Problems, problems, problems. Or not — who knows.
The installation and setup of Windows on the Colossus Server/Gaming PC went okay, but it’s been a bumpy ride. It’s mostly my fault, though — I tried to start things at a _high_ level of overclocking, instead of completely neutral, like I should’ve. -_-’
I’ve now got it running at just a base 100 FSB, but I’m planning on stepping it back up now that it’s relatively stable.
The video card has been funky, to say the least. It’d keep freezing up during 3d rendering, and then one time it stopped rendering 3d altogether. It might’ve been the Modded “Omega Drivers”:http://omegadrivers.net I was running, but then I switched to the official ATI ones I kept getting the same problem. However, I changed a couple of other things that might’ve been causing freeze-ups, and the freeze-ups apparently went away. Who knows, you know?
That being said, what’s with all these freaking “CLI.exe” services that run when you’ve got the official ATI drivers installed on your system? Beats me. All I know is this — turning them off doesn’t do anything (except that sometimes your Catalyst control panel doesn’t come up). On top of that, turning them off actually _increases_ my frame rate and scores in “3D Mark”:http://futuremark.com… anyone guess why that might be?
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Yea, ATIs drivers do run a bunch of stuff in the background. Who knows what those things do? I sure don’t.
especially since they seem to be slowing stuff down… what the hell are they there for?
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