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axipher

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  1. Yep, love those prints, plan to get more once I finish basement renovations, currently: X-wing, Lego Man, and Gameboy And yeah, first generation Schiit Jotunheim (bought cheap from an old OCN member because the USB DAC is gone bad) driven from a Topping E50, definitely overkill for just my ATH-M50x's, but does sound amazing and will allow me to eventually get some much nicer headphones. That is a 3rd gen 2i2, I use input 1 for my SM-58 mic through that McBoost, and I use input 2 for my Roland FP-30X digital piano when I want to record some stuff or have it play through my audio system. And then that's an EVGA 8800 GTS 640 MB that I'm holding on to for a retro PC build at some point, but it needs a couple capacitors replaced first, right now it crashes as soon as you try to do anything that needs hardware acceleration. It works in Windows 7 with no Nvidia driver installed just being used as a generic video adapter.
  2. For reference for others following this problem, or have a similar setup, I did find an old tool from NirSoft, the makers of another well known tool called NirCMD that I've used on the past. The tool is called quite simple MultiMonitorTool. It can save current resolution and orientation, offset, refresh rate and on/off state. It can save/load configs using the GUI or command line so I can setup two shortcuts to switch between my main monitor and OLED as my main screen. Luckily in Windows 11 at least, colour Format, colour depth and HDR settings are saved per monitor even if they are disconnected; so when I switch on and off my main monitor and the OLED as primary monitors, they both keep their own HDR settings intact. There are some issues with how open windows are handled and focus, and especially if you are going between monitors with different Windows Scaling values, so it's not a perfect solution, but I might be able to solve those with some other command line tools. Left to fix: - Window Focus - Windows Game Bar breaks - Switching between monitors sometimes requires a second request - Windows Scaling issues Now for those that might be asking why I don't just simply leave the OLED TV always connected as a 3rd monitor with some offset that will never let my mouse reach it, there are a few reasons: - Sometimes Windows remembers where screens were open and I could be stuck with a program opening on the TV when I'm at my office computers - TV's (at least my LG) will periodically disconnect from all inputs if it's left off for a while - OLED TV's (at least my LG) will periodically do a Pixel Clean/Refresh that disconnects it from all inputs for a while - Switching Primary between two active displays can cause even weirder window alignment issues especially when they are different resolutions
  3. I have a question for the forum regarding multi-monitor setups in Windows 11 with HDR. I have my home office setup with two monitors via DisplayPort and then my OLED TV in the adjacent Rec Room via HDMI. This is off my AMD RX 6700 XT. They show up in Windows 11 as: Monitor 1: 1080p - 10-bit Colour - Primary - Display Port 1.4 or HDMI 2.0 input option - (Supports HDR) Monitor 2: 1080p - 8-bit Colour - Secondary - Display Port 1.4 or HDMI 2.0 input option - (No HDR) Monitor 3: 4k - 10-bit Colour - Rec Room TV - HDMI 2.1 - (Supports HDR) Right now I typically just have Monitor 1 & 3 Cloned and Monitor 2 as Extended. But Windows 11 doesn't allow you to activate HDR on Cloned monitors since they might have different Max Brightness and HDCP issues. I have tried just having all 3 monitors Extended which allows me to enable HDR on Monitor 1 and 3, but then I have to move stuff like browsers and games between Monitor 1 and 3 if I want to just enjoy the Rec Room TV. Also full screen games just default to Monitor 1 unless I change primary each time first. Now the actual question is, are their any good tools that would work great for letting me have just saved Display Configs that I can quickly switch between using a taskbar icon or a bat file. For example: Profile 1 - Office Work and 1080p HDR Gaming in Office: Monitor 1: Primary with HDR On - 1080p Monitor 2: Secondary (No HDR) - 1080p Monitor 3: Disabled Profile 2 - 4k HDR Gaming/Media in Rec Room: Monitor 1: Disabled Monitor 2: Secondary (No HDR) - 1080p Monitor 3: Primary with HDR On - 4k Profile 3 - 1080p (non HDR) Gaming/Media in Rec Room: Monitor 1: Primary with HDR Off - 1080p Monitor 2: Secondary (No HDR) - 1080p Monitor 3: Cloned Primary with HDR Off - 1080p Resolutions should stay constant between them, but if the tools allow for setting the resolution, colour depth and Windows HDR status, that would be amazing too. Right now, my main solution is to look at just a physical HDMI splitter and send the same HDR signal to both Monitor 1 and Monitor 3 all the time, but some of those don't play nicely with HDCP content or higher resolutions and audio for gaming. Or getting a cheap AVR that supports two 4k HDR outputs (TV + Projector) and I can just switch between them. I'm hesitant to just throw hardware at a problem that could be solved in software though with less points of failure.
  4. Oh all the lunch breaks and spare periods I spend in the high-school library playing Runescape Classic:
  5. I would have to say at least 2 generations old, so being that we are I think 9th generation now, 7th generation and older so Wii, Xbox 360, PS3 roughly. Wii U might kind of get swept up with that though with how close it's titles were to Wii as well. For PC gaming is a little harder because of the huge range in quality and long support for games including engine updates, but probably around 2014 or 2015 I guess would be the latest, so like Shovel Knight, Dark Souls II, Fallout 4, Undertale and probably right before the huge influx of "16-bit" sprite based games in modern engines that don't actually give any regard for the CRT's that made sprite-art come to life and not just be a bunch of pixels. It's hard to pin-point an exact spot, years and generations are an easy way to put a number on it, but really hard to decide on that since games can be in development for up 5, even 10 years, others can be complete reimagining's of 10-15 year old games with modern engines and quality of life improvements. Deep down, part of me really wants to say that Retro Games are any Games that were designed to be played on CRT's by the majority and also before DLC was a thing. But then I also consider that "retro" should point to a specific time, but instead a relative past to where we are now, so 10 years in video games is a huge amount of time with so many changes to engine design, game design and cultural changes.
  6. I chose FFIX as favourite game overall strictly for the content, the 3D graphics, and the amazing characters. I think it hit really hard when it came out which is why I praise it, but it does have many flaws that the re-release on Steam/Switch/etc. with the QoL enhancements fixes. But if I were to say that a JRPG to me is mainly the turn-based variety or the action battle like Tales and Star Ocean, I would actually have to give my favourite JRPG crown to Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age on GBA. Those games just are a great mix of class construction, the story, the towns, and the technical marvel of fitting that on GBA cartridges along with a killer looking battle system. I'm currently working on developing a game with heavy inspirations from Golden Sun on the GBA because it just brought me so many hours of pure enjoyment in playing it different ways with self-imposed challenges much to how Pokemon on handheld spawned an entire category of self-imposed rulesets for challenge runs.
  7. I unfortunately never had a Sega myself, my friends had Sega, and then PlayStation and Xbox so I stuck to Nintendo so we would all have something fresh to experience at each other's house. Luckily I pay for Switch Online Expansion, so able to start to enjoy some older Sega games again. But I did play the absolute rings our of Sonic Adventure 1 & 2 on the GameCube. A lot of my games are safe in storage until I finish my basement renovations, but I have on average 10 games per TV console, 20 games per hand-held console, and on PC, well that's easily way above 200. Favourite System would be the GameCube and Game on there would be Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles. Favourite Genre would be RPG for sure. Favourite Game of All Time would be Final Fantasy IX by a fantasy mile.
  8. Following and joining the club: Portable: Gameboy Colour, Gameboy Advance, Gameboy Advance SP, DS Lite, DSiXL, PSP-1000 Console: NES, N64, GCN, Wii, PS2 Slim, PS3 Fat, Xbox 360 PC: Q6600 / 8800 GTS
  9. Just noticed that the Latest Reviews Section on the home page doesn't apply colours to the Usernames like the Posts and News sections:
  10. I still have my original Gentle Typhoons from OCN days... Nice and quiet and I just add a little bit of instrument oil to them every year during Spring cleaning.
  11. This is why I'm so glad I moved my computers to the other side of the wall and used some brush plates to route my cables through. Can set all my fans to 80% manual and just forget about it. The extra quietness can be really eerie at times.
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