Questions tagged [gaming]
For questions related to specialized software and hardware configurations designed for playing games.
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Pointer moving by itself when a certain mouse is plugged in
Very curious issue. I recently purchased a new mouse, and when i plug the mouse in the cursor begins moving toward the top right of the screen at a constant speed (~ 5 pixels per second, this is ...
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hearts.exe from win 7 installation doesn't start when on win 11 [closed]
From the old SSD I copied \Program Files\Microsoft Games\Hearts directory to my internal SSD on the path G:\ssd\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Hearts.
The directory looks there like this:
When ...
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Specific games randomly crash multiple times an hour with DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG
Apparently this is a well-known issue that does not have a one-size-fits-all fix, but after hours of research I have still not found anyone mention something peculiar I have noticed. I have a new PC, ...
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4-5 games that crashes on launch on main windows 10 profile but they work on a newly created profiles. how can I fix the main profile?
The games are:
"dungeon siege 1 (on steam)", "nox (on gog)","void destroyer 2 (on steam)", "haydee (on steam)", "the escapists (on amazon games)", &...
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The mouse DPI affects the sensitivity of the controller sticks
I found that the mouse DPI changes the sensitivity of the xbox controller sticks. In order to play games, I have to constantly disconnect the mouse from the computer. How does the mouse affect the ...
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Can I set up a VPN between a host computer and an Oracle Cloud VM to avoid port forwarding?
TLDR: How can I use an Oracle Cloud server with port forwarding to avoid needing to port forward on my home internet?
I would like to set up game servers (Minecraft, Project Zomboid, ...) on a device ...
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How to use Windows Key while playing a game with wasd?
I need to use the Windows key while moving in the game (wasd), so completely disabling it isn’t an option. Does anyone know how to block these unwanted popups and functions but still allow me to use ...
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Why does my intel hd 4000 graphics not support directx 11 feature level 11?
I have intel HD 4000 graphics on my pc, but every time I try t run a game (Driving life and others), it keeps saying:
A D3D11 compatible GPU (feature level 11, shader mode 5.0) is required to run this ...
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Need help connecting my gaming monitor to my laptop while maintaining 144Hz
I have an Asus VG248QE monitor from 2013 and it does not support 144Hz when connected via HDMI, but I can only connect it to my laptop via HDMI because my laptop does not have a DisplayPort.
How do I ...
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Settings app crashes when windows event log is disabled
I was experiencing heavy input lag while playing GTA 5 on my pc and a stem thread recommended disabling windows event log in msconfig. That did fix the lag issue for me however, the network icon on ...
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How to get an old Windows binary (Jump 'n Bump; win32) to work on modern Windows?
I understand that this question is grasping at straws, but here goes:
I was downloading various games for my Fedora laptop to keep my son from dying of boredom during a train ride - one of the things ...
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Razer Viper V3 Pro Double-Clicks on Single Click
I recently bought a Razer Viper V3 Pro for hardcore gaming, and I'm facing a frustrating issue. The mouse often double-clicks when I only intend to single-click. This problem is especially annoying ...
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Combining more than 2 GPUs for gaming
I have seen rigs for multiple GPUs used for training AI, crypto mining, and password cracking, and I'm wondering if something similar could be done for gaming?
In trying to research this on my own, ...
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Network frequently dropping while playing online games on just one device - possible hardware issue?
Basically what the title says. It started happening about a week ago. It happens at random moments so it is hard to consistently replicate. It could happen even 10 minutes or it could not happen for 4-...
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Video game taking up 4TB of disk space
For context, I do own a 4TB HDD but this game is stored on my 512GB SSD and was running smoothly up until recently. Now my HDD is showing as almost full even though I am still able to store large ...
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Games get PC to max CPU usage
I notice it primarily when starting the MTG Arena client on my desktop:
Possibly as an after effect it also happens on other games I play like Gloomhaven PC. Especially the latter has always been one ...
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How can I use 'mklink' to link 'read/write' game files to an existing directory with additional game data in it?
I recently downloaded Halo: The Master Chief Collection through PC Xbox Game Pass. The game is a collection of 6 or so games, so it's a whopping 116 GB large. Because of this, I've installed the game ...
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Stop my laptop from freezing/overheating when gaming
My laptop frequently overheats when I'm gaming. Some games it overheats in are VALORANT, Tom Clancy: The Division 2, The Finals, and Resident Evil 2. Not sure if this is connected or not, but ...
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Preventing Accidental Clicks on Chrome Picture-in-Picture Window
I'm encountering an issue while gaming where I inadvertently click on the picture-in-picture window, causing disruptions such as moving the window around, pausing the video, or interfering with ...
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How to check If Windows game mode is currently active? [closed]
Is there a method to detect if Windows Game Mode is currently active (i.e. the user is playing a game — not is game mode enabled)?
I've searched the web a fair bit but only managed to find a few ...
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lower the minimum resolution of any window
I set up a market in a game and I no longer need to look at the game screen. Even if I lower the image quality, the game uses too many resources. Is there a way or program to set the game's resolution ...
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GeForce RTX 4070 won't allow all 4 displays to be used. Only 3 at a time
Yesterday I bought a new monitor to replace an old one, I had one 4k display and three 1080p displays.
I replaced one of the 1080p displays with a 4k one and now only three of them work at a time. ...
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How to fix "unhandled exception has occured in the application" error while launching games like Batman Arkham Asylum
I installed Batman Arkham Asylum from GOG.com. Whenever I try to launch the game, it shows an error "unhandled exception has occured in the .NET Framework."
I have tried rebooting my laptop ...
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Desktop Crashes and Bluescreens issues. Can't spot the issue. (PC gamer so will mention games)
I've been having this issue with my PC a while now (almost 5 years) and still can't figure out what's wrong with it nor fix it.
Issues:
There are times where desktop, window explorer/folders, will ...
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Why is my dedicated GPU still utilized even though the game window is on a monitor not plugged into the GPU card?
I have two monitors, one is plugged into the GPU card HDMI port (main monitor) and the other one is plugged into the motherboard HDMI port (secondary monitor).
I am playing Tekken 8 on the secondary ...
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how to left and right click on MSI Cyborg 15
I've just recently bought the MSI Cyborg 15 gaming laptop. The first game I've tried to play is GTA V, and unless im doing something wrong, theres a problem. As far as I can tell, the mousepad on this ...
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Does Resizable BAR for the GPU apply to shared memory chipsets?
From what I understand, resizable BAR is a way to increase the size of the data chunks the CPU can use to send data to the GPU, increasing throughput (please correct me if I'm mistaken).
But, does ...
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Is it possible to run game from another PC on my PC?
I have a PC and a laptop. My PC is weak, but it has enough storage to download the game I need.
Is it possible to run my game on a laptop while keeping it on my PC's HDD?
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how to make Assassins Creed Valhalla render on GPU?
I have a AMD Ryzen 9 7950x CPU, which happens to have integrated graphics, and a dedicated Nvidia RTX3090 GPU, and the game Assassins Creed Valhalla choose the Ryzen to render graphics.. How do i make ...
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Game stuttering/fps drops on PC [closed]
I've been facing a frustrating problem while playing Gta V, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Red Dead Online. The games frequently stutters/fps drops where the GPU usage tanks from 25/70%-4% (even using a ...
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CPU Power throttling when gaming
I have a windows 11 laptop. When I stress test my CPU it draws 28 watt constantly. But when I open up a game it only draws 15 watts. Because of that I get bottle necked on CPU. My CPU frame time is ...
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Terrible performance on games on laptop
I have this computer (specification below) for one year, I am not really a hardcore up-to-date gamer hence my computer. But even I go to games for some fun even for some old ones, it ruins everything.
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Does 120hz and 60 hz make a difrence in gaming? [closed]
With some reaserch on google, looks like poeple say human can't distinguish 60hz and 120hz, but some says human can distinguish it easlly. So when gpu is powerful enough(rtx4080), would you choose 2k ...
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I have an error when opening an old video game on Virtual Machine. Error says 'Unable to initialize display. Width: 800, Height: 600, Depth: 32'
I want to play an old game through virtual machine, but when I click 'open', it comes up with an error saying, 'Unable to initialize display. Width: 800, Height: 600, Depth: 32'
I'm using Windows XP, ...
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Identify latency problems to gaming server
I am playing an online game where the server is physically located in the same city (~10km=6miles). I have cabled internet with WiFi and have a ping around 170-200ms with severe spikes. From my phone ...
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Issues running Direct X & Playing Games
Recently built a new computer, and I've never been more frustrated trying to figure out why games won't launch Via steam - there is an issue with Direct X Runtime.
Namely, I think I've isolated the ...
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How to optimise a VM for gaming [closed]
Me and my friend like to play a game called "Red dead redemption 2" but sadly his PC is pretty weak and that's why he doesn't want to play anymore. Yesterday we came up with a solution. My ...
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Force software rendering of OpenGL application on Windows
I'm using a piece of software that uses OpenGL to render the 2D graphics, on my desktop and sometimes my laptop. The software is crashing frequently on my desktop but not on my laptop. My desktop has ...
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Asus Tuf A15 Gaming laptop (FA506IH) wont enter BIOS Mode
I don't know what wrong with my laptop but when I try to enter bios mode its just show black screen and stuck there. I need to do ctrl + alt + del to go back and restart my laptop.
Laptop is working ...
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PC Game Pass game crashes at launch with Exception code: 0xc0000005
PC Configuration
Lenovo Legion Y740, Model: 81UJ0001US, Intel Core i7-9750H, RTX 2080-MQ, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 1TB PCIe NVMe SSD, Windows 11 Home 22H2 (Build 22621.1635)
GeForce Game Ready Driver 531.79 (...
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games crashing in windows 10 after upgrading to rtx 3080
I started having issues with my ITX build after upgrading the GPU from a reference evga gtx 1070 to a EVGA xc3 ultimate rtx 3080 where loading up any game would either crash to desktop or hard crash ...
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How to complete disable/remove Gameoverlay? [duplicate]
I'm currently facing this(please see the attached image) annoying pop-up everytime I open a game.
My question is how to completely remove/disable this pop-up? I have already tried >> Go to ...
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Connecting desktop to a Chromebook for realtime playing
I've got a desktop Linux computer with an RTX 4080 and an Acer Spin 713 CP713-2W-5719 Chromebook. Spring is here, so I'd like to play my games and enjoy the nice weather on the balcony (about 20m away)...
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Found and fix a CTD in Windows 11
I've just installed Windows 11 Pro on this PC:
CPU AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core Processor 4.50 GHz
RAM 32,0 GB
GPU AMD Radeon RX6800 XT
Via Steam, I bought and installed Microsoft Flight Simulator 40th ...
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Do you think 3200 MHz 16 GB master RAM plus 3200 MHz 4 GB slave RAM (20GB total) will cause any bottleneck?
Some genius product developers decided to put 8 GB of ram to RTX 3060 laptop. I know that Ryzen 5 5600h CPU of this laptop is good enough to not create any bottleneck for RTX 3060 but I am trying to ...
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Some applications will launch very slowly after closing a game (Windows 10)
I have a very weird problem. When I close games, some applications will take noticeably long to launch.
For example, if I close the game (MOHAA) and then start VLC application, it will be extremely ...
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Terrible Network Performance in Games
For a start, my packet loss is very minimal, around 0.1%, and my ping is 10 ms on average. But when I play games or do something ping-sensitive, I lag so much that it's unplayable (I have the right ...
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My PC turns on every time I plug something into my outlets
Whenever I plug something into my outlets my PC wakes up from sleep. I tried moving my cords to different outlets. and the same thing occurred. My pc also wakes up if I plug a usb into one of my ...
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How to play a game on your PC while processing it on another PC
I bought WILD HEARTS from Steam on my brother's [PC (PC①)] that he bought 3 years ago, but I can't play the game as much as I want because it doesn't have enough specs.
My PC (PC②) has sufficient ...
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Does Windows 11 Xbox Game Bar instant replay feature hurt disk drive?
I was wondering if this feature constantly writes to my NVMe SSD degrading it's performance. I thought features like this store replays somewhere in RAM or VRAM, but quick googling showed that similar ...
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