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This happened after moving it to another device on my ROG Ally: The card is a 512 GB card. I tried rebooting and reseating it. Nothing. I cant even tell if the card is dead or just has a broken file system. What should I try first? I'm comfortable following…
long time lurker first post lol this happened out of nowhere on my Steam Deck LCD: the card is a cheap 1 TB card. i tried rebooting and reseating it. nothing. i cant even tell if teh card is dead or just has a broken file system 👍 what should i try first?…
im literally losing my mind here quick panic post. My Xbox Series S was fine yesterday. Today, after changing the resolution to 4K, nothing on screen: I've power cyceld it twice. I'm using the cable that came in the box. I have no other screen to test with…
im tearing my hair out. my a co op shooter server on a mini PC works locally, but my friends server list shows nothing. I forwarded UDP 7777 and still got this on the host when I checked the network: any ideas before i give up and rent a server? i'm…
hmmmm ok my team keeps asking why Im not talking in an MMO raid. The problem: I cant hear anynoe. My wireless headset works perfectly in Discord and in Windows sound settings. I also noticed this in Device Manager: ive toggled every voice setting in the…
long time lurker first post lol got this when installing a big game update on my Xbox Series S: the queue just stops and then teh error appears. the target is an expansion card. I've seen people say to reset the console, which feels extreme. is there a…
so annoyed rn honest question: are exclusives still a good reason to buy a console? For me, Nintendo hardware is teh only one i buy specifically for the monster collecting games. But teh online service is basic makes me think twice every time. Whats your…
help!! my team keeps asking why Im not talking in an MMO raid. The problem: nobody can hear me 🤷 My laptop speakers and mic works perfectly in Discord and in Windows sound settings. I also noticed this in Device Manager: ive toggled every voice setting in…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts this is making ranked games miserable. In a scoial deduction game, push to talk does notihng. Im using a headset through an audio interface. After a Windows update i got this message: Other apps work. Just the games…
I just wanna play online with my friends. My Xbox One wont sign me in since I changed my router, and I keep getting this: the code it shows in the deatils is 0x80a40019. im on an apartment building network, and my phone and laptop are fine on teh same…
has anyone else been getting this on an open world RPG? my PS5 shows this right after the title sceren: it started after the last game update, i think, but Im not suree. before that i had zero crashes in dozens of hours 😤 now Im saving every five minutes…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts my GPU fans scream at full speed in menus and in competitive shooters because teh frame rate is uncapped. Ive got a 144 Hz monitor. Is there any real reason not to cap, or am i just burning power for nothing? 😭 i also…
im literally losing my mind here this is unbelievable. a ranked arena game blue screens my PC while queueing: PAGE FAULT IN NONPAGED AREA every time 🙏 I updated GPU drivers and reinstalled the game. Everything else is stable. What's the next step? other…
I bought a souls like at launch and it stutters during the first hour. It's like teh game is thinking for half a second. I also saw this: ive read that shader cache size and drivers matter, but every guide says smth different. can someone explain it simply?…
ok weird one nostalgia trip gone wrong. installing a childhood RPG from a disc from a magazine on Windows 11: the disc reads fine and I can see teh files, but the setup program wont run... is it the disc, teh installer, or Windows?? I'm comfortable with a…
long time lurker first post lol im 15 hours into a horror game and loving it, but now it crashes at teh second chapter loading screen. Every. Single. Time. This is all i get: I reloaded older saves, rebooted and tried again. same result. I can't progress teh…
guys pls help my 64 GB Steam Deck keeps telling me Im out of space, and i barely have any games installed. when i looked closer, the shader cache is taking several gigabytes: most of it seems to come from a huge RPG. is it safe to delete?? and is there a way…
hmmmm ok please help. My family PC can't finish a Windows update: and a new online game won't start without the latest Windows update. I'm not super technical, where do I begin? any step by step help is appreciated. ill report back with the results of…
Ive been gaming happily for months, but now Im seeing colored cehckerboard squares after the card gets hot. Screenshot from tonight: the card is a RTX 2070 Super. im torn between its a software thing and start saving for a new GPU. how do you actaully narrow…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts i run a small an open world co op game server on Ubuntu Server. After todays update, SteamCMD fails and players see disk write failure: i've run teh update command three times. It downloads, then fails at the end. What…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts honest question: are exclusives still a good reason to buy a console? for me, Nintendo hardware is the only one I buy specfiically for teh big platformer series... but the online service is basic makes me think twice…
help!! every night i put my PS5 Pro into rest mode with a 40 GB update queued, and every morning i find this: Still 0%, still "Waiting...". If I turn the console on and stay on the downloads screen, it starts right away, so the internet clearly works. Im on…
long time lurker first post lol i run a small a survival game server on Debian 😭 After todays update, SteamCMD fails and players see outdated server: i've run the update command three times. It downloads, then fails at the end. What am i missing? im…
So i was exctied to finally play a game i borrowed from a friend and my PS5 Slim with teh disc drive just refused: CE 100005 6. the drive does spinning up and down and then gives up. i wiped the disc with a soft cloth from the centre outward, tried again,…
so annoyed rn last night i updated the driver for my RTX 4080, and now a survival game crashes after about ten minutes with this: before the update it ran perfectly for months, nothing else changed, as far as i know... should i roll back, do a clean install,…
