R-T-BWould you prefer they aorus it up with bling bling chicken head?


Wait... scroll lock disables e-cores?

So frigging stupid
A mutli-billion dollar company like intel can't implement a better solution then this

Hey - They gotta try something to get those cores up to 8GHz...... Maybe.

OneMoarnice a app from a 2 billion dollar company and the the app looks like it was written in autohotkey

They did at least make the tool which is nice, but yeah thats some serious UI padding.

W1zzardIn case you guys wonder how this works:



Port 128 (80h) is for the POST code debug output
Port 96 (60h) is the AT keyboard controller

So all this really does is turn on scroll lock via software via keyboard controller command 0xED

Wow, not so good then.

These scroll lock toggle systems, do they disable actual scroll lock function, or does scroll lock itself have to be enabled when toggling?

Gaming should work without all of this nonsense.

I find it a little hard to believe Intel can't fix this. It's a simple if>then statement in thread director..before anything hits P or E cores.

If queued thread(s) contains encrypted DRM content then send to P cores, explicitly.

And the fix, parking cores, comes from Gigabyte? Parking cores. Manually. Okay..

robert3892Gaming should work without all of this nonsense.

Tell that to DRM makers whose work mainly serves to make playing games that much more complicated.

sillyconjunkieIf queued thread(s) contains encrypted DRM content then send to P cores, explicitly.

Denuvo game binaries do not really contain "encrypted" content. Also it's impossible to detect encrypted content in the first place

"contains" for executable code is impossible to answer, too, all you can look at is the instructions executed in the past, or some characteristics like executing filename

>>...This DRM Fix Tool is a lightweight utility that unfortunately runs exclusively on GIGABYTE motherboards...

In case of Windows operating systems use "Set Affinity..." option in the Windows Task Manager ( Processes page ) to select Logical CPUs for an application, or a game.

AleksandarKGIGABYTE Releases DRM Fix Tool for Intel Alder Lake Processors to Dynamically Park and Unpark E-Cores.

Why make a hardware concession? Either fix the pathetically functioning DRM or do the correct thing and remove it entirely. This effort is not a solution. It's not even a fix. It's a fail of a work-around that neither addresses the problem nor fixes it.

lexluthermiesterWhy make a hardware concession? Either fix the pathetically functioning DRM or do the correct thing and remove it entirely. This effort is not a solution. It's not even a fix. It's a fail of a work-around that neither addresses the problem nor fixes it.

I doubt any of the parties involved in this - in this case Gigabyte and Intel - have any power over those things whatsoever, so they're doing what they are able to do. Whether that is a proper fix or not is kind of besides the point.

YraggulI'll just go speak to my building's admin and tell her i want another parking space;
when she inevitably asks if i bought another car i'll look her straight in the eye and in a raspy,deep 20+ years smoker's voice i'll say:
No ma'am, i want to switch from Ryzen to Alder Lake and i want to park my E-cores.

Oooooooh, snap!

Oh yes, I remember the Turbo button very well and the drama around it. I never had those kind of older PCs as I only really started from 2004 with broadband internet for me, but my only experience with the Turbo button was in elementary school as a kid.
The elementary school had a PC-room that was suppose to be used for computer class but several PCs had Duke Nukem 3D and many other games installed, Commander Ken, Dangerous Dave and I don't remember but I wish I could go back into that room today for a blast to the past, and yes internet worked too. The-geek-class-pc-caretaker-teacher would show us mIRC (but I didn't use, or had any idea how to use it) we usually had to do only school stuff like Word documents, Excell, etc but they would let us play games on fridays, let's rock! Duke Nukem 3D LAN parties ... and even the teacher would play with us on the Admin-Teacher-Only-Computer, and I think like only 4 student PCs had DN3D (were good enough for) so you can imagine the circus of my-turn your-turn and there was a lot of keyboard splitting/sharing (or how is that called) of one student being responible for walking and other for shooting.

The PCs were quite various and only 2 of them were really good, 4 of them okay, another 4 medium and 2 were really bad and slow like crap, many of the medium and weaker-older ones would had a DIGIT screen that would show either "20", "40", "60" or "80" (only on the 2 best ones), I think if you pressed Turbo then it would go from 40 to 60, 60 to 80, but there was a catch to it and I don't remember what was the downside of Turbo at the time (I think I still don't, I think i saw it explained on LGR but forgot again), but the 2 bad ones were at 20 were super slow and had no 3D games so what do you guys think what happened, it was an absolute circus across the whole school facility, a mad dash after the end of the class before the computer class, running full speed to be the first one or else, because you had to be the first in the line to get to the best two PCs as the teacher opens the door to the PC room, if you're not in the top 10, you'll get the crappy PC or worse you wouldn't get any PC as there were total of ~20 students in the class and you had to share, 2 students per-PC could sit the way room was structured, I don't remember exactly how often would two switch seats and be the primary user of the PC, but I think it was actually better than being on the bad PCs because once you had your seat there was no changing of computers for the remainder of the class, I'm not sure if it was a rule but I think the teachers were okay with this always being determined at random by the crazy stampede that would ensue when teacher opened the door, it was fair I guess.

ValantarLol, I was just about to write "so they made an app that turns on Scroll Lock?" :roll:


It's precisely to avoid these DRM issues. Pretty handy feature in those cases!


BIOS updates take time, so most likely you'll have to wait until an official one (or at least offician beta) arrives.

For sure, but I'm just pointing out that the press on this issue can be a bit misleading. Most game companies are releasing denuvo less versions of their older games because the fixes don't work well or it will take months to work out, not a week after launch, that kind of thing.

GarrusFor sure, but I'm just pointing out that the press on this issue can be a bit misleading. Most game companies are releasing denuvo less versions of their older games because the fixes don't work well or it will take months to work out, not a week after launch, that kind of thing.

Wait, they are? If so, that's fantastic, and if this forces that into happening it's a great thing. In my experience this kind of thing never gets patched out, and especially if the game is more than a couple of years old, so if that is changing that makes me very happy.