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[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 163 points 1 week ago (7 children)

"Delete and re-download the entire game, but use a 56k modem."

"My God house, the game launched fine! But how did the 56k modem have any effect?"

"It didn't, the reinstall would have worked either way, I just wanted to waste your time as punishment for being stupid."

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[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 135 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What about port blocking by the ISP? It could be a networking condition!

[–] Skyline969@lemmy.ca 110 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Which would be useful if telnet didn’t tell us the port is open.

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[–] notso@feddit.org 96 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What about 12VHPWR syndrome? Spontaneous GPU power connector inflammation could explain why other games are affected es well...

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[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 71 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Everyone: what the fuck is he doing

Dr. House: installing NixOS

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[–] eighty@aussie.zone 27 points 1 week ago (9 children)

What's the equivalent of "it's never lupus"?

[–] gens@programming.dev 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I recently had a game tell my my NVIDIA driver was out of date by like a year.

Ngl I just ignored it, that's like a 500mb update and I'm just not interested in the time it takes unless something breaks.

[–] ech@lemm.ee 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mate, how do you play any games if 500mb takes too much time?

[–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Because I already have them and don't need to download them again. 500mb on a mediocre day is like 2 hours.

If you mean online games, I tend not to because they often work poorly. For some strange, totally inexplicable reason that definitely has nothing to do with my terrible internet.

[–] Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

dang, sometimes i think my shit is slow, my heart goes out to you.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago (10 children)

My mom told me she's on 25 Mbps the other day. Have no idea how she survives.

[–] Akagigahara@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Bit or byte, those are completely different experiences.

We moved this week, so we had to swap our internet contract, because if we moved with the type of connection we had, we'd only get 16Mbits/s. With our current one, we get I think 500Mbit/s or about 60MByte/s

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[–] ogeist@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How much do you pay? Is it DSL?

[–] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I have about the same speeds. I'm paying $65/mo, it's 5G, and it's better than every other option around.

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[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

It needs more mouse bytes to run.

[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] IsoSpandy@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago

Still better paru -Syyu --noconfirm

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 week ago

I hate Safe Mode.

[–] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago

I had this same fucking situation recently in an issue on GitHub.

It wasn't the drivers.

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