Recent content by Princess Garnet

Hm, maybe I will. It'd be super long through (but you just gave me a pretty detailed answer in an on the spot question so what excuse do I have). I'm already writing it anyway since it's being posted on another community so about half of it is already done, but that community isn't too active...

Thanks! Final Fantasy IX is, in my opinion, something you'll likely either love or just not care for at all. I usually don't understand the outright hate for it though, but that doesn't seem too common (at least these days). I absolutely understand a lack of interest in something though, and...

I know nothing about Quake, but Final Fantasy IX suffered for some similar reasons. It's a reminder that "success" (when defined by sales) is a product of circumstances. Final Fantasy IX was a couple of releases after the phenomenon (especially in the West) that was Final Fantasy VII, and was...

The PC is restarting itself because the CPU is identifying a machine check exception condition. It's more more often a hardware issue rather than a software one, and it can be anything causing it. If you have multiple Event ID 18 logs, check the "APIC ID" of them all. If it's always different...

I bought it for that much, but that was on release when neither the RTX 4070 Super nor 7900 GRE existed, and the RTX 4070 was at $600+. Even then, it wasn't "worth it" in a price for performance sense when you consider that it's more than 10% more expensive than MSRP models, but it's not 10%...

The "sea of blank space" thing seems to be because displays got wide, and then sometimes wider again, and meanwhile the internet started catering to mobile devices this last decade, which are taller instead. Most websites seemed to have gone to narrow and fixed widths as opposed to the fluid...

What dark mode does is, as you said yourself, obvious, so I'm not sure what need there is to state it. I'm not opposed to darker themes being there for choice, nor is the appeal of it lost on me, so I'm not sure what need there is to justify it either. I'm just a bit surprised at how common...

Yeah, I uh... have no idea what you're talking about! Apparently mine was stuff I lasted updated around 2008 and even with the most up to date version of it now, I was facing some issues. Apparently development on PlayStation emulators really slowed, but that doesn't mean nothing happened in...

I believe they actually do use more power displaying darker colors. The idea that they consume more power displaying brighter images is from the days or CRTs where it was true. It's also true for OLED (I think?) but it's not for LCD. The backlight is always consuming a consistent amount of...

It's been ages since I finished Final Fantasy VIII and I think I may have only done it twice, and I never learned the mechanics of that game so I'm afraid I wouldn't know what to suggest offhand. Other than checking your junctions as suggested, which would have the most effect on how easy/hard...

I had to look it up, and on the front, it seems to be more reminiscent of the older titles in that it just has the title on a near full White background on the front, and the "side bar" is across the bottom instead. I could certainly live with that, but I think I prefer the art work on the one I...

I don't think the delta itself is worth hyper-focusing on. The delta between the temperature and its maximum is the real delta to watch. Both my 7800 XTs had deltas that could reach 20C to 25C at times (often a bit less; it's highly load dependent). But when the hotspot is still under 95C...

If I saw that as a buyer, I may not have even noticed it. it looks like a scuff rather than anything that would pose a risk to operation, but used stuff is often as-is or at least with less of a guarantee/warranty.

I'm going to party up with the above post and go the other way from what I suppose is more typical for a thread like this on a PC centric community in 2024, what with your Cyberpunks and your Horizons and such, and instead list a list a title from decades ago on a console. Same series as the...

The monitor itself isn't flickering. It's just with one game in particular (Minecraft Java) and one version of that game in particular (1.12) and perhaps it's even only with mods, the game world itself will rarely flicker for one single frame to show either just the sky box with no world...