Off topic - Gamers in the group?

[David K. Sargert]

Curious if there are any gamers in our group?
All five of my grandsons are Fortenight Wizzes on “Switches” and my wife thought it would be a good idea to get the 13 year old a nice refurbished desktop for school and games. It’s great for anything but Fortenight. I updated all the drivers when I was there at Christmas but he is still having issues. I am NOT a gamer so I’m at a loss. In that the box is x2+ what my laptop is running, perhaps I’m just envious.

Optiplex 790
Win 10 Pro. (I’ve read they have issues with this)
500GB Hard drive
8GB RAM
Intel Quad i5-2400 @3.10GH
NVidia GTX 1050
Thanks in advance.
David

David K. Sargert, LEED AP
713-264-1883

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[JAID]

I am not David (though I have played a couple games of Civ6. Excellent but can take a long time.) My 11 year old is and has played a lot of Fortnite. He played it on PC, Ipad and PS4+.Since his Ipad Pro is probably somewhat less powerful than your machine it suggests there is something odd going on. His PS4 performs well but is not as powerful as his PC. So you would expect the PC you got to perform pretty well. High performing graphics cards seem to the key to best games performance. DirectX 12 if you can get it with a processor that pumps and fast DDR RAM. I suppose the rest of the PC is important and perhaps the number of pipelines the processor has but while Kiran's computer here is an i7 it is a long time since it was top of the line.

All that is just guessing, while that graphics card in your setup was once an average gamers delight that was a while ago but it should be good enough to deliver good graphics and the system should be so it sounds like something else. People even play Fortnite on smart phones. How does it go playing games off-line? If it is not some obscure driver connection speed could be involved.

Ian

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[David K. Sargert]

Thanks Ian!
Yes, is seems that there is some kind of gremlin conflict in the system somewhere.
I may need to snag the machine and bring is back for a diagnostic here with someone who is more familiar with these issues.

David K. Sargert, LEED AP
713-264-1883

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[arcon]

DON'T go there David.
For people prone to "addiction" it should not be encouraged.
Like other busy absentee fathers I didnt have much time for my kids, even
though I worked from home.
After innocently putting Jazz Jackrabbit on our only computer back in 96 my
7 year old daughter got hooked quickly followed by my 3 year old son
My father then bought my kids a PS1 . Then my other daughter joined in.
It was the end of my son. A myriad of games were gradually acquired. Crash
Bandicoot is a memorable one.
Next mistake was upgrading it in 2002 to PS2 or was it PS3 and they made
the leap to on-line gaming.
That proved way too addictive. The prospect of playing a game with one
other person or a group of people or as part of a team was incredibly
alluring.
He would play all night and if I pulled the plugs he became very aggressive
and wake up the entire family.
On weekends he would typically play all night and get up at noon, do 2 hours
of schoolwork and then say he needed a break. The break was then another 10
hr gaming session.
It was so addictive for one of his schoolfriends that he ended up being so
good at it that he ended up playing in overseas tournaments with a gaming
company flying him to LA at age 19 to join a major team.
He's sanding plasterboard for a living now.
In my son's case it held him back at high school, gaming taking priority;
did not even study for his exams but somehow scraped into Mech Eng at Sydney
uni where he failed and repeated key subjects.
He graduated but with lots of passes, 3 F's and only a couple of credits and
just one distinction all employers overlook his resume.
Which is a real shame because he is a lovely guy and a has the makings of a
capable mechanical engineer if he could find a company that could steer him
in the right direction
The gaming addiction introduced him to lots car racing games and grand
turismo. So any job he applies for has to have cars somehow involved.
Living in a country which with market forces aside has seen fit to
disassemble its once active but heavily subsidised car manufacturing
industry with players like GM, Ford, Chrysler, Toyota and Mitsubishi all
pulling the plug there is no realistic prospect of such employment.
So at age 26 he is still playing games, forgoing sleep and working with the
australian distributor for a major Sports car manufacturer as a junior
racing engineer , not even earning the minimum wage designing after market
sports car parts while his other non game playing mate from school is now a
medical doctor while another guy who he thrashed in maths is in
international finance earning a mozza and another cohort now a medical
researcher/scientist who has just bought herself a house.
Gaming gives many people a sense of achievement that displaces achievement
in real life pursuits.
Some people can manage it, come cannot,
Dont risk it David. It's a pathway to loser-dom.

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[Neil Blanchard]

I am forward this thread to the DBUG forum, as it could help someone, if
they have had similar issues.

On 4/21/2019 10:46 PM, Nicolas Angelini wrote:
> On March 1st, Microsoft pushed an update to patch the Spectre 2
> vulnerability in Intel CPUs, with the working name of "Retpoline fix."
> Retpoline caused major performance issues in everything from desktop
> use to gaming. About a week and a half later, another update fixed the
> issue. Is Windows up to date on the computer, Luke?
>
> On 4/21/2019 10:31 PM, David K. Sargert wrote:
>> Thank you very much Neil!
>> Nick, My grandson Luke (13) is cc’d on this as it’s his machine and I
>> don’t want to mis translate his issues. My understanding as of this
>> evening is that he seems to have resolved the continued crashing with
>> Fortenite via driver updates but now is only able to run the game at
>> 60fps which seems nuts  given his hardware config.
>>
>> Luke, please explain more to Nick if I did convey the issues properly.
>> Thanks you both for the help!

>> David
>>
>> David K. Sargert, LEED AP
>> 713-264-1883
>>
>> (sent from my IPad please excuse typos and silly auto-words).
>>

>>> On Apr 21, 2019, at 9:23 PM, Neil Blanchard
>>> <neil.bl...@verizon.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi David,
>>>
>>> My son Nick can probably help you out.  I am cc'ing him on my reply.
>>>
>>> He is asking about what symptoms you are seeing?

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>>>
>>> http://neilblanchard.blogspot.com/
>>>
>
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