Nicholas Steel

Try unplugging or disabling any gamepads, touch screens, track pads, touch pads, fancy keyboard functions, fancy mouse functions etc.

It's likely he can't interact with any part of the main menu, as hinted by his statement that he has to "force" the game closed.

No worries. An alternative suggestion is to completely disable User Account Control (UAC) in Windows, but I don't recommend doing this (This will cause everything to always run as an Administrator without showing an alert if you're using an Administrator account).

Remove the first [ quote =Nicholas Steel] and the last [/ quote] to fix your post up. (Or change the name to yours)

Well yeah, sure, it does have DirectX integrated. But it doesn't have all of DirectX integrated. iirc it doesn't include the older implementations of Xaudio I believe, which a whole lot of programs can depend on for example.

Okay, well if you run Steam as an administrator (It won't start up automatically with Windows as an Administrator) then launch the game via Steam the game should inherit the Administrative Privileges from Steam. Why do you have 2 copies of the same game?

Oh yeah, I forgot Microsoft updated it to both include an option to install the Bing Toolbar and by default install Bing Toolbar, you could've obviously unticked that during the install if you paid attention instead of blindly installing things without any care. I'm still used to using the version of the updater they had for Windows XP as updates to DirectX were released monthly back then instead of either yearly or every 6 months.

1) The non-steam version probably doesn't have the latest patch so the Save Game won't work with the Steam version. 2) "Verify the integrity of the game cache" on steam.

Try installing the "DirectX Web Update" program to update your DirectX installation to the very latest version, it will also install a bunch of optional components that some games may depend on.

It should work without issue.

I am able to select the 144 Hz option when booting POE in Windows 7 but not in Linux. On the same exact machine. I dual boot. That's irrelevant. Linux is completely separate to Windows, having Windows report it works doesn't have any relevance to Linux supporting the same functionality. He is asking you to check in Linux if your Linux O/S reports your computer setup is able to do 144Hz, if Linux does not report that it can do that than I won't expect the Linux version of the game to be able to detect something that the O/S can't detect and magically get 144hz support. You likely need to mess with drivers or something under Linux, I dunno, I don't really use it, I tried Ubuntu for a short bit though.

if it's a copy for Steam than yes, you can download it. This is likely also the case for a GOG copy of the game.

Sticky Topic: http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/72439-must-read-how-to-report-an-issue/

The log file is stored in the game folder, if the game is installed to Program Files under Windows Vista or newer and you don't run it as an administrator it likely won't be able to create the log file (Dunno if they coded a fallback to this problem and have it instead save to My Documents under this situation.

If they did a beta they could add more speed settings and ask for feedback on what the best slowest speed is or something.

Can't he save his game after using the command, restart the game and load the save game to restore Steam Achievement access? Or does it save the fact that you've used a cheat to your save file?

Yeah I was gonna say, reloading the Autosave was a great idea but than yeah, what you say makes sense and is disappointing -_-"

Yeah you should be fine. The worst that can happen is the computer simply won't display any graphics, no permanent harm can happen (Unless something is seriously wrong). If the intermittent RAM issue persists it might be a faulty RAM Slot on the motherboard, moving it to another slot should resolve that issue. Make sure to perform a Memtestx86 to verify the new RAM isn't faulty, also make sure it is configured correctly in the BIOS before testing it (for obvious reasons). Let it pass every test at least twice and there should be 0 errors during the tests if the RAM is okay.

Well, I can definitely say that the game will work with both laptops. I just can't say how well it will perform on them.

You'll likely notice a bigger difference having Windows installed to the SSD than having a game installed to the SSD to be honest, I mean you'll still get an improvement for the game but not many games these days continuously load from the HDD (Except maybe MMO games). Most games load everything they need to RAM (Because it's a effective way of mitigating the slow performance of mechanical HDD's) and have specific triggers that cause new data to get loaded to RAM (Like transitioning from outdoors to indoors and vice versa in Fallout games for example). Saving your progress will be notably more speedy if the game saves to My Documents and you leave that located on a SSD.

Infinite load time? Dunno either.

A geforce 930M is a pretty abysmal video card, though I'm unsure how good the ATI card is in your original post so I can't really say which is better or if their both terrible.

SSD would be hindered by SATA2, but it will still be a gargantuan improvement over a mechanical HDD (more than 10x faster random read/write performance?). SSD's can be connected to a SATA 2 or 3 port without issues via an adapter I believe. Old SSD's are designed for SATA connectivity. Very recent motherboards come equipped with a native connector for new SSD's, avoiding the need for a SATA adapter and this method of connectivity will use the performance of up to 4x PCI-E instead of SATA 2 or 3 HDD controller performance. If you think one of your sticks of RAM is defective you should consider replacing all your RAM with a single 8GB stick (Or 2x8GB) as DDR3 RAM is ridiculously cheap these days and this will avoid potential software issues caused by faulty RAM. I had 3x2GB sticks of DDR3 and one of them would intermittently fail to be detected by the BIOS and Windows when I turned the PC on (A reboot usually fixes it though) and I was getting various software issues, I replaced it several years later with an 8GB stick and the problems vanished, making me wish I did it sooner. You can see in my signature that the specifications of my PC are pretty similar to yours surprisingly. I also had a faulty Thermaltake Toughpower Power Supply that was causing other issues (Issues that persisted and got worse over 3~ years), like intermittent computer deadlocks and video card TDR errors, the problem eventually became so bad the computer would very often deadlock before finishing loading Windows. I discovered that the problem lessened when plugging a less power hungry video card in to the computer, this led me to believe that the PSU was faulty and that it probably wasn't the Motherboard or CPU that was faulty (The rest of the hardware was replaced over the years which meant they couldn't be the source of the issue). I replaced it with an expensive as heck Corsair AX760 power supply earlier this year and the computer has been performing rock solid since. Oh and I discovered that plugging my video card in to the first PCI-E slot makes the computer very unstable for unknown reasons so I assume that PCI-E slot is faulty, thankfully the 2nd slot is perfectly fine and also runs at PCI-E 16x in a single video card configuration. I'm prolly gonna upgrade my computer early next year, replace the Motherboard, CPU and RAM and will upgrade the video card when the next generation of Nvidia video cards are released. For me, I'm looking at these upgrades: Intel i7 6700 (maybe 6700k) ASUS Sabertooth Z170 16GB of whatever DDR4 RAM (2800MHZ) Maybe an SSD

Yeah that seems to work here (Dunno if its the right files in the ZIP but it opens and contains the right types of files).

Provide a previous save file and the current save file.