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Duke Nukem Forever & AMD Dual Core Optimizer (on Intel!)

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Recently I experienced some stuttering while playing DNF with my buddy Kevin. I tried adjusting the video settings to lower quality, yet I still experienced stutter and visual lag (not ping related). Eventually I narrowed the potential culprits to: #1 stuttering from a slow RAID1 hard drive setup that DNF/Steam was loaded on #2 AMD Dual Core Optimizer was installed by DNF/Steam even though I have an Intel CPU #3 the NVIDIA control panel being set for 3D acceleration to

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1080p HD movies onto your Android SD card [fat32] [solutions]

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UPDATE 2013.04.16 Commenter Brain Fox recommends formatting your SD card or USB device as exFat to allow for greater than 4GB files on your Android device. 🙂 Q. Hi. I read your 1080p phone/tablet MKV playback list and tested my SGS2 and you are right it works with 1080p MKVs amazing!  Really enjoy it. However, I only have a few 1080p things that fit under the 4GB limit of FAT32 🙁 How can I get full 1080p HD movies onto

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Minimize all windows/apps in Mac OSX Lion [solved]

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Q. How do I quickly minimize all runnings apps/windows and show the Mac OSX desktop?! A. The best way I know of is to press the F11 key (or Fn+F11 on some MacBook keyboards…) this should  push all your apps out of the way and show the desktop. To get your apps back in place, just press F11 again! PS another method is to command+option+click on the desktop, (or instead of Desktop, a Finder window, or the Finder icon in the dock).

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Upgrading/replacing a parity drive in unRAID

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I’m preparing to upgrade my 2TB WD Green parity drive to a 2TB WD Black parity drive on my unRAID system. I did a lot of searching for resources on this topic and while there are some great forums posts out there, they are sometimes hard to find. So here is a consolidated list of useful links for parity drive replacement: NOTE: many thanks to all the helpful and supportive unRAID users out there, the credit for all of this

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Move torrent to top/bottom of queue in utorrent

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Question: How do you quickly move a torrent to the top or bottom (all the way up or down) of the utorrent queue? Answer: Hold the Shift key down while you press the utorrent up or down arrow icons. (the up/down icons look like blue arrows) 🙂 Top Search Terms:utorrent move to top of queue (21)utorrent move up queue (19)utorrent move to top (14)move up queue utorrent (6)utorrent queue (5)utorrent move queue (5)utorrent move up queue key (4)bittorrent move to

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