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If you want that extra edge when playing games these settings and tweaks may help. Any changes that involve using the Group Policy Editor and Registry Editor will require a reboot for that change to take effect. I may update this page as time goes by, comments are open so feel free to add your comments or thoughts. Disable any unnecessary apps running at startup Use Task Manager or (Settings > Apps > Startup) to disable any unnecessary apps from running at start up Task Manager Settings > Apps > Startup Go through your start up apps and disable anything you do not need to run. In my case I have disabled OneDrive, Microsoft Teams, SteelSeriesGG and iCloud.   Disable Xbox Gamebar Go to Settings > Gaming > Xbox Game Bar and toggle the slider to off. Should you wish to capture your gameplay I would highly recommend OBS . Enabled further graphic optimisation settings Go to System > Display > Graphics > Change Default Graphics Settings and turn on any additi...

I currently have an Intel Arc A770 LE 16GB and out of the box Fedora 37 does not support it. There are some workarounds but the best option (at the time of writing) is to use kernel 6.2.7 as that has native Intel Arc support. This is a quick guide I made for myself, it will build a linux-6.2.7 *.rpm package in Fedora 37. As with anything in Linux, there is usually more than one way to do things or a better way to do something. If you have a suggestion leave a comment below. Open a terminal  sudo dnf install ncurses-devel flex bison rpm-build elfutils-libelf-devel rpmdevtools openssl-devel dwarves perl This should install required packages to build and compile the kernel. rpmdev-setuptree This will setup your home directory for building the *.rpm package. cd ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/ We are going to go into the SOURCES directory in our rpmbuild tree. wget https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/linux-6.2.7.tar.xz This will download linux-6.2.7.tar.xz into the SOURCES directory. tar...

I currently have an Intel Arc A770 LE 16GB in my PC, its connected to a Sony XH90 TV with a HDMI 2.1 cable. From day one I have had issues with my audio cutting out, as in I could launch a game or decide to play a video on youtube or amazon prime and discover I have no sound. It seems completely random and happens in Windows 11 and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.  Interestingly it seems I am not alone with the audio issues. https://community.intel.com/t5/Graphics/ARC-A770-is-killing-my-audio/td-p/1443864  https://community.intel.com/t5/Graphics/ARC-A770-Audio-Glitches-popping-stuttering/td-p/1448540 Over on the intel community forums a number of users are reporting audio issues and it could be something driver related or worse, the hardware itself.  I have found a fix that sometimes works when I lose sound from my Arc A770 which works in Windows and Ubuntu. I have found sometimes changing the screen refresh rate will make the audio function again. For example, if my refresh rate is 60H...

In a previous post I wrote about using MPV player on Windows with hardware decoding. This is a quick reference post for my recommended minimalist configuration settings in the mpv.conf configuration file. If you have an AMD / Intel graphics device #Default video output set to GPU. Best CPU utilisation in Windows vo=gpu    #Best for AMD GPUs  hwdec=d3d11va    #Prevent MPV closing after playback  keep-open   #Quality Upscale / Downscale filter (will increase GPU load when enabled)  scale=ewa_lanczossharp   If you have an NVIDIA graphics device  MPV for Windows and NVIDIA NVENC decoding #Default video output set to GPU. Best CPU utilisation in Windows vo=gpu #To enable NVDEC use opengl api gpu-api=opengl #Hardware decoder set to NVDEC wont work if above not set to opengl hwdec=nvdec #Prevent MPV closing after playback keep-open #Quality upscale / downscale filter (uncomment below to enable) scale=ewa_lanczossharp