mothergoose729

The biggest complaints I have heard about ubuntu is that its not as configurable and it doesn't give the user as much control as some people would like. It is by far the best maintained distro out there though, so if you value stability, reliability, and support, I think ubuntu is definitely the way to go. EDIT: another tiny bit, I recommend using chrome in linux over firefox, which comes standard. Last time I checked chrome has been optimized quite a bit for the linux environment (ala android) but firefox has not, so you will get much better performance, and perhaps, better stability.

ESO beta... in a word: AWESOME

Linux mint is supposed to an out of box ready OS based on ubuntu. That means it comes standard with bits like open office and media players and the rest. I want to say its based on kde? This is a desktop environment somewhat similar to windows. A bit of advice; try and go full linus whatever you do. It can be tempting to try and force your most familar software to run through wine. You would be better of using native linux programs for as many applications as you can though, for a variety of reasons.

I like it. A bit busy in the hands but the detail in the clothing and everything else is much better.

Feel free to join me and neovalen raptor. Lets make it a party

I get in the security exception loop with firefox that drives me nuts. I switched to chrome. Chrome is a huge memory hog but its really fast and it bugs me less often. I give it a 9.5 out of 10. Chrome all the way.

Yeah I won't name person, places or things, but I can say if I had fun, or if in my opinion it kept close to the lore, and stuff like that. Which is what I will do.

I found the NDA online for reviewers. I will assume it all applies to me. According to that NDA I am not suppose to even let on I am in the beta, but I doubt that applies for beta applicants. Either way, cats out of the bag now :p. It is pretty clear about the intellectual property rights, which you were right raptor about screenshots and videos. I can express my opinion about the game at least, so long as I don't include intellectual property in it, so I plan to do that. So for a wall of nonspecific text, come back on monday!

Ah, thanks for letting me know raptor. I will look into what I can share. Don't want to get me or the forums in trouble.

So as some of you may know, the elderscrolls is going online with an MMO style game based on the ES world. A while ago they were having beta sign ups, and I got in on the beta for this weekend! For those that haven't been following this you can visit their website. They are still excepting beta applications if you want to try and get in on the fun. https://elderscrollsonline.com/en/ If anybody else got a beta invite for this weekend let me know. We might be able to meet up and game together :). For those that are interested, I plan to take lots of screenshots and maybe do a video and live streaming session this weekend. If all goes well I will try and stream on twitch.tv between the hours of 12-3pm this sunday, PST. If I can get everything together I might stream saturday, but no promises. There will be lots of screenshots and I will try and do a write up next week. EDIT: My twitch account

I don't know honestly. I have never got that error.

Mods like this were so popular in morrowind. Pretty things up kind of mods. Like other here, not a fan :/

I like everything except the work bench and the wood. Really love the tongs in the fire, that needed some touching up and no mod I know of seems to do it.

I always thought the shabby robes was appropriate. A high res retext could work, but I would want to see soemthing unornamented and simple. Not to my tastes.

To clean looking for my taste. Would prefer something a bit more gritty.

Very mixed bag of "love it!" "hate it!". I wish there was more parallax stuff that was well done, but I don't know if this is the mod for me.

That is definitely true, prolonged torture testing is just one of many tests you aught to run on your hardware before you overclock. I used to overclock and benchmark a lot more. Had something like 5k posts on the OCN (and still do I guess, but I never go there anymore). If you want to be sure things are ok you do need to download a couple bench marking suites and run those tests a few times, and also torture test. Stacking torture tests is a good idea, because just because prime95 seems ok doesn't mean that linpack won't run into problems, ect. Its exhausting to do, and once you go through all the proper paces to be 95% sure your hardware will never fail on you, you are left with a pretty modest overclock after it all. The capabilities of a CPU does change with time, so it is differently possible to have a rock solid overclock at one point, that doesn't hold up well 2 years later. Also if something in your PC ever starts acting up, you can't be entirely sure it doesn't have something to do with your hardware. Its for these reasons I stopped overclocking my system. The 20% increase in performance isn't worth the investment in time and money to do right. I wouldn't say though that torture test software is without value. If you want to find out quick if you harware is broken, prime95 or furmark will usually tell you in 10 minutes. Also, if you invest in adequate cooling and test thoroughly, an overclocked processor or graphics can be ever bit as stable as one that isn't, although less than 1% of all the folks that overclock properly test for stability.Â

It depends on your hardware settings and what other mods you are using. If you have a 2gb graphics I think that should work out just fine. If you have a 1gb graphics I recommend resizing to 1k for most textures. Meshes should not be optimized. There are no mainstream tools that do so. If you try and use DDS to optimize a mesh folder it just won't do anything. Mesh optimization exist but I have never seen a tool that works properly. Avoid using them, bad things happen.

A uskp guy would probably tell you not to optimize. Realistically, the optimizers are really good at treating files appropriately and its very unlikely to do you any harm

Whocares is right. Cou are designed to be able to operate long term at high temperatures. A torture test lasting 8 to 24 hors is not going to significantly impact the lifetime of your processors. Personal philosophy; if I can make it break its not good enough, however I place a premium on stability.

Simply put linux is a better designed OS that gives you almost unlimited control. Impossible to get a virus, have complete access to every part of the operating system, and everything about how it works is transparent and logical, rather than confusing and nonsensical. Its the power users OS for certain. Also its free, with dozens of popular distributions, and a huge technical community dedicated to it like its religion.

Prime95 is only dangerous because it is effective. It is good at utilizing the registers and CPU cache on your processor, which is why your process gets so warm after running it. On a server processor prime95 could run for weeks without error. On your PC, eight hours or so probably means you are ok, if you are overclocking you would want to test for longer. Intel uses linpack to bin their processors on the assembly line. If you want your processor to really burn up, try intel burn test. In my own experience though, prime95 prolonged tests is more reliable. Turn up your AC though :p.

1k textures should be fine. I have used a 6670, which is only marginally faster and has the same amount of memory, memory frequency, and bus length as the 5570. Default medium settings with STEP textures shouldn't give you problems, and its perfectly stable. Important though, you need to mass resize with a texture tool. Uncompressed normals or huge LODs could give you problems if you don't know you have them intalled.

No that is graphics artifacting. Its a driver issue, or your graphics card is going out the door. There are no mods I know of that produce that kind of behavior. If you are doing any overclocking reset to stock, and also try running furmark, a gpu stress test, for about an hour and see if something blows up.

If you have a graphics with 1gb VRAM I strongly recommend 1024x1024 color maps and normals for all textures. If you have a 2gb+ card, you can use 2k colors maps and normals for nearly everything. When I used STEP mods in my testing, I had to go down to 1k for LODs and terrain. I haven't run into texture corruption myself using either DDSopt or optimizer textures. And I used both quite a bit. I wrote a thread about it a while ago. You might find it helpful: https://forum.step-project.com/showthread.php?tid=3680