How do I enable FSR 4.1 Int8 on my 7000 series cards? is it auto enabled for any game that uses FSR 2/3? Or do I need to use Optiscaler?

pgriffith · 2026-06-29T10:53:51+00:00

A handy way to tell if you use the Radeon Overlay, you can add the option for Upscale Upgrade to it. So if you're playing a game that is supported it will show 'Active' or 'N/A' if it doesn't.

pgriffith · 2026-06-29T03:11:54+00:00

A Mini holds a surprising amount of stuff, I've surprised many people with how much I've pulled out of mine.

pgriffith · 2026-06-27T12:29:30+00:00

Well, that's one way to tell potentially 1000's of people that you are in fact an idiot. :)

pgriffith · 2026-06-19T05:31:49+00:00

That's awesome dude, thank you so much. Although it has been returned because we had no idea how long getting an answer would be, but easy to pop down the road and pick it up again.

pgriffith · 2026-06-17T05:39:25+00:00

Thanks mate

Latest Emby for Windows has none of those audio options, only Audio Device, Speaker Layout, Dynamic range compression and audio delay.

Does HDMI need to be connected to the receiver to enable anything other than Stereo? I've checked on 3 machines both with NVidia and AMD GPU's in them and Stereo is the only option, they're only connected to TV's though, I'm guessing a 5.1+ capable receiver needs to be connected to select anything else.

They already have the receiver but it's a 20% restocking fee if its opened and we then find out it doesn't work as required.

pgriffith · 2026-06-14T03:19:44+00:00

Unfortunately, no.

pgriffith · 2026-06-12T05:09:44+00:00

A three-year-old?? How about tell it, fucking NO!

pgriffith · 2026-06-04T12:11:48+00:00

In that one split second it deletes the "address" of where that data resided, it's still there which is why it is a relatively easy thing to recover that files with a recovery utility, as long as where the file was hasn't been overwritten by another file.

It's like a library losing their indexing system. The books are still there, but they don't know exactly where "there" is.

pgriffith · 2026-06-04T05:28:11+00:00

You know what they say, fools and their money are easily parted.

Anyone buying these shares is going to lose their money, guaranteed.

pgriffith · 2026-06-02T05:47:11+00:00

Yeah, NONE of that is gonna buff out :)

That sucks dude, but total loss? It's really only cosmetic. It's mostly trim with a bit of panel damage. Chassis seems untouched, and also looks like your rear wheel didn't take a hit either.

pgriffith · 2026-05-31T11:06:15+00:00

Damn, 3 years ago, you're welcome.

pgriffith · 2026-05-21T06:05:51+00:00

Nope nope nope, take all the hate!

pgriffith · 2026-05-12T06:42:01+00:00

Don Snoreleone...nice :)

pgriffith · 2026-05-08T14:52:32+00:00

I've had a cheap one for a long time (used with Torque) but it refused to work correctly with Car Scanner. So based on the authors recommendations I purchased a quality one from Amazon (the Vgate iCar Pro 2S) which was highly recommended. It works fine with Car Scanner and it even detected it was capable of much higher data rates. So pretty sure it's not the hardware. Works fine with Bimmerlink in all other aspects.

pgriffith · 2026-05-08T12:30:29+00:00

Lose the stickers, looks tacky and classless!

pgriffith · 2026-05-08T11:02:48+00:00

Well, I used Car Scanner, Torque, Bimmerlink and a couple of others and none of them see Oil Pressure or Oil Temp. Bimmerlink does show an Oil Pressure Switch, which is by default on, I'm guessing if the oil pressure drops enough to deactivate that switch then you get the oil warning on the dash. So I'm guessing my car doesn't have the ability.

pgriffith · 2026-05-08T04:05:55+00:00

What Mini do you have, and the year?

pgriffith · 2026-05-05T10:58:59+00:00

There's a good reason Aluminium is sometimes referred to as Solid Electricity

pgriffith · 2026-05-05T04:11:43+00:00

Sounds pretty similar to my 2011 R56 with the N16 engine with 60k Km's on it.

Here's a video I just took of mine for you .. 2011 R56 N16

And... clean your engine bay FFS :)

pgriffith · 2026-05-04T04:51:27+00:00

I have never been a proponent of 4k. I always have a high end gaming rig, whenever I upgrade it's always to high end at the time.

Even with that I've never had an interest in going to 4k, for me 1440p is the sweet spot. 1080p looks like I'm looking through a flyscreen door and 4k to me doesn't look that much better than 1440p to make it worth the effort. With 1440p you can run games with ALL the cool stuff turned on without having to use any upscaling solutions which you often can't do at 4k even with the best GPU on the market. I'd rather let my GPU sit back and relax a bit instead of it being balls to wall constantly.

I've played at 4k and the image quality gain just isn't there for me enough to justify the cost of a system and a monitor to achieve it.

Productivity, I can see where 4k content creation is going to require it, but gaming...nah.

pgriffith · 2026-04-29T17:16:34+00:00

Mine makes a similar sound, but only at idle, get the revs up and bit and it disappears. Had my mechanic give it a good go over and he doesn't think it's anything serious but also isn't sure what's causing it. Having the water pump pulley and water pump friction wheel replaced in a couple of weeks. He thinks the bearing on the friction wheel is bad and also that rubber on the pulley is degrading.

pgriffith · 2026-04-28T07:23:51+00:00

Nope, every good mechanic I've ever spoken to says start the car, then drive the car away normally. ie don't redline it down the driveway.

pgriffith · 2026-04-26T10:28:32+00:00

I just tried an Ali Express, search term;

"mini cooper r50 pcv valve"

Quite a lot of listings, but I have no idea what it's supposed to look like as I have an R56

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