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Okay I'll look into that, thank again for the advice, I really appreciate it. I'll give it a shot anyway and see how it goes. Maybe @lvt was right, maybe I am just better off just building another PC lol

I don't mind games that don't hold your hand though I do admit sometimes those types of games do frustrate me, but then I just turn it off and go play something else that's mindless and easy then come back to it later :) I was interested in Bannerloard but the reviews where not great from what...

Well that really sucks, I'll give it a try anyway just to see how the games run. If there are "convoluted ways" around it, I'll have to look into that and see if it's worth my time to mess around with. I appreciate everyone's advice so far, I am learning now, thanks to you all.

I actually have Kingdom Come Deliverance on my Steam wishlist and I do love games that take place in the middle ages. I do own and love games like Medieval Dynasty and Mount and Blade, Warband, just a couple examples. I will have to pick up Kingdom Come Deliverance for sure. I kind of forgot...

Thank you for the suggestion, sounds like a very interesting title. I will certainly check out Escape from Tarkov.

From what I've read, the sites I mentioned say that the games they have are donated by the developers to the abandonware sites.

You mean I can't install Windows 7 drivers for my graphics card in a VM? I honestly didn't know that. I thought I could just install Windows 7 version of all the drivers I need. Yes there are games that run fine on Windows 7 but not Windows 10 and games that run better and have less issues...

That's a really good point. I forgot a VM is completely cut off from the main system. I don't plan to download from suspicious sources. These are games I own through platforms like Steam, GOG and Epic. Also some games are from legit abandonware sites. Even though running a VM would keep my...

Because running a VM is a heck of a lot cheaper :)

I use Windows 10 but I want to create a Windows 7 virtual machine using Hyper V Manager for running older games that are not Win10 compatible or don't work well on Win10, I have a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate I want to use. I've never run an OS that for which support has been discontinued so I...

The days of buying game on disk at a brick and mortar store are gone, it's the digital age now ;) There's also Ubisoft's Connect, Microsoft's Game Pass and EA has their own platforms but they are not as good as the platforms John mentioned. Steam is the most widely used game store platform in...

Here's a couple places where you can find old "abandonware" games for free. Many are for PC but there's also many old console games too (you need to learn to install and use an emulator though to play them on PC). https://oldgamesdownload.com/ https://www.myabandonware.com/ I found many...

I've always sucked at finding easter eggs in games, it's pretty rare for me to find any in any game. One of the coolest easter eggs I ever did find in a game though was in the game Anno 1800 when I accidentally pressed Ctrl + Shift + R and suddenly the camera zoomed all the way down from the...

I never tried any of the Tom Clancy games though I have heard good things about them. I've thought about trying Tom Clancy games before, I just never pulled the trigger (pun intended). I'll check it out, thanks for your suggestion.

Hi, I'm looking for any suggestions for good, realistic, single player FPS games. I prefer war FPS games, especially WWI & WWII, but I'm open to modern war games and even non-realistic FPS games like Doom or Quake too. Right now I own these FPS games: Easy Red 2 Battlefield games The original...

Okay I see now, thank you.

Thank you all for you advice, I really appreciate it. I never thought of a USB hub, that's a fantastic idea. I do have one already but it doesn't have individual switches for each port which is what you guys are talking about right? Use the individual USB hub port switches to turn on/off...

Hello, I am an avid gamer that enjoys many types of games, including flight simulation and sim racing for which I have hardware for. I also have an Xbox gamepad for other types of games. I have multiple devices plugged in like joystick, rudder pedals, throttle quadrant as well as the Xbox...

Makes sense to me. Thanks to everyone here for the advice, I really do appreciate it.

Ok I see, thanks for explaining this to me. I realize the improvements are usually small but they are noticeable to someone paying attention to CPU performance like I do. I don't believe there is hidden performance to unlock, I just always thought that updating the BIOS coding can sometimes...

Thank you for explaining this to me, now I really understand what those particular updates do. I originally bought the 5800X (which is the best possible chip that my board supports) when it was first released and compared to the first BIOS version MSI released for the X470 board that had Ryzen...

This update note makes me think so: "AGESA ComboAm4v2PI 1.2.0.A. update." I don't know a lot about BIOS stuff but I've read somewhere the AGESA updates can improve performance on CPU's. I know that I've seen CPU performance improvements before when they updated that. I could be wrong or...

I have an MSI X470 Gaming Pro Carbon and MSI has been very slow with BIOS updates for it (probably cause it's an older board) and the last version I updated to was released back on 08-05-22 and it was a final release version. On 05-18-23 they released a new Beta version, I just checked on...

Personally I always keep Windows updated, as well as all my drivers and it really didn't help things in my case though it probably kept my OS install from crapping out on me totally lol You are right though, many people neglect OS updates and it's a big mistake imo. It will cause even more...

That's interesting, I didn't know disabling and re enabling the page file could help. I guessing you mean on HDD's not SSD's. I have an SSD as an OS drive now and I trim all my SSD's often though I do have a couple HDD's too that I use for games (that don't require an SSD) and for storing...

You are correct but it still worked regardless. I put off reinstalling Windows for way too long and after I finally did it, I keep kicking myself for not doing it sooner because it fixed 99% of the problems I was having and it could have saved me many hours of frustration trying to troubleshoot...

Not to hijack this thread but I have a video capturing related question. Does the size of the bit rate really matter anymore with so many people having fast internet connections these days? If so, than what is the best bit rate that is not a bandwidth hog but still offers the best quality...

If you have an older Windows installation it could be the cause of your stuttering. I had a Windows install that was getting really old and I kept getting stuttering in more and more games unitil I finally broke down and reinstalled Windows. Once I reinstalled Windows, Bingo, all the...

There's three thing's I've been into lately: 1. I would have to say Anno 1800 is one of my most favorite game's of all time and one I still play often. I take a break once in a while to play some other things but I always end up coming back to it. I own most of the content for the game (most...

Thank you for the link, I appreciate. Reading the guide on how to do it, there's a lot of steps involved. I hope I don't screw it up lol

Hello, I recently purchased an old Epic game called Space Empires III. In the UI it has menu options to open help for the game but I get an error message when I try to open them. I did a little research and found that the game uses the WinHelp (xx.hlp) format and the WinHelp feature was never...

I haven't heard of Speccy or Open Hardware Monitor, I'm definitely going to give those a try. I forgot Afterburner has one built in.

You absolutely should uninstall Advanced System Care. It is complete trash along with all other IOBit software. IOBit is a very shady company. It's often flagged by anti-virus's because it is a borderline virus\spyware . It actually slows down your pc and using its "tools" you can easily...

Very doubtful the manual will help. Unlikely they would cover such a rare and specific issue. Best thing is contact the manufacturer to see if they can sell them to you or find aftermarket brackets that fit (this is a hair pulling task) If not you're last option would be to check eBay. If...