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How can I stop games from reading your RAM?
How do I stop Warden-type programs from reading outside the game's allocated RAM?
There is no way to prevent anti-cheating mechanics from preventing you from cheating. Attempting to disable Vanguard ...
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What is the expected behavior when holding down two keys on a keyboard?
Anti-ghosting only comes into play when at least three keys are pressed — it's irrelevant for only two, so it doesn't matter here.
And for USB keyboards, key repeat behavior is dependent on software, ...
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Combine GPU calculation power
Short answer is: "No, you cannot combine Nvidia, AMD, Intel, etc different vendor GPUs".
Longer answer is that you can combine two or more GPUs from the same manufacturer if they are supported.
Ie. ...
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How can I stop games from reading your RAM?
Dual boot
Some have suggested virtual machines, but those have poorer performance and are well, not real machines, so they might fail at running the software at all (as suggested in other answers).
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Is there any way of improving Doom graphics when running it on DOSBox?
If you don’t like the blocky, rasterized graphics you are seeing when attempting to play Doom in DOSBox, the better alternative is to use a native OS interpreter of the Doom engine such as GZDoom; a ...
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What Alt+f4 actually does? Will using it frequently cause any harm to the system?
alt+f4 is a built-in OS shortcut which, when triggered, will send a SIGINT signal to the process managing the active window. SIGINT (as for signal interrupt) is a signal meant to tell the process that ...
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What is the expected behavior when holding down two keys on a keyboard?
In order to answer this question, one must understand how keyboards work.
If you look back to the earlier keyboards, you will realize that the plug has only a few pins on it, not the same number of ...
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How can I stop games from reading your RAM?
You may run them in a virtual machine.
You may lose in terms of performance (it depends on the program requests), but you can usually afford to have even more than one virtual machine (dedicated to ...
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How can I stop games from reading your RAM?
These types of programs use published Windows API to survey executing tasks.
They may also do DLL injection
to incorporate their own code into executing tasks and access their memory,
or Hook Windows ...
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Is it possible that AC mains (UK ~230V 50hz) could cause micro stutters under load in modern PC's on potentially noisy home sockets?
Short answer: no
Long answer: The PSU converts the 50/60Hz AC into a near-perfect DC, with the remaining ripple being well above (orders of magnitude above) a few Hz. You could of course use an 48VDC ...
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How to lower the ping on WIFI for better gameplay?
According to your answer, the router is outside the room where the computer
is situated, and there is a very big difference when the door is closed
or open.
When the door is closed, ping times are ...
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Game has taken over my computer
When you pressed the power button, you did not “power down” (as in shut down) the system. Instead, you activated a power-saving mode that saves whatever you’re doing to disk so it can be restored even ...
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Replacing Core 2 Duo processor with Core i5 processor
The simple answer: No, you can't. You'll need a whole new computer.
The complex answer (in Intel land; AMD is a bit different):
A motherboard will not support a newer CPU without a firmware (BIOS/...
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How can I stop games from reading your RAM?
Reading your RAM is a non-issue, if you manage what and when you load into it. I haven't played Valorant yet myself, because I don't see why I should introduce a kernel-level security issue into any ...
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How to optimise a VM for gaming
Ok so before reading your question entirely, I already arrived at some of the steps you listed there heh. Latency is shouting in my mind.
Yes hyper-v will allow VMs to access a graphics card.
The ...
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Why does Windows not need a low latency or real time kernel?
Neither Windows nor Linux is anything close to a real-time operating system (RTOS) and as far as I know, neither can be made to be so. The goals, requirements, and philosophies of RTOS versus general-...
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Gaming over LAN, VNC alternative?
Steam Remote Play is definitively an option. Been playing a lot of times to e.g. Rocket League. If you have good LAN connection on both sides, you are good to go. Even can plug the gamepad on laptop.
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Not enough "usable memory". Possible to trick Windows into thinking it has more?
Forums on Tomshardware discuss a potential solution for Forza Motorsport 6 Apex, worth a try:
hold page up on your keyboard and click exit at the sametime and then it will bypass it.
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Terrible Frame Rate In Games
The Geforce 745 is extremely old card from 2014, which is half as fast of the Geforce 950
Get a newer Geforce GTX 1060 to get a large improvement.
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Which aspect ratio to choose for 1366x768 resolution to play game at monitor physical aspect ratio?
The aspect ratio is literally the ratio of width to height (assuming the pixels themselves are square), so just divide the numbers and compare for yourself.
The aspect ratio of 1366x768 is 1366:768, ...
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Gaming headset 3.5mm TRS mic plug pinout
I found out that on my motherboard (Z270F) and many other boards pink microphone jack is wired in other way to support two channel audio with electret microphones.
Tip = +3V power & left channel ...
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How do I make Windows mute background applications?
For some reason this feature seems impossible in Windows. I've been researching on google, you and me seem to be some of the only people who want this feature.
HOWEVER I HAVE A SOLUTION FOR YOU! On ...
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Is it possible to run game from another PC on my PC?
You could create a network share in the weak PC that will externalize
this disk space.
In the strong PC, you could connect-to and map this network share
and give it a drive letter.
You can then use ...
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How to fix BadImageFormatException on application startup?
I finally fixed it. Here is the solution:
I had the x64 X3dAudio_7.dll in the sysWow64 folder and the x86 X3dAudio_7.dll in the system32 folder. I switched them, reinstalled XNA and everything ...
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How to fix FPS Cap on my Gaming Laptop
Are you using BatteryBoost?
NVIDIA BatteryBoost extends battery life by limiting the maximum frame rate. This reduces the load on the GPU and therefore power consumption. You should be able to adjust ...
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My computer crashed, are video games to blame?
The problem looks clear from the screenshot. If the readings are correct, you have a CPU thermal transfer problem.
The core temp (package) is extremely high (100) compared to CPU socket temp (43), ...
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Can I play GTA 5 on rdp?
While theoretically possible, the hardware bottleneck will now be replaced by a new bottleneck: Networking. The reduced video quality that you've seen is purposefully there to reduce need for ...
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Booting straight into a game to skip the OS and open up a ton of resources?
Back in the day, with extremely limited resources, and mostly standard systems, it was possible. You knew you had a 8086 processor, a fairly standard set of video outputs
Many games would boot ...
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Gaming headset 3.5mm TRS mic plug pinout
According to the Intel/Microsoft PC 2001 System Design Guides, Chapter 11 - Audio, requirement AUD-0331, the pink mic-in jack is wired this way:
Tip = mic signal
Ring = +5V bias
Shaft = shield/ground
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Make a folder access case insensitive on Linux ext4
Starting with Linux 5.3, ext4 has support for case-insensitive directories. This work was contributed by Gabriel Bertazi of Collabora, and the work was funded by a company that ports Windows games to ...
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