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    Very long application loading time and poor performance.

    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...
  2. Windows 11 Error code 0xc000007b - The application was unable to start correctly. Click ok to close the application

    Hi. 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...
  3. AutoHDR Calibration Tool for Windows coming soon from Microsoft

    https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/windows-hdr-calibration-app/
  4. Windows 10 Did AMD Radeon driver update now my PC won't enter timed sleep

    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 Windows 10 home 64 21H1 Build...
  5. VIDEO Windows 10 Vs. Windows 11 😱 GAMING Performance!

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  6. Windows 10 RTX 3080 Crashing

    Hello, 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...
  7. VIDEO NVIDIA debuts GeForce RTX 30 Series laptops

    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...
  8. Death Stranding

    First, a few screenshots: 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...
  9. Introducing WinUI 3 Preview 1

    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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    Windows 10 Directx 9.0 won't download

    Hello, 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...
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    Windows 10 Blue Screen With New Hardrive

    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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    Windows 10 Directx internal error

    I was trying to get sound back in one of my games and was told to download directx and i tried but I got an internal system error I followed the tutorials on youtube and paused my anti-virus and everything else but I still get the internal system error I am downloading latest version please help
  13. VIDEO Alan Wake crashes silently on startup?

    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...
  14. Windows 10 Windows 10 Fall Creators Update fixes the DirectX 9 memory allocation bug

    URL: Windows 10 Fall Creators Update fixes the DirectX 9 memory allocation bug Via Neowin.net 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...
  15. Adobe XD CC: A New High-Performance UWP App for UI/UX Design

    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. Link Removed When it comes to designing anything, it’s important to have...
  16. Windows 10 DirectX VertexShader 2.0 is not supported

    After the latest huge pile of Windows Updates I get this error message when I try to run a game that was previously working. I've re-installed DirectX and the driver for the graphics card - not change. Is it possible to roll back to a working version of DirectX?
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    Windows 7 DirectX Installation Not Progressing

    Hi, I would like to ask if there is a solution for my current problem. I wanted to install DirectX on my PC but when I waited for it to complete, it stubbornly refused to progress. That means that when I launched it this morning, it successfully started the installation progress but got stuck...
  18. Mac user returning to Windows computing

    Well I'm coming back to Windows despite being a loyal and happy Mac user. My MacBook Pro had some hardware faults and due to the lack of genuine reliable parts on the market to be able to fix this myself I had to part with it and move on. Apple wouldn't let me fix it myself and wanted hundreds...
  19. Windows 10 Fallout 4 high-resolution patch-Can you run it?

    According to Bethesda, the recommended system able to use this high-res patch would be a six-core i7 and a gtx 1080 GPU. That's at 1080p, mind you. I'm presently playing @ 1440p, so my i7-6700k/980ti SC+ rig might be wheezing a bit much-nevermind the 4k monitor I have still in the box. Does...
  20. VIDEO Quantum Break: DX11 vrs DX12

    Quantum Break is now available through STEAM. Game is only DX11 though...