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Well, I bit the bullet and dialed down some of the less important settings such as anti-aliasing. The game's much more playable now. It only crawls when there's a whole bunch of enemies on the screen (and well, that happens kinda frequently- it's that kind of game. It's also the type that only provides maximum fun when there's three other friends online). When there's no enemies onscreen, everything's liquid smooth.
I might dial down the settings even lower, but damn, this game causes the GPUs, all three of them, to churn!
Unsurprisingly, NVidia's website suggests no less than at least one GTX560, two's better. Guess two GTS450s are not up to task now.
Another thing I did was installing the latest NVidia drivers, and that seriously improved the performance too. Although it seems that I'm stuck with playing this only on Edison.
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Sometimes, it's things like this that almost drive me to Linux again. Only thing that is preventing me from doing so is a viable alternative to my applications like Adobe Premiere and my massive Windows casual game collection. I also fear that Linux may cause Greta to overheat due to incorrect drivers or something else.
And, Microsoft can't handle criticism...
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Even more reasons not to buy the Xbox One... or upgrade to Windows 8.
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Testing Elsie's USB keyboard... which I should have done two years ago, but never got around to doing so until now.
It works!!
I just wish Nintendo would at least provide an update to the Opera browser for older Wii users, but I will be getting a Wii U eventually.
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Apparently, Microsoft and the MPAA have filed a patent for the Xbox One Kinect, which will allow the MPAA to spy on you.
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Decided to enable a couple of hacks in the NVidia drivers to allow it to process Borderlands 2 better. Said hacks involves enabling certain optimizations that will impact graphics quality in favor of performance. Specifically, I decided to turn on Threaded Optimization, Trilinear Optimization and Anisotropic Sample Optimization, and set Texture Filtering to High Performance. The game seems to run much better now, although once the graphics card heat up to a certain temperature, performance drops anyway until the card cools down >.<
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