Yes, I know, everyone says not to use a USB flash drive as external storage in a Wii U. Nintendo's proprietary format is unfriendly to drives lacking their own wear leveling and error correction. But I didn't want an external drive hanging out, and I was willing to gamble $8 on a Samsung USB flash drive to see just how bad things really were.

I bought the drive on February 24, 2023 and exclusively used it in a Wii U. It was where I stored all my smaller eShop games and demos. Speed was fine and you couldn't even see it behind the console. Great!

Well, I'm here to tell you that as of a few months ago, one demo started appearing in random spots around the home screen, and opening it would fa

Ok, so I get that you can't expect amazing performance out of a reasonably high-end CPU and GPU on a battery. Yes, you will be facing a mere ~1 hour of battery life. I can accept those are the kinds of prices you pay for packing such hardware in such a tiny space. But it seems like a laptop should at least be usable on battery.

Well, out of the box, the Omen Max 16 simply is not. It's not a heat issue, or faulty hardware. My wife and I both got the same machine, and both of ours behave exactly the same: fantastic while plugged in, but on battery, just navigating the Windows desktop is abysmal. Just opening file explorer could take upwards of 10 seconds, and navigating folders was molasse

Originally posted this on my website, but thought folks here might be interested, especially since there are some out there trying to charge for their builds of NVIDIA drivers for custom devices like eGPUs. The infamous Windows Update that killed game performance is a huge issue for anyone waiting on a third-party manufacturer to release their own 591.44 package to fix it.

Here's how it goes:

Step 1: Download NVCleanstall

NVCleanstall is an application developed by TechPowerUp which provides a UI for pulling apart NVIDIA driver packages, modifying their contents, and putting them back together again. It's an excellent tool that sa

Since there's an impression that the possibility of a sequel hinges on sales of the first game, sales performance has been a common question among Freedom Wars communities. But it turns out we can piece together almost exactly how many units have sold from within the game itself. The League of Panopticons tells you how many sinners have joined up with each panopticon, and since it's mandatory to choose one, and virtually all players will have connected to the internet at some point, we can safely assume that the ratio of sinners to sales is nearly 1:1.

Where things get tricky is that the playerbase is divided into multiple platforms, and maybe platforms are also divided into multiple region

Hi all,

I just became aware of the existence of the Philips Evnia 27M2N6800ML, and I got pretty excited by the spec sheet. 4K 165Hz, HVA panel backed by QDMini-LED with 1152 local dimming zones, DisplayHDR 1000, and 27" sounds more manageable for my space (than the 32" I have currently).

The catch? It's a China-only product.

Now, I've imported stuff from China before and I know my way around Taobao and Taobao agents. But I'm not so sure about importing such a large and expensive and fragile item to the US where I'll get zero support.

Seeing as the monitor launched at the end of 2023, it baffles me a bit that there would be no international release of this monitor or similar ones using th

Greetings, sinners! I have an important message for you from the office of temporal stability.

Since the release of Remastered on PC, there's been a lot of accusations made against Windows 11 24H2 and Easy Anticheat for causing persistent stutter on certain devices. However, while both are deservedly unpopular, they are not actually the culprit in this case, and neither downgrading Windows nor renaming EXEs to disable EAC will address this problem.

For now, this actually appears to be a driver issue for NVIDIA GPUs. AMD GPUs are not affected in my testing. (I plan to look into Intel GPUs later.) It seems that the game's Vsync implementation fails to properly sync on NVIDIA, and it also doe

Hey, Commanders!

As someone who couch games on a PC, I've been working for some time on a controller profile for Nikke that would actually be usable enough to make me not miss a mouse or touchscreen. After a fair bit of tweaking, I feel I've finally gotten there, and I figured it would be worth sharing with the community in case someone else out there finds it useful!

First, I must stress that this is not a mοd and does not work natively within the game engine. While nothing beats native integration, the good thing is that my method bears no risk of being considered cheating or simply breaking with updates.

With that out of the way, here's how it works:

https://preview.redd.it/52r0aa

So, after a decade+ break from desktop Linux, I'm now playing around with a dual boot system again.

Of course, one of the most annoying parts of dual booting is switching between OSes. However, it occurred to me that hibernation could make this almost convenient. I don't have to lose my state in one OS to switch to the other.

Thing is, right now, that means clicking "hibernate", waiting for Windows to fully shut down, pressing the power button, and then choosing to boot my Linux distro.

Is there any possible way to create a script to both hibernate Windows AND trigger a reboot? Maybe a wake timer of some kind could achieve this?

Been searching around, but since it's a rather unusual u

Maybe it's just me, but I've often found myself baffled by how pricey gaming mice seem to fail way faster than random cheap ones. And no, it's not just because they get abused more. I must've put in thousands of hours of Unreal Tournament on a pack-in Dell USB mouse in the early '00s, and it still works perfectly to this day. Meanwhile, my attempts at finding my "endgame" have ended in defects within a year or two.

Well, that trend may have finally changed tonight.

For context, my previous favorite mouse was the Razer Pro Click. I liked how it could double as a productivity mouse while still packing gaming-class hardware. Sadly, it also packed a bug in the USB dongle that caused it to br

Before I even start, I want to say that I've had multiple GPD Win devices at this point, and never had to replace the stock BiWin SSD before. But with my Win 4 6800U, I started noticing some strange OS behavior that indicated a failing drive to me. Certain interactions lagged more than they should have given the hardware, and my RAM usage, CPU utilization, temps, etc. were all totally fine.

So, I turned to good ol' CrystalDiskInfo, and... the drive health looked totally fine as well. I checked a few other diagnostics, but couldn't find anything at all to explain what I was seeing.

Then the problem kept getting worse. Actions that did much with the disk started taking even longer. So, this

Just saw that GamersNexus dropped a video on this board this weekend, so I figured now would be a good time to talk about my experience with it so far. I'll leave it to that video to dive into the nitty-gritty and jump straight to my own thoughts.

A few weeks ago, info about a fascinating ITX motherboard from AliExpress made the rounds among SFFPC communities, and I decided to give it a go. Basically, what this company, Erying, has done is salvage laptop SoC components and bolt them onto an ITX motherboard compatible with desktop parts. This has several advantages for SFFPCs, such as highe

Ok, so there's been a lot of talk recently about the GPD Win 4's "native landscape" display, and rightly so. Although the issues won't necessarily be immediately apparent, I did notice by eyeshot that something wasn't right. It felt like nothing I did truly locked games to 60 FPS, and capping at lower framerates--or worse, lower display Hz--only exacerbated the issue. By happenstance, it was in PSO2: New Genesis where I started to figure it out. If I looked at the sky beneath some trees, my FPS would max out, but the trees would skip now and then as I moved around.

This looked like a display-level issue, so I figured it was time to explore the other frequencies it was capable of. I started