Old windows computer game (uncles created) Early 2000s

I just purchased an external disk drive to play this game my uncles created in the late 90’s early 2000s, it says compact disc on the right side of the disc itself. “It’s the great pumpkin, Charlie Brown” homemade game (they were big into tech). Trying to play it on my HP Windows11, so far it spins, media player pops up but nothing but the play button shows up. Are there any add-ons or any ideas on how to get this to run? They themselves do not have any versions game anymore as it was a gift to the nieces and nephews I think I’m the only one with the last CD. It holds a special place in my heart and I would be over the moon to get it working again. There are some superficial scratches on the shiny side but I don’t think it’s the issue. I’ve had many other games with way more scratches that still played. TIA💗

Hi looking for some help.

I recently purchased this gaming laptop to do some light gaming in July/August 2024 to play games like LoL and NBA. My FPS when I play LoL is usually around 300 fps. The other night I had a few games and then went out to watch a movie, my laptop is set to turn off after 2-3 hours on battery power. Once I came back my home my laptop was dead so I charged it up and tried to play some LoL, my FPS was barely 3, at most it was 5. I waited for my laptop to fully charged and then played, still it was the same 3-5. I tried searching online to see why it has dropped and tried to change the virtual memory performance (16000mb to 24000mb) and tried finding set up settings in BIOS (could not find anything).

Anyone know why this is? I can’t even play LoL anymore let alone NBA.

My system & reserved is: Reserved storage: 3.7gb Virtual memory: 19gb Hibernation file: 15.3g Acer Nitro V16 (16gb ram) AMD Radeon 760M Graphics (8gb)

Does anybody have a fix or encountered the "reboot and select proper boot device" bug? And if so do you remember how to fix it?

I need to install an extra SSD to my pc. It has only 2 sata slots available. one for ssd and anorther for CD drive. I really dont need a CD drive so i planned to connect that SSD with CD drive cables but the sata power cable for the CD drive has only 2 wires red and black instead of 5 is it enough to power the SS?

This bug or glitch happens mostly with web based apllication like Notion, Adobe Fresco, Adobe Creative Cloud. How do I fix this.

https://imgur.com/a/H7LIAc5 screenshot of bug

My Rig

NVIDIA system information report created on: 12/17/2024 20:07:55

NVIDIA app version: 11.0.1.184

Operating system: Microsoft Windows 11 Home Single Language, Version 10.0.22631

DirectX runtime version: DirectX 12

Driver: Game Ready Driver - 565.90 - Tue Oct 1, 2024

CPU: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13700H

RAM: 16.0 GB

Storage: SSD - 476.9 GB

Graphics card

GPU processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU

Direct3D feature level: 12_1

CUDA cores: 2560

Graphics clock: 2130 MHz

Max-Q technologies: Gen-5

Dynamic Boost: Yes

WhisperMode: No

Advanced Optimus: No

Maximum graphics power: 75 W

Memory data rate: 16.00 Gbps

Memory interface: 96-bit

Memory bandwidth: 192.024 GB/s

Total available graphics memory: 14153 MB

Dedicated video memory: 6141 MB GDDR6

System video memory: 0 MB

Shared system memory: 8012 MB

Video BIOS version: 95.07.16.40.e0

IRQ: Not used

Bus: PCI Express x8 Gen4

Device ID: 10DE 28A1 8BB1103C

Part number: 3757 0110

Hi! Ive had my pc for about 5-6 years and I thought an upgrade was overdue but never got to it because it runs all the games I want to play. I have a AMD Ryzen 5 2600 six core processor, NVIDIA Geforce GTC 1050 ti and my motherboard is ROG STRIX B450-F Gaming. Any upgrades you guys suggest would be appreciated! Im not looking to go crazy because this still runs the games I play but just an upgrade in general would be nice.

Ciao a tutti, sono nuovo in questo mondo e verso gennaio/febbraio vorrei comprare un nuovo computer. Le mie esigenze sono principalmente giocare con la grafica al massimo non in maniera competitiva. Ho un burger di circa 2000/2200 euro compreso di monitor. Qualcuno riuscirebbe ad aiutarmi? Grazie

My 30 year old accountant daughter has asked for a steering wheel shifter combo for pc gaming. I have no clue on what to buy or brand? Xmas is coming and I’m stressing!!!! Anyone have any advice for this mom?

I have an 8bitdo Pro 2, but sadly it has really bad stick drift, the left thumb stick primarily and no matter what I try, it doesn’t help.

So I am asking for recommendations for a new one.

I have had this problem for quite a bit now, and have gotten extended bans on games like Valorant. The specs of my computer are Intel Core i5-11600KF 3.9GHz, 16GB DDR4, GeForce RTX 3060 12GB, 500GB NVMe SSD, and 1TB HDD. I have reset my computer, deleted and redownloaded games, and updated my drivers, but nothing seems to work. Within a few minutes of getting into a game my computer crashes, and restarts itself. PLS HELPPP

So i purchased final fantasy online starter edition and pre ordered the end walker dlc back in 2021. Shortly after I stopped playing and just recently decided to get back into it only to find out my account purchases and subscriptions have been deleted from my history as if I never bought them to begin with. I still have the recipts, order numbers and dates of purchase in my email. I ended up getting a reply from their support team after asking what happened and could I get new registration codes and was told the square Enix online store switched handlers and that anything before 2023 they were unable to do anything about even though my stuff was reset as an error on there part. Is there anything I can do about it?

I'm looking to buy a pc and I was asking myself if it's good https://www.coolblue.be/en/product/953338/erazer-recon-e45-md35360.html

So I'm at work and I glance down at my shoulder only to realize I've done it again. My shoulder is covered in cheese dust from the cheddar crispy minis I was snacking on. I express out loud, "Aww man, I've got cheese dust shoulder" to which my one coworker (who is also a gamer), is totally flabbergasted that I wipe my hands on my shoulder and not my pants. I try to explain that your shoulder is the more convenient; it's closer, you don't have to put your hands under your desk to reach it, your arm is already in a good position, its faster... all of these things. My other coworker (also a gamer) completely agrees with me that this is a thing.

My coworker who disagreed began googling this, and to my dismay, neither he nor I were able to find any posts relating to this. I literally have a friend who became my friend because we got on this topic and decided we should do a business venture called gamer-bibs (mostly a joke) for this VERY REASON.

Nacho-cheese-shoulder, cheese-dust-shoulder, crumb-shoulder, napkin-shoulder... whatever you wanna call it, I swear IT'S A THING! Please tell me that me and many others I have met are not alone in this.

P.S. - Seriously, WHO has time to wipe their hands on their pants in a fast paced game during a respawn timer???

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I have been wanting to play the old spiderman games with tobey maguire based on the movies but i cant seem to find any info about how or where to download these games. i also want to play some of the tasm games too but i dont know where to start can someone help?

The Discord Server of PcO tweaking seems legit (https://discord.gg/MW8Uy8uW) but idk

https://www.newegg.com/p/3D5-000Z-001M7

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7700x

GPU: Nvidia Geforce RTX 4070

Ram: 32 GB DDR ram

Storage: 2 TB

Some games i have in mind are FF 7 remake, AC odyssey, AC Valhalla, Grandblue Fantasy Relink, God of War Ragnarok, Baldur's gate 3, Last of Us part 1, Horizon Zero dawn, Marvel's Spiderman, Mafia 3, Jedi fallen order.

I recently installed my first gaming PC with a friend, but although initially everything seemed ok, now it has a big problem: the monitor occasionally freezes for even 30 seconds. So I installed Afterburner and I noticed how, despite the FPS being good and stable, sometimes when the CPU goes above 75 degrees (which doesn’t seem so much tò me) this happens. I’m not totally sure yet that it’s issue of CPU (Could be monitor problem that is old) so if you have better theories tell me. Anyway now what do i do? Sorry for the bad English.

Where I live these two cards are priced similarly.

Which of both will be better in the long run? I don't feel like upgrading again in a couple of years.

Is DLSS overrated? Is 24GB more important vs 16GB?

Thanks in advancd

So I have an Aspire 7 with Ryzen 5500u with GTX 1650 WITH 12GB 3200MHZ RAM.

My problem is that when I open a game it sometimes has a hard time reaching 60fps even with LOL.

Idk how to solve the problem.

I noticed in Warzone that the CPU ms suddennly peaks from time to time.. so i think its a cpu problem.

Maybe it lacks cooling?

Idk... asking for some help.

I want to surprise my boyfriend with a pc but I want to know what a good brand is. I don't want to ask him and ruin the surprise. Please help and give suggestions. I know of a few popular YouTube gamers who use logitech for keyboards and mice. Is logitech a good brand? Any ideas help.

here is some info i have on this pc

AMD Ryzen 5 3600X

Nvidia Geforce RTX2060s 8GB

DDR4 16G

HDD 1TB

SSD 512GB (M 2 PCIE )

i got this pc at the end of 2020 it was a prebuilt pc from best buy.

my first thought would be to replace both processor and graphic card

I'm having issues streaming game like valorant, hardly play d4,

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and would a Intel Core i5-10600K work with it?

GEOBOOK 1E specs are My processor is Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU N3450 @ 1.10GHz

I have 4.00 GB of ram

My system type is 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

I have been playing fallout new vegas with mods and it runs okay so I wanted to know what else I can run ?

Looking to upgrade my from my 8GB RX580 to something more modern, but ideally not looking to spend over $150. Looking at buying used as well, to keep cost down. What would be a good upgrade in that range? Outdated ish, but not too far gone it’s just not worth it.

I recently got a PC for school and for when my boyfriend comes over. He keeps saying that he will teach me to play so we can play together when separate. He still hasn't. Is anyone willing to be patient and teach me how to play. I want to play so I can destroy him when it finally does happen.

For the past year or so I've been having pain in the pisiform area of my hand.

This it the part of my hand that drags on the mousepad when moving my mouse. Idk why it's started over the last year, I've had the same setup for years and never had an issue. Just getting older I guess.

I've tried wrist rests, gloves to reduce friction, changing the height of my desk/chair, different mouse pads/desk mats, icing it, taking two weeks off, and no matter what I do, as soon as I start using my mouse, the pisiform is in pain. Maybe it's neurological, idk.

But does anyone have other suggestions? Maybe a bigger mouse that keeps my palm off the mousepad could help.

I'm having a discord game night, we'll be playing 5-7 different games, each game with a different challenge... it's meant to be funny and goofy and not tilting. I want to hand out awards, enough awards to give all 7-12 players a decent shot of winning something. I'd love some suggestions for game award ideas, so far I'm thinking Funniest Clip, Best Execution and Completion of a Challenge, Best Duo etc. Possibility of games we'd play are: Valorant, Chained Together, Among Us, Jackbox Party, Lethal Company, Fall Guys, Lockdown Protocol. Also drop game specific challenge ideas if you have any!

Is it worth buying, it's currently on sale for 259inr on steam, should I go for ultimate Edition or Standard edition is worth it?

I heard forza 4 will be delisted from all online platforms from Dec 31st.

I’m planning to get a 4070 super, 32 gb ddr5 ram, and Ryzen 9 7900x. Will this be a decent combination for vr games as well as some other cpu heavy games like tarkov? I’m just wondering because X3d chips are hella expensive at the moment and want to be on the am5 platform

i would like to play total war warhammer 3 and su wukong but my pc is surely not up too the task.

my processor is a 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700H 2.30 GHz, My ram has 15.7 usable Go and my gpu is an intel iris xe Graphic. my budget is limited and i would like the pc to be portable.

any good pc/eGPU/ssd?

the pc has to be a labtop