05-28-2020, 07:17 AM
Windows 10 May 2020 update is live. Installing it now....
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(05-28-2020, 07:17 AM)cpd2009 Wrote: Windows 10 May 2020 update is live. Installing it now....Just deployed it on my PCs as well. Strange that they still haven't brought the Chromium Edge out of beta and yeeted the old Edge out tho.
(05-28-2020, 04:04 PM)huckleberrypie Wrote: Could it be that the power supply or something else is failing? If not for your financial situation, you could've bought a midrange AM4 board, memory and power supply and migrated everything else to said board for testing.I doubt it's the PSU. When I ran the Unigine Heaven benchmark for 3+ hours a few weeks back, the system or GPU never got unstable. Perhaps I should run something more intensive like Furmark. I'm not very keen on using Furmark, but people use it to truly stress test their hardware.
(05-29-2020, 01:14 PM)huckleberrypie Wrote: It could also be something with Dell's software causing those weird issues, so yeah while you do lose the out-of-box experience the default Windows 10 installation should give you a clean slate to isolate any anomalies. As far as licences go, Windows should acknowledge the licence key embedded in the BIOS and it should automatically activate on its own.I will see if the new Windows 10 update will help ease the drive errors. If the errors still keep happening, then I will perform a backup and reinstall a vanilla Windows 10 setup. I don't really use much of the pre-loaded Dell stuff anyway outside of the Power2Go CD/DVD burner suite. Windows Explorer does a good enough job with CD/DVD burning tasks.
(05-31-2020, 11:23 AM)cpd2009 Wrote: I'm testing Vista again on Daffodil, and game compatibility with early 2000s DirectX stuff appears to be the same as on 7 and later. One of my collections, eGames "Break" has serious issues. This is normally a fun and quirky collection of indie Breakout clones, and three of them in the Kraisoft "Warkanoid" series are featured. Those three will not launch at all, even with compatibility settings. Another one, Break Gold, does run, and plays well. But the transitions between menus and gameplay are extremely slow. But, this may not be a dealbreaker for Vista. I found eGames released an updated version of this collection in 2010 with Windows Vista/7 compatibility. I ordered an inexpensive NOS copy off eBay.At least Arkham Knight should give you a perfect excuse to flex your Dell gaming rig's muscles. It was a PortingDisaster at the time it came out and even the relaunched PC release with all the patches and optimisations in place couldn't save the game from intense scrutiny, so much that Steam issued refunds to those who couldn't take it any more. Nowadays one can simply just brute-force run the game at high frame rates with a high-end rig, nullifying whatever issues the original and patched releases had.
When I'm not doing techie things, I have started playing Batman Arkham Origins again, trying to finish the sidequests. Currently, that involves finding all of the Enigma extortion data packs scattered all over Gotham. Only two of the Batman Arkham games got released for Wii U, and the others are Xbox/PS/PC only. The latest game in the series, Arkham Knight, is available on Steam for $19.99, and I am considering giving it a purchase in the future. First, I will need to try out the X360CE so I can use my existing USB joypad, or just purchase a Xbox One controller or an Xbox 360 PC connection receiver. I could just use my Switch Joy-Cons, but each Joy-Con acts like an individual controller and they don't have nearly enough buttons to play the Batman game.