Gaming
Games and the machines and communities around them.
guys pls help every new game on my PS5 on a 4K TV opens with teh same question: performance or fidelity? i mostly play shooters on a 120 Hz monitor, i always start in fidelity mode because it looks amazing in screenshots, and then twenty minutes later i…
so annoyed rn help me understand this... i tried to install a new game on my second hand Steam Deck: the storage screen shows shader cache using more than the game itself... my games are moslty on the SD card, but the cache seems to be on internal storage.…
fun problem! discussion: i think a lot of ppl treat upscaled or generated frames as equivalent to native rendering, and Im not convinced its that simple. to me, upscaling trades image quality for performance, while…
hmmmm ok question about simulation heavy strategy games. my late game saves slow down massively, but none of my hardware looks maxed out in monitoring tools. total CPU usage is lowish, GPU barely working. is this just…
guys pls help i finally tried frame generation in action adventures. the counter jumped way up from about 70 FPS, but something felt slightly off, like the game was smooth but my mouse wasnt. my friend swears its free performance. im not convinced. how do…
long time lurker first post lol bought a Switch Pro controller specifically for a sports game, plugged it in via Bluetooth, and the game refuses to recognize it. windows threw this at me: im close to returning it, but maybe the porblem is on my PC. Id realy…
ok so i'm playing an open world adventure on my Switch 2 and teh older left Joy Con has started drifting. menus scroll on their own, and in game my character slowly wanders off. i ran a stick test with my hands off and it's clearly not centred: ive had these…
guys pls help our group of a community of 30 keeps arguing about this. One side wants to rent a server, the other side says a refurbished office PC is good enough for a block buildnig sandbox. Id love input from ppl whove done both. Wed mostly play evenings…
ok so i wanted a cozy controller evening with a platformer, but my Xbox wireless controller just doesnt work in it. its connected through USB cable, Windows sees it, the light is on, and i even got this: in game, nothing. not a single button. keyboard works…
im literally losing my mind here honest talk: i love story games, but i almost never finish them. i keep starting new games instead of finishing, and my backlog is now 40 unplayed games. how do you decide what to play, and do you feel bad about dropping a…
I'm sooo frustrated. Since the latest driver, a big RPG keeps crashing to desktop on the main menu on my RTX 4070: I verified game files and restarted. Other games seem fine, which makes it even weirder. What's the cleanest way to go back to teh previous…
im literally losing my mind here every time a new tactiacl RPGs release comes out, the same fight starts about a story mode. As a speedrunner, Id love to experience these games but often bounce off them. Others say teh challenge is the whole point. Where do…
im literally losing my mind here quick sanity check before i start reinstalling things. In an open world game Ive been playing, the FPS counter sits comfortably high, yet the experience is full of micro hitches: short…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts my DualSense is about only six weeks old and now the cursor never stops moving. i made a quick test screen to check, and this is what the left stick does when Im not even touching it: It's not huge, but in shooters it's…
hmmmm ok an online card game has been stuck on update failed for two days... it alawys stops at teh very end and shows: i restarted the PC and the router and logged out and back in to the publishers launcher. nothing changes. is something on my end blocking…
so annoyed rn i put my Windows handheld to sleep by tapping the power button, and when I picked it up later it showed this: It lost 20% overnight. That makes it hard to rely on as a grab and go device. Is this normal for handhelds, or is something keeping it…
im literally losing my mind here this is unbelievable. a tactical shooter blue screens my PC while queueing: IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL every time. i updated GPU drivers and reinstalled teh game. Everything else is stable. Whats the next step? Other games,…
right now a fighting game refuses to launch on my prebuilt PC and says it needs a newer Windows version. fine, i'll update. except Windows Update does this every time: It undoes the changes and Im back where i started. My friends are already in the game. Is…
this is driving me crazy. my ROG Ally X loses Wi Fi after sleep: the symptom: slow speeds... im on a 5 GHz network.. 😂 what do people usaully do about this? im comfortable changing settings in Device Manager or running commands if someone explains them. ill…
hmmmm ok this happened after an update on my ROG Ally: the card is a 512 GB card... i tried rebooting and reseating it. nothing. i can't even tell if the card is dead or just has a brkoen file system... what should i try first? im comfortable following steps…
Ah, I went through something similar. I wanna get into city builders, but the couple Ive tried were stressful. One went bankrupt in teh first hour, the other had disasters that wiped out half my town while I was still…
hey, running a small multiplayer community server thats growing. things like spam, arguments spilling over from games, and new members not knowing where to post are becoming rgeular problems. what did ppl who've done…
help!! ive now crashed at one particular quest in a horror game eleven times in a row. the error: i really dont want to lose a full week of progress. What can i try before reinstalling everything?? I checked the games forums but found only a couple of…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts okay, this is annoying. my Windows handheld worked perfectly until a BIOS update. now the GPU doesnt work: device Manager says it can't start. I don't wanna reset the whole device if I don't have to. any ideas? The rest…
this is unbelievable. a hero shooter blue screens my PC while queueing: PAGE FAULT IN NONPAGED AREA every time, i updaetd GPU drievrs and reinstalled teh game. Everything else is stable. What's the next step? other games, benchmarks and long editing sessions…
