It looks like I won’t be having to install win 7 64 bit on that laptop. I ran Windows update all last night while attempting to sleep and everything updated perfectly. I only had to manually update the encryption/decryption PCI device, which I had to download from Lenovo since I couldn’t find it on Toshitba’s website. Focused mainly on software when I got home today, tomorrow I’ll do some final tuning up and install additional security measures. They should be happy with the results. 🙂
Open Thread
I spent most of today working on a co-workers laptop. I forgot how much I hated Toshibas… This rectangular frisbee has only 2GB of RAM and a 2.16 Celeron, and yet it came with a 64bit version of Win 8.1. It left the poor thing running at 53% RAM usage at an idle…
Their website isn’t that much better, locating drivers is completely useless. I ended up having to look for the PCI/VEN codes to determine what I needed to download, got most of it hammered down too! However there are a couple of devices that I haven’t had much luck with. There are a couple more tricks that I can try, but if I fail it’s an upgrade to Win 64…
I also played around with a program called VSee, a HIPAA compliant webcam chat. It worked quite nicely! It was like using mumble, but people saw my face O_o and I saw theirs. It was a fun and awkward adventure.
Skyrim Sunday
Today would have been an awesome day to play Obduction, but it still runs like total shite on an R9 Fury and a 3.3 Ghz Xeon and I didn’t feel like getting out my laptop. I’ve opted to return to fabulous Skyrim where once again I’m nearing level 40, hopefully my saves remain awesome. Other than that I loaded up a couple birthday packages to send out to my friends in other parts of the world, and just relaxed today. It was a nice warm summer day, but didn’t go anywhere because there was nothing to really do other than kill some Falmer and reconstruct some cardboard boxes I murdered the other day.
Evening Open Thread
Mostly played sidescrollers and some Skyrim today. I’m trying to get through Blade Kitten again so I can finally check out that DLC they released awhile back, and in Freedom Planet I’m stuck on the battle glacier. Just can’t get the rhythm down to defeat the damned lizard ship thing.
Not much else to write about. I work tomorrow then have two days off, finally! I can relax a bit and get my focus back, this week has been insane.
The streamening is nigh
Apart from some technical difficulties between YouTube and OBS with LOTS of teeth gritting trying to get the damn thing to run tonight I completed another test run, this time with Skyrim. We tested audio levels between my microphone, mumble chat and the game. I think I’m about ready to do a public event of some kind. 😀 I wanted to do Obduction, but with it’s bugs and the memory leak issue I don’t think I’d be a happy camper, unless I stream it from my laptop to my desktop THEN to YouTube… Ugh.
I haven’t decided if I’m going to livestream Skyrim or not, since my playstyle might bore people… I’m overpowered, but then again my selection of mods might keep it interesting. What I’d REALLY love to livestream is some team based stuff, like the Lara Croft games, Broforce, etc.
OBS-Studio is becoming more and more awesome the more I play with it.
Played around more with OBS-Studio today. I’m getting myself familiar with scenes and playing with the new source types I never saw in classic. That way when I stream to Twitch or YouTube I can be fabulous. Now all I need to focus on is balancing audio which I’ll have to play by ear (no pun intended). I figure I might as well get a polish on things so that when I finally do have time to do a livestream I’ll be somewhat ready.
As far as Streaming goes I’ll probably be mainly streaming to YouTube until Twitch gets their shite together. Since my friends are giving up on Adobe Flash it would make sense to use a streaming service that accommodates those who want to give up that nasty trash.
Of course now I’ll have to ponder what my first public live stream should be.
Obduction is unfriendly to AMD GPU’s
As I’ve stated at the MOUL forums
At this point in time I can’t recommend the game to anyone running on AMD hardware. I find it absurd that I have to lower the settings on my R9 Fury to enjoy the game while my GTX 870m trots along fine with the occasional hitching. I really hope Cyan can fix this problem, at this point if they have another kickstarter and put Gameworks in their next project I won’t back it at all. I’ll buy it after the fact when I find out it’s properly optimized, or becomes extremely cheap. I had a bad feeling something like this was going to happen when Cyan mentioned NVidia, depressing… Cyan wanted people to get the word out about their game on as many avenues as possible in the latest Kickstarter update, I’m probably not doing it the right way but oh well… I gave them my money, might as well throw a in a couple more cents.
I’ll pick back up on the game eventually, with all the bugs that are being discovered I’d rather not spend several hours on a game and have to deal with corrupted saves or getting trapped in a collision. I deal with plenty of that in Skyrim, but at least Skyrim has somewhat of an excuse. Mods and an ancient game engine dating all the way back to Morrowind.
More experiments with Obduction
I moved Obduction to my SSD and increased my swap file with some happier results. I’ll have to have a longer play session to see if I still have a memory leak. Unfortunately I still lag like hell in multiple places in the game where nothing is going on. If I want to lose most of the lag I have to play on the lowest settings which is just absurd for a system with an R9 Fury and a Xeon. When I find more time I’ll copy Obduction over to my laptop and see how well it runs. If my performance improves I’ll be severely pyst.
Bleh
Survived another day of work, spent most of the day feeling really sick. Mostly read forums and websites followed by a nap when I got home. Still not feeling too well. Hopefully when I wake back up in a bit for work I’ll feel better. I’ve been partitioning my sleep again. Not intentionally, that’s just how it’s turning out. I have a doctors appointment on my next day off which will just be a regular checkup. I look forward to finding out how fucked up I am. 😛 Well, more than what’s already known…
Late Night Open Thread
Twas a long work day. Came home and I was too tired to play anything with puzzles so laid off of Obduction for the time being, which seems to be a fine choice since Cyan has uploaded some hotfixes to hopefully improve the game. Though at this point I don’t know what’s more entertaining, the game itself or the people who are getting pissy trying to run the game on inferior hardware? Some of the people at the Cyan forums who are complaining that they won’t fund another project after backing a game that won’t run on their old hardware are really out of touch. You had 3 years to come up with something to run the game, and you choose to run the game on your toaster mac and act all surprised when it doesn’t work. Amazing! It’s almost like Apple markets outdated hardware at ungodly prices to make people believe it’s still relevant… oh wait.
I have fine tuned my OBS Multiplatform setup, have the Elgato running through it rendering with the codec for my GPU. When I go to start Obduction with a new save I should be ready, assuming the memory leaks are dealt with by the time I pick it up again. In the meantime I tested with Skyrim of course, and the CPU barely moved. Framerate was literally the same recording or not, and I don’t have to worry about audio latency. I see OBS Multi has an option too for streaming and doing a local copy (with more advanced features than Elgato’s setup), so I’ll have to test that when I find time to livestream.