Gaming
Games and the machines and communities around them.
ok so i put my ROG Ally to sleep by pressing power mid game, and when i picked it up later it showed this: it lost 10% per hour asleep... that makes it hard to rely on as a grab and go device. is this normal for handhelds, or is something keeping it awake??…
help!! ive been playing competitive shooters for years, but voice chat has become so stressful that I started only playing with a group. it helps, but I lose the fun of teamwork. as one of the women gamers, Id love to hear how otehrs handle this. I dont…
i was finally getting somewhere in a soluslike on my launch model PS5, and then right after the title screen the screen froze for a second and dumepd me back to the home screen with this: CE 108255 1 ;) Every single time now. i've restarted the console, i've…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts serious question: how do u find teammates who communicate without being toxic? i tried only playing with a group in battle royales and it helped a bit, but it feels like a workaround rather than a solution. Id love to…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts my third party wireless controller keeps disconnecting from my Xbox One X when i sit on teh couch. the game pauses and i get this: i put in fresh batteries, i re paired it with teh sync butotn, and i even moved closer to…
so annoyed rn my second hand Switch used to work fine docked. Now on my new 4K TV: The dock light turns on, teh console charges, but no pictrue. Im using the dock from a friend lol Ive unplugged everything once and plugged it back in. Is there a reset for…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts ive rented servers for a block building sandbox before and it worked fine, but Im tempted to self host on an old gaming PC for a community of 30.. 🔥 is it worth the effort, or will i spend more time fixing things than…
help!! ive only ever palyed on console, but Im curious about PC. i play big single player games and have a student budget. Is it worth switching, or is the console better for me? Bonus question: does anyone else feel like day one patcehs are a lifestyle?…
so annoyed rn okay, I need a sanity check. Day one game, a big day one patch to download, I set it before bed like a responsible adult. This morning: Nothing moved. Not one byte. The PS5 Digital Edition was definitely in rest mode, the orange light was on.…
every year i have the same debate with myself... this year i have a mid range budget and i play alot of big single player games... friends on PC say its the only way, firends on console say it just works. and i miss when games fit on one disc... whats your…
so annoyed rn i'm tearing my hair out. My a survival crafting game server on my old desktop works locally, but my friends' server list shows nothing. i forwarded TCP 25565 and still got this on the host when i checekd teh network: Any ideas before i give up…
guys pls help something is very wrong with my used RTX 3080. Games show colroed checkerboard squares after a driver upadte: the desktop looks fine. it only appears under load. ive already reinstalled the driver. whats the right order of tests before I panic?…
ok weird one hot take incoming: frame generation is amazing for some games and terrible for others. Ive been testing it in competitive shooters starting from around 60 FPS, and teh results are mixed. Curious where you all land on this. For some games it felt…
Please help. My prebuilt PC cant finish a Windows update: And a fighting game wont start without TPM 2.0 enabled. Im not super techniacl. Where do i begin?? Any step by step help is appreciated. Ill report back with teh results of whatever you suggest. i…
My Switch OLED doesnt recognise my new 512 GB microSD: This happened after i moved games from my old conosle. i dont have anything important on it yet, but i wanna know if its teh card or the console before i buy something else. Any tips? im not in a rush,…
help!! i put a game i borrwoed from a friend into my PS5 Slim with the disc drive and got this instead of the game: the drive was making no sound at all for a few seconds before teh error came up. I took teh disc out, checked it under the light, and it looks…
Need help. My Switch Lite keeps failing to connect to voice chat in a game: The connection test passes sometimes and fails other times. Im on home Wi Fi. Ive restarted the router and the console. Is there a setting Im missing, or is this a known issue? Ive…
hot take incoming: I prefer remasters to remakes. give me teh PS2 era original with higher resolution and a satble frame rate and I'm happy. when a team changed the camera, it becomes a different game wearing a familiar name. that said, I know a lot of ppl…
ugh. first time hosting a a co op shotoer server. Everything installed fine on a home server, ports forwarded (UDP 7777), but online checkers say the port is closed. Then teh network status shoewd this: is there anything I might have overlooked? renting a…
ok so my friends are waiting in the lobby and I literally cannot join, an online looter shooter wont get past the launcher, 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 an old…
guys pls help genuine question: how do you decide whether to buy at launch? for big open world games, i feel like i miss out on the community buzz if i wait, but day one an update that added performance mode stories are getting more common, is there a rule…
ive been fighting Windows for two evenings... apparently an MMO needs the latest Windows update, so I tried updating: the update downloads, installs, restarts, and then rolls back. my prebuilt PC has plenty of space. whats the next thing to try? ive tried…
ok weird one i put a brand new game disc into my PS5 Pro with the add on drive and got this instead of the game: the drive was making a clicking sound for a few seconds before teh error came up. i took the disc out, checked it under the light, and it looks…
im literally losing my mind here first time seeing this one. Setup: a recent remake, RX 6600, frame generation enabled. After a while: textures also got blurry and stuttery for a minute before the crash, id love to understand whats going on before I just…
I wanted a cozy controller evening with a sports game, but my DualSense just doesnt work in it. Its connected through Bluetooth, Windows sees it, the light is on, and I even got this: in game, nothing. not a single button... keyboard works fine... what am i…
