TLDR: On the Main Menu, under Settings – Network – Launch Setting, enable Play Offline I was playing ELDEN RING on my PS4 the last couple of weeks, without being a PlayStation Plus subscriber. Without it, the game warns upon startup that all multiplayer feature are disabled. That suits me just fine, I don’t really … Read more
The other day I wanted to use the local Streamlabs Chatbot for both my Twitch and YouTube streams. Turns out when I restart it for the other streaming service, my custom commands and settings are not automatically linked, they’re stored separately. I wanted to import all those little shortcuts and quotes I have stored for … Read more
I recently needed some space on my gaming hard drive, and thought I’ll uninstall San Andreas until I have the time to dig my teeth into it. Turns out the Rockstar launcher is so new to me that it wasn’t all that obvious how to uninstall a game. Well I figured it out and thought … Read more
The Amazon Luna controller is a decent game pad. It reminds me of the old Xbox 360 controller. While many bemoan its use of AA batteries, I think it’s the best idea since sliced bread for so many reasons. After cancelling my Luna subscription, I was wondering how to pair it to my Windows system … Read more
The PS4 light at the front is a nice gimmick, but it drains the battery and when set too bright really annoys me when I play at night. It’s not an issue when I connect the controller via DS4 Windows, but many games on Steam (and increasable EPIC) support the PS4 controller natively. This means … Read more
A bunch of us wanted to make these fabled Discord Announcement channels work. It’s a feature available on Community Servers that lets you follow a channel from another server, so that that server’s announcements appear in your own server (and vice versa). In essence a way of subscribing to another server’s notifications. You may have … Read more
I often format drives with operating systems other than Windows. When I want to re-use those drives for something Windows related, I have trouble formatting them because there’s a protected EFI Partition that Disk Management can’t get get rid of. Here’s such an example: all options are greyed out, and I’m left with a 200MB … Read more
In moving around some video footage, I had accidentally moved my Videos Library to the root C drive, then moved existing content over. I had foolishly assumed that it would create a folder, but alas it just dumped all existing folders and videos into the root directory of my system drive. That’s not what I … Read more