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Question Digital Audio Feed issues on HDMI capable Receiver

I have the AVR 254 from Harmon Kardon, and it works fine so far as I know, but there is a behavior that so far, Ive only been able to find one workaround for, and it's ridiculous. What happens: When an HDMI source is connected sound plays fine as long as sound actually is playing, so a Blu-ray...
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- Sep 7, 2020
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Audio Components
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Quake II (free on Bethesda launcher) next 72 hours. Quake III next week.

Quake II was probably my first true FPS, if you don't count Doom (played SO MUCH Doom, but mostly on consoles). I played actual CTF and DM in QII back in about 1997/98. Dial up Pings were a formidable opponent in and of themselves causing long leads and excellent timing to actually get kills. I...
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- Post #10
- Aug 20, 2020
- Forum: PC Games
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Any way to identify what is causing Win 10 to hang when logging in?

Sorry i only saw this today and not sooner. I listen to Security Now on the regular, and Steve mentioned this in episode 779, the one that aired Aug 11th. Bleeping Computer has some reg hacks on the following page that allow you to do some things that aren't turned on out of the box in Windows...
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- Post #6
- Aug 20, 2020
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Question Whats the oldest Mac you still use daily?

I'll chime in here, why not? My daily driver when I work from home used to be a 2013 rMBP 15". 512GB SSD with 16GB RAM. THere's a little bit of a story behind that one. I had found it in my work's recycle bin for electronics. This was maybe 2017 or so. An employee had brought it for proper...
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- Post #23
- Aug 20, 2020
- Forum: Apple
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Question Microsoft PC Game Pass - Persistent game data through subscription lapse?

Something must have went wrong then, because I let my subscription lapse, i couldn't justify $5 per month. I lost access to the game, but left it installed in case a sale showed up. I looked at the game pass again later and it was $1 again, so i renewed. All settings, levels, cars, points...
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- Post #9
- Apr 5, 2020
- Forum: PC Games
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When did you start computer gaming?

First PC was an IBM PS/2 in about 1988, a 286 clocked at 11MHz, with a 20MB HDD and 512KB of RAM. Played Wheel of Fortune, Snarf, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards and Battle Chess. I was about 8 or 9 years old. It had a mechanical keyboard, those...
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- Post #87
- Mar 15, 2020
- Forum: PC Games
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How can a website identify me if I'm using a VPN and an alternative log in?

Just spitballing here but they may have some kind of fingerprinting code on the site to thwart this kind of behavior. Granted, that does seem a little overboard for a forum site, but it depends on how serious they are taking their bans. The capability exists to have the browser query various...
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- Post #2
- Mar 15, 2020
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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PUBG : Cheat or no cheat

I have PUBG and while it is one of my least fav and therefore least PLAYED games, I've still put thousands of hours into FPS games and seeing that does not trip any cheater alarms for me. Just my two cents.
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- Post #7
- Feb 25, 2020
- Forum: PC Games
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Question Gamer SSD in real world

Definitely a benefit from moving from mechanical drives, to SATA SSD to NVMe. A buddy of mine and myself have virtually the same machine. Same graphics card, i5 cpu, same amount of RAM, etc. He has an NVMe drive though, and I have a few year old SATA SSD. We both play Forza Horizon 4 currently...
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- Post #12
- Feb 22, 2020
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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The oldest working drive(s) you have?

Pretty sure the IDE Drive in my PS2 is a 200GB WD from early 2000's, maybe 2002, so it's about 18 years old and still going. That is probably the oldest one I have that is still in use. I'm sure I have some older, smaller ones somewhere, but they are questionable if they work, and they are not...
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- Post #11
- Feb 22, 2020
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Question Microsoft PC Game Pass - Persistent game data through subscription lapse?

Well now we have conflicting information. JEDIYoda, so you have been in this scenario already and know that if the subscription expires, and you then purchase or resubscribe after a period of lapse, that the information and game data is gone upon logging back in? You have been in this situation...
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- Post #8
- Feb 22, 2020
- Forum: PC Games
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Question Microsoft PC Game Pass - Persistent game data through subscription lapse?

Thank you for the reply, very informative, thank you. I'm new to Microsoft's stab at a "Steam-like" experience. So far, I honestly hate it. This game does show XBox live, but I've never used Xbox Live, am I just automatically using it if i get into any of the multiplayer in the game i wonder...
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- Post #3
- Feb 21, 2020
- Forum: PC Games
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Question Microsoft PC Game Pass - Persistent game data through subscription lapse?

I just signed up for the $1 trial month of Game Pass. I wanted to try Forza Horizon 4. My question is not really answered in all the FAQs about the Game Pass. If I play the game for a month, accumulating credits and in game achievements, cars, and items, what happens to those achievements and...
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- Feb 21, 2020
- Replies: 9
- Forum: PC Games
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SNES Classic Extra Controllers?

Have no interest in third party ones, they never feel right, ever. I have played the SNES Classic, and the controllers don't feel the SAME but they feel good, you can just tell they are first party.
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- Post #9
- Nov 11, 2017
- Forum: Console Gaming
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SNES Classic Extra Controllers?

Like Zerocool said, it isn't. It is a controller connection of Nintendo's own design. I actually do have one of those iBuffalo ones. But it's for PC or Raspberry Pi emulation gaming. These are the same as the bottom of a Wiimote. NES Classic controllers work on a Wiimote and so do SNES Classic...
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- Post #5
- Nov 5, 2017
- Forum: Console Gaming

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