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OriginalGriff10-Aug-20 21:48

10-Aug-20 21:48

It's worth trying a restore disk, but ... that's an indication that your graphics hardware may have failed (which would explain your lack of a picture at all).

I'd suspect that it's probably new lappie time, I'm afraid.

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super10-Aug-20 21:59

10-Aug-20 21:59

OriginalGriff wrote:
I'd suspect that it's probably new lappie time, I'm afraid.

Yeah, Its not a big deal to buy new one. But I would prefer to buy as choice and not as a compulsion. Big Grin | :-D

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My aim is to not bow down to Laptop. I want to make it work and then show it a middle finger and buy new one. Am I too cynical?

cheers,

Super

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OriginalGriff10-Aug-20 22:01

10-Aug-20 22:01

"Cynical"? No.
"Hopeful"? Possibly. Laugh | :laugh:

And "new lappie time" means what? A whole day reinstalling software and configuring it? Dead | X|

super10-Aug-20 22:10

10-Aug-20 22:10

OriginalGriff wrote:
A whole day reinstalling software and configuring it?

My biggest issue is if I can retain the advancement in various games level I have been playing via steam. I don't want to start from Level 0.

cheers,

Super

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Nelek10-Aug-20 23:49

10-Aug-20 23:49

super wrote:
My biggest issue is if I can retain the advancement in various games level I have been playing via steam. I don't want to start from Level 0.

Not necessarily. If the games are online multiplayer, then yes. But if the games are individual with offline modus, might be a yes but there is a chance of NO too.

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dandy7211-Aug-20 2:45

11-Aug-20 2:45

I don't use it myself, but I thought the whole point of Steam is that everything is stored (or at least replicated) online. That is, you could blow away your OS, reinstall, provide your credentials to Steam, and it would figure everything else on its own, from your profile to your game ownership to your saved progress.

Of course that's always been one of my objections to such systems. I'd much rather own some media that I can reinstall from, than re-download tens of gigabytes worth of data.

Yeah, I'm old-school in that way...

Nelek11-Aug-20 9:26

11-Aug-20 9:26

I would say that there are still games that save progress locally (i.e. TombRaider 2 or Deponia)

You don't need to buy them again, and you can reinstall them after formats or new devices without a problem, but that doesn't mean that you play in their servers.

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dandy7211-Aug-20 9:47

11-Aug-20 9:47

Nelek wrote:
I would say that there are still games that save progress locally (i.e. TombRaider 2 or Deponia)

For sure.

The only online game I play is GTA Online. It was installed from DVD (although I understand you can get it through Steam), and the game nags you if it can't reach the servers while playing, but tells you your progress is being saved locally nonetheless and will be resynchronized as soon as it can reach them again.

I've seen it warn me plenty of times that it couldn't reach the servers, but I have zero reason to believe I've ever lost any progress.

Nelek11-Aug-20 10:24

11-Aug-20 10:24

But you say, GTA Online, all online games have that, specially the multiplayers, but solo games that allow to play with steam offline... not sure about the MUST synchronize.

I had to restart Deponia after an image reinstauration.

Might have been an error on my side, though.

M.D.V.

dandy7212-Aug-20 5:23

12-Aug-20 5:23

Right...as I understand it (and I keep forgetting about this, since I'm not a Steam user) you can buy/install older games through Steam, and those games might predate Steam itself and not know anything about it or try to sync state and the like. In that sense, you're absolutely right, Steam is just the delivery mechanism and a game not designed for it would work just as if you had purchased/installed it from disc. And it's not Steam's responsibility in that situation to bring back your saved state between one machine and another...

RickZeeland10-Aug-20 23:04

RickZeeland

10-Aug-20 23:04

I once replaced the flat video cable of an HP laptop with a lot of blood, sweat and tears, only to have it failing on some other component a week later Sigh | :sigh:

So if your latop is old, I would not spend too much effort on it.

OriginalGriff10-Aug-20 21:51

10-Aug-20 21:51

As a thought - have you tried to boot in safe mode?
Hold down CTRL+F8 during startup, and see if that works. If it does, it's likely a driver problem, so reinstalling graphics drivers could solve it.
If it doesn't, it's likely a hardware fault.

super10-Aug-20 22:00

10-Aug-20 22:00

OriginalGriff wrote:
As a thought - have you tried to boot in safe mode?

I tried some combination, did not work. Will try again after work.

cheers,

Super

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Nelek10-Aug-20 23:51

10-Aug-20 23:51

And the boot CD? Even more isolation layer from OS or drivers.

Additionally you might be able to check if the HDD / SDD content is still there.

M.D.V.

dandy7211-Aug-20 3:12

11-Aug-20 3:12

If this was a third-party hardware driver, I'd say delete the file (hook it up to another machine as a data drive in an external enclosure or through some other means) as that has saved me numerous times - not sure if it's luck, but if a driver file is missing the OS just keeps going and simply leaves the device in a disabled state in Device Manager.

But I'm reading that dxgkrnl.sys is part of DirectX, so I would NOT recommend that approach in this case.

As others have suggested, a Linux Live CD might help you determine whether you have faulty hardware, or just a bad Windows setup.

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OriginalGriff10-Aug-20 21:30

10-Aug-20 21:30

Mean American about distorted top right? (8)

And remember, if it's unsolved today it reverts to @Peter-in-2780 or @RichardDeeming
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Randor 10-Aug-20 22:43

Randor

10-Aug-20 22:43

Meh,

I can't seem to solve this one. There are alot of indicator/operators in the puzzle.

Mean (middle selection indicator)
about (outer container indicator)
distorted (anagram indicator)
top (first letters selection indicator)
right (suffix juxtaposition indicator)

I can read that sentence in a dozen different ways.

OriginalGriff10-Aug-20 22:50

10-Aug-20 22:50

Sandeep Mewara10-Aug-20 22:51

Sandeep Mewara

10-Aug-20 22:51

I have never solved CCC (have tried few times and always felt not my cup of tea). I use Google too but D'Oh! | :doh:

For today, following is what looked to me and I am still lost.

Mean American ==?
American == US?
about distorted == anagram?
top right == FULL?

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Randor 10-Aug-20 23:06

Randor

10-Aug-20 23:06

Sandeep Mewara wrote:
I have never solved CCC

I am not really sure why it's difficult for some people.

Sandeep Mewara wrote:
For today, following is what looked to me and I am still lost.

Yeah, it can be always be solved if you invest enough time. On some of these I back away when I determine it's going to be a huge time investment.

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super10-Aug-20 23:14

10-Aug-20 23:14

CINERAMA ??

cheers,

Super

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OriginalGriff10-Aug-20 23:24