Search results

  1. DarkForceRising

    Framerate monitoring software

    Is there a reliable, easy-to-use framerate monitor for Linux (specifically Red Hat) similar to FRAPS or MSI Afterburner? I'm trying to run down some performance problems with a recent port to Linux, and I'd really like to monitor the framerate. I've been using Valve's voglperf software...
  2. DarkForceRising

    graphical corruption

    So, I'm having issues with my computer starting tonight. I was trying to play Borderlands 2 when the graphics started glitching. I've had this issue before, but it's normally caused by the graphics card overheating. It wasn't overheating. Then Windows started having issues. Most text was getting...
  3. DarkForceRising

    AMD driver issue

    I'm trying to connect my graphics card to an HDTV, which works just fine. It defaults to extending the desktop, and it sets the HDTV resolution to 1080i @ 30 Hz, which is not what I want. I can change the resolution of the TV. I can change the setup so that my desktop is duplicated on the TV...
  4. DarkForceRising

    Low FPS, but also low CPU/GPU usage

    I'm somewhat puzzled here. I recently installed and tried to play Serious Sam 3:BFE, only to discover that the performance was terrible. What seems weird to me is that it isn't maxing out either my processor or my graphics card. If it was, that would at least tell me what the limiting factor...
  5. DarkForceRising

    Here are some of the black friday ads!!

    There's a whole sub-forum dedicated to Black Friday.
  6. DarkForceRising

    Mechwarrior Online (Previously MW5/MW3015)

    The announcement went out Monday that Piranha Games is working on Mechwarrior Online, which is to be an online mech combat game, to be released Summer 2012. They built up to the info release using a drip-feed of image fragments on twitter over the past month. Various useful information and...
  7. DarkForceRising

    Fan on video card not spinning

    I did a quick search and can't find a whole lot on this here, so here goes. I just had my computer shut down in the middle of the Witcher 2, which is pretty intense, performance-wise. I popped open the case, blew the dust out, and started it back up. According to GPU-Z, the fan speed is...
  8. DarkForceRising

    Laptop with decent build quality 600-1000$?

    So, my sister is looking for a laptop. She doesn't play games, so doesn't really need a graphics card. She shoots a lot of photos, so needs a decent amount of hard drive space. I expect that it would be used for web surfing, multimedia usage, skype, etc. Small netbooks (do they make ones bigger...
  9. DarkForceRising

    Random issue with AOE2: The Conquerors

    So, I recently installed Age of Empires 2 and the Conquerors expansion. I patched the Conquerors to the most recent version. So here's the weird part. I have the disc. With the disc in, I can launch the game from the start menu, and I can launch the game from the autoloader when I stick the...
  10. DarkForceRising

    Tablet PC with dedicated graphics

    A year or two back my brother purchased (I think) a Gateway C-140X, or one of that series. It had low end dedicated graphics. So, I think recently, I like the idea of tablets. They'd be extremely useful for taking notes and so on, but it would be nice if they could play basic games. Surely...
  11. DarkForceRising

    Red Faction Guerilla issues

    I purchased Red Faction Guerilla off a Direct2Drive, and just installed it today. When I boot the game, it loads, plays some starting videos, and then just hits a load screen. This load screen doesn't freeze, but it stays there forever. I figured it was doing something (first time run) so I let...
  12. DarkForceRising

    Razer Mouse in Windows 7

    Is anyone using one? I've been using my Deathadder in Windows XP for a couple years now, and I just recently upgraded to Windows 7. I had always used the Razer on-the-fly sensitivity switch that they so nicely provide, and it was always visible in games in Windows XP, although sometimes a bit...
  13. DarkForceRising

    HD-DVD Audio on Powerdvd 7

    I've had an HD-DVD drive in my computer for maybe a year and a half now. I recently got a 50 inch HDTV, so I've been looking into how to hook it up so I can watch HD movies. Currently, I'm running PowerDVD 7.3 (Ultra) on Windows XP 32-bit. I'm running an HDMI cable from my Radeon 4850 to the...
  14. DarkForceRising

    Fan possibly going bad

    I have an HIS ATI X1950 Pro I got about a year and a half ago. This one, from newegg. Every once in a while the card would start overheating, and I would blow dust out of it. It would be fine for a couple more months. Recently, though, this hasn't been working. When properly cooling, temps go...
  15. DarkForceRising

    USB Human Interface Devices

    Have any of you ever dealt with these? I'm dealing with a device that has physical bounds. It spins, but when it hits its bounds servos start grinding. Any InputReport requests at this time would return a different value than normal indicating that it's at it's physical limits. What I'm...
  16. DarkForceRising

    Can I import a C# dll into a C++ program?

    I've been trying to figure this out. I have a dll compiled from C# that I'd like to use in a C++ program. It'd really help to be able to use one of the classes in the dll as opposed to rewriting it in C++. But every single tutorial I've been able to find is going the opposite direction, from C++...
  17. DarkForceRising

    Realtek Integrated Audio

    I have a motherboard that uses the Realtek Azalia HD Audio card. Question is as in summary: Why can't I use the stereo mix option? Stereo Mix (equivalent of "What you hear" for Creative, I think) is turned on in the Realtek options, it's turned on in Windows options, I just can't use it in...
  18. DarkForceRising

    A type of shortest path problem

    Basically, I have 10 objects that I'm tracking with x and y coordinates. I want to find the shortest path (distance-wise) between an arbitrary starting object and any ending object. BUT I want to hit every object in between as well. From what I've looked up, this is extremely close to the...
  19. DarkForceRising

    Dell diagnostic partition showing in Windows

    My brother uninstalled McAfee tonight, as well as a piece of Roxio software. He then ran a bunch of cleanup programs. Ccleaner, regsupreme, erunt, ntregopt, etc. What appears to be the Dell diagnostic partition is showing in Windows explorer. I don't remember this ever being there before...
  20. DarkForceRising

    USB Headphone Switch

    I have some Plantronics USB headphones. I can output sound either to them or the speakers. However, the only way to switch between the two is to go into audio properties/audio/default device. This works for any programs opened afterward, but any programs open at the time of the change stay with...
  21. DarkForceRising

    Question involving files. C/C++

    What are the C commands involving files? Specifically, are there any commands allowing someone to move through text files line by line? Word by word? I have to parse a string that looks like "[permissions] [owner] [size] [date accessed] [filename]." There will be a list of these in another file...
  22. DarkForceRising

    Razer Deathadder 40$ CC online and B&M

    Title pretty much says it all. Deathadder This annoys me because I just bought one of these at Newegg last week for something like 50 + shipping. Aggh.
  23. DarkForceRising

    ascii graphics in Windows

    Several semesters ago, I programmed a very basic version of Space Invaders in C, using the ncurses ascii library in Ubuntu Linux. I am now in a class where I have Visual C++, and can easily program in Windows. What I would like to know is if there is a comparable ascii graphics library for...
  24. DarkForceRising

    Possible laptop purchase

    I am currently thinking of purchasing a laptop for school. I'm hoping for a 15.4 in (possibly 17, but unlikely) widescreen. 1500-2000$ range. I'm hoping to use this for school work (programming, wordprocessing, etc), but I would also like to get pretty much the best gaming computer possible for...
  25. DarkForceRising

    TESIV:Oblivion 41.90

    Link Whoops. Fixed. Review for the keypad.
  26. DarkForceRising

    Problem with Starsiege:Tribes

    I recently downloaded the free version of Starsiege: Tribes, which is version 1.8. I have downloaded the patch to 1.11 twice now, and every time I try to open the patch, I get an error message that says. Can't run 16-bit Windows program Cannot find file C:\blahblahblah\tribes18to111.exe (or...
  27. DarkForceRising

    Kingston 512mb 3200 at CC

    I spotted this ram in the flyer today. 25 bucks seems pretty cheap. http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Kingston...atOid/-12994/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do