WanderingAries

Have you tried giving it longer (I know, it should have already loaded) to see if you get a server timeout or something? What about toggling to see if something (silly AVs) is messing with the flow of data?

I'm sure most people will bounce between Apple and Samsung on average, but I have a slightly different direction I'd like to get into. This time around, since LG stopped making phones, I'm looking at new phone brands (to me) and it's a little hard to tell which way to go. And since I'm the one who takes care of the cellphones in the family (lines, phone upgrades, etc), then I get the fun of choosing what to get (based on how we used the previous phones). I'm not including dad's phone because, well, he passed last year and I was lucky to get him to use anything more than a Nokia brick phone. What we have now: What I've narrowed things down to are the Pixel 7 Pro, Samsung s22 Ultra, and the OnePlus 10 Pro 5G. Note: I'm ultimately focusing on specs before price as we don't eat through phones quickly. On my initial research, I'd decided on the OnePlus because of the overall specs (and nice price), but today I went back and decided to checkout camera comparisons and now I'm worried that may be the wrong choice. Looking at youtube comparisons, it seems like the Pixel is the winner by a margin over the Samsung, and the OnePlus is left with saturation issues and a noisy mic due to no (?) noise cancellation during videos. The Oneplus seems to have the better display tech overall though as it can even throttle down to 1 MHz refresh (saves power I imagine) and is more comparable to the LG in terms of resolution, pixel density, etc which are important when viewing what you just took. It also seems to charge the fastest of all. All of the above will be upgrades to what we have now and while we won't be doing anything professional, I also don't wanna go Too cheap on the one thing we Do use, hardware wise. Keeping in mind that I likely won't set the cameras above 4k for video and the still shot raw MP numbers are almost pointless for cameras now a days unless you're someone who prints or displays on a large format. Storage capacity became something to look at as well (mostly for me) and will force me to purchase the international/unlocked version of the Oneplus or Pixel (for the 256 Gb model), if that's the way I go. She's been using the wireless charging a bit now too as her car has it (but oddly enough has to use USB-C for android auto). I thought I had a winner based on specs alone, but now IDK what to do. I'm not a fan of locked-down OSes (granted, some of that is now Google's fault) that hide/block features/settings. It's bad enough that I can no longer use my SD cards, but I also can't get every capacity at my carrier. What has your experience been with these models?

The mesh design was a definite improvement, but I would like to get a better designed one in the future. Well, depending on what/where I'm working next.

This has only been asked for since like i2 >.<

Anything that comes to mind will lead to a GM smack, so Imma be quiet. 😛

*le sigh* Of Course they're discounting right now...like I needed to do a new build anyway.

Huh, I thought I'd replied to this. Yeah, the GPU drivers made the most sense for this situation.

That makes more sense.

Wait, are you talking to a vender during an all-out battle?!? I wonder if that has anything to do with it...

I wonder how much like this it'll be?

Oh nice, this should help reduce the "take it because I have to and can't take the thing I Want until later" situation

The kind of content you're talking about would be more interactive? Just pointing out an easy option...

This is normally what happens. You Should be able to simply backup the file or move it out of the folder and relaunch the game. The game will generate a new file as needed, but I'd try replacing what it makes (after closing the game) and relaunch again. If the character list goes back the way it is now, then just open the file and make sure that multiple characters don't have the same number at the end (on the same server).

You do know that you could make this a Club right?

OH, this one I know. It Was single thread (I think) early on, but was upgraded to multi-threaded when CPUs started putting more than 1 core on them. There's a thread somewhere, but there's a World thread, GFX thread, etc. If you click on the arrow next to it in that screen, then you'll see what I mean. This makes me think Networking actually, but I wouldn't put it past the changes in 22H2.

What does Task Manager look like when loading the game? You may need to use windowed mode for that to help (but that could also change the result).

Screen shot is your friend! There's a Reason that I have a whole folder of images to match settings, icons, and arrangement for my phone as that already takes 3 days to setup as it is. 😛

I'm not entirely sure how that function really works in Task Manager (beyond what it says), but I've never found changing the priority to benefit, no matter what app I tinker with it for. In fact, I've seen it lockup a system when I put something too high of a priority (usually Realtime). As for the game itself, I'd suggest putting the following under "Extra Launch Parameters" for at least the live version. This will make the instance you're Not using lower its current FPS to 5 (I guess you could put it to 0?) so that it's not taxing the GPU. Now granted, I doubt your GPU is necessarily going to have an issue handling multiple instances, but this helps the workload a bit (or so it did back on live). -maxinactivefps 5

Weird, I'd start an actual support thread then if you've not already as I don't have any inside look at this.

Most AV software seem to like to block the first time launch of the game. Often there's a prompt in the background somewhere, but you can try adding the game folder to the whitelist for your AV and relaunch it.

It's nice that you seem to be doing ok with Tequila, but I do want to point out that the HC launcher exists. 😛

Who told you to out my bio? *cries in corner* As for the topic, yeah, PK's always been one to try to help and take ideas we threw out as wish lists and put them into workable tools.

I mean, you kinda have to do slots +1 because of airflow, so there's that.

Heh, some of those cards are ACTUALLY closer to 5 slots wide. 😛

I'm pretty sure that they said Tequila could no longer handle the other servers, but, like the devs, I left that launcher long ago in my mind.