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antikristuseke 07-31-10 11:04 AM

To sue others for a fault of your own?

Edit: I should probably step back, am in a foul mood and might say something stupid. Probably just need to vent so will take a walk.

Fincuan 07-31-10 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by antikristuseke (Post 1457017)
To sue others for a fault of your own?

That's how it sadly goes.

Nowadays it seems to be a part of human nature to always try to find the fault in someone or something else than yourself. Anything related to the government seems to be the top choice, closely followed by large companies.

SteamWake 07-31-10 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by antikristuseke (Post 1457017)
To sue others for a fault of your own?

To some portion of the american community....yes.

It probably is a minority portion but still yes.

I dont condone it, in fact I rather dislike it. But... well... there it is.

Wolfehunter 07-31-10 11:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Spoon 11th (Post 1456862)
Any people dreaming about some big class action suit because of this should simply be murdered.

Why? I got my replacement card From nvidia when they fried it with one of there drivers back in april. Took 3 months and they sent dell tech down to my house and swap my burnt card with a new one. Dell didn't want to do it at first because my rig's warranty expired. Nvidia payed for it all.

If there responsible you can go through proper channels. Be civil and you can have a refund or replacement.

If blizzard is responsible they should fix there mistakes. Lawsuit or not.

Arclight 07-31-10 06:09 PM

I'd like to point out most games do this. From some, I even get an audible high pitched whine from my card as it renders those intro logo screens and menus at 2000fps.

If you're thinking of sueing, you might as well sue the entire games industry.

Seth8530 08-01-10 01:08 AM

yah, If your GPU cant handle being under full load then its your faulty GPU not the software.. BTW most gpu's are designed to thermal throttle themselves if they overheat so something musta went wrong with the card.

SteamWake 08-01-10 09:44 AM

The only 'thermal throttling' that I am aware of is the fan.

Some newer PCI x 2 cards can monitor the GPU's temprature over the bus and some even have 'shut down' routines. But older PCI and PCI x buses dont have this feature.

ETR3(SS) 08-01-10 11:53 AM

After reading this thread I got to thinking. So I started up SH4 and looked at my FPS and it was over 2k almost 3k!:timeout: I'm off to look in the SH4 threads to see if I can find some sort of frame limiter for the menu screen.

Dowly 08-01-10 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by ETR3(SS) (Post 1457640)
After reading this thread I got to thinking. So I started up SH4 and looked at my FPS and it was over 2k almost 3k!:timeout: I'm off to look in the SH4 threads to see if I can find some sort of frame limiter for the menu screen.

Force Vsync on from your ATI/NVIDIA control panel.

ETR3(SS) 08-01-10 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Dowly (Post 1457647)
Force Vsync on from your ATI/NVIDIA control panel.

Thanks!:salute:

Arclight 08-01-10 01:21 PM

On a sidenote; V-sync can decrease performance. You can enable trible-buffering to get around that, but that can only be forced in the driver for OpenGL games. Direct3D games need to have it build into the engine (in which case you should find a V-sync option in the in-game options).

antikristuseke 08-02-10 01:46 AM

V-sync is there to reduce tearing by synchronizing the framerate with your monitors vertical refresh rate. It caps your max framerate, and might have a 1% or less impact on performance, but your game should look etter as a result since you dont get parts of the frame displayed out of sync making it look weird.

Arclight 08-02-10 02:02 AM

Depends on whether or not your card can keep up with with the cap and if triple-buffering is used. If your card can only manage 50FPS but the refresh rate is 75Hz (thus FPS capped at 75), you'll lose a ton of performance with double-buffering.

It's not a problem if your card can either keep up with the refresh rate, or triple-buffering is used. Otherwise you'll want to turn V-sync off.


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