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  2. List of commercial failures in video games - Wikipedia

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    As a hit-driven business, the great majority of the video game industry's software releases have been commercial disappointments.In the early 21st century, industry commentators made these general estimates: 10% of published games generated 90% of revenue; [1] that around 3% of PC games and 15% of console games have global sales of more than 100,000 units per year, with even this level ...

  3. Boosting (video games) - Wikipedia

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    Riot Games followed suit in 2015 by banning the sale of virtual content and the use of performance-altering software or bots. [49] Unlike these run-off-the-mill cheating practices, however, MMR boosting is fairly difficult to detect since players don't need to use external software, and can only be reported by players involved in the game.

  4. Pando (application) - Wikipedia

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    People who were having trouble getting web servers such as Apache, IIS, or others to work were advised to consider removing the Pando Media Booster. The Pando Media Booster ran at system startup and took priority to other downloads. Slower-than-normal downloading speeds or general network performance issues might be related to the product.

  5. ReadyBoost - Wikipedia

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    [10] The Microsoft Windows Client Performance group recommends a flash-memory-to-system-RAM ratio of between 1:1 and 2.5:1. [3] Other considerations: Vista's ReadyBoost supports NTFS, FAT16, and FAT32 from SP1 onwards. Windows 7 also supports the newer exFAT file system. As the ReadyBoost cache is stored as a file, the flash drive must be ...

  6. Loader - Wikipedia

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    Loader (computing) LOADER.EXE, an auto-start program loader optionally used in the startup process of Microsoft Windows ME; Loader (surname) Fast loader; Speedloader; Boot loader. LOADER.COM (aka "NEWLDR"), a multi-boot loader shipping with various Digital Research, Novell, IMS, Caldera, etc. DOS-based operating systems like Multiuser DOS and ...

  7. Portable Executable - Wikipedia

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    At its core, the PE format is a structured data container that gives the Windows operating system loader everything it needs to properly manage the executable code it contains. This includes references for dynamically linked libraries , tables for importing and exporting API s, resource management data and thread-local storage (TLS) information.

  8. Desktop Window Manager - Wikipedia

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    Passes the Windows Aero acceptance test in the Windows Driver Kit (WDK) In Windows 7, the Desktop Window Manager has been reworked to use Direct3D 10.1, but the hardware requirements remain the same as in Windows Vista; Direct3D 9 hardware is supported with the "10 Level 9" layer introduced in the Direct3D 11 runtime. Windows 8 has the same ...

  9. Performance Monitor - Wikipedia

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    Performance Monitor (known as System Monitor in Windows 9x, Windows 2000, and Windows XP) is a system monitoring program introduced in Windows NT 3.1. It monitors various activities on a computer such as CPU or memory usage.