Gaming
Games and the machines and communities around them.
help!! honest talk: I love long RPGs, but I almost never finish them. I keep quitting right before the ending, and my backlog is now a backlog of over 100 games. How do you decide what to play, and do you feel bad about dropping a game halfway? Sometimes I…
so annoyed rn after reinstalling Windows, the GPU on my ROG Ally X stopped working. device Manager shows this: code 10. i tried restarting a few times. im not very experienced with Windows drivers. can anyone walk me through what to do next? i'm comfortable…
ugh. long time player, first time going heavy on mods 🤦 200+ plugins in a medieval sandbox, carefully installed, and now it crashes on teh main menu: i read about load order and masters, but Im overwhelmed. Where should i start? Im using a mod manager, not…
my limited edition DualSense is about about eighteen months old and now teh cursor never stops moving. i made a quick test screen to check, and this is what teh left stick does when Im not even touching it: Its not huge, but in shooters its enough to throw…
guys pls help little rant: why is vignette on by default in sooo many games? 😤 It's the first thing i turn off. On a PC that runs on a poatto, i'm also hunting for a cleaner image. What's your settings routine? id love to build a litlte checklist for new…
I put my Switch 2 in teh travel dock, the screen on the console turns off like it's supposed to, and then my new 4K TV shows this: the console works perfectly in handheld mode. ive tried another HDMI port. im using the cables that were already connected. my…
Something is choking my PC. Loading screens take forever, textures pop in late, and a surivval game stutters constantly. Task Manager: 100% disk, and the response time numbers look scary. i suspect the antivirus scan, but Im not sure how to prove it. i…
docking my Switch 2 with the original dock and getting this on teh projector: the console does seem to detect the dock. before I order a new one, what can I test at home? if anyone has had teh same thing and fixed it, Id love to hear what wroked. ill report…
I'm trying to decide between a Steam Deck OLED and a gaming laptop. I mostly want something for playing in bed, but I also play some demanding games. My friend says battery life is a myth, which isn't helping me decide :) For those who've owned both, which…
My Switch 2 doesnt recognise my new 512 GB microSD: this happened since i took teh card out to use in a PC, i dont have anything importnat on it yet, but i wanna know if its the card or teh console before i buy something else. any tips? Im not in a rush, but…
ugh. settings menus are getting so complicated. i always turn off depth of field, but beyond that Im guessing. on a PC that runs on a potato, which settings are worth lowering for a cleaner image, and which ones are worth keeping high? Also curious if aynone…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts an online card game has been stuck on update failed for two days. It always stops at 99% and shows: i restarted the PC and teh router and logged out and back in to the publisher's laucnher... nothing changes, is…
Hot take incoming: i prefer remasters to remakes. Give me the PS1 era original with higher resolution and a stable frame rate and Im happy. When a team changed the camera, it becomes a different game wearing a familiar name. That said, i know a lot of ppl…
i spent the whole weekend building the perfect a farming sim setup with 60 mods... started it up, and it crashes on teh main menu: no useful error message, just straight to desktop 😭 i sorted with the mod manager's auto sort but nothing changed, i'm close…
im literally losing my mind here everything was fine until i added one more mod. now a post apocalyptic RPG crashes when entering one city: removing that mod didnt fix it, which makes no sense to me. I have about 150 mods running. whats teh proper…
a survival game kept freezing every few seconds, so i alt tabbed mid stutter and opened Task Manager. this is what i saw: Disk pinned at 100%. The game is on an external USB drive. CPU and GPU are nearly idle while it happens. Is my drive dying, or is…
Weird one. My Xbox Series X works offline, but online sign in fails after moving teh console to another room with this: details say 0x80a40019. I'm on a new rouetr... my sibling's profile on teh same console also struggles, sooo I don't think it's my…
okay, Im worried. my original Switch worked fine with my cheap no name 1 TB card until after i moved games from my old console 🤦 now: The card shows up fine on my laptop, at least the folders do. I havent formatted anything yet. What should I check before I…
my team keeps asking why i'm not talking in an MMO raid. the problem: my mic works for one second then cuts. my laptop speakers and mic works perfectly in Discord and in Windows' sound settings. i also noticed this in Device Manager: Ive toggled every voice…
I bought my Switch OLED thinking Id play on the TV most of teh time. Turns out I play almost exclusively on the train. Games like platformers just feel cosier on a small screen. The dock is basically a charging station now. Is this a common thing, or am I…
I spent teh whole weekend building the pefrect a farming sim setup with just 12 mods. Started it up, and it crashes on the main menu: no useful error message, just straight to desktop... i sorted with teh mod managers auto sort but nothing changed, im close…
ugh. nostalgia trip gone wrong. Installing a classic strategy game from the original CD on Windows 10: the disc reads fine and i can see the files, but teh setup program wont run. is it the disc, the installer, or Windows? I'm comfortable with a bit of…
Weird one 👍 My Xbox Series S in a dorm works offline, but online sign in fails every morning with this: details say 0x80a40019, im on a mesh network, my siblings profile on the same console also struggles, so i dont think its my account, where should i…
ok so im playing an open world adventure on my Switch Lite and the left stick 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 its clealry not centred: ive had these…
this is dirving me up the wall. a big budget action game runs beautifully on my RTX 3080 until right after loading a save, then black screen, then the crash dialog: Ive reinstalled the driver, verified game files and even turned off my overlay apps.…
