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  2. Fix problems with Games on AOL.com - AOL Help

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    Temporarily disable your security application, such as your firewall or antivirus program, until you've successfully launched your game. Re-enable your security software immediately afterwards. Some antivirus or personal firewall applications incorrectly identify our games as viruses and disrupt or block the game.

  3. Input lag - Wikipedia

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    Input lag or input latency is the amount of time that passes between sending an electrical signal and the occurrence of a corresponding action.. In video games the term is often used to describe any latency between input and the game engine, monitor, or any other part of the signal chain reacting to that input, though all contributions of input lag are cumulative.

  4. Latency (engineering) - Wikipedia

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    Latency, from a general point of view, is a time delay between the cause and the effect of some physical change in the system being observed. Lag, as it is known in gaming circles, refers to the latency between the input to a simulation and the visual or auditory response, often occurring because of network delay in online games.

  5. Here's your once-and-for-all fix for a slow computer - AOL

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    It’s a new year, so it’s time to get organized and set yourself up for success. But If your computer seems like it’s been extra sluggish and crashing a lot lately, it’s time to take care ...

  6. Steam (service) - Wikipedia

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    Steam is a digital distribution service and storefront developed by Valve Corporation.It was launched as a software client in September 2003 to provide game updates automatically for Valve's games and expanded to distributing third-party titles in late 2005.

  7. Response time (technology) - Wikipedia

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    Ignoring transmission time for a moment, the response time is the sum of the service time and wait time. The service time is the time it takes to do the work you requested. For a given request the service time varies little as the workload increases – to do X amount of work it always takes X amount of time.

  8. Valve Anti-Cheat - Wikipedia

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    Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) is an anti-cheat tool developed by Valve as a component of the Steam platform, first released with Counter-Strike in 2002.. When the software detects a cheat on a player's system, it will ban them in the future, possibly days or weeks after the original detection. [1]

  9. Response time - Wikipedia

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    Response time (technology), the time a generic system or functional unit takes to react to a given input Display response time, the amount of time a pixel in a display takes to change; Round-trip delay time, in telecommunications; Emergency response time, the amount of time that emergency responders take to arrive at the scene of an incident ...