Nice fucking game, GGG

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Arrowneous wrote:

It's fucking Windows 10 and all the Meltdown/Spectre patches that have drastically changed the OS kernel

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Arrowneous wrote:

It's fucking Windows 10 and all the Meltdown/Spectre patches that have drastically changed the OS kernel and have reduced stability and decreased performance since January when the news of the Intel cpu cache flaw hit the Internet (also that shit hit the fan). Ever since Microsoft has been deploying patch after patch after patch in an attempt to compensate for Intel's processor cache design flaw from the early 2000s. Beaucoup updates from day 1 (January patch Tuesday) have done everything from causing spontaneous reboots multiple times a day (WTF! Windows was just idling when it rebooted!) to flat out BSODing (total foobar) upon rebooting after an OS update was installed.

My solution after reading about all this Meltdown/Spectre shit is that since I run Windows 7 Pro with it set to inform me of updates but don't automatically install them was to never install any OS update that had anything to do with Meltdown, Spectre (and variants), or any other cpu cache patch. The end result of my skipping all of these updates is a gaming rig that runs with the same performance as last year (no 5% to 30% performance drop) and with none of the PoE crashes (PoE can still crash if I {Alt}Tab out too many times, but that's always been a PoE problem since it has no in-game trade or info system... have to {Alt}Tab out to look up stuff).

Sure my gaming rig is vulnerable to Meltdown and Spectre. But:
1. It's my own personal single user (me and only me) computer.
2. It will never be allowed to have other users simultaneously (not multi-user).
3. I do full hard drive backups once a month (and incremental every week).
4. I don't go to any crazy websites that could infect my computer.
5. Most important, my little old gaming rig has nothing on it that would
    be of any value to anyone else so I'm never a hacker target.

Sadly, Microsoft has eliminated the manual OS updates (show updates but don't automatically install) so the best that can be done it to set Windows 10 to defer installing for 35 days. There have been many rushed out Windows 10 updates that have had to be rolled back because they were buggy only to be replaced a few days or weeks later with a better (less buggy and/or destabilizing) update. So setting Windows 10 to delay installing the automatic OS updates for 35 days is your best (and only) solution.

Now if you are running Windows 7 or 8 (yuck!) and have had all these updates installed and it's foobaring PoE more than usual then only a clean install of Windows 7 and then immediately go into the Windows Update control panel app and "Change Settings" and set it to "Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them" to be able to stop the Meltdown/Spectre OS kernel change shit.

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blubbber wrote:

yup win 10 updates are utter garbage and I hate the fact MS takes control away from people. but anyway, there are ways to disable updates on Win10, I've had no problems at all ever since re-installing to get rid of the patches it had already installed and blocking all future updates.

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鬼殺し wrote:

Jumping on the Idonotupdate train to share, anecdotally, the April 2018 update started giving me actual, genuine, almost-nostalgic-but-not-quite Blue Screens of Death. I had no idea they were still a thing but when I investigated, that particular update apparently nailed quite a few people. And you know, I might have been okay with it if Microsoft hadn't included a giant fucking condescending sad face as part of the deal, like I wanted some taste of what it's like to suck Apple's dick or something.

I DON'T.

Not sure if I can help urge this back on-topic because I can't tell what the topic really was or even if there was much any of us could do.

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Johny_Snow wrote:

Aaaaaand another crash inside a city node. This time I didn't automatically die at least. Shall I wait for a fix or it'll never happen?