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> Take Witcher 3 - both me and my significant other were playing it at the same time. Me on PC, while she played on PS4. She was a good 5-6 hours into the game,

> Take Witcher 3 - both me and my significant other were playing it at the same time. Me on PC, while she played on PS4. She was a good 5-6 hours into the game, while I was still fucking around with my drivers, overclocking the GPU and CPU, going into bios every 5 minutes just to make sure I definitely have a locked 60 fps experience. I've never has this issue when playing games on PC? Usually I can just buy a game, wait for the thing to download and get on with playing it within 10 minutes of it being installed. Usually I change a few settings such as resolution and I put it in windowed mode, and maybe reduce some graphics settings, but that's it. I very rarely have to mess with drivers, and I've certainly never had to overclock my CPU or GPU, nor did I have to enter the BIOS just to play a game. And if the game isn't at 60 fps? Who gives a shit, as long as it's a playable 30 fps or more then I'm happy just playing the game. PC gaming for me isn't about the superior graphics or framerate, it's the fact that I can have a game on one monitor whilst having easy access to a web browser or IRC on another so I can do something during loading screens. It's the fact that I can mod the game to add new features, especially in strategy or management games.

gambiting 11y ago
I think having a PC encourages that practice though. On a console, I pop the disc in, play. On a PC, I notice the screen does tear a bit(the game runs at 40-50gps, so no v-sync) so I go into settings and try to play a bit to make it work nicely. While I am at it, I might as well overclock my GPU a bit. Since I am doing that, I might order a new fan from Amazon. Oh, actually, Nvidia released beta drivers which are said to improve the performance a bit. Hmmm they do, but now my PC crashes randomly. Maybe I need to go into bios and increase the voltage on the CPU so it's more stable. Wait, I was going to play that game, wasn't I? It's late now, I'm going to bed. That's literally my experience recently. I also bought Batman Arkham knight on PC(which was famously broken on that platform) and ended up installing it on a seperate SSD just to make it run smoothly, and actually spent quite a while looking at trace statements and driver forums trying to make that game run in an acceptable way. Meanwhile, everyone who had it on PS4 just played it. But again, I'm not trying to say that consoles are any better. I'm saying that they have a place on the market and to think they will disappear is a bit foolish.

gambiting 11y ago

I think having a PC encourages that practice though. On a console, I pop the disc in, play. On a PC, I notice the screen does tear a bit(the game runs at 40-50gps, so no v-sync) so I go into settings and try to play a bit to make it work nicely. While I am at it, I might as well overclock my GPU a bit. Since I am doing that, I might order a new fan from Amazon. Oh, actually, Nvidia released beta drivers which are said to improve the performance a bit. Hmmm they do, but now my PC crashes randomly. Maybe I need to go into bios and increase the voltage on the CPU so it's more stable. Wait, I was going to play that game, wasn't I? It's late now, I'm going to bed. That's literally my experience recently. I also bought Batman Arkham knight on PC(which was famously broken on that platform) and ended up installing it on a seperate SSD just to make it run smoothly, and actually spent quite a while looking at trace statements and driver forums trying to make that game run in an acceptable way. Meanwhile, everyone who had it on PS4 just played it. But again, I'm not trying to say that consoles are any better. I'm saying that they have a place on the market and to think they will disappear is a bit foolish.