I’m running Cub Linux on my work laptop while my #1 is being repaired at HP. Pretty good experience so far. I’ll say this, it’s fast.
Rant - The Arma 3 Steam Workshop has really turned into a cesspool. Lots of missions and mods with barely any description, no standardization, etc… I was very enthused over the Workshop when it first started…and for the first year or so it seemed to be doing really well. Now…it is a mess.
The internet has proven that while a million monkeys pounding on a million keyboards will not bang out the works of Shakespeare, they will come up with 4chan.
There’s no quality control on the Steam Workshop so any monkey can upload their gibberish. And either the rating system is hosed or authors have found ways to cheat it, so good workshop entries don’t get recognized and rated up, so a decent author has zero motivation to post their work there - it’s better off served on their community site, shared among people they play and fight with, and that ain’t everybody.
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Perhaps I’ve Arma’d too long and become salty and jaded, but looking through the first five or so pages, this pretty much exactly what Armaholic was back in the days of Arma 2 and 1, just infinitely more convenient.
Rule of thumb of Arma Modding has been if it’s got a healthy discussion going on here:
It’s generally worth your time, otherwise caveat emptor.
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Yeah…actually I might have been getting a skewed perception because I was listing them by date (newest first) instead of the more revealing “highest rated”…which seems to give better results.
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Quite the Ranting! While on a 2000 mile road trip my vette’s cruise control stopped working, $400 to replace the module I said No. A few weeks later I find the air line pinched under the battery cable; $0.75 tube splice fixed it. Scheesh. Actually had lots of problems with that car, $1000/year maintenance.
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I mean, you bought a corvette, what did you expect? 
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BA TUM, TCHISSsssss
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Was hoping to my Rift to show my Dad on my admittedly medium end laptop. Noticed my laptop graphics were running exclusively in Intel Onboard graphics mode and even though the BIOS showed the NVidia card, I couldn’t switch to it. So, on suggestions from Alienware - I updated my BIOS. It seemed to go fine, but now as it boots to Windows, instant CTD. Tried rolling back installs…no go.
Awesome.
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What model laptop?
Does Safe mode CTD? If so, you hosed.
If you can get to Safe mode, rry rolling back to the basic windows VGA driver on the Nvidia card, see if that CTDs.
Restart, then install drivers.
Restart, then play with resolution/refresh rate.
It gets through the BIOS check, then as Windows is starting, it flashes a blue screen and quits. I can’t boot to Safe Mode. Tried rolling back to the pre-Oculus install…but I knew that wouldn’t really matter. It is a conflict between the BIOS and the OS. Hopefully an OS re-install will solve the problem.
I was going to say, “What about booting to a win DVD and running a repair?” But it sounds like the driver that win wants to load is incompatible with the new BIOS. Can Alien give you steps to load an older BIOS?
When it’s POSTing into BIOS, hold F2 and try a ‘reset to defaults’ BIOS (probably F9) menu option. Maybe the bios update set some funky values or you might have put a bad version on (not implying any possible mistake apart from where I did before this sentence).
Also, can you flash back to any earlier bios? Like the version you had that worked before?
These two things might at least save a OS reinstall…
EDIT: Plus what does the bluescreen say? Can sometimes tell what is unhappy from the last line or two.
EDIT2: I hit ‘Like’ on your bad bios update. I have flu.
LOL. Will try some of those options before I attempt a Windows reinstall… The BSOD flashes so quick I can’t read it. Will video it with my phone and capture it though…
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Whew - big sigh of relief. For some reason, the new BIOS defaults to setting the drives to RAID
instead of AHCI…flipped the setting to AHCI and I’m back in business.
Only bummer is that I left my Rift behind because I figured I’d be battling BIOS and OS demons all weekend…but very happy not to have to do a full dance…
Thanks for the suggestions!
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This is why we love our frog.
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Joining rant.
Note: It takes about 2 weeks to get items from amazon.
**> Order 960 evo SSD. **
> Finally it arrives. Excited! Super speeds FTW!
> Did research how to clone old SSD into new SSD. Thumb drive and software ready to go.
**> Lets get this done! **
**> Opens box **
> WTF is this thing? It looked bigger…
> M.2? No M.2 in my mobo
> few internet searches later. Wow never heard of this technology.
> I need m.2 adapter for pcie
> Go to two different local tech stores
****> Each time guy shows me LAN card… **
> Sigh
> Wait continues…
(need green text…also not sure whats with format)