Gaming
Games and the machines and communities around them.
i set up a a dinosaur survival game dedicated server on a Linux box sooo my friends could play anytime. it runs, i can join it from my PC on LAN, but nobody outside can see it. i forwarded UDP 2456 2458 on teh router. at one point the server box even showed…
I'm finally ready to upgrade, and I'm stuck between a gaming PC and a console. I have a 'one big purchase' budget, and I mostly play big single player games. Honestly, my current PC runs on a potato. I like the idea of mods and settings on PC, but I also…
guys pls help patch day hit, all my players updated their clients, and now nobody can join my a zombie sandbox server. They get failed to update app state. When i run SteamCMD on Debian, it shows this: The server is stuck on teh old build. My community is…
Last night i updated teh driver for my RTX 4080, and now a strategy game crashes right after loading in with this: before teh update it ran perfectly for months. nothing else changed, as far as I know... should I roll back, do a clean install, or wait for…
so i was right in the middle of a boss fight and everything just started flickering like crazy... weird colors and blocks appearing everywhere on the screen. i legit panicked thinking my card was about to go up in smoke lol. i tried restarting the driver and…
My friends are waiting in the lobby and i literally cannot join. a battle royale says the anti cheat serivce failed to start, and i got this: it mentions a driver being incompatible with teh anti cheat. I have never used a cheat in my life 🙏 I suspect a…
ok weird one starting a discussion because I keep seeing upgrade threads argue past each other, someone asks "CPU or GPU?" and teh answers are always about which part is newer, not what teh person actually plays. My…
long time lurker first post lol ive played open world games uncapped forever because i thought more FPS always means less lag. Then a friend told me to cap at a few frames below my 165 Hz refresh rate with RTSS. It honestly felt smoother. Now Im confused.…
ok weird one i need help, between a PC game subscription and my old purchases, I have over 200 games available, and I spend more time browsing than playing 😭 I feel like Im spending more time managing a backlog than playing, how do you choose what to play…
short version: an open world RPG crashes about an hour into a session on my launch model PS5... long version: Ive tried everything i can think of and it keeps doing it. I deleted and reinstalled teh game, I turned the console off fully instead of using rest…
Oh, I like this one. Help me figure out what's going on with my laptop. Games start out somoth, then after a while I lose a big chunk of performance and the chassis gets really hot above teh keyboard. ive tried…
Ive spent more time staring at frame time graphs than playing... an Unreal Engine actoin game hitches in the first fight of each session. Its not constant, just these brutal little freezes. Then this showed up after a reboot: My RX 6800 sits at moderate…
long time lurker first post lol patch day arrived and i was ready. Except my game launcher downloads teh an online card game update, gets to the verifying step and then throws this: Theres plenty of space on the drive and my internet speed is normal 🤦 Ive…
ok weird one hey, looking for advice on running a game server on Linux properly. right now its started from a terminal session that I leave open, which feels fraglie. i want it to start on boot, restart if it crashes, and get backed up daily. im comfortable…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts it doesnt matter which game, about fifteen minutes in, teh screen freezes and i get this: what am i doing wrong??
Quick panic post. My Xbox One was fine yesterday. Today, after enabling HDR, nothing on screen: I've power cycled it twice. I'm using the cable that came in the box. I have no other screen to test with right now. ideas? I can borrow another cable tomorrow if…
long time lurker first post lol trynig to understand VRR properly. my setup: monitor with adaptive sync, compatible GPU, cable that supports the full refresh rate. when FPS is inside the VRR range its lovely... when it goes above teh max refresh, i get…
i have a PC game subscription with a lifetime of games, and somehow i install five games and finish none. when i bought games one at a time, i finished almost all of them. now i start something, get distracted by something new on teh service, and drop it…
okay, Im officially a member of teh drift club. my right Joy Con on my Switch 2 does this when Im not touching it: its worst in an open world adventure, where precision matters. ive tried calibrating in teh settings, and it helps for a day before it comes…
this is driving me up teh wall... an open world RPG runs beautifully on my RTX 3080 until right after loading a save, then black screen, then teh crash dialog: ive reinstalled the driver, verified game files and even turned off my overlay apps. benchmarks…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts i spent the whole weekend building teh perfect a post apocalyptic RPG setup with 60 mods. started it up, and it crashes when entering one city: no useful error message, just straight to desktop 😤 i sorted with teh mod…
hmmmm ok i used to buy every big release on day one. lately, every launch comes with a 50 GB day one patch, and the first week is all about bugs and performance complaints. with big open world games especially, waiting for teh first big patch seems to give a…
I found a box I found in the attic for an old flight sim and got realy excited. Then I tried to install it on a new gaming laptop: I tried compatibility mode for older Windows versions and running as administrator. no luck. I really want to play this again.…
guys pls help help. The audio on my ROG Ally X died after a Windows update: I can see teh device in Device Manager, but it has a warning icon. Where should I start? id also love tips on how to stop this from happening again after the next update... its teh…
ugh. hey, thread for discussing voice comms habits... i play alot of objective based team games with randoms and i wanna be a good teammate, not the one everyone mutes. what makes a good callout? how much talking is…
