Random Technology Questions

[kontol_kering]

16 hours ago, DEALUX said:

Get an Android phone and create a Google account. It will store your contacts for you.

Thanks, i'm using note 10, but i didn't store the contacts in google account, thanks again for the tips 

[OREOBOREALIS]

On 6/9/2021 at 2:04 PM, kontol_kering said:

Hello, i recently lost some contacts in my phone after some maintenance error, does anyone knows how to recover our lost contact after we reset our phone to the factory settings?

only way is probably if you had the numbers saved to the sim card or to google account if android phone like DEALUX said.

Did you check if the numbers are on the sim?

Edited November 3, 2021 by Mktz1

[Craigsters]

 

never mind got a new PC

Edited December 15, 2021 by Craigsters

[StreetLife101]

Is Fast Startup mode good or bad?

[DEALUX]

15 hours ago, StreetLife101 said:

Is Fast Startup mode good or bad?

The BIOS setting? If it actually speeds up the booting up process, yes. I think in the past I've had some issues where some USB devices (like keyboard) would fail to initialize but I haven't had that issue at all on Windows 11 interestingly enough.

 

[sivispacem]

It's a pain if you need to boot into safe mode or switch boot devices.

[DEALUX]

On 12/28/2021 at 7:34 PM, sivispacem said:

It's a pain if you need to boot into safe mode or switch boot devices.

Only if you have a fast SSD lol.

[Blackburn4]

On 12/28/2021 at 5:34 PM, sivispacem said:

It's a pain if you need to boot into safe mode or switch boot devices.

Yeah I've been there so many time. F2ing + ESCing + DELing for my life. 

[Craigsters]

is the Amazon Echo Dot (4th Gen) worth getting? to play music,  ask info etc ???

 

I also want to get smart plugs and light bulbs eventually

Edited December 30, 2021 by Craigsters

[Mexicola9302]

Something weird happened last night, my LG B9 got an update, it actually fixed a weird bug that was happening all the time for me. If switching from 120 HZ to regular TV watching, or Netflix or whatever.

 

The problem got fixed, im so thankful to the LG ppl.

 

I had bad weird picture can't really describe it.

 

THANK YOU LG PPL, YOU FIXED A PROBLEM I HAD FOR OVER A YEAR.

Edited December 31, 2021 by Mexicola9302

[StreetLife101]

How do I extract ".pak" files? I wanna modify a game on my pc

[yoječ]

This depends on the game you want to modify, most likely you need to search for game-specific tools.

[Craigsters]

what is vulkanrt and is it being used over the proper  directx on my new PC with it's RTX card?

[sivispacem]

17 hours ago, Craigsters said:

what is vulkanrt and is it being used over the proper  directx on my new PC with it's RTX card?

Vulkan is a competitor to DirectX. It's cross platform and open source, whereas DX12 isn't. Whether or not you'll be using it is application dependent. Most apps just use DX12, some will give you the option of using either, and some are Vulkan only.

 

For the most part, you'll get marginally better performance on low-end hardware with Vulkan, but better fidelity and more features with DX12. 

[Darth_Cruiser]

8 minutes ago, sivispacem said:

Vulkan is a competitor to DirectX. It's cross platform and open source, whereas DX12 isn't. Whether or not you'll be using it is application dependent. Most apps just use DX12, some will give you the option of using either, and some are Vulkan only.

 

For the most part, you'll get marginally better performance on low-end hardware with Vulkan, but better fidelity and more features with DX12. 

Is there really a big difference in fidelity 

[sivispacem]

5 hours ago, StuntMaster100 said:

Is there really a big difference in fidelity 

The APIs for things like temporal antialiasing are by and large much better in DX12, as are those underpinning things like volumetric lighting IME.

There's a clear difference in titles that use both like RDR2 on the same settings for me. 

 

I've also found that DX12 has more stable framerates, even if the averages are lower.

[Darth_Cruiser]

32 minutes ago, sivispacem said:

The APIs for things like temporal antialiasing are by and large much better in DX12, as are those underpinning things like volumetric lighting IME.

There's a clear difference in titles that use both like RDR2 on the same settings for me. 

 

I've also found that DX12 has more stable framerates, even if the averages are lower.

Strange. RDR 2 was more stable on Vulkan for me. DX 12 was stuttering a lot and also had lots of graphic glitches

[sivispacem]

3 hours ago, StuntMaster100 said:

Strange. RDR 2 was more stable on Vulkan for me. DX 12 was stuttering a lot and also had lots of graphic glitches

It's somewhat hardware dependant too. 

[Mister Pink]

External harddrives going into standby after a short time. It's annoying. So, I couldn't fix it. It seemed to happen only with this one Seagate drive I have which is mains powered. I use Keep Alive HD to basically keep it from going into standby. Is there anyway to change it through CMD prompt to stop it from going into standby. It kind of seems ridiculous that I'm using a 3rd party app to keep my HD functioning the way I want. As far as I'm aware it wasn't like this at the start, it just happened after a  Windows update. I could be wrong though. 

[Mexicola9302]

35 minutes ago, Mister Pink said:

External harddrives going into standby after a short time. It's annoying. So, I couldn't fix it. It seemed to happen only with this one Seagate drive I have which is mains powered. I use Keep Alive HD to basically keep it from going into standby. Is there anyway to change it through CMD prompt to stop it from going into standby. It kind of seems ridiculous that I'm using a 3rd party app to keep my HD functioning the way I want. As far as I'm aware it wasn't like this at the start, it just happened after a  Windows update. I could be wrong though. 

Control Panel>Power Options>etc. im not sure how it's all called in the english version. Maybe the pics help somehow, even tho it's german.

You can enter minutes after wich harddrives go into standby, i guess entering something like 9999999 makes them run forever, or maybe entering 0 works too. Just try it out, maybe it works but maybe not. I don't mind if my HDD's go into standby. But i didn't see an option for specific HDD's, i guess that is meant for all drives then.

Im using Windows 11 Pro with StartAllBack, so it looks like Windows 10 did.

Edited February 4, 2022 by Mexicola9302

[DEALUX]

Which wireless mouse would you recommend? Currently I'm leaning toward the Razer Viper Ultimate. The Logitech stuff looks too bulky to me and they don't have as many features as I would like for the price.

[Jason]

16 minutes ago, DEALUX said:

Which wireless mouse would you recommend? Currently I'm leaning toward the Razer Viper Ultimate. The Logitech stuff looks too bulky to me and they don't have as many features as I would like for the price.

 

For Razer you have the Viper Ultimate, Deathadder v2 Pro and Basilisk Ultimate. Those are the ones with the optical switches (stops double clicking issues) and their top tier wireless tech.

 

For Logitech you have their "Lightspeed" branded mice, if you're looking at the RVU then stuff like the G305, G303 and the G Pro Wireless might be worth looking at, if you haven't already.

 

There's some other stuff from a few brands like Corsair, Glorious, Kone and more but nothing that's really gonna top the Razer and Logitech mice for wireless performance and build quality.

[lndex]

23 hours ago, DEALUX said:

Which wireless mouse would you recommend? Currently I'm leaning toward the Razer Viper Ultimate. The Logitech stuff looks too bulky to me and they don't have as many features as I would like for the price.

I've got the G Pro Superlight, it's a decent mouse and has a "safe" shape if you will, had it for around three months now and no problems or double clicking or connectivity issues which i had with the previous G pro wireless. It's just expensive.

 

Razers mice are usually on sale and i think the Glorious mice are reasonably cheap and come with kailh switches which i prefer over omrons. I think they've had QC issues in the past, though. Newer batches should be fine.

Edited February 9, 2022 by DEADWOODZ

[sivispacem]

Corsair M65 Ultra Wireless. Love mine. 

[DEALUX]

On 2/10/2022 at 3:08 PM, sivispacem said:

Corsair M65 Ultra Wireless. Love mine. 

I have the Pro and it's a good shape. Have not had any issues in the 2+ years I've been using it so the wireless would be a good upgrade path but the Razer is so much cheaper (on sale) that it's impossible to overlook.

[sivispacem]

7 hours ago, DEALUX said:

I have the Pro and it's a good shape. Have not had any issues in the 2+ years I've been using it so the wireless would be a good upgrade path but the Razer is so much cheaper (on sale) that it's impossible to overlook.

Not sure about prices where you are but I got the Ultra with 65% off RRP.  Think it came in comfortably under £50. 

[DEALUX]

1 hour ago, sivispacem said:

Not sure about prices where you are but I got the Ultra with 65% off RRP.  Think it came in comfortably under £50. 

$127 Amazon price. The Viper Ultimate is $86. Both lowest prices I could find. I guess the Razer mouse would work with the color scheme of my keyboard better as well.

[Misumi]

Anyone have an idea why a PC is suddenly slow after a Windows update? It's on Windows 10. The PC is only used to run my CNC mill, and has nothing on it apart from Firefox and the CNC controller software.

 

It's a micro ATX form factor, with an i5-4690K, 8GB ram. HDD (not SSD). Temperatures are fine, the PC is isolated from the workshop dust/dirt. The CNC software requirements are far below the specs of the PC.

 

It was working fine a few days ago. Now, it takes longer to boot up. When it finally enters the desktop screen, the background remains black, so does the task bar (time/date and Windows icon remains visible however). The black remains for a few minutes, during which everything seems to move slower. For example, opening Firefox would take 30 seconds or so, even clicking the Windows logo to open the Start Menu takes a few seconds before it finally opens. Typing on the keyboard works, but the input doesn't show on the screen until after a few seconds.

 

The only thing that has changed on it was a Windows update that it automatically downloaded/installed when I went to run the CNC machine. It seemed to get faster the longer I left it on, but I got annoyed about 15 minutes in, so I don't know if it gets back to normal eventually. I tried restarting it, same problem. It wasn't like this before the update.

[StreetLife101]

Is Windows Game Mode good or bad?

[Mister Pink]

On 2/4/2022 at 2:59 PM, Mexicola9302 said:

Control Panel>Power Options>etc. im not sure how it's all called in the english version. Maybe the pics help somehow, even tho it's german.

You can enter minutes after wich harddrives go into standby, i guess entering something like 9999999 makes them run forever, or maybe entering 0 works too. Just try it out, maybe it works but maybe not. I don't mind if my HDD's go into standby. But i didn't see an option for specific HDD's, i guess that is meant for all drives then.

Thanks man, going to try that out. I think that's what I was originally trying to do but some drives weren't showing up due to some known bug with Windows. A guy has made some CMD line to fix it and it at least showed the drives but after an update it went back to the old way. 

 

Yeah, I don't have an option to change the sleep settings for external hard disks.. as you can see the option below. 

 

 

I'm using Windows 10. Haven't the option yet to get Windows 11, even though I'm sure I'm compatible. 

 

I'll keep using Keep Alive HD for the moment. 

Edited February 15, 2022 by Mister Pink