Recent content by Sailorondatea

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    CD/DVD drive not reading discs at all

    I got an LG GSA-H55N super multi DVD RW. It was working fine on my P4 machine but I disassembled that electric stove. For years it just laid in a corned inside a box, in a good condition. Today I got my IDE-SATA 2 USB2 adapter and connected it to my laptop. Right now I power up with a pc psu...
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    x265 encoding methods

    I am using IFME. Unfortunately there aren't many GUIs for x265. Even software like FormatFactory or Freemake still rely on h264... It has a neat interface, job queue, process priority and affinity settings, and let's you save custom presets. You can also add parameters for x265 (see x265...
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    Getting blurry image with half resolution?

    Actually I'm not a gamer but I am wondering about the same thing here. I have a 1920*1080px monitor. I knew about getting blury images but sometimes I just want to use it at half resolution (960*540) and expect sharp edges, pixelated image instead of interpolated image. I find this frustrating...