Once again PC gaming has failed me :(

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Christopher Fisher

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Tom_green_day said:
In my opinion, console and PC gaming are two different things that are good for different things. For example, I find PC gaming is better for things like strategy and creation games where you need precision and speed. Hell, if I hadn't played Battle for Middle Earth, I wouldn't play games now.
On the other hand, I prefer consoles for games when I control a character in third or first person. I've tried ME3 and Battlefield on PC and just couldn't find it fun, because using the mouse as a pointer is so hard.
So plug a 360 pad into your PC. Problem solved. You may want to also get a better mouse with a higher sensitivity, as the only reason I could someone having a hardtime using a mouse/kb in a 1st/3rd person shooter is if it's a really crappy, unresponsive mouse.
 

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Jove said:
One of the other good things about consoles unlike PC gaming is the fact that you don't have to worry about bad porting or poor performance.

For example, I want to play Fable on my xbox. I have the disk ready to go, put it in the console, and everything works perfectly. Im good to go.

Then there's Fable: The Lost Chapters for the PC. I get it from Steam and decide to download it. The downloading doesnt take long because of my most of the time great Internet and super special awesome PC gaming Desktop. Once thats finished, I start to play it, and then it takes me to a screen that says (video and audio hardware error) or something like that. It didn't play any of the cutscnes and every time I try to play, the lip sync was off and the voices most of the time didn't work. And even if it did work, the voices would whisper.

So I do everything that I can to fix it and troubleshoot it. I look on forums, I look for guidance,cand still TO DO THIS DAY, I can't get fable the lost chapters to work on my PC gaming machine that is able to play Crisis 1 and 2 ON NEAR MAX SETTINGS!

This is why I don't blame people for liking consoles over PC gaming. Because PC Gaming is a freaking ***** to deal with. I mean just look at what PC Gaming has to deal with:

PC Gaming:

-Hopefully the port is not that bad.
-hopefully my computer can handle playing the game.
-Hopefully this game doesn't crash on me for the 100th time.
-Hopefully if this game for some reason doesn't work for me, hopefully I can get some answers from various forums or something.

Consoles:
-no worrying about bad ports, or the possibility of the console not being able to handle it, or troubleshooting the game, it 95% if not 100% works all the freaking time with very little to no problems.

Down side for consoles? Graphically capability...yeah like people REALLY give a crap about these days. Oh and controller options. That I understand. Even though some people like the OP just can't stand to use the keyboard/mouse instead of a controller but the PC has that option over it so thats true.

Point being, I feel for the OP, PC Gaming is either great one day or horrible the next day. While consoles are consistency pretty good.
That's not true about consoles at all, there's bad ports from console to console even to this day. Even Skyrim suffers from being on console, my friend decided to show me the game on 360 and the load times between getting to the game, quick traveling were around 1 minute or so. Then there's the PS3 version which also has it's share of problems as well as no dlc currently.

Assassins Creed 1 was practically black and white and had a really choppy framerate on PS3 while the 360 version was smooth as can be and had more color.

Battlefield 3 on 360 basically required a texture pack install online to make the game look decent.

Batman Arkam City has framerate trouble on the WiiU and apparently has a lot of minor issues.

There's an entire site dedicated to head to head comparisons on console versions dedicated to every detail from screen tearing to average/max/min FPS, texture quality.

PC at least you can adjust something to make the game run better, sure it can be a hassle sometimes but in my opinion the positives outweigh the negatives, not just gaming but then again not everyone works a lot on the PC like I do.
 

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Dexter111 said:
3) Get a NVIDIA-based Graphics card, ATI cannot into drivers and you will encounter problems therefor.
I hear the opposite just as often. In fact, I've only had a few issues with my AMD GPUs but have had many many more with the nVidia GPUs I've owned over the years.

I suppose personal experience will vary, eh? :/

Though, one thing I'd add to your list:

'Clean out your heat sinks and fans every few months.'

The dust and pet hair can build up quickly, sometimes.
 

Frostbite3789

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Jove said:
Consoles:
-no worrying about bad ports, or the possibility of the console not being able to handle it, or troubleshooting the game, it 95% if not 100% works all the freaking time with very little to no problems.
You never tried to play a Bethesda game on a PS3 did you? I did. I kind of hate Bethesda now. That and their shady DLC practices.
 

Mauler

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Heh... I've got the same problem... then i downloaded crack,crackfix form a some site(google it) and it worked like a charm...(running on windows 7) And no PC gaming isn't a p**p on a stick it's how it is and because u tripped ower a wrong kinda mistakes you don't just go to crie and rant on forums but DO trie something( Got working Gothic 3(on pc i dont hawe consoles(actualley TV also(it broke 2 years ago(im broke cand afford new one))))after HALF A YEAR AND I dont complain to someone who can't/won't make it better)...
 

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The console is built for one reason and reason alone: play games. I always thought it handles that pretty well until I saw FOC on PS3 at about 40 FPS and then at PC at 60+ FPS. If a machine can't do right the one thing it was meant to do, then for me, it ceases to occupy any kind of space.

Consoles now, for me at least, fit right into this. I am saying they are inferior and are not worth owning just for the exclusives for one and secondly having to pay north of 60 euros for one fucking game is beyond stupid.
 

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Sorry but the occasional bad/ignorant case does not justify your whining post. Give it to me and I would have got it running or at least given you a legitimate reason why it didn't work for you. I guarantee it.

My PC has served me for nearly four years now and I have never ever had an issue getting a game to run apart from a game from the early 90's that was 16 bit and ran on Windows 3.1. Didn't play nice with my 64 bit OS so I had to use DOS Box to run it. The horror.
 

Frostbite3789

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Jove said:
Frostbite3789 said:
Jove said:
Consoles:
-no worrying about bad ports, or the possibility of the console not being able to handle it, or troubleshooting the game, it 95% if not 100% works all the freaking time with very little to no problems.
You never tried to play a Bethesda game on a PS3 did you? I did.
You're right, I didn't. BECAUSE I'M NOT ONE OF THE MORONS THAT THOUGHT GETTING A BETHESDA MADE GAME FOR THE PS3 WAS A GOOD IDEA.

I have Skyrim for the PC and the 360. Sorry PS3 owners that you wasted your $60 for being an idiot and not check that developer logo on the box. They knew what they were getting themselves into. Their loss as far as I am concerned.
Reading is hard isn't it? I never said Skyrim. I said a Bethesda game. I got Fallout 3. Y'know. The first Bethesda game on the PS3, that wasn't a 3 year late port of Oblivion.

You seem like you've been trolling/trying to instigate for half this thread.
 

Tanis

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You think THAT'S bad...

Try downloading all of Shogun 2, and it failing...with nobody seeming to know WHY.
 

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Was your download ever interrupted? Could be a corrupt file or bad install, but aside from that you're just gonna' have to wait for a fix. also try grabbing the beta drivers from ATI for the 7750. They're generally quite good for performance and compatibility.

It says its beta, but they're finished drivers, good-to-go. ATI just wait on the verification of other hardware and OS manufacturers before the do an "official" release of the driver. I think they said there was up to a 90% performance increase on DX9 games.
 

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Azaraxzealot said:
An open platform with tens of thousands of possible components in millions of possible combinations. Pros? 60 fps, great modding tradition, the ultimate in backwards compatibility and the potential for things like emulation. And that's just the tip of the iceburg.

Cons? Occasionally a game won't work without significant rigmarole.

Verdict? Worth it.
What does an overreaction to the cons look like? See OP.
Captcha? "road rage"