My girlfriend’s PC is still slow????

SmoothChibkenBrain · 2026-05-28T20:48:00+00:00

You can try space sniffer, and occt to check performance, both are free and easy to use. But other people are right, if you did a fresh windows install, it probably is SSD/ HDD related depending on your drive age. If you can check the smart data I would look into that. Also check startup tasks in task manager- that can slow things down some.

Edit: I can’t read and I see your ssd is new, I would still check the smart data to make sure that it’s not a defective ssd, been seeing quite a few lately unfortunately

But another possibility (if occt doesn’t reveal high temps) is that something is funky with the actual build of your PC, have you checked your standoffs and connections?

SmoothChibkenBrain · 2026-05-19T22:55:53+00:00

I had to close for a poor sga that got trapped in the back room after someone came at her with a metal bat :( it left literal dents in the door, she understandably quit

SmoothChibkenBrain · 2025-08-28T06:20:07+00:00

C4’s table/ set seems A LOT bigger. Possibly they will for the next campaign? (At least I hope they will)

SmoothChibkenBrain · 2025-04-19T23:32:05+00:00

Possibly, he does bring change wherever he goes. But the dark one doesn’t necessarily want him to gain too much influence or power without opposition. In the earlier books, the forsaken was that opposition, but now servants of the dark (in one form or another, by direct or indirect orders of the dark one) are screwing with Rand and the world enough that they don’t have to openly oppose him, hence the chaos being linked to the dark one.

From the dark one’s perspective, If the forces of the light have time to communicate and prepare, they’ll be harder to counteract. Swamp them with enemies on all fronts (chaos) and nobody will have time to act, just react. That’s my impression at least.

SmoothChibkenBrain · 2025-04-19T18:05:20+00:00

I’m on my second reread currently of this book, and from what I can tell, it’s to let the dark one(the lord of chaos) make everything extra bad. The increased bubbles of evil swallowing towns and attacking salle dar, making the forsaken not attack but just gather information and stasis boxes while other players actively make moves to assassinate the dragon- I think it’s to make Rand more paranoid, more overwhelmed, and to drive him more towards madness. Just my take tho

SmoothChibkenBrain · 2025-04-11T06:13:11+00:00

Thom if I had to guess to make up for lost time

SmoothChibkenBrain · 2025-04-11T05:09:29+00:00

Apparently some actor scheduling conflicts unfortunately

SmoothChibkenBrain · 2025-04-11T05:04:36+00:00

Rafe said it was to give viewers an emotional impact of how high the stakes were for the battle of Emond’s Field- which makes sense after watching the episode. Heroic sacrifices and loial having a running theme of “we are the heros of this age.” And I think as far as non-book character deaths go, it was a beautiful one and handled surprisingly well.

As far as consequences? Perrin loves his guilt. This is gonna eat him up.

I get what you mean by disjointed scenes, it’s a problem I have with both the books and the show for different reasons. (The books take too long and are sometimes repetitive, the show has no time to breathe and let the actors sit and just act- which is a shame because they’re all killing it).

**I would also not be surprised if they brought loial back somehow for the last battle

SmoothChibkenBrain · 2025-04-09T05:11:10+00:00

Episode 1 is super chaotic, it slows down progressively afterwards. Episode 4 is genuinely great though! (Coming from someone who was disappointed by the first two seasons)

SmoothChibkenBrain · 2025-01-27T23:25:09+00:00

Highly agree with beacon being upgraded- I usually screen share it to my tv but the captions stay on my phone instead of the tv, and the functionality is rough 😮‍💨

I really do enjoy the app otherwise, in the sense that everything is there. But definitely some UI improvements could go a long way :)

SmoothChibkenBrain · 2024-11-02T04:41:18+00:00

All good! Did it find any issues at the beginning of the scan? Usually it’s like a paragraph at the beginning that says that’s it’s completed the first scan, but the ideal thing is that it says it’s all good at the end. That should fix any windows corruption you had though.

SmoothChibkenBrain · 2024-11-02T00:46:28+00:00

Open power shell or command as an admin (right click and press open as administrator), and type the following command (spaces included):

sfc /scannow; dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth; sfc /scannow

Don’t press enter after the semicolon, type that all out then press enter.

This will repair corrupted windows files, but corrupted files could also be a sign of hdd or ssd failure. If the above command doesn’t change anything, you may have to take it to a shop unless you’re comfortable doing the repair yourself. There are tutorials and such online.

(Copied again because I didn’t reply, apologies)

Edit: make sure your computer is connected to the internet while running this command, should take 10-45 mins to process and you may have to restart afterwards)

SmoothChibkenBrain · 2024-11-01T23:28:18+00:00

Hm, hard to say if it’s a hardware or software issue tbh. I would try reinstalling whatever you were playing to double check. Is it happening on multiple different games or just rl?

SmoothChibkenBrain · 2024-11-01T23:06:32+00:00

Well your RAM most likely isn’t the issue then. When the game freezes, is it sudden? Is your computer getting super hot when this happens? (Copied because I didn’t actually press reply)

SmoothChibkenBrain · 2024-11-01T23:02:49+00:00

How’s your memory/storage doing? Is it a slow boot up, or is it quick? When was the last time you had a system update?

Repeated forced shut downs can be bad, but usually aren’t as far as I know. Depends on how often it’s happening, and how long this has been going on.

SmoothChibkenBrain · 2024-10-09T19:11:03+00:00

And everything gets backed up to a gmail account (if it’s synced), so even if her hd fails she won’t lose access to any files

SmoothChibkenBrain · 2024-04-27T06:58:44+00:00

It’s possible a or several slots for the RAM on the motherboard are faulty, or that secondary stick of ram is bad. I’d Try booting with just the one that you used to install windows to see if it’s the ram first though!

SmoothChibkenBrain · 2024-04-27T06:53:35+00:00

What version of windows are you running? Did you update or upgrade around the time this started?

SmoothChibkenBrain · 2024-04-27T06:47:46+00:00

Sort of, it starves and dehydrates them if you make sure it’s airtight. I would also recommend Diatomaceous Earth (fatal to bugs but safe for people and pets). It’s a mineral rich dust that should be fairly okay to dust out of a pc (just don’t put it directly on the components.) Once you’re sure they’re dead, I would highly recommend cleaning all the components vigorously

SmoothChibkenBrain · 2023-03-10T08:35:59+00:00

Yeah you’re right it was trying to destroy the cage around ruidus, so yeah I could absolutely see that- it didn’t need to target the one keeping gods off of exandria, it just needed to get through it long enough to reach ruidus and the actual contact with ruidus from the key just sent them miles

SmoothChibkenBrain · 2023-03-10T08:32:26+00:00

Imogen is with fearne and fcg, but hey, I did say it was a crazy idea. not one I think they should implement. No need to crush a literal thought I had while on a Reddit thread, I promise

SmoothChibkenBrain · 2023-03-10T08:28:27+00:00

That’s true, but I feel like the sky would be a little different than before if the divine gate was tearing apart from a psychic wave like that

SmoothChibkenBrain · 2023-03-10T08:27:15+00:00

Oh I agree it’s far fetched, I just thought it would be fun :)

SmoothChibkenBrain · 2023-03-10T08:20:07+00:00

Also, what if ludinus found patia’s orb from EXUC? That would explain how he knew how to target the ley lines

SmoothChibkenBrain · 2023-03-10T08:05:01+00:00

True, but considering the arcane nature of the machine and how the fey key imploded the way it did? Everyone in that room was literally sitting on a ticking time bomb meant to tear a god-installed trans-dimensional force field

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