u/GalactoidTetris

Hi everyone,

I have a brand new RTX 5060 Ti running the latest NVIDIA driver (32.0.15.9636). Everything is stable in games – Marvel Rivals, WoW, TF2, Minecraft, etc. – no crashes at all.

But the system sometimes freezes and black-screens when I watch YouTube in Chrome. It has happened twice in 3 months. It doesn’t show a blue screen; the monitor just loses signal, and I have to force a shutdown. It sometimes happens mid-video, sometimes right at the end before the next one auto-plays.

Here’s the weird part: Chrome hardware acceleration is already off in Settings → System. The crashes still happened.

I dug deeper and found that in chrome://flags, the flag Hardware-accelerated video decode was still set to Default (enabled). That flag controls the GPU’s video decoding chip separately from the main acceleration setting. I set it to Disabled. I am now monitoring.

I also found these NVIDIA forum threads filled with people having the exact same issue:

• Experiencing nvlddmkm 153/14 crashes in Chromium
• Game Ready Driver 59144 feedback (see video decode crash reports)

My questions:

1. Is this a known driver-level bug with the RTX 5060 Ti (and possibly other 50-series cards) that NVIDIA hasn’t fixed yet?
2. Since the fix is just to disable the hardware video decoder in a browser flag, does that mean my physical GPU is fine? I’m worried about an RMA.
3. Any idea when a proper driver fix will address this?

Thanks in advance. I just want to know if I can keep the card without worrying, since games run perfectly and the workaround works. I'm worried that it may crash while I'm working on an important Microsoft Word file at work and corrupt the data.

I typically play as Necropolis in Olden Era.

My policy in gameplay is very simple: absolute racial purity.

Hence, my primary and secondary heroes (mainly for battles and economics) must have rancid flesh, rotting gums, gangrene fingers, decaying entrails, and the ideal necrotic beauty: a skeletal face with drooping eyeballs.

My main hero will get all the stats and the best items, as he will be leading the battles.

My secondary heroes will get some economic skills and leveling, like extra gold, some battle skills, or the recruitment skill to bolster my economy. They may also get some items.

However, tertiary heroes used entirely for exploration will get no items and only get some leveling for logistics or scouting, etc. They get no items.

By my strict racial supremacist ideology, all main and secondary heroes are to be strictly Necropolis heroes - the beautiful, jaw-dropping, rotten-gum, skeletal ideal.

However, all tertiary heroes will be of other "races," such as the extremely refined, fully fleshed, smooth-skinned, and skin-covered Temple, Grove, or other races. They do not fall into the necrotic beauty ideal.

Therefore, all tertiary heroes can be sent merely to explore and be sacrificed if the time comes.

Are any of you fellow racial supremacists like me in this game?

Is it ethical?

Should I instead be instituting a law to ensure even representation of all races and allow the smooth-skinned, skin-covered, and fully fleshed Temple angelic heroes, etc., to have a more even representation in Necrotic politics?

I'm editing a 140,000-word document on Microsoft Word.

Turning on Grammarly made my CPU spike to 80 degrees Celsius, and my fans were maxed out and loud.

It gives me a heart attack every time.

Is there a way to tone down Grammarly's CPU usage by turning off real-time checking or other things? I don't wish to break my documents in half.

Thanks!

Spoilers ahead, so please turn away if you wish to figure it out yourself.

Anyway, here's what I did:

1) Went head-on at first with a massive army

I was playing as Necropolis and had a hero with 80+ attack, 80+ defense, 70+ spellpower, and 70+ knowledge.

It was a might hero.

So I brought roughly 10000 tier 1s, thousands of tiers 2 to 6, and about 250 tier 7s.

Because I had the legendary tomes to unlock all nightshade and light spells, I kept casting buffs and debuffs, hoping to gain an advantage.

Got slaughtered and lost.

2) Went with 1000 skeleton archers

I tried to use Twilight to blind the opponent's ranged attacks. However, the hero's attack does too much damage to my stack.

Hence, I gave up.

3) Finally, I went with 1500 liches

I equipped as many tomes as I could for all light, nightshade, and many tier 2 to 3 spells, especially in the Arcane school.

I parked them at the lower left of the map.

Then I cast Twilight to blind their ranged Liches.

I cast Web to slow them down to 1 hex per turn, then used Vulnerability (+50% dmg taken) on them and used Mirror Image (for a 2nd stack of Liches).

The AI was stupid enough to have the hero attack the cloned stack.

I then spent the rest of the match chipping down their stack and won.

I lost 200 to 250 Liches.

I then got the Grail.

Thoughts

I feel that the Mirage encounter could be cheesed using such cheap tactics.

One could use arcane spells to create barriers or use the bulwark ability (prevents 2 attacks) + blink to get troops around and just chip at the Twilighted stack.

Balancing it would be a huge challenge.

In my opinion, it should be about facing an army that scales with time, total army size, castles, and resources in the entire map, with all tier 1 to 7 units to prevent "cheesing." This is also easier to balance.

In the current incarnation, people will just find new ways to get around it, which requires nerfs and a new cycle of repetition.

Hi all! I've been building out my How-to-Tetris video tutorial series and just dropped 12 new videos — the series is now at 66 videos and 9 hours of content, all built from 1,000+ of my own Twitch gameplay clips.

This batch is heavily focused on T-Spin techniques, covering a wide range from introductory to advanced setups. Here are the video titles:

• How-to-Tetris Tutorial Series: Introduction (Beginner to Advanced)
• Yoshihiro T-Spin Guide
• Basic Super T-Spin Double (STSD) Guide
• Basic STMB Cave (Floating T-Spin) Tutorial
• Tetris to Simple Prophecy T-Spin Guide
• T-Spin Donations and Props Guide (Parts 1–4)
• LS T-Spin Props Guide
• T-Spin Tucks Guide
• Non-Linear T-Spin Setups — Advanced Guide

More video guides coming soon — DT Cannon, Imperial Cross, Fractal, Kaidan, B2B T-Spin Triple Tower, C-spin, Trinity, and more.

Browse the full video series by skill level and explanations at HowtoTetris.com — scroll down to "Videos Classified by Skill Levels" (8 pages, all 66 tutorials) right here:

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All videos are free. Happy to answer any questions about the techniques covered!

▶ Full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwRPaPIlSZ47jr-oucCJbCa2YIJFBuaug

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