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awkward-teabag · 7 months

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Oh yeah, and on the topic of websites being godawful these days because of the reliance on hardware to compensate for not optimizing them, I'm pretty sure that's what killed my last GPU.

Sure it was an old card and predated DX12 and only had 2GB of VRAM but it was playing games just fine up until that point and didn't have any issues... until I was dragging a browser window and my whole system suddenly crashed and wouldn't reload.

It took days to figure out it was the GPU that died and was causing the issues, every other component was fine. Removed that and suddenly everything was back to normal, minus one monitor.

#the gpu was actually worse than the integrated graphics at that point #but i played re8 not long after release on it #and the main issue with new releases was the lack of dx12 and sometimes the vram #age was definitely a factor and it probably needed to be repasted years earlier #but a gpu typically fails at launch or when doing something intensive #not *watching* a video stream #especially when that really should be going through the cpu and ram and not touch the gpu #can't remember if that's when i learned hardware acceleration was turned on or not albeit too late to save that card #but it definitely made me more leery of hardware acceleration and just how many resources websites use #you expect that with haphazardly made bitcoin miners working through a site #not from moving a browser window from monitor 1 to monitor 2

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