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  1. Heyo91

    Question All games whitescreen upon opening the window, all uility apps (edge, chrome, steam) work fine.

    Specs: Windows 11 home MSI b650 gaming plus wifi mobo RTX 7900 XTX GPU Ryzen 7 7800 x3d CPU WD Black 2tb m.2 nvme Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR5 5200 mHz (2x16gb) NZXT C1000 PSU I've built this pc a week ago and it won't run games. They will open the window and immediately stop responding. Edge...
  2. H

    Question My CPU is getting stuck at 1.6 GHz when I'm gaming ?

    Hello, I own a laptop equipped with an Intel i5 8th gen 8250u processor and an MX 150 4GB VRAM graphics card. Normally, when performing tasks such as browsing and general computing, my CPU boosts up to 3.4GHz. However, as soon as I start gaming, the CPU frequency gets locked at 1.6GHz, which is...
  3. NickyDubz7

    Question All games look very grainy and pixelated? How do I fix? (read description)

    Hey yall. Just a few days ago, when I turned on my PC, my monitor was tweaked out and there was something wrong with the resolution. Ended up fixing it and now in every single game that I open, it looks extremly grainy and pixelated. It has never done this before and just a few days ago, all of...
  4. C

    Question Differing Game Latency on two gaming pcs

    Hi All, So I've just moved into an apartment with my partner, we currently have our rigs set up in the living room about 5 steps away from our router. We both like to play online games but for some reason, even though my PC is 1 step away from hers, my lag/latency is much higher than hers to...
  5. jnjnilson6

    Discussion Processors and the Melancholy Hours

    What are the most melancholy hours for you in terms of computing? Would they stretch back to the mellow light-induced evenings enlightened by 386/486 CPUs? Would that be the Pentium era? Do you still remember vividly particular games and times: like when the sunlight sank deeply over sharpened...
  6. Loopsuit

    Question Blank screen on games’ startup

    Hi! My issue is, when I have both integrated graphics and gpu enabled in device manager, a lot of games have a blank screen on startup. If one is disabled, the games will work but are lagging. I have tried updating both drivers, to no avail. What could be the reason for this? Specs: CPU -...
  7. S

    Question My GPU Clock frequency is at maximum in some games and at minimum in others.

    Hi. My problem is that my GPU Clock Frequency is at maximum (1366mhz) in some games, and at minimum (300mhz) in others. I need my GPU to use the frequencies I need when I really need them, not to use the maximum unnecessarily I've never had this problem before. I always take care of the...
  8. R

    Question Intel® Core™ i7-13700KF Crashing games

    Most modern AAA games will randomly shut down whenever I play.. And this is a brand new pre-built I bought from a well respected company here in Denmark. I asked them what to do about the 100 Degrees it was reaching, but one of the lead guys told me that it was totally normal.. But it doesn't...
  9. A

    Question PC keeps crashing quite randomly after new GPU install and Case switch

    Hey Guys and Gals, I recently upgraded my PC to a GTX 4090 and due to the sheer size of this beast I had to upgrade my case as well. Nothing else really changed. After setting up the new PC I installed NZXT CAM and ASUS Armoury crate for RGB lighting control. I did not had that installed...
  10. Atternok

    Question Games keep stuttering and end up crashing even with all the proper drivers.

    I built a new PC with my old GPU recently. My old one's motherboard got short-circuited and burnt away. I used the RAM and the GPU from the old one onto this new one. SPECS: i7 10700F CPU GTX 1650 GPU 8GB RAM G-skill ASUS H510M-E mobo ANT Esports 450W PSU Kingston SSD 250GB Seagate 1TB HDD It...
  11. JuliusK

    [SOLVED] I need help with the black bars when launching a game

    The black bars appear when I start a game and tab out of it and they stay until I close them then the whole desktop looks like this
  12. G

    Question Weird lag in games

    Hello, whenever I start playing games, everything is fine for about 10 minutes, after that the gameplay gets worse and worse, I need to take a break so it gets back to normal, but after 10 minutes it starts lagging again. It happens BOTH on pc and ps5, i always check temperatures and usages and...
  13. KRSx360

    Question Playing games in fullscreen or borderless window causes videos in browsers to lag ?

    Every time I play a game in fullscreen or borderless window the video I'm watching starts to lag but if I launch games in windowed mode it fixes the issue.
  14. Prxxi

    Question Network issues in some games

    I was hoping someone could help with connection issues in games. I've got a wireless internet connection into my apartment (because they dont have wires installed throughout the house) but ive got a cable running from my router to my pc and ive experienced a few connection issues in some games...
  15. olat_dragneel

    Question Monitor Refresh Rate reverts to maximum when playing Ryujinx in fullscreen ?

    Hi! I am experiencing an issue with the refresh rate when running Ryujinx in fullscreen. I have a 144Hz LG monitor, but since emulating in Ryujinx works smoothest with 60Hz, I change the refresh rate of my monitor before I play. The problem is, as soon as I run Ryujinx in fullscreen, the...
  16. rainybench

    Question I’m having this problem where some games start crashing suddenly. Pixelated screen then restarts.

    So, my pcs been acting up lately. Everything was fine before but now, games are crashing, YouTube videos aren’t loading etc. mostly, my problems are with games. For example, I start Valorant and it stays on for a few seconds then it suddenly gets pixelated and then restarts the system. I ran...
  17. Korzen41

    Question I need HELP! I have a problem with my pc, it shows very high cpu(ms) and gpu(ms) it results fps drops to even 2 fps

    Hello i have a problem with fps issu in my pc, my graphic card and cpu ms shows very high values. Result of this high values is a lot of drops in games, you can see at picture from ac odyssey where this values near 500. screen from game My pc specs is: GPU: RTX 2070 windoforce 2x gigabyte CPU...
  18. itsthehunt

    Question HP Laptop starts freezing randomely when plugged in only

    I have a problem with my HP 250 G7 laptop that starts freezing randomely when plugged on battery and everytime i run a game on it even sometimes when not plugged, at first when i bought it last year it was working well but since last 2 months this problem started occuring i thought the problem...
  19. Iver Hicarte

    Question FPS Starts to Drop when 3 or more games are simultaneously open, what system component should I upgrade?

    I have this habit of opening 3 or more games simultaneously so that way if I ever get tired of playing a game, I just move onto the next one open. I've noticed that when there are 3 games open, specifically Yakuza 6, Team Fortress 2 and Resident Evil 4, the FPS drops especially in RE4, so the...
  20. farsha

    Question Pc stopped using the graphic card after a crash.

    I was playing quietly when suddenly the PC crashed, so I had to hold the start button to restart it. I played again, and it happened again two times in arrow, until I decided to see what was happening, and I saw that the PC started to use 100 % of the CPU when opening a game. Furthermore, I...
  21. CursedHarold

    Question Open and close a program depending on a game ?

    Hi, this is my first post, so please correct me if I'm in the wrong category etc. So basically I am trying to modify the code from this thread: - https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/how-to-close-and-open-a-program-when-another-program-opens-and-closes-respectively.3301639/#post-20193797...
  22. shadowgameur57

    some of my games stutters on windows 11

    hello i have a little problem you see in only a few games steam games or no steam games i have stutters in these when i'm playing them in fullscreen can somebody help me?
  23. mora06

    Question Cursor acceleration pc, losing smoothness

    Hello guys, Context : i am a fps enjoyer and i can't aim with this! Sorry for bad english ! It's happening of both of my pc so i don't think this is a hardware problem but who knows. I'm posting videos who shows the problem on windows and on games where i shake my mouse for 5 seconds and...
  24. aracua

    Question Games keep crashing on new PC build

    So i built a new PC pretty recently and have since then had problems with games crashing a little too often. It's mainly newer games on the more demanding side that keeps crashing and at first i thought it was the games themselves that had problems but with the amount of crashes i get i'm...
  25. maksiks

    Question Any good hyper lightweight recording programs?

    I am searching for a lightweight program to record games (mainly just Minecraft), I usually have somewhat stable fps but not on recording while using OBS. Shadowplay doesn't exist on my graphic card, Xbox Game Bar doesn't work either. Anything actually lightweight I can find is either under a...
  26. C

    Question Black rectangle present in certain games (not related to aspect ratio)

    I've run into a strange problem that I've never seen before. While playing certain games, there's a black rectangle that appears on the left-middle part of the game's display. Here's a couple of examples: View: https://imgur.com/a/QJaWaVt View: https://imgur.com/a/1FTFA6C This issue...
  27. Camfred30

    Question Rocket League overlay bug - - - - grey circle ?

    my friend has this weird issue on whenever he enters freeplay on rocket league he gets this grey circle overlay and it changes size whenever he changes resolution, want to know how to get rid of it. cannot find anything online over it. ive attatched a link to what it looks like. thank you
  28. G

    Question My PC And Games (Handle)

    Hello, So my PC is GTX 770 And AMD FX 8320 and I know it is a very old pc and the parts are very old but I was wondering if is it still decent for old games? Like the games that don't require much for example hidden object games and those other games that are not demanding? Thank you
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    Question All games freeze randomly

    Hi, after a Nvidia gpu driver update, all of my games started freezing randomly, like 5 seconds fluid gameplay, and then a freeze for 1 sec. It also happens more frequently when I rotate the camera inside the game. I tried DDU, clean gpu driver install, but it didn't work. Can you help me...
  30. Inver_ShaRingan

    Question Can M.2 NVMe cause stuttering in games ?

    For some reason games installed on my Crusial P3 Plus (PCiE 4.0) 3.0 in use as 10th Intel doesn't support 4.0, games stutter. I9 10900k with Two tower cooling 16gb 3600mhz cl16 Crusial Ballistix RTX 2070 strix Z490 Msi gaming plus While installing something, when this drive was used as...
  31. W

    Question List of pc games for my core i3 laptop

    List of pc games for my core i3 laptop Device name DESKTOP-STS4S9D ( dell Inspiron 15 3501) Processor 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-1115G4 @ 3.00GHz 3.00 GHz Installed RAM 12.0 GB (11.7 GB usable) Device ID 0F9807FA-A853-4010-BBCA-4048AD0D4885 Product ID...
  32. STORMER_IX

    Question Fps dropping when moving mouse and in general low fps

    I wanted to find out why my pc is underperforming and why I get frame drops when I move my mouse in a game. I'll answer questions in the comments Specs: CPU: Ryzen 5 5600G GPU: RTX 3060 Mobo: MSI B550M Mortar PSU: EVGA 700W Gold Memory: 8GBx2 SSD: Samsung 980 HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 1TB...
  33. helpforlostgames

    Question Can't find a game from playstation 2 or 3

    Hello fellow gamers, In the approximate period of 2011 to 2014 (don't remember the year) my brother had a PS 2 or 3 with a couple games that I loved as a kid. I'm trying to find some of them, see if there maybe is a version for PS 4 or 5 so I can play them again. Details of game 1: The CD...
  34. Texashuman

    Question Heroic Launcher in Linux on Chromebook

    I have no idea what happened. Logged completely off the Chromebook and back on and now the Heroic Launcher is in a LINUX APPS FOLDER and it ran and I was able to log into Gog and Epic. I just purchased an Acer Chromebook Vero 514 - CBV514-1H-55VP Activating the Linux was easy. I set it for 40...
  35. VermilionNeko

    Question Can’t use PS4 controller on Windows 11 ?

    Hi I’m really stuck with this. I recently bought a new gaming laptop over Christmas and very recently started setting it up. However, one thing I can’t get working is my PS4 controller. I’ve yet to try my Xbox 360 wired controller, so once I have, I’ll report back about that. The PS4 controller...
  36. LadyLoztris

    Question Which games could potentially run on my netbook ?

    FIRST POST: Mind if you guys tell me which games could potentially run on my netbook (Upwards to 1995-2005) DETAILS: Intel(R) Atom N450 @ 1.66 GHz. Intel GMA 3150 2 GB of RAM Windows 7 By the way, I tested Lego Racers (1999) in that netbook, and it ran well, so some games from the 90s will...
  37. P

    Question Games crashing/computer crashing

    So I've been having problems with games crashing, and some of those times my entire pc either black screening or blue screening. The images attached are slightly old, the differences are that now i have a top intake and a front intake for a 360 aio liqiuid cooler. So i didnt have these problems...
  38. StarFoxGM

    [SOLVED] Low Frame Rate on High End PC

    Hello. I recently upgraded my PC with an RTX 3060ti and a Ryzen 7 5700x (temps are normal), but I still get 50-60 fps in games like Warzone 2 or Battlefield 2042 and similar. What can I do to fix this problem?
  39. R

    Question Why are my games crashing that use Unity and Unreal Engine ?

    Hey all, I'm hoping to find help here. I've had these issues plague me for so long and have scoured the internet to find fixes, but none of them seem to help. I'm running out of ideas and this is one of my last ditch efforts to find some way to resolve the issue. It seems when I play any Unreal...
  40. P

    Question I've got a super strange problem.

    One day, my PC hard crashed, the screen was stuck, no bluescreen etc. couldn't even turn it off. So I unplugged it from the wall. Then I tried plugged it back in, and tried to start it. No display output, cpu LED red, ram LED yellow. So I disassembled the whole pc, built it back together to make...