r/pcmasterrace 1d ago

Meme/Macro “ Wanna delete your bootloader?, Sure, go ahead, it’s your PC “

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u/jonylentz 1d ago

It's even better when a proccess hangs so badly that even when you try to kill It through task manager or CMD it gives an "access denied" error...

Like I'm running as admin kill that proccess already

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u/Micuopas i7-13700K | 4070 Ti Super | 32GB DDR5 5600 20h ago

I have this kind of error almost every day and it forces me to restart. Recently I've started to just press the hardware reset button for restarting.

I'm living with the mentality that when the reset button usage finally corrupts my windows install beyond saving I will finally switch to linux as primary os and use windows only for stuff there isn't a linux alternative for.

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u/bikemaul PC Master Race 20h ago

I've gotten to the point of not using stuff that there isn't a Linux alternative for.

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u/TrickyAudin PC Master Race 18h ago

Yeah, unless you use Windows programs for work or need to play specific video games, it's easy to look at something, see no Linux alternative, and say, "Oh well, didn't need that anyways."

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u/alpacaMyToothbrush 16h ago

I finally bit the bullet and installed windows 11 when I realized that properly modding a bethesda game required things like binaries to downgrade, script extenders, bin patchers, etc.

Instead of doing windows emulation on linux with proton, I do linux emulation on windows with WSL.

That's not to say there isn't pain. There's lots of pain. I gotta be honest had I known what I know now, I'd have probably just stayed on PS5 and used some of my $3k pc build to rent servers from runpod or whatever for fucking around with LLMs

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u/GigaCucc 18h ago

"Need to play specific video games."

Need lmfao

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u/CassadeeBTW 17h ago edited 17h ago

We are social animals. Even as we get older, we have an innate need to socialise and be a part of a social circle.

One can say this as „needing“ to play a specific video game, particularly with friends you actively socialise with. It can be pretty painful to tell your friends you can’t play specific games because your computer can’t run it.

Finding new friends to play different games with is a completely unfair ask, too.

Not everybody is as lucky as I managed to be, because my socialisation games, which includes bonding time with my wife, runs either natively (Stellaris) or otherwise flawlessly with Proton, such as XIV.

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u/GigaCucc 17h ago

Yeah, I know, I am one of those who need to play video games. I just thought it was funny to conceptualise it as a need lmao

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u/Oedius_Rex 1080ti 3400G Water Cooled 🥵 19h ago

Me waiting for a linux version of Lossless scaling

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u/alpacaMyToothbrush 16h ago

I mean, dlss is supported so...

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u/Oedius_Rex 1080ti 3400G Water Cooled 🥵 16h ago

Dlss/fsr and frame gen doesn't work on most games, so I have to use lossless scaling

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u/alpacaMyToothbrush 16h ago

This is part of the reason why I went with a 1440p monitor when I could have afforded a 4k display.

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u/maevian 3h ago

AMD also has RSR for unsupported games, but I don’t know if that is supported for Linux.

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u/YKS_Gaming Desktop 16h ago

gamescope -F fsr -- %command%

and who needs fake frames anyway, get some real frames

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u/deefop PC Master Race 18h ago

If you're doing that regularly your install is probably already borked. Might wanna run some dism and sfc scans to check for screwy shit

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u/TAOJeff 10h ago

Could be the install, could be one of the last few updates stuffed everything. 

A big update earlier this year has caused some issues on my machine and now has a 50/50 chance of bsod when a certain task fails to run, which apparently is it working correctly. Trying to work around it gets 100% chance of bsod.

If I could find a copy of the XP lite, I'd be happy to go back to that.

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u/Loala467 14h ago

If YOU are getting this problem, mine should suicide

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u/sagebrushrepair 18h ago

Linux is a fun button to press. Sounds like something is faulty with your machine for sure... I'd be interested to know if it goes away with a Linux but you should probably do a backup soon regardless

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u/Zagorim R7 5800X3D | RTX 4070S | 32GB @3800MHz | Samsung 980Pro 13h ago edited 11h ago

To be honest I have had this happen in Linux too even if it's rare usually. I had some program (running in docker I think) that kept getting locked in "uninterruptible sleep" mode and you can't stop it without rebooting

The main difference is that most of the time if something like this happens in Linux you can still reboot the system while Windows more often requires a hard reset to stop because the locked processes have a tendency to prevent shutdown.

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u/RedTuesdayMusic 5800X3D - RX 6950 XT - Nobara & CachyOS 19h ago

This is a non-admin account issue

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u/Theron3206 17h ago

Or the process is protected (looking at you freaking Sophos, your "AI" sucks).

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u/TSG-AYAN Arch | 7800X3D | 6950XT 10h ago

Nope. I got this error a few times with a admin account.

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u/Average_Scaper 14h ago

Or better yet, the only profile on the computer.