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Computer - Entry 2
17 years ago
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There's a miracle, I finally got the box to get my damn laptop repaired. It only took them a month to do what HP did in two days. Now that my laptop is off getting sent off to Austin, Texas I probably won't have SecondLife for about 2 weeks now because of the repairs that is needed to get my computers wifi capabilities back in working order. Now, of course the laptop isn't my only computer but its the only computer that isn't an asshole when it comes to the programs that I commonly run on it.
So lets see, where to start, I have a Dell computer that's possibly about 5 years old and I know it can hardly run videos decently; so that computer is out of the question.
Then I have a Gateway (what I am on currently) and I know how it handles things like SecondLife. Winds up suffering a serious error that restarts the computer instantaneously; also turns out that it doesn't like Winamp's Nullsoft visualization plugin as it has the same result and now it seems that my external 500GB hard drive is experiencing problems because I was just watching a movie which ended up acting odd (going black and going to a resolution of probably 6000x3000 or something like that). I don't know what the fuck is wrong with this damn computer; I just lost about 2 hours of coloring work on a portion of the image I recently submitted just because this problem the computer is having with videos. So now I'm going to take a break from coloring the thing until I cool off
Lastly, I have a custom built computer that my brother made and it does okay however it is really lacking in the V-RAM area so when I run SecondLife, it occasionally goes black or the video just stops (like a lock down or something). I'm assuming the video card is shutting down; however sometimes it works fine, so I really don't understand what is up with the thing.
eh... Don't know how many people even care anymore honestly. I think I lost a friend because of the friends I had made on SecondLife when I couldn't get to see him because a certain person in my family when ape-s on him... *sighs*
So lets see, where to start, I have a Dell computer that's possibly about 5 years old and I know it can hardly run videos decently; so that computer is out of the question.
Then I have a Gateway (what I am on currently) and I know how it handles things like SecondLife. Winds up suffering a serious error that restarts the computer instantaneously; also turns out that it doesn't like Winamp's Nullsoft visualization plugin as it has the same result and now it seems that my external 500GB hard drive is experiencing problems because I was just watching a movie which ended up acting odd (going black and going to a resolution of probably 6000x3000 or something like that). I don't know what the fuck is wrong with this damn computer; I just lost about 2 hours of coloring work on a portion of the image I recently submitted just because this problem the computer is having with videos. So now I'm going to take a break from coloring the thing until I cool off
Lastly, I have a custom built computer that my brother made and it does okay however it is really lacking in the V-RAM area so when I run SecondLife, it occasionally goes black or the video just stops (like a lock down or something). I'm assuming the video card is shutting down; however sometimes it works fine, so I really don't understand what is up with the thing.
eh... Don't know how many people even care anymore honestly. I think I lost a friend because of the friends I had made on SecondLife when I couldn't get to see him because a certain person in my family when ape-s on him... *sighs*
Weird though, my PC is 5 years old and I can run 6 videos simultaneously and on extra monitors too.
Though mine had a couple serious defective parts that needed to be replaced.
I heard though, even on the most new and powerful computers that some people had problems with secondlife crashing PC's and slowing down.
The easiest way is to find out what top-of-the-line PC people have been very happy with for the last year or so and get that, but you probably can't afford one yet either.
Well, good luck anyway.
I simply don't have the money, since no one is hiring in my local area that I am prepped for (ie: qualify for), I won't be getting any kind of money to get a new, somewhat better computer. I also actually heard of the more expensive and powerful computers perform badly solely cause of the memory leak that SecondLife tends to have (or so I'm told by others who also use the program).