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  1. Firejack

    BBC News HD no longer available on Freeview from 30th June 2022

    Yes. BT have worked jointly with Sky, TalkTalk and others on Streaming TV projects before. Hopefully this is the first step of a wider rollout of Freeview to more ISP's.
  2. Firejack

    BBC News HD no longer available on Freeview from 30th June 2022

    Looks like BT's rollout of Freeview without an aerial (using mutlicast) has started. Not all channels available yet and it seems limited to the newer BT TV box's. https://www.bt.com/help/tv/guide/ip-freeview-guide
  3. Firejack

    BBC News HD no longer available on Freeview from 30th June 2022

    And that is exactly what has happened. BT has upgraded its core routers to support multicast. Not got multicast enabled on my router currently. But if you start VLC and open rtp://234.81.131.194:5802 on BT Broadband I believe that is the preview channel for current BT TV channels delivered over...
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    Steam Link Alternative

    This is a known issue when using an AMD graphics card. I reported it ~18 months ago and a Valve employee said it was down to an incompatibility with the AMD Hardware Encoder and Android Decoder on certain devices i.e Firestick 4k. Your best option is to go to Settings >> Remote Play >> Advanced...
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    SSD / HDD Caching ?

    You might want to try Windows Storage Spaces. Excluding your boot device, you can throw all your SSD's and HDD's into one storage pool which makes it much easier to manage. Then its simply a case of dividing up the pool of drives to meet your needs. I have Tiered Storage Space for programs and...
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    Cities: Skylines

    Roundabouts in Cities Skylines function as one-way systems. Without dedicated turn lanes or give-way signs you will never get a perfect roundabout. That said, for low to medium traffic they function as close to the real world that you can consider roundabouts "good enough" for the intended...
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    Cities: Skylines

    @Goose Unfortunately poor performance seems to be the norm for Cities Skylines in 2020. This morning I re-installed and loaded a savegame from a few years ago, with only a couple of DLCs and mods. Even with the mods disabled I'm getting between 25-36fps and its just terrible scrolling around...
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    *** Official Planetside 2 Thread ***

    Daybreak Games has restructured after the disaster that was Planetside Arena. 200+ staff have gone and they have organized into distinct entities for each of the majors franchises (Everquest, Planetside etc). Rogue Planet Games is now in charge of developing Planetside 2 with Daybreak remaining...
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    New NAS setup with 12 or 16TB Synology 1019+

    Personally I wouldn't plan a build around Hardware Transcoding using Intel Quicksync with Plex. Off the top of my head; Colours are still washed out transcoding HEVC/H.265 to clients because of the ongoing tone mapping issue with Plex. Hardware transcoding is frequently broken (1.18.x Plex...
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    3 tiers of drives ?

    Sounds too complicated setting up RAID in the BIOS. You'll then have extra drivers etc. Just put everything in a Storage Pool and manage the drives there. You can get very creative with the setup of your Storage Spaces if you are willing to use the Powershell. Not got to the hardware to play...
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    3 tiers of drives ?

    Like @Mcnumpty2323 I'm a big fan of Microsoft Storage Spaces. I too just throw all my old SDD + HDD's into one Storage Pool and divide them up to suit my needs. On one PC I have the Storage Pool split between a Parity Storage Space for backups and a Mirror Storage Space for setup files...
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    Toshiba vs WD for NAS

    Hey, Originally I setup unRAID using some old Samsung F1 & WD Blue HDD's I had spare. Performance was bad - especially writes. Turbo Write helped but then all the drives were spinning constantly. At that time I was reading about other setups and the advice seemed to be to have WD Reds as the...
  13. Firejack

    OcUK Ryzen 3000/Zen 2 review thread

    Yes you can believe Wendell @ Level1techs results. He is well respected in the tech press. You often seem him invited to appear on big tech Youtube channels such as Linus Tech Tips, Gamers Nexus etc. He really knows his stuff.
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    overprovisioning on SSD's

    All SSD's have some over-provisioning built in. Because Flash memory is produced by the GiB but sold by the GB. That difference gives some over-provisioning for the SSD controller to use. The likes of Crucial etc typically sell a 256GB SSD as a 250GB model. Using that 6GB space as a reserve and...
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    Is this a CPU bottleneck?

    Yeah I re-enabled Shadows when I upgraded from my i5-4690k @ 4.5GHz last summer. Having them enabled is a tactical advantage and it makes the interiors of buildings much more defined instead of being extremely bright and washed out. I'm yet to really test how Shadows affect performance in the...
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    Is this a CPU bottleneck?

    I have uploaded a few clips of Planetside 2 on my system recently. I have HWinfo + the RTSS overlay displayed. Maybe not the best example. As I've tweaked a lot of settings; My Planetside 2 options are a mix of Medium/ High with the Render quality bumped up in the UserOptions.ini file to ~4k...
  17. Firejack

    Time to use Linux for gaming ?

    Check ProtonDB - https://www.protondb.com/ . Has a great list of games that work on Linux. It's updated daily by users.
  18. Firejack

    *** Official Planetside 2 Thread ***

    Most up to date guide I believe is Iridar's: http://iridar.net/planetside2/beginner-guides/ Will be missing the latest changes to the game because Iridar was busy with other projects. Really impressed with the patch. DirectX11 does deliver the much needed performance boost that has long been...
  19. Firejack

    *** Official Planetside 2 Thread ***

    Yes this is the long awaiting DirectX 11 update :) Producer letter: https://www.planetside2.com/news/ps2-producers-letter-a-big-update-april-2019 Nanite System Operative clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0ZlJX7n3cA Patch notes...
  20. Firejack

    *** Official Planetside 2 Thread ***

    The current test server build is 13.9GB (slightly smaller then the current live build). Everyone will need to re-download the whole game again. Plan ahead if you want to play tomorrow! Really excited for this patch. Performance has been a problem since Planetside 1 launched. Now finally...
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