PC gamer being honest about the inconsistencies of PC gaming.

Come now, its not like you don't pop into alot of PC threads with the intent of whining..... only it doesn't pan out on this forum due to logic. It's ok, there is nothing wrong with coming 4th my xbox brother....

@thepclovingguy: failed at what?

bu bu bu there's no problems with PC gaming!!1111

Please, dude. Pull yourself together and be a bit more creative next time. Your trolling has become too obivious. How are you going win the next system award for best trolling if you are doing so poorly.

I wish lol

Really the only time I got problems was with my AMD GPU as they didn't make drivers that worked with games at launch. Rage was the worse one, I finally got it to work, but only after numerous tweaks to the ini files. Another one was Sleeping Dogs, It CAME with my card, but had a known issue of launching and it didn't get fixed for over a month.

TC finds some guy crying about PCs and posts it here?

/bait /blog

@thepclovingguy: when did I win that award?

Remember the good old times, when trolls used to be creative, damn I miss these times.

@thepclovingguy: why are you quoting me?

Indeed, people use to at least try back in the day. No punctuation and frivolous, empty 3 word questions make up today's modern trolls. We need Casey back .

@Heil68: are you describing your own posts?

Think those times will ever come back? I'm guessing that since PS4 is current gen 8 console leader and the meta game is longer present so Uncharted 4 cant FLOP like Halo 5, people are hesitant and go back to empty trolling and questions people's grammar.

@Heil68: why did you respond to the same post twice?

What? You're pretty incompetent if that's the case. I could run it on a 670 at 1080p and max settings and get over 30fps. With MSAA removed, I could eye 60.

With a 680 you couldn't go over 900p? What in the actual f...

Well to be fair needless trolling and unresponsive answers, critics and short responses are the trademark of today's forum poster. We need to go back to the way it was. Oh how fun it was.

This is proof of the hypocrisy from the hermits.

No knowledge of CPU, RAM, drivers or anything else.

What?

Oh boy the issues I've had XD, that list would be pretty long.

Well that is an issue with PC gamer, but for the most part I dont mind tweaking files to get game to work before developer does. But Sleeping Dogs was pure bull shit that even after talking to developer and giving DX console it still took way too long.

@Heil68: why do you keep spamming?

Why do you keep whining?

I know you arent used to honestly responding to questions and points with meaningful thought, that provokes discussion, that's not spamming. But go ahead and report me if you must. :) I wont be responding to your SPAM questions over nothing that dont add to the OP or questions at hand. After All when you speak the TRUTH and focus on freedoms, justice and the Live, LEarn and Love philosophy, you don't have time for meaningless posts like you are doing,

The first priority of any message you post should be to communicate.

We all should remember:

Before sending out a message that will be read around the world, there are a few important things to understand about how message boards work. Though there are private message boards, most message boards are public. So, when you post a message to the Internet, it's going to be published for anyone and everyone to read. You never know who's going to read your post, or who might quote portions of it to share with other interested parties. So before you push "Submit," you'll want to make sure that the message you post to the Internet only contains information that you are ready to share with everyone. It is also worth mentioning that messages posted to a message board are generally permanent. Though in some instances editing can be done, once you push the "submit" button in a message board, you'll usually not be able to go back and change or edit your message. So, make sure there are no typos in your message, and that it says what you truly want it to say.

OT yet again to try and post what the TC wants-

One of the best parts of Pc gaming is the ability to tweak your game without the developer. People can not only add mods that add things to the game, they can unlock settings not available.

@Juub1990: you have no knowledge of my rig but it's automatically "omg ur so dum....usar errwar!!!"

Theres so much contradiction here bc you can with PC since they're open.

Its either: "PC gaming is cheap!!!" or "Stupid peasants I don't worry about money I have 2 TITANs"

its either: "PC gaming is easy it's for everyone!!!" or "You can't be stupid and game on PC"

Its either: "Nvidia said devs are lazy....LAZY DEVS ARE THE PEOBLEM" or "I never have any problems"

You guys just say whatever fits the argument at the moment.

Oh my gosh, my internet reputation has been ruined. On a serious note though, I could ask you the same.

@thepclovingguy:

My post was more of an FYI and to try my darnest to get thread back on track.

@Heil68: I've had numerous un optimized games or games that needed some fan made patch to be able to run, had to reinstall W7 cause W10 kept on crashing when I played games and while this is a "I suck at tech" type of deal, trying to install a 3tb hdd into your computer is a pain in the ass cause installing anything above 2tb needs a special parcel program or a work around.

Even with those faults, I still love PC gaming.

@thepclovingguy: not, just wondering why I keep getting notifications for pretty much the same thing over and over

No, the thing with pc gaming is that you have the right to choose whatever your heart desires, you can either choose to invest in a decent gaming pc or build a monster pc. Furthermore, pc gaming can be either difficult or easy depending what you want to do, for example you can either choose to buy a prebuild pc, but you can also build your own pc. Its all up to you, how you want pc gaming to be.

I don't need knowledge of your rig. If you happen to have a 680 with 1GB of RAM and a E8400 you're an idiot. If you have a 680 with a 3550 and 8GB of RAM but can't figure out how to make Far Cry 3 run smoothly past 900p, you're still an idiot. The 680 would need to be severely limited by other components to give such paltry performance in FC3.

@Heil68: I was just wondering what was the point of spamming responses

And where did I say anything about reporting you

Yeah, there is always a sense of accomplishment when you get the game to work like you want.

At least consoles are consistently mediocre :)

It's good to be consistent, right ?

Same here, PC downloads games faster than consoles. Installs games faster than consoles. Load times are faster so you are in game faster than consoles.

You don't have to spend half an hour updating your system before you can play a goddamn game unlike consoles.

I sometimes spend 5 minutes looking for and applying a fix for some strange problems. I'll give it that, console gaming doesn't have that. If your game doesn't run well on consoles, you are ****** and there is no community fix.

But if you are spening dozens of hours trying to get games to run, PC gaming is obviously not for you. Sorry, TC.

@mr_huggles_dog: I though you said you are going to ignore this thread, why you are still here?

I dunno what his specs are but either way, FC3 is a pretty shit port IMO. I remember I couldn't max the game at 1080p/60fps with a 760 (or 750TI, I don't remember). CPU and RAM were all above recommended requirements as well, typical Ubisoft bull.

@walloftruth: Unsurprising. Max settings enables MSAA which will kill performance. Without it a 670 is close to 60/1080. A 750 Ti from what I remember is weaker than a 670 which is about equal to a 760.

@rakadewa19: pick any reason given since the creation of Internet forums.

no, this kind of shit is what gives PC gamers a bad name

Yup my system is pretty out dated, W7 64bit, GTX 970, 16gb of RAM and AMD 8320 eight core is sooooo 9 years ago.

Oh waaait, forgot I was talking to a window licker.

oh man, that was a real zinger! You showed that a system doesnt have to be 64bit to offer good features with good performance at ab affordable price.

you should really link the sources you copy and paste from

http://www.genealogy.com/articles/research/78_cottrill.html

Before sending out a message that will be read around the world, there are a few important things to understand about how message boards work. Though there are private message boards, most message boards are public. So, when you post a message to the Internet, it's going to be published for anyone and everyone to read. You never know who's going to read your post, or who might quote portions of it to share with other interested parties. So before you push "Submit," you'll want to make sure that the message you post to the Internet only contains information that you are ready to share with everyone. It is also worth mentioning that messages posted to a message board are generally permanent. Though in some instances editing can be done, once you push the "submit" button in a message board, you'll usually not be able to go back and change or edit your message. So, make sure there are no typos in your message, and that it says what you truly want it to say.

Dont need too,. There is nothing wrong with pulling from multiple sources and in the end those sources prove to be honest, effective and add to the discussion in a positive and healthy way, How else can we examine the issues at hand without siting real world sources who have a similar view and can re-enforce what the topic is all about or sometimes even make the OP even stronger?

I dont see a single thing in the rules sticky about not using other sources..even word for word. I'm not publishing them for my own monetary dain, no, Im using what the author had intended, general knowledge and to strike up a conversation.

You cant. People use articles all the time. neo gaf,(daily) IGN ect, so its a common practice, not only that is done by users but by mods themselves. Also I have NEVER taken credit for anything that was written by me.

I wrote all that by myself btw in line with the Live, Learn and Love.

Maybe you should try that instead of worrying about me or what others write while not contributing to this board or community and by golly we can make this a better place for all.

@Heil68: if you have a problem with how I post feel free to ignore it or bring it up with a mod. I don't see how you spamming irrelevant post is helping to contribute or make the board any better.

After upgrading to the GTX 970, compared to my older HD 6850, I've noticed big performance gains when it comes to DX11 games, but barely any performance gains when it comes to older DX9 games.

That's because PC gaming is whatever the gamer wants it to be depending on them. It's the nature of the PC.

PC gaming is cheap and doesn't require high end cards. That's me, I game on a 750Ti. At the same time we can talk about higher end cards, because anytime we choose, we can upgrade.

PC gaming is easier than ever, it's more automatic than ever, but I've never bought into the argument that just anyone can dive into it. You could game, you may not get the best out of it, idk. But I think between Nvidia (software) and Steam and others, things are a lot easier than they were.

Don't know what you mean with Nvidia, but the problems are with the developers. Things have only gotten easier in terms of tools, if their ambition outweighs their resources, than that's on them.

Far Cry 3 is a great port, not sure what you're talking about.

I quit PC gaming a long time ago and happy i did. I used to struggle to get games running at 60 even with latest GPU at the time... and so much error.. and omg the hacks lol. I know today GPU's have overkill performance with huge power consumption so that might not be a problem anymore lol.

I was beast BTW with monster KDR but PC gaming just become boring and a waste of time. I moved on to PS3 then PS4 and no longer i had to deal with error or hackers. Only on PS3 there were a few hackers... very rare. mfs with hack firmwares lol but they were mostly on games like GTA or Noob of Duty. While on Killzone 2 there were just 2 hackers i believe that unlock the debug mode xD.

Anyway im so happy right now on PS4. 0 hackers. I'm also older so i cant waste my time with PC gaming like when i was a kid. I just want play UC4 and beast!

Try getting games to run in DOS back in the day and you run into memory issues or irql_not_less_or_equal....that was annoying as hell back in the day. Ever since DOS was phased out back in Windows ME (??? - going from memory without trying to dig the information up) you ran into a lot less issues getting games to run.

Once XP hit the shelf it wasn't long after that most games were simple to play on a PC. Insert disc, install game, run game. If you weren't aware of the necessary system specs required to run the game and your computer was lacking - then that was your own damn fault.

You run into almost no issues with gaming on the PC these days. The hardest thing these days is the need to maybe update your video driver for the newly released games that come out and sometimes the initial driver release isn't the best so you'll have to keep an eye out for the next one to get released.

Most of the newer games that come out are not ready to actually be released due to bad performance (look at the last Batman game - ran like shit on the PC). The game in the video the OP posted is typical on PC (and even consoles) when they release. Usually (as sad as it is) the developer needs to patch the issues in the game still and the patch will come out 3-6 weeks after the game releases.

In the video when he comments on running an old game from 2004 on windows 10 and he had issues - fucking retard. It's been known that older games (games made back in the day for XP or even Vista) can have issues running on the latest Windows 10. Usually just installing and running the game in compatibility mode will resolve most of the issues. Anyone decent enough with computers will have a dual boot system if they are really, really set on playing older games and wish to avoid the headaches that Windows 10 might bring with the much older games.

I can dual boot under Windows 7 or XP on my machine. I could even just build a stand alone XP computer for those older games that may not run well or at all under Windows 7. Do I want to play these older games that I have....not really. There are very few older games that I own that I might want to play.

The video guy claims that maybe 10-15% of his games he can't get to run (well) on his PC....hahahahahahahahaha....HAHAHAHAHAHA!

What a joke of a video and then the OP makes a thread about it.