Rayan Smith is the editor in chief, yes.
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It was sold to Tom's Hardware months ago, I don't really expect it to stay as relevant as before. It would make sense for them to make AT the "mobile tech news" site while doing PC stuff in TH.
I think Arstechina is my favorite, Probably because of this article.
Time...line? Time isn't made out of lines. It is made out of circles. That is why clocks are round. ~ Caboose
I can see why. That was a very interesting, and well written article. Respectfully done, too.
The line between good journalism (be it in the tech industry or elsewhere) and revenue to stay afloat / grow is a bitch. I feel the Information Age hasn't been too kind for companies trying to uphold high standards. It's not entirely their fault, we (the public at large) is buying into that crap.
So WoW freezes on me every few days, sometimes so much that alt+f4 and ending the task in the task manager both won't close it. The music will keep going, but it freezes, and I can't even use my mouse on anything but the task bar... -.-
When it is that bad, I have to force a shut down... which really pisses me off.
The game also will randomly pause/freeze when I open up a map, especially in dungeons, but it doesn't completely freeze, so yeah...
Hoping it's just a bad install of the game or something and not any dying hardware. It's on a not all that old Crucial m500 250GB SSD.
If Amazon ever gets around to figuring out my and my manager's package of his SSD and my new Samsung 950 Pro NVMe... I'll be installing the game fresh on the NVMe.
Again, that's if our package ever comes out of the darkness. Last tracking update was at 3~AM Saturday the 17th, saying it was picked up by the USPS or something. This is pretty bad though. I've never had a package randomly just stop getting tracking updates and shit. Kinda concerning and not what I paid for with my Prime subscription.
Try reducing overclocks. In my experience, wow is very sensitive about that, far more so than any other games I've played.
I still don't get the attraction of lighting your computer up like time square.
Wha? Since when? I've never ever had this problem before. Is it a Legion specific thing?
Would GPU really affect the loading of maps? This ONLY happens, SOMETIMES in dungeons/raids.
God why?!
You obviously don't get it... MY COMPUTER IS TIMESQUARE.
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Anywho, reinstalling WoW on my main SSD, the MX100 512GB for tonight.
Amazon is sending out a new package of the two SSDs, expedited to arrive by tomorrow. 8)
Nope, but it may be an AMD GPU specific thing.
I had this often in Cataclysm, and I used AMD back then.
It still happens when I tinker, and only in Wow, but it was more sensitive with AMD.
Since you expanded on your problem, I'm actually less sure of what you are saying. You are unable to terminate the exe when you are on a loading screen? This has not happened to me.
No, like I'll just be in a dungeon or raid, go press 'm' to open the map, the game freezes. Happened first raid night this week, right before we pulled the first boss. -.- Get back into the game and I've been hearthed out to MoP haven. =/
Sometimes, it'll freeze when I'm not doing anything specifically, and I can't even close it with Alt+f4 or in the task manager, I literally have to shut the whole computer down. -.-
Sounds weird. Could be addon-related and could also be overclock-related.
Can you move the mouse at all when this occurs?
So game instability. Interesting.
I would suggest not using map addons!
I don't use map addons.
Only add-ons I have, and these were all installed within the last 3 weeks, this problem present pretty much since Legion though, are DBM, Skada, and RC Loot Council. Loot Council being added only on Tuesday.
Just reinstalled the game freshly onto my MX100 and I can already tell it's opening faster.
Possible that the m500 is dying.
Just started playing WoW again (after a 2 year break). I'm a bit of an addon whore so by far the most time-consuming thing is setting up everything. It takes DAYS just to remember all the addons I was used to, and then set them up...urgh. But no choice because I can't stand Blizzard's tiny health bars, cast bars, etc. Increasing UI scaling isn't the answer >_<
I should probably save my addons folder between WoW installs.
Blizzard have definitely brought their stock UI a long way though.
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