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2024-11-02 at 4:16 AM UTC in Got a new computer and I feel like I'm losing my fucking mind

Elbow African Astronaut

Just discovered my cursor can cover the dead pixels. What means.

2024-11-02 at 3:24 AM UTC in Got a new computer and I feel like I'm losing my fucking mind

Elbow African Astronaut

Originally posted by Lanny Disabling hardware acceleration fixes it, installing drivers breaks it, sounds like a fucky GPU to me. Pull it out, blow on the slot, and plug it back in? Could be the mobo, could be the graphics card. Bios upgrade sounds reasonable too, who knows what ungodly black magick nvidia demands of an interface.

Disabling hardware acceleration only fixed the artifacting stuff that was happening in VLC, which seems to be a known thing with VLC. Nothing has touched the spooky ghost pixels except that they were a lot less prevalent with drivers wiped (maybe).

The irony of this whole situation being that it was a birthday present, and my dad insisted on paying the premium for a prebuilt one to avoid running into these kinds of issues. Not reseating the GPU, on second thought, for warranty reasons.

2024-11-02 at 2:52 AM UTC in Got a new computer and I feel like I'm losing my fucking mind

Elbow African Astronaut

Going to test with a different display (the TV) and if that doesn't work, as a hail mary, I will reseat the GPU. If this accomplishes nothing, the only option open to me appears to be seppuku.

2024-11-02 at 2:46 AM UTC in Got a new computer and I feel like I'm losing my fucking mind

Elbow African Astronaut

Realizing that even uninstalling the drivers ain't fixing this, it's maybe just slowing it down. Might just be my GPU. I don't know. Maybe it doesn't like my monitor. Maybe I should get a new monitor and see if the problem persists ha ha ha.

2024-11-02 at 2:36 AM UTC in Got a new computer and I feel like I'm losing my fucking mind

Elbow African Astronaut

Originally posted by Grimace Try updating BIOS first from manufacturer website then DDU your graphics drivers followed by installing latest downloaded from NVIDIA.

Make sure you're disabling Internet when you DDU graphics drivers or Windows will just download whatever bullshit drivers it wants from Windows Update.

Updated the BIOS then ran DDU in safemode with no network connection, rebooted and installed drivers, and the weird pixels immediately came back. I think I might just be cursed tbh.

2024-11-02 at 1:35 AM UTC in Got a new computer and I feel like I'm losing my fucking mind

Elbow African Astronaut

Reinstalling the graphics drivers broke it again. I'm going to kill myself.

2024-11-02 at 1:17 AM UTC in Got a new computer and I feel like I'm losing my fucking mind

Elbow African Astronaut

Oh no. I actually had to perform a tech-exorcism. Upon removing scrap code from the blessed machine, its machine spirit seems to have been appeased. I merely had to recite from the Litany of Nvida Cleanup Tool and the aberrant pixels were quelled. Remarkable.

Praise the Omnissiah.

2024-11-02 at 12:35 AM UTC in Got a new computer and I feel like I'm losing my fucking mind

Elbow African Astronaut

I fixed VLC by disabling hardware acceleration in VLC. I'm guessing the pixel issue will be resolved a similar way. Or with an exorcism, as previously stated.

2024-11-02 at 12:25 AM UTC in Got a new computer and I feel like I'm losing my fucking mind

Elbow African Astronaut

"Oooh Windows 11, how fancy." Ha.

I'm using the same monitor I was with my old hardware, and yet there are now "dead pixels". But they're not dead! They're alive! Or... undead. Spooooky. One of them always seems to pop up like an inch and a half to the bottom-right of my cursor, which it will then proceed to follow until it disappears. And then it'll reappear, as if at random. And there are others too! They pop up inexplicably in various locations and quickly disappear, but aren't tied to the cursor at all. One of them is flickering a little as I type this. Each new character input causes it to light up briefly and then disappear. But inconsistently. It's not every character input. And sometimes it's a different pixel, I think. I think it moved.

Huh. Must have been the wind.

I'm updated my graphics drivers. Googling turns up a variety of unhelpful things. I tried disabling Windows 11 hardware acceleration. I tried exiting Steam, because that can apparently cause issues (thankfully it didn't help, that would have been an awkward solution). It's still happening. And it's driving me crazy.

Oh, and VLC is doing this shit:

I'm installing a few more updates, but the graphics driver update not resolving the issue has me on edge. Starting to think my new rig might be... haunted. Do I need to perform an exorcism?

2024-11-01 at 8:16 PM UTC in Just checking who's crazy

Elbow African Astronaut

Originally posted by Obbe Is Kafka a bimbo!?

Aspiring, at one point, I think.

2024-11-01 at 11:47 AM UTC in The internet archive/waybackmachine being destroyed forever is a good thing

Elbow African Astronaut

Originally posted by NARCassist Was far better than being fucked by the Spanish or French

Or Belgians

.

Or the Dutch.

2024-11-01 at 2:43 AM UTC in Do you feel loved when you come on this forum?

Elbow African Astronaut

I feel loved at all times because I have accepted our Lord Jesus Christ as my own personal savior amen.

2024-10-31 at 10:36 PM UTC in In honor of spooptober, we have a new theme

Elbow African Astronaut

Happy Halloween everyone. I would just like to recant my previous statement about the quality of this theme. It looks much nicer on mobile.

2024-10-31 at 10:24 PM UTC in Just checking who's crazy

Elbow African Astronaut

Originally posted by ner vegas this makes an uncomfortable amount of sense

Intermittent Gnosis is the lamest superpower but it is my superpower. I want it to just be a joke I made on a whim, but it was the actual word of God spoken through my greasy fingertips.

2024-10-31 at 8:35 PM UTC in I’m buying a house (Home & Garden Edition)

Elbow African Astronaut

Originally posted by Lanny Afeared is probably the most relevant emotion, since you know I'm gonna be slipping into those PMs now ;)

I'm choosing to believe you are both simply going as single versions of yourselves for Halloween.

2024-10-31 at 5:43 PM UTC in I’m buying a house (Home & Garden Edition)

Elbow African Astronaut

Originally posted by shitty titty Lanny and I will no longer be living together, but he has generously decided he will maintain contact with me.

Anyways, I’m gonna work really hard on being a better feminist. Or housewife. Idk.

I'm too confused to be sad.

2024-10-31 at 5:37 PM UTC in Just checking who's crazy

Elbow African Astronaut

Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Do you ever have thoughts of your own or do you just copy/paste whatever you're currently reading or whatever fits your agenda regardless of it's validity or relevance?

Kafka is Obbe's bimboification fetish alt.

2024-10-31 at 4:34 PM UTC in Just checking who's crazy

Elbow African Astronaut

Originally posted by Kafka This is why women choose the bear. Men who believe in conspiracy theories aren't safe to be around, they could believe women are witches next, and they did in the past.

You're right. It's disturbing how plausible it is that men might jointly make plans in secret to burn women alive. People who believe in conspiracy theories really are dangerously retarded.

2024-10-31 at 7:34 AM UTC in Just checking who's crazy

Elbow African Astronaut

For the record I just think another Trump presidency would be funny. I'm not particularly invested in whether he wins or loses.

This is partially why I keep saying he's going to lose (aside from the fact that he's absolutely, definitely going to lose for realsies). If he wins I will find it very funny, and if he loses then at least I called it.

2024-10-31 at 7:30 AM UTC in Just checking who's crazy

Elbow African Astronaut

Trump is gonna lose.

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