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[BigD145]

Get a Samsung black-only laser printer. They're pretty much bomb-proof from a reliability standpoint. Ask it to print and it does.

Mine is fairly new Samsung black laser printer. The older one broke its heater, a part that costs more than the printer and requires a complete tear down. The new one does what I posted above. I want to print double sided, which it cannot do on its own, so feeding it becomes the thing to do.

[chaotic skies]

Print one page at a time, flip the paper over in between pages.

[Thief^]

You print manual double-sided like this:
First print all even pages, in reverse order
Take the entire stack and reinsert into the printer
(typically blank side up with the top of the page going in to the printer first)
Print only odd pages
Done

[BigD145]

You print manual double-sided like this:
First print all even pages, in reverse order
Take the entire stack and reinsert into the printer
(typically blank side up with the top of the page going in to the printer first)
Print only odd pages
Done

Yes and hope it doesn't grab two pages at once, throwing everything off. Feeding it one page leads to error messages if you don't feed it within 5 seconds. SO bad times all around when things go wrong. Then my computer has to be rebooted because the printer driver is confused. You would think 30 years or more of personal computing and printing would have this figured out, but no.

[Aklyon]

The computer probably knows what you want it to do, the non-doublesided printer is just there to invoke confusion and annoyance on everything its plugged into.

[chaotic skies]

Here's what we did at one point before we got a two-sided printer:
Print only page 1, nothing else.
Flip paper over.
Print only page 2.
Insert new paper.
Repeat until out of pages to print.

[BigD145]

I still do that. Here's what I used to do before then. Feed holes on paper into pegs. Printer feeds itself. Tear off perforated pieces. I think it jammed less than it does now.

[Gwolfski]

Get a big roll of paper and scissors.

[Lord Shonus]

I'm having a slight annoyance with my machine. It's not really a problem, but whenever I open or close an HD video, even in windowed mode, my monitor behaves as if the resolution has changed - turns black for a second and then returns to normal. Similar behavior happens when I load a full-screen program even when the desktop and program are set to the same resolution. The only explanation I can come up with is that there is a refresh rate difference between my desktop and everything else, but I have no idea where to look for such a thing.

[Thief^]

Are the HD videos copy-protected? If so it could be HDCP engaging.

As for fullscreen applications... it could be 59.9 (traditional NTSC) vs true 60 Hz, or it could just be how your graphics card reacts to an application entering full-screen. Your computer's resolution settings should include refresh rate somewhere.

There are issues with true fullscreen mode anyway and have been for years, so a lot of recent games offer a "borderless fullscreen windowed" mode which doesn't use native fullscreen, which avoids issues like this.

[Lord Shonus]

Are the HD videos copy-protected? If so it could be HDCP engaging.

As for fullscreen applications... it could be 59.9 (traditional NTSC) vs true 60 Hz, or it could just be how your graphics card reacts to an application entering full-screen. Your computer's resolution settings should include refresh rate somewhere.

There are issues with true fullscreen mode anyway and have been for years, so a lot of recent games offer a "borderless fullscreen windowed" mode which doesn't use native fullscreen, which avoids issues like this.

The videos are not copy-protected.

I know how to get to the refresh rate, but there's only one setting, while I suspect that my desktop is at a different refresh rate from what applications are using (which could also explain why the videos even in windowed mode - the media player decides the video needs a different refresh rate to play that file).

[Chase]

I have about $250 that I plan on spending on a new processor for dwarf fortress. I currently have an AMD shitter, FM2 socket. I'm really only buying this so I can play Dwarf Fortress reliably.


I was recording a siege, and this happened.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://i.imgur.com/Ieil7kP.gifv

Then it crashed once more after at the end of worldgen. I'm over it, I need a solid CPU PLEASE! Shoot me suggestions

[Teneb]

 So I'm in a bit of a problem. I was getting errors when I tried to update my video drivers, so I decided to uninstall and install an up-to-date one.  Problem is... absolutely every single driver I try installing just throw an unknown error and fails to install.  System rewire is on the same boat. Card is an AMD R9 200 series. What do?

EDIT: Somehow managed to install a rather old driver that was lying around in my hd. Still got no idea why the above even happened. Still can't update the damn thing.

[Thief^]

I have about $250 that I plan on spending on a new processor for dwarf fortress. I currently have an AMD shitter, FM2 socket. I'm really only buying this so I can play Dwarf Fortress reliably.


I was recording a siege, and this happened.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://i.imgur.com/Ieil7kP.gifv

Then it crashed once more after at the end of worldgen. I'm over it, I need a solid CPU PLEASE! Shoot me suggestions

Dwarf Fortress does have its fair share of crashes. And, if it's not DF's fault, it's more likely to be a RAM issue than CPU. CPU issues tend to cause the whole PC to lock up, rather than crash one program.

I'd try running memtest and seeing whether it detects ram issues, and whether pulling ram sticks stops it again. If so, you've found the bad stick!

[Akura]

Found a copy of Silent Hunter 3 at work earlier this week for cheap, and after the mandatory 48-hour waiting period before employees are allowed to buy stuff(we get a discount, though), and being absolutely amazed nobody else bought it, I got it for myself.

The problem is, it does not run on Windows 7. I've looked it up, and it's apparently caused by 3rd-party DRM(in addition to the DRM that Ubisoft tried to force on me during install - hahahano) called StarForce. Apparently it's possible to remove it, and then apply a no-cd crack to make sure the game disc does not reinstall it. While I'm not opposed to removing DRM from a game I goddamned paid for(especially if it makes the game not even work) - plus the issue of the disc constantly spinning during play, possibly exploding which has happened to people - I'm not sure I 100% trust the methods used.