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I think ChessCube (http://www.chesscube.com) is a fairly decent site, it's what http://www.twitch.tv/chessnetwork uses when he streams himself playing matches. I've not got back into chess enough to comment further apart from it seemed easy enough when I used it last year, if you're decent enough then you can enter blitz tournaments and the like, or I think you can pay your way in (yuck). Might be a bit too busy if you're staunchly against those kinds of things, but it's somewhere to start.

Steam is down for some - for future reference you can check out these sites to see if it's a widespread problem:

http://issteamdown.com/
http://steamstat.us/

@markwahlberg said:

I would have, great soundtrack.

It doesn't have to be a case of overheating specifically, it can be a voltage issue or memory problem. All signs point to the card being broken - although I would make sure to try older drivers first because my 560 would lock up with more recent drivers than ones from around April, because of an ongoing bug with the older-series cards and web browser hardware acceleration rendering. Mine would lock up and freeze, so not exactly the same, but it is worth checking.

Raidmax used to sell terrible PSUs, I think the one you have is just after they switched OEMs to someone a little better, so hopefully that isn't the problem. Obviously it would be nice if you had a different GPU to test it with, but I wouldn't have thought simply playing HD video would put enough of a strain on it to cause the problem, especially if it works fine underclocked.

Don't forget that EVGA cards quite often have a 3 year warranty, and if you're still in the warranty period and they don't have any 570s in stock they'll bump you up to something better.

I don't disagree, and I know that the GB folk have had issues updating the player due to Twitch documentation - so it might be the reason things aren't working. I didn't see any mention of passworded streams in the forum thread from a quick glance so I suppose that might also be an issue.

Probably related to this: "Most embeds use a really old version of the Twitch player which doesn't like the proxy. Sites like TL which use the new embed code should have no problems." http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=434208&currentpage=9

The Steam Beta update from October 24th addressed this issue:

• Fixed issue with ever-increasing playtime for games that aren't running

Source: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta#announcements/detail/1948098256807606776

@screamingghost: Beautiful - be sure to plug any of your future work on here!

It could be:

• cable not plugged into the audio jack on the PC or speakers properly
• if you have a control panel for your audio card then you may have it set to 6 channels for example, instead of stereo
• in the same control panel there may be a karaoke option, which attempts to remove the voices from any audio played

You'll have to investigate the system tray next to the clock for any running audio control panels. Also if you go into Start -> Control Panel -> Sound -> Playback options, you can click on the audio device and click on Configure, and then play with things in there. If you only have two speakers make sure the audio channel is set to stereo in there.

You can force it to run in windowed mode to see if this fixes things - it's in the in-game options.

If you had a multi-monitor setup I would say that the game thinks the mouse is going off-screen outside of its boundaries onto the other monitor and hence minimises when you click outside the game window. I didn't have this issue with Papers, but have with some others. I use a program called Cursor Lock for these.