Maj (Ret) Ray
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Stealth announcement: Reach is being added to the MCC.
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Just an FYI to the unit. It looks like one of this week's Windows updates causes degraded performance in 3D games. Note the last paragraph in particular. Feel free to uninstall the relevant update if you've lost FPS.
QuoteOn Tuesday HEXUS reported upon Windows 10 update KB4482887, which was described as a 'quality update' as it included no new features just a collection of patches. The headlining news was that the retpoline software construct, which was devised by Google to address speculative execution patch induced system slowdowns, was included.
In its blog post about the KB4482887 update, earlier this week, Microsoft highlighted its findings that "When all relevant kernel-mode binaries are compiled with retpoline, we've measured ~25% speedup in Office app launch times and up to 1.5-2x improved throughput in the Diskspd (storage) and NTttcp (networking) benchmarks on Broadwell CPUs in our lab". A couple of HEXUs readers were pleased with their performance boost after applying the patch too.
Unfortunately, a trio of wrinkles have appeared to spoil KB4482887's glossy countenance over recent hours. If you head on over to the KB4482887 release notes page today and scroll down you will see the three known issues in the update. First of all there is a possible problem with IE11 and authentication. Secondly users might experience 'Error 1309' when installing certain types of MSI and MSP files. However, the third known issue is the worst as it works contrary to the retpoline performance increases Microsoft originally boasted about with KB4482887.
Looking around Reddit and Twitter one can't be certain if games other than Destiny 2 are affected, but it seems likely. In the meantime if your PC is adversely affected and you can't wait for a 'resolution' from Microsoft, it is OK to "uninstall KB4482887 to regain performance," says Microsoft in the patch release notes.
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Proposing to rename this thread "Cringe thread for Capt (Ret) Koch".
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9 minutes ago, Capt Jones said:You're half right -- that whole series of missions was incredible.
Waking up in the bunker next to the Washington Memorial and running out into the trenches was fantastic. Best single player campaign of any COD game.
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52 minutes ago, GySgt Specter said:Can we not also agree that MW2 multiplayer was revolutionary in the same way Halo 2 was for the original Xbox?
I'd say COD4 was more important.
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6 minutes ago, Capt Jones said:Ray, we are about to have a problem. Multiplayer was the shit.
The all time greatest multiplayer component of a game is Quake II. Everything since has been downhill. Get off my lawn.
Meanwhile, the DC level post-EMP was one of the greatest single player levels EVER.
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4 hours ago, WOC Padgett said:I heard somewhere that it was going to be campaign only due to some copyright bs.
This is fine. Campaign was the only reason to play MW2.
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Fuck yes.
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Congrats! Hope it's everything you expected.
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Maj LaPrade: "Are there any runners in here? What's a good eight mile run time?"
Maj Ray: "About 2 hours, according to Google."
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When it's not your fault but you have to take the blame for it anyway.
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Tales from CS OPSEC:
1stSgt Parker: "Australia is by New Zealand, right?"- 1
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11 minutes ago, 1stLt Jones said:Never too late to learn
Implying I have the ability to learn anything.
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2 minutes ago, SSgt Whelan said:I do. And I hate it. So much.
At least you'll make more money than me.
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Joke's on you all; I don't code!
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7 hours ago, Cpl Yildirir said:🤔
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Tales from CS OPSEC:
Maj Ray: "Alright, let's begin by going top to bottom."
LtCol Makowski: "Ooooh, yeah, I like going top to bottom."
SSgt Whelan: "I feel like we need one of those water spray bottles. Bad Makowski!"
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GySgt Specter: "I guess this means Legion's the better team."
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New Cold War FPS
in Game Room
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Please tell me there's a Fulda Gap tank battle.