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Technical problems with games, such as installing or running a game. To get helpful answers, include as much detail as possible in your question, e.g., hardware specs, error messages, and what you’ve tried so far to solve the issue. Modded Minecraft tech support is off-topic.

The tag is for questions about technical problems with games, such as problems with installing or running games. When asking a question, please be specific and include as much information as possible, such as your hardware specs, error messages, and what you've tried so far to solve the problem.

Crash issues and other technical issues related to running modded Minecraft are off-topic as per community consensus at the Arqade Meta posts:

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EA killed my Bioware keys

In Bioware's pre-EA era they had on their site the option to register CD-keys for your Bioware games. Me, being the optimist that I am, registered my cd-keys there and then promptly lost the hard copy that was included with the retail box. Today I…
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Is HDTV expected to lag when hooked to a computer's DVI?

I just hooked up my computer to a Sony Google TV via a DVI-to-HDMI cable and at the same time my monitor is still hooked up, so I'm on dual-display now. The video, the graphics, and the resolution all look great and crystal clear on the HDTV. The…
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Using a laptop as the monitor for a console

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this but here goes: How can you use the laptop monitor as the visuals for a console? I only have a Wii to test it with. I'm not very good with hardware so any step by step instructions would be greatly…
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Why do games install existing components each time I install a game?

When I install a game why does the installer also install DirectX, C++ libraries or .NET components that I already have?. Are these different versions or extensions? Or is is because the game installers are unable to find out what I already have…
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Games rendering red foam all over objects

In a large number of games on my PC I have had issues with games rendering improperly. It is extremely hard to describe, so here is a picture of this in one of the many games it is occurring in: This never happened until I recently had my computer…
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D3DCOMPILER_43.dll contains an error

Whilst trying to run Dirt 3 or Dragon age 2, I get the following error message: 'D3DCOMPILER_43.dll is either not designed to run on windows or it contains an error' I'm running an ATI 6970 card on Win7 x64, I've reinstalled the drivers for the…
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LWJGL games crash with EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION

I have this problem in almost all games that use Java/LWJGL, like Minecraft, 3079 -- Block Action RPG, and 3089 -- Futuristic Action RPG. Computer specifications OS: Windows 8.1 x64 CPU: Intel i5-3230M Quad Core @ 2.6 GHz (3.2 GHz with Turbo…
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Constant Crash to desktop with any UE4 Application

Title. I've noticed that every single game that I own that runs off of the Unreal 4 engine crashes to desktop randomly and it's driven mad for months. The culprit has been this DLL file: nvwgf2umx.dll I have searched and looked for hours at a time.…
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Some games of mine have minor freezing every so often

Here's some background about my issue. I have Windows installed on an SSD, but most of my games are on my secondary storage device, an HDD. Every so often in only a few games (Mainly AC3 and Shadow of Mordor), usually during cutscenes especially in…
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How can Official Game Guides be available for sale at game release dates?

I often search through amazon for new games. When doing this, i always wonder when i see a Official Game Guide book, which is available at release date of the game. To write such a book, you will need to have a very early access to the game and…
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Computer freezing in-game

I have an HP dv6 laptop, with an i7 3rd generation processor, 8GB of RAM, a Nvidia Geoforce GT 630M graphics card, and it is running Windows 64 bit. I am able to play games like Borderlands 2 perfectly fine, but recently my computer has been…
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Why is my ender portal not working?

So I made an end portal in Minecraft and I did everything I needed to but it still didn't work I tried looking it up but it just gave me the wrong so-called "Answers" and they aren't even really answers! The stars didn't show up (they look like…
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All games stuttering, even old ones

I have a new Windows computer that is not running any game properly. I already reformatted it because the Windows it came with was full of manufacturer trash. I installed all drivers from manufacturer sites and stopped the superfech perfech thing…
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dominion online can't confirm email

I was trying to play dominion.games and actually paid for gold subscription. But I couldn't host any game because I couldn't confirm my email. I had tried multiple different email addresses and none of them received a single email from…
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How to fix stuttering with AMD Catalyst 11.5 when Vsync is enabled?

Searching on Google for terms Radeon, Vsync and Stuttering gets a lot of results of people documenting the problem (not just with 11.5, but going a few years back too). But I couldn't find any solutions. When running any OpenGL app with Vsync…
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