lord_shar

lord_shar

Furnace Stoker

Joined
Jul 2005
Location
near SF, CA

Recent Posts

Aug 29, 2008 at 11:03 PM Stupid newbie question about laptops

Quote: Originally Posted by Wrath Of Dragons When I got my laptop, battery life was ~2hrs now, 2 years on the battery later (plugged in about 90%...

Aug 29, 2008 at 3:15 AM Stupid newbie question about laptops

Modern laptops use Li-ion batteries that work best when kept at full charge all the time. They do not suffer from battery memory like older NiCad...

Jun 11, 2008 at 9:57 AM temporal antialiasing

Quote: Originally Posted by moriz actually, the effect is ENHANCED on LCDs. because of pixel decay, this effect is effective even at around 30...

Jun 10, 2008 at 8:12 PM temporal antialiasing

Does this render temporal-AA useless on most LCD displays? These typically run 60hz through a single DVI channel, particulary WUXGA.

Jun 2, 2008 at 8:16 PM What is "Anti-Alias(ing)"?

I'm running 8800M-GTX-SLI, and I still notice minor jagged lines at 1920x1200 2xAA on my 24" display... so, 4xAA for me!

Jun 1, 2008 at 8:45 PM Bloody Ad-Ware.

Quote: Originally Posted by Tarun ...<SNIP>... SpywareDoctor and SpySweeper are garbage. SpywareDoctor is very well known among...

Jun 1, 2008 at 4:59 PM Bloody Ad-Ware.

Quote: Originally Posted by Snograt ...as far as you know. That's the problem, if a virus gets through, you wouldn't know until it...

Jun 1, 2008 at 4:01 PM Bloody Ad-Ware.

I'm running McAfee Antivirus and SpywareDoctor together under Vista32 Premium. It's been able to intercept everything so far. SD can also...

May 8, 2008 at 10:02 PM FPS ceiling?

Quote: Originally Posted by Blackhearted I've never understood why people say higher refresh rates on crt's are flicker free. Because in...

May 8, 2008 at 8:30 PM FPS ceiling?

60FPS is normal if the onboard video is going through a DVI-interface. DVI caps out at 60fps for WUXGA resolutions on a single link if I remember...

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