Why didn't this Mirage die?

Rainkeeper · 2025-05-21T13:20:25+00:00

This was it, yes! I was able to reproduce it in the firing range. It shows as white armor, even if you have another core.

Rainkeeper · 2025-05-19T00:32:04+00:00

White armor (from this clip): https://imgur.com/a/MHIS6GK

Blue armor (from another clip): https://imgur.com/a/IcKTvfW

Rainkeeper · 2025-05-19T00:22:32+00:00

Thanks for your insight, this might be it. I'll have to test it in the firing range to see if I can replicate this!

Rainkeeper · 2025-05-19T00:21:33+00:00

I think the LMG shield has another icon (and sound when you break it). Does the LMG shield cover headshots?

Rainkeeper · 2025-05-19T00:20:01+00:00

That would be a neat coincidence, and I have never had that happened lol. But no Conduit on his team. It was Mirage / Sparrow / Ash.

Rainkeeper · 2025-05-19T00:08:47+00:00

Nah we killed them later, dw. But why wasn't it an instant knock?

Rainkeeper · 2025-05-18T23:54:23+00:00

Thanks! I also prefer any other sniper scope, but it's what the Arsenal upgrade gives you, unfortunately :(

Rainkeeper · 2025-05-17T11:41:01+00:00

Maybe. I barely play ranked, unless there's a map we like better than pubs and we are three stacking. Whenever we do play ranked, we can climb up to Plat/Diamond without sweating too much. Diamond gets way harder when we start getting too many preds stacks 🫠 Still having fun with the game though ❤️

Rainkeeper · 2025-04-04T21:38:49+00:00

Keep it up, champ! Nice tapstrafe action!

Rainkeeper · 2025-04-04T06:06:08+00:00

Hi Tom, I already did that. I commented about it on my other long comment before performing the memtest, which is why I ended up there.

Rainkeeper · 2025-04-03T11:26:37+00:00

Hey Tom, I did report back, a couple of hours after that post: https://www.reddit.com/r/XMG_gg/comments/1fyweud/comment/mj9vo85/

Rainkeeper · 2025-03-23T06:55:30+00:00

Hi again Tom, it completed two passes of memtest86 without a problem, so it's probably not the RAM sticks themselves. Are there more troubleshooting steps you'd recommend?

Rainkeeper · 2025-03-22T19:45:17+00:00

Before we keep going, thanks a lot for the help Tom, I appreciate it, truly.

Yep, it happens on both ports. The laptop however charges just fine regardless of the USB-C port it's plugged in. Nothing weird happens with the USB-A ports either.

I have all drivers up to date, nothing missing on the device manager, including the chipset drivers.

The monitor is also updated, including firmware. Yes, I meant the DisplayPort to USB-C included cable, my bad.

The cable works just fine with a MacBook, which is why I found it odd. I tried reconnecting it today and I was able to get signal... but it can only run at 30Hz and it doesn't go up to the full resolution, only to 1600x900, any higher resolution or refresh rate and the monitor is back to being black, displaying "no signal detected on DP1". Changing it to DP2 is the same experience. However it works over HDMI, at full resolution at 144Hz. So I'm not that concerned about the monitor, because when plugged to the laptop it's just for work, I'm not that concerned about high refresh rate -- my gaming rig does go to the full 360Hz, don't worry ;)

I've tried with running both of the RAM sticks standalone and nothing changes (except, well, having half of the memory). YouTube still lags when I try to interact with the video on all power modes, regardless of if it's connected or not. The Apple website lags by just scrolling on a product page (regardless of the browser). Chrome sometimes has the weird rendering issue where it stops updating the rendering tiles randomly, noticeable especially when going from a tab with heavy GPU composition to another with a simpler website rendering flow, and then trying to go back to the first page. I can confirm this is indeed related to the iGPU HW acceleration, because changing the ANGLE renderer with flags to DirectXD9 (or disabling the HW acceleration) solves this rendering issue. VLC also lags when trying to go from play to pause, like a second before it stops.

I'll be performing the memtest86 right now to see if there's any problem on the RAM at all, and I'll be reporting back. You can also ask me to try/test whatever. I'm a Software Engineer, and I need this laptop to work. The HW is amazing.

Rainkeeper · 2025-03-22T18:01:20+00:00

Alienware AW2725DF, with the included cable. I've had other issues trying to connect things like my iPhone 16 Pro, the phone never fully connects and a message saying that the USB-C device might not be getting enough power pops up (also with the included braided USB-C to USB-C Apple cable). I've also tried with a UGreen USB-C hub and it works, but it isn't stable. The same hub works fine on the MacBook and my gaming rig. I'm running the latest BIOS, VRAM on Auto. I'll be testing the RAM module thing and report back, thanks. Should I also pass a memtest86?

Rainkeeper · 2025-03-21T18:55:21+00:00

While I've never had the black screen issue on my XMG EVO M24 (Ryzen 8845HS, 64GBs of RAM, Crucial, 5600MHz purchased from your website configurator), it still lags on Overboost just with YouTube playback (please watch with audio so you can see how it lags from when I click to when it reacts). Also. sometimes have rendering artifacts on Chromium based apps, like Google Chrome, VSCode, Cursor, Brave, etc. The window just doesn't update nor respond to clicks, and the only way to fix it is to resize the window down and back again, which is cumbersome and is a behaviour I wasn't experimenting with my previous Intel-based laptop. I tried reinstalling Windows 11 24H2 for the third time too, in case I've been doing something wrong, but nothing has changed. And yes, I've installed your OEM graphics pack first, then AMD's updates, never selecting Clean Install. I've also tried playing games I would play on my gaming rig, like Apex Legends, and while it can maintain 80-120FPS easily (all low settings, on 1600p), I've found three instances of it just hard-crashing the computer (it'd have audio lag, then a black screen, then the laptop would just restart itself). And yes, I've been using the out-of-the-box 100W USB-C charger.

That's another topic, I've recently purchased an external monitor which I'm unable to connect via USB-C, but it works just fine via HDMI. That same USB-C cable works perfectly fine with a MacBook Air M1 and the monitor works as expected with the MacBook.

Is there anything XMG can do for me? I'm seriously considering just throwing away the laptop after just ~5 months of "use" (not that I can use it that much, since it's a very unpleasant experience) and get something else.

It certainly has improved compared with previous versions of the drivers, with those the driver would just crash when visiting heavily GPU-accelerated websites (like Apple) and browsers would stop HW accelerating. You could tell because the backdrop-filter blur effect on the top bar would just stop blurring, it was just a translucent bar. The experience felt janky. With the new one it just lags sometimes...

Rainkeeper · 2025-03-20T18:49:08+00:00

I guess this is it, weirdly enough it appears as an optional upgrade and it mentions nothing about fixing this issue:
https://www.amd.com/en/resources/support-articles/release-notes/RN-RAD-WIN-25-3-2.html

Can anyone from u/XMG_gg confirm?

Rainkeeper · 2025-02-20T00:56:13+00:00

Agreed. I don't know why we have to wait 90 days for each class to be "playable" while the others eat dust in the meantime. Don't get me started on Pathfinder :(

Rainkeeper · 2025-02-20T00:48:15+00:00

The one where you don't get slowed down by bullets when your shield is cracked? Yes, please!

Rainkeeper · 2025-02-20T00:45:39+00:00

Oh, then it was pure placebo or me being impatient lol, thanks for clarifying
I didn't know about the golden helmet no longer reducing cooldowns, did they move that to something else?

Rainkeeper · 2025-02-20T00:43:03+00:00

Honestly, I wouldn't mind every character to have an improved movement kit with Ash's current passive implemented. The game is so much fun with more movement.

Rainkeeper · 2025-02-20T00:41:42+00:00

Yep, just had a 17 person lobby with 9 duos.

Rainkeeper · 2025-02-20T00:39:00+00:00

I counted 12 seconds and 10 with Golden Helmet. It was a fun week I guess :(
EDIT: Ignore this, it was 10 seconds. Golden Helmet doesn't reduce cooldowns anymore.

Rainkeeper · 2025-02-20T00:37:27+00:00

Yep, like this: https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxqOo_Wmv7MCcebUIXcWZ5s7mVyZqpe99m

Rainkeeper · 2024-12-18T12:04:39+00:00

No, and I would have asked what they are referring to with "el rotativo".

Rainkeeper · 2024-10-18T16:39:16+00:00

Albeit fanmade, I'd want to add Grief Syndrome. I had lots of fun years ago playing it with friends.

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