Today I ran into the bug where the desktop version of Skype would automatically log me out within a few seconds after logging in. After some investigation, I found the cause of the problem.

The Skype and Microsoft accounts were linked to each other; after I unlinked the Microsoft account, it worked perfectly.

To unlink, you need to visit the Skype website, log in there, then go to account settings, where you can unlink the Microsoft account. After this, you’ll only be able to log in with your Skype username.

I installed Steam on Linux just to try it out, but I ran into the problem that when downloading games, the download speed wouldn’t climb above 15-20 kbytes/s. I tried switching download servers, switching from Wi-Fi to a wired connection, but nothing worked. Then I started searching online for solutions, which led me to the following steps that fixed my problem.

In a nutshell, the problem is that the Linux Steam client queries DNS nameservers too frequently, which quickly overwhelms the network. The solution is to install a DNS cache on the system, which we can do as follows:

Many people buy a laptop that has two graphics cards. The integrated Intel HD Graphics 3-4-5000, as well as a dedicated card. If the dedicated card is nVidia, the system typically uses nVidia Optimus to decide whether to use the integrated or dedicated graphics card at any given moment (based on resource demands and power efficiency).

The system usually dynamically switches between the dedicated and integrated GPUs, however this can cause errors and freezes in many games and applications, and the nvidia drivers regularly crash because of this.

Anyone who has a dedicated GMod server has probably encountered the error where the server can’t download larger addons from the workshop, showing “Download fail”.

The only solution for this is if the addon is already downloaded on your home computer as well, which you can find at the following location:

Steam/steamapps/common/GarrysMod/garrysmod/addons/

Here you can find the addon by name, which in my case looks like this:

garrys_bombs_5_base_edition_290395033.gma

Upload this to the server’s GMod addons folder, then rename it so that only the number sequence at the end remains, with a “ds_” prefix added before it:

Many people experience the bug in Grand Theft Auto V where the game freezes when they try to shoot out of a vehicle window during a mission.

Rockstar hasn’t been able to fix the bug so far, but there is a temporary workaround:

When you start the mission and get into the car, take out your phone and enter the Snapmatic app (you don’t necessarily need to take a picture), then close it and exit the phone. After that, you can shoot without the game freezing. The fix only works until you restart the game!

Many people may have encountered the problem that if they have C&C Ultimate Collection or Origin version of Kane’s Wrath, they cannot install custom maps. The problem can be solved as follows:

• If it’s the Origin version, download the fixed C&C launchers (they fix all games in the Ultimate Collection, but only if they are already installed)
• Optionally download the map pack (which contains many maps)
• Copy the contents of the Maps folder to:

C:\Users\[Username]\appdata\roaming\Command & Conquer 3 Kane's Wrath\Maps

• Start the game, and if everything went well, you will see the maps.

I’d been thinking about starting Fallout 3 after New Vegas for a while, since that game really appealed to me. The only problem I had with it was that it would randomly freeze at irregular intervals, and since I don’t save often, it was incredibly frustrating. (plus on my machine, nothing helped except a full system restart)

Thanks to my hardworking friend, this problem of mine was solved, and here I’ll describe how to eliminate the issue.

This is for those who have installed a Vanilla forum and after a while get the “Something went wrong” error. The error is caused by Vanilla’s caching – Smarty cannot access the cache folders, so it throws an error. It doesn’t show up at first, only when Vanilla would start caching.

The permissions of the cache/Smarty/compile folder need to be set to 777. And everything else in the cache/ folder too. (just to be safe 😉 )

I finally found the solution to the SourceMod bug that was driving me crazy. Around August, an update came out for TF2 servers that broke the then-current SourceMod, and you couldn’t start the server because it kept throwing a segmentation fault error. Today I finally managed to find a combination of MetaMod and SourceMod that makes the server run normally. I’ve uploaded these to the Downloads page in case anyone needs them. Hallelujah.