PC Gaming
Launchers, settings, controllers and the PC gaming life.
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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.…
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 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…
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…
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…
im lsoing my mind with this update. the publishers launcher says it failed, retry, fails again at the verifying step: the game folder is on a second SSD. other games on the same drive update fine. what makes this one different? Id really prefer not to delete…
little rant: why is depth of field on by default in sooo many games? its the first thing i turn off. on an older GPU, Im also hunting for better battery life. whats your settings routine? id love to build a little checklist for new games from this thread,…
help!! has anyone else had problems since the newest driver? For me, my main multiplayer game crashes during big fights: I'm on a RTX 4070. Before I start uninstalling things, is there a log I can look at to see what's actually going on? any routine you…
Settings menus are getting so complicated. I always turn off motion blur, but beyond that Im guessing. On a mid range PC, which settings are worth lowering for more FPS, and which ones are worth keeping high? also curious if anyone actually likes the…
ok weird one just added a secnod SSD cuz my system drive is almost full, mostly from games... my internet is slow, sooo redownloading a few hundred gigabytes is not smth I wanna do. is it safe to just cut and paste the…
ok so i finally had a free evening, booted up a racing sim and got maybe right after loading a save before teh screen froze, the audio buzzed for a second and then this popped up: The log says DXGI ERROR DEVICE REMOVED. My RX 6700 XT is not even a year old.…
ok weird one everything worked fine until on a fresh Windows install. Now a city builder and a couple of other games just throw this at me: The code execution cannot proceed cuz MSVCP140.dll was not found. Reinstalling the game did nothing... i feel like Im…
so annoyed rn nostalgia trip gone wrong... installing a 2000s racing game from the original CD on a brand new PC: 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…
hmmmm ok nostalgia trip gone wrong. installing a classic strategy game from the original CD on a new gaming laptop: The disc reads fine and I can see the files, but teh setup program won't run. Is it the disc, the installer, or Windows? im comfortable with a…
i buoght an indie roguelike on sale, was super excited, double clicked it and got this: It says MSVCP140 1.dll is missing. This is after moving my library to a new drive, so maybe something didn't get installed? A quick search shows a million sketchy sites…
Please help. My self built PC cant finish a Windows update: and an MMO won't start without virtualization based security. I'm not super technical. where do I begin? any step by step help is appreciated. ill report back with the results of whatever you…
im literally losing my mind here quick background: new build, RTX 3080, everything stock. Two days ago a big budget action game started crashing right after loading a save with this: event Viewer shows a display driver error right at teh same timestamp. I'm…
so annoyed rn honest qusetion for people whove been trhough this. Im running a six core CPU from a few genreations ago paired with an RX 5600 XT. Games feel sluggish, but i cant tell which part is the problem. My target is 1080p ultra. Did you ever upgrade…
ugh. my friends are waiting in teh lobby and i literally cannot join, a tactical team shooter says the anti cheat srevice failed to start, and i got this: it mentions a driver being incompatible with the anti cheat. I have never used a cheat in my life. I…
