How can I verify if ubershaders are working on my system?

Shadorino · 05-12-2018, 02:45 AM **#21**

Themanuel : what exact version of Windows 10 are you running ? What is the build number ? When was the last time you performed a clean install of Windows 10 ?

themanuel · 05-12-2018, 03:42 AM **#22**

I have Windows 10 Pro. Version is 1709 but apparently 1803 is in the process of installing itself after I went into Window Update to check :-)).
I have never clean installed Windows 10 on this PC. I installed it over my retail copy of Window 7 back in 2015 and that older Windows version was installed in 2013 from scratch and never reinstalled.

I think that the need to reinstall Windows every so often like in the days of Windows XP and earlier is a thing of the past so I've never bothered.

Shadorino · 05-12-2018, 04:55 AM **#23**

(05-12-2018, 03:42 AM)themanuel Wrote: I think that the need to reinstall Windows every so often like in the days of Windows XP and earlier is a thing of the past so I've never bothered.

Sadly no, that's not the case. It even got worse since with Windows 10, because every major update like 1709 or 1803, when installing, is actually reinstalling the entire OS. The process is the same as an upgrade, like moving from Windows 8 to 10. And it happens twice a year.

So doing a clean install of 1803 is not a bad idea at all. It's the perfect timing as well since 1803 was released less than 2 weeks ago.

Are you familiar with the process of downloading the ISO and putting it on a bootable USB drive and that sort of thing ?

themanuel · 05-12-2018, 05:30 AM **#24**

(05-12-2018, 01:46 AM)JosJuice Wrote: Dolphin also has that as an option nowadays.

Yeah, but for some reason, this skip draw compiling option in Master still stutters more than the Ishiiruka implementation. They must be slightly different somehow. The other advantage for Ishiiruka is the available repository collecting game UID's, which I don't think has been done for Master and they are not interchangeable.

themanuel · 05-12-2018, 05:31 AM **#25**

(05-12-2018, 04:55 AM)Shadorino Wrote: Sadly no, that's not the case. It even got worse since with Windows 10, because every major update like 1709 or 1803, when installing, is actually reinstalling the entire OS. The process is the same as an upgrade, like moving from Windows 8 to 10. And it happens twice a year.

So doing a clean install of 1803 is not a bad idea at all. It's the perfect timing as well since 1803 was released less than 2 weeks ago.

Are you familiar with the process of downloading the ISO and putting it on a bootable USB drive and that sort of thing ?

Yeah, I've done plenty of installations on other PC's but I have all sorts of drivers and stuff on my gaming PC and it would be a drag to get everything back in shape. Maybe that is a reason to start over in itself but something tells me that I'll go through all that trouble and will end up on square one with Dolphin.

Shadorino · 05-12-2018, 06:09 AM **#26**

I do a clean install of Windows 10 every major update, so twice a year. And yeah, it is a drag, but I've become very good at it.
I have a bookmark list of every download page of my applications and drivers.
I also back up every app's config files when they have one, it saves time.
I backup my Steam folder too. Can't redownload 800 GB worth of games twice a year with a 4 Mb/s internet connection.
The rest I do it by hand.

But I'm not recommending you to do it this often, it's not for everyone. But considering that you've never done it since Windows 7, it really wouldn't hurt. It might solve your current problem, and others.

If that still doesn't do anything, the only way to truly rule out a Windows 10 problem, would be to try out a clean install of Windows 10 1703, then 1607, preferably on another drive, to not have to roll back to 1803 if that doesn't do anything. But that's… well, a huuuuuge drag.

And, the final solution, would be to toss your computer out the window and buy a brand new i5 or i7 7th or 8th gen CPU couple with a nice NVIDIA card.

Those are your options Smile

themanuel · 05-12-2018, 06:38 AM **#27**

Yeah, that's why I'm not that worried. I am biding my time to buy new hardware when prices come down a abit. I'm sure that will be a big help. I might still to the restaging anyway to start fresh.

As for you, if you don't use a separate hard drive for your Windows installation, you should consider creating a separate partition for it so that you can just nuke the whole partition when reinstalling windows without having to back up anything else. You can use MiniTool Partition to do this effectively even when the OS is already installed.

Shadorino · 05-12-2018, 07:24 AM **#28**

Against all odds the GeForce 10 Series is back in stock, with normal prices. But the next generation is scheduled for June or July.
RAM should come back to its original pricing this year, since the class action law suit and all.
As for CPUs, Intel has delayed 10 nm to 2019, so this year will be another iteration of 14 nm. Skylake 4.0 if will.

I have a 1 TB SSD where the OS, apps and games are installed. Two 4 TB and one 6 TB HDDs where I put everything else. I used to have all my emulator ROMs on the SSD, but I moved them to my HDDs, I'm severely running out of space on my SSD, I can't even install all my Steam library. Ultimately, I would need a 4 TB SSD to be comfortable.
Right now I only have 66 GB left on my SSD, and sometimes when I do a long session on Firefox with lots of tabs and I've watched a lot of videos, it will use more than 30 GB of storage as page files because my RAM isn't enough. That's why I don't use partitions.

themanuel · 05-12-2018, 07:34 AM **#29**

Dang! That's a lot of space.

Shadorino · 05-12-2018, 07:49 AM **#30**

The sad thing is that no, it's not ^^
At least not for me. Currently, with what's on the market, if I was rich I'd take one 4 TB SSD, and four 12 TB HDDs. And I would RAID 1 two of those drives with the other two, for safety.
Currently my important data is spread across 3 drives, and I don't have any backup. If one of them fails, I'm crying.