Win 8.1 update did a couple of dumb things
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1) Enabled stereoscopic 3d in nvidia drivers. That was a pretty rough game of league (had to restart the game to apply the new settings)
2) Messed up the drivers in some other way...when I plugged in my tv into the hdmi to stream some stuff on the tv, it slows down the pc to a crawl. I wiped the drivers and re-installed them last night, but I haven't tested it since
Anyone else have similar/other issues with the upgrade?
2) Messed up the drivers in some other way...when I plugged in my tv into the hdmi to stream some stuff on the tv, it slows down the pc to a crawl. I wiped the drivers and re-installed them last night, but I haven't tested it since
Anyone else have similar/other issues with the upgrade?
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That should fill my subtle racism quota for the day.
Now I can feel Clint judging me.
3) corrupt graphics: I played alan wake last night and it looked like some of the in-game graphics were a bit off (vertical lines running through them). Steam text was also super garbled. After I got out of the game, all windows graphics were also messed up
4) after reboot/shutdown, my monitor has a black screen that only goes away when I un/replug the monitor's dport connection
I guess the way to isolate and confirm it's a software issue beyond this is to test it under a live-boot CD that has stress testing capability. I believe with an Ubuntu live CD, you could test with the Unigen heaven benchmark or mesa-utils package (source), though you'd need to install the proprietary drivers and programs (obviously temporary)
So I'm pretty inclined to blame it on 8.1
edit: to be fair i never tried playing Alan Wake on 8.0, maybe there's something related to that game in particular
If that fixes it, then you probably have to wait for a new driver from nvidia that is a little more compatible with whatever directx api changes came with 8.1 (dx 11.2). Are you using R331?
This probably won't help, but I would try removing and re-adding your displays in device manager.
It basically sounds like you have to wait on a new driver from nvidia or roll back to 8.0.
But the issues you're experiencing are pure driver bugs, not anything related to API levels.
Or it could be that only whiners post things, so that's what I've been coming across.
Linux for gaming.
that just sounds so wrong
What in the hell is a Windows 8?
1. Create a C:\Users directory
2. Enable the local machine Administrator account.
3. Copy the Public and Default directories from wherever you have Users stashed now to C:\Users.
4. Fire up RegEdit and navigate to Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfilesList
5. Export ProfilesList and its subkeys to blue.reg.
6. Go through each of the subkeys and change your Users path to %SystemDrive%\Users wherever it's listed (shouldn't take long).
7. Export the modified ProfilesList and its subkeys to red.reg.
8. Log out and log back in as Administrator to create the Administrator profile in C:\Users.
9. Reboot to clear all file locks on your user profile.
10. Log in as Administrator.
11. Copy your user profile directory less any large dirs like My Documents to C:\Users.
12. Log out and log back in as yourself. If your login craters you didn't get all the hidden files.
13. Go to the store and install Windows 8.1 which will now install without complaint.
14. Windows 8.1 modifies a lot of files in your user profile; it's easiest just to log back in as Administrator and copy Default, Public, and your profile back from C:\Users to your custom Users location.
15. Merge blue.reg and reboot.
16. Login as yourself and delete Default, Public, and your profile from C:\Users.
17. Disable your local Administrator account.
Next time Microsoft pulls this shit, all you have to do is enable Administrator again, merge red.reg, copy your profile over, patch, copy back, and merge blue.reg. It's bullshit but it works.