What computer/OS are you using?

[Goujer (she/her)]

How have you divided the DIMMs?

I currently have an awkward 10GB with 2GBx3 and a 4GB.

[Nichi]

16GB, with 4GBx4. I didn't want to half that to get 2k back up, which made finding an adequate motherboard tricky

[Chocofreak13 she/they]

glad to hear you've gotten what you were looking for, and cheaper to boot! did it come with a warranty? :0

[Nichi]

Yeah; it has a 3-year warranty through the manufacturer :3

I might upgrade the graphics card, too...but, for now, my #1 concern is getting 2k running again; upgrades to do Fallout 4 can wait

[Chocofreak13 she/they]

good luck! and if all else fails, just downgrade the quality a bit. Steve's computer (Franky)'s a beast, and even he had to tick it down a bit (it reeeeally doesn't make a difference). if you could play Fallout 3, you can play 4. :0

[LeaflameSD]

for the time being before i get my laptop

[Bella She/her]

good luck! and if all else fails, just downgrade the quality a bit. Steve's computer (Franky)'s a beast, and even he had to tick it down a bit (it reeeeally doesn't make a difference). if you could play Fallout 3, you can play 4. :0

Except FO4's recommended CPU requirement is, in worse case, almost double that of FO3 (4.7ghz (AMD) or 3.6ghz (Intel) vs. 2.4ghz) and like 4 times as much RAM. Not to mention the video card stuff (that I am almost totally ignorant of).

[Goujer (she/her)]

GeForce Experience solves all my problems with graphics settings. Except for heavily modded Skyrim.

[Nichi]

@Bella: As a note, it suggests a 2nd-gen i5 at minimum...which a 2nd-gen i7 blows even a 6th-gen i5 out of the water in benchmarks, so in terms of CPU, I should be fine. The graphics card is really the biggest issue here :\
(Although, I can probably run it at like 640x480 butt-ugly mode)

[LeaflameSD]

so I essentially got a £70 laptop
self reminder to post more tomorrowsday :}

[Chocofreak13 she/they]

@Bells, Pent: which is why i said to turn the quality down. at the very least, his specs have 90% of it covered. also, Pent, in the event your graphics card isn't on an 'approved' list, try it anyway; mine wasn't on Klei's approved list and i can still run Don't Starve and DST just fine. :\

[Nichi]

True. I saw someone turn down the graphics on Skyrim so low that it almost resembled ReBoot xD
(Low-Res Skyrim made Morrowind look like...normal Skyrim)

[Nichi]

Rebuild of 2k has begun. So far, biggest change is that, sadly, I lose 2 case fans; I need to find some sort of card or something to plug them into :\

EDIT: ...goddammit. New motherboard, same exact fucking problem >>;
I'll mess with it more later; I need to get to work :\

EDIT2: Decides to try one last thing before I left; unplugging absolutely everything except main power and the CPU fan. Thus, I think this rules out "dead power supply", and I just wasted $80 to determine that it's not the motherboard, so...I'm pretty much fucked unless someone has a new-old-stock 2nd-gen or 3rd-gen i3/i5/i7, as it may very well be the processor that burned out, and I seriously do not have any more money to blindly throw at this. Basically, there goes my good mood today

EDIT3: Disregard previous 2 edits; 2k is working again; seems some of her RAM is dead (The new motherboard allowing for use of a PC Speaker...so I retrieve the one from the Yeti. It's a little weird to turn on 2k-tan and hear the Yeti's familiar "happy beep" at startup once I had working RAM inserted)

EDIT4:  All 4 RAM sticks work...just not together; if I go above 2 at a time, it doesn't work. Really hope it's just some BIOS setting, or that it's 2 different sets of RAM causing problems, and not that the board is bad :\

[LeaflameSD]

>intel hd graphics

[Nichi]

Indeed. Although, even with my graphics card inserted (Radeon HD 6850) with full RAM, it does the same :\