The Official Computer Tech Support Thread

[erik9631]

Originally Posted by Frownland

Download your music illegally.

Freemake video downloader FTW.

[LoathsomePete]

So in an effort to make The Witcher 3 run a bit more smoothly at 60 fps, I overclocked both my CPU and GPU to varying degrees and after stress testing, found that both were safe settings. I oc'd my CPU to 4.2 gHz with a idle temperature of about 34 degrees and somewhere between 50-60 under load. My GPU, a GTX 970, was clocked to 150 core clock and 200 memory clock, while under stock voltage. I ran Unigine Valley and Heaven multiple times and experienced no artifacting and my CPU temperature never went above 70 degrees, so I figured my overclocks were OK. When I actually went into my Witcher 3 game however, I got crashed on occasion, without any notice or refernce number, hell I can't even find a crash report file, and a couple of times my screen just went grey, and then the game crashed. I did a little bit of research on that and it appears to be a VRAM issue, but I don't know how to fix it because others are reporting the same overclock settings without these issues. For the time being I have returned both the CPU and GPU to the stock settings until I can figure out what went wrong. I have a feeling though I can fix the GPU one just by trying lower settings and benchmarking it, but considering I don't know if it was CPU or GPU problems that were causing my game to crash, I don't know where to start.

[Cuthbert]

I have two RAW/NEF images I would like to upload to an image hosting website such as Imgur or Tinypic. However Imgur won't let me and Tinypic doesn't allow you to upload in RAW any more, has to be GIF or JPEG.

How can I convert these files into a format that is compatible with one of these websites?

Thanks guise.

[Trollheart]

I imagine most graphic programs (Paint Net, Photoshop, Gimp etc) will allow you to convert from one format to the other. I assume it's just a case of opening the RAW files and saving as the new format, no?

[Cuthbert]

Originally Posted by Trollheart

I imagine most graphic programs (Paint Net, Photoshop, Gimp etc) will allow you to convert from one format to the other. I assume it's just a case of opening the RAW files and saving as the new format, no?

I've tried Paint already mate, won't work as it says the format can't be read.

Photoshop & Gimp () I don't know how to use.

[Trollheart]

Try this one
Convert Between All Popular Image Formats with Pixillion

[Cuthbert]

Originally Posted by Trollheart

Try this one
Convert Between All Popular Image Formats with Pixillion

This works but I've lost a lot of the colour/brightness/quality.

[Trollheart]

Originally Posted by monkeytennis

This works but I've lost a lot of the colour/brightness/quality.

That'll happen. It's like RAW is the FLAC of images and GIF/JPG is the mp3. The RAW images is much bigger so to convert it, it has to be compressed and so you lose a lot of the res.

[Cuthbert]

Originally Posted by Trollheart

That'll happen. It's like RAW is the FLAC of images and GIF/JPG is the mp3. The RAW images is much bigger so to convert it, it has to be compressed and so you lose a lot of the res.

Nice one. Cheers, I'm gonna try Gimp, cheers for your help btw mate.

Will remember to shoot in both JPEG & RAW next time.

[Trollheart]

No problem, any time.