Recent content by hiro928

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    Question Dual Boot or VM?

    Hi all, i've been running Pop_Os for a couple weeks now, and i love it as a OS, although getting certain games running with Lutris and Proton can be a bit of a pain in the neck, which brings me to my question. i care a lot about the security of my system, which is why i switched to Linux to...
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    Question Does an internal HDD still go through reads/writes if it's not mounted?

    As the title says, I have a 16 TB internal HDD for storing backups, games, movies and such, but it gets to be a pain in the butt to open my system and connect it every time I go to do backups, so I wonder, could I leave it connected inside my system, but leave it unmounted within Windows Disk...
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    Question Question on different Distros and hardware compatability ?

    MOBO is an MSI B450 Tomohawk no SATA ports are being used, the Storage is plugged in the M.2 slot
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    Question Question on different Distros and hardware compatability ?

    standard install, no dual boot or VM drive is a WD Black SN850 1TB M.2 SSD, and in the past after setting up Linux and transferring all my files over, perhaps about 1/4 full the drive would be set as a clean blank GBT, and partitioned however Linux does it during setup
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    Question Question on different Distros and hardware compatability ?

    so for starters, my specs GPU: RTX 2080ti CPU: Ryzen 7 2700X RAM: 32 GB DDR4 2600 Mhz i have worked with PCs almost my whole life, but am a Linux noob, i have tried out a few different distros including, Mint, Ubuntu, POP OS and Manjaro, and with all of these distros, everything seems to run a...
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    Question "Executive permissions" on Linux Mint ?

    Hi, i'm using an M.2 SSD as my boot drive for Linux, and i also have a 1TB SSD that i want to use for my games, but steam won't allow me to use the drive (designated on Linux as /dev/sda) for games saying it needs "executive permissions" can anyone help me with this? i'd appriciate it
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    Question Dual Monitor glitching

    like i said the second monitor won't go any higher than 1600x900, also i've changed things where everything would be running off the same 1600x900 that the second monitor is using, meaning the first monitor and the game as well, and it still happens, but to answer your question, i have an RTX...
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    Question Dual Monitor glitching

    Hello, i have a dual monitor setup, main problem i have is that when certain games go fullscreen, the windows on the other monitor change around, for example say i want to stream a certain game, so i'll have my twitch chat up on the second monitor but when i launch the game on monitor 1, all of...
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    Question Computer Randomly Restarting

    CPU: AMD Athlon X4 quad core 3.8 GHz Motherboard: ASROCK FM2A68M-DG3+ BIOS: P5.20 Ram: 8 GB DDR3 SSD/HDD: PNY 240 GB GPU: MSI GT 710 PSU: Kentek 400W about 4 or 5 years old Chassis: Rosewill 11147262031900354 OS: Windows 10 64 Bit Version Monitor: ASUS F9LMTF011621 it's a cheap computer that...
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    Question Computer Randomly Restarting

    Hello, my dads computer has started randomly restarting recently, and by that i mean it goes through the restart cycle, like if you had clicked the restart button in windows, and it always seems to be random, like at one point he'll go 3 or 4 days without it happening, then he has times like...
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    [SOLVED] why does it seem like my opponents actions are instantaneous online

    i let ping plotter run for a bit longer, this is what i ended up with here
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    [SOLVED] why does it seem like my opponents actions are instantaneous online

    are there any programs you can recommend that would judge the input lag?
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    [SOLVED] why does it seem like my opponents actions are instantaneous online

    Samsung LU28R550UQNXZA, also i ran Ping Plotter choosing Google as my test since there is a data center close by and here were my results
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    [SOLVED] why does it seem like my opponents actions are instantaneous online

    Samsung 4K monitor, yes on V-Sync and 60 FPS
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    [SOLVED] why does it seem like my opponents actions are instantaneous online

    like i said to Ralston it just seems weird cause if this was happening with just one online game, i could understand, but every single competitive online game i own does this, for this to be happening over every single game, i feel it have to be something on my end