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"I'm a social worker and I'm ok..." There's a much older song I was thinking of, but it's too old (1962) |
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No one anywhere asked why these are black but shiny. I worry. Is it me and my settings, or is it an art statement?? |
This entry might grow, or not.
DXGI errors always blame the video-card and ignore the sound. I think I proved, at least on this PC, that sound settings and extra drivers have an enormous effect on crashes.
"Nahimic" is anathema, or at least my settings were.
Restoring pre-nahimic banished the crashes, for a while.
I'm suspecting (overall and generally) it's a timing issue.
Something deep in the code of the game is very demanding even when nothing much is happening, and any tweak in latency pisses it off.
"Witness my wrath!!" it screams and throws an error.
The PCIE card that is my wifi shares a slot (I swear I wrote this already) and maybe it's a little too brave to advertise itself as a PCIE 3.0 card.
Reducing the speed to PCIE 2 would also slow down the video-card (to PCIE-2)
Unless I also make the pcie slot the wifi card is in,
run at 4x4.
Doing this leaves the video-card at 4.0.
WHY am I doing this??
On a hunch I disabled ALL internet and ran the game for around an hour.
THEN I enabled ethernet instead of Wifi, and that crashed after close to an hour.
Question to be edited in later: Does setting wifi to PCIE 2 help,
or is the whole system unfit for veilguard?
The Wi-Fi settings may have been a good thing, but they didn't make any difference.
No, the real difference was in not loading "Wemod" although what specifically makes Wemod a bad influence is unclear.
Were my settings too high?
Without "wemod" being loaded means that the already tedious game is extra work.
Winning without it is an impossibility for me.
Shoot a fat monster ten times vs instant annihilation.
But the trainer has little advertising videos that might throw off the timing just enough to kill the game (but that is a BIGGIE guess, and a possible incentive to pay for the ad-free version.)
Not that I could afford it.
Sorry, wemod.
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What does NOT work, what makes things worse, is easy, but what makes it happy and puts DXGI to sleep, is still unknown.
Let's assume (because I proved it on my end) that it isn't a video-card driver but maybe a setting.
Please include sound-stuff in your research.
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Meanwhile (this is an edit) the kids who played Skyrim IV now have kids, and they are happy to pay full price for the "New" skyrim IV.
I um, wonder.
I played it, back in 2013 or so. I must have liked it, but I don't remember much.
Was that the one with the escaping King who ends up dying and you get blamed?
My point was, do I buy it yet again, or is this like Disney re-releasing an old movie on some trendy format?
Should I look harder for a game?
I think I should spend a little effort seeking an unknown game instead of a rerun I don't remember as being remarkable.
This has been edited down, and it's still too bombastic (and prolly, repetitive)
I'll edit more tomorrow.
Of the ten-zillion conspiracy theories in my "Veilguard" head is the notion that
msedge might be affecting it, depending upon the settings. "Efficiency mode" on off? Hardware GPU acceleration?
Polling incessantly (am I here? am I relevant? Whatcha doin??)
Whether or not that is true is up to some doctoral student researching it, to find out.
"Am I satisfied", no! It's creepy as hell, like watching a six-year-old for a neighbor, who can't sit still.
also,
*Something* was crashing veilguard before, and less (lots less) now.
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Someone commented that a setting does not work. The AI in my brain says not to use this setting. Maybe it helped? |
I get super-paranoid about
sysmain and other "Helpful" programs that monitor what you do, but it's so entrenched that disabling it (see link) might be a bad idea.
A good idea is a log of everything I turn off or tweak, but I haven't done that (it's one of the many guilt-ridden things floating around in my head.)
Microsoft does not want to grant "local activation permission," then blabs about it.
People have figured a way around it (very complicated), so it DOES have "local activation permission,"
But the official-guru response is that the errors can be safely ignored.
Either suppress the error or eliminate the reason for it!
But they never will, nevernevernever.
Things running like shadows in the background:
Telemetry (they want to know what you're doing)
Caching whatever it is you're doing (see "telemetry")
and making sure MSEdge (the browser, being updated whenever you log on)
watches what you do and caches it.
All during a game.
(which you can throttle/disable, with possible unpleasant results)
"Disable BITS" (Background intelligent transfer aka secretive download)
Is a great example.
"Windows update (they say) will stop working.
"Stop working" completely or just in the background?
Tons of people, concerned their game is slow or (like me) concerned that the disk is being accessed every couple seconds, might want to disable it, but...
Cache, monitor, report.
Have you recited your loyalty-oath today??
The maybe-point is, a game cannot ignore all the other apps, like some 300lb fat person sitting on a Chippendale chair.