The Crossfire problem is quite well known, but not many people are mentioning the issue with the 4870×2 – quite possibly it is broken with all x2 cards, furthermore it’s probably exactly the same issue as these are two GPUs on one card. Anyway, roll back to 10.5 until ATi fix it. My symptoms included all source engine games causing a flickering screen followed by a blue screen caused by the driver getting stuck in a loop. Also BFBC2 would only show a white screen instead of loading correctly.
Posted in Gaming, Solutions.
Tagged with 10.5, 10.6, ATi, Catalyst, Crossfire.
By Robbo
– July 22, 2010
Why do you care? Because if you’re a UK internet user, sometimes you will want to click on the “show results from sites in the UK” button. And if you’re a chrome user, sometimes this button won’t be there because it keeps sending you to google.com by default.
Continued…
Posted in Internets, Solutions.
Tagged with chrome, google, google.co.uk, search engine.
By Robbo
– July 22, 2010
It’s perhaps only cyclists who will have any sympathy for this – but as a pedestrian, driver, and cyclist in London, I happen to agree with it entirely. Any thoughts?
http://onthelevelblog.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/stop-at-red-the-ethics-and-politics-of-cyclist-red-light-running/
Edit, oh, and this: http://thebikeshow.net/the-physics-of-running-red-lights/
Posted in Uncategorized.
Tagged with cycling, London, red light.
By Robbo
– December 8, 2009
DICE have confirmed that Battlefield: Bad Company 2 on PC will stick to the tried, tested, favoured formula of using dedicated servers for on-line play. Infinity Ward / Activision’s recent hit Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 had dropped support for such servers, to outcry from the PC and pro gaming community.
In my opinion DICE will see both Bad Company 2 and Battlefield 3 embraced by the community in exactly the same way that Battlefield 2 was – and still is some four years after release – with prize-winning tournaments still prevalent such as at the recent i38 gaming event.
http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/battlefield_bad_company/archive/2009/10/26/dedicated-to-our-pc-players.aspx##
Posted in Angry Robbo, Gaming.
Tagged with Battlefield, DICE, Modern Warefare 2.
By Robbo
– November 23, 2009
Marc has written a ferocious guide on how to take the load off your CPU when watching HD rips on Windows Media Centre. Check it: http://marcroberts.info/2009/11/dxva-and-mkv-in-windows-7/
Posted in Solutions, Windows.
By Robbo
– November 9, 2009
Is it so unreasonable to put a consumer grade graphics card into a computer running Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2? ATi seem to think so as they offer absolutely no driver support for either platform if using one of their myriad of Radeon cards. You might think you could just use the Vista or Windows 7 versions, what with them being the same driver model? But no, the installer just crashes on load. nVidia Geforce cards just work.
Furthermore, like a complete plum, I bought an ATi 4550HD for my new media centre. Well now every time I take the TV out of stanbby I have to reset the HDMI connection by either running a clever app or powering the TV off and back on . Why? Because ATi can’t be bothered to fix the issue with their drivers.
The lesson here is never move away from nVidia. They are just much better at supporting their products and customers. I’ll be replacing everything ATi both home and at work with nVidia as soon as I can.
Posted in Angry Robbo, Windows.
Tagged with ATi, Drivers, Media Centre, nVidia, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008.
By Robbo
– November 4, 2009
blinkbox.com has launched paid streaming with over 1,100 movies from Warner Brothers and Universal available to stream instantly.
It’s actually pretty good, you know.
Continued…
Posted in Internets, Vids.
Tagged with blinkbox, movies, tv.
By Robbo
– June 15, 2009
Posted in Gaming, Vids.
By Robbo
– April 19, 2009
Hooray! Sky have added a single feed mode to SkyHD boxes for those of us stuck with just one cable coming into our living rooms.
This is a Good Thing. Many many customers have been crying out for this for a couple of years, so it’s about time.
Here’s how you do it: Sky article on how to put SkyHD into single feed mode
Posted in Solutions.
By Robbo
– March 28, 2009
Or just turn off UAC.
If you’re getting a login failed for your Windows user – which you’re sure you put in the sysadmins role – it’s probably because UAC isn’t pasing all your group memberships to SSMS when you run it, and therefore giving you access denied. If you check your SQL errorlog and you see something like this:
Login failed for user Username Reason: Token-based server access validation failed with an infrastructure error. Check for previous errors.
It’s probably UAC. Try right clicking and running as administrator and seeing if it goes away. Of course if you added your user explicitly you’re probably fine, but just to get a cluster up and running I added my domain admins user to the DB – and of course that’s a membership that UAC will mask.
Posted in Angry Robbo, Windows.
Tagged with server 2008, sql 2008, uac, windows 2008.
By Robbo
– November 26, 2008
