w/ one of htese cases
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Yessssss
okay at some point I bought Keychron K2, possible solely on the basis of some Amazon deal but kept it at work because I was always intending to have it plugged into my Mac, which is at work For Reasons. anyway, I went insane and brought it home because I want to use the thing I paid money for and realize I like 75%
since both my money and sanity are inflicted with wanderlust, please yell at me good 75% barebones so I can go insane putting a keyboard together (vaguely looking in your direction @doolittle ), because the alternative is buying a hall effect board made by a brand with a nonsense name and sitting down and setting actuation points for every key in a fit of temporary insanity
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I had a game freeze up on me while using Steam, so I did my best to end the task and reboot my computer. Now whenever I try to launch Steam I get an almost immediate BSOD with āKernel Security Check Failure.ā
Internet says it can be anything from corrupt Windows files and drivers to a fucked graphics card or a dying drive or RAM.
Anyone, uh, got any ideas? I backed up my files in case I need to just wipe and do a clean Windows install, but if that doesnāt fix things I dunno.
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oh that is very annoying. most likely a driver which Steam injects into the kernel has gotten corrupted on diskā¦ first and most painless thing you can do is probably reinstall Steam itself (you shouldnāt need to remove all your games, just point it at the same directory after you reinstall it)
and yeah triple check what your SSD health is saying. it should not be your GPU or memory if it is only reproducible from starting up Steam itself since plenty of other applications create a similar GPU process that does not have any real load
the one time something this relatively targeted happened to me it was with a 6 year old SSD that I had run pretty hard so I did take it as a nod to replace the SSD
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Damn I was hoping that would work, but it still fails. Plus the new install boots on startup so I gotta be quick with the task manager and close Steam before it shuts my PC down.
Nevermind I figured out how to keep it from booting on Startā¦damn. Wonder if I should just go nuclear, install 11 or something.
Edit: Fuck it, might just go ahead and do that. I can always just wipe it again and do a Windows 10 install if this doesnāt work. Either way, clean installs have worked before.
Okay Iām running Windows 11. I gotta hook my other drives back and install some games, but so far stuff is working, soā¦Iāll take it.
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OK first off, are you sure you donāt want a Drunk Deer? They have a 75%
If you only want to go regular-sicko, I really liked the Alice/ergo I got from QWERTY Keys and their 75% equivalent is ~$200.
Upgrading to 11 might have been worthwhile after all. Getting some pretty good performance out of my lower-mid tier processor. Iād heard 11 gave Ryzen chips a decent boost, but this is better than I expected.
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Hey did yāall know that with newer Ubisoft games on Steam, you gotta manually upload their saves to Ubisoftās cloud servers since they donāt use Steamās?
I didnāt and now I gotta start Star Wars Outlaws from scratch. Cool.
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You canāt just have a local save file?
I mean, I probably did, before I wiped everything. Oh well.
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Right shit I forgot you just had to do that
I also recently did a clean win 11 install under duress and itāsā¦ not that bad so far, now that youāre allowed to do what you want to the taskbar and I got the old explorer context menus back
yeah I donāt think thereās been much rational reason to avoid 11 in favor of 10 for a couple years now
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Well, it didnāt support my cpu until I got a new one last month so!
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right I meant on a new install
oh yeah re fresh windows installs I found this recently, handy
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while easy to ballpark and not really a mystery, these numbers are very good and about what Iād have hoped for. factoring in DLSS, it will easily match/beat a PS4 when undocked and a Series S when docked.
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The mystery of āwhy are these games that require being installed to an NVME running like shit when installed on my NVMEā is because my NVME drive isnāt actually a NVME SSD but an NVME SATA drive?
One of those things I bought cheap when I first built my PC and never got around to replacing (mostly because itās on the bottom of my motherboard, I definitely donāt wanna take everything apart to get to it), it figures.
Avatar (which is pretty cool! Itās corny as shit because itās Avatar but itās a fun spin on Far Cry) is gonna have to wait til I do a motherboard/storage/ram upgrade down the line.
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