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I was trying Fortnite on a laptop but got the following error: The installed version of the Intel graphics driver has known issues. Please install the latest driver version. Would you like to visit the following URL to download the driver? https://downloadcenter.intel.com/product/80939/Graphics Intel(R) UHD Graphics Installed: 30.0.101.1122 Minimum required: 30.0.101.1404 First, I tried to update the driver through Device Manager with Windows Update. To try this, right-click your graphics adapter in Device Manager and select Update. But there was no newer update available. I then tried to update my drivers with the software Intel Support Assistant. But after updating the drivers, I still got the error message! Then I checked my laptop model and googled what graphics adapter it has. I went through that original link again, selected the graphics card type by hand and downloaded the newest driver, and now finally the error message is gone. So there you have i

Many people seem to have a problem on their PC where a process called CxUiUSvc is eating all the RAM memory. This is caused by a faulty audio driver that seems to be totally useless. The problem seems to appear on HP and Lenovo laptops among others. A driver update might help you, but that is unlikely, since Conexant has stopped operations and will no longer provide updates. The fix to the problem is to stop the CxUiUSvc service and disable it in Windows Services. Stopping the service has seemingly no effect your audio will continue working normally.  Some sites and people recommend setting the service to start manually. This however is reported to cause the service to start again automatically after a few days. Setting the service to disabled should stop it from starting again by itself. Here is a good tutorial on how to disable services. Use the instructions in the tutorial to change the startup type of the CxUiUSvc service to disabled. Some sources: HP forums discussing this issue C

Glances screenshot from the Glances documentation I wanted to have an easy way to monitor how my server is doing. Glances is a software that gives you a good overview of your system. So I decided to install it. I have a headless Ubuntu Linux server machine for random programming and hobby projects. It runs a web server and a couple of other services. With "headless" I mean the server doesn't have a monitor or a desktop environment. I also have Home Assistant installed on a Raspberry Pi 4. I wanted to bring the monitoring data there for easy review. Glances allows one to do that. It provides a web interface for directly checking the status of the machine and an API for Home Assistant to gather status data. Glances installation the Ubuntu way is problematic I first tried to install Glances using the built-in package manager apt. This proved to be a bad idea for two reasons. First off, the Glances version that you will get with apt is outdated. Especially if you have an olde

Finding stuff on the Android ScummVM app is not the most intuitive process, but it pays out! Finding the game folder on Android ScummVM is not very straightforward, so I decided to write this quick guide. I already wrote a guide on how to install and play Curse of Monkey Island on Android , but didn't elaborate on how to find the game folder on the app. Firstly, ScummVM is an awesome open-source collection of game engines capable of running many old point & click classics . In addition to the first three Monkey Island games, you can play Blade Runner, Broken Sword, Day of the Tentacle, Elvira, Full Throttle, Gabriel Knight, Grim Fandango, Indiana Jones, King's Quest, Kyrandia, Lands of Lore, Leisure Suit Larry, Longest Journey, Loom, Myst, Police Quest, Quest for Glory, Sam & Max, Simon the Sorcerer, Space Quest, The Dig, Ultima, Waxworks... the list goes on and on! So, you have transferred the game folder of your game on your phone using USB file transfer or by copyin

If you use Nextcloud with Thunderbird, you might have noticed that Thunderbird version 102 is currently incompatible with the add-ons Provider for CalDAV & CardDAV and TbSync . But if you are only syncing your Nextcloud calendars with Thunderbird, you are in luck: you no longer need these two add-ons and can just remove them. Thunderbird now directly supports CalDAV calendars. Your calendars should work like usual. As I only synchronize the calendars I am unsure about contact list (CardDAV) synchronization. For that you might need to wait for add-on updates. At the time of writing, the official Nextcloud manual wasn't updated to reflect this change, and still listed the two add-ons as required .

There are some great adventure games on Android already. I can warmly recommend Thimbleweed Park or The Silent Age for example. But what if you wanted to play an old classic that cannot be found on Google Play? ScummVM is an app that can emulate these games, if you have the data files. And Curse of Monkey Island is one of these classics. Installation Purchase Curse of Monkey Island from gog.com or Steam (costs about 5€) Download and install it with the GOG Galaxy launcher ... Or Steam Locate the Curse of Monkey Island install directory on your PC Copy the directory to your Android phone, either with a USB cable or on the SD card with an adapter Install the ScummVM app on your phone Start ScummVM and press "Add game" Find the game folder on your phone, select it and click OK.  If you have trouble finding the folder, I made a separate guide for that. Now you can start enjoying Curse of Monkey Island! These instructions should also work on an iPhone. Controls The game is or

  Here's some seeds I've found for Spelunky 2, and a couple others that I found from Steam. The problem when finding seeds online is that some of them have changed and are no longer working. At the moment these work, and they should continue to do so for a while. If you don't know how to enable seeds in Spelunky 2, you should continue playing! You will get there eventually. Seeds I've found so far: ABADABAD : 1-2 jetpack & telepack, 1-1 is nice & easy CACAFEED : 1-2 quite easy kapala, super fast 1-1 ABBACACA : 1-2 mystery box + altar, altar needs bomb, also power pack in shop CACCAB00 : 1-2 mystery box + altar 715517EE : 1-3 easy(?) kapala A15ADADA : 1-3 shop has 3x bomb box And here's a couple working seeds I found from Steam discussions. 222d7b75 (Tall Jade Vortex): Jetpack, mattock, and bomb box in 1-2 shop, perfect for practicing no-teleporter speedruns. There are even more bombs and paste on 1-3, if you can manage to steal them from the shop. ABCDEF00 (