My old system with 16GB played DCS fine when it was just me and some friends on a normal mission, but on MP servers with 1000s of units, the CPU (i7 6700K) was holding it back. It still ran over 60FPS, but it felt laggy.

Just install System Informer. It's based on the Sysinternals Process Explorer, but it does much more. I leave it running and minimized to the system tray. It's extremely customizable. I set its icon to show show CPU usage, and if you hover over the icon, it shows active processes sorted by CPU usage. Any non responsive processes are put at the top and are highlighted red so you can end them or examine them.

Kxmode wrote on Apr 12, 2025, 18:19:
What I really want is the ability to step out of the truck or car and explore the places they put so much effort into crafting. I want to just walk around, take it all in, and really enjoy the sights and sounds.

You can enable the developer cam which lets you fly freely around outside of the truck. It's all an illusion. There isn't anything to see beyond what's visible from the derivable roads. It would be nice to be able to get out and move around the truck, and manually manipulate things like the fifth wheel, sliding tandems, doors, etc. You can do this in BeamNG, and it's pretty cool.

I have some keys for some Amazon/Twitch stuff I already have or don't want. Reply if you want any of it and I'll send you the code.

Wolfenstein: Youngblood (PC/MS Store)
Wolfenstein: Youngblood (XBOX)

Wolfenstein: The Old Blood (PC/MS Store)
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood (XBOX)

Minecraft Legends (PC/MS Store)
Minecraft Legends (XBOX)

Wild Hearts (EA/Origin)
Tales of Kenzera: ZAU (EA/Origin)

Prez wrote on Feb 19, 2025, 13:13:

The Google Interview Question Everyone Gets Wrong - Veritasium

I got closer than I thought I would. Upon hearing the brain teaser, I instantly, for some reason, thought of the wild big cat at a zoo who jumped out of a 30-foot enclosure at the zoo (trying to remember if it was a tiger or a cheetah) because the dumbasses taunting her fucked around and found out. I immediately dismissed the thought not realizing I was actually on the right track without knowing it.

Fuck Google of course, but I have to give props for them asking such an unorthodox interview question that would show how creative and analytical a prospective employee might be.

My first thought, like many others was to lay flat and hold on. When they revealed the "answer" my first thought was, who puts something in a blender without putting the lid on first?

Prez wrote on Feb 17, 2025, 13:49:
Simulators are games. Unless they are the $18000 training flight simulators that I used to work on at FedEx, whose express purpose was to certify FedEx pilots before they were allowed to fly a real plane anyway. DCS is nothing short of fetishist in its adherence to realism, but it's still a computer game. Sorry flight sim enthusiasts. I groove to that stupid level of realism myself. 😁

At my flight school, the simulators we used to train on for IFR certification, which were certificated simulators in which you could log actual instrument time on, paled in comparison to MS flight sim, even at the time (early 2000's). The graphics were black and white wire frame, but since you're training for instrument flight you didn't need realistic graphics. It did have an actual cockpit with physical instruments, but there were some PC simulators that were certified for training in which you could log time with.

I was just thinking that we haven't had a new battery breakthrough in a few days.