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« on: 09 February 2016, 09:54:16 am »
I did a little digging and ultimately nVidia removed profile support from their GeForce drivers (I didn't check for Quadro which I believe is what you use) around December 2010 citing I am sorry but with recent API changes, it was decided that this feature would not be ported over and so it was discontinued. There are no plans to bring this back at this time.
This feature wasn't a widely used feature since the profiles had to manually be loaded each time. We are exploring alternatives but in the meantime
The only way to make use of this feature is to either do what you have done (install an older driver version) or to find a 3rd party alternative. A recommendation was Ultramon but this isn't a free piece of software. I've actually used Ultramon several years ago and I remember it being pretty powerful and useful, but I have no experience with it these days as the features I used are now built-in to Windows (like have the taskbar and start menu on multiple displays)
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« on: 07 February 2016, 04:42:37 pm »
Cool, yeah those files are self-executable and can't be installed by the "Choose your own driver" wizard thing  I'm surprised it wouldn't let you install the older driver on top of the new one, the nVidia software will usually let you and you can perform a "Clean Install" which will erase the current driver first. I have nVidia cards and have had to do some extensive testing before now involving removing and re-isntalling the drivers. Looking at a historic file I have (v. 347.25 for GeForce), you need to select "Custom (Advanced)" on the Options screen to then be able to select "Clean Install" on the next. Though looking at the help text I'm not sure that is necessary. As you can see it is allowing me to overwrite the drivers despite the new version being older than the current version
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« on: 07 February 2016, 09:34:06 am »
I'm pretty sure that Windows 7 and definitely Windows 8 are aware of tethered / mobile connections versus WiFi or Ethernet which should mitigate any chance of incurring charges. Though if you are still on dial-up, how did you get left in the 90's?!  As for offering it up for free? Well what with being a "software developer", supporting older systems is an utter and complete pain in the ass!! We are finally in a place where a lot of modern techniques and tools are now available across a majority of platforms, but that isn't always the case. Offering an incentive to get everyone updated to a more modern platform will reduce expenditure on support and development. Microsoft aren't just being really nice and friendly, they do get a benefit out of it, however that benefit does in-turn help the majority of us as well. Granted you are perfectly correct that older tech does sometimes get left behind that you still need access to, which is rather annoying and frustrating. I've experienced this when doing some work for a family business; some of their industrial tech and software won't run on modern operating systems. Ultimately it will still be your choice as to whether you upgrade or not, but MS will still make you painfully aware that you are using an outdated and un-supported system 
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« on: 07 February 2016, 09:16:10 am »
I may have missed this in the thread but; try un-installing the device first (don't worry, Microsoft will use it's own generic driver to run the display), then install the new (older) driver.
Also, what is the file type of the driver? Is it an .ini / .inf or a .exe / .msi?
Also note that when a driver is installed, it is copied to a system folder (usually under C:/Windows) where it is made use of. Removing your desktop folder shouldn't cause any issue, though to be safe I would recommend renaming the folder first and doing a restart to ensure that the system loads correctly.
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« on: 02 January 2016, 06:26:23 pm »
A bit weird to think that I have one of those in the garage and you see what it is capable of with the right crazy person rider I love my bike and enjoy "making progress" but can honestly say I don't think I've ever gotten up to those sorts of speeds on those sorts of roads :P Hell, I don't think I've actually ever done a high-speed run where the bike has run out of puff before I've run out of balls...
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« on: 30 December 2015, 02:14:17 pm »
The world is fucked up....
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« on: 18 December 2015, 03:54:29 pm »
What worries me most about this Liam, is that you've been reading the Daily Fail again
Don't worry, it's not my usual source of information In fact the only news sites I actually follow are about the tech industry :P This just randomly cropped up on my Facebook feed As for the Helmet itself... I like the idea. If we get them here I'd definitely be looking to try one out and if cost isn't prohibitive and it's comfortable etc then I see no reason why I wouldn't buy one
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« on: 17 December 2015, 11:39:48 pm »
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« on: 16 December 2015, 11:33:28 am »
You're not British if you don't complain bitterly about at least one thing each and every day, no matter how serious or utterly trivial :P
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« on: 13 December 2015, 12:12:56 pm »
I plan on putting some SBS Ceramics on mine; had good results on the 600 I find the Sintered pads to be a bit too harsh and organics just make a mess (though I do like them on the rear) I have no idea what's in there at the moment but they are getting low
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« on: 12 December 2015, 02:42:50 am »
£60 a session, but I believe you can book 2 sessions for a cheaper overall price (something like £100 instead of £120 I think)
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« on: 11 December 2015, 05:02:08 pm »
I have it done as well and try to have it done twice yearly, but didn't do it back in September. However, mine is now back to a leisure item so I generally don't go out in the rain like I did last year when I was commuting on it
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« on: 10 December 2015, 11:29:56 am »
He's BACK!!
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« on: 10 December 2015, 11:26:39 am »
If you have any questions, feel free to ask I was tearing apart two of my servers yesterday installing new hardware and reconfiguring them ^.^ It's getting a bit out of control now... I have my "low power" server which is effectively a NAS now (Network Attached Storage) which houses all of my totally legitimate TV Shows and Movies (9.5TB of disk space at the moment with protection against disk failure), then I decided I needed some more processing power but didn't want to spend any money on parts, so dug out my old server which was way over-powered at the time, but is useful now. Set up the OS on a spare SSD I had lying around, everything else was intact so that's now providing my media collection online (needed to be powerful to transcode the movies which is what my newer server was struggling with). So those two are quietly humming away underneath / behind my TV, then there is my main PC which I've spoken about before. I have a 1U Server Rack with dual Intel Xenon processors doing fuck all behind my sofa and another HTPC (Home Theatre PC) that used to be used to stream my media to the TV but that is now doing nothing as well. Oh and then there is my laptop... Hmmm... maybe I need another PC   Old Server (Core i7-2600k) | Old Server (Core i7-2600k) |
Big black box under the Virgin TiVo thing... it hums a lot...  | NAS Server |
Black box behind the TV; modern and quiet... but too slow and couldn't be assed to spend money to make it faster  | Old Computers |
Thin silver case is the 1U Rack Server and the black box above it is the HTPC
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« on: 04 December 2015, 02:02:25 pm »
I worked Boxing Day once... I swore I would never do it again. So far so good I'm off on holiday between the 19th and 23rd (as is basically our entire office) and then I'll maybe do a few bits and pieces up until Jan
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« on: 30 November 2015, 11:47:59 pm »
Here's the magazine I was talking about. It's an old edition, but it still runs  | Custom PC |
 | Custom PC |
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« on: 30 November 2015, 12:49:21 pm »
People have more or less mirrored my views on this already; I love my PC's and have built all but my first.
The actual assembly is straight forward enough and typically will only require a screwdriver (some newer builds don't even require that!). The real interesting and complicated stuff that will determine just how efficient / stable the end result is in the choosing of each individual part. They each have a knock on effect with others and certain items from different manufacturers work better with other items from other manufacturers... it's rather complex - probably to the same scale as trying to tune a performance race engine.
Everything from the case for your PC can have an impact on performance (size, airflow and noise can be big factors). I would recommend the same as BBROWN1664; a budget to build a PC from scratch is a good way to go and there can still be plenty of room to upgrade later.
Most custom systems are better value for money once you hit about £400-500; below that you can often find deals on pre-built systems. The catch being that you often lose customization options. I'd say a mid-range gaming PC is probably starting at £500-800. More advanced systems go on in to the thousands; my last "update" to my system was around £2,500~
There is a magazine I subscribed to a for a few years called Custom PC. They had sections each month showing the recommended components they would use to build a PC from various price ranges including the price and source of the part. This might be a great idea to buy the advised parts and let me assemble it and upgrade in the future? I'll pull out one of my old mags and upload a photo so you can see what I mean. I believe they still do an offer of 3 issues for a £1 then it moves on to quarterly billing
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« on: 18 November 2015, 11:11:12 am »
Having looked at a few more photos, I prefer the instrument cluster on the MT-03... I like dials
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« on: 18 November 2015, 12:04:36 am »
Basically the card itself has 256MB of DDR2 onboard, but it can also access and make use of your system memory (RAM), so that's what it is doing. It is sharing the system memory so that it can perform better, although given your usage scenario it would be fine on just it's onboard memory anyway. Given that you have 8GB of system memory, I wouldn't be particularly worried unless you plan on doing intensive image / photo editing fairly often - contrary to what you might think, you'd be better off with more system memory than graphics memory for this task
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« on: 17 November 2015, 11:59:58 pm »
Oooohhh I like it The MT-09 just always felt a little out of proportion whereas this seems a lot better... I can see me riding one of those... if I had any money...
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« on: 17 November 2015, 11:56:12 pm »
That's what I'm waiting to hear... or for one of the fence panels to take flight again...
Plenty of strong gusts over here and it's been like it throughout the day on and off, though it seems to have died down now...
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« on: 17 November 2015, 10:34:58 am »
If anything, 3GB of Graphics Memory is more than enough. Graphics Memory has more of a determination on how many screens you can run at the same time as opposed to how powerful the card is; that is determined primarily by its own GPU (Graphics Processing Unit). Obviously, having more available and fast memory helps, but just adding on Graphics Memory won't make the GPU any faster at drawing frames beyond it's maximum capabilities :P
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« on: 16 November 2015, 07:33:22 pm »
Yeah, that sheds some more light on it You are correct in that the graphics card is making use of some of your onboard system memory (RAM). I would expect this to be configurable in the nVidia Control Panel somewhere and the NVS line of cards are focused on business graphics over gaming which makes sense that they would want to access a further source of memory. I misunderstood / misread the first post and thought we were dealing with a shortage of system memory :P
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« on: 16 November 2015, 02:15:54 pm »
Can you check if you are running a 32-bit or 64-bit operating system? Go to "Computer" or "This PC" and Right-click in a blank space and select "Properties". You should get something similar to show  | Computer Properties |
Typically this sort of issue arises from a 32-bit system as it can only reference a maximum of 4GB of memory. This includes System Memory (RAM), Onboard Graphics and Dedicated Graphics. You won't be able to adjust the Dedicated Card, but you may be able to adjust the onboard card if you so wish. Ideally, you'd switch to a 64-bit system but this requires a full reinstall... If you have a 64-bit system... then I'm uncertain. Perhaps check that the RAM modules are seated correctly?
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« on: 12 November 2015, 02:20:12 pm »
Not much for me so far
Several inline 4's, a V6 and a rotary (2-rotor)
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