VFIO Gaming. How to avoid the Virtual Machine Detection-Ban from anti-cheat programs. A Battleye - RainbowSix October of 2023 example.

Friendly Reminder VFIO Linux Gamers. Anti-cheat programs were always the reason and we couldn't play Windows games on Linux with Wine.          Before start writing the solution of how i avoided the Virtual Machine Detection-Ban from the anti-cheat programs and i am playing my games on a VFIO Virtual Machine without fear, i feel the need to write some historical and tech facts to make my article valid from the beginning and to help the current and future anti-cheat developers to not repeat the mistakes of the past.      1. Virtual Machines (VM in short) like QEMU on KVM (that the VFIO Linux Kernel Driver uses) are not hacking programs and never were hacking programs and even Microsoft are using VM and they created their program for Virtual Machines with name Virtual-PC, Hyper-V now to use it for many serious tasks like the creation of Windows for tests and practices or the Windows OS image Backup program that is inside every Windows Control Panel!     If you still want the proof of

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How to Move your Epic Games games to a New Gaming PC with Gamelink App. Gamelink Series Vlog Part-2.

 This Video Guide (VLog) explains how to move your Epic Games to a new PC with Gamelink or mklink and why I chose to start the Gamelink Series with an Epic Games game.        All gamers soon or later are facing the migration moving problem of their old games and programs to a new gaming PC.       With this video article - guide, the 2nd of the Gamelink Series you will learn and watch how to use Gamelink App to move your Epic Games games to a different PC, without re-download them from the internet and also how to move them to different than the default Epic Games directory because Epic Games Launcher doesn't support more gaming repositories than the default one on C:.      I chose to start the demonstration of Gamelink with the Epic Games and not the rest Gaming Launchers because as you will watch on this video this time the difficulty of the method skyrocketed and it is not so easy as it was on the 1st video and guide. The movement of an Epic Games game is the most tricky of all g

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How to Move your Epic Games to different Disk inside your PC without uninstalling them with Gamelink App. Gamelink Series Vlog Part-1

This Video Guide (VLog) explains why I created Gamelink and how to move your Epic Games and all Games to different Disks.           All windows gamers soon or later are facing the no more free space on C: disk problem and either are buying new bigger disk to install their Windows OS or they are installing extra new or old disks inside their PC to reinstall on them their games.     But As a famous voice software says "bandwidth doesn't grow on trees" and many people around the world including my self that i am living in only 7 kilometers from one of the most famous monuments of World (Parthenon in Athens) the internet speed i have even vdsl2 is limited because the phone center is "Ancient" and i am having only 30 Mbit/s download instead of 50 my family is paying but i am not complaining because technicians of ISP maximized the upload to a stable 5+ Mbit/s and i can stream my games at 1080p 60 fps now!          T he limited internet download speed i have pushed me

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Debian 12 (Bookworm) OpenVPN Hotfix and How to upgrade to Debian Bookworm with a Full Working OpenVPN. A Mate Desktop guide.

 This Guide solves the importing of the old OpenVPN configuration files after the upgrade to Debian 12(Bookworm) from Debian 11(Bullseye) too.      If you haven't update your bullseye Debian skip the 1 > 7 steps and follow the directions on the 2nd part of this guide because the 1st part is for those that have stuck to the bugged version of OpenVPN (until now i am writing this guide and i hope soon it will be fixed as i see from the package's tracker page activity: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/openvpn , but until this moment follow this guide and you will have a working OpenVPN again the old stable Debian 11 (Bullseye) version as you can check by visiting the previous link.      Also keep in mind that if you are still using the buster version of Debian you should first update to bullseye and after to bookworm but this guide is not about this upgrade since the OpenVPN package bugged on bookworm Debian only. I updated my Debian buster to bullseye with OpenVPN on without prob

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How to Share a Folder from Linux Host to Windows 10 Guests on KVM. A Debian 11 (Bullseye) Guide.

 After many months, i finally moved everything from Windows to Linux but i am still playing my games on Windows with KVM VFIO.     Recently, i created a very cheap Linux - Debian gaming-streaming* VFIO PC where i can play some lovely games from my tablet in home or from any internet PC with Moonlight & Sunshine streams (future guides but i will add their links as references at the bottom of this guide so you know what i am talking about) and to support my home network with a Streaming PC to handle my family's streams with total cost less than 400 euro (future post too) and i wanted to have a shared folder from the Linux Hosts to Windows 10 gaming guests*.     I am chosing the Linux Host - Windows Guest implementation over the Windows Host - Windows Guest because i think the OS diversity increases the security of implementation and it minimizes the risk of infection of host from its guests and vice versa. Also since i decided to move from Windows to Linux i wanted to learn the L

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How to Share a Folder from Linux KVM Host to Linux KVM Guests. A Debian 11 (Bullseye) guide.

 This Guide is the first of the many articles that will cover the tech part of my movement from Windows to Linux for everything including... gaming!      Recently, i have been experimenting  with Linux guests on a Linux KVM Host that i will use as streaming PC because of Software Raid 1 and i faced a problem when i tried to share a folder from the KVM Host to KVM Guest on a Debian 11 KVM. Of course there is an easy way to move files from KVM Guests with usb disks or flash drives (with Virt Manager is just an Add Hardware > Usb Host Device) but after a while this mount procedure on Linux KVM Guest becomes annoying...    So, i started searching for a permanent way to share a folder from the Host Machine to its Linux Guest and i found a better way than all the promoted ways i found on the internet and without changing the permissions of the libvrt service by taking the root permissions like many suggest on their guides or by changing the shared folder permissions inside the home folder

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The Revolution in LiveStream came in Windows first! The first peer-to-peer livestream program is a fact!

 Yes, the1st peer-to-peer LiveStream Protocol implemented from DLive.org as a Windows Program first.       The first peer-to-peer Livestream protocol program that allows anyone to start a livestream without the cpu/memory power and the bandwidth of a CDN server created from Dlive.org the creators of bittorent as we understand from this page: Here and we can download and install it in a Windows 10, 2004 build and later only until now! You can view the full description of the PPSP Peer Protocol RFC: Here     And yes, dlive protocol needs only your pc and your streaming pc (if you don't have 2 in 1 streaming PC) and nothing else. No extra logins in servers for the streamer or the clients that want to view the PPSP Livestream.     Streamers have only to use the program to stream and you can download it from DLive.org page or this direct link .

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How to Fix Blurry Images and Lightbox in Blogspot after changes from bp.blogspot.com to blogger.googleusercontent.com domain

Recently, images Uploaded in Blogger changed to blogger.googleusercontent.com instead of the old bp.blogspot.com.       First of all i would like to ask a big apologize that i am using this site to post what i did to solve this problem since is total irrelevant this subject with the character and the scope of my site, but this is the only personal site i have and this problem affected this site too and it's the only way to share the solutions!      In my last article about Gaming on Linux the URL of the image i uploaded wasn't the usual URL of the bp.blogspot.com domain but a new blogger.googleusercontent.com domain. This is not a problem for me since i found that the performance is not so bad (more at the end of the the post) but unfortunately the new domain changed the format of the names of the images and now they haven't the old format with the dimension ( /s[width] ) and the name+extension of the image in the source.    As result of these changes (so far and i don'

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The Gaming on Linux Era has Officialy Started.

 No more Games only for Windows!      "Games for Windows is a discontinued brand owned by Microsoft and introduced in 2006 to coincide with the release of the Windows Vista operating system. The brand itself represents a standardized technical certification program and online service for Windows games, bringing a measure of regulation to the PC game market in much the same way that console manufacturers regulate their platforms. The branding program was open to both first-party and third-party publishers." as we informed from Wikipedia for GamesforWindows.com that is a no working link anymore.     But this is not a reason for the declaration of the gaming for Linux era, right? Right! The reason is this announcement below. BattlEye has provided native Linux and Mac support for a long time and we can announce that we will also support the upcoming Steam Deck (Proton). This will be done on an opt-in basis with game developers choosing whether they want to allow it or

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Streamers, This is How You can Avoid a DMCA Ban With OBS

The Number 1 Danger for a Stream Account is the DMCA Bans.          Why?  Because these Bans may terminate your streaming account For EVER !.         Twitch says that it will terminate your account after 3 strikes (you will find the warning under any video you have store in Content  Tab > Video Producer  of Dashboard) and Youtube says for 3 strikes too but in a period of 90 days ( More.. ) . It is unclear if the period extends the total number of DMCA strikes but personally i don't want to learn more about this subject and the same i am suggesting to you. Best Advice on subjects like these is always: " avoid attracting bad attention to yourself for nothing".       I don't want to search but i am sure every streaming platform has or will have in the future similar policies because the pressure comes from DMCA and nobody even the big corporations will risk to have problems because the thousands of streamers exist today want to play a song or songs during their st

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Streamers, There is a Correct Monitor Refresh Rate for Streaming.

 Why Monitor Refresh Rate matters for Streams?         Everything inside our PC is Math and Numbers in Time.. And the games or the streams can't escape by the laws that rule all 3 of them. Speed? Time, Results? Calculations, How? Algorithms, What? 0 & 1.       Now divide the 144 GHz of your new and super for Gaming Monitor with 60fps or 30fps. You can but the result left some remainders each time....       These remainders are your choppy streams or they can be the dropped frames since the stream software tries to send pictures with 30 or 60 fps=frames per second rate from your Game that sends pictures to your Gaming Monitor with 144Hz frequency.       If the monitor's refresh rate is not divisible with your stream rate, these frames are useless for your stream and software should deal with them.       So you want to Stream and you don't know where you should start ?      The Answer is easy: from your monitor's refresh rate that should be 60Hz , 120Hz , 180H z or 2

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Webmaster, This is what you shall do to dodge the effects of the next CDN Blackout.

 CDN is Actually a Single Point of Failure.      Yes, i know it is not only a Single Point of Failure and CDN helped a lot to be the web experience better but you already have experienced what is happening when the CDN fails and the truth is that this time this fail affected the Streamers only, but tomorrow maybe will be the games and the gamers since many implementations in games are using CDN services.     If you don't know or your already forgot, i will remind you the title from pcgamer.com site that wasn't affected from the recent CDN Denial of Service.     The Title was: This week's internet blackout was caused by a single user updating their settings 👇     So, it was one user's mistake because he messed the updating settings? No it wasn't. These type of failures can happen anytime and for any reason.    The porblem is that there is a solution that is easy, combatible with all browsers and unfortunately the webmasters on the big sites are not using it even it

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Windows 10 Safe and Easy Tweaks for Gamers and Streamers.

Safe Tweaks for Gamers / Streamers on Windows 10.           There are tweaks that every gamer should apply on his gaming pc and they didn't affect or can create problems to Windows 10 operating system and in my opinion Windows operating system should already had hardware profiles (similar to the old hardware profiles on Windows XP) with per-configured changes on hardware behavior based of the usage we want to do.      We all have spend unlimited time to find the reasons why our brand new pc is not working as we expected and we have find after searching on the internet for example that our operating system is using by default the standard Power Profile for the PCI Link Management and this is ... moderate savings. If you search a bit on the internet you will find on Microsoft's forums that this setting is for windows devices that have ...a BATTERY !       OK, full stop here !  Why do we have

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SRCSET Script for Batch Creation Many Different Dimensions of an Image on Linux.

 Web Devs Should Use Srcset For Images.         Enough with manifests. I will not explain why Srcset is the future of web for images (responsive images) because Google that offers the blogger platform to us for writing our stories knows that SRCSET is the key for better Web and they are already be part of Webp project and they implemented automatically this feature when we upload images to our blogs. The /s[Number]/ part of the image url when we upload an image is the width of the image we uploaded and this is why the original link of our 800x600 uploaded image for example has the /s800/ as part of the image link.      But how we can create different dimension sizes of our images if we want to create a manual carousel like this i have in my front page ? Manually ? Good Luck on hating your self and your favored image manipulating program (btw, mine is GIMP). i tried once to create them with different layers of a file and for 4 di

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How to force OBS uses any display as display capture.

The Problem with Dx12 Games like CoD & the OBS.    Cod Modern Warfare Warzone forces the usage of DirectX 12 when the VGA you will play the game supports DX12 and even you add the -d3d11 argument in the battle.net, launcher will download shaders for dx12 and not for dx11 and you will have black screen on OBS instead of the game.      The easy solution to capture the Game without any modification of COD Warzone files (risky and high recommended to avoid any modification of game files since it is a bannable reason) is to use the Display Capture of OBS like i do in the video below.       Also, if you are lucky like myself and you have more than one Screens and VGAs connected to your computer you will find soon that the management of games is difficult and the record or stream of them real pain because the available software on windows 10 doesn't support the management of 2 Dedicated VGA* ( there is only one solution available for hybrid laptops [ power save VGA + ded

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Welcome to RebelStreamers Site.

Hello there,      With this famous Quote from Star Wars movies i want to welcome you to my site that has only one goal, to help and support the Gamers, the Games and the Streamers of the Games i am playing with articles, guides, reviews and tools.    With this site i already have experiment with some free and opensource javascript libraries like carousel in the first page and lazysizes (as you can see in the streamers panel page ).  I am new streamer (i am still working on that 😁) but old gamer and a big fan of gaming streamers, Also, i created a program that solves the disk usage problem of the games i am playing and i wanted to find a way to share with other gamers, i end up to create another one site ( Gamelink ) where you download my app ( Usage Help: here ) and just like that i turned this nickname to site and social nickname.    

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SRCSET, How to Mass Convert Image Files to WEBP Format in Windows

Make the Web Faster.      This is exactly the title that google developers use to introduce and promote the webp format and other tools / techniques to help you make faster web sites in this page : https://developers.google.com/speed .     As i already said one of the tools is the webp format that google devs are already part of its development and you can download and use them from this page for your operating system: https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/precompiled   How can we convert our old images to Webp images?     In windows and in Linux i know there is not any front end utility available yet (i am planning to create one open source to help, but in the future) and until this time as usual the solution will be a script file as  you can see it converting 2 images in the picture below.  

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GameLink, a Hard Disk Space Management Application for your Windows Games and Programs.

 How to Download and use GameLink Application for Windows 7,8, 8.1, 10 & 11. Download Section:          Current Version:  0.7      1)   Download Gamelink 64bit zip and hash files from:  Here   &  Here                 VirusTotal & MetaDefender check with SHA256 hash: Here   2)   Download GameLink 32bit zip and hash files from:  Here &  Here              VirusTotal & MetaDefender check with SHA256 hash: Here   Note : All GameLink files are hosted on GameLink.gr that is the official Site of the GameLink app. Tip :  The owners of 64 bit Windows can use both versions while the owners of 32 bit Windows only  the 32 bit version of GameLink(that is one executable because i created it only for those who are still using 32bit for their old games). Nowdays, nobody is creating games for Windows in 32bit!  

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Modern Games or their updates take up the most space on our PC. No problem at all !

Disk Usage is a Huge Problem in Modern Games.       The Problem first showed up 10 years ago with EA's Star Wars: The Old Republic. Swtor's hard disk requirements was exactly 60 GB ! These days 60 GB was and still is huge amount of hard disk space for only one game and this issue makes most of Gamers starting having multiple problems like performance problems if they install their games on C drive (limitations on Windows Filesystem demand 15% and more free space for Windows OS to work properly) or what game should delete to find free space for the new games, etc!   Purchasing a new SSD or m.2 NVme disk is always the easiest and best solution for performance but there is a small problem here. How many times you will buy bigger SSD or m.2 / NVme disks or how many available m2, ssd available slots your motherboard has ? if for example you choose to buy one bigger ssd you have to spend more than 200 euro for a 2 TB ssd (December 2020 prices in Greece).    

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Live Now Panel

RebelStreamers Live Panel Warning, Do Not Use This Page With Limited Mobile Data Connections Due To Heavy Traffic Design. It will consume all your mobile data if you scroll down ! This message will self-destruct in 30 seconds...      This page created to collect in only one place all my favored streamers and to create a live panel page with all of them. Also this page is a live example how useful is for the web the observer api of JavaScript and how easy is the lazysizes implementation of the api that i am currently using.      To work as indeed i included the image of the first test and this description of the panel view page as a helper to create the necessary space at the start of the page and by this trick the videos remain out of the browser's viewport and  the videos below are not loaded when you are visiting the page for the first time. If you visit this page with a mobile or tablet with viewport less than 980px you will see a warning message that war

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