Recent content by neatfeatguy

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    New Tom’s Forum Announcement & Feedback

    Clearly it's been a good while since I last visited the forums here.....it looks like a unicorn threw up in here.The color palette hurts my eyes....especially if you click and drag over text it highlights all pinkish-red color. They layout is rather appalling, too. Though, to be honest, I'm not...
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    FPS drops in all games (Good PC)

    Not sure why you'd think there's even an issue with Minecraft if you're running 200+fps. You have a monitor that has a faster refresh then that? Minecraft only utilizes 1 core. I doubt you were hitting 1000+fps on minecraft considering I'v seen people post they were hitting 350fps running an...
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    Dual monitors with one port

    You'll need an appropriate adapter to connect your monitor to your GPU. For example, I have three monitors, they only have DVI and HDMI ports on them. My 980Ti has 1 DVI, 1 HDMI and 2 DP ports. One of my monitors I picked up a HDMI to DP adapter (...
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    Sapphire R9 390X Black Screen Crash (Out Of Ideas!)

    Test the GPU in another computer. If the problem follows the GPU, then you found the problem.
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    MY GPU IS ALMOST ALWAYS ON 0 % USAGE (pls help)

    I don't use a laptop myself, not my thing, but two things that can greatly impact performance when gaming: 1) Power settings - set this to HIGH PERFORMANCE (your picture shows it is currently set to BALANCED) 2) Make sure you have the laptop plugged in when you're gaming.
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    GTX 1080 8GB, game crashes at 3GB vram usage

    Make sure you have a Paging File set in Windows. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/how-to-manage-virtual-memory-pagefile-windows-10,36929.html It should be set to AUTO. I have had an instance where Windows had it set to OFF. If you want to set it manually (not necessary, Windows AUTO option...
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    Computer went to sleep, now black monitors when starting up

    I have the same MB as you do. Same issue - power on and nothing on the screen. Got a red boot device flashing LED on the MB, too. I have the OS on my SSD and two spare HDDs for storage. Power your system off. Unplug it from the wall and move it to an easy to handle location. Disconnect all...
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    GTX 970 - Dual Monitor Black Screen in-game

    Without more hardware to test with (spare GPU or different monitors) I can't say there's much more you can do. Getting a spare GPU to test might be the easiest thing for you - do you know anyone that has any kind of GPU you might be able to borrow? If not, you're kind of stuck. I'm strongly...
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    GTX 1080 TI SLI CRASH WHEN DISABLING 1 CARD IN NVIDIA CONTROL panel.

    Does the stop code also list a driver name at the end of it? Maybe one that is named like this "nvlddmkm"? If that's the case, I'd suggest doing a re-install of the GPU driver for your system. Make sure to utilize DDU to remove the current driver.
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    GTX 970 - Dual Monitor Black Screen in-game

    The monitor that's not in use should go to a black screen, specifically when you're gaming in full screen mode. When you're in full screen mode, you're telling the system to only focus on that screen that's playing the game, so the computer will make the other monitor go black. I have 3...