Posted in Hardware, Nvidia

Stop using the balanced power plan for high DPC Latency problem: how to detect and how to solve

Well, this is a tiny but important knowledge and I just noticed it today.

First of all, you need to know one thing: if DPC Latency is higher than 1000 μs, it will cause some strange phenomena such as sound lagging, and the video games have low performance.

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Posted in Driver

[solved] Strange problems caused by three sticks of RAM

Recently, I bought a Hynix CJR 16GB RAM to upgrade my old PC. It has two 8GB RAMs, which are also Hynix CJR. I plugged 16GB into A2 on the motherboard, 8GB into B1, and 8GB into B2, to build the 16GB + (8 GB + 8GB) dual channel.

The system can recognize the 32GB RAM, running at 3200 MHz, with timing 16-18-18-36, voltage 1.36V. I think it’s very lenient for Hynix CJR, even with three sticks of RAM. I can use 8G + 8G, with timing 16-19-19-36, voltage 1.36V, very perfectly, no problems.


But I met problems during these days. What strange problems I met so far:

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Posted in Software

Merge the old Steam Library into the Steam Installation path folder

The problem is caused by this:

If you have installed Steam on your D:\ driver, and you have the old Steam Library on your D:\ driver before, you will find Steam won’t let you add this old Library folder because Steam only allows one Library on the same driver. For D:\ driver, at present, it has been the default driver for Steam Library while you are installing the Steam main program. You can’t even change the default folder to another folder on the D:\ driver, it has been fixed by Steam.

There are two solutions:

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Posted in Translate

丘吉尔名言翻译一则:“成功不是完结,失败不是完蛋”

Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.

成功不是完结,失败不是完蛋,重要的是继续下去的勇气。

这里要注意final和fatal都是f开头的词汇,所以用结和蛋来翻译是很好的处理方法。我认为现在网络上通行的版本都没有翻出这个关键点。

至于后面的部分,网络上的通行翻译就更离谱了,离原意差太多,如“只有勇气才是永恒”。

“something counts”表示什么东西很重要、很有价值,所以我们只需要直译出来即可,译成其他意思就偏题了。

“courage to continue”也是关键点,当时丘吉尔说这句话的时候是为了鼓舞英国抗争到底的士气而不是同德国和谈,所以必须要点出“继续下去”这个意思。

我觉得这句话十分重要也十分应景,但是鉴于网络流传的版本并未真正传达丘吉尔的意思,所以写了这篇文章。

Posted in Linux

How to solve mouse wheel scrolling not working on Linux

Recently, I noticed a strange bug: sometimes mouse wheel scrolling is not working on Linux. Some interfaces are even worse, they can’t scroll at all. But if scrolling slowly, it would work, just still tend to be stuck.

I tried many solutions, and finally, I decided to change the system-wide wheel scrolling speed. Unfortunately, most Linux desktop environment doesn’t have any settings to adjust the mouse wheel scrolling speed. So we need a tinny tool to solve the problem. That is imwheel.

*** This solution is tested fine on Debian 11. ***

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