Yeah, I don’t see the need of a 4090 right now and the price point that nvidia is charging
Good luck with the 4080
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Good luck with the 4080
I love the build! Very clean look. I haven't built a custom gaming rig in over a decade. Core 2 duo E8400 build lol.Small update on my PC. Due do a few QC issues I decided to return the 4090. I took the opportunity to go for a 4080 as it turns out the 4090 was a bit overkill for the games I play. Went with the Palit 4080 GameRock OmniBlack (aka no RGB). Fits well with my black stealth build.
I also bought a new camera (part of the cost difference between the 4090 and 4080 helped fund it)
It can be a fun endeavor, to be sure. I too hadn't built computer in years prior to 2020 (or 2019, I forget). I was surprised at how things changed and evolved - I definitely enjoyed the whole process
I think I'm content for once. I know I've said it before but there isn't anything in my setup that niggles me.
It's very cosy in the evening with the lamp on.
It's very cosy in the evening with the lamp on.
Fidelity fixed ATP as I downloaded their latest kit yesterday and it installed. So I don't need the Windows desktop anymore. But I'm going to leave it there as I can run my Windows virtual machine on it which I can't really do on the Studio as it only has 32 GB of RAM. The Windows desktop has 128 GB of RAM so plenty of space for a Windows VM. I'm going to setup a macOS VM on it as well as it would be nice to have around on the fourth monitor.
I just had a look on the Docker-OSX Discord and it looks like it supports Ventura now. They also have a fix for the audio problems and it involves buying a cheap USB audio dongle. I guess that's a reasonable solution. My approach is Windows 10 -> VMware -> Ubuntu -> Docker-OSX. I think that there is also a direct way to do it on WSL but I couldn't get it to work back in early 2021 and support was beta back then. So Docker-WSL might also be a way to run macOS on Windows and get the performance benefits of QEMU. My general experience on running macOS on VMs is that QEMU > VMware > VirtualBox.
Just found out that Docker-OSX runs directly under WSL2 but Windows 11 is required. I will have to look at upgrading to Windows 11 as it would be nice to run macOS directly on Windows instead of going through VMware and Ubuntu. Performance is quite good even going through these other two layers but it would be nice to get rid of this as it's an extra setup step.
Just curious - are folks here generally on W10 or W11? I just finished installing Ubuntu on VMware but am thinking of upgrading to W11 on an i7-10700 system. Are there any major negatives going to W11? I use W11 on my M1 Pro MacBook Pro so I am familiar with it but there was no risk as it's a virtual machine.
I don't know what happened but Fidelity Active Trader Pro is now utterly deprecated on my 2014 MBP. Will not load at all after the username and password screen. I would say that this is the buggiest piece of software in the history of software production -- especially considering that it is still marketed viable as a MAC solution to this day.
Directions to completely remove Active Trade Pro on Macs:
Then try to reinstall.
Active Trader Pro generally runs fine going back to High Sierra but they appear to have broken it on macOS and Windows. I think that things are back to working though. If not, then there should be the option to revert to an older version.
There are a fair number of threads on Windows ATP right now on Reddit.
I have been on Windows 11 pretty much since release.
Windows 11 is pretty much just a nicer skin of Windows 10 except for the menu. When you click the windows icon you don't have the list of apps. Instead you will see your most used apps according to what Windows thinks then you have to click all apps to see the rest. It makes getting to the apps you use an additional click.
Other than that the animations and Windows look nicer. It seems just as stable as 10. The menu icon is in the middle instead of on the left. There are UI elements I like and some I don't. The settings menu has changed a bit which is a little confusing at first.
However I think Windows 10 support will be ending in October of 2025. So you still have 2 years of you are more comfortable with 10.
I don't really see any major difference between the two. It is really just UI and menu changes which you may or may not like.
Your setup should run good on either.
I had a chat with the guy who maintains Docker-OSX and he said that the best way to run it, in terms of performance, is on Linux. There are just costs running on top of Windows that can't be overcome. So the current plan is to get it running under VMware and I'll just leave it on W10. He said that performance via WSL2 isn't going to be much better than on VMware.
After that, I'll put a spare SSD in the desktop and set it up to dual-boot W10 and Ubuntu and I'll see how well Ventura runs on Docker-OSX. He says that the performance on Linux alone is really good.
After that, I'll put a spare SSD in the desktop and set it up to dual-boot W10 and Ubuntu and I'll see how well Ventura runs on Docker-OSX. He says that the performance on Linux alone is really good.
This worked for me. Thanks very much for the help! Saved me hours of head scratching because I had already deleted the program and reinstalled it -- and it did not work. Did it again following your instructions (i.e., deleting the program files in Terminal) and it worked.
Those directions are basically from Fidelity tech support but they have you do it using Finder and their directions take about 15 minutes. The process is mind-numbing.
Wow, sounds like I have something to play with during xmas week
Same, and while there are some headaches at times, its been fairly stable - not quite rock solid but decent
This guy is a genius, he's the dude that originally created the task manager and worked at MSFT for years. He has some really cool videos. This one provides some benchmarks and the take away from the video is that WSL isn't that much slower then running linux natively. That's because with WSL, its basically running linux inside hypervisor so you're not incurring windows overhead.
Did he come from DEC as the Windows task manager looks a lot like the process display from VMS?
One performance factor is filesystem overhead. I'd rather take the word of the guy that wrote and maintains the software than someone that uses it.
I'm somewhat curious as to the performance penalty from Docker-OSX compared to OpenCore which should be the fastest though OpenCore is probably more work to set up. At least for me as I've done Docker-OSX before. That's another potential approach. All of this stuff is easier if I stuff another SSD in the system - I don't like keeping multiple boots on the same SSD.
He's from Canada and he was recruited/hired when he was a student back in the day - Digital was based in Massachusetts. I believe he worked on PDPs as a student and that's where the similarity was
Dave Cutler led the group in Seattle and he and his team were hired by Microsoft from DEC to do Windows NT and I've read that they took the source code with them. I do not recall a process manager like what you had on VMS in the PDP-11 operating systems (RSTS/E, RSX and RT-11). There was VT50DPY which was a system monitor tool but that was a lot different. I recall that the the process architecture was considerably simpler than it was on VMS with VMS using ideas that were more from Unix.
Here's a video where Dave explains the differences between WSL-1 and WSL-2
At the 2:30 mark he mentions how WSL-1 runs inside of windows and 2:50 he mentions how in WSL-2, they're peers, that is both windows and Linux are running inside the hyper-v
Here are some of the comments from my discussion with Sick Codes yesterday:
He has written the code to do all of this and he answers support questions directly on his Discord and in other places. I have to give him the benefit of the doubt before trying it out myself.