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So, I almost lost most of the Femdom City files. Yes, that almost happened. I am lazy with my backups, and on wednesday my laptop overheated. It is a rather old one (considering hardware gets old every 4-5 years)...and by the time i realized that the laptop was roaring it was too late and it shut itself down.

Luckily, after going to bed and waking up again, it worked fine. Only the battery doesn't work properly, so I have to work while it is wired to a charger (but i do that anyway most of the time). I made the backups, all the files are save now. I guess you can always rescue the files that are saved on a ssd anyway. But I rather not find it out the hard way ;).

The conclusion is that I need a new laptop soon. One that is also faster with the rendering. The problem is that with the new awesome AMD laptop chips there is currently a worldwide shortage because of the pandemic. And that is pretty bad because everyone is waiting for them to be shipped. Right now you cannot get a proper new laptop that is usable for 3d rendering...and when you finally do in a month or so, you will pay a hefty price.

Makes Darktoz sad :(

(the sign says: no males without working permit allowed. pretty cool, but i guess it comes out too small to read it. at least the sign itself is pretty self explaining :D)

Only missing two scenes before I am done with all the renders. Will be almost 500 new pictures added to the game. The release is getting closer, right now I am aiming for early to mid march. Let us all hope that my laptop will work fine for another month!

Hope you guys are doing well and I hope your desktops and laptops are running fine :D

Stay kinky!

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Deadmanfrank

I know the shortage is bad for desktop too but why buying again a laptop instead of building yourself a desktop pc? It's way easier to upgrade in the future and you can have a really good rendering machine.

Darktoz

i have a desktop pc already. rarely use it, although rendering would be faster with it. even now with corona, where i don't travel, i find myself using my laptop. i much rather work lying on the couch or on the bed than sitting in front of the desk. might be weird but that is the way i prefer to work.

YukoValis

Bad Darktoz. >.< Hope you are okies?

B. Freundlich

I don't understand why you still have a 4-5 year old laptop. I mean you have relatively stable around 1000 patreons. A decent gaming laptop is pretty expensive to be fair. But, to be fair, you should have that amount of money already in 1 maybe 2 months via the Patreon. A gaming laptop with fast CPU and a GeForce RTX 2080 is about 3500 - 4000€. And is immediately available at large German electronics retailers. Even with RTX3080 GPU and Intel i9-10980HK CPU you can currently buy laptops that are immediately available for 3900€. https://www.alternate.de/MSI/GE66-Raider-10UH-260-Gaming-Notebook/html/product/1708401 Just as an example. The other question is why do you render on the laptop at all? I don't know what you use for rendering, but I used 3D Studio Max (at that time) to render videos a little over 10 years ago. We then prepared everything and took it to a friend with a Quadro card on an external hard drive. He rendered it for us in 28 hours. And that was a video.

PhazR

Look at "mydealz.de" type in RTX in search, there are a few good deals in last two months.

Darktoz

i use poser pro, that one is not gpu but cpu heavy on renders. and my laptop already has a good i7. the one that would really boost performance is the new amd ryzen chipset. and that my laptop is now 4 years old doesn't mean it is bad. it has an i7 a geforce with 6gb vram, 32gb ram and 2 ssd's. the performance upgrade from a i7 to a i9 is not worth paying 4000,- upgrading to a raytracing card like an rtx 3080 is, of course. but still more worth to wait for the ryzen chipset to ship

Darktoz

i know. looked at them already, but all with intel technology :(. i don't pay 4000,- to upgrade from an i7 to an i9

Darktoz

sure :). just panicked a bit on wednesday / thursday ;)

YukoValis

I know how you feel. I'm upgrading my rig tomorrow. I fear destroying my machine and everything on it. So I'm ding the hours long back up.

Darktoz

noice. what are you upgrading?

YukoValis

upping the ram and changing out the CPU. The latter of which scares the heck out of me. So much can go wrong. Could fry my mobo, could break or bend things, could be a dumb and forget the thermal paste >.< Need to back up all the gigs of femdom pervy stuff. : )

Charger Pup

"I guess you can always rescue the files that are saved on a ssd anyway." Not always the case. Most well made drives once the device does a "TRIM" the deleted data is gone for good. Also, there's an issue with nearly all SSDs where the data cells don't refresh the charge, unlike RAM (which is where you get DDR), so it's possible to lose data on long stored but otherwise static data.

Darktoz

i stored the backup online on my onedrive now. that should be save. but good to know, thanks. i had a feeling that this would be trouble

PrinceArjun

Time to buy a PC perhaps? They're always better than a Laptop.

Darktoz

i have a desktop pc already. rarely use it, although rendering would be faster with it. even now with corona, where i don't travel, i find myself using my laptop. i much rather work lying on the couch or on the bed than sitting in front of the desk. might be weird but that is the way i prefer to work.

Joe Subramian

do you use breakaway box? I use one with my laptop, but it means i have to be at my desk, which is my dining table. I have so much computer crap on it that i have to eat on the floor (no not because of my puppy fetish)

Joe Subramian

love that shiny snakeskin coat - looks like uptown will be a cla$$y place

Darktoz

what is a breakaway box?

Darktoz

yes, hopefully interesting as well ;)

Joe Subramian

its a box with a built-in power supply that has a slot for external graphics/GPU cards - gamers use them to get more graphics performance without overheating their laptops!

Darktoz

nice, i will have to look into that!

Charger Pup

Classic "spinning rust" aka legacy hard drives don't have the problem with charge dissipation either. It's just physics in action. It's impossible to store charge indefinitely. Samsung and other name brands are somewhat better at storing charge for long periods of time. No name brands tend to be sloppy. But the problem they all have, is they don't refresh that charge even when connected to power, unlike conventional hard drives which continually refresh the magnetic charge on the platters while connected to power, and are still good for years even when not. SSD is great for speed, not so good with long term storage. HDDs are great for big storage and keeping it for long periods of time, not so great with speed.

Darktoz

what about the new m.2 ssds? still the same i guess? great speed, not good for long term?

Darktoz

if it is updates that you want it is better for me to get a laptop, because I am not as productive with a desktop. has something to do with the way i work ;)

SLF

Has to do with the touchpad? YOu could get a touchpad for a desktop pc. If it's a mobility matter ok..

Darktoz

has nothing to do with the touchpad. mobility matters, but there are other reasons as well. i already sit in front of a desktop pc for my regular job, i much rather work lying on the couch or in the bed on my hobby than sitting in front of the desk as well. might be weird but that is the way i prefer it

SLF

hmm maybe you could have both, taking advantage from both "worlds". Having a tower-work station which is by far more productive and connecting to it via a notebook with remote desktop or an app like that. Just throwing ideas :)

B. Freundlich

I see. But I didn't realize that there is so much render software that can't use GPUs. I thought that would be the standard for a long time. But I haven't done anything in the rendering area for years.

B. Freundlich

I can understand that I sit for work all day on a computer at home and not only since the lockdown.

SLF

OK then work from your notebook and just assign all heavy load work to ur desktop. Or am i Missing something?