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Do 3rd party expansion cards for Xbox Series S allows me to run games like from internal storage?
I bought an external HDD drive, which I plugged into the USB port on my Xbox Series S. It works fine, but some games can't be run from that storage. This is quite annoying for me. The built-in storage ...
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Were the PS5 disk version console just regular digital version consoles with a pre-installed disk module?
With the recent announcement of the PS5 Pro and the reveal that the console won't even include a disk drive at the launch price of "just" $699.99, scalpers have obviously already started ...
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Ps3 super slim won't turn on after bending power supply pins
My ps3 ss was flickering on screen so someone suggested I open and clean it and apply thermal paste,that didn't work but I got a new problem. During the cleaning I accidentally bent the two power ...
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Plugged a Japanese Nintendo 64 into UK mains, heard a snap and saw smoke come out of power supply. Is console ok?
So very, very stupidly I assumed Japanese voltage is same as UK voltage and happily plugged my recently purchased Japanese Nintendo 64 into the UK mains. I heard a snapping sound and then saw some ...
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Can a cable be used to connect the official Xbox wireless headset to an Xbox Series controller?
Can I use a cable to connect an Xbox Wireless Headset (the official one) to the standard Xbox wireless controller? USB-C to 3.5mm TRRS I guess?
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Is it possible to connect a Nintendo Switch directly to a monitor without the dock?
As the title says - is it possible to connect Nintendo Switch directly, without a dock station, to the screen?
I noticed that I often do something on PC and in the meantime play on undocked Switch. It ...
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How many types of charging ports do Nintendo handhelds have?
I'm sorting through my old Nintendo handhelds and have found that many of them use different charging cables. I've seen at least four different types:
Nintendo Switch & Switch Lite
Nintendo DSi ...
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I get huge FPS drops when I move my mouse in certain games
As the title says, I am getting huge FPS drop in some games.
Currently, I'm having issues in:
Apex Legends
Marauders
7 Days to Die
What's happening is, when I'm not moving my mouse, that the FPS is ...
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Is it normal for GPU utilization to be locked at 100%?
Playing Trek to Yomi and at max on a 3080 and 1440p UW I'm getting close to 200fps, but GPU utilization is at 100% and temps are super high. To optimize for better temps, I tried using the ingame ...
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How do I remove smoke odor from a console?
I recently bought a used Xbox One. It works great with no problems, but even after a month, both the console itself and the controllers have a noticeable odor of cannabis smoke. Nobody here smokes, so ...
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What type of attribute does a controller have to have to play games like Bayonetta for PC?
I am not a gamer. I bought a generic PS2 controller, a really bad controller by the way. I played some games with it normally like Tomb Raider III (Steam version).
I tried to use it to play Bayonetta ...
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What can I do with the Xbox Series S hardware besides gaming and proprietary video streaming? [closed]
The toddlers only love Mario and their Nintendo Switch, they don't touch the Xbox Series S at all. The interest is totally missing.
Now I thought I'd use the hardware for other purposes. With total ...
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Connecting a retro console emulator to a modern tv
I bought a cheap Ali Express NES emulator trinket (more specifically, this one), but the video quality on my 2016 Samsung TV is horrible: colors seem washed out, there is lots of blurring and striping ...
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Xbox 360 with RGH mod and internet
I've already bought Xbox 360S which was modified by RGH. I did some research on the web and I know that Xbox Live is unavailable with this kind of mod.
But how about other functionalities of X360 ...
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How can I attach the bottom to the top of Nintendo 3DS XL?
I took a Nintendo 3DS XL apart to replace the bottom middle portion of the shell because the hinge broke.
I took the bottom and top apart to change this piece. Where they connect is a small hinge on ...
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What are the correct specs for an SNES power supply?
I bought an SNES recently, and it came with a aftermarket power supply. Is this one at the correct amperage, etc.?
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PS4 games not loading faster via SSD
I have a PS4 Slim and just got a Samsung Portable SSD T7 (1TB) drive. The drive has 1050MB/s read & 1000MB/s write speed via USB 3.2 Gen2. I hooked it up to my PS4 and transferred a game onto it ...
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Can a VGA monitor be used with a 16-bit console?
Planning to buy this bad boy - Sega Mega Drive II
The problem: Not sure if it will work with my VGA Monitor. Don't have a TV.
I'm assuming it would work if I buy this AV 2 VGA Converter and connect ...
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In game FPS limiter vs. RTS FPS limiter?
I'm currently using an in game frame limiter to cap fps, so my computer doesn't die. However, the highest limit for that is 60fps. I'd like to cap the fps at 100-144, ideally.
It seems that RTSS lets ...
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Can my laptop run a game if it doesn't meet the minimum requirements for the graphics card? [duplicate]
I have a Inspiron 153000 which does not meet all of the minimum requirements for a game that I wish to download. It meets the minimum requirements for the CPU, memory and meets the recommended ...
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Why does Half-life Alyx crash to desktop every few minutes?
Other games are fine, but Alyx crashes to desktop every 10 minutes or so, or sometimes even restarts.
At first I couldn't even get past the menu. Googling told me to update the Oculus software on my ...
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Unable to highlight discrepancies reliably with the touchpad. Why is this happening?
I'm trying to highlight discrepancies with the Vita touchpad, but it only works for less than a second so I have to smash it to get the "Interrogate" option to appear.
Why is this happening? ...
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Could I switch out the shell on my GBA SP (AGS-101) with the intact one from my other console (AGS-001)?
I have a backlit console (AGS-101) with a broken shell. Console still works. I have a frontlit console (AGS-001) with an intact shell. Can I put the AGS-001's shell on my AGS-101?
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How does unavailability of a gyroscope affect gaming?
I am aware that most games use accelerometer data for phone orientation (eg, temple run). But most AR/VR/MR games require gyroscope. How does it help in the games? What are the methods that can be ...
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Is 90°C too high for GPU and CPU whilst gaming?
I have an HP laptop with Intel i3 5005u CPU and Radeon R5 M330 2GB GPU. When I play games both the CPU's and the GPU's temperatures get up to 99°C and mostly stay above 93°C. Should I continue playing ...
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Do external coolers really help with noise?
I saw on the internet some external coolers for PS4 which are prepared to install on the back of console. Does this solution really help with reducing the noise of the working console? During play ...
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What is the record word size for a gaming system?
Related: What does 8-bit / 16-bit actually refer to?
I remember the "bit wars" of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The Genesis/Mega Drive and the PC Engine/Turbografx-16 were heavily marketed ...
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How to determine if Xbox 360's DVD drive has mismatching DVD key?
My Xbox 360's DVD drive has broken, so few days ago I ordered a new one.
When it arrived I started checking if it can read game DVDs properly. As it turned out, it cannot. I assumed drive which I ...
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Problem with holding down the mouse buttons (SVEN RX-G740)
I recently bought a new SVEN RX-G740 mouse and during the game I noticed a small problem. If I hold down a click on the right and left mouse buttons at the same time and release one of them, then all ...
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How does the Nintendo 3DS play DS games?
Games for the original Nintendo DS run, and have always run, on Nintendo 3DS hardware. I've been trying to read about how this works but am not really finding anything definitive.
How does the ...
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Does PlayStation 2 slimline have USB 2.0 ports?
I know the classic (fat) PlayStation 2 has two USB 1.1 ports.
Has Sony upgraded slimlines' USB ports (in particular SCPH-90004) to 2.0?
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Do Nintendo 64 motherboards fit in any revision N64 case?
I have an original launch Nintendo 64 that I took good care of over the past 25 years, but alas it now exhibits the random reset issue. I narrowed the issue down to the motherboard. Newer revision ...
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Why is reading/writing memory cards slow in PS1 emulators?
Speed of flash memory and other storage has improved quite a bit since the PS1 days—and now some emulators can provide higher-than-native reading speeds when loading a ‘CD’ in a game (e.g. PS Vita's ...
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Battlefield 2042 is limiting threads and process priority
On a 2600x 6-core 12-thread CPU the game is using only 8 threads at 100% usage with other 4 on idle.
You cannot change/unlock or do anything with e.g. Process Lasso, it is hard-locked at 8 threads ...
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Why is Microsoft selling physical media games for Series S?
I am confused as to why the following products exist:
Why is Microsoft selling physical media games for Series S when there is no disc drive on Xbox Series S?
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Intense lagging while playing games (Space Engine)
I have played SpaceEngine (NOT Space-Engineers) on my laptop for almost a year now without any problems. However the game has started experiencing a lot of lag for the last one month. I opened up task ...
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Is possible to win a game of Yankee Doodle in the Vita version of the game? (touchpad usage)
On the PS3 version of Project Diva f 2nd, you play Yankee Doodle by moving the analog sticks and pressing L3/R3 when required. On the Vita version, you have to slide or tap the screen which makes it ...
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Gigabyte Gpu GTX 960 suddenly too slow for dx9 games
All of a sudden, games using direct X 9 are too slow and stutters with around 10-20 fps, while the gpu is working at 99%. The exact games used to function a week ago reaching 100+fps and without that ...
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Cannot use Rapid fire button with RMB
Hi there I wanna know why I can't use my rapid fire button after I hold RMB on my gaming mouse.
Ther Rapid fire button works perfectly fine but when I hold RMB to use ads and fire a semi auto weapon ...
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Are low profile GPUs better than laptop GPUs or are they same thing?
I'm overwhelmed by the different types of GPUs. Recently I came to know that laptops have different GPUs that have lower power consumption and are smaller in size.
But no matter how much I tried to ...
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How to recover "hidden" games after rebuilding my PS Vita's database?
I rebuilt my PS Vita's database from Safe Mode and most of my games were missing when it rebooted, even though they were still taking up system data according to the system's content manager. I had ...
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Xbox Series S NVME M2 drive doesnt work. How to replace the SSD NVME M2 Drive?
I bought another NVME m2 drive from ebay that is 512GB and did a clone from the Series S nvme drive using Macrium Reflect. And the system would just turn off when I press the power button. Anyone have ...
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Override the PlayStation 4 DualShock Controllers in Windows 10
I'm using a PlayStation 4 DualShock controller on Windows 10. I want to change the controller behaviours for the operating system as a whole.
I want the "O" button to be "pressed" ...
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PS2 disc barely spinning read error
I recently bought 3 old used ps2 discs, and all of them get the same error. "The disc could not be read." I am using a ps2 slim. Some games work on my ps2, but all of these dont. The ...
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Why shouldn't a Vita Game Card be used or stored in a vehicle with the windows closed? (as specified in the manual)
Found this interesting part in the Digital Manual of Gravity Rush:
Do not use or store the game card in the following locations or under the following conditions:
In a car with the windows closed (...
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What does the little yellow minus mean on the psn?
When on the PlayStation network sometimes I find that I or my friends have a yellow minus instead of a blue circle or a red "X". I thought this might mean the power is off but I find that I ...
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How do I check if my GPU supports Raytracing?
while browsing a particular website I came across this notice on a page for Metro Exodus
ATTENTION! ENHANCED EDITION WORKS ONLY ON GPUs WITH RAY TRACING TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT!
IT WILL NOT LAUNCH ON ...
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Does the PlayStation Store still work on PS Vita?
Is it true that PlayStation Store will not work on PS Vita?
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How to put a PS3 super slim hard drive into a new console? [duplicate]
My PS3 Super Slim bricked beyond repair, and i really wanted to find a way to salvage all the data inside its hard drive so i could possibly use it in a new PS3 if i ever buy another one. My console ...
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Can run 4k60fps but not 1080p 60fps [closed]
I started one of my games and noticed it was a bit choppy.. the game looked a bit too good to be true so I checked the settings and it was running in 4k. I run all my games in 1080p because 4k on max ...
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