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1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

Discussion in '1st Gen. Tacomas (1995-2004)' started by Speedytech7, May 31, 2018.

  1. Dec 12, 2024 at 6:29 PM
    m3bassman

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    Ok so I pulled what I suspect are 1&3 (I guessed) and now all the rgb lights are doing a strobe show, but the game launched.

    Popping them all back in and see what happens.
     
  2. Dec 12, 2024 at 6:33 PM
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    Strobe is normal, most motherboards have onboard controllers to change it but default is a color changing pattern.

    But good, like I said we're just confirming whether or not it wants to play nice on your setup.

    Worst case I just send you a refund, and you give away the ram modules you found to work best in the event that suddenly one of them is acting up.

    A memtest is the quickest way to check and I only kept them because they passed on my other rig.
     
  3. Dec 12, 2024 at 6:34 PM
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    Ok wow maybe it just needed another restart, cuz now she seems happy and the frame rate is super smooth. The strobing fan LED is odd as hell but I can deal with that.

    So I'll have to play with it more later but it seems to be running now...
     
  4. Dec 12, 2024 at 6:36 PM
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    I think we are good. The strobing is not the rgb shift, literally strobing while doing that, epilepsy shit. I shut off the led lol
     
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    Hell yeah, you're running double the ram now.
     
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    Did a quick test, it seems smoother frame rate wise, but I do see the CPU is operating at a higher percentage. Is that normal? Like 85%. Cause for concern?
     
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    RAM was your bottleneck, released that bottleneck so then the CPU was able to step up
     
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    It would just state that your CPU wasn't allowed to work to it's potential for your game.

    The 16gb you had before probably held you back hence your CPU wasn't allowed to be utilized more than it is now.

    GPU utilization should always be at 100% though!
     
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    Not all of us can buy an RTX 4090, Ryzen 9950X, and 192gb of DDR5 :luvya:
     
  12. Dec 12, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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    Absorbing the pc warmth
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    4 run, 2 don't
    Please tell me you played Stray
     
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    Man I felt that
     
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    I was going to, but then just never bought it and forgot about it
     
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    4 run, 2 don't
    Such an underrated game

    Need more games like that
     
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    Haven't played it in awhile, but I remember it being really good in every way and that's hard to come by nowadays

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    Music has gone too far
     
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