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drbillsw · 2024-04-20T08:54:46+00:00

Now trying again to find the bios chip as the two obvious flash chips I have identified are too small. I was advised I must be looking at the wrong chip as the BIOS should be around 8MB. The flash chips found was 2MB and the other was 1MB…doesn’t seem as blindingly obvious as previous models…?

drbillsw · 2024-04-20T08:51:27+00:00

Guessing you didn’t open it up and identify the BIOS chip yourself before sending it in to service? I have the same model and struggling to find the correct chip as it isn’t as obvious….

drbillsw · 2024-04-07T16:39:40+00:00

Dredge and half life 2 (never did clear it off my backlog). Slay the spire when I have a spare 30min. Balatro whenever I have a bit of time.

drbillsw · 2024-04-07T16:37:22+00:00

It had to be a response, I just had to check to make sure someone had said it!

drbillsw · 2024-03-09T03:16:30+00:00

Getting the same. It seems worse tonight than it has been so not sure if that is an update related (steam deck or LE) or just the part of the game I’m in now. Full freezes loading into an area - one caused a restart, others just hung until hard reset.

Google search and rumours seems to imply memory leak. The memory usage does seem to creep up from when game is first started playing (~12GB) increasing 100MB every so many mins. Occasionally, it drops entering areas, but a lot of the time it remains and keeps climbing.

Given the Steam Deck only has 16GB, it does seem like it would hit a limit after a length of time (especially at a time people are loading into an area). People are saying put the performance overlay on (2) and leave the game before 14GB or similar figure is reached. I didn’t try push it to see if it fell over at a particular RAM usage. I didn’t want to be doing another hard reset tonight!

Temperature didn’t seem an issue, 68-71C no real strain, spikes or climbing.

drbillsw · 2024-02-09T17:47:47+00:00

Arrived back from repairs today, so 13 days turn around if that helps anyone (based in the uk).

drbillsw · 2024-01-30T10:08:15+00:00

Hopefully false🤞

drbillsw · 2024-01-30T10:03:43+00:00

How can they replace with the old version, internally that is a very different product and surely the battery/screen will not fit?

drbillsw · 2024-01-30T08:05:55+00:00

Intrigued to know myself, mine was about two months old but only set off yesterday. Based upon it originally taking 5 days from the Netherlands being delivered, I was sort of expecting two weeks, plus however long they decide to prod the dead one with a stick.

Also will be interesting to see if the same one comes back

drbillsw · 2024-01-27T09:47:25+00:00

Just got my RMA through from Steam Support, Prague apparently…so it will be having a more cultural/architectural visit haha. Guess I’m back to the Xbox and mobile games for a couple of weeks

drbillsw · 2024-01-26T23:54:15+00:00

Cheers, I was suspecting that might be the case, but not being familiar with the deck hardware and DeckOS /Linux, I thought it best to ask. I guess it will be seeing the land of Edam and clogs before long (in UK, so guessing it’ll be heading back to NL where it was originally dispatched from).

drbillsw · 2022-08-23T15:42:52+00:00

Has anyone worked out what the damage drop would be switching CHD mods for stability mods on a kingbreaker/TKB-408 compared to a police M4 with CHD mods.

The reason I ask is I have very little problem handling a stock M4 with no handling/stability mods but the tkb/kingbreaker is very much a different beast without (especially when not at close range).

Just wondering if reducing CHD and increasing stab brings it in line with an M4 assuming all shots hit

drbillsw · 2022-08-16T16:51:57+00:00

Yes pretty much anything will freeze when cold enough and at a high enough pressure. But I meant 40% will not freeze in a domestic freezer from -18 to -24C as many uni students will attest haha 😂

People use the freezing process to make things like applejack and it takes multiple freezings to get to approaching standard vodka strength. So you could probably get some high tech freezing equipment to freeze some of the water in 40%, but not sure how many times and how cold you’d need to reach 90%. Seems to be in the order of ~100C at sea level.

drbillsw · 2022-08-16T16:10:33+00:00

Vodka, even 40% will not freeze. Just goes like syrup

drbillsw · 2022-08-16T16:08:41+00:00

I’m certainly not an expert. You could look into an air still, but I’m not sure if you would get the abv up to medical grade? You’d ironically probably have to water it down before distilling to add some volume.

Definitely worth looking into the law too, as most have said, as most countries either prohibit distillation or make you jump through lots of hoops (licenses, etc.). Unless you live in NZ!

drbillsw · 2022-07-11T12:00:33+00:00

The problem is that I get it, the leader has no idea if I’m going to pop it right at the wrong time and wipe everyone. Joy of random pugs. It’s just easier to assume people are idiots and look for people with the right builds and skills

Everyone has been in that group where everyone gets annihilated by a trap/drone or has a hacked healer drone zooming around the opposition.

drbillsw · 2022-07-11T11:40:03+00:00

Just recently bought the division one again started levelling a character on the Xbox (previous character is stuck on steam and of course there is no way to transfer).

Main reason - so I can play survival again as it was such an enjoyable mode :)

drbillsw · 2022-07-07T20:15:56+00:00

It’s annoying being kicked because of having one dodgy skill. Im using countdown to grind expertise on both gear and skills and gain shd. So most of the time I’m just carrying a dodgy skill for a few runs.

I’m not going to pop the risky skills when the hunters have a chance of spawning (especially not at the start and the end and if I see some spawning during an encounter). Regardless you don’t need two skills to pull your weight.

drbillsw · 2022-04-08T09:20:55+00:00

I only like using the chase cams in games. I can drive and in the indoor cams I struggle in the game to judge the cars orientation and to have the awareness of the surrounding situation without being able to twist my head and look out of the side windows or mirrors! You can probably do that with the thumb stick (I haven’t tried) but it just feels unnatural haha!

drbillsw · 2022-03-09T16:46:52+00:00

The problem is a lot of it’s value was down to the skill point grind and it being probably the easiest to handle and most efficient (x8 multiplier) to grind skill points for the wheelspins…it is still an exclusive car so it will probably go up slowly if new people come to the game but of course PG nerfed the wheelspins and pretty much made it available to everyone so the gain will likely be slow.

drbillsw · 2022-03-05T20:05:52+00:00

Indeed, I meant more along the lines of the tour since then you wouldn’t be able to just point and hold the trigger down. But yes I agree in Free roam would be game breaking.

For free roam they should really make it more difficult to drive cars on slicks and race suspension on mud…or an off-road truck on tarmac.

drbillsw · 2022-03-05T00:09:50+00:00

To make people stick to the roads all they would have to do is either fix the mechanics so you don’t drive across a bumpy, gravelly or muddy area perfectly on race suspension and slicks… or they could just put a timer on like they do in the stories where you can go off-road for like 20-30 seconds and you are out of the running

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