Nov 9 2018
New shop
I’ve created my own shop at Steamy3D.com.
This has been under way for a couple of months now. The development on the Membership Galleries at Renderotica is just not happening, so I’m going to try and do it myself. It will be a place to shop for my images, memberships for WIP images, future projects and other stuff, polls, fan suggestions, Site commissions and normal commissions. At least that is plan A 🙂 There’s a plan B too if Plan A doesn’t work as it might seem a bit of a handful. But we’ll see.
Steamy 3D is up and running as a shop now. Verified for credit cards by Verotel. It also has 2 membership plans ready – but disabled at the moment – and also coming is a site commission (more on that later). But we will take 1 thing at a time and just start with the shop first to test the waters before we go full throttle.
Next in the shop will be Dickgirl Pam and Skyla at a photo shoot.
Nov 15 2018
How to waste 3 days
By Blackadder
I just wasted 3 days on installing hardware and software. I mean totally wasted! I ended up with the exactly same setup after 3 days.
I had a GFX card doing weird things and rebooting my 7 year old slave PC in the middle of rendering. First I thought it was a GFX problem but later a motherboard problem. Many things I learned in that process.
It’s hard to find a used motherboard with LGA 1155 CPU socket. You can’t flash a motherboard bios without the CPU on it is supported. Installing a new motherboard on a already installed windows 7 OS is not going to happen. Installing windows 7 from a CD require additionally a 1.7GB update download and 200+ update installations. Some motherboards doesn’t know what to do when a second GFX card is installed and goes black – even though it should support 2 GFX cards. If its old shit you are dealing with – read on the internet what flaws it has before buying/installing it.
I could also say fuck it – and buy new hardware. But windows 7 doesn’t run on new hardware. And why does it have to be Windows 7. Because Windows 10 Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) steals 20% of your Vram. Something that Microsoft didn’t tell you about!
So I dusted off the old motherboard I though was broken. Cleaned it with alcohol, changed some wires and used different PCI-E sockets on the PSU – and the damn thing runs fine again. So maybe next time I should start by cleaning the hardware first. Just hope it doesn’t start doing weird things again – but so far so good.