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alavaz

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You shouldn't need to edit policy to turn off Windows driver updates. The first link I posted previously shows how to do it from control panel.

You should also be able to press win key + r then type devmgmt.msc and then under display adapter in the device tree click your card and change the driver to previous versions that were installed.

If none of that is working, I'd double check to make sure you are an administrator and maybe disable UAC. I've seen my driver installs fail because the UAC prompt was getting hidden in the background.
 
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Whidon

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Any update on the Ryzen Only stable with memory at 3k and 2166? i have 24000 andit's very frustrating imo...

Also my Ryzen 5 1400 seems to crash when going beyond 3.8ghz
 
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The fan on my HP, Windows 10 laptop is loud as fuck. I am trying to figure out how to turn it completely off.

I tried opening it up so I could just unplug it, but it does not seem to be designed to be opened.

I do not care at all if the laptop melts and explodes from lack of a fan.

Any suggestions?
 
Lanx

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uncognito said:
The fan on my HP, Windows 10 laptop is loud as fuck. I am trying to figure out how to turn it completely off.

I tried opening it up so I could just unplug it, but it does not seem to be designed to be opened.

I do not care at all if the laptop melts and explodes from lack of a fan.

Any suggestions?
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just stick a zip tie through the vent and try to wrap around one blade and secure.
 
Noodleface

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uncognito said:
The fan on my HP, Windows 10 laptop is loud as fuck. I am trying to figure out how to turn it completely off.

I tried opening it up so I could just unplug it, but it does not seem to be designed to be opened.

I do not care at all if the laptop melts and explodes from lack of a fan.

Any suggestions?
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It won't melt or explode, it'll just turn off. May report as a fan fault too and shutdown fast.

Put something non conductive in there to stop it from moving. That's how we insert fan faults at work
 
AngryGerbil

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alavaz said:
You shouldn't need to edit policy to turn off Windows driver updates. The first link I posted previously shows how to do it from control panel.

You should also be able to press win key + r then type devmgmt.msc and then under display adapter in the device tree click your card and change the driver to previous versions that were installed.

If none of that is working, I'd double check to make sure you are an administrator and maybe disable UAC. I've seen my driver installs fail because the UAC prompt was getting hidden in the background.
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I believe I am Admin and always have been.

So I rolled back my Nvidia drivers to 375.x. I got an error that said that DirectX has detected 375.x, but required 384.x or later.

My previous driver update was to get it up to 388.x, upon which time I got notified that DirectX could not 'Find The Closest Matching Mode' when I tried to make Battlefield 1 go to fullscreen. It would load into a functioning windowed mode of Battlefield, with sound, but as soon as you click on it to go to fullscreen, as it should and always has, now the DirectX error hits me. It correctly detected that I had driver 388.x. So I rolled back again to 375 and got the same 'your shit is too old' error. So I then used the GeForce app to install the latest driver which is, since last week, now called 390.x. So I run Battlefield in 390 and I get told, again, that it cannot 'Find The Closest Matching Mode.'. And again, DirectX correctly detected me as having driver 390.
 
Brahma

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Ok...so I was having issues with my mouse lagging to hell. Nothing worked to fix it. When the extreme route and reformatted. I added everything 1 by one back onto my machine and took notes. No lag. Install Chrome. BOOM! Lag is back.

WTF would Chrome lag my mouse. Especially on video play?
 
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Brahma said:
Ok...so I was having issues with my mouse lagging to hell. Nothing worked to fix it. When the extreme route and reformatted. I added everything 1 by one back onto my machine and took notes. No lag. Install Chrome. BOOM! Lag is back.

WTF would Chrome lag my mouse. Especially on video play?
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Have no idea why chrome would cause it, but if you uninstall chrome, does the lag go away?
 
Lanx

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Brahma said:
Ok...so I was having issues with my mouse lagging to hell. Nothing worked to fix it. When the extreme route and reformatted. I added everything 1 by one back onto my machine and took notes. No lag. Install Chrome. BOOM! Lag is back.

WTF would Chrome lag my mouse. Especially on video play?
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gpu v sync?
1. Paste/type this into your address bar: chrome://flags/
2. Find “Disable GPU VSync”
3. Click, “Enable”
4. Click “Relaunch Now” at the bottom of the browser
 
Brahma

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Lanx said:
gpu v sync?
1. Paste/type this into your address bar: chrome://flags/
2. Find “Disable GPU VSync”
3. Click, “Enable”
4. Click “Relaunch Now” at the bottom of the browser
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I don't see a "Disable GPU Vsync". This is as all that contains Vsync in the flags menu:

Vsync.jpg
 
Noodleface

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Chrome is hitching on videos for me now,.especially twitch. Firefox cleared it up

Something is fucked up with chrome
 
Brahma

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Went to edge...Lag is gone.

Anyone else thing Edge is actually faster? Feels like it. Also .gifs are smoother and actually load correctly.
 
AngryGerbil

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alavaz said:
That same error is plastered all over the EA and BF forums for all kinds of graphics cards. It sounds like a game bug to me.

DirectX Error: FindClosestMatchingMode - Answer HQ
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This was good but it is from a year ago and is for Mass Effect.

That being said, I did still follow the pathway given (although it is slightly different for BF1) and I did edit the ProfOps Profile file to change a value from 1 to 2, however in the BF1 file, unlilke the Mass Effect file, the value is set to 0, not to 1. So I tried changing it to 1 and to 2, both with no different result. Also, this same error is not just an EA thing, it has hit most of my Steam library.
 
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Brahma said:
Went to edge...Lag is gone.

Anyone else thing Edge is actually faster? Feels like it. Also .gifs are smoother and actually load correctly.
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I used Edge for a while but I found it started to fuck up loading certain pages. It was ok, but really felt like it still had the IE jank under the bonnet.
 
Brahma

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I figured it out. CLEAN Chrome install without syncing, so that's without all the extensions. I'm cool and the gang. Soon as I synced, it started fucking up my mouse. Removed all the extensions, uninstall/install and added the ones I MUST have like adblock and shit. I'm good now. Not even sure what extension it was. Think it was the auto HD for YouTube.
 
alavaz

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AngryGerbil said:
This was good but it is from a year ago and is for Mass Effect.

That being said, I did still follow the pathway given (although it is slightly different for BF1) and I did edit the ProfOps Profile file to change a value from 1 to 2, however in the BF1 file, unlilke the Mass Effect file, the value is set to 0, not to 1. So I tried changing it to 1 and to 2, both with no different result. Also, this same error is not just an EA thing, it has hit most of my Steam library.
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At this point you're best bet is probably boot from your win10 disk or recovery partition and running the Windows repair. From an admin command prompt you can also try typing 'sfc /scannow' and see if it repairs anything. If all that fails, then reinstalling completely would be the last resort. Hopefully you have your steam library on a separate disk/partition?
 
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AngryGerbil

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My Steam library is kept by Steam in their catalog accounting database. Partitions and data aren't the issue. The issue is that Windows 10 is Stalin. It won't allow me to fix this with the gpedit.msc file.

Y'all are trying to diagnose me with porn-itis but that ain't it. It's that I have the correct driver for my device, but DirectX just decided to wipe its ass with that and declare itself God.

The people who made my video card, Nvidia, are saying "Here is the correct driver." The operating system that is supposed to be a conduit to accessibility, Windows, is acting rather more like an obstruction by not allowing itself to be informed by Nvidia.

It looks to me like Nvidia is not allowed to tell my machine what is what in 'Driver Land'. Windows has decided that it is God now, and as you might expect from such a creature, it is fucking it all up. Nvidia seems to be doing what it should.... updating my driver as needed. DirectX (Microsoft) are the ones who are telling me that they forgot how to make shit work that used to work for the last 2 years.

My florist called and he has some windage adjustments he'd like to make to your AR15. Hang on, my plumber is on the other line and needs to give you some advice about roofing tiles.
 
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