SM17 had some downtime, now up and running faster than ever
qparadox
Vancouver, BC
Hi guys,
A little goof while trying to manually fix the MBR of SM-17's hd left it unable to boot probably for quite a while. I tossed a new hd in and slapped in a new kernel and voila 20% speed increase (because SSE is actually working now instead of just claiming it was). There was about 8 hours of downtime but she should make that up in 2 days easily. Just waiting on frame times for the first 858 frame. (Previous was 48 / frame, expecting 39-40 ish / frame).
The HD in there currently is my own Samsung 1.2 GB. There's nothing physically wrong with the old HD other than needing a good LLF. I'll fix it on another machine and clone and swap the drives at a later date (like when exams are over). Anyways I must get the the optometrist, I broke my glasses and am currently crouched about 10cm from my screen (Good think its an LCD, wouldn't want to lose my hair from the radiation
).
Cheers,
Derek
A little goof while trying to manually fix the MBR of SM-17's hd left it unable to boot probably for quite a while. I tossed a new hd in and slapped in a new kernel and voila 20% speed increase (because SSE is actually working now instead of just claiming it was). There was about 8 hours of downtime but she should make that up in 2 days easily. Just waiting on frame times for the first 858 frame. (Previous was 48 / frame, expecting 39-40 ish / frame).
The HD in there currently is my own Samsung 1.2 GB. There's nothing physically wrong with the old HD other than needing a good LLF. I'll fix it on another machine and clone and swap the drives at a later date (like when exams are over). Anyways I must get the the optometrist, I broke my glasses and am currently crouched about 10cm from my screen (Good think its an LCD, wouldn't want to lose my hair from the radiation
).Cheers,
Derek
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