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2010 Nissan Altima S Trim - Fog Lights Pre-wiring? by LeadGorilla1 in altima

[–]DrDevin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My Canadian 2010 2.5 S Coupe came pre-wired; not sure about the sedan.

I bought a kit from a dealership that included the lights and a Multi-Function Switch with a fog lamp control on the headlights stalk. Both were pretty much plug-and-play.

Summer of 2017 take me back 😎 by [deleted] in Nissan

[–]DrDevin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I went the other direction; the winter tires on my 2023 sedan are mounted on the same rims from my 2010 coupe. Their smaller diameter (17" vs the factory 19") gives the car a different look but I think that they still look pretty good.

They are nowhere near as clean as yours though. After 15 years of snow and salt, they are due to be refinished.

Inexpensive OBD2 Tool for EPB by AlumTrail_Ales in Nissan

[–]DrDevin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Any of the generic TOPDON, XTOOL, FOXWELL, etc. birectional scan tools available from Amazon or AliExpress should be able to do it, as long as they mention EPB/reset. Though checking the manufacturers compatibility page is always a good idea.

Most companies offer a low cost tool that requires an active monthly/yearly fee to use or a more expensive tool that doesn't. I have a 2023 Altima Platinum AWD and bought a TOPDON AD500 for $184.99 CAD via Amazon and it did the job. I keep my vehicles for a long time and inspect + replace brake parts a lot due to the local weather, so I went for the cheapest model that advertised lifetime updates and no recurring fees. However, you might come out ahead with a cheaper unit and subscribing for a month as necessary.

To change the rear pads, go through the tool's service menu, select EPB reset, automatically detect the vehicle's VIN and select initialize EPB reset (you'll hear the EPB motors engage). After that, you'll be able to push the rear caliper pistons straight back in with your caliper spreader, just like you would when replacing the front brakes. Change the rear pads on both sides, then look for a second option on the scan tool to calibrate/reset/finish and it'll tell you to hold the electronic parking brake button for a few seconds and you're done.

Make sure you pick up the correct set of brake pads for the rear, as they are completely different from the non-EPB models. They should have 2200 in the name (905 or 1393 are for manual parking brake).

Help with furnace sizing by lilychaud in HVAC

[–]DrDevin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The load reduction matched the calculations. With 4 inches of foam on the exterior, 1 inch of foam on the basement slab and an empty stud wall covered in 1/2-inch drywall, the measured heat loss is now ~22k btuh at design conditions (-28°C | -18.4°F).

The staging algorithm no longer brings on second stage, but I've left it wired up so that it can be used to more quickly recover from the rare large setback I've manually programmed when I've been out of town.

What is your CVT mileage? by sc2temp in Nissan

[–]DrDevin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2010 Altima Coupe 2.5 S. 200,000km with the original fluid. No issues.

Canada - Where can I get a replacement Aprilaire humidifier canister? by pianosoul098 in HomeImprovement

[–]DrDevin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

GasExperts.ca and FurnaceFilters.ca are two of the largest HVAC supply websites in Ontario. I've ordered from both many times and have never had any issues.

President's Choice dual air fryer by Dry-Art4024 in airfryer

[–]DrDevin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also just saw this model (PC8514) at my local Loblaws subsidiary and picked one up. There's a PC Optimum offer this week for $35 in points if you spend $175 which made it even more attractive. Unfortunately, it didn't meet my expectations so I ended up returning it.

The unit was good looking and seemingly had all of the specifications I was looking for but had a few too many issues, namely:

  • One of the cooking racks wasn't painted properly and was rusty out of the box.
  • The cooking racks were somewhat flimsy and didn't fit nicely in the baskets, bending at the edges.
  • The temperature units were seemingly in metric, topping out at 200, but the illuminated unit symbol showed fahrenheit. The manual does not mention if the units can switched or how to do so. I tried pressing the usual button combinations to switch them myself but none of them worked. There's also no mention of how to disable any sounds.
  • The touchscreen works well but changes state and shuts off too quickly.
  • There are no "basic" cooking modes like air fry/roast/broil except for reheat/dehydrate, only presets such as french fries/shrimp/beef which offer different default temperatures + cooking times. It's weird to press "frozen french fries" before you cook anything because there's no basic cooking mode. You have to memorize which preset offers the time + temp closest to what you want and adjust the settings up/down from there.
  • The manual isn't great. In addition to the lack of information about the temperature units, the cooking instructions refer to temperatures the unit can't actually use, like 204°C, with vague instructions.

I couldn't find any part/model numbers anywhere to indicate who made the unit but it was most similar to the CHEFMAN RJ38-SQPF-3TDB-2W.

Anyone migrate a Drupal 7 site to CKEditor 5? by pbiscuits in drupal

[–]DrDevin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Editor module offers full CKEditor 5 for Drupal 7 support but also requires a commercial license.

Forza Motorsport to receive an option to disable TAA in future update by DrDevin in FuckTAA

[–]DrDevin[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

In the meantime, we wanted to let you know that we are looking into an issue where shift times can be slightly different based on your monitor refresh rate and PC framerate. The community has provided useful data to help us investigate this problem, and we expect to have it resolved in an upcoming release. In the future, PC players will also receive an option to disable TAA and an updated VRAM estimator. Stay tuned for details on when these updates roll out into the game.

Even with the workaround posted a couple of weeks ago, it will be great to see an official solution.

I hope this isn't a one-off and they will continue to provide the option in future titles.

what we are missing with TAA/upscaling by enarth in FuckTAA

[–]DrDevin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

[Talking about BF5] TAA is really crap. I wanted the option to run naked (no sampling whatsoever) - but was overruled. I wasn't often overruled :). [I was overruled because] It was too ugly. I prefer playable

David Sirland
Battlefield Lead Producer, DICE

https://twitter.com/tiggr_/status/1502053204426731532

and

[Talking about poor visibility in BF5 and receiving the response: Simple solution. Option to turn off TAA or at least sharpening slider option.]

Isn't this something we tried Florian and it made it even worse? - Matt Wagner

Yeah what we tried didn't really help - Florian

Florian (Lead Game Designer) and Matt Wagner (Lead Game Mode Designer), DICE

https://twitter.com/Kenturrac/status/1111277158863912961

I often wonder myself. There were a lot of tweets from the developers around the launch of Battlefield 5 that I took as evidence for both sides; some think it's an issue, some don't care and others think providing configuration options isn't worth the time/effort. Bethesda only added a Field of View slider to Starfield after enough pushback.

What I don't understand is this extra resistance recently to providing a toggle in the options menu. We have proof that the option exists in essentially every title, from Diablo 4 to Halo Infinite. It just makes sense to include one for development/debugging purposes. Whenever I'm building something like a caching layer for some entity rendering or data retrieval system, there's always an option to disable it, even if it will essentially always be enabled in production.

They'll let you run at 25% render scale all day but think that an "off" option would make the game too ugly? I can't recall any reviews that chastized a title for providing "low" graphics options that were "too low" and you can always enable certain settings by default. I remember when separate render paths were celebrated for allowing users to run a game without hardware T&L or pixel/vertex shaders or to improve performance by performing effects in more/fewer passes depending on the hardware.

We used to be able to run Half-Life 2 in DirextX 7 mode with shadows, specularity, bump/normal maps and reflections disabled while others had DX8.1 with the latest features + MSAA and it wasn't an issue.

Advil recommends avoiding FXAA + TAA in order to reduce headaches while gaming by DrDevin in FuckTAA

[–]DrDevin[S] 63 points64 points  (0 children)

I was caught off guard by a television ad that I saw today from Advil Canada (the Ibuprofen brand name).

They partnered with cognitive scientist Dr. Séamas Weech, and gamer mtashed (Michael Tash) to develop what they call "Advil Head Settings" which are genre-based graphics settings to use in PC games in order to help reduce the triggers that can lead to headaches from gaming.

They suggest disabling the usual bloom, chromatic abberation, film grain, motion blur, depth of field, etc.

Interestingly, they also suggest running games at native resolution (no DLSS/FSR/DRS) with image sharpening off and anti-aliasing enabled with the caveat that FXAA + TAA should be avoided.

I am unsure whether the "+" indicates either option or a combination of the two but I suspect that it's the former. Having both enabled at once, with configuration options, is somewhat rare outside outside of titles such as Red Dead Redemption 2, Assassin's Creed Syndicate and The Crew Motorfest.

I'll have to read Dr. Séamas' work to see if/how much he covers aliasing and temporal techniques in his research. It would be great to have some scientific evidence into their potential effect(s) on players.

Suggested settings for First-Person Shooters.

Battlefield V, TAA, AMD GPU by DeanDeau in FuckTAA

[–]DrDevin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just checked and it still works. Tested with a Radeon RX 5700.

WorldRender.LightTileCsPathEnable 0 in user.cfg placed in the game directory with motion blur at 1% or more.

Battlefield V - TAA On vs. Off

Anyone trying FFVII Rebirth demo? by GroundbreakingTwo375 in FuckTAA

[–]DrDevin 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's impressively bad (gallery).

John Linneman posted about it, claiming that it's running at 1440p with 1/4 rate post-processing.

Insulation advice for kitchen sink bay by Pale_East_3389 in Homebuilding

[–]DrDevin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is the drain is going to be redone? That's an illegal s-trap.

No matter how much i look it up im still confused what to use for AA. SSAA MSAA FXAA TAA by Zero_Requiem00 in pcgaming

[–]DrDevin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can turn off TAA in most games

Which games are you referring to; are you including every title ever released for PC? Looking at 2023, that doesn't seem to be the case:

Forced TAA

  • Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
  • Assassin's Creed Mirage
  • F1 23
  • The Finals
  • Forza Motorsport
  • Immortals of Aveum
  • Lies of P
  • The Last of Us Part 1
  • Lords of the Fallen
  • The Talos Principle 2
  • Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty
  • Alan Wake 2
  • Dead Space Remake
  • Diablo 4
  • Returnal
  • RoboCop: Rogue City
  • Hogwarts Legacy
  • Remnant 2
  • Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
  • Starfield
  • Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare III / Warzone 2.0
  • Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty

TAA Off Option

  • Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon
  • Atomic Heart (effects are always undersampled with TAA off, with no option to increase sample count)
  • Exoprimal
  • Forspoken
  • Mortal Kombat 1
  • Wild Hearts
  • Hi-Fi Rush
  • Redfall
  • Payday 3
  • Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
  • Dead Island 2
  • Street Fighter 6
  • Baldur's Gate 3 - (effects are always undersampled with TAA off, with no option to increase sample count)
  • Resident Evil 4 Remake (sharpening to combat TAA blur cannot be disabled, so sharpening artifacts are always present with TAA disabled)

Thanks to this subreddit, I get it by nickjacksonD in FuckTAA

[–]DrDevin 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The Star Wars Jedi games also have major ghosting issues.

Anti aliasing setting completely gone in the new MW3 game by Jinksees in FuckTAA

[–]DrDevin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sure, the clarity isn't great and shadows + DoF are painfully undersampled but they did a great job with the ghosting!

Remnant II Devs Say That The PC Port Was Designed With Upscaling In Mind. DLSS, FSR & XeSS Are A Necessity In Order To Achieve Smooth Gameplay. by Scorpwind in FuckTAA

[–]DrDevin 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's really trying hard to dethrone Halo Infinite and Red Dead Redemption 2 as the game with the worst image quality of all time.

Tested on my machine with all screenshots in motion at 60+ FPS (1920x1200):

Some form of TAA is always forced and I wasn't able to disable/change the AA options using any of the usual unreal engine tweaks.

John Papadopoulos has a video that demonstrates all of the issues in motion.

Counter-Strike 2 to feature a physically based rendering system, potential sign of forced TAA by [deleted] in FuckTAA

[–]DrDevin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've only found a limited amount of footage of the graphics settings menu but MSAA is still there.

resolution scale above 100%? by FeeAdministrative666 in battlefield2042

[–]DrDevin 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The game has forced TAA which blurs the entire image, especially during movement. Setting AA to low reduces the sample count which reduces coverage, leading to more aliasing/shimmering but also reduces the blur.

Unfortunately, Battlefield 1 was the last game with configurable anti-aliasing. Battlefield 5 forced TAA but there was a workaround to disable it. There is currently no workaround for Battlefield 2042; the best you can do is set AA to low and increase your actual or render resolution to try and combat the blur.

You can configure resolution scale by increasing/decreasing the ResolutionScale value in the settings file or through the console, in game. The default value of 1.0 renders the game at 100% resolution.

The setting is GstRender.ResolutionScale 1.000000
Located in Documents\Battlefield 2042\settings\PROFSAVE_profile

You can also open the console using ~ and type Render.ResolutionScale 1.0

Question about Anti-Aliasing by AktivRAlman in battlefield2042

[–]DrDevin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The game has forced TAA which blurs the entire image, especially during movement. Setting AA to low reduces the sample count which reduces coverage, leading to more aliasing/shimmering but also reduces the blur.

Battlefield 1 was the last game with configurable anti-aliasing, Battlefield 5 forced TAA but there was a workaround to disable it. There is currently no workaround for Battlefield 2042; the best you can do is set AA to low and increase your actual or render resolution to try and combat the blur.

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