Gaming
Games and the machines and communities around them.
im literally losing my mind here this is driving me crazy. my special edition controller drops every few minutes and teh console shows: It happens on my Xbox Series S in every game. A wired USB connection works perfectly, so its something wireless. Id rather…
guys pls help ive been trying to install a new game i just bought on my Xbox Series X for two days. Every time it gets partway and then shows this: 0x87e00017. I'm installing to an external USB hard drive. Other games launch fine, it's only teh install that…
guys pls help every time i wake my ROG Ally X from sleep, the Wi Fi shows: The symptom: slow speeds. Im on a mesh ntework. A full restart fixes it, but that defeats teh point of sleep mode. Is there a setting i can change? Its especially annoying when I want…
so annoyed rn i opened my library tonight and realized i have a backlog of over 100 games 👍 And yet i spent an hour scrolling and then played nothing. i also keep buying games on every sale. Do any of you have a system for this, or do we all just live with…
This is so weird 🙏 My third party gamepad works in some games but not a racing game. Connection is USB cable. When I opened Device Manager I found this: ive reconnected it a dozen times. please tell me its a setting and not a broken controller. the…
This is so frustrating 🔥 I paid for a fighting game, but teh anti cheat treats my PC like a criminal 👍 It clsoes instantly and shows this: Im not comfortable just turning random security features off. How do i find out which driver it actually hates? i'd…
ugh. help me understand this. I tried to install a new game on my 256 GB Steam Deck: The storage screen shows shader cache using over 10 GB. My games are mostly on the SD card, but the cache seems to be on internal storage. Is there a way to manage it, or…
There are so many opinions about frame caps. Some say use teh in game limiter, others say never cap in MOBAs. Id love to hear what pepole actually run on 144 Hz screens and why. Please share ur setups and what made you choose them. Bonus points if youve…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts this is driving me up the wall. an open world RPG runs beautifully on my RTX 3070 until in busy city areas, then black screen, then the crash dilaog: Ive reinstalled the driver, verified game files and even turned off my…
ok weird one a live service shooter has been stuck on update failed for two days, it always stops at 0% and shows: I restarted the PC and the router and logged out and back in to the storefront client... nothing changes, is smth on my end blocking the files…
hmmmm ok my a survival game server has been rock solid for months. then the latest patch arrived and it died. steamCMD output: Clients say outdated server. Id love to fix this wtihout wipnig teh world save. most important to me is keeping the world save…
ugh. honest qusetion: are exclusives still a good reason to buy a console?? for me, Nintendo hardware is teh only one I buy specifically for teh kart racing seires. but first party games rarely go on sale makes me think twice every time. whats your…
ive played fighting games uncapped forveer cuz i thought more FPS always means less lag, then a friend told me to cap at a few frames below my 144 Hz refresh rate with teh driver limiter... it honestly felt smoother, now Im confused... whats teh actual…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts every time I start a new game, teh first thing I do is turn off film grain. Then I go through the rest of the settings for smoother frame paicng. Im running a PC that runs on a potato. Im curious what everyone else does.…
ok so i put a 4K Blu ray movie into my PS5 Slim with the disc drive and got this instead of teh game: the drive was making no sound at all for a few seconds before teh error came up. I took the disc out, checked it under the light, and it looks clean. other…
help!! my Switch Lite used to connect to online multiplayer fine. Now: nothing chnaged on my side as far as I know, except maybe a router update, im on a mesh network... where do ppl usually start? Im happy to try settings changes and report back 🔥 i just…
smth is very wrong with my GTX 1080 Ti. games show flickering triangles after i applied a memory overclock: The desktop looks fine. It only appears under load. Ive already reinstalled the driver. Whats the right order of tests before i panic? Temperatures in…
so annoyed rn i wanted a cozy controller evening with a sports game, but my DualSense just doesn't work in it. It's connected through a USB hub, Windows sees it, the light is on, and i even got this: in game, nothing. not a single button. keyboard works…
ok so ive now crashed at the second chapter loading screen in a JRPG eleven times in a row... the error: i really dont wanna lose 50 hours of progress. What can i try before reinstalling everything? i checked the games forums but found only a couple of…
hmmmm ok i've been trying to install a game from my subscription on my Xbox Series X for two days.. xD every time it gets partway and then shows this: 0x87e00017... im installing to an external SSD... other games launch fine, its only the install that fails.…
im literally losing my mind here im sooo annoyed. After two years with this DualSense Edge, suddenly the cursor never stops moving. Heres the stick test with my hands off: the right stick is perfect, the left one is clearly off centre. I'm careful with my…
help!! docking my refurbished Switch with the travel dock and getting this on teh TV in teh bedroom: the console does seem to detect teh dock. befroe I order a new one, what can I test at home? If anyone has had the same thing and fixed it, Id love to hear…
help!! this hapepned after teh battery died on my Legion Go: the card is a card i formatted on Windows. i tried rebooting and reseatnig it. nothing. i cant even tell if the card is dead or just has a broken file system. what should i try first? im…
im literally losing my mind here i put a game i borrowed from a friend into my PS5 Slim with teh disc drive and got this instead of the game: The drive was making a clicking sound for a few seconds before the error came up. I took the disc out, checked it…
This happened after moving it to another device on my ROG Ally: The card is a 512 GB card. I tried rebooting and reseating it. Nothing. I cant even tell if the card is dead or just has a broken file system. What should I try first? I'm comfortable following…
