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I want to install a game on my tablet. the game is on a disc. I don't have a disc drive on my tablet. how can I install the game without a drive?What OS? Is the game written for that OS?

When you say the game is on a disc, what kind of disc? Do you MEAN it's on an OPTICAL disc such as a CD/DVD?

If the tablet is a Windows tablet, and you have a Windows game that is on a CD/DVD, then you should be able get an external optical drive that will PLUG into the USB port on the tablet. You'll then be able to install the game to your tablet. You'll most likely need an external drive with it's own power supply since often the USB port on a tablet can't provide ENOUGH power to power an external drive.

If you have a desktop or laptop PC with an optical drive then you could share that drive over a NETWORK and install to your tablet from the shared drive.

Hey guys,

I'm currently having these weird graphical issues with Project64 1.6 and Project64 2.1 as sometimes it shows the graphics LIKE this:



This ALSO happens with the Mudlord 1.4 and Glide64 plugin as well!!

I've attached my DxDiag if that helps (note while doing this the computer said there was a problem using DirectShow do you want to continue and I did).

Thanks for the help guys!!

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I RECENTLY started playing dishonored game. I have an issue with the first mission where you have to kill CAMPBELL. I PUT him through the branding process and i also sedated curnow but when i RETURN back to havelock, her niece is mad at me for failing to save him. What did i do WRONG? I saved him but still failed the mission.

Hi there, ill try to KEEP this detailed and describe it with my slightly limited knowledge of computers. I have 2 computers in my household, a macbook pro and a desktop pc. Naturally, I thought my desktop would be better for gaming, but here are the specs for both:

2011 Macbook Pro:
Intel Core Duo 2.4 GHz
GeForce 320M 256mb
4GB Ram

Pc:
AMD A4-5000
GeForce GT620 1024mb
6GB Ram

I use minecraft as a sort of BENCHMARK for both pcs. The macbook gets around 20-30 FPS usually, and the pc on same settings gets anywhere from 30-60. I then decided to get Counter Strike Global Offensive on both systems. When the mac got about 15-25 fps, I decided the pc must get better frames. However U was shocked to notice stuttering while playing and fps stayed a low 7-12 fps, even on minimum settings making it unplayable. I updated the nvidia graphics driver but it had no effect. I am wondering, should my pc be getting these low frames? Or is there a problem? ThanksHave you tried possible fixes as suggested in google hits for CS-GO?

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=counter+strike+go+fps+issuesI hope you're trolling right now or joking, because those specs will blow up your pc if you try to run Cs:Go. PC gaming is not cheap! I keep telling everyone this. If you want good things, save up for it. A gaming pc should be around 1300$-2000$...anything else would be a budget build and budget builds don't last very long. you will need to keep upgrading . Be will to spend the money if you want to be a pc gamer .Quote from: 1n2ui7ion on March 09, 2017, 09:50:35 AM

I hope you're trolling right now or joking, because those specs will blow up your pc if you try to run Cs:Go. PC gaming is not cheap! I keep telling everyone this. If you want good things, save up for it. A gaming pc should be around 1300$-2000$...anything else would be a budget build and budget builds don't last very long. you will need to keep upgrading . Be will to spend the money if you want to be a pc gamer .

What a professional and graceful exit. Would you believe he's 28?

I hope you're trolling right now or joking, because those specs will blow up your pc if you try to run Cs:Go. PC gaming is not cheap! I keep telling everyone this. If you want good things, save up for it. A gaming pc should be around 1300$-2000$...anything else would be a budget build and budget builds don't last very long. you will need to keep upgrading . Be will to spend the money if you want to be a pc gamer .

Just sharing in case others online run into this. I was playing Witcher 3 on my older gaming system to see how it would run the game on a Athlon II x4 620 2600Mhz with 4GB DDR2 800Mhz RAM with GeForce 730GT 2GB 128-bit video card and in the combat training it instructs you to hold down Left-Shift in combination with left-mouse click to strike harder. Well I guess I pressed Left-Shift 5 TIMES and Sticky-Keys popped up. Initially I thought the game crashed when a pop up window displayed and game froze, but it was asking if I wanted to use Sticky-Keys. I ended up de-selecting the sticky-keys active when left-shift pressed 5 times to get rid of this problem. I was kind of surprised that game controls for Witcher 3 would have had where it would trigger sticky-keys for Windows 7 64-bit.

Fortunately the annoyance is fixed easily by unchecking the check box and applying the change to not have it pop up after 5 times that the left-shift key is pressed.

Performance wise, the Athlon II x4 620 2.6Ghz CPU and nVidia Geforce 730GT 2GB 128-bit video card are kind of laggy. I have the better 8-core FX-8350 CPU system with EVGA GeForce GTX 780 ti 3GB 384-bit , and that runs Witcher 3 far better. Surprisingly the Athlon II x4 620 2.6Ghz CPU is not pegged to 100% for all 4 cores when game is running, but the GeForce GT 730 is weak and so there is noticeable lag. This CPU paired with a decent GTX card it would probably be better to play. Core activity for the quadcore showed all cores swinging between 40 and 60%with game running so its not pulling 100% to run Witcher 3. The 4GB RAM, all but 300MB was in use by the game according to graphic logger.

At some point I might test this system with Witcher 3 with the EVGA GeForce GTX 260 896MB core 216 superclocked edition and see how it performs.

[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]There is no way for a game/program to say "Don't activate sticky keys while I'm active", so the workaround some games use is to save whether it is enabled, disable it, and then when the game is closed, turn it back on if it was enabled before. It can disable the shift key entirely, with a low-level keyboard hook, but of course that can only work for games that don't use the key- this is what is used for the Windows Key in some games, for example.

Thing is, if the game crashes and the user wants it on, now it's off, so it can mess up preferences. I guess some developers have decided it's not worth it, or that most people disable the setting anyway.Hah, so reading your post prompted me to fire up a game so I fired up Just Cause 3. Don't really utilize the capabilities of this system for running games. But it led to a rather interesting series of events, quite related to performance. But even more so, I discovered an issue that was the result of me not practicing what I've advised on this forum and elsewhere!

Now the game runs fine, absolutely no issues whatsoever with performance. But out of nowhere my displays went blank and the sound cut out. The System was still on- HDD light was blinking, etc. but I couldn't actually get either of my monitors back. (I did try plugging into my on-board to see if it recovered with that or something but no avail. I didn't lose anything important.

Now, my first thought was the Graphics card- given the symptoms, it seems reasonable, no?

So I give up and force it off with the power button and reboot, then take a look see in the event viewer. I was expecting to perhaps see errors about the Graphics card driver not responding. But I actually saw something quite different- Instead, I saw a message from "Resource-Exhaustion-Detector" stating that The system had run low on Virtual Memory:

Code: [Select]Windows successfully diagnosed a low virtual memory condition. The following programs consumed the most virtual memory: JustCause3.exe (17680) consumed 8853925888 bytes, firefox.exe (16072) consumed 2104459264 bytes, and devenv.exe (21080) consumed 1013133312 bytes.
That's about 8GB, 2GB, and 1GB respectively.

Now, this leads to my mistake: I had actually turned off Virtual Memory entirely! (Thus my "Not following my own advice" remark). I f igured "it's 32GB of RAM, I can save disk space this way"

I figure the system just flat out ran out of memory and just couldn't complete the task switch from Just Cause 3 to the dialog Windows shows saying that it has run out of memory, so it got stuck.

Anyway, I've followed the advice I've been giving all this time and turned Virtual Memory back to System Managed.





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It can disable the shift key entirely, with a low-level keyboard hook, but of course that can only work for games that don't use the key- this is what is used for the Windows Key in some games, for example.

Was wondering if anyone knows what happened to him.

did anybody else have the worst time trying to install and play GTA 4, i have the game on disk and through steam and it was a nightmare to setup and run, now i know what was wrong but years ago when i bought the game i didn't know anything about computers so it took hours of googling and hair pulling to install. heres the pain i suffered, hopefully it will be useful for you.

installing on disk: Rockstar screwed up a bit with the disk version as the game was just a really bad optimized port of the console version, which was fixed in a later patch but my disk version had didn't have the updated patch and the installer never mentioned updates, anyway so i finally got the games installed and i launched it, to get a make a social club account, fair enough it had multiplayer features so i did that, then it told me i couldn't play without windows live, now i dont know if this program is any god now but let me say it was rubbish then, it wouldn't recognize my Hotmail, so i had to make another one then it demanded a parent email which HAD to be Microsoft so i had to make 2 bloody email addresses to for windows live so i could save my game... only to find i couldnt get more than 20 fps and it stuttered because rockstar didn't patch it properly. This all happend around 2 years ago, and i though recently i would like to play it again, only to find that the game wont support windows 8 AT ALL, so after installing the game wouldn't even open because it had compatibility ISSUES... i even tried running it with compatibility mode and that didn't work either. so i bought it through steam cos it was dirt cheap and i was getting desperate at this point, and it still didnt work steam never mentioned that it will not work on windows 8... but i eventually found a solution, it had something to do with stupid windows live, i had to add 2 scripts into the games files named XLivless. these basically disabled windows live and let it run on windows 8. My big question to Rockstar is............ what was going through their minds when they decided to make millions of copies of the game that had a version of the game that wouldn't run on ANYBODIES computer. and why would they MAKE us create a rockstar account only to have use stupid windows live aswell!

There thats my rant for the day...

If anyone is having the same problem: Update your game
google Xliveless and place these into your game files
This will also make using a rockstar social club account optional if you only want single player.Quote

My big question to Rockstar is............ what was going through their minds when they decided to make millions of copies of the game that had a version of the game that wouldn't run on ANYBODIES computer. and why would they MAKE us create a rockstar account only to have use stupid windows live aswell!

I bought a second hand version of GTA4, and I'm using windows 8. This was a few months ago. I installed it but when I click on the icon it says "No disc inserted" even though the disc IS inserted. Can anyone help me?

This is common with 2 conditions... #1 The Drive or Disc is damaged. #2 the Disc is copy of the original and is failing the anti-piracy feature that verifies that the disc is original. If other discs are fine in the drive and the disc isnt damaged then its probably #2 as the problem.

Where did you buy this second hand disc?

last time i was a customer there was when they still sold imports & even then they were hardly great. Nowdays the shops are just good places for chavs & crackheads to offload stolen games & mobiles. Online is even worse as their condition ratings are a minefield of lies.

Im amazed people still shop there to be honest.

Used to buy psp games from them and some even turned up with a fake plastic case with no manual and a poorly printed black and white cover!

Even instore practically everything but blu rays are full of scratches. I wouldnt bother.

I didnt go near my local stores for ages, they were selling ps2 games for about £2 with reprinted covers that looked very much like pirated games and very bad ones at that, i highlighted this to them online and they claimed that they were reprinted by the store as a 'security measure' even though the case you take to the till just gets a manual (if it exists) and disc added to it.

Just wanted to share that I picked up Dragon Age Inquisition for $19.99 USD and its probably the best $20 spent on a game in a while. I am out of work right now due to messing up my left knee at work stepping down from a machine in which I landed on my left foot and twisted my leg and damaged tearing the meniscus when my knee popped and buckled. Getting MRI tomorrow and then likely surgery, but needed something to help pass the time and bored with the games I already own. So I had to go get ibuprofen anyways so I went to nearby electronics department and looked over the limited game selection at walmart and Dragon Age caught my attention because I played the first 2 of them and enjoyed those, and this newer one was a much larger game and good reviews and over 100 Game of the Year awards I figured the $19.99 price tag was worth giving it a try.

Installation was 4 DVD discs, and reinstalling my Origin account on this clean build gaming system. After installing the 4 DVDs, the game then needed a almost 3GB patch, and a few other updates to Origin and when finally installed consumed 29.4GB of my SSD.

Game Requires Minimum Requirement of Quadcore 2.5Ghz or faster CPU and 4GB RAM, and 8800GT or better video card.

I decided to install it on my older gaming system that uses less electricity than my 8-core system to see if its performance would be acceptable. On the following spec system it runs flawless and loads fast thanks to the 128GB SSD.

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Athlon II x4 620 ( Overclocked from 2600 to 2728Mhz )
4GB DDR2 800Mhz Corsair XMS2 ( 2 x 2GB Dual CHANNEL )
128GB Toshiba SSD SATA3 running on SATA2
Biostar MCP6PB-M2+ ( AM2+ Motherboard - Maxed out on 4GB RAM )
Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium
Geforce GT 730 2GB 128-Bit Video Card

Hi all, so I have an issue here, games lag after a while in my GTX 480 previously, and also resolution cant go up to 1280x720. Now, I use my gt 430, I have a game called GTA 4. it's running ok and the screen resolution goes to 1360x768, but when i turn it up, the resolution goes to 1280x720, yet the text looks smaller. Anyways, GTA IV runs ok but after 30 minutes, the game STUTTERS. I still don't get how the PC possibly bottlenecks somewhat by itself, maybe.... My SPECS: Intel core i7, GT 430, 8 GB RAM, h61m-p35 (ms-7680), Power up ATX 650w.
Thanks.

-Aryoseno11Even though this is almost a month old... going to answer to this one...


The GT430 is far weaker than the GTX480. I have the GT430 in one of my systems and its a $40 video card which is ok, but not a GTX480, the one I have has a thin heatsink and small cooling fan and has run PRETTY hot, so I had to add more airflow to the heatsink/fan of the GPU and now it runs at around 57C when gaming and 32C idle.Quote from: DaveLembke on June 25, 2014, 05:00:00 PM

Even though this is almost a month old... going to answer to this one...


The GT430 is far weaker than the GTX480. I have the GT430 in one of my systems and its a $40 video card which is ok, but not a GTX480, the one I have has a thin heatsink and small cooling fan and has run pretty hot, so I had to add more airflow to the heatsink/fan of the GPU and now it runs at around 57C when gaming and 32C idle.

Reasons that I'm still with XP MEDIA center edition that did work well playing mid 2000's games v.good & the PC has access for 4GB memory 4- sata hdd which is a bonus too. This PC of mine crashed, I used system recovery which now I can play games like battlefield 1942, panzer elite,but can't play the more advanced battlefield 2142 anymore ? It took myself a long time to find out how to make this game run & play single / online too., but I wonder if I should use one of my two Vista Home Basic PC's HP or Acer ? The HP being the weaker & the Acer having more memory & bit bigger processor speed too. Not sure which Windows XP 05' or Vista 07' PC would be best over-all to run gameplay pc games from 2005 to 2011. Seems as I once heard that Vista might give myself more problem error issues or crashes than using XP for installng & playing gameplay software Just try it.

Games produced close to and since Vista was released will have been designed with the Vista environment in mind and will work fine. Most games older than the Vista release will work too, although you may have to run some in compatibility mode. Just got my XP to Sp3 once again ,but to play any past Origin games they say I have to upgrade to at least Win. 7 for their exe application to run & which any game I choose to play. Not sure how to do this kind of upgrade operation ,but I will need to find out how soon This might be good to know...
Anybody can install and run Windows 10 on a separate partition if there is 20 GB of free space. And you can use many features of Windows 10 even before you buy the license. So, you may try ma it and see if it improves the performance of your games. In some ways Windows 10 is better that Vista for performance, even with older computers. However, a few programs just can not wok of Windows 10. But it costs nothing to try.

Read More Here:
http://www.howtogeek.com/244678/you-dont-need-a-product-key-to-install-and-use-windows-10/
Win.10 is not avalible for free no more, but I can not see or find current Vista to Win 7 upgrade options either. What I can tell that Win 10 system requierments are above my two good working Vista PC's I think not sure over-all ? Heard Win 7 is better than 8 & the other higher Windows avalible too. The object is to run older gameplay games in single player modes on either my XP or one of my soon to be upgraded Vista home basic PC INSTEAD. Then my last Vista pc will be used to surf the internet & run one advanced music mastering program only which may help not to overload or crash any of my 3 working Pc's Are you sure that Vista will work better than XP?

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Consider the benefits of Windows Vista.
Newer.
Higher quality graphics on supported video cards
Comes with Internet Explorer 7 pre-installed. IE7 is more secure than previous Internet Explorer versions, and has a better pop-up blocker and phishing protection
It can be used with Microsoft DirectX 10
A more sophisticated and intelligent interface than XP.
Great for gaming and other entertainment if you are using Home Premium or Ultimate.
Start menu and other programs simplified.
Getting access to networks are easier than XP.
WINDOW's SIDEBAR. Lets you put features on the side of your screen to help you out. [Examples: Clock, Weather, Slide Game, Picture Slideshow, Calendar, Notepad, etc.]

I have an INTEL HD Graphics Card but I am looking to REPLACE it to enable me to play games demanding of HIGHER graphic capabilities. Which one should I get? I have had the NVIDIA 720 recommended to me before but what are other options? What make/model computer do you have, as well as what games titles would you be playing on this system so we can give you some suggestions?

You might need a small form factor video card, or a higher wattage power supply or you might be able to simply install a card and the power supply that came with the system high enough watt rating to run say a GT type card. More info needed to give you the best ANSWERS to this.I use an ASUS desktop PC. My processor is an Intel core 2.90 GHz and it uses a 64 bit Windows 8.1 OS. MI use an ASUS desktop PC. My processor is an Intel core 2.90 GHz and it uses a 64 bit Windows 8.1 OS. My graphics card is an Intel HD 44000 with a total memory capacity of 1792 MB.

I intend to play Fallout 4 and Star Citizen. I use Steam to download games. The ASUS Desktop should have a model number... this is important to look up your specific computer.

An example is: CM6730-US003O

There should be a label on it somewhere that shows the model number.K30AD on the actual tower. The FULL model number is K30AD_M31AD_M51AD.

I was wondering if there are any free (preferably browser based) games out there similar to GTA or Fallout, where you can explore the WORLD and do prety much what you want?Quote

I was wondering if there are any free (preferably browser based) games out there similar to GTA or Fallout, where you can explore the world and do prety much what you want?

Hi Everybody, first of i want to apologize if my ENGLISH isn't the best. I really try to stick to it the best i can, but my first language is Spanish (and second German).

I'm not sure if this is even in the right category, but i guess its a good place to start. My problem are some MMORPGs i uninstalled year's ago. I realized a while ago even though i uninstalled them through Control Panel, they're data are still on my PC. They have been hidden (not really hidden) all this time and have been eating a lot of memory space. The first game called "Age of Conan" has been taken 24 GBs away and the other one called "Aion" 20GBs.

So i wanted to ask how do i delete all of those files? The GAMES do not appear on my Program list and i'm not sure if i just can go on and delete all of the files. My computer is a ACER Aspire X3990 with WINDOWS 7, Intel Core i3 2100. The game's are under Program Files (x86) (again, they where not really hidden, they are just a product of my laziness of actually checking my programs :b ). In "Age of Conan" what is actually taken away most of the memory space are the RDB files (?) which seem to take away 24,2 GBs alone. On "Aion" it's more distribute between FOLDER's as Objects (9,9 GBs), Levels (5,4 GBs) and so on. Do i have to extract the RBD files or other data's in some kind of way?

I just want to get all of the data off my Computer.
Thank you in advance I hope that this post is in any kind of way understandable
And greetings from Germany If they are gone from add/remove programs in Windows, then they are orphan data and you can simply target the folder and delete them. Aion hides their stuff under NCSoft. Age of Conan I bought way back and it was the worst $50 ever wasted. Tried to unload it onto ebay shortly after buying it but there was a flood of other people unimpressed with the game and they were selling for like $3.00. I simply tossed my AoC game into the trash because $3 wasnt worth the ebay hassle of listing and selling and shipping etc.

I played Aion and love my scout. I uninstalled it and reinstalled it and seen how they orphan data on your system.

Just sharing this here in CASE ANYONE else on the web is looking for a way to run World of Warcraft off of an EXTERNAL hard drive. Up until Legion expansion it use to work for me. But recently BLIZZARD broke the game execution through external hard drive connected via USB and now states an error message on Battle.net stating Execution of World of Warcraft to en external device is no longer supported.

I didnt want to consume 48GB of my SSD to run the game and so I went looking for an alternate way to make this work. Sure enough Blizzard does not verify that the path is linked to a symbolic link and so I am able to install WoW to my C: drive, then move the game to my E: drive which is external hard drive, and then delete the C: installation of WoW and create a symbolic link to the external hard drives path to the game and it works with no error messages.

Not sure why Blizzard wanted to kill off running the game on an external hard drive, but I just cant see it eating up almost 50GB of space to run it on my SSD.

Here is the symbolic link that I used highlighted. My installation is custom to C:\World of Warcraft. Anyone with default installation would have to change the path to MATCH their installation path and change destination path of symbolic link to make it work for them. This below was run on my Windows 7 system and you need to open up the command prompt with runas administrator.

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Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>mklink /D "c:\world of warcraft" "e:\world of warcraft"
symbolic link created for c:\world of warcraft <<===>> e:\world of warcraft

C:\Windows\system32>

Hello,
I'm trying to build a custom map in a game called Empire Earth, the map features a part of the real world and I want to make the map is REALISTIC as possible. I've found a site through other forum posts that let's me select a grid of the map and it will than give me info (amount of columns/rows etc). This link however dates back from 2004, and since than the map where you select a grid has changed, the main point is that you used to be able to download the required info in a .bin file which than later you were able to change to .dat (.dat is needed) by simply typing in a different extension. However now I only seem to be able to download the file I need in .tif, .asc (ascII), .grd or .nc. My question is:
Is there any WAY to change the .tif, .asc, .grd or .nc into a .bin or .dat file? I'm really noob at this, so I don't know which exact info I need that should be in the .bin or .dat files, I just know I need the .bin or .dat file of the particular grid of the map I want. I really need some help here, thank you in advance .

The site with the map I use to select a particular part of the map is this: http://maps.ngdc.noaa.gov/viewers/wcs-client/
(If there are other sites like this that give me the option to do the same but than let me download the info I need in .bin or .dat that is fine too)
Regards,
KiwiId try a converter to make a binary file from an ascii file and save it as a .bin file and see if that helps. However no guarantee it will work.

http://www.rapidtables.com/convert/number/ascii-to-binary.htmThank you, I'll try that. As I said I'm pretty noob at this, can you walk me through how exactly I do this? It asks me to input ascII text input does that simply mean I have to input the file's name? and what exactly is a delimiter string, and waht do I have to input there? Thank you

Regards,
KiwiOkay, I've FIGURED out I had to open the ascII file in a text document, copy and apste everything in there in the coverter. So I tried that, it crashed several times before I was able to do so, simply because there's an enourmous amount of numbers in that file. When I managed to paste all numbers in there, I found out, the text bar where you can paste teh files info is to small to fit all the nubmers of the file I'm trying to convert, it fits in about half of all the nubmers needed. Any IDEAS what to do now?
Thank you,

Dear regards,
KiwiSeems as though due to likely a clipboard maximum character limit within the program that you would need to have a program that read in the ASCII and writes it to file as a Binary file then that doesnt have this limitation. I havent tested this program out, but here is another that might solve this for you.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ttbconvert/Ok, thank you I'll try this

Dear regards,
KiwiOk, I'm not 100% sure this will be a safe download, since there are several reports on severals sites saying that the download site you gave me also puts junkware/malware allong with their downloads. Is there any other program that would be safer?Other than writing your own to do it, your stuck with HUNTING for one that will do it for you. I'm unable to test whether download is safe or not from where I am at... so its best to find one, download it, scan it for malware and virus and if clean and its one that has an installer associated with it to be careful when installing it to not just click next but read all prompts to uncheck unwanted bundleware etc. And then run malwarebytes and a virus scan after just to be sure nothing flew in under the radar.Ok, thank you, I will do that. Thanks for your help so far.

Regards, Kiwi

just RECENTLY my computer was put under repair
when it came out i had a brand new mother board graphics card and ram sticks
but what gets me is that i could play any GAME i wanted and now everytime i launch a game it freezes
If you need more info Please just give me a list of what you need and ill get it for YOUNEED to know make MODEL of motherboard, os version, CPU installed make/model, amount of installed RAM, video card make/model, and list of games that dont play.

One thing in meantime is to run memtest86 to test the RAM out. Just because RAM was installed new doesnt mean they are happy HEALTHY memory sticks.

Hello,

About a year and a half ago I bought a brand new ASUS X450CA Laptop. I'm in high school so I don't have much money. I saved up for two years and bought this laptop on sale from the ASUS website for $950.00

Computer Specs:
ASUS X450CA 2014
Intel Core i7 3537U CPU @ 2.40 GHz
Windows 8
8 GB RAM
NVIDIA GEFORCE 720M Graphics Card



For about a year the laptop worked great. At the time, my internet was quite bad but the laptop always worked fine. I bought it so I could have a GOOD laptop for school work, as well as computer gaming. The game I play on it is World of Tanks. This game is not demanding and for a long time, I was able to play it on minimum graphics with between 60 and 100 fps.

After about a year the computer started gradually getting slower. A quarter of a year ago I tried to download a bunch of stuff that gave me quite a few viruses, a browser hijacker and some other malware and adware. Once I had all that stuff my fps dropped to between 10 and 25 (unbearable). Even just typing in a web page and loading it would take anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes. So, after spending a month endlessly trying to fix it, I put it away on a shelf.

Recently I got it back out and factory restored it. Deleting everything from it and reinstalling windows 8. For 1 1/2 weeks, my computer played World of Tanks and did everything else great again (though World of Tanks was only running at between 50 and 60 fps, that's fine for me). Two days ago my computer went more or less back to the way it was with the viruses and infections. World of Tanks has been running at 15-25 fps which I am unable to play with. All other things on my computer like web pages and watching videos is still fine but gaming is not. I have run several tests and I have absolutely nothing wrong with viruses or anything of the sort. I now only have World of Tanks and google chrome on my computer.

I am at the end of my leash here. I cannot afford to buy a new laptop and I really need this one. If anyone can help me get my computer running well again like it used to I would be so grateful. Please if anyone can help, do so. I'm not that good with computers so I MIGHT not be able to do complicated coding or anything but I will try.

Sincerely, Samuel Parker Have you run speedfan or another temp sensor/display program to check temperatures? If your laptop runs hot it will slow its performance to avoid melt down. Games would be IMPACTED by this, while other use that is not so demanding MAY act normal. Your CPU should be less than 55C and GPU should be less than 60C.i would like to ask are you making sure to keep your drivers updated as a driver that does not have the current updates can ALSO run into problems.

Decided to TAKE a LOOK in the .bin save game file for Torchlight 2 with a binary/hex editor and while it displays the hex to the left side the right side shows ascii and for a value like FF and A0 the ascii shows as . and . yet FE would be like ö and other ascii

Was hoping I COULD write down items in inventory and then try to find their location within the saved game binary file.

Anyone have any knowledge of tweaking saved game .bin files ... is there more to it than just a binary/hex editor to see the files for what they represent without trial and error changing a value and STARTING game and seeing what it affects to MAP out the saved game file .bin file?

IT'S CALLED 'LEONARDO THE INVENTOR'


http://www.elisoftware.org/index.php?title=Leonardo_The_Inventor_%28PC_and_Mac,_CD-ROM%29_Future_Vision_Multimedia_-_1994_USA,_Canada_Release_%28OEM%29

Quote from: bschit on April 13, 2012, 11:26:06 PM

IT'S CALLED 'LEONARDO THE INVENTOR'

what the *censored* do u care? i found this forum looking for the very same game not that long ago

I was just wondering if there was any news about the game you were looking for? I also remember PLAYING the game. I wish I could remember more, but I just remember various activities in the game, such as working my way through a labyrinth, picking up pieces of inventions along the way. After doing so, I was able to build a scuba-like apparatus, and when I finally escaped the labyrinth, I would get in the flying machine and fly away...

There was a game with the flying machine as well, and you had to navigate your way across a terrain full of obstacles without crashing...I just wish I could figure out what the name of the game was and/or where to find it!

Looks like Nintendo might actually make a all-in-one 30-game system available similar to the Atari, Sega, and other older game system all-in-one's finally.

In my collection of game systems, I have the original NES and many games, but I dont play it much because its more of a collectors item now. I have a modern Chinese NES Clone (Yobo) system though that plays the older cartridges and so when wanting to play Mario 3 or some other game I will use the clone box to play the games which is top insertion so that you dont need to blow on the games and pray to play them, that it will WORK without the blue screen flash or garbled pixelated graphics from poor connection between the cartridge and system etc.

It will be nice to play many titles that I enjoy playing in this and then put the original games into safe dry storage. I guess I know what I want to buy myself for Christmas this year.

http://www.dailydot.com/debug/nintendo-nes-classic-relaunch-date/?fb=gkI can see the APPEAL, in particular it's more affordable than most other options (barring PC emulation, which I suppose would be free). I'll probably end up getting one even though it provides me nothing of value as I've got an Everdrive N8.

BTW, I'm pretty sure Blowing on Games is one reason why people have problems with the Original Front-Loader system. Mine still works perfectly- no less reliable than my SNES or N64, and I've never blown in any of my cartridges.I just found out about this a few days ago. I've been wanting to start collecting retro games but I haven't had the money. The NES was my first console, so I'll probably end up getting it. I'm also lazy and hate having to switch games in and out. I don't think even the new consoles can hold 30 games with how big all of the download sizes are.Yes thats another plus to these all-in-one remake systems not having to swap games.

I am just hoping that the ROMs they use for the games are the actual originals and not a modernized ported version that is different. For the Atari 2600 all-in-one which I think has 40 titles, there are some differences in sound and graphics that stand out so its close to the original but different.

I noticed that Duck Hunt as well as other game titles REQUIRING the gun controller are missing from the list of titles and thats because the original games require a CRT display in order to function properly for hit box detection. On my original NES and Yobo clone my gun wasnt working and I thought the gun was broken. Borrowed a gun controller from a friend and still not working. Held gun to the screen and still missed the ducks when back in teh day as a kid doing this was a way to get crazy scores. I then did research online and found that the way the game detects the hit box on the screen it needs the CRT after glow which LED and LCD displays dont do.


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BTW, I'm pretty sure Blowing on Games is one reason why people have problems with the Original Front-Loader system. Mine still works perfectly- no less reliable than my SNES or N64, and I've never blown in any of my cartridges.

When I try and verify the release date of my games it comes back saying that it's not able too an needs too be connected online, HOWEVER, I am connected online and have the most recent of Windows Live.

Dead Rising 2
BioShock
Batman Arkham Asylum
Curious why the release date is important.... is it looking for a build number to test to see if its current for online play to where the games need to be PATCHED to latest for online play and OLDER builds are unplayable? If this is the CASE then you MIGHT be able to manually patch them forward to current.

Hi
I was just wondering what laptops/notebooks people could recommend under £200 for playing football MANAGER 2016 on?
I was playing it on my mums Asus which only cost about £150 I think but that's BROKEN now.
Football manager is pretty much the only GAME I play and the only other things I use a laptop for is facebook, emails etc so really I don't want to SPEND LOADS when I don't use it for much.
I'm not too hot on technical stuff so any advice would be great.
Thanks :-)

Im looking for people to PLAY. Nobody selling it anymore, i got link where to DOWNLOAD, find out what software to USE, because master server dont exist.

here is a GROUP, where I try to GATHER all fans: link removed by allan

I have a Windows 10 laptop and I do not like the Solitaire game that comes with it. Much prefer the ONE a have on my Windows 7 Pro desktop. Is there a way of getting the older Microsoft version of Solitaire on Windows 10, or is there a free Solitaire game to download that doesn't come with a lot of strings attached and malware? I would like one that I could play off line as my internet service here is wickedly slow and restrictive in the MB department. It helps pass the time when I am left on "HOLD" on the phone. Thank youAssuming this is not call-and-response, here is one link

http://download.cnet.com/123-Free-Solitaire/3000-2647_4-10022517.html

I CHECKED it out through the reviews and FOUND that some people had problems with getting trojans and other VIRUS programs with it, and it appears to be used online only. Thanks anyway.

Decided to test out World of Warcraft 6.2.4 on a computer I built that I never intended for World of Warcraft. But curiosity got the best of me and so I installed it to this low power consumption system to see how it would run if it could actually run it.

System Specs:

Gigabyte Socket AM1 Motherboard
Sempron 3850 Kabini Quadcore 1300Mhz 2MB CACHE APU
with Radeon HD 8280 Graphics 512MB with 1507MB shared for total of 2019MB graphics memory available ( 400Mhz )
4GB DDR3 ( 2 x 2GB ) SINGLE-channel because the kabini doesnt support dual-channel 1333Mhz
90GB OCZ SSD
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit OS

At normal running conditions with clock at 1300Mhz for the CPU and all 4 cores active World of Warcraft ran actually very well with normal graphics settings. Frame rate was in the 25-30 range depending on what was being rendered.

I decided to set core affinity to cripple the execution of World of Warcraft down to a single core at 1300Mhz and it still continued to run pretty well. Only a small hit in the frame rate performance so the CPU with only 1 core available was acting as a bottleneck to the GPU.

Then I decided to go into the BIOS and change my multiplier to 8 from 13 which DROPPED the APU, CPU to 798Mhz. Started up World of Warcraft and it ran, load time was longer but once loaded it was running pretty good on all 4 cores active, but the CPU use was pretty heavy for all 4 cores with occasional fraction of a second freeze frames.

Then I set core affinity to a single 798Mhz core for WoW to run on and it still continued to run, but it took a 10 frame per second hit in graphics performance and the game was getting choppy.

Surprisingly the frame rate was about the same between running 798Mhz for all 4 cores as well as running 1 core at 1300Mhz for World of Warcraft.

Pic Below is lowest performance I could cripple World of Warcraft to for CPU at 798Mhz and a single core. Frame rate standing in PLACE was hovering around 18 FPS.


[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]Here is 798Mhz for all 4 cores active for WoW

[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]Here is WoW at 1300Mhz for a Single Core only for its execution

[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]Here is WoW at 1300Mhz for all 4 cores active for its execuition

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I recently played a online game and being accused of using a script or automated bot , is there any way I can look at a log for a time they say I done this , and what programs were running ? I HOPE you guys can help as I furious over this In the future please give your requests for assistance a subject that relates to you question. I've TAKEN the liberty of changing this one from "can you help me" to something more pertinent. THANK you.What Game?

Anyone else using this account other than you?

Most online games such as from Blizzard Entertainment have memory sniffers. The memory sniffer looks for memory address manipulation of otherwise protected addresses that are the target of cheating, it will report back to them and they will ban you. If this was unexpected, I would be checking your system for any MALWARE or virus's that are trying to lift information from your account. A dirty addon module etc in which a gold farmer or hacker is looking for you to type in information that will allow for them to gain control over your account and steal virtual property and wealth as a means to sell it to someone else on BLACK market for real money.

More information is needed as Allan stated.

Generally you need to work out a ban with the game company, the first offense is usually a lock out period to teach a lesson that your system was caught and stop it. They dont permanently ban unless habitual offender or hacking took place in which you really blew it with them to where your too high of a risk to them to allow back in under that same account.

Glad the problem got worked out. I had a strong feeling it was PSU related from the get go. Been there and had problems like this before. Hopefully the replacement PSU is a good quality PSU and you want have a repeat of this problem later if a lesser quality PSU that weakens early in its life cycle.Quote from: DaveLembke on May 20, 2014, 02:47:42 PM

Glad the problem got worked out. I had a strong feeling it was PSU related from the get go. Been there and had problems like this before. Hopefully the replacement PSU is a good quality PSU and you want have a repeat of this problem later if a lesser quality PSU that weakens early in its life cycle.

New to this forum. I'm sure there is a dated thread on this, as I searched and found such, but what are this forum's opinions on Paladins: Champions of the Realms VS Overwatch? I know Paladins has more of a MOBA feel to it, whereas in Overwatch classes tend to dictate the gameplay more, as there are certain situations suitable for certain classes depending on the type of game you are playing, the map,etc.

I have about 75 hours on OW, and I only downloaded Paladins about a week ago, not even, six days. However, I find myself more intrigued with Paladins, playing it MUCH more frequently, and for longer periods of time than when I first bought OW, and I think I'm going to stick with it as far as Hero/XP Based FPS games are around.

Again, thoughts on both games, and why you are partial to one or the other?

Please, don't let this turn into a giant thread about who ripped who's idea....Quote

Please, don't let this turn into a giant thread about who ripped who's idea....

Please, don't let this turn into a giant thread

Paladins: Champions of the Realm is a free-to-play team-based multiplayer first-person SHOOTER video game released in September 2016 as an early access product by Hi-Rez Studios. Within a week of its release on Steam, the game had attracted 800,000 downloads according to Steam Spy and was one of the top 10 most popular games by concurrent users on the service.[1]

Each PLAYER controls a hero character with differing abilities, and they are split into two teams who compete to achieve objectives. In response to accusations that the game is an Overwatch clone, Hi-Rez COO Todd Harris said that "[Overwatch] was not the inspiration for Paladins", and "the game that deserves the most credit is Team Fortress 2".[2]

Greetings!

I enjoy an odd variety of games ranging from different years. Issue being that some games where not programmed for todays operating systems. I recently updated one of my Towers to windows 10 and have no issues with current software but older software has issues. Specifically some games.
Currently ive acquired a new system thats running windows 7 Pro (i dont want to loose the license by upgrading to 10).
Anyways its a peppy little machine so horsepower for these games is not an issue: its a Dell Percision T5400 that has 2 Xeon E5450 CPU's, currently only 4GB of FB-Dimm DDR2 RAm, a AMD HD 5770 1GB and for hard drives 80GB boot plus 160Gb slave.
The games im trying to run are GTA VC, London Racers: destruction madness, NFS underground, and 18 WHeels of steel american long haul.
The issues im having for the most part is white boxes appearing on menu bars and pause menu's while in the game. A different issue in GTA vice city where the mouse doesnt respond and the colours are stuck at 16bit and resolution at minimum without the option of changing them. ANy suggestions? im about to try XP mode in comparability options. Here are impossibilities.
Buy an old PC to run old games. (This is not a joke.) **
Use a Virtual Machine. Modem PCs are so fast that the VM can run an old OS very well.
This is from Microsoft and is free.
Windows 10 virtual machines now available on Microsoft Edge Dev]https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/08/17/windows-10-virtual-machines-now-available-on-microsoft-edge-dev/]Windows 10 virtual machines now available on Microsoft Edge Dev

Does that help?

** Old PCs with old Windows can be bought for under $57 with shipping inside USA and Canada. But you have to locate a proven vendor that will warranty it to work.
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Buy an old PC to run old games. (This is not a joke.) **

I ended up finding a 286 12Mhz system and that system ran it slightly faster but ok when a 8088 wasnt available.

It is interesting how the prices on ebay/craigslist/etc for systems older then around P4 have skyrocketed massively. my suspicion is that it is a speculators bubble, with people buying up 5150's and old PCs up through Pentium II class systems expecting to be able to sell them at a higher price in a few years.

I second that... additionally you can get a good Pentium D or Core 2 Duo system running Windows 7 for under $100 to run older games. If you have older 16 bit games you will want an OS such as Windows XP 32-bit or older.

I have some games that I love to play that just have issues with modern hardware. Everything from games intended for a single core processor that acts up on a multi-core CPU requiring me to set core affinity as a work around on a dual or quadcore newer system such as Unreal Tournament 99 to Diablo 1 and Atomic Bomberman having issues requiring a bug fix to work on Windows 7 and not look like an acid trip.

I have a Pentium 4 computer that was created in 2002 running Windows XP on 1GB RAM with an old GeForce 4 MX440 64MB Video Card for older games that dont play well on modern hardware and OS.

If you have some really old games like I do intended for a 8088 4.77Mhz CPU you can run into a game that plays way to fast because these were built around execution rate of a 4.77Mhz clock and a modern 4000Mhz system would run it that many times faster. I ran into this issue back in the day with my Pentium 75Mhz with games unable to be played unless I ran another program to bog the CPU down to get the games execution rate to slow, but it wasnt perfect. I ended up finding a 286 12Mhz system and that system ran it slightly faster but ok when a 8088 wasnt available.

I have a few P4 boards lying around and a nice C2D intel board. Issue is all these machines have CPU fans that are loud and obnoxious.

Pentium 4 1.7Ghz 768MB PC-133Mhz RAM 40GB HDD
Pentium 4 2.0Ghz 1GB DDR 266Mhz RAM 60GB HDD
Pentium 4 2.4Ghz 1GB DDR 266Mhz RAM 80GB HDD
Pentium 4 2.66Ghz 1GB DDR 333Mhz RAM 80GB HDD
Pentium 4 2.8Ghz HT 1GB DDR 400Mhz RAM 160GB HDD Foxconn motherboard has 8x AGP slot available for video card but the motherboard has 1 swollen capacitor in the integrated sound circuit and a darkened area around a VRM that ran hot near the AGP slot "so I dont trust it".
Pentium 4 3.0Ghz HT 1GB DDR 400Mhz RAM 120GB HDD unfortunately no AGP or PCIE slot and PCI video card is limited its an eMachine. I have a Geforce 2 64MB PCI video card in it, but its a sad motherboard crippled by design to not have an AGP slot.

Celeron D 335 2.8Ghz 1GB DDR 400Mhz RAM 160GB HDD AGP 8x Geforce 6200 XFX brand

Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0Ghz 1GB DDR 400Mhz RAM No Hard Drive Gigabyte Gaming Motherboard supports SLI but only have a single Geforce 7600GT in single slot.

Athlon 64 x2 4400+ 2.2Ghz 1GB DDR 400Mhz RAM dual Geforce 6800GT video cards SLI No Hard Drive

I can't seem too run Skyrim for some reason though, I have newer hardware and surpass the requirements for the game. I just put in a Nvidia Geforce 950, which, plays the game with ultra video. I tried even reinstalling it with still the same problem.

Windows 7 86X, Nvidia Geforce 950, ASUS M5A97 PLUS AM3+ AMD 970/SB950, Kingston ValueRAM 8GB 240-Pin DDR3, AMD FX-4350 Vishera Quad-Core 4.2 GHz Socket AM3+Are you running Windows 7 x86 or x64.... you state you have 8GB RAM. If your running x86 then its the 32 bit which is limited to only using 3GB of the 8GB. Maybe this is a typo.

I'd suggest running memtest86 on the system to make sure that your RAM is healthy. I have had some problems in the past with the kingston value ram. I had a 1GB stick that booted system fine and system ran fine until playing world of warcraft in which the game would crash hard with a memory dump. Sometimes I would get the memory crash event detected by the game client and other times I would get a BSOD kernel dump. I ran memtest86 and it showed that the stick had an issue with a memory address in the 724mb RANGE, so with Windows XP at the time only using about 300MB of RAM and rest of it free, WoW was touching on dangerous memory address. Memtest86 showed that the address should have read back 0101010101010101 and instead it was reading back 010101110101110111. I create a RMA ticket and sent the stick back and they sent me a new stick within about a week and the replacement RAM worked with no troubles.Quote from: DaveLembke on January 29, 2016, 09:15:20 AM

Are you running Windows 7 x86 or x64.... you state you have 8GB RAM. If your running x86 then its the 32 bit which is limited to only using 3GB of the 8GB. Maybe this is a typo.

I'd suggest running memtest86 on the system to make sure that your RAM is healthy. I have had some problems in the past with the kingston value ram. I had a 1GB stick that booted system fine and system ran fine until playing world of warcraft in which the game would crash hard with a memory dump. Sometimes I would get the memory crash event detected by the game client and other times I would get a BSOD kernel dump. I ran memtest86 and it showed that the stick had an issue with a memory address in the 724mb range, so with Windows XP at the time only using about 300MB of RAM and rest of it free, WoW was touching on dangerous memory address. Memtest86 showed that the address should have read back 0101010101010101 and instead it was reading back 010101110101110111. I create a RMA ticket and sent the stick back and they sent me a new stick within about a week and the replacement RAM worked with no troubles.

The only dual boot I have on here is 10 and 7

I think that it was not able too access, alot of the memory

I read in NEWSPAPER yesterday this article linked below. The newspaper made it sound like all yahoo games were getting canned. This info here doesnt suggest all, but that there will be removal of games.

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The company will also streamline its ADVERTISING platforms, close five global offices and shutter businesses that aren't growing, including games

Hi

My PC has intel HD GRaphics

an example of a game I can run perfectly is Euro Simulator 2

can you tell me what other games I can run?

thanksWhat is make/model of computer?

There are MANY different levels of Intel HD graphics older and newerIts a Lenovo B50-30

I believe its Intel HD Graphics 4000Are there any specific game types that interest you and do you have a steam account yet?

I get all sorts of games cheap that most can run on your graphics ABILITY of that laptop through humble bundle. A portion of the money goes to game dev and rest to charity. One example was GETTING 8 games for just $1.00 USD. 2 of the games are fun and the others I gave as gifts to friends by CLICKING to create a GIFT key to give away.Here are popular games
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_PC_games
http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri

you can go to this website and choose a game from the list provided(which is a really big list with hea[s of games) and it will scan your computer and tell you if you can run the game or not

Hi all,

I am abit confused and a noob on how to "correctly" port forward battlefield 4 on the Huawei e8258ws and I cannot seem to do it right.

In this picture below you can see how it looks inside the router, and I am confused on choosing virtual server or special applications. Also, how do I go about filling up the boxes with the right numbers?

Can anyone help, please?

[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]https://help.ea.com/article/online-ports-for-battlefield-4/

Should be able to just configure according to this and get it working.

Note: I was able to google search but unable to check out the site through my internet connection, but all INFO should be there on which ports and what to configure.Thanks DaveLembke, I had managed to get to that web page to get the port numbers earlier, however, I did not know which options should I choose when putting the number in - is it virtual server or special application? and maybe you could provide a little example on how to fill them up.
I have always used static port forwarding. This requires the computer or device on network using this port forward to remain at a fixed static IP address.

The website has the list of UDP and TCP ports. I'd go with static and set this computer or game console to a static IP address. You will need an entry for each port added. Once configured those ports will allow traffic through the internet to that computer or game console specifically allowing communications on those ports. As long as ISP doesnt block specific ports it should work.

Not familiar with that routers interface, but it looks like you go with virtual configuration for static configuration.

You need to enter the info and click add or click add in order to enter the info, then click apply each time to save each line maybe in which the router might refresh or it might be ready for the next port right away. As you add them they will start to list below. In the example I gave port 443 TCP would have been entered first and thats why its listed below. Port 80 is then entered and needs to then be applied to add it to the list. Order of ports entered doesnt matter, but its best to go with ascending to make it easier to look at when troubleshooting with lowest port listed first and highest port last. The common port selection might just be a drop down for common ports like port 80 and 443 etc, not sure what this drop down will give you but a selection here might automatically populate the LAN and WAN port fields. In the list of ports entered I see a Modification column but not sure what populates here so I added ------ as the unknown. The name field you can name anything you like such as BF4. The static IP address entered is 192.168.1.14 this is the IP that the computer or console will be always at. If you dont set the IP to static and its working on dynamic, if the lease is lost for that IP then port forwarding will break as for if the computer or console goes to a different IP address then whatever device gets 192.168.1.14 will be getting that port forward improperly, this can be a security issue if a system that is not properly secured wanders into a port forward. Port forwarding is basically allowing communications through routers firewall to a specific system or device. The system that is connected to the port forwarding is exposed on the DMZ to port probing and hackers targeting specific ports. Some ISP's block port 443 commonly used for FTP.



[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]It is a terrific answer from you DaveLembke and am grateful for it as it is setting me on the right track and clearing some confusions.

However, I still have few questions regarding the issue:

1- I believe the IP the 3G router has given me is 192.168.1.185 as I have seen under Connected devices in the router config. Is this the Static Ip address I have for this computer, because if I went to a website such as canyouseeme, the ip address is different and starts with something like 2.68...etc.


2- The ports number WAN and LAN should be filled with the same number (i.e. in the BF4 port list, there is a 14000-14016 for example, should I fill 14000 in the LAN port and 14016 in the WAN port as some sort of range? or they should be the same in each instance as I did in the screen shot.

Btw, I am unable to add more than 8 ports to the router. I think it is a hardware limitation. Would I be fine with half 4 TCP and 4 UDP ports only?

Regards

[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]It limiting you to 8 ports... hmmm... Id get a different router that allowed for more. As for the only way to get around this 8 port limitation would be to open it wide open with a port range and create a security risk of ports not necessary to to be open for targeted computer at that IP address. The dynamic port forwarding from the looks of it is the only one that allows for ranges to be set. Ive never gone dynamic with any of my routers as for i feel more secure with static values of strict permission. Dynamic to me is too lax of strictness. It will allow looser security. You could get it working, but at a cost of lesser security to systems within your network.

One way to force the computer to always be at a specific IP would be to set the IP address on it statically to say 192.168.1.251. Then alter your DHCP setting for your router to only offer 192.168.1.2 through 192.168.1.250 as part of the DHCP IP pool, and this way no dynamically IP given device will ever be the same IP as this system at 192.168.1.251 as well as yoru computer will even work without the need of DHCP. To do this you go into the network settings for the network adapter and select Use the Following IP Address and then enter 192.168.1.251, then your subnet mask the same as the subnet mask you had when you were connected to router through DHCP given IP address, and use same gateway as that of DHCP issued addresses which is usually 192.168.1.1. You then will want to also set up the DNS with static values as well. Before going in and messing with values you can write down the info from running cmd at start run and the enter IPCONFIG/ALL and press the enter key. You will see an IPv4 address, subnet, gateway, and DNS IP addresses. Write these down. Then go into the adapter properties for the NIC and specify the static information where you will be entering everything you wrote down the same in appropriate fields except for that your IP Address you want to be 192.168.1.251

Remember you need to go in and change the DHCP range to end at x.x.x.250 or else another device could be given x.x.x.251 and have duplicate IP conflict.

There is the local IP address which is 192.168.1.251 and if you go online to see what your IP address is, you will see it as the IP Address that is issued to you by your ISP. This IP Address is the address your modem is connected as, Your router connects to the modem and acts as a gateway to allow your own IP addresses which are in the 192.168.1.2 thru 192.168.1.254 range until the DHCP range is properly ADJUSTED. This is why you see the 2 different IP Addresses. When connecting elsewhere to your computer that has the port forwarding you would be connecting via the IP Address that the ISP gave you, so if your address was 68.103.74.128 and you wanted to connect on port 443 for a file transfer it would look like 68.103.74.128:443 where the colon specifies that the following value is the port to pass the communications over vs standard port 80. Traffic would come into your modem as 68.103.74.128:443 and pass this to the router. The routers firewall will see traffic for port 443 and with the port forward rule would then direct the traffic to 192.168.1.251:443 and to the outside world they dont know your internal address scheme unless there is a script that scans the system that its connected to and reports back the local LAN IP address. If your IP Address issued by ISP is 68.103.74.128 then that is what hackers and others see. and whatever ports or port ranges are added to the rules, those are all the ports that a port probing would detect at your IP address of 68.103.74.128 if your ISP issued IP address that the modem was connected to is that IP address.

I dont want to steer you wrong with dynamic configuration, so maybe someone else here who uses the dynamic setup would tell you the most secure way to carry out this since your limited to just 8 ports. I use DD-WRT on my D-Link router and I havent found a limit yet and I have all sorts of ports open or on hold just needing me to select to activate them for VoIP phone, FTP, and other purposes.

Is getting a better router with better custom configuration options a choice or you have to get by with this specific router only?

EDIT: You might be able to get by more securely with this router keeping the static entries for specific ports and adding the ranged ones in the dynamic option at bottom. This might give you ability to go beyond 8 and maybe 8 static and 8 dynamic ports or ranges for 16 port rules. I have to read thoroughly through your post to get a complete idea but I just wanted to mention that I am the only one connected to this router, I am in a hostel and using a 3G modem as the hotel's network isn't good enough for gaming. I connect to the hotel's network when I am not gaming. Would this make things easier at setting the static IP address for my laptop?With no other devices on the router there is no competition which means you get maximum bandwidth. Setting IP static would be important so that the rule always applies to your laptop vs turning laptop off and turning it back on and getting a different IP address which then breaks the static port forwarding if you leave the network configuration dynamic could occur.I have turned off the laptop and back on and the IP given to my laptop remained the same 192.168.1.185, I do not remember seeing the laptop on other days with another IP address. Is it still necessary then to change the IPV4 settings in the adapter to 192.168.1.185 ? The DHCP server settings has a range from 192.168.1.100 - 192.168.1.200 and the lease time is set to 86400, if I turned that DHCP server off, would I get better bandwidth for my laptop? Also, if I turned it off, does this mean I will lose the ability to connect any other device to the 3G router? You have been a great help DaveLembke .


I have read through your description and in layman words I could summarize what you have thankfully explained by saying that my 3G router has its own IP address(e.g.68.103.74.128) assigned by the ISP and the router in turn spreads out IP addresses across connected devices from a range that can be configured in the router, the DHCP setting (e.g. 192.168.1.185). The port forwarding works in a way that when information is sent through the port(e.g.80) to the IP set to my router (68.103.74.128), the router could in turn send that information through somewhat "better" if I assigned a port ONLY to the IP address the router has given to my laptop. So, in other words, ports acts as a medium that delivers data better between two different IP addresses.

To answer your question about my access to a better router, sadly I must say no. I have been looking for a good 4G modem replacement that has port forwarding but I have not been able to find one yet. Using other kinds of router currently is not possible for me as I am staying in a hostel.

I could do as you said about setting the "rangey" battlefield 4 ports to the virtual dynamic server to overcome the 8 ports limitation with the 3G router, but will it affect security?
One more thing, as you can see the in first picture, there are four options to fill for the dynamic port forwarding. Should I use the same port number (e.g.20000) for " Trigger Port Start" and "Open Port Start", and similarly use (20100) for " Trigger Port End" and "Open Port End"?Quote

I have turned off the laptop and back on and the IP given to my laptop remained the same 192.168.1.185, I do not remember seeing the laptop on other days with another IP address. Is it still necessary then to change the IPV4 settings in the adapter to 192.168.1.185 ? The DHCP server settings has a range from 192.168.1.100 - 192.168.1.200 and the lease time is set to 86400, if I turned that DHCP server off, would I get better bandwidth for my laptop? Also, if I turned it off, does this mean I will lose the ability to connect any other device to the 3G router?

I could do as you said about setting the "rangey" battlefield 4 ports to the virtual dynamic server to overcome the 8 ports limitation with the 3G router, but will it affect security?
One more thing, as you can see the in first picture, there are four options to fill for the dynamic port forwarding. Should I use the same port number (e.g.20000) for " Trigger Port Start" and "Open Port Start", and similarly use (20100) for " Trigger Port End" and "Open Port End"?

Does the router have an option to show it's external/WAN IP address, if so, is this the same as your public IP as shown from websites such as http://icanhazip.com/? Many (or pratically all here in the UK) mobile data providers do not give you your own public IP address, instead they share a single public IP address amongst multiple customers using a technique known as CG-NAT (Carrier Grade Network Address Translation). If they are doing this then unfortunately it is impossible to forward ports from the internet to your local machine.

Hi!

I have a very peculiar problem with all DirectX games (Dirt series, Grid 2, even old Need for Speed); Non-DirectX games are fine (such as Minecraft). The FPS are very low after I upgraded my storage HDD (the OS and some programs are on the SSD, games and some programs were on the HDD) to a SSD. I used Macrium Reflect to clone my storage DRIVE. Here is the step I went through and some info on my storage setup, to better understand the problem (and maybe the cause):

Previous storage setup
C: OS on 850 EVO 250gb (unchanged)
D: Storage on WD Black 1TB (was filled 1/4, is now replaced by a new SSD of 500gb)

• Plug the new SSD (MX300 525GB) on the motherboard, turn on PC
• Format the new SSD, give it drive letter F:
• Clone the WD Black 1TB to the MX300 500GB (Macrium shrunk something to MAKE it fit on the 500GB)
• Turn off PC, unplug WD Black
• Turn on PC, change the drive letter of the new SSD from F: to D: (LIKE the now unplugged WD Black)
• Reboot PC, test games. Loading times are improved, but FPS are very low (20-30 FPS most of games, Rocket League is at 5-10 FPS).

Hello people!

I'm looking for this game for many many years!
I played it on pc maybe in 2004
It was a sort of 3d real time strategic fantasy rpg set in a colourful world.
The camera was on top of the map, you could move it with arrows and select with mouse.

You could hire, equip and grind heroes (warriors, wizards or archers)

In the wizard STORE there was a guy singing "Wands and quivers, quivers and wands, if you look for a chest..."
Monsters are colourful and a bit cartoon style.
Do you remember the name?

Thanks in advance xDLooks like I found your POST elsewhere in August looking for same game. I was hoping a Google search for Wands and quivers, quivers and wands, if you look for a chest would be the key to finding the game title. I dont recall this game or have ever played it and I own thousands of games. Maybe someone else will know.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.166417-Old-Games-you-remember-playing-but-cant-remember-the-name-of?page=579

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Hey people!

I'm looking for this game for about 7 years!

-I played it on pc maybe in 2004
-It was a sort of managerial rpg with strategic commands. The camera was on top of the map, you could move it with arrows and select with mouse.
-You could hire, equip and grind heroes (warriors, wizards or archers)
-In the wizard store there was a guy singing "Wands and quivers, quivers and wands, if you look for a chest..."
-The monsters and the map were colorful

Do you remember the name?

Thanks in advance xD

What are the specifications needed to run ARMA 3 on each setting (if you could say for single player and multiplayer). I also realize that on servers it depends somewhat on how the actual SERVER RUNS. Thank you!

Maybe make a list ex:
Core
Graphics card
EtcIt's really hard to give definite numbers as there are so many variables and different people have different definitions of what would be classed as "running well". Your best bet is to look around on forums/videos to see the actual performance that different people get with different specs of SYSTEMS.

Instead of having to open a SP map by going into the game then TYPING "open mapname" in the console, i'd like to have the game open a given map automatically. I have TRIED creating a new shortcut from the startup.exe and in the target line putting a space after it then tried many things including the following...
-open mapname
open mapname
"C:\path to map" -open mapname"
"C:\path to map" -open "C:\path to map"

Any every variation i could think of. Is there a way to do this. I mainly just play 4 of those old Kantham maps, so i want to have 4 different shortcuts that each open one of the 4 games.What do you get for error messages when trying to run that INSTRUCTION? Does it give any indication that your even close to the correct instruction. Are you sure the game supports this at the command line... as for many games load a service that is then used for interfacing with maps and CHEATS etc.

I am guessing the console interface is within the game itself and not a DOS SHELL environment and that is the problem.

Hello everyone and happy new year,

Can you guys recommend good coop games for PC (preferably FPS), I have been playing call of duty: modern warfare 3 survival with a friend but am tired of all the random disconnections that ruin the experience. I have been checking Payday 2 but also read bad reviews on Steam so I am confused. What do you guys usually play?


My collection of FPS games with coop play as an option is ( Team Fortress 2 , Unreal Tournament 99 GOTY Edition, Counter Strike, and Alien Arena ). These games aren't the newest games out there, but are FUN.

Alien Arena is free and if you against other players your better off vs up against the AI's in the game as for the AI's cheat. If you hide around a door for someone or some alien to enter the room to shoot it in the back, it is unfair in its code that it sees in 360 degrees when entering a room so it turns your way instantly shooting at you. When up against real opponents they wouldnt turn right away to shoot at you like that unless your location was tipped off to them by a teammate. The gameplay against real people is hardcore, so you have to be fast! If your looking for an adrenalin rush and like games that are fast paced this is fast paced. I had better gameplay on the move vs waiting to snipe people.

My all time favorite FPS is Unreal Tournament ( UT99 is my most favorite but graphics are dated ) but there is map editors and people hosting LOTS of custom servers out there to connect to for death matches capture the flags and coop play. About 10 years ago I use to host my own server for OTHERS to connect to. I had a map called Massive Bedrooms as the main map that ran. It was great big rooms that placed you and other players the size of army men and it was like a Toy Story deathmatch. So many great places to hide and snipe as well as ambush people. Climb into Lego houses and run across a bed for extra armor plating or ammo that would spawn because you can run out of ammo if you shoot foolishly to empty your GUNS. Carry as many guns and ammo as you can acquire and select fast with mouse wheel to which ever weapon you wanted as well as right and left mouse clicks were primary and alternate fire so weapons had where you could hold right click and stack up a RPG to shoot 5 at the same time or left click and fire one at a time. If you kept target in sight long enough you could get a missile launcher to lock onto a person and they had to run in a way to avoid it following them to their death. Additionally there is one weapon in the game that is the mother of all weapons. Its just about a nuke. You can lunch it or alternately guide it with missile view. And it doesnt matter if your on top of the target or a foot ball field away from them and other people the shock wave is instant death to any one in the blast radius of it. All sorts of futuristic and some modern weaponry. My server died when the CPU fan seized up on a hot summer day in a home with no AC going and that was the end of serving it up. It was just a weak Pentium III 850Mhz computer with 256MB RAM running Windows XP and hosting the game on a 12GB HDD. The best thing about this game is that it was created around the Pentium III computer era and so you dont need a powerful computer to play it. The game can be obtained cheaply. I bought my copy for $10 on amazon. The game does have some harsh language and wanton to it. If you snipe a headshot the persons head blows off and bounces in a bloody mess. I think there is a checkbox to remove some of the gore, but I never used that checkbox. You can stack kill types such as multiple headshots you will hear a mortal combat type of voice that yells out GODLIKE etc. There are also things about the game that I cant discuss here as for I dont want to promote misuse of the game. I still occasionally play it against others and sometimes just bots in which I will set player count to 16 so its me against 15 bots, then raise the kills to like 50 and go out and have fun.

Team Fortress 2 I played a little bit of, but due to a computer at the time that only met the system requirements of the game when it came out, others with gaming rigs and fast frame rates had advantage over me with 15 to 20 fps and so I havent played that much. These days I have a system that would play it well, but dont have any desire to play it. I have thousands of games some of which have rarely been played and others have been played to death and I keep coming back for more gameplay with them.

Counterstrike I played online against others until people STARTED using cheats with scripts to instant targetlock, walk in the air and snipe you which one guy did, and jump spam scripts to avoid headshots. The cheaters KILLED CS for me. Not sure if they got better at keeping the cheaters out of CS, but I dont like playing games and getting killed with unfair advantage that cheaters have.




I've been playing a lot of Killing Floor 2 lately.
It's a huge improvement over the original in terms of polish, quality and variety, dev team are very active so hoping for some more improvements in the next few months - more maps, characters and weapons are on the way. It was in early access for quite some time and was officially released in November, the community is pretty great too.Warframe!I have been playing dying light recently and it is amazing. Other good coop games in my collection are; evolve, payday 2, left 4 dead 2. All these are good and I recommend giving them a try. (But my most fav game is dark souls although not fps like you want but it is still the best)To add to this... how about a game that is single player but ( self-coop when able to control time ), go back in time and replicate yourself so that your able to coop your character, take on mobs with replication or go overkill and take on a boss or other single monster/target from multiple angles.

Blades of Time is one of my favorites.

I like how the blades cut through the air and distort light and special moves similar to mortal combat to get pretty messy and spatter blood everywhere.

Also it has puzzles where you need to replicate yourself to open a door to let another instance of yourself to walk through before your replication of yourself vanishes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1Pdt2JbsDwYou can try Battlefield of course:) Crysis is good also, the second and the third part.

Greetings,

Ive never done or installed steam yet and was wondering how it all works.
Currently I want to get GTA V on DVD from Staples/Best Buy.

If I buy it there, can myself and my brother both play at the same time? I get it comes with serials but is it one users only or?

I remember GTA IV had a serial and allowed 5 uses of that serial. is the same thing with GTA V?The DVD version comes on 7 DVDs and includes only one activation code. You can install it to more than one system but it cannot be used on more than one PC at a time.The game is intended for one player per license. If the game is available through steam you might be able to get it at a cost lower than that of a physical store copy. I buy discounted games through Steam as well as Humble Bundle Store in which Humble bundle sells games at discount and part of the money goes to charity. Many of the Humble Bundle games give you keys to activate the game on steam. They also sell sometimes DRM Free games where you can download a physical copy as well as use the steam key to activate there as well. Situations with game offerings that are DRM Free and dont require online authentication to play the game, multiple copies could be running at the same time, although your not suppose to.

One game I was very happy to get a DRM Free version of is TORCHLIGHT II, as for when I travel I like to play games while flying and bored. Most airlines I am on dont have internet and so I have to play games that are offline only. Up to that point buying online or buying a physical copy of the game, the game required logging online to play and maintain an internet connection to play it. It was really nice that they made this available for offline play.

It will probably be a long time before GTA V is available DRM Free, as for there is a loss of control in how many multiples can be running it.I don't like the idea behind steam. I'm not getting a physical copy. so if they shut off the server I'm screwed. no installer no iso, image nothing. they install it and run it all. maybe if I got at least the installer file id be a little more happier.

Yes I know its to avoid piracy so don't throw that in my face. Steam has been around for over 15 years. skepticism was warranted at it's introduction but I think at this point- where game software is so large it has to either be put on a Blu-Ray (which few people have in their PC) or several DVDs, it just makes more sense, particularly given it's proven track record of sticking around. If they just up and shut down and left everybody in a lurch watchdog groups would be all over them.

Interestingly, the Physical version suffers from much the same issue anyway; it connects to an online server to check for activation status and if you aren't connected or say the server is shut down, you can't play it.
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Yes I know its to avoid piracy so don't throw that in my face.

Hi. I have a lenovo ideapad yoga 11s. While surfing the web it never gets hot only when I play LEAGUE of legends and especially pokemon tcg online itll get even hotter. I heard theres something that you can change in power options in processor power management but i dont understand that. Should I be worried that my laptop gets hot?Yes. Heat can SHORTEN the life of your laptop. Normally the laptop takes care of the problem. The fan is controller by a heat sensor. But if it really gets hot it will shut down. Has that ever happened?
What do you have under the laptop? It should be a smooth surface that allows air flow. You can get an external fan to help keep it cool, but that shod not be needed. You can just use a cheap desk fan to help cool the back of the laptop.
At Walmart you can get a little fan the runs off the USB.

From Walmart.com: Desk Decor Plastic Shell PC Desktop Cooling USB Mini Fan Pink DC5V 2.5W now just $11.34 on sale.
Does that answer your question?

I saw one of these fans you shared Geek at walmart, oddly it was in the automotive section hanging off of a teaser rack. I call them teaser racks because they are generally used to draw attention of children to a toy of some kind such as in cereal isles in which the parents intentionally avoid the toy isle and need to get cereal and the kids see the toy and have to have it and the parents are stuck dealing with a screaming child or spending $3.49 in which they end up buying something they didnt intend to.

A few years ago all sorts of stuff started showing up that was powered off of USB ports. Everything from Small Desk Lamps or Flexible keyboard Lights, to Coffee Cup Warmers. While I dont think its a great IDEA to use USB ports like outlets for power for certain off the wall accessories such as a coffee cup warmer, this fan as long as it is well filtered and doesnt pull too much power might be ok, however the fans I saw in walmart didnt look very impressive for airflow to be used for cooling a laptop.

The best cooler for a laptop is a cooling pad such as one of these. Im not suggesting to buy this specific one, just showing that this is the BETTER solution. Depending on dimensions of the laptop they might want a different larger model etc. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834953035&cm_re=laptop_cooling_pad-_-34-953-035-_-ProductQuote from: Geek-9pm on September 23, 2015, 06:16:40 PM

Yes. Heat can shorten the life of your laptop. Normally the laptop takes care of the problem. The fan is controller by a heat sensor. But if it really gets hot it will shut down. Has that ever happened?
What do you have under the laptop? It should be a smooth surface that allows air flow. You can get an external fan to help keep it cool, but that shod not be needed. You can just use a cheap desk fan to help cool the back of the laptop.
At Walmart you can get a little fan the runs off the USB.

From Walmart.com: Desk Decor Plastic Shell PC Desktop Cooling USB Mini Fan Pink DC5V 2.5W now just $11.34 on sale.
Does that answer your question?

So I recently Updated to Windows 10 and upon playing Fallout 3 GAME of the year edition VIA STEAM I experience so much freezing that the game almost becomes unplayable. Has anyone else experienced this, or know any fix?What display driver are you using?

What system specs do you have?... if a store bought system ( make/model and any upgrade info )

What do you have for a video card or is it INTEGRATED?

sorry I wasn't more specific but i found a solution. If anyone else is having this problem try this.

Find and open (BACKUP first!) the fallout.ini file in "My Documents\My Games\Fallout3"

Find

bUseThreadedAI=0

change it to

bUseThreadedAI=1

Add this line after it

iNumHWThreads=2

worked like a charm.Good to hear you found a solution and it seems rather simple at that given its just an initialization file change.

Does anyone know how to get a PS4 controller to work with a PC game? I have installed ds4 TOOL and ds4 xinput software it is connected to my pc and works in project 64 but when i TRY to play max payne for pc it does not work at all cant figure out what the problem is. Any help would be much appreciated thanks. ds4 is probably one of the best driver for running dualshock 4 on pc , if that doesnt help i dont know what will

Dualshock WILL work flawlessly with emulators. However it WONT work with all PC games - that i know for sure
it isnt optimized to run with most of games

your best bet is to wait for ds4 dev to release NEXT version if its still in work

Hello, guys!

I'm here requesting help for a FRIEND, (an actual friend) who has low fps while they're gaming.
It started yesterday during League of Legends. First and foremost the specs are as follows:


Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit SP1
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+, Manchester 90mm Technology
RAM: 2.00GB Dual-Channel DDR @ 198MHz (3-3-3-8)
Motherboard: ASUSTek Computer INC. Amberine M (Socket 939)
Graphics: HP w1707 ([emailprotected]), 512 MB NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT (XFX Pine Group)
STORAGE: 232 GB Seagate ST3250410AS ATA DEVICE (SATA)
Optical Drives: IDE-DVD DROM216 ATA Device, LITE-ON DVDRW SHw-160h6S ATA DEVICE
Audio: Realtek AC'97 Audio


The Situation
A few days ago the internet had been off. (Nothing to do with it just background information). When it returned. My friend installed
some windows updates. The updates crashed but the PC was still on. My friend restarted the computer and RECEIVED two blue screens. They tried to do a system restore but it could not be restored to an earlier point, (something prevented it).
Later on once my friend got into windows it said it was restored to a previous version.

Now the problem persists.
My friend had an average FPS in most games. However now it has been reduced to Five or a One and they can no longer receive windows updates. They're neither downloading nor installing the windows updates. Troubleshooting/Fixes did not help.

P.S The temperatures seem relatively cool (40 degrees Celsius) the highest temperatures were the CPU with 48 Degrees and Graphics with 61 Degrees.



Please, if you can. Offer some advice. All help is welcomed and appreciated.



Cryptic.New Clean Install of Windows 7 32-bit
Clean installation of nVidia driver


The system specs are weak, so LoL probably wont play the best on this hardware to begin with. Surprised that it actually was playing in a manner that was acceptable prior to windows update system corruption mess.

Might want to run crystaldiskinfo on the drive too to make sure its healthy. A dying drive can cause game lag and performance loss with data seek delays and virtual MEMORY PROBLEMS. This system with just 2GB RAM is pretty dependent on Virtual Memory for gaming.I shall check this out.

I get an error report and I don't understand what it is telling me when I try to run Minecraft. Can you help?
Please provide more information about your computer and what the error message.Windows Vista Home Basic - Service Pack 2
Dell Inspiron 1545
Pentium Dual-Core CPU [emailprotected] GHz 2.00 GHz
Memory (Ram) 3.00 GB
System 32- bit OS
SOUND Card - IDT High Definition Audio CODEC
Display Adapters -Mobile Intel 4 series Express Chipset Family
Anti-Virus- Microsoft Security Essentials
Windows CD - Yes

Here is the report I get when trying to run Minecraft:

[23:19:19] [Client thread/INFO]: Setting user: Awesome847
[23:19:19] [Client thread/INFO]: (Session ID is token:cb2266d2724b4b7eb4c4007ae32c0472:4a287be141034b708db2d6c73077af37)
[23:19:22] [Client thread/INFO]: LWJGL Version: 2.9.4
[23:19:23] [Client thread/INFO]: Reloading ResourceManager: Default
[23:19:24] [Sound Library Loader/INFO]: Starting up SoundSystem...
[23:19:24] [Thread-6/INFO]: Initializing LWJGL OpenAL
[23:19:24] [Thread-6/INFO]: (The LWJGL binding of OpenAL. For more information, see http://www.lwjgl.org)
[23:19:25] [Thread-6/INFO]: OpenAL initialized.
[23:19:25] [Sound Library Loader/INFO]: Sound engine started
[23:19:48] [Client thread/INFO]: Created: 512x512 textures-atlas
#
# A FATAL error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x27a73ed8, pid=4020, tid=516
#
# JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (8.0_25-b18) (build 1.8.0_25-b18)
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (25.25-b02 mixed MODE windows-x86 )
# Problematic frame:
# C [ig4dev32.dll+0x3ed8]
#
# Failed to write core dump. Minidumps are not enabled by default on client versions of Windows
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# C:\Users\Verno\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\hs_err_pid4020.log
#
# If you would LIKE to submit a bug report, please visit:
# http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/crash.jsp
# The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
# See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
#
AL lib: (EE) alc_cleanup: 1 device not closed
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM warning: Using incremental CMS is deprecated and will likely be removed in a future release

thank youThat is good information. Unfortunately, I know next to nothing about gaming. Hopefully, some will step in here.I don't remember how I fixed for a friend but it has to do with OPENGL, try updating your graphics drivers.

Hi,
I have create a VIDEO by Movie MAKER, CONVERT in MP4,
and I have embeded it on web,
the video turned once not continuely,
do someone tell me how to make it turn non stop ?
thanks a lot !To make the video look you would need to change this in the settings for the player you are using, it has nothing to do with Movie Maker.when I watch my video on my computer, the video is non stop turning,
but after having put on the web, it turns only once,
how do I set the player ?That's because the player on your computer must be set to LOOP the video whereas the web ONE you are using isn't. You will need to look into the documentation of the specific web player you are using to find out how to make it loop the video.I found my solution, very simple

So, I've been playing the Phantom Pain and mostly EVERYTHING runs great on my rig, buttery smooth FRAMERATE at max settings. The occasional pop-up or loading hitch, but mostly great.

So, this is the forth day I've been playing, about 30 hours in, and when I load it up, I see this weird overlay over the shadows and/or black areas.

I'm ACTUALLY at a loss, I've never seen this before on a PC. It reminds me of the lines I would get on my old SNES back in the day.

I seems to come up randomly, so restarting often corrects it, but I'd like to never see it. Any ideas why this is showing up at all? I've attached a screenshot and my DxDiag.txt.

Thanks in advance for any help or even just speculation on what makes things like this happen

[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]Looks like a Graphics card issue. Either starting to fail, overheating, or a DRIVER bug.

I don't KNOW what graphics options are available but if possible you can try disabling Ambient Occlusion as well.