The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

[sun rise]

How many MB framebuffer do you need to play a game, not taking into account game asset storage, at 1920x1080?

The immediate thought up answer is likely too low or incorrect.

How would you test the new GPU driver to ensure it works properly with Adobe Premiere with the Comprimato add-on? That was, by the way, a real issue I faced in some video work and had to disable the GPU as a result of a bug I knew would not be fixed.

 

[sun rise]

I'm not stupid lol. Why would I tell a hiring manager "pretty much anything"?

A really smart manager who knew how to read people would find out this:

KAT-KAT said: ↑

I want to work for a CPU or GPU company doing pretty much anything.

I once worked for a boss who was trained in the military as an interrogator. He could and did interrogate people during interviews and he would have known the "pretty much anything" before he was done even if you never said that.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

How would you test the new GPU driver to ensure it works properly with Adobe Premiere with the Comprimato add-on? That was, by the way, a real issue I faced in some video work and had to disable the GPU as a result of a bug I knew would not be fixed.

You actually got me there. But to be fair, graphics driver writers hardly know either, judging by the quality of things.

Anyway, the answer to the first question was Video RAM / Memory Bandwidth. Not the amount of video ram, the speed and bus width. The answer to the second question is that with the multiple buffers necessary and 8x AA, a blank game app at 1920x1080 runs the potential to consume up to 88MB (8MB uncompressed picture x 10-11, 8x of which are samples for AA) or more uncompressed in the framebuffer. There are calculators for this, but they figure low sometimes.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

I once worked for a boss who was trained in the military as an interrogator. He could and did interrogate people during interviews and he would have known the "pretty much anything" before he was done even if you never said that.

I was talking casually on RF. Unless he searches my posts, doubt he'd be able to get from me that I post junk on RF.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

I'll list three things I know:

A Phenom II can't typically be overclocked much past 4GHz without liquid cooling because the chip has a quirk where it must be chilled to extreme levels to get past that. You even require less voltage if you have liquid cooling, quite often, even if having a rather mild overclock.

If you double the ALUs on a GPU, but increase nothing else on the graphics card, including the peculiar thing of not increasing the memory bandwidth with it, you should still typically get a 20% graphics level performance increase.

Intel iGPU max speeds are typically marketing BS, typically it's limited by the thermal tolerances of the chip. You'd have to underclock the CPU portion to get that kind of real world speed. However if you did, the game performance will be typically the same, though sometimes better, because the iGPU will clock itself up higher automatically, but you'll lose CPU cycles by underclocking the CPU.

There's more, but this is what I typed.

Anyway, perhaps my statements were foggy. I'm sorry. I should have really said, "I'd like to work for a CPU or GPU company, but I still have a ways to go, including possible college. I haven't researched properly the business side of it."

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

I knew a guy that started out the manager for a local computer shop and ended up a worker for a big computer company. But he had talent in many ways. He understood business better than me.

Anyway, um.... what's on the menu tonight? I ate two corndogs.

 

[Vinayaka]

All Geek to me.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I made peanut butter fudge today. First time I made fudge. Its yummy!

 

[Revoltingest]

You just want him to be disagreeable.

I want to help him be the best he can be....at being a 1500# killing machine.

 

[Revoltingest]

Me fingers got cold today.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Me fingers got cold today.

Does Wu need to kiss them and make them better?

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I've been super busy today. Same workouts as yesterday (tough the weights still to go) plus I spent hours cooking and cleaning. I think I'm gonna have another piece of fudge, entirely guilt free because I've burned a ton of calories today by my calculations.

 

[Wu Wei]

I was so glad to see the back of floppy disks. I hated those things.

Don't forget Zip Disks

 

[Wu Wei]

What aspect of IT? I focus on linux when I can. Another friend is a Microsoft type. And @Wu Wei focuses on not mauling people who annoy him.

And you might be surprised how hard that is to do some days

 

[Revoltingest]

Does Wu need to kiss them and make them better?

That is an excellent idea!
I'll rub them with bacon grease to tempt him.

 

[Wu Wei]

I worked with 8 inch ones on a Datapoint which had dual 8 inch floppies and programmed it in the Databus language.

One of my coworkers found an 8 inch floppy disk in one of our old storage rooms in the previous office

 

[Wu Wei]

Does Wu need to kiss them and make them better?

What a disgustingly vile thought....do you have ANY idea where those fingers have been...it's enough to gag a maggot

That is an excellent idea!
I'll rub them with bacon grease to tempt him.

What a disgustingly vile thought....you know where those fingers have been...it's enough to gag a maggot

 

[Estro Felino]

 

[sun rise]

One of my coworkers found an 8 inch floppy disk in one of our old storage rooms in the previous office

Four decades I kept blank punch cards that once I worked with in 026 and 029 keypunch machines. And my first home machine, an IMSAI 8080 had an accessory a paper tape reader that never quite worked right.

I also hunted mastodons with spears and lived in a cave.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I also hunted mastodons with spears and lived in a cave.

I think that was me, growing up with many of the same sticks and stones my 10 and 14 years older siblings had, which was cutting edge and high tech. I think you grew up when we still lived in the trees.