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Arthur Kalliokoski
Second in Command
February 2005
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Thomas Fjellstrom said: I can't play minecraft and watch videos on the tv at the same time Why would you do that? Do you want mediocre results? [EDIT] The card you're speaking so highly of is the NVIDIA GT 640 1G? They all watch too much MSNBC... they get ideas. |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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Arthur Kalliokoski said: Why would you do that? Do you want mediocre results? I like to watch tv in the background, say like minecraft videos Quote: The card you're speaking so highly of is the NVIDIA GT 640 1G? I splurged ($10 whole extra!) and got the 2G variant. -- |
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Arthur Kalliokoski
Second in Command
February 2005
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I meant you'll get whomped by the night crawlers in minecraft if you're dividing your attention. They all watch too much MSNBC... they get ideas. |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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Arthur Kalliokoski said: I meant you'll get whomped by the night crawlers in minecraft if you're dividing your attention. I tend not to be anywhere dangerous when watching stuff. The video is usually something on how to build or do something in minecraft. -- |
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Kris Asick
Member #1,424
July 2001
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I know you don't really need it with your new card, but if you get yourself the Optifine mod for Minecraft you'll probably smooth out those strange FPS hiccups from looking in specific directions. I on the other hand can't live without Optifine or my framerate is too erratic to be playable, as I already mentioned earlier. ...it also has much better vSync support, which can help make everything even smoother. --- Kris Asick (Gemini) |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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Kris Asick said: I know you don't really need it with your new card, but if you get yourself the Optifine mod for Minecraft you'll probably smooth out those strange FPS hiccups from looking in specific directions. It also causes really strange rendering glitches. You should see what Optifine does to minecraft on my laptop.. Man its a mess. -- |
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Kris Asick
Member #1,424
July 2001
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Optifine comes in three different flavours: Standard, Smooth and Multi-Core, though nowadays they combine all three into a single package and you can choose which mode to put it into from the in-game options. (Though it's best not to change this setting if you have a map loaded, only from the title screen.) On my system, the Smooth mode works best. The Standard mode stutters a bit and the Multi-Core mode glitches like crazy. The best mode to use depends on a lot of factors, though I think the Smooth mode is universally the most effective. --- Kris Asick (Gemini) |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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All I know, is that on my laptop, character, mob, and some item/block textures massively glitch out. Sometimes they are just outright gone (or part of them is, like the top of a chest) or the texture looks like its been replaced by part of a much larger portion of the texture atlas, so it kind of looks like a bunch of item/block textures are squished together onto a single surface. {"name":"606895","src":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/3\/9\/390d8540a120fff530a30d2432668678.png","w":854,"h":480,"tn":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/3\/9\/390d8540a120fff530a30d2432668678"} -- |
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Kris Asick
Member #1,424
July 2001
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Oh... looks like a mod conflict. Optifine is unfortunately not compatible with all of them. Or... or or or... Optifine has special texturing modes, some of which I think may be enabled by default (not sure) which adjust the way certain textures are drawn to make them more dynamic, an example of which: Making glass blend in with itself to make solid glass sheets instead of panels. Those enhancements could be the source of your woes in trying to use it if some of your mods are also trying to adjust the way textures work. --- Kris Asick (Gemini) |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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Kris Asick said: Oh... looks like a mod conflict. Optifine is unfortunately not compatible with all of them. First image is pure vanilla (well except optifine and rei's minimap). And it glitches out players, mobs, and blocks like mad. And it doesn't seem to glitch mod objects... -- |
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Kris Asick
Member #1,424
July 2001
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In that case, the problem is probably... umm... hmm... ...OK, I'm out of ideas. --- Kris Asick (Gemini) |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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Kris Asick said: In that case, the problem is probably... umm... hmm... ...OK, I'm out of ideas. My best guess is combination of GM45/4500MHD intel drivers and whatever optifine is trying to do. -- |
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but Id normally do that on the TV. Now the TV is the MC box. soooo. Yeah. If I have to do some video watching, I'll just do that on the laptop I suppose.
