Buying a new computer...

[donnato]

On 2/7/2017 at 7:12 AM, HeyYou said:

Also, for folks using SSDs, be sure and set your advanced power settings to NEVER turn off the harddrive. When idle, the drives like  to do maintenance on themselves. Keeps them happy.

Great point HY. I forgot about that setting .

[oldladyonthemoon]

Got my computer! Installing Windows 7 right now!

[garnet18]

[HeyYou]

4 hours ago, ladyonthemoon said:

Got my computer! Installing Windows 7 right now!

Yee HAAA!

 

Congrats Lady. May you enjoy many hours of productive modding, and some fun gaming.

[oldladyonthemoon]

44 minutes ago, HeyYou said:

Yee HAAA!

 

Congrats Lady. May you enjoy many hours of productive modding, and some fun gaming.

Yep, once I've finished with all the installations I have to do!

Windows updates: 215, 1,098 mB...

[HeyYou]

And that's just the first round.....

[oldladyonthemoon]

1 minute ago, HeyYou said:

And that's just the first round.....

So it was!

Now everything Windows and MSI (drivers) related is not installed; the whole of it took from 17h to midnight.

Next step: installing my software and figuring out how to shut down the keyboard lighting.

[HeyYou]

Should be a function key for the keyboard lighting.

Personally, I think it's time to install a game, and PLAY, and see how it performs.

[oldladyonthemoon]

13 hours ago, HeyYou said:

Should be a function key for the keyboard lighting.

No, it was a setting in a program. Yes it is, a button just next to the "cooler boost" one (found it by accident).

Edited February 11, 2017 by ladyonthemoon

[oldladyonthemoon]

I'm desparate, everything is brownish, it's awful. The following hues of grey are supposed to be devoid of any trace of colours; on my screen, they are brown.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Color_icon_gray.svg#/media/File:Color_icon_gray.svg

[HeyYou]

I think there are ways to adjust that.... but, it's likely machine specific......

If you uninstall the video drivers, does that fix anything? (windows using generic drivers.....)

[oldladyonthemoon]

I cannot play Skyrim, both of them, my graphics card is not recognised and they are playing on the integrated graphics. The latest drivers are installed.

Edit: after restarting the computer, Skyrim SE launches on ultra settings, Skyrim original still starts on the integrated graphics. I noticed that the "RendererInfo.txt" is missing from the My Games/Skyrim directory.

Edit 2: on pressing "play" Skyrim SE reset its settings on low and starts on the integrated graphics.

Edited February 11, 2017 by ladyonthemoon

[HeyYou]

You should be able to force the game to use the better video solution in the Nvidia control panel.

Either that, or disable the integrated video in bios.

[oldladyonthemoon]

45 minutes ago, HeyYou said:

You should be able to force the game to use the better video solution in the Nvidia control panel.

Either that, or disable the integrated video in bios.

Yep, I found those same advices on some forums; I just feel a bit odd at the idea of disabling the integrated video in the bios...

I found out how to hook the games to the GTX 970M card in the Nvidia control panel and I did it. What happens now is that, when I double click on the launcher for Skyrim SE, the game is set to "ultra settings" but  when I click on play, the game is reset to "low settings". So what I did is deleting the inis, launch the launcher and set the ultra settings inis on read only, so that when I click on play, the game is not reset to low settings. If anyone understand this behaviour, I'd be glad to know about it.

As for Skyrim original, it now launches on ultra high settings and the "RendererInfo.txt" has been created this time!

Okay, things go better.

Edit: for those who may need it, here is the post that helped me, #4 in this thread: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/615805-/60960884

Thank you for bearing with me!

Edited February 11, 2017 by ladyonthemoon

[HeyYou]

Hhhmmm..... that's kinda odd. Wonder if the launcher isn't cluing in the game that it created the files? That's the only time I am aware of that it goes exploring for hardware.....

 

Although, I seem to remember having the same trouble with FO4 as well.... had to adjust the settings with the in-game menu, and then any changes I made elsewhere actually stuck.

[oldladyonthemoon]

My computer and I have spent the week-end getting better acquainted. I managed to make a colour profile in which greys are real greys, not brown, using MSI's True Color tool and Intel's card tool; it took hours though until I found a solution that would fit all the uses I'm going to make of that computer. I'm feeling better now; I was really worrying about that.

[HeyYou]

Excellent.

 

Pics?

[oldladyonthemoon]

54 minutes ago, HeyYou said:

Excellent.

Thank you!

54 minutes ago, HeyYou said:

Pics?

Of what?

[HeyYou]

Your smiling face next to your new toy.

[oldladyonthemoon]

Just now, HeyYou said:

Your smiling face next to your new toy.

Ha! Never...

[HeyYou]

How about just your new toy then?

[oldladyonthemoon]

6 hours ago, HeyYou said:

How about just your new toy then?

Well, the images MSI put online show very well what it looks like.

[HeyYou]

Yeah, but, that those aren't YOURS.

So how do you like it so far? Things working as they should now?

[oldladyonthemoon]

16 minutes ago, HeyYou said:

Yeah, but, that those aren't YOURS.

So how do you like it so far? Things working as they should now?

Well, I still have difficulties with the colour profile but things are better on that front.

But... I have an enormous problem, not related to the new computer: I cannot uninstall the Creation Kit for the special edition. I uninstalled it through the Bethesda.net launcher but a load of crap remains in the Skyrim folder. When I try to delete them, I get an error message saying that I need a permission from ... myself ... to do so! Being the admin of my computer, this shouldn't happen. I even uninstalled the launcher, to no avail...

[HeyYou]

You could try Revo Uninstaller Portable, or, Unlocker, see if either of those solutions will make it all go away.