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> You want to look into something called "Windows Platform Binary Table" [1]. Is this how various motherboard manufacturers are embedding their system control
by baby_souffle 9mo ago
> You want to look into something called "Windows Platform Binary Table" [1].
Is this how various motherboard manufacturers are embedding their system control software? I was helping a family friend with some computer issues and we could not figure out where the `armoury-crate` (asus software for controlling RGB leds on motherboard :() program kept coming from
- Nextgrid 9mo agoThat most likely comes from Windows Update though. It now has the ability to download "drivers". It actually had said ability for a long time (back from Vista days if I remember right) but back then it was only downloading the .inf file and associated .sys files/etc, where as nowadays it actually downloads and runs the full vendor bloatware.
- BobbyTables2 9mo agoLikely so. I think that’s actually the intended use of this “feature”
- phatskat 9mo agoHave your friend grab https://github.com/seerge/g-helper https://github.com/seerge/g-helper which can disable armory crate. It’s also a lot lighter on your system - I was having constant gradual frame drops (games would start find and performance would slowly degrade) until I tried this and used the option to disable the AC processes.