January 2024

Where has Ceffyl been?

Gah. It’s been a bad two years, pandemic aside. Here is a summary of what happened. I have wanted to write up blog posts to cover all of these things, but honestly it’s been too much. I’d start to write and just get overwhelmed by everything. It has been very hard. The good The bad The ugly The horrible trifecta of fall 2022: Where has Ceffyl been? Quite honestly, I haven’t had the...

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Post-reinstall woes

Cat intently watches a cat from Baldur's Gate 3.

The good news post-reinstalls on the gaming laptop? No more driver issues! Weird issues in Windows Security are resolved. The best part about re-installing Windows and then Steam and downloading a 128+ GB game? None of the Cloud Synced saves for Baldurs Gate 3 will successfully load. And yes, have spent hours going through posts and solutions, etc. I had eight mods loaded in BG3 (managed with BGMM, script extender, all updated from...

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Fix one driver error leads to fun times

A large cat watches a game of Diablo 4 on a large monitor.

I periodically forget how much of a pain Windows is. Most of the time, I’m using macOS for work and for my personal laptop. However, my gaming machine runs Windows because most games don’t run on (or don’t run well) on macOS. I also got tired of using Windows emulators like Wine and Crossover. My MSI laptop was having stuttering issues with the nVidia 3070 graphics card. (Yes, did lots of research, tried...

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