How to transfer Lonely Mountains: Downhill Saves from Xbox Game Pass to Steam
I’ve had Lonely Mountains: Downhill on my wishlist for a while and was overjoyed when I played via PC Game Pass. I bought the Steam version when it was on sale (and the PS4 version too, because I really love it), and I was wondering if there was a way to transfer my game progress from the Xbox app to Steam. Thankfully there is, made possible in part by a post from one of the developers on the Steam forums that put me on the right track. Here’s how I did it. This is largely based on my previous post, in which I’ve explained...
read moreHow to disable Discord Audio Notifications
Have you disabled every possible notification setting and the Discord Desktop App still beeps every 3 seconds? Yeah, it does that. There’s a setting for that, but they keep it secret just to annoy us all, buried in the other 90 trillion options they thought would be a hoot to feature creep into the Settings. Here’s how to turn those annoying beeps off: head over to Settings (gear icon at the bottom left, by your user name) under App Settings, click on Notifications disable the Message slider Note that this is not synced across...
read moreHow to transfer Hollow Knight Game Saves from Xbox Game Pass to Steam
I’ve recently joined a trial for the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate (on PC) and have tried out Hollow Knight. Turns out I love it, and since Humble had it on sale, I’ve picked it up to keep. Trouble is of course, that the game save locations and naming conventions are totally different on the two versions, and it took me a bit of tinkering to figure out how to transfer my save game. Here’s how I did it. Xbox Game Pass Location On the Xbox Game Pass, the Hollow Knight save files are stored in a rather cryptic location. Head over...
read moreThe Yeti Nano and how to use it
So I’ve bought a Yeti Nano, thinking it might be a nice addition as a mic for meetings on my main PC. Having enjoyed the original Blue Yeti, and liking the sound of the Yeti X for my streams and recordings, a second backup mini Yeti sounded like a great idea. Turns out it wasn’t so much. Here are the issues that I’ve had, and why I’m recommending to go for the Yeti X instead. Disable Mic Monitoring on the Yeti Nano Blue have a habit of enabling mic monitoring by default. This means you’ll hear your own voice...
read moreHow to fix “No Wine Version Installed” in the Heroic Games Launcher
So I got my Steam Deck yesterday, it works great, and one of the first things I wanted to try was the Heroic Games Launcher. I have an ever growing EPIC Games library that would be wonderful to play on Steam Deck. After I installed it, logged in, installed a bunch of games, literally every single one of them came up with the same error message upon launch: No Wine Version selected – check Game Settings. Unsettling I tell you. I went into the suggested setting, only to find that Proton 7 was pre-selected, but still this thing...
read moreRunning Stable Diffusion on Windows with Web Server
I’ve successfully installed Stable Diffusion on my local Windows rig! It’s been a little painful, and the process is likely to change over time, but here’s what worked for me. I’ll also share the start/stop commands below (because I’m likely going to forget by tomorrow). Installation Steps install Gitinstall Conda (it’s a package manager various languages)clone Lincoln Stein’s fork into a new directorydownload the Stable Diffusion data model (Hugging Face account required)create and start Conda...
read moreHow to play Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy with a Controller
I’ve picked up Fahrenheit for $1.99 on Steam the other day. It’s been on my list of games to play for over 20 years, and I was eager to dig in. Being a controller player, I was a little disappointed that the setup didn’t seem to work out of the box. I didn’t give up though and made it work flawlessly. I’ll also address other issues I found, such as crashes and difficult parts of the game. Here goes! Controller Setup First of all, the game controller issues. Here’s what works for me: disable Steam input....
read moreHow to dim the light on your PS4 Controller when connected to Steam
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 even if I’d be able to dim it with DS4 Windows, the native PS4 controller is as bright as daylight – at least by default. Thankfully we can change this in the Steam Settings, and we don’t even need to change into Big Picture mode...
read moreDiscord Announcement Channels and how to make them work
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 seen the “Follow Button” in some servers, letting you follow a channel. It’s this intimidating feature I’m going to explain in this article. By the end of it we’ll...
read moreRemoving an EFI Partition on an external drive in Windows 10
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 partition. The question is: how can we get rid of it without having to transfer the drive to another operating system? The answer is diskpart. It’s a command line utility in Windows...
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