LogicalDrm

NDI is Network Direct Input (I think). So essentially you are locally streaming to another PC.

If you would have more powerful setup as whole, then using NDI and sending feed from laptop over the network could be possible. But it does require some encoding on the client side too, besides what streaming PC does.

The BIOS compatibility with OS only matters for installing. Since its firmware version and laptop does support Win11, you don't have to worry about anything.

Try doing it with Opera.

Paytowin means you actually get something that makes you happy or otherwise brings more value. I doubt this new thing is win, wall or anything than additional feature to advertise premium.

If you can capture VRChat output, that would be preferred. I'm not that knowledged with VR stuff, but if they use HDMI as display connection, then you can intercept that directly with capture card since all (or most) have pass-through regardless.

I think your best option is to setup network drive at your home PC and connect remotely to that. Both the PC to download new games to that network drive and then your phone/Ally to copy any game folders from that network drive. As you need Steam to download Steam games, but it doesn't matter what Steam is the one that does downloads. Or whose it is. Just like the Steam cache LMG uses. All games, regardless of whether account has rights to play or not.

@KieranTHeBesT several of your threads about upgrading have been merged. Please DO NOT post multiple times about same thing. Its best for all that you use single thread so that others coming in can see the development of the discussion.

Split from another thread. Original. There was NO REASON to revive 10 year old topic when this is clearly question about modern games and as such, should be its own thread.

Merged to Labs suggestions thread. Using external data sources was also discussed here. Your suggestions is more in line of PCPP review system or other user reviews on several long-running forums like ours, Tom's etc.

If they keep records on what AI creates, they can and could enforce it. Will they is completely different question. To which answer is probably not unless they receive complaints. But what they will do is not legal actions. Violating terms of service is not legally bounding contract, as has been proven in courts. But as private company, they can terminate any account that is violating their terms.

Armory Crate is Asus software and would only work with Asus products. Since your mobo is MSI, it can't detect anything connected to mobo RGB headers. Just GPUs and any Aus peripherals you are using that have support for that program. As for MasterPlus, your cooler is not among to supported coolers for that software. If I would guess, reason is that there isn't USB connected controller to come with it, only adapter/manual controller for all mobos. So you are stuck with MSI mobo controls for RGB. This is why Linus and most other youtubers say RGB is pain to do. You can only get perfection if you pick and choose products that can be controlled in same software or are supported by OpenRGB or other 3rd party software.

Star rating wouldn't work with that logic. Like just answer my earlier question, how do you define difference between 1 or 2 stars? Or 4 and 5? Since a star alone doesn't mean anything unless its universally defined by something. So I think with your suggestion there needs to be two levels. End result showing as stars. But to viewer it should be more expressive. Like "Bad content", "Not interesting", "Too sponsored", "Acceptable", "Good content", "Excellent", "Entertaining" etc. with numeric value assigned to all. In same way as questionnaires use 1-5 ranking from "Strongly agree" to "Strongly disagree". But if we let platform/creator make ranking, it wouldn't really matter either. So for that, +1/-1 is enough.

That depends on did you do something irregular while "cleaning". Cleaning anything with sensitive parts is not same as cleaning your house or even your car. Just by saying you cleaned it, none of us can know what you actually did do. Did you blow with canned air directly to fans so they spin really fast? Thats good way to reduce their lifespan. Did you drop some fibers, water or other such into pins, slots or other open contact points? Another good way to eventually kill something. Did you touch, move or bend something? Probably not going to kill anything, but could cause issues in long term (loose cables most commonly). But for most of the time, it will be fine.

There are two problems when it comes to fast moving fields like tech and game industry. If you want PC and not consoles, you are always going to have to make decision between best graphics or best experience. They don't always exclude each other, but usually if you go for looks over whole experience, you end up paying more over time. The best right now is Intel i7 and RTX 4090 + 64Gb of RAM and M.2 SSD. That won't be best year from now when new stuff arrives. If you want to always have best there is, you end up spending 5k every year to get the latest. Which is why PC gamers upgrade in cycles. Usually 2-5 years for GPU and 3-10 years for CPU. Depending on how they feel their current needs and hardware are meeting. So thats why budget of what you are starting with matters. Is it entry-level of $800-1200 or midrange of $1500-2000? Or high-end of $3000+. Without knowing more, thats not very big sample size if its one entry in database for example. So I assume its your software that is the issue. We would need to know what thats software recommends as system specs. Usually its core count and RAM. Unless its badly made and can't do multicore functions well. Not how things work. You always need to upgrade. Unless you are like me who plays only older games, don't really care about graphics and has all other things to take that money that would be spend on newer hardware (my laptop does some tasks better). And if you go to pre-build maker without budget, or just pick the highest priced item they have, its same thing. But we aren't sales people for hardware industry. Most members have aim to give advice so you can spend your own money as you like. If you want to buy $5k Starforge PC, you don't need us.

If I get your idea right, you want us to return to time where we had to change disc, cartridge etc. everytime we wanted to switch game? But do it with bit smaller device? Loading speed things would still be there. As person who might come from that era, you don't seem to remember them. USB3 as connection might be fast, but cheap drives aren't. Like SSD external drive blasts any cheap USB3 in speeds. If you mean using USB as multi-game storage, then there could be something. But I don't think thats what you are saying since you are trying to solve problem of downloading games (method of acquiring) and local storage (which has in past been possible to increase on consoles for example).

Its not hardware issue. Please post your game and stream settings. There's possibility that you have some V-sync style thing going on where SL locks fps to be same on stream and what you are streaming.

DisplayFusion does for sure first point. I don't know about two others, what are you looking from "HTPC UI"? Something like what Plex or Kodi interfaces are? Meaning that just launching such software when display profile is selected. I think that too might be possible with DF since it has option to do stuff with triggers. Then again, you could setup same keyboard combo to execute AHK script. I don't quite get what you mean by last point.

These were the benchmarks I used to compare GPUs when I last was buying new/used: Passmark 3DMark Firestrike and Time Spy (average scores) Blender For CPUs: Passmark Blender 3DMark Time Spy Geekbench CPU-Z Tom's Hardware Win 10 Gaming suite With all benchmarks, they can just give guidelines, not anything absolute. Not unless its same site doing the testing themselves so you can be sure its same conditions every time. Others are user submitted where all factors can vary. You notice this best with Blender scores since there are some parts entered with bit different name and being wildly different from the ones with 10k sample average.

Merged to official sponsor complaints and issues thread.

Waiting to see comedy video where there's just desk and the voice over claims its PC.

I have reported a US retail store as spam since I was entered to their mailing list without permission and couldn't find way to unsubscribe without creating an account.

Looking at product page, the mixer is connected by 3.5mm connections (RCA to 3.5mm adapters), correct? And assuming you are using motherboard with mic-in and line-in. The main issue is how your OS handles different audio devices. Line-in and mic-in are seen as 2 audio in devices. Your audio out doesn't by default listen to your audio in devices. You can set this from OS audio settings. On Windows 10 (maybe same way on 11), you can go to any audio input device Advaced settings, to Listen-tab and enable that feature. Plus select what audio out device will be hearing it. You may notice that you can only select one output device, which can make things tricky. And thats where my knowledge on how to setup things end. You probably can add virtual audio cables to repeat inputs to multiple outputs. There's donationware called VB-Audio Banana that could be able to do it. I've used their basic software in past to separate audio sources from streaming outputs.

You can send Floatplane requests best by using their support email/form. Imo star rating only works when it is driven from categories. How would you make difference between 4 and 5 star video? When it could be like Amazon does it with content, edits/shooting, helpfulness/entertainment etc. On closed media platform where you go to specifically see something by someone, how others view something shouldn't make that big deal to you. But on open media platforms, like Youtube, FB etc. how other see something that you don't already know is more meaningful.

For Lab testing suggestions, you can use this thread