Protips?

[Athel]

PROTIP: Never believe you're Superman. Just don't.
PROTIP: Strafing can move you sideways faster!
PROTIP: DooM is not Quake...with exception to that one Quake 3 mod.
PROTIP: The shareware is a lie.

[Hellser]

It feels like yesterday when this was a thing. I remember installing the AMD PowerNow! and Cool'n'Quiet drivers for XP.

It was, actually. A while ago, AMD CPUs had bad timing / syncing between their cores back in the Windows XP / Windows Vista era. The only way to solve it was by installing a driver. Go figure.

[Xtyfe]

It feels like yesterday when this was a thing. I remember installing the AMD PowerNow! and Cool'n'Quiet drivers for XP.

It was, actually. A while ago, AMD CPUs had bad timing / syncing between their cores back in the Windows XP / Windows Vista era. The only way to solve it was by installing a driver. Go figure.

I remember when AMD CPUs used to dominate Intel CPUs.

[Big C]

PROTIP: Go in and go in and go in and go in and go in like the U.S. Marshall and his three daughters, and LOSE the vaccine!

PROTIP: The sound they'll make rattling their cage will serve as a warning to the ELECTRONIC OLD MEN.

PROTIP: STICK WITH THE PROD. PROD WITH THE PROD. Just in case, though, we're police.

PROTIP: Sometimes you've gotta make a silent takedown.

PROTIP: If you can get to the North Dock, a UNATCO informant can give you a key to the statue doors. He responds to the phrase "IRON COCK". Beans might be useful.

PROTIP: Numbuh one: That's terror. Numbuh two: That's terror.

[Nevander]

PROTIP: Remember to read protips.

[Ichor]

PROTIP: Professional strength Q-Tips

[DaMan]

I remember when AMD CPUs used to dominate Intel CPUs.

PROTIP: If your main rival is Intel don't hire the guy who spent most of career losing against Intel as CEO. The G4 was a joke when Ruiz left. I don't use Macs so feel free to run Moto into the ground but leave my AMD alone.

[Jeimuzu73]

PROTIP: Super shotgun is devastating at point-blank range.

[Big C]

PROTIP: Dodongo dislikes smoke.

[Jeimuzu73]

PROTIP: Fire chaingun in two-round bursts for perfect accuracy.

[Dancso]

A while ago, AMD CPUs had bad timing / syncing between their cores back in the Windows XP / Windows Vista era. The only way to solve it was by installing a driver. Go figure.

MOTHERF*****
So THAT'S why my games used to occasionally report NEGATIVE time elapsed between frames... At the time, my research led me to believe that it was a common problem with multithreading.
I may never use an AMD product again.. ....Given the chance. ($)

Also, not really related, I just feel like showing off a magnificent kludge

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And to stay on topic:
PROTIP: Cable binders are basically grown-up legos
PROTIP: Demons are your enemy, unless YOU are the demons

[Hellser]

A while ago, AMD CPUs had bad timing / syncing between their cores back in the Windows XP / Windows Vista era. The only way to solve it was by installing a driver. Go figure.

MOTHERF*****
So THAT'S why my games used to occasionally report NEGATIVE time elapsed between frames... At the time, my research led me to believe that it was a common problem with multithreading.
I may never use an AMD product again.. ....Given the chance. ($)

Yep! Here's what AMD's website says about this driver:

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The AMD Dual-Core Optimizer can help improve some PC gaming video performance by compensating for those applications that bypass the Windows API for timing by directly using the RDTSC (Read Time Stamp Counter) instruction. Applications that rely on RDTSC do not benefit from the logic in the operating system to properly account for the affect of power management mechanisms on the rate at which a processor core's Time Stamp Counter (TSC) is incremented. The AMD Dual-Core Optimizer helps to correct the resulting video performance effects or other incorrect timing effects that these applications may experience on dual-core processor systems, by periodically adjusting the core time-stamp-counters, so that they are synchronized.

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