Windows 11 may not reveal your graphics card details immediately in the Settings app, but fear not—there are several built-in and third-party methods to get your GPU intelligence without breaking a sweat. Whether you’re a gamer troubleshooting performance issues, a creative professional ensuring...
A recent advisory from Microsoft’s Security Response Center has brought to light a new vulnerability—CVE-2025-24997—that affects the DirectX Graphics Kernel. While the bug might seem small on the surface, its impact can be significant: a simple null pointer dereference in Windows Kernel Memory...
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Microsoft’s recent move to open-source additional components of its DirectX Shader Compiler marks another significant step in its evolving relationship with the developer community. This February 2025 release, spotlighted by Phoronix, delivers key enhancements designed to foster greater...
If you’ve been eagerly watching the development of Intel’s Arc graphics cards, specifically the mid-range B580 "Battlemage," today's topic dives deep into its real-world performance. The fight? Windows 11 versus Linux. Both platforms are put through various benchmarks, with fascinatingly...
I've reinstalled Windows 11 several times, but the problem persists. After launching an application, it goes to the background with 0% CPU usage. It can open after 5 or more minutes of waiting, but it's very unusual for my PC. At some point, it just happened, and now I don't know what to do. I'm...
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I'm having a bit of an issue with certain software and games.
This pops up when I try to start them:
I've tried several things,
including:
Reinstalling Epic Games Launcher.
Removing all instances of Visual C++ and reinstalling them.
Renaming all versions of xinput1_1 - 1_3.dll in...
I've been having problems getting PC to sleep after a period of time. With some help from this forum, it was fixed a couple of months ago.
Yesterday I had to reinstall drivers for my AMD graphics card and now I am back to the no sleep problem.
Anyone have any ideas
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I am experiencing crashes in multiple different games. I originally thought the crashes were purely related to Call of Duty games but I have now experienced crashes in Doom Eternal, Madden 21, and Rocket Arena. Funnily enough, I never experienced a crash in Cyberpunk...
Anyways, the...
As part of their special event this week, NVIDIA introduced its GeForce RTX 30 Series laptops, built with the NVIDIA Ampere architecture, the second generation of RTX, which fully supports DirectX 12 Ultimate. This includes new Ray Tracing Cores, Tensor Cores and streaming multiprocessors to...
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As one can see the graphics are superb and requirements are surprisingly low:
OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows® 10.
PROCESSOR: Intel® Core™ i5-3470 or AMD Ryzen™ 3 1200.
MEMORY: 8 GB.
GRAPHICS: GeForce® GTX 1050 3 GB or AMD Radeon™ RX 560 4 GB.
Direct X: Version 12...
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Today at Microsoft Build 2020 the WinUI team is excited to announce the latest version of WinUI 3 available for public preview: WinUI 3 Preview 1. This preview expands the world of WinUI to an even wider audience of developers – the previously-released WinUI 3 Alpha was only available to UWP app...
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I have a Windows 10 laptop. I downloaded the Sims 2 on it, but I need Directx 9.0 for that. So I downloaded Directx 9.0 from the microsoft website. I ran through the installation process and everything was fine. But when I tried to start the Sims 2 again, I got the same error, telling me...
Adding a second HDD to my PC is causing a blue screen on boot.
I hope someone can help me with this. I have a spare HDD from a recently upgraded laptop lying around and want to install it in my desktop in addition to the 1 SSD I have in there currently. The problem is once I connect the drive...
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Odd thing is happening. I built a new computer and installed Alan Wake but cannot get it to play off of Steam because it just shuts itself off after the Remedy logo clip plays (to see what the startup is supposed to look like, watch this). No message that says it stopped working, no freezing, it...
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URL: Windows 10 Fall Creators Update fixes the DirectX 9 memory allocation bug
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In Windows 8, Microsoft changed how DirectX 9 reported the amount of available memory to games; while Windows 7 seemingly allowed a game to use the entirety of the available VRAM, Windows 8 limited...
It’s a big day today – after a year of public preview, Adobe released Adobe XD 1.0 on Windows 10 and Mac: a new tool for user experience creators to design, prototype and share interactive designs for apps and websites.
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When it comes to designing anything, it’s important to have...