01-13-2018, 08:12 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-13-2018, 08:14 AM by espionage724.)
(01-12-2018, 07:09 PM)adamo000 Wrote: A looot of many thinks there. Acer suported RealSense camera?
What did you changed after bios hack and what did you obtain with this modification?
I'm not sure if the camera in the laptop is supported by RealSense, but I imagine if you swap it out with a compatible one and flip that setting, it should work.
I changed a few things, but most notable:
- Disabled HDCP (I don't play protected video)
- Disabled The option to disable PAVP (Protected Audio Video Path; I don't play protected audio or video but on Windows this option needs to stay enabled or else the Intel GPU driver doesn't work strangely; Linux also needs it for GuC firmware loading)
- Disabled Legacy USB (faster boot, and fixes a weird issue where the laptop may freeze at POST with a certain Corsair mouse plugged in)
- Disabled Hyper-threading (tiny bit improved single-threaded performance)
- Disabled Intel Management Engine (after I received the modded BIOS I ran it through me_cleaner with --soft-disable-only; better security and no worry about current and future ME vulnerabilities)
- Disabled various locks (CPU registers, flash read/write, stuff that might be useful if I ever had to recover the BIOS in the future or mess with power saving)
- Disabled Intel SST (if the Audio DSP is disabled, it switches the audio subsystem from Intel SST to generic Realtek; drivers in Windows for generic Realtek are a bit easier to maintain and I don't notice any real difference)