texts: What are good defensive weapons in elite dangerous?

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I am getting annoyed with the fact that I have to rely on my speed and FSD to get out of being attacked while mining/after being interdicted, and would like to know what the best defensive weapon is. What I am looking for is something that will get me out of a sticky situation relatively easily, but for a not-too-expensive price, as I am an amateur miner, and tend to earn money from completing transport missions, so money isn't the best for me. My ship is the viper MKIV, and my current weapons are 2 pulse lasers (gimballed) and a point defence. What I would really like is just something that could fire and/or aim automatically, and cause a decent amount of damage.
Thanks in advance for any help.


texts: Can I change the controls for Sid Meier's Pirates?

texts: I recently got this game because I felt like playing it again but it's been such a long time and I now don't feel comfortable using the numpad and arrow keys to control my ship. However, there is no way to change the key mapping in the options. Is there any way to change the controls because at this point the control scheme makes it unplayable?


texts: How do I tell Diablo 3 I no longer want a key binding?

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I started up Diablo 3 today for the first time. A few friends were already on it, and I figured, what the hey. Why not. We use Mumble to chat back and forth, so the first thing I wanted to do was make sure nothing else was on my preferred Push-to-talk key.

Well, that's a disappointment. V seems to be defaulted to "Show Monster Health Bars". More of a nuisance, really, than anything else, but I prefer there to be less blinking in my game than Christmas lights.

I didn't see any straightforward instructions on how to unbind a key, so I played with it a bit. Backspace failed. Esc failed. Right click and middle click failed too. I suppose I could bind it to some out-of-the-way key, but I prefer to just unbind it for thoroughness sake.

How do I completely unbind a key binding?


texts: What's the difference between tp and teleport?

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Snapshots for 1.10 introduced teleport command feature for /execute. What is its difference to the current
tp? I heard it has something to do with "relativity" (~)


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I'm playing a custom modpack, and it takes a good 6-7 minutes to load - even on a beefy pc - so I don't really like having to relog, but when I turn off my headphones to charge them, after turning them back on, Minecraft no longer plays sound through them.

It seems that disconnecting the audio output stops Minecraft sounds until you reload the game.

I've tested this with some Steam games, and as well as YouTube, and it would seem that the problem is Minecraft related. The issue does not present itself in any other environments

Is there any way I could bypass this? I had an idea of basically instead of connecting My headphones to MC, I could pair them as:

Headphones --> Program --> Minecraft

So that the program would always get the audio, then play it to my headphones, but I have no idea if a program like this exists, and if it does, what on earth it's called.


texts: How to teleport every player to a different location?

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I’m working on a Minecraft map. My plan is to teleport everybody (at the "event") to a different location.
So the problem is that I cannot do:
/minecraft:tp @a[team=event] ~ ~ ~

because it would teleport everybody to the same location.
So is there a way to teleport for example using:
event.member1 to 10 10 10

but also teleport event.member2 to 20, 20, 20?


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I was playing some quick match multiplayer and I noticed one of the players (who was not ready, and was taking a long time) had a red X on his display.
What does it mean?


texts: Tips for jungling on Twisted Treeline (TT - 3v3 map)?

texts: There are several jungling tips/guides for Summoners Rift (SR - standard 5v5 map). Is it possible to jungle in 3v3 and what would be the differences to SR? If so how and which heroes are good for jungling on TT?


texts: I want to make a map with permanent night. I've tried gamerule dodaylightcycle false and gamerule doDayLightCycle false but neither option works. How do I disable the daylight cycle and set the map to permanent night?


texts: How can I resolve a 3DS networking issue?

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I can't seem to connect my pokemon x game to my network, even though I have tried using both my guest network and my secure network. Both of them are WPA secured (I believe, I can't check right now, but will as soon as possible), but I was able to connect and receive the Torchic promo gift on my pokemon y game. I have attempted using a 3DS that had been broken (only the lower half of the top screen, so I just replicated my actions to attempt to connect, and I could still see the error message), but that refused to connect also.

Both 3DS can connect to the network and use the Internet browser, and streetpass works fine, the only issue is connecting to the network in game. The error message goes along the lines of "error, could not connect to the network" (might have been "connection refused"). I have also tried using Internet to connect to GTS and the streetpass connection thing, but neither of those work on either game, on either 3ds, even though it used to on pokemon y.

I am super confused over this, as the issue just popped up, seemingly overnight. I really want to claim the torchic ASAP, because the promo ends after December, and although that is a ways off, waiting until the end to fix this would pass up being able to own a valuable promo, who is super powerful besides.

Does anybody know how to fix this? I am very sorry if I didn't make myself clear, or if I didn't supply enough information, but I can't access either my own router or either game right now, and I have no clue how to trouble shoot on a 3ds anyways. If I need to collect more information, please comment what I need and I will get it as soon as I can.


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The diamond magnet states that it gives you an increased chance to "Double Diamonds".

When does this effect happen?


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When I started the game there was a lot of water in my region, but now when I switched to other cities where there was a water in valleys. The water was just absent.

I don't understand where the water disappeared?


texts: Is it possible to get mods for Skyrim on a PS3 console? I haven't tried any and didn't know they even existed.


texts: How can I watch StarCraft 2 games at MLG Dallas?

texts: What options are available to me if I don't have time to watch MLG live?


texts: Can I play Destiny without PlayStation Plus?

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Today I went to a store to buy Destiny for PS4. I have been played Destiny in the demo 1 month ago. I play just a few hours per week and I don't want have the PlayStation Plus signature.

At the Store the guys advise me to play Destiny I must have the PlayStation plus signature to play this game.

I would like know is it true, why I'm not able to play by myself?


texts: How do I earn SC2's "Hurry up, it's raid night" achievement?

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The "Hurry up, it's raid night" achievement in Starcraft 2 involves "beating Wings of Liberty, on normal, in 8 hours or less."

Is there a recommended mission path to take? Which mission should I take for the branching paths? Does it count time spent on the Hyperion in between missions, or is it exclusively time elapsed on missions. Does replaying a mission affect the time? General tips / hints from those who've unlocked the achievement?

Edit: Just got this achievement tonight, finally! The answer was perfect.


texts: How to play co-op with mutual streaming?

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Is it somehow possible to play a co-op game with a small overlay window showing someone else's screen while streaming the own screen content to them?

How can it be achieved, preferably with freeware?


texts: Duration of defensive pacts in late game

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My English civilisation is close friends with the Dutch and we've had a succession of defensive pacts to hold off the Carthaginians, Japanese, Americans, and Portuguese. I have G&K and BNW installed.

However, as the game progresses into the closing stages (1965 / turn 385), I've received notifications that our defensive pact has expired after only a few turns (varying from one turn to eight) instead of the correct thirty turns.

At first I assumed it was a glitch and that I was receiving the notification in error, but I checked and the option to sign a new defensive pact was there amongst the trade options in the diplomacy dialogue and the pact was not listed in the Your Relationships window.

I am aware of the glitches in the diplomacy system in Civ V, but is there some way I can resolve this issue of the defensive pacts ending so quickly? I have tried to avoid a bloodthirsty reputation, so if my ally is attacked I'd rather not be seen as being belligerent by having to manually declare ware. I do believe (although I am not 100% certain) that the existence of the defensive pact reduces the likelihood of another civilisation actually declaring war against one of the parties.


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The Senator is a pretty difficult boss to beat. This is made even harder by the fact that once you beat his health down to ~50% he starts glowing green and healing himself. This process will repeat itself several times throughout the fight, though as far as I can tell his regenerative abilities are eventually depleted (I managed to get him down to 20% before he utterly destroyed me).

Is there a way to prematurely end the Senator's health regeneration, or is it merely something I have to play out?


texts: How are trophies in Clash of Clans calculated?

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I've practically browsed the whole Internet, but didn't find any particular formula for calculating the trophy outcomes in a PvP game such as Clash of Clans. This is what I figured out so far:

At some point I thought that the sum of points was always 48, and that it is separated between the winner and the loser, weighted in favor of the one with fewer points. This turned out to be not true, because I myself have been in battles where winning I got like 13 trophies and losing I got 14 (total 27).
I thought it is some kind of an ELO rating system, but couldn't confirm it actually is, not just because there is no negative trophy count in CoC, but also because in small differences in rank you could actually gain a lot of trophies (like 30) when winning.
As far as I know you're matched against opponents with a rank that is ranged within ~230 trophies compared to your rank
Ps: I'm not talking about clan trophies, but the trophies of a single person in normal multiplayer.

I'd like to ask that if anyone more familiar with the subject brang more light into this, preferably a Supercell employee. ;)


texts: Safest Sister of Eve Level 4 Security Missions

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I'm doing Level 4 SoE for now. I got ganked in Langisi. Moved to Apanake and it seems to be a nice place. I'm thinking about moving to Osmon because it's near Jita. Which system is the safest for L4 SoE missions? Langisi, Apanake, or Osmon?

I'm using a Rattlesnake with 1.5 Bils fit. Not really blingy.


texts: Is retransferring possible between Xbox One and 360 on GTA V?

texts: I hope so. Otherwise its pointless for me to continue playing GTA V on the Xbox 360.


texts: Skyrim frame rate issue for first 5 minutes of gameplay

texts: I have quite a good computer with a core i7 processor, GeForce GT750, 16 GB RAM, so Skyrim should run smoothly all the time. However, for the first 5 minutes of gameplay the sound lags, the frame rate drops sometimes and after 5 minutes it runs smoothly. The only reason I can think of is that the gpu takes a while to boot up, and it is just using integrated graphics for the first five minutes but I'm probably wrong. What else can be the source of my problem?


texts: Why does my computer perform much worse on dx11 than dx9

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The games I noticed it on was crysis 2 and L.A. Noire
It will give me this weird like mouse lag where its really delayed and it plays much worse.

Specs:
Processor=Intel i5 4690k

GPU=XFX Radeon R9 290X
DirectX 11.2 R9-290X-8DFD 8GB 512-Bit DDR5 PCI Express 3.0 Double Dissipation Edition


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Possible Duplicate:
Do companions die?

There's two things that have really been keeping me from using followers, based on my experience battling alongside NPCs in other games:

NPCs tend to rush in ahead of you to start fights you don't want started yet.
1 tends to get NPCs killed.

If #2 is not an issue, I'm a lot more likely to forgive #1 and give it a shot.  So, what's the situation here?


texts: Pretty newbish question I'm sure but my mage is 10 almost 11 and I still don't have a focus ability like I see mentioned on here and in other places. How do I get it/unlock it?


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While playing GTA5, I came across a cheat called skyfall on the XBox360. After playing around with it and having a laugh, I managed to accidentally survive the cheat. When using the skyfall cheat, you will spawn in the air WITHOUT a parachute and you will fall and inevitably die when you hit the ground.

However, is there a way to survive this cheat? I have heard of people doing it but I never found out how.


texts: What happened to Kratos’ wings after God of War III?

texts: I didn’t see Kratos use his wings in the 2018 God of War, so what happened to them?


texts: Remapping Alt Key to Space bar and Using Profiles

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So in DOTA 2 I would like to use space bar a key modifier, like ALT does. so I remapped the ALT key to Space Bar and vice versa using AutoHotkey. The problem is, when I am chatting to my team mates, I have to use the ALT key as a space. Is there a way to make it so that I could use say Num1 and Num2 (any key is fine, I have rebindable keys on my keyboard), to switch between the remapped version of my keys and the original usage of the keys, like a profile system?

Edit: Changed wording for clarification.


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I just got Hellmouth in a Humble Bundle, and while it seems interesting, I just can't figure out how to play it.

I assume I need to move ingredients to my plate, but aside from using the cursor keys to move, I can't perform any of the moves my AI opponent can.

Since there are no help files in or out of game, I'm really at a loss as to what to try next other then just mashing keys.

How do I do anything in Hellmouth?


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My son discovered MineCraft some months ago.
I decided to buy him a premium account.
He hosts a server to play with his friends.

Now, he wants to install kind of plugins to "hack" (in his term) his server to be able to dig larger part of land at once...

He told me that he would like to install the "bukkit" plugin
He told me also about a "server starter" "server starter" I'm less confident about installing this stuff...

Does exist a kind of "official" repository for these stuff ?
Which one I should not install for security reasons ?

The server is running on a window computer. I've read that exist an OS for running a server on Linux


texts: What is the reasoning for him having a red rose? We see it in Mario Party 8 (on Wii) and I know I've seen him with some roses in another game... what is his connection with roses?


texts: Main quest disappearing, can't get to New Game+

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I'm having problems concerning the mode New Game + in Torchlight 2. I would really like to proceed to that mode and or to Mapworks, but it seems that every time I go to The Minehead or defeat the final boss (Netherlord), the main quest disappears and then you're just stuck at the game. I've tried different characters and still end up with the same problem.

I already finished all quests main or sub but still talking to Felicia or to the robot leading to Mapworks won't do anything. I'm playing v1.16.5.3 and I'm only playing single player mode game.


texts: Why is this message spamming my server log?

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Lately, I've started seeing this a lot in my Minecraft server log:

Attempted to place a tile entity where there was no entity tile!

Sometimes I see it a lot, sometimes not at all.

What does it mean?


texts: I got Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare but I didn't got the Day Zero edition that was giving some weapons for those who would pre-order the game. What I'm wondering is if I can get those weapons now that I have the game already without it being pre-ordered.


texts: colors of trading objects in dwarf fortress

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I got goods to be traded on the trade depot. With help of trader started the trade.
on the trading screen the goods i have were in brown colored text (except 2).

what does these color mean?

From my observation in this case the cages were the white ones. any particular reason?


texts: Does it count towards an extraction if you miss extraction?

texts: In Mass Effect 3 there are challenges that want you to extract 10 times with a certain character or 15 times on a specific map. If you die (so really die, not just downed and revived) or miss the extraction (by not standing in the blue circle when countdown ends), does it still count towards these challenges?


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I finished the Golden Deer route, then started a new game + with the blue lions. I now re-played the final mission of the golden deer route to also start a new game + to play chrimson flower. When I finish both routes, will the next new game + incorporate all weapon efficiency ranks for all students?
So if I do the silver snow route, can I recruit Mercedes and Raphael and buy their ranks?


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Is there a way to know the health of a vehicle without entering it? I know that if the vehicle is on fire, then its health must be very low. But apart from that?

And as an engineer, is there a way to know the current health?


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I got the soul of Vordt after killing him, but I read in the wiki that his hammer can be made using it.
But when I try to use it I get 2000 souls but no hammer.
I am new to the souls games. How do I get the hammer?


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I'm rebinding melee and skill power activation to keys closer to the WASD keys to make them more accessible. I was going to rebind Q, but by default it is set to "Secondary Use".

The only use of that key in-game that I've noticed so far is that it allows you to shop with NPCs instead of just talking to them. Are there any other uses for this key?


texts: How can I make a scoreboard variable not go over a certain number?

texts: I need to have a scoreboard variable that can count up to 9 and add one whenever a player kills a player. How can I set a limit to the scoreboard variable?


texts: Is there a way to freeze the mob inside a spawner?

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The question is pretty straight forward. Is there a way to freeze the mob inside the spawner.

I think before 1.13 you could do RequiredPlayerRange:0s. Well, that's not working anymore (1.15) Is this a bug that has been patched?

Thanks in advance.


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I have a car which is underperforming when changing up gears.

Changing from first to second is fine, but changing up every other gear results in the car feeling like it is revving too low.

The powerband of the car is about 6500rpm and even if I change on the limiter, the engine is still below the powerband after the gear change, making it feel sluggish and slow.

How can I improve this? How can I ensure that the car is in the powerband after changing gear?


texts: Weapon Damage By Rarity in Battle Royale

texts: There are rarity levels for the weapons in the game, I am wondering how much of a difference there is in damage between the rarity for each weapon?


texts: How to stop breaking SETA in X3 Terran Conflict?

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I'd like to freely move around and STILL be in SETA mode.

How can I prevent SETA from continuously breaking except when I explicitly press 'j'?


texts: PS4 remote wont connect to PS4 after being connected to IPad while ps4 has error message

texts: I have been playing ps4 through my iPad, with the remote connected via Bluetooth to the iPad. Just recently the ps4 crashed and when it restarted, there is an error message which give you an option to report to sony. I cannot press this with the remote since the remote connects through my iPad app and the iPad app needs the ps4 to be on and connected (not in the error message mode it turns to). I tried to connect the controller via the options and ps button, I tried with the wire, I tried disconnecting from iPad and forgetting device from it as well, nothing is working. I cant even go to safe mode since I cant use the controller. I have 2nd controller and that one doesn’t connect through wire either.


texts: Do Sera Guardians count towards the 'What Is that Thing?' challenge?

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I'm on my 2nd playthrough of Borderlands and I have only 30 guardian kills towards the 'What is that Thing?' guardian kill challenge.

I've noticed that at the end portion of the game, you kill a bunch of those Sera Guardians, but they don't bump your guardian kill count for the challenge.

According to the wiki:

  A Sera Guardian is an aerial form of Guardian, pink and greyish-green
  in colour, that levitates high in the air during combat.

I understand that killing Boz Scaggs doesn't count against your Skag kill count, but these things are Guardians.

So, why don't they count?


texts: What skills/perks are available in Skyrim?

texts: Is there a list of skills/perks that are available to be selected in Skyrim?  This would allow you to plan your build without having to read them all in game.


texts: If I queue with my friends who were in the same rank as me last season and play all my placements, will we be placed in the same rank?

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So my friends and I have a big time zone difference and we want to play competitive with each other. However, Season 7 has started, and we need to do our placements. But if we get placed in different ranks, we won't be able to play with each other.

If I queue with them, would I get placed in the same rank as them?


texts: Is the Geth at the end of Priority: Geth Dreadnought from any of the previous games?

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I just finished Priority: Geth Dreadnought and there was a Geth named Geth VI who was sending out the Reaper signal. Was this Geth significant in any of the other games? The way the camera work is done, it looks as if this is supposed to be a significant character.

To me, it just looks like all the other Geth I was just shooting.


texts: Can I respec my character in Dragon's Crown?

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I'm up to about level 10 and so far have just been plopping points into skills almost at random, to try them out. Am I going to regret not saving these points for higher-level skills, or is there a way to respec my character? So far the game sort of seems to unlock new things as I go (like the mage tower, and eventually rune magic) so I wonder if respeccing will be unlocked at some point too.

I figure it's better to find out sooner rather than later, so I can restart my guy if it turns out respeccing isn't an option.


texts: How can I change my "Breaking News" region in Diablo 3?

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In Diablo 3, my default region is The Americas, but my Breaking News on the login screen always seems to be for the Europe region.

How can I change the Breaking News region back to The Americas?


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In StackEgg there's this fairly ambiguous "progress toward winning the internet" bar.  So far no action has made a noticeable affect on it, and it doesn't appear to mention it in the FAQ.

Which aspects of the site most influence winning the internet?  What are the requisites for doing so?


texts: How do I pass the last question of the book puzzle in the second Gym on Pokemon Black?

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I started playing Pokemon Black on my PC using Desmume, but, for some reason, on the second gym, I can't pass the book puzzle.

On the very last question of the puzzle, I go to the middle right bookshelf and talk to the girl on the ladder. In every video I watch, talking to her triggers a question, and answering "yes" makes you battle her. Though, for some reason, even though I answered every other question, talking to her doesn't trigger that question.

Any idea what is causing this?


texts: How to use tools in Single Player Commands

texts: I have recently installed Single Player Commands into my Minecraft. I am trying to use the wand tool and the brush tool, but neither of them are working. Can anyone tell me why?


texts: Is there a utility to replace one block type with another within a region?

texts: I'd like to be able to select a region (either with a graphical utility or command line) and be able to switch one block type with another, e.g. change all cobblestone in the region to stone. Does a program/mod exist that can do this?


texts: Does Ringing a Bell Show the Stronghold in Minecraft?

texts: I've been wondering this for a while. I heard that if you ring a bell it'll show particles around it if theirs a stronghold nearby. If that's true does it do it on the PS4?


texts: What does each level icon size mean on Super Mario World's map?

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In the SMW map we have four types of normal levels:

 Yellow (small)
 Yellow (big)
 Red (small)
 Red (big)

I know that the red levels have more than 1 exit, but what about the sizes?


texts: Diablo 2 - Does Dracul's Grasp cast life tap on Javazon?

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Dracul's Grasp has a 5% chance to cast life tap on striking. Does throwing a Javelin count as striking?

Also, I'm curious if the Open Wounds mod applies too. It seems there are a lot of exceptions in D2 and I'm curious if there are any veterans lurking around these parts :)


texts: How to level up faster in MW3 survival mode?

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I am at level 36 in Survival model, How do I level up faster? Should I keep playing higher waves or as @agent86 mentioned[this is my interpretation of what he said], restart after wave 15?

  Remember also that once you've hit round 15, everything from there on
  out is just a matter of beating your previous (or your friends')
  score. 15 is the highest round you need to hit for achievements, and
  there's not really a XP/money benefit for playing to the very high
  rounds anyhow.


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During my travels, I've found some jewelry that wasn't worth keeping and so I threw it in my junk bag so I could easily sell it later on. Recently, I found this interesting piece:

This item is called St. Hadwyn's Beads. As you can see in the picture, it's equip-able and I have the option of comparing it with my other items. However, I don't want to use this poor excuse for jewelry as it has no magical properties whatsoever. And when I can't use something, I junk it so it can be sold. But, there's no 'junk' option on this item. What's so special about it? Are there others out there like it?


texts: I saw a shared video of someone with a buddy with catch assist. It seems like a normally wasted ball (landed during the 'attack' of the wild Pokémon) is being headbutted back, delivering a 'Great throw' (I personally think it would be an awesome combo). Are the normal catch chances applied? Is this assist always there? Does the original circle matter for the type of throw, or would it always be great?


texts: What level do i have to be to get Daedric items from the Dremora merchant?

texts: In the Dragonborn DLC you get a power called Black Market which allows you to summon a Dremora merchant to trade with. You are supposed to be able to frequently buy Daedric items from him when you reach a certain level but I don't know what level that is. I am a level 36 dark elf and can only buy ebony from him. When can I buy Daedric?


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Some of the people in steam said that they reached 90 (most probably they cheated their way up since the game just came out), while some other web sources claim it is 40. I'm not sure which one is correct. By looking at the perk tree, if 40 is max level then you can't really unlock each and every perk in there (some perks cost 2 points, other costs 1 and some perks can be upgraded by points multiple times).

Anyway, what is the max level cap in AC:Origins?


texts: Does barrier damage count towards Orisa's "Overclocked" achievement?

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The description for Overwatch's 'Overclocked' is "Amplify 900 damage with a single use of Orisa's Supercharger in Quick or Competitive Play"

Does damage dealt to barriers count towards this achievement? For example, if I used Orisa's Supercharger and my team dealt 900 damage to Reinhardt's Barrier Field, would that unlock the achievement?


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Does the monk buff enlightenment stack with other experience buffs? For example say you've got the rested bonus and an heirloom that gives 10% more experience gained, would this add up to 260% experience gained?
Or if you have the rested bonus would the 50% be calculated as 50% of 200, making the total 300%?
Or does enlightenment just not stack with rested/heirlooms at all?


texts: Is manual driving faster than Ignis driving?

texts: Is it faster to drive manually or let Ignis drive (No fast travel)?


texts: Can I get Legion early and still save the crew?

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I'm now at my third play through of Mass Effect 2 and this time I decided to take Legion with me on more missions. However, doing lots of missions after Legion joined means the Normandy Crew will die, which is mildly annoying.

Is there any way to prevent this?

(Since, according to this question's answers, it's not possible, I don't mind modding, exploiting a glitch, editing my save file or cheating)

According to this answer I can complete most missions after completing the main quest, but I still would have to do loyalty mission without legion.


texts: I'm having a bit of trouble when placing the towers- do the f, s, w tower settings actually mean anything?


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In Snuggle Truck, there is an odd behaviour when I first start the game. When looking at the Ark medal for the first time after starting the game up, there is a picture of someone's Visa:

As soon as anything is clicked, the main image goes back to an ark again, but the thumbnail view remains a visa until you change the selected track.

I realize that this might be just an easter egg, but I hadn't noticed the behaviour until recently. If it is an easter egg, I don't get the joke.

Has anyone else experienced this? Does anyone know the meaning of the Visa picture?


texts: Where is the world saved on a Minecraft server, and how do I back it up?

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I've found some related answers: I think I get maps and worlds, and I now know where single-player saves are located. I'm not sure I completely understand this answer about copying a multiplayer map to single-player, but in any case, I'm only concerned about multiplayer survival mode:

Suppose I'm running a Minecraft server on Windows for myself and friends. Which files should I save to "back up" the state of the world at a particular point?

For example, I might want to do this just when I need to shut off the server, to be sure not to lose anything; to save one world and go back to it later, while starting a new one for now; or to restore the world from an earlier state, when we hadn't flooded the house with lava yet.


texts: Hacker Experience I recently just got added to Safenet's list, is my IP on a text file on their server?

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I recently got added to Safenet's list after deleting a file for a mission. I know you only stay on the list for and hour, but I also heard there is a .txt file on the Safenet server containing the full IP of everyone on the front page. Is this true?

P.S. I can't do an IP reset for a while so I'm worried.


texts: Can the Black Star be used repeatedly to enchant items? Assuming of course that it is re-filled with a soul between applying enchantments.


texts: Run command after 60 seconds + display timer for individual player when player presses button

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My title almost explains everything I want to do. I want the player to press a button. Then the player gets an item from that but the player is only allowed to have the item for a minute, so I need some time delay of 60 seconds without redstone before I execute the command that gets rid of the item. Also I want the player to be able to see how much time he has left and this command has to work for only the person who was closest to the button when executed but might not be the closest anymore when the timer runs out.
Anny suggestions?


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How do Certification points work in PlanetSide 2?

Do you get some:

over time?
by getting kills?
by completing objectives?

If so, how many do you get for each of the above?


texts: Splinter Cell Double Agent(PC) - Can you use the attachments that you get?

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Ok I had played Splinter Cell Double Agent on my PC, one of the odd things was that after completing all the objectives of a particular level you used to get certain rewards like the shotgun SC-20K attachment or the colored nightvision.

Can you actually use these ? Or are they just for show ? Because I could never get an option to use these.

I just want to know if that was how the game was built or is it a bug in my system ?


texts: I see all these questions on how to turn them off so they don't see them. But, I want to know how to disable people from making comments on my stage when they are in the level, but can still comment after it. You can see this being used in Goomba Story by Hype.


texts: Does it matter when I open a treasure sphere?

texts: The spherical treasure chests that are scattered throughout the world exist in the same place regardless of what time period you are in, but once opened, they remain opened in all times.  Are the contents always the same regardless of which time period I collect them in?  Or are there some that change?


texts: life is strange: spinning forever after ch. 1

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it has been spinning for the last half-hour, at least.

  Next

  Exit

  Friend Stats

  Refresh

Are all clickable, technically, but do nothing at all - so probably unclickable.

So, what's up - why can't I move on?


texts: Steam on my Mac is giving me the error *SteamStartEngine(0xbfb334f0) failed with error 1: CMultiFieldBlob(pSerialized) : Bad field -extends past end of blob. I have tried the terminal command, which did not work. I tried locating the Application Support folder, but could not find it. Even tried deleting it and reinstalling it. Anyone know what to do?


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I've come across this issue a couple times now. I was downloading a game when Steam ran an update of the client, which makes the client restart downloading the game from the beginning. I had already downloaded over 9GB out of 11. However, when I go check the game folder, I can see that there are around 19GB of data (I can confirm that the data currently downloaded goes into this folder). I guess that the client decompresses the files as it downloads them, so it scans the folder looking for the compressed versions of the files, which can't be found. This is just my theory though.

The same thing happened last year, and I can see that I have another folder with over 50GB of data (it was NBA 2K).

Any idea how I can fix this issue and "recover" this data?

Thanks


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I'm going around trying to mop up all the side quests in Darksiders 2 before I complete the  final levels of the game. I'm currently trying to get through Soul Arbiter's Maze in the Kingdom of the Dead, but I haven't gathered up all of the Soul Arbiter's Scrolls in order to get the directions for each level of the maze. I know I don't need the Scrolls in order to succeed at the solutions, and I know that each level also has a "secret" solution that'll take you to a treasure chest.

So what are the "Secret" Directions and Next Level Directions for each of the 10 levels of the Soul Arbiter's Maze?


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I have the chocolate sword now, but buttons in the forge is disabled..

Why? I have too many candies and lollipops...


texts: Help me understand Friends on Nintendo Switch

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I am the parent of a child with a Nintendo Switch. I would like someone to help me understand more about the Friends system on the Switch. When you are friends with someone, what does that mean you can do? Does it just mean that you can see if they are online and invite them to play, or is there more to it than that?

I have disabled communication in the Parental Controls, but does being friends allow any form of communication? What can a player see about friends?


texts: How do you set durability AND add a enchant onto a item?

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I wanted to make an overpowered one-time hit sword that deals knockback and blinds the player who was attacked.
The command for adding enchants is :
/give @p diamond_sword{Enchantments:[{id:"minecraft:STUFF",lvl:SOMETHING},{id:"minecraft:STUFF",lvl:SOMETHING}]}

Is it possible to combine the durability command with the enchant command?


texts: Does "Summon Arniel's Shade" Level Conjuration Skill?

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I've been using "Summon Arniel's Shade" a lot, usually right when I'm first aware of an enemy, often even to lure enemies out. But my conjuration skill doesn't seem to be leveling fast: it's at about 74-75. I think it's only leveling when I cast Soul Trap, Bound Weapon, or Summon Atronach spells.

Is this because XP is tied to base cost and Arniel's Shade costs 0 magica? Or is it because I have to start a fight first, then cast the spell?


texts: This has happened to me a few times now. I will be playing and see my team mate and then that same team mate will suddenly be from the other team and kill me. How is it possible? I thought it wasn't possible to change teams


texts: Bran is one of he Huskys you get in the dawnguard dlc. I cannot find him at all. I've tried fast travel, reloads, and I even when at recruited the other husky in replacement. But that one died. Bran couldn't die unless I killed him myself and I'm very frustrated.. I've gone back and ran through so many Nordic ruins and quests lines. He just isn't there, is there something at I can do to fix this? This is on xbox360.


texts: What determines the quality of loot in horadric caches?

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Ofcourse your character's level and the random factor affect what you get in the caches, but is there anything else that has influence on the loot from a cache? For example, does it matter on what difficulty I complete the bounties? Does it matter on which difficulty I open them? Anything else?

For clarification, I'm talking about the reward you get from completing all bounties in one act in adventure mode. A new feature in the Reaper of Souls expansion. Upon completing all bounties in one act you get a one time use cache which drops some loot when used. It usually drops a few crafting materials, some rift keystone fragments and a couple of blues and yellow. I've had one legendary so far out of 4 or 5 caches.

I understand there isn't nearly enough data from the community yet to answer this question based on results. But if someone had a link to a blue post explaining this or perhaps an ingame reference that answers this, that would be awesome.
Damn it, I might just spend the next few evenings farming normal - T1 caches and see if I get significant differences in drops :D.


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So I just built this unmanned rocket:

Although the center of mass is in the center of the rocket it is "drifting" north when I launch it.
Since I play in career mode and I'm still very early in the game I only have access to the basic Sputnik Command Pod which does not support SAS.
I tried using the WASD keys to hold against it but the rocket doesn't react to it.


texts: I play Minecraft of the Nintendo Switch. Recently I have been running up against a problem in which I see a message that says that servers are coming soon and are unable to be joined. Usually I can fix it if I close and reopen the application, but sometimes it persists and I have to repeat the process. Does anyone know of a way to fix this problem that isn’t so time-consuming?


texts: What determines the leaderboard ranking order for Arrange mode?

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Some months ago, I took a look at the Mushihimesama Steam leaderboard for Arrange mode. I noticed that the rank 2 player has a better score than the rank 1 player, as you can see at this screenshot:

My question is, why? Is it just a bug or is the score not the only reason to get a higher rank?


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I want to enter a username, I start to type it but nothing is showing up, it's just blank and I have double tapped swiped and retried and I have also shut down my device and opened it again but this still doesn't help

Anyone know how I can fix this?


texts: What are the different ways to earn valor points and which one(s) is/are the fastest?

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I recently started with World of Warcraft and I now hit level 90. The only way I currently earn valor points is doing LFR (Looking For Raid, the group finder for raids).
I know that you get them for doing daily quests, defeating bosses in heroic instances and raids, are there any other ways to get valor points? And what's the fastest way to reach the weekly valor-point-cap?


texts: Low resolution textures on Ultra graphics settings?

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I have an RTX 2080 Ti and a high end Threadripper CPU. I can run Metro: Exodus on 1440p Ultra-wide with the Ultra graphics preset and RTX On at around 70-100 FPS quite happily.

However, I'm noticing really low resolution textures around the place. I have annotated some screenshots below (click the thumbnail to load the full-resolution images to see what I mean):

Are there any specific settings I should be looking at to fix this? Bumping the graphics level up to "Extreme" makes it better but it's still fairly obvious (and I lose about 20 FPS). It's breaking the immersion on an otherwise excellent game.


texts: life is feudal - freezing/crashing every 3 - 5 minutes, how to prevent it from that?

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Life is feudal - freezing/crashing every 3 - 5 minutes, how to prevent it from that?

I tried to change many in-game settings, but it only helps to delay it a bit more further.

Prior I had settings almost everything at lowest or mediocre details, there are too many settings - to list a bit of them when all disabled - a depth of field, vsync, light rays, but I was running it at 4k. And I was selectively disabling and testing one after one. I think it could have been due to graphics card 2070 RTX.


texts: What's the Family Trainer Dancing Mat Controller for?

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There is some kind of weird dance controller for the Wii.

What's this for? What games are compatible with it?


texts: Which are the air accelerate and walk-through-walls commands?

texts: In this video and maybe other videos grenades and positions are explained with negative air acceleration (afaik) and walking through walls. Which are the commands to use for this? sv_airacceleration does not seem to exist in CS:GO.


texts: Both my opponent and I are in Waiting mode for the game?

texts: The game is Waiting at Both me and my opponent. We have tried to nudge eachother bur it Does not come up - What do we do?


texts: What unlocks the three final Government Plaza buildings?

texts: The Civilopedia entries for the War Department, National History Museum, and Royal Society list only one of the previous buildings as being required, but I only just now am able to build them. I haven't been checking regularly, but I just recently entered the Atomic era by researching Rocketry.


texts: What does the "P" stand for in Super Mario's P-Switches?

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In pretty much every Super Mario platformer game after Super Mario Bros 3, there is a "P-switch" which turns blocks into coins and vice-versa (and sometimes some other thing, like make special blocks appear). Many people assume it stands for "Power" and some think it might stand for "Paratroopa" because "P-wings" let you fly like a Paratroopa (sort of), but these are all unsourced guesses.

Incredibly, as far as I can tell, the internet simply does not know what the P actually stand for!


texts: What file systems are used on the Xbox 360 and Xbox One? And is there any PC program that will let me see the drive on Windows?

texts: I would like to find out what file system is being used so that I can try and find a program that will let my PC see the contents on an Xbox drive, for the purpose of data recovery. Has anyone had any luck doing that? I am going to try EaseUS Data Recovery first, but I don't think it will let me add or modify files, just recover them to the PC.


texts: Does the faction I align with change the story?

texts: Does the faction I align with towards the end of the game change the outcome of the story at all (or, for that matter, the resulting Mercenary Mode)? Or does it simply change the soldiers who fight alongside of me during the final two agency missions?


texts: Can a vampire's human child and another human make vampire babies?

texts: A vampire and human can have both vampire and human offspring. Can their human child have vampire babies?


texts: Does Li Li's Cloud Serpent (W) attack on multiple targets and how fast does it attack?

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When Li Li's Cloud Serpent (W) is cast on Zagara and if Zagara has taken the Medusa Blades (Level 4, second talent), does the Cloud Serpent attack to multiple targets?

If Cloud Serpent is cast on Tychus, how often does the serpent attack?


texts: Is there any reason to continue exploiting food production once my planet has reached maximum population?

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When I first colonize a planet, I often set my exploitation to one that increases food production so that I can more quickly get the planet's population maxed out.

Once the planet reaches maximum population, and assuming that removing the exploitation wouldn't cause starvation, is there any reason to keep the high food production? Does anything useful happen to all that extra food, or is it simply wasted?


texts: Is it possible to manage Battle.net friends out of game?

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I just started playing Diablo III and have noticed that, so far, I've only been able to add friends and accept friend requests from in-game.  This is a bit frustrating, as I usually chat to my mates during lunchtime - a perfect time to manage my friends list online.

Is there a way to do this?  I've looked through the battle.net site and the Diablo III community site and, if the option is there somewhere, it's certainly not obvious!

Does anyone know if this is a feature that is planned?

PS I already noticed that there's no Facebook import feature in D3: How can I add my Facebook friends to my Battle.net contacts in Diablo III?


texts: How can I level up my smithing really quick without the Oghma Infinium

texts: I have just started out as an Orc and I wanted him to be a blacksmith so that I can create Heavy Armor.


texts: I've found a few rare Blue Elixirs, but I'm wondering what they do before I go using them?


texts: Controller only connects to PC as an audio device

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My Dualshock 4 used to work perfectly fine and had been until yesterday. I would plug it into my PC and play, no problem. But now my PC only recognizes the controller as an audio device and not a game controller. I have researched about this problem and I found many people with similar problems but nobody's solution worked for me.

This is what the controller shows up as under the Bluetooth & Other Devices section of settings: https://imgur.com/jEUGVZh

This is what my Device Manager looks like: https://imgur.com/LtmOai4

These are the properties of the controller under Devices and Printers settings: https://imgur.com/o34YzZK

Does anyone know of a fix for this problem?


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Where's the critical hit location on Rathyds?

I've killed over 700, maybe over 1000, and only seen them report crits, like, thrice at most?

Where do I aim for crits, and do only natural ones, a.k.a non-Shuggurath-born ones have critical hit points?


texts: What happens if you go to that specific place before fighting Gebel?

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So in order to get the good ending, you'll have to do a lot of stuff to

   get Zangetsu's sword to be able to strike Gremory during Gebel's fight when the moon turns red.

However, earlier in the game, you can see

   the red moon

in the Garden of Silence. In fact, it's where you have to go after the Gebel fight. So I was wondering... what happens if you go there

   right after you got Zangetsu's sword? Can you slice the red moon just like you're supposed to after fighting Gebel?

Is it even possible?


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In Minecraft I have this world called I CAN READ YOUR MIIIIIIIIIND. I can see it in the singleplayer list. But, when I go to .minecraft/saves I can't find it. The same thing happens with MCEdit.

I need to share this world. Could anyone tell me were I can find it?


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A key component to PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS is listening to the sounds around your player.

From footsteps and gunshots, to vehicles and explosions each sound seems to have a hard set cap for distance. However, voice chat seems to be the most impactful as this will give away your location to any enemies in the area.

That being said, what is the hearing distance for in-game voice chat? Is it truly a hard capped distance or is there some sort of fading effect?


texts: Takes forever to update tools and it happens every time I turn on for Diablo 3

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For Diablo 3, when I open the game it says it is updating tools and then updating blizzard launcher. When it is updating the tools it takes at least a half an hour and sometimes doesnt even work. When it does work a message box pops up that says failed to update tools.

The game will then close but if I click on the game again it will just to the updating blizzard launcher step. This process will also take 15 to 20 minutes but once its done I can start playing the game.

Is there any way to fix this? I have windows 7 with trend antivirus.


texts: Minecraft local server: World doesn't load

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I played on a private Minecraft Server downloaded directly from minecraft.net with my friend on local LAN. This worked perfectly. But when I try to join the server over the internet, I see the server in my Server List and I can join, but the world isn't loading at all (seems like I'm falling) and I get kicked after about 10 seconds. If i write something, the server also receives it so it seems like the server isn't able to answer the clients properly.
I set up a port forwarding for my PC on Port 25565 and set up my firewall rules (I also tried turning the firewall off for testing but this didn't change anything).
I don't want to use things like LogMeInHamachi or ngrok and it would work but I think it should be able to work without these tools as well but I cant find out why this happens. I tried joining to my server on my PC with a laptop from a different Internet Provider but it didn't work.
I assigned 4GB ram (I have 16GB) and activated UPNP and tried using a DNS but all this things didn't help. Does anybody know what it could be that others can join but cant receive any further data from my Server?


texts: What are the Secondary Stats for In-Vault Dwellers?

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Question

Everyone knows that each utility room has a S.P.E.C.I.A.L. stat that compliments it (Waterplant-perception, etc). What I want to know is are there secondary stats that are important? Below are examples of secondaries that I'm aware of but I'm paranoid that I'm missing some.

Examples

For instance, I train everyone to have high luck because I noticed that it results in better rush-success. Obviously I'm working on my explorers having max luck, so they get the best items.

I put people with a high overall character level near the vault door, because they have more health.

My near-door room is a water plant because everyone in it has maxed perception, for more accurate shooting. Should I also train these near-door protectors in strength, to make them better fighters?

High charisma helps speed up the baby making process. But does it have any effect on happiness if everyone in a room is charismatic?

Does any skill help them put out fires faster?

Maybe high intelligence helps dwellers learn other skills faster?

Does any skill result in children being born with higher starting skill levels?


texts: Why is this corridor in Inferno called "Banana"?

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I was watching a recent replay of a CS:GO match. For some reason the casters kept talking about a team "keeping great control of banana". For example at around 19:04 in this ESL video. At first I thought I misheard, but then I checked various maps online, including this one:

And for sure, there it is: "BANANA".

All of the other callouts / names on this map make sense somehow. Is there some inside CS:GO joke that I'm missing here?

Why is it called "Banana"?


texts: How to change the driving side in GTA 4?

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Is it possible to change the driving side in GTA-4? In the game you drive on the right side, but in my country, India, we drive on the left side of the road.

And in the game it becomes a lot harder to chase or win the races for me, as I tend to drive on the left side of the road.

Is it possible to change the driving side in the game? Is there any cheat that will do this?


texts: How do I open this secret door in the first level?

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This is an older DOS game I use to play as a kid.  I've purchased the Apogee Throwback pack on Steam which included this game.

In the very beginning of the first level, there is a secret wall behind you where you start.  You can see that in the screenshot below (the wall has already been pushed open):

If you proceed down the hallway beyond this secret wall, there is a locked door.

As you can see, if you attempt to open it, it says "This Door Appears to be locked."  How do I open it?  I've never done this as a kid and I've always wondered what was behind that door.


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I used this tutorial to build a mob grinder.

However, my grinder is not spawning any mobs at all.

A little background info:

I built pretty much the exact same mob grinder at Y=90 with a drop to Y=63. It spawned some mobs, but not many. I also noticed that spiders tended to block the exit of the spawn room and also climbed up the walls of the tower.
I googled a bit and found two solutions. Using half slabs to not have any spiders spawning or to make the tower wider than the exit of the spawn rom (spawn room exit 2x2 followed by the 4x4 tower). I preferred the second option as I would still like to get drops from spiders.
So I built the tower 4x4 wide and then had to realize that suddenly no more mobs were spawning. So I googled a bit more and read about spawning behavior and everything. I figured that probably there were too many caves around and/or I was too far away from the spawn room I built.
So I decided to follow some advice I found and build my tower higher up so that there are no spawnable areas close by. I then went up and built the exact same design at Y=200, leading through the existing spawner and dropping to Y=63.
I also built an AFK room at Y=175 to be within 24 to 32 blocks of the spawn room, but still no further than 128 blocks of the bottom, so that mobs don't despawn along the way.
Not in peaceful, I am playing on normal difficulty
The spawning platform is 20x20. Does this have an impact? The lower platform is also 20x20 but at Y=90 and there is nothing spawning either.

Unfortunately, I am still not getting any mobs to spawn at all. Even after waiting about 45 minutes there are no drops in the chests or the hoppers and the spawn rooms are completely empty.

Am I missing something? I would appreciate any help you can give! I attached a few pictures for your reference. Please let me know if you need any other info.


texts: How do you get to wave 15 of the pumpkin moon in terraria?

texts: I made an arena, and it can kill everything but I can't make it all the way to round 15. I'm doing it with melee: dragon armor and a mushroom spear.


texts: How can I tell if my game saves are backed up?

texts: I'm a PlayStation Plus subscriber. On my PS3, I get a message every day saying which game saves were backed up that night. On the PS4, I don't get any messages about the success or failure of my game saves. Is there a place I can verify my game saves are being backed up? Is there a way I can get notified whenever a game save is backed up? I'd hate to discover too late that the hours and hours I've spent on some of my games are for nothing.


texts: Is there a functional difference between the console and PC versions of the LEGO games?

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I'm wondering if there are any different play areas (added or missing) between the PC editions of the LEGO games (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, etc) and their console equivalents.

I'm also curious if saving to a hard drive on the PC conveys any extra part sharing modes?  If the games themselves do not offer this feature, is there a 3rd party editor that helps with this?


texts: Now that Guild Wars Live team have deployed the 'whole hero team' update, are there any strategies for beating Shiro using a whole hero party?


texts: Will already existing troops upgrade when their respective laboratory research finishes?

texts: I already have a level 2 dragon on my army camp and I'm waiting an hour to be upgraded in the laboratory to level 3. Would the existing dragons on my army camp be upgraded also to level 3 or would they still be level 2?


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While making my way around the horseshoe overlook, I found Máximo Cristóbal Valdespino. He offered to give me a treasure map for $10. However, at the time I had just paid a bounty off and only had $6 to my name, so I walked away.

Now that I can afford the map, I can't find him! Have I missed out on this mission? Or will I be able to re-find Máximo Cristóbal Valdespino and retry?


texts: What is the difference between the four versions of Civ 4 that Steam installs?

texts: I just bought the Civ 4 complete edition from Steam with the 3 DLC packs, and I now have 8 different versions in my library. Four of them are SteamOS versions, but I can't figure out what to do with the other 4 versions. Can I not play a game with all 4 versions enabled at once? How does this system work? Civ 3 and Civ 5 all have a single version, why not Civ 4?


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Frequently when having conversations with various colorful (literally) characters the option appears to interrupt them with either a Paragon or Renegade action. Obviously, I'm a commander with a lot on his plate and don't always want to wait for the other guy to stop yapping. On the other hand, I do want what's best for Earth and jazz, so I want to get the most out of these interactions. It's quite the conundrum, really.

Thus the question: Is it always or almost always better to use the interrupt option as opposed to letting the other person finish talking? In other words, are the rewards for interrupting always better than those of waiting it out?


texts: Succeed in baby rocking game in Tomodachi?

texts: I can't get the baby to stop crying. I started my game over to join my sister cause she got a new one. Because, she gave me her old one. The baby in my first game was easy to please. Now, she's just being difficult in the second one. Help?


texts: How do i give water to thermal expansion machines

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I'm playing the ftb agrarian skies modpack, the problem is I don't know how to feed infinite water into the thermal expansion machines. Like the igneous extruder if I want it to make stone or obsidian I don't know how to give it infinite water.

I tried putting a water source behind it, it didn't do anything.


texts: How to add more countries or unblock blocked roads in Euro Truck Simulator 2?

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I'm playing Euro Truck Simulator 2 1.17.1 (64 bit). I have explored almost all the roads that are available. While driving I can see some roads are blocked. Is there any way to unblock the blocked roads?

Also, is it possible to add more countries? If yes, how?


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I recently purchased the Wrath of the Lamb expansion and since then there's no in-game music and no sound...

I have just recently formatted my computer and re-installed Windows XP, I don't know if it has something to do with the issue.


texts: How do I join the Minecraft Beta? I have seen other people using it, but I don't know how to install it on my Xbox.


texts: Is there a drawback from using Drop Points?

texts: I've noticed quite a few drop points that allow you to sell items. Is there a drawback to using these such as decreased sell value of items for the sake of convenience? I would like to utilize these as much as possible, but I'd need to know if going to a vendor is more profitable.


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I came across my old Spore account last week, and contacted EA about if it works on Origin. They asked for my verification and I gave it to them, they verified that my Spore account was valid. The support person then simply added Spore onto my Origin account.

Later on, I've launched Spore from Origin and it asked me for my serial key. I looked at Game Info of Spore using Origin, and my key was listed there. But entering it gave me "invalid key" and live chat was unable to solve the issue.

Is Spore still officially supported by EA?
Does Origin officially support Spore?

I've just received a response from email support:

  I understand that you are not able to play Spore on your computer. As a gamer myself I understand how frustrating this can be. Unfortunately we cannot support the game with this type of error because the game is no longer being updated for current versions of Windows.

They offered a free game instead. But I'm simply looking to get Spore working.

Sigh. So my main question is now "How can I get my legit copy of Spore playable?"


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I have been reading about using command blocks, and I come across the term "data tag" a lot. Can anyone explain what this is?

For example:

/summon <EntityName> [x] [y] [z] [dataTag]


texts: How can I record gameplay without a dip in framerate?

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I use Fraps when recording my gameplays but it chops off like 5-9 FPS and makes the recorded video laggy. Is there any tool I can use to record gameplay without a resulting loss of much FPS?

Added Bounty.


texts: Do bonfire ascetics cause the respawn of more bonfire ascetics and can I farm them in this manner?

texts: I was wondering if, when a BA is used, does it cause any possible BA in the area to respawn? If so, would it be worthwhile to farm BAs in this manner?


texts: Is it possible to protect saved games on Nintendo Switch from being played by other users?

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Is it possible to protect saved games of a particular user from being played by other users, while still allowing them to play all the games they normally can?

It doesn't have to be secure*, so a short PIN code would be fine, and if any non-trivial action is required to run games with a particular profile that's fine too. However, those non-trivial actions should not actually take long, or require an Internet connection.

A typical use case is when there's a party, and you want people who feel like it to enjoy a couple of games, but you don't want to spend time explaining to all guests, kids, guests' kids, etc. that you'd like to resume that Zelda adventure exactly where you have left it.

For those who don't own a Switch, this is how a profile selection screen looks like. Selecting a profile is a one click action which has to be done every time a new game is started.

(*) - by "not secure" I mean a way that doesn't have to prevent a determined person from using my profile anyway. I mostly want to prevent people from picking it by accident, but a somewhat secure way would be even better.


texts: Are strategic resources secretively revealed before the required technology?

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I am trying to place an industrial zone when some tiles show "+1 production from the adjacent strategic resource". I do not see any strategic resources in that area, and my scientific progress has only gone so far as niter.

The tiles with and without the bonus seem to point to a tile with a completed commercial hub already on it. Does this mean this commercial hub is sitting on a later-era strategic resource? So does it mean we can use industrial zones to prospect for future strategic resources? I thought districts would remove resources. Is that not so? If this is indeed a hidden resource, am I correct in thinking the adjacency bonus will stay despite the tile being appropriated already.


texts: Do active stone blocks count as a floor for a house?

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I'd like to build one of my NPCs' houses with a retractable floor so that I can repeatedly drop them
into... things. Is this possible?


texts: GTA V Setup Tool gives Media Feature Pack error

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I've been trying to install GTA V using the official GTA V Setup Tool from Rockstar Games, but it doesn't work! It says that it requires Media Feature Pack.

How can I fix this? I'm using Windows 10 Pro N.


texts: Fighting Metal Gear without enough plastic explosives, what now?

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I'm replaying the first Metal Gear game via the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection on the PS Vita, and have now reached Metal Gear itself.

Unfortunately, I messed up and went to challenge that tank with only 13 plastic explosives instead of 16. Without enough explosives, I can't beat the boss, and I can't go back either, as the door behind me is shut and doesn't open at all.

Also, when I die, I'm back at the beginning of the fight, so there's no way I can return to fetch more explosives.

What can I do? Is reloading a save file from before I even reached Building 3 really the only option I have left?


texts: Heart of Gold and Philosopher's Stone changes

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This affects mostly supports but some junglers as well.

Are the nerfs to these two items reason to change item builds and are there any better alternatives?

Just looking for both general as well as any champion specific thoughts or ideas.


texts: Skyrim - Is There a Fix for Illia's gear bug?

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This is an issue specific to Illia, and I was wondering if there is a fix for it. I've done extensive research and have found the problem multiple times, but no fix.

Illia is a mage that you can recruit as a follower after doing her quest. She is one of two female mages that specializes in both destruction and restoration (the reason I want her). The problem is that her default gear is a blue hooded robe. For some reason, this makes it so that she cannot wear chestpieces that you trade with her. If she equips a helmet, she will take off the robe (because it fills both slots), but she still won't be able to put any chestpiece on. This basically means that she's either stuck naked with a helmet, gloves, and boots; or a crappy blue robe.

Is there any fix for this? It seems like she's basically acting like the head and chest armor slots are permanently merged together.

I am using the AFT mod (Amazing Follower Tweaks). However, this bug is part of Illia, so I doubt AFT has anything to do with it. I am running on a PC.


texts: Are all weapons in Team Fortress 2 unlockable?

texts: By which I mean is it possible to unlock every weapon in the game without ever paying for one, or can some weapons only be obtained through micro-transactions?


texts: How do I get Knights of the Old Republic (KOTOR) to run on Windows 8?

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I have a nVidia GTX 560 Ti with the latest drivers as of this post (311.06).
I run swkotor.exe with compatibility mode set to XP SP3, and as administrator. The game starts up, but about 8 minutes into the first level, when fighting the first of the Sith, it crashes.
Already tried the following from swconfig.exe:

Disable v-sync
Disable hardware mouse cursor
Disable movies

Also, I have the original 4 CD retail pack, not Steam.


texts: How do I skip the Intro on Binding of Isaac?

texts: I play the Binding of Isaac, and love the game. Though, I hate the very long intro. Is there anyway to skip it? Please tell me. Thank you.


texts: Is there an automatic level adjustment for bosses?

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I'm fairly early into the game, but while most mobs I encounter have a fixed level display, it seems like a few mobs change levels after several seconds in combat.

For example, the boss in the Amusement Park began the fight at level 16, only to drop down to 15 after I had been shooting her for a bit (I was around level 10 at the time).  The air battle with the Goliah in the ruined city also started at level 20, only to drop to level 12 (nearly matching my level) shortly after the first few attacks.

Interestingly, I also came across a pack of Small Stubbys that started at level 12 and "upgraded" to level 14 when they engaged me (level 16-17 at the time?), though I have not yet encountered any other non-boss doing the same.

Since all of these adjustments happen in the first few seconds of combat, it seems like it might be an auto-difficulty adjustment.  On the other hand, the game has no qualms about throwing quest mobs or overworld mobs at me a dozen levels higher than my level, so I'm not so sure.

Why are these enemies changing levels?  Is it a specific trait for some machines?

I'm playing on Normal, if that makes a difference.


texts: How can I make my Mage deck more resistant against aggro decks?

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I'm currently playing mostly with a Mage deck that is close to Trump's Free Mage deck, with a few differences due to cards I don't have yet and didn't want to craft so far. The deck works pretty well for me, but it still seems rather weak against rush decks.

I just started keeping statistics of my games and all my recent losses are against Hunters or Warlocks. The last game I was completely trashed by a Murloc deck.

So I'm wondering how I should change my deck to make it less vulnerable against aggro decks. I've quite a few ideas, but I don't want to weaken the deck too much against control decks.

I'm interested both in general principles on how to make a deck less vulnerable to aggro decks and specific cards that are good against aggro and would fit well into my deck.

My current deck is


texts: Is a PS3 backup transferable between hard drives?

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Possible Duplicate:
  What data does the PS3’s backup utility preserve?

I have a 2.5" HDD I'm going to replace in my PSE, but I do not have a spare hard drive I can use as to backup the PS3 to and restore to the new drive.

I was thinking I could use the hard drive I'm going to put in the PS3 as a temporary backup drive, transfer the files onto my computer and then put that drive into the PS3. After that I can mount the old ps3 hard drive into the external enclosure, format it and then transfer the backup data onto the now external old-PS3 hard drive and restore backup data like normal. Is this process possible?

The reason why I want to do this is because most of my current games are downloaded from the PS Store and I don't want to have to go through the process of downloading them all again...


texts: What is the reason for the lack of Kayle junglers?

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I used to play Kayle as a jungle around the start of Season 2. I am wondering why she is not played there anymore? I mean she has all the skills to be a viable jungler:

good crowd control (slow)
good movement speed buff
fast clear (aoe damage)
insane tower diving capabilities (ultimate)
heal


texts: Where can I see the approval rating of my companions?

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I'm pretty much constantly seeing notifications like "Solas approves" or "Cassandra disapproves", but I still have no idea on how much my companions approve or disapprove of myself in general. I assume those individual actions are accumulated into an overall rating, but I couldn't find anything in the game that indicates how a particular companion feels towards myself.

Is there any way to see how my companions regard myself and if they approve or disapprove of me in general?


texts: Is it possible to clear Hex Defense levels in "hard" mode?

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It didn't take me too long to clear the first three levels (lite/free/demo version of Hex Defense) in "Easy" mode.  But I've been trying for days to play in "Hard" mode and can not get past even the first level, "Pinball."  The highest I can make is 17 waves.
Is there something wrong with my strategy?  My basic approach is to make alleys to try to maximize the Laser towers.  I've tried both upgrading fewer towers, as well as just planting lots of weak towers.  One thing I don't understand is the blue pulser.

screenshot at http://www.flickr.com/photos/markhud/5979386743/

P.S. Update: after learning and applying the tips below, I decided the game was fun enough to buy the full version.


texts: Why won't the Pay 'n' Spray open during the mission 'Drive By'?

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I'm trying to do the mission 'Drive By' on Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PC edition). The issue is, when I roll up on the Pay 'n' Spray, the garage door won't open.
I'm definitely at the right Pay 'n' Spray, as there is the big red circle outside the garage door, indicating the mission waypoint. I drove up in the same car with the rest of the gang members. I keep bumping into the door, cop cars are crashing into me but the door won't open.
According to a YouTube video I watched, the door is supposed to open well before entering the red circle. So there must be some sort of glitch.
Is there some trick to open the door?


texts: How to prevent steam client from auto-updating itself?

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I am downloading a 24 GB game with a connection speed of 200-300 KBPS. It will take a week almost. Thing is that I turn off the pc every night. Steps carried:

Pause download
Exit Steam
Shut down computer
Turn on computer next day
Start Steam, resumes downloading. All good.

Problem arises when there is a Steam client update. Sometimes, it loses whatever game data had been downloaded till then, other times it does not.

Hence, I have downloaded 4 GB twice, and it's happened again. I have to start from zero.
Is there a solution apart from keeping the computer On until download finishes?


texts: Either it's impossible, or I'm being dense, but how do I break a stack of objects in to smaller stacks?


texts: Where can I find Dogmeat after dismissing him to Sanctuary Hills?

texts: I recently dismissed Dogmeat in favor of Codsworth, and I'm fairly sure I sent him to Sanctuary Hills. However, I've had a fairly detailed look around the place and I haven't found him yet. Does anyone know where he is?


texts: Can you liberate a city that you captured, via gifting to a third party?

texts: In Civ5 I have read there is a process to capture a city and then trade it, recapture it, and then get a liberation bonus. What are the conditions for this. Is there a waiting period that the city must be held. Does it work for non capitals?


texts: FC New Dawn - set controls on same button in helicopter, vehicle or on foot?

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I just bought New Dawn and i want do easy thing. Switch button "C" with "CTRL" "on foot" (there is key settings on foot, in vehicle and helicopter) so i want crouch with ctrl key and use medkit with c key.

But if i change C button on foot is C button automatic unbinded in helicopter and vehicle... So i was try set C button on vehicle and helicopter to his default function but can't... Only if i unbind C on foot key... WTF?!

If i set C function as was his default setting on vehicle and helicopter (there i can set one C key to 2 different functions) still i can't set this key to use medkit BUT on picture is not purple letter so game know there "on foot" is this key unbinded but still you can't set.. Only if you unbind C on vehicle and heli... It is insane :)

So there is not way to set one key to 3 different actions - on foot, vehicle and helicopter?! Is this joke?


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What Pokemon Move is represented by Pikachu's Counter-Attack in Pokken Tournament?  Does it reference a move from a game in the main Pokemon series?

When Pikachu performs its Counter-Attack in Pokken Tournament, it levitates two large rocks out of the ground and hovers them above its head while charging, before throwing them forward.

Is this based off any sort of Pokemon Move from the main series?  I don't believe Pikachu has access to any sort of Ground or Rock type moves of this nature.  Some sort of magnetism-based electric move, perhaps?

The game does explain in its lore that Pokemon can use non-Pokemon-Move attacks in this game due to the existence of Synergy, allowing them to do things such as basic punches and kicks.  However, the unusual and elaborate nature of this attack leads me to believe that it is a reference to something.


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I'm trying to build a teleporter. I want the player to be teleported from the first sign(left) to the right sign(right). So, when the player steps on the red wool on the left, he will automatically be teleported to the red wool on the right. I do not want to use any pressure plats.It might work with the testfor comment, but I didn't figure out, put that only works with a radius. BTW I'm in 1.10.2 bou I could probably change the version if necessary.

The testfor command block should activate the teleport command block,when the player is detected.
Now, I'm not really the expert, so I know non of the commands that you would need to build this construction. Please help, I would highly appreciate it!
If you need any more details, ask me!


texts: Can I go back to complete quests in Costume Quest?

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I'm playing Costume Quest, and I'm up to the Mall.  I just looked at my quest log and realised that I missed one of the hide-and-seekers in Suburbia.  Gah.

Will there be any opportunity to revisit the area and obtain missed quests?  Or would I have to start a new save to do so?

(Note: I'm playing this on PC, I don't think it's relevant but I thought I'd point it out.)


texts: Do I have any disadvantages playing CS:GO on Linux?

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I started to play CS:GO once a week with my friends. Since I have a powerful developer laptop running Linux, I use it for these weekly meetings.

Assuming we are on the exact same system, do I have any direct disadvantages if I play on Linux compared to Windows? Like maybe the sound is worse or the hit boxes are different?


texts: throwing the ball: smaller circle vs closer to the center of the circle

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I played Pokemon Go quite hardcore recently, and I just reached level 23. One thing I still can't convince myself is that does throw a ball closer to the certain of the circle give you higher chance to catch the pokemon?

Of course I know that the smaller the circle is, the higher chance I will have. But does that mean when the circle is at its smallest, I can just throw the ball anywhere and just barely hit the pokemon and still get a highest chance? Or do I still have to target the center of the circle? I have this question because I feel if I wait until the circle reaches its smallest, then I have to throw the ball swiftly, and thus having a poor control of targeting it closer to the center.

The offical guide doesn't emphisize on this "accuracy" point. And I can't conclude from my own experience either: sometimes it does seem throwing closer to the center increases my chance, sometimes it does not.

Any help is appreciated.


texts: How does religious pressure work in Civilization V?

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Possible Duplicate:
  How do I convert a city to my religion?

How is the religious pressure at a city calculated? I was fighting with another religion for religious control of a city state and was trying to make my religious pressure higher.


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I considered asking this question over at Super User, since it may be a hardware problem, but since it's specific to one game I came here.
I have the game Kerbal Space Program. It's fairly graphics-intensive, so I want to use my better graphics processor to play it. My laptop has two graphics cards inside, and when I right-click an icon on my desktop I get a context menu

Run with graphics processor -> High Performance NVIDIA processor

or

Integrated graphics

When I run Kerbal Space Program with "Integrated graphics", everything works alright. When I actually launch a rocket lag is a big problem; but that's to be expected. It's not the better processor.
My question is about what happens when I try to run the game with me "High Performance NVIDIA processor". When I click that from the context menu, the game loads up a white screen in the window and stays like that. It simply hangs there with a white screen indefinitely.
Now, I've tried updating my Graphics Drivers and re-installing the game, both to little effect. I was sure that it was a hardware issue until I loaded up Minecraft with both drivers, just to see a difference. With my "Integrated graphics" I was at a steady 3 frames per second, and with my "High Performance NVIDIA processor" I had a solid 30-40 frames per second.
Some details: My "High Performance NVIDIA processor" is really a GEFORCE 310M, I'm not sure what the "Integrated Graphics" is (in Device Manager -> Display adapters I have a listing for Intel(R) HD Graphics, so that might be it), and I also have a NVIDIA Cuda card. My processor is a dual-core i5 2.67 GHz (3.2ish with turbodrive), and I'm running 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium.
This problem arose when Kerbal Space Program updated to version 0.16. Again, my apologies if this really belongs in a different place.
EDIT: Just checked with a much previous version of the game (the demo version: 0.13) and this problem is still there. I went through logs and found that I updated to Windows 7 Home Premium Service Pack 1 right around the time that 0.16 came out, so take that as you will.


texts: Lost on screen player help when reaching rank 25

texts: I'm a horrible shot and also have a hard time determining the difference of friend and foe. I relied heavily on the on-screen info that I was given when my cross hair passed over a player, showing blue (friend) and red (foe). Now that I reached the rank of 25, that seems to have gone away. Is this just a way of making the game harder as you rank up? Have I lost that benefit for good? Maybe I need a new set of glasses.


texts: How does X% Chance of Finding gold work for a party?

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Possible Duplicate:
  How does X% Chance of Finding Magical Items work for a party?

I was reading this question. Works the same way for gold or is it different? Could someone provide a explanation for this?


texts: In the archives, we are tasked with killing all of the eggs before they hatch... Seeing as I do NOT want to find out what happens when they hatch, where are all of those 10 eggs ? I have only found 9... Ideas ?


texts: How do I view equipment stats in Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic?

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I just returned to Shadow Magic after a long absence and something has me stumped: how do I view equipment stats? I just looted a ruin and found a Hell Sword, which I've duly equipped on my hero, but I have no idea what it actually does.

I'm pretty sure there's a way do this, because I don't remember having any such issues before, but I can't remember how and there's nothing useful in the manual.


texts: I would like to know how to dock or pick up my boat. I've been unsuccessful with this in the past, either breaking the boat on land or just leaving it behind. It would save a lot of time and materials if i didn't have to make 5 boats for a single expedition.


texts: Why does Calamity Ganon have Daruk's Protection?

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In the cut scenes for Mipha, Daruk, and Revali, it is made clear that each of their respective powers (healing, protection, upwards draft) is an ability unique to them (if not genetic as Daruk's offspring also have his ability of protection). When clearing the Divine Beasts their spirits transfer these gifts to you (i.e. they are willfully given).
So how come, when facing Calamity Ganon, he has the ability of Daruk's Protection? Yes he has other elemental abilities, but he displays none of the other Champions' powers.


texts: Where can I find all three words of Champion's Spirit shout?

texts: Falskaar adds one shout to the game called Champions Spirit. Where can I find all three words of Champion's Spirit shout in Falskaar?


texts: Do save games travel between the online and downloadable versions of Minecraft?

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I've just started playing the download version of Minecraft in single player mode.  I was wondering how the download and online versions interact in terms of save games.

Does the online version store and load saves to and from the computer that you're playing on or are they stored online for playing anywhere?  Are my saves from the download version stored online a la Steam Cloud or are they only on my computer?  Can I load my download version saves with the online version anywhere, on the machine I was playing on or not at all?  Etc...

Thanks.


texts: In Grimrock, where do the dragons intersect to open the door? I opted not to use automap

texts:
I'm regretting the decision immensely to not start with automap.

Could anyone explain where they meet? I've googled a billion times but can't find a helpful answer, as it seems everyone else had the genius idea of embarking with automap.


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There's an offer of Dungeon Defenders on the PS Store this weekend, but before buying it, does anyone knows if the game can still be played online?

I read on some webpages that Gamespy was shutting down (I know it's old news), however I read in some other web pages that it won't affect Dungeon Defenders.

Is online play still available on console?


texts: How to make giant explosion with one command

texts: I would like to know if you can make giant explosions via creeper, TNT, or anything. and I want it to be a synchronized explosion. Tell me the code and the biggest possible explosion you can make in Vanilla with command blocks or as a command


texts:
I'm interested to know which factors affect the calculation of the DPS number. It seems from some minor experimentation that adding mods which boost Accuracy or Crit Damage increase your DPS score, yet Stability does not.

This minor experiment yields some odd results when equipping weapon mods, as to me it means that a DPS focused build would just stack lots of Accuracy and Crit Damage, but there must be more to it than that. As that would make most other mods pretty useless.

To me a high Stability score would mean more shots landing on target due to reduced recoil which would surely increase your damage. Whereas a highly accurate assault rifle, for example, with low stability fired for a sustained period wouldn't land as many shots, due to it needing far more 'manual correction' to compensate for the recoil.

To compound matters, there is a loading hint which even states that DPS isn't the be all and end all of if a weapon is good, and to consider other aspects. Which is very pertinent when considering my First Wave M1A with both Balanced and Accurate talents.

If this is the case then why, when browsing weapon mods, are these 'other' bonuses not made apparent to the player through the UI?


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In Skyloft, there is bird-like statue with a ruby for its right eye, with nothing in its left.  It is located on the top of the rock platforms that traverse the left side of the small lake, on the way up to the waterfall cave.  Does this statue have a purpose?

I've noticed that the statue rotates depending on whether it is day or night, but is that the only thing it does?


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Can I edit my Wishlist email notification settings with the Steam Client, instead of the website?

If so, how? I can't seem to access any email settings with the Steam Client?


texts: What is the difference between Encounters and Events?

texts:
I just entered Manhattan. On the map I have missions grouped in two categories: Events and Encounters.
What is the difference between them?


texts: Do god mode console command affect companions?

texts: If i'm with a companion and use TGM for god mode, does he/she will be invicible too, or no? Is there a way to make my companions invicible?


texts: What is the rules for colonial nations taking my new colony territories?

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In the New World, I have a few core territories, two vassals I wish to annex, and a colonial subject inbetween them.

I need to build a "core territory" next to the vassals to annex them, but the moment I finish colonizing a territory, it almost always becomes part of my colonial nation (I guess if it's adjacent to it?) even if it's directly adjacent to one of my core territories.

For example, in the screenshot below, "New Spain" got instant ownership of Wichita when I finished colonizing Wichita, despite my core "Caddo" being immediately adjacent to it.

A) I don't understand the rules for when colonizing a territory, for whether it becomes part of my nation or part of my colonial subject's nation.

B) How should I core territories next to vassals in this kind of situation? (I have a clear path next to the green vassal, but not to the red one)

C) If a colonial nation is adjacent to a vassal, can I annex the vassal? If so, my whole issue becomes a non-existent worry.


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I recently found a scroll to teach my mage the Darkness spell. Great. I spend half the game carting around torches to light up my surroundings, and I've found a way to do just the opposite!

What is the point of this spell? Does it make it harder for enemies to see me or anything? I've not noticed any effect, though I haven't really spent much time or energy during combat to find out.


texts: Do we keep levels, gils and items when going back with "Calling Umbra"?

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I'm at level 35 and already at the final chapter. I see high leveled daemons and I'm not sure that I'm supposed to be here underleveled like I am.

Does calling Umbra will help me raise my level and keep my items/gil aquired?


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I cant mine the blocks around it and the door is locked.

How do I get in?


texts: What's up with the women posters/stands?

texts:
In the mission taking place in the city, I've found two women on paper that would get me an attaboy when attacked in slo-mo blade mode.

The first was a cardboard stand that turned into a cardboard stand of another woman when cut, for some reason.
The second was a poster on a shop window, as pictured below. Cutting it in blade mode removed the tape.

Screenshot source

Are these purely easter eggs, or is there some reward for cutting all the women?


texts: How do i fix a corrupted file on fallout new vegas

texts: I have been playing fallout new vegas for about five days. I tried to load it again but it just gives me an infinite loading  screen. my cousin said it was a corrupted file. My question is, is  there a way to fix it?


texts: How can I find out the levels that I missed Bonus Stages in?

texts: In order to 100% beat Donkey Kong Country 2, you need to obtain all (75) Kremcoins by completing all the bonus stages hidden in all the levels throughout the game. Is it possible to know which levels have bonus stages that I missed?


texts: Is there a most efficient combo to take out Jungle Camps with Lee Sin?

texts: I am wondering if, when Jungling with Lee Sin, I should lead in on the Jungle Camps with a certain skill to maximize my clear speed. Is there a certain skill combo to use? Thank You!


texts: Played 113/201 missions in GTA online. How do I play the other 88 missions?

texts:
In my GTA 5 online stats, I can see I played 113 of 201 missions. I played every contact mission from Lester, Ron, Martin, Gerald, Lamar, Simeon and Trevor.

If I press start and host a game, I can only host missions I completed.

Every mission I request by phone is a mission I played and that since 5 days. So I'm wondering, how do I play the other 88 missions?


texts: How often do cities refresh their job list?

texts:
In Nimblebit's Pocket Trains for iOS, you create your train empire by setting up a railroad network and managing your trains to pick up and deliver jobs from one city to another. Gameplay-wise, Pocket Trains is similar to Nimblebit's earlier release, Pocket Planes.

I noticed that jobs aren't refreshed as regularly in Pocket Trains as in Pocket Planes, with the latter having a very visible timer telling you when new jobs are arriving in a city. When are jobs refreshed in a city in Pocket Trains?


texts: What is contained in the files that end with "wiz.digit(s)"?

texts: I was recently looking in the files that pertain to NH343, and found some files that start with my computer's name.  Some were easily identified as saved games because they have the character's name following.  But there are quite a few more that have my computer's name followed by   -wiz.0, -wiz.5, -wiz.49, etc.   I can't open them like a normal doc, and the curiosity is getting to me.  Are they bones files, like I suspect, or something altogether different?


texts:
I fired up Steam to launch Skyrim.  Now when I press play from the splash screen it just disappears and then shows the splash screen again.

How can I see what is going wrong?  How can I fix it?


texts: I have a single player minecraft world on Xbox one, I would like to play it as a realm, does anyone know how to do this?

texts: On Xbox one, I have a single player world I have put countless hours into, does anyone know how I can turn it into a realm?


texts: What labor is used to Pit/Pond Large Animals?

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What labor is used to throw animals in pits? I decided to throw all of my non-thief goblin prisoners down my execution shaft, but a human caravan outside keeps attacking them all even though they've been done trading for months, and it's getting bothersome. I didn't want to cancel their assignment to the pit and then re-assign them all since that would take a while, so I would like to just cancel the relevant labor in all of my dwarves so they'll stop moving them so the humans will leave. Which labor is needed for that?

I've canceled Animal Hauling, but the wiki only mentions that being used for animal-filled cages. They're still being moved, but that might just be because it takes a while for them to finish their current task. I also thought that it might be Animal Training or Animal Care, but the wiki only mentions those as being used for actual animal training and nothing, respectively. Which labor is it that I need to cancel?


texts: Honestly, is there anything better than Zombie Bears?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Witch Doctor build for Inferno?

I've been playing a Witch Doctor for a while now, and have just reached Act II of Inferno.  Needless to say, ever since I unlocked it I've been using a zombears build for pretty much everything.  I have to wonder, are there any other truly viable builds for a WD in Inferno?  I've toyed around with some other ideas from time to time, but the overarching problem is that the DPS just isn't there compared to zombears.  No other skill seems to come close in terms of damage output, which means that even skills that let you stay further away from enemies don't work- it takes three times the time to kill said enemies, so you end up exposed to damage anyway.

I mean, my build does work, but it makes me wonder: does anything else?  I'd love to hear of a WD in Inferno who's managed with something else.

My build is here.  Comments or suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks!

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EDIT: Just to clear things up; I'm aware that there are tons of build ideas floating around the internet. What I'd really like isn't just an idea for a good build, but an idea for a build that can be strongly argued to be better than a zombears build.  I can't imagine a build that beats zombears for DPS, so if someone could provide some other compelling reason, such as increased survivability, adaptability, etc., that's what I'm looking for. Having played other builds in the past I've always come back to zombears, so at this point I'm really not convinced that anything else is as good.  I know there must be people who think differently, so I'd like to hear from them.


texts: Can Minecraft be played without being connected to the Internet?

texts: My son would like to play Minecraft. If I download it to his laptop can he play it without an internet connection?


texts: Changing startup options in Nethack Cocoa

texts: I find nethack cocoa works with MACos Mountain Lion. I would like to change default options before I start a character. I use to do this but have forgotten and the OS has changed too.


texts: What are the considerations for gaming speakers/headphones?

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What features would distinguish a gaming audio system from the regular one?

I would assume that direction from where the sound is coming is extremely important, would having 7 channels ( as opposed to 2 ) be beneficial in that aspect ?


texts: How do I get the guys to appear in Minecraft PE?

texts: I'm posting on behalf of my 4.5 y/o son.  He has Minecraft PE on the iPad and sees all these YouTube videos of Minecraft with actual people there.  Do I have the wrong version?  Does it need to be on the computer?  Or does he have to be linked via WiFi to other players?  How do you get an actual player/guy/person?


texts: Is there an ambient light cheat/command in “Don’t Starve”?

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Is there a console command or cheat code or something in Don’t Starve that will make it bright like daytime?

I checked the console command list, but there was nothing. I’ve seen some mods that can make it perpetually daytime, but that has no effect in caves.

Is there a way to set the ambient light to full visibility, even underground?


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How did I meet these city states?

As you can see in they are deep in the fog.

The minimap showing the view angle. There are two dots in there if you look hard enough.

The last event for Kuala Lumpar.


texts: How to detect what mob hit a player 1.12

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I'm making horror map. And i got some problems.

I need that when a player takes damage from a specific mob, a block is placed.
This block will start another system.
For example: if player have damage from zombie, iron block placing in some place. If player have damage from skeleton, redstone block placing in some place.
I hope you help me. And sorry for my bad english.


texts: Is it possible to spread malware through Minecraft Servers? How likely is it?

texts: Is it possible to spread malware through minecraft, thus making it dangerous to join? Are any safety checks of incoming traffic made, is it necessary for the server to have malware or is it also possible for a user that joins to infect others that joined the server? I couldn't find any information about it after Googling it, which could be because it's unlikely, but why? What is done to make the multiplayer safe?


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I am working on a minecraft 1.8 server and am trying to make a mob spawner that spawns items.  This example:How can I make a spawner that summons Items? works on new versions of minecraft but not on 1.8.  It seems that any mob spawners placed down by command blocks don't work.  The following command:
/setblock ~ ~1 ~ mob_spawner 0 replace {SpawnData:{id:zombie},Delay:299}

Creates an empty mob spawner that does not spawn anything.  I am using minecraft forge with worldedit but no other mods.  How can I fix this?


texts: How do I reach the car park platform (Pennsylvania Plaza)?

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A toolbox I have to open is located on the upper platform (see purple icon on map, the game did show the exact location). I can't climb on top of cars or approach from the sides and I don't know if I can reach the apartment's roof on behind.

Location on the map:


texts: They imprisoned my wife who is ruler of different country. How to get her back?

texts: I don't have any idea what to do and there aren't any causus belli actions avalible.