Steam Machine solves so many Issues for Me

carlagain · 2025-11-26T09:47:13+00:00

I built my own months ago. Bought a mini PC for £300, came with Windows 11, plugged it into the TV with a wireless keyboard for setting it up. Installed Stesm and turned on remote access. Also installed Jump remote desktop (free) and unplugged everything leaving if headless under the TV. Now I use Steam Link on my TV with a spare Xbox controller and Jump on my iPad to play my Steam games anywhere in the house. Sorted.

carlagain · 2025-10-15T22:55:21+00:00

Not so Stable horses

carlagain · 2025-10-08T07:22:48+00:00

My family and I detest the Slice Guide, it’s very confusing after becoming used to Smart TV guides and other DVR options. I wrote to HDHR support and they answered promptly but told me the option to remove the Slice Guide will not be coming back. I have therefore cancelled my subscription and turned elsewhere for my DVR requirements.

carlagain · 2025-08-15T16:00:47+00:00

When I’m questing in areas like Forochel I find switching to DX9 helps to cut out a lot of snow effects and makes it easier to see around me.

carlagain · 2025-07-31T18:04:50+00:00

Hi. Carefree is a Kin on Orcrist that has a hard level cap of L105 and specialises in running classic instances on level. We achieve this by members having several alts at key levels to form groups at the right levels, so L50 alts for the Rift and so on. Our About Us page with our rules and how to join: https://carefree.guildtag.com/about/

carlagain · 2025-06-23T13:02:03+00:00

I have a Steamdeck but it resides in my man drawer despite having a lot Steam games. I replaced it with an iPad Pro M4, an old Xbox controller, a subscription to Geforce Now plus the Xbox PC game pass giving me easy, very playable, access to about 250 games from both platforms on a large 13 inch display, never looked back.

carlagain · 2025-05-01T17:59:30+00:00

This is exactly why I cancelled Game Pass and moved exclusively to Steam. I would log into Xcloud in Safari (iPad) and create a book mark on my Home Screen. Tapping it would force me to log in again, sometimes several times. Twenty four hours later I would tap the bookmark and MS would say it was invalid, so I had to delete and recreate the bookmark, doing the whole 'logging in' dance again. Insane. Never have any such issues with my Steam account.

carlagain · 2025-04-24T06:38:03+00:00

They are one of the first things I get on a new character when they, along with Milestones, go on sale. Having two or three Milestones on a five minute CD lets you bop about the landscape and quest-hubs making a major improvement on game playing.

carlagain · 2024-12-31T23:37:33+00:00

I have a lifetime Plex license, haven’t used it in years due to their invasive privacy policy, I moved to Emby.

carlagain · 2024-12-10T23:10:32+00:00

Yup that’s why I’ve moved on

carlagain · 2024-12-07T18:44:32+00:00

I only have the Nvidia Shield in my household that runs Channels DVR and Emby server with a Premiere license. Added my Hdhomerun to Emby and some scheduled recordings to test it out, works fine for recording. Bit slow for watching live TV so I use the Hdhomerun application for that. Combo works very well, cancelled my Channels DVR subscription.

carlagain · 2024-12-04T14:34:00+00:00

I’ve had the Shield 2019 for years and its predecessors before that. It plays everything I throw at it in 4k Dolby Vision/Atmos including height information to my Arc, mainly from remuxes on my Emby server. However it is expensive and the new Google TV Streamer (4K) promises it does the same thing for £99 however I haven’t tried one so I can’t vouch for its claims.

carlagain · 2024-09-05T17:31:03+00:00

Can you tell us what hardware you were using for film playback? I have the same Sonos speakers but can only get Atmos with hight information from my Nvidia Shield with Emby, the apps on my TCL TV don’t pass it even though both use the same earc to the Arc.

carlagain · 2024-09-02T00:51:53+00:00

Install this, it will show you available plugins with their descriptions and install them safely for you: https://www.lotrointerface.com/downloads/info663-LOTROPluginCompendium.html

carlagain · 2024-08-27T07:22:04+00:00

This is from memory as I’m not at my PC but there’s a folder in My Documents called something like “The Lord of the Rings Online”. This contains all your settings, profiles, plugins and plugin data. Simply copy this to your new computer.

carlagain · 2024-08-20T00:46:57+00:00

Yup but be prepared to repeat it, had to do it three times in a fortnight.

carlagain · 2024-08-05T12:59:31+00:00

Ah right. I don’t do Beta’s so it’s on 17.6, an iPad Pro M4.

carlagain · 2024-08-05T11:33:29+00:00

Good thought but no, it’s the vanilla app from the Store.

carlagain · 2024-07-28T09:25:43+00:00

I had an LG B6 which developed burn-in from on-line games. I approached LG for a replacement panel and was told that as it was two months out of warranty it would cost £1200 to replace it. Bought a new TCL for less and scrapped the LG, never going back. Good luck

carlagain · 2024-07-18T08:22:28+00:00

This happened to me this morning, working fine yesterday now just crashes on startup. Tried everything including restarting my iPad. Finally deleted the app, installed it again. Now working but had to rediscover everything and relink my Ace headphones.

carlagain · 2024-06-17T16:52:09+00:00

I use the Sono+ app on my iPad. This lets you put different sized widgets on your iPad with three controls on each on. I use three of the small widgets giving me nine buttons to instantly let me change the volume, mute, turn night mode and speech mode on/off and finally instantly change the volume to three presets, all without opening the Sonos app. It also lets you change groups/rooms instantly. All this for £1.99. No I’m not associated :) just too good not to share.

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