Recent content by LTDansen

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    Advice: Upgrading HTPC GPU

    Short story long, I have an HTPC without a real video card, and my Frankenrig with a 7970, both listed below. I'm trying to play my various games at Max Graphics with about 40+ FPS with Frankenrig's triple monitor setup, and I want to make the HTPC gaming capable with a GPU addition. Budget is...
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    Skyrim won't launch. CPU pegged at 100%.

    Alrighty, these error messages were exactly what I needed to solve the problem. The problem lay with Virtu MVP. I had not thought to update that driver as I was going through the rest of my hardware. Integrated driver support for my motherboard slipped my mind. An update to the latest version...
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    Skyrim won't launch. CPU pegged at 100%.

    So a bit of fortune for us in this, I didn't really like that I was having to force shut down with the power button to get out of the testing so I set a hotkey on my keyboard to send the normal windows shutdown command. I opened up Resource Manager and Task Manager and gave your research idea a...
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    Skyrim won't launch. CPU pegged at 100%.

    Ok, so I've been all around the internet trying to find somebody who might be able to help me with my issue; so here it is. When I click "Play" on the Skyrim launch menu I just get the swirly twirlly blue circle for windows and I can see my resource monitor report all cores smashed at 100%...