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2 hours ago, bradigor said:

Hello, is it safe to come in?

 

I did some work for someone recently and instead of money payment, due to me being on Universal Credit, they instead gave me their 'old' gaming PC. 

I think I did ok out of it. 

 

 

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Assuming that resolution is your monitor I don't think there is anything you're not going to be able to run and crank pretty damn high.

 

Welcome!

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2 hours ago, earlymodernsteve said:

https://www.greenmangaming.com/games/droplitz/

 

£7.95 here. GMG are a proper legit store.

 

Been Out of Stock there for the last 5 or so years :( 
 

1 hour ago, Dudley said:

 

 

Assuming that resolution is your monitor I don't think there is anything you're not going to be able to run and crank pretty damn high.

 

Welcome!

 

Yeah, I found out too the monitor can do 75Hz too. 

Stuck Forza Horizon 4 on earlier and it run beautifully. I want to try Control at some point, again once funds allow. 

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So I decided to play Screamer on my cutting-edge PC because it always ran quite poorly when I owned it back in the day. I can't get my joypad to work and the speed isn't what I'd expect, but I can't work out how to access the files that are being mentioned on the message boards :(

I might just go back to Magic Arena :lol:

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1 hour ago, strider said:

So I decided to play Screamer on my cutting-edge PC because it always ran quite poorly when I owned it back in the day. I can't get my joypad to work and the speed isn't what I'd expect, but I can't work out how to access the files that are being mentioned on the message boards :(

I might just go back to Magic Arena :lol:


GOG or Steam version? Half of the problems when it comes to older PC games is that they end up being distributed with an older version of DOSBox that doesn't play nicely with newer operating systems, although GOG versions tend to be rejigged a little.

And then sometimes, you're just better off chucking the files into a completely different program to get a better experience, like throwing Quake WADs at Darkplaces for example. PCEm is also supposed to be fucking great for Voodoo/Voodoo2 and lower stuff.

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3 hours ago, Siri said:


GOG or Steam version? Half of the problems when it comes to older PC games is that they end up being distributed with an older version of DOSBox that doesn't play nicely with newer operating systems, although GOG versions tend to be rejigged a little.

And then sometimes, you're just better off chucking the files into a completely different program to get a better experience, like throwing Quake WADs at Darkplaces for example. PCEm is also supposed to be fucking great for Voodoo/Voodoo2 and lower stuff.

Playing it on GOG. Well I've stopped playing it as I was using the cursor keys. Still, managed to get two pages of work out of my adventure :lol:

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Still can't work out how to fit in my second HDD. Scared of breaking it inside. So using a Sata to USB 3 connector and making it external instead. 

I have it plugged directly into a USB 3 port, but the cable is pretty short, if I plugged it into my USB 3 hub instead, would it see a drop in read / write speed at all?

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17 minutes ago, bradigor said:

I have it plugged directly into a USB 3 port, but the cable is pretty short, if I plugged it into my USB 3 hub instead, would it see a drop in read / write speed at all?

No.

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7 hours ago, strider said:

Playing it on GOG. Well I've stopped playing it as I was using the cursor keys. Still, managed to get two pages of work out of my adventure :lol:

I've had a couple of issues with GOG games. Although they claim to be W10 compatible, they needed a bit of faffing out the gate. To be honest it wasn't that bad but definitely a little more work than the plug and play I'd imagined, what with them being on GOG.

 

One game for example, World Rally Fever, I had to choose one of several audio cards in the options, with each giving varying results. Then there was no response from my pad even when choosing the joystick option. Turns out that in the launcher there are extra little scripts sometimes. Stuff written by the community etc as workarounds. So I activated a couple, such as joystick support and gfx options and they got it working sweet.

 

Check for any workaround options in the game's launcher in GOG.

 

WRF is a pretty cool old school attempt at a kart game btw, gfx have a Powerdrift feel.

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Finally managed to get a few hours of Anno 1800.

 

Having never played one the very start was completely perplexing. The game didn’t pop up any instructions about that to click or do. After 10 minutes of literally nothing I was fuming and quit to restart. On the second try it actually instructed me to use right click to move.

 

The next two hours were much much more fun! Really enjoying the gameplay loop even if I{m struggling to get my finances positive. Having learnt a bit it might be time to start a second game

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I am enjoying my PC so far and it is comfortably putting my original PS4 to shame in the performance scales.  However, it is annoying to have to faff with so many launchers.  I don't mind having Steam and Epic launchers (not much on Origin for me).  However, it is annoying buying a game through Epic only to find out I have to also register for Uplay too.

 

Is there a way that Farcry 5 would launch from the Epic front end and open uplay rather than having it sat in my systray all the time?  Its the same with Valorant's anti-cheat thing too.

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Yep at one point earlier I was installing a few things and prepping to play Anno after a mission in Gear Tactics. I ended up with Xbox, Steam, Epic and Uplay running. What a fucking mess. None of it makes my life better. None of them offer what I’d really call a good experience. As someone who does enjoy the achievement loop along with stats like time played, having it scattered all over frustrates.

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11 minutes ago, 5R7 said:

yep, every company wants its own launcher, and yep, we have all over countless years expressed how fucking annoying it is. as they are all shit compared  to steam.

 

Try GOG Galaxy 2.0, you can use it to launch and collate games from each in one.

https://www.gogalaxy.com/en/

 


Even steam is a frustratingly bloated thing these days imo. Badges, cards, market place, profiles, activity, store, community pages, streaming. It all sort of has a place but it’s become quite messy to me.

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1 hour ago, 5R7 said:

yep, every company wants its own launcher, and yep, we have all over countless years expressed how fucking annoying it is. as they are all shit compared  to steam.

 

Try GOG Galaxy 2.0, you can use it to launch and collate games from each in one.

https://www.gogalaxy.com/en/

 

 

It should be noted that it will still open the host platform (so, Uplay will still launch in the Far Cry 5 example), so even Galaxy isn't actually doing anything to save system resources in that respect - you'll still have something in the system tray.

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I always launch Task Manager a couple of times throughout the day, just to kill off any unwanted shit, only takes a few seconds. I have start up as lean as possible and close any launcher after use. Probably a little unnecessary in these days of 32Gb of RAM, SSDs and many, many core CPUs but old habits die hard.

 

I have software from my motherboard vendor that supposedly optimizes my background programmes and processes for gaming, never tried it mind, do that myself with TM. Kill those launchers after use. Fucking hogs.

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It's worth periodically checking your Startup Apps in System Settings, just to make sure you're not trying to load anything you don't need in the background. The latest Windows update added Skype, and the various game launchers will auto-run given half the chance.

 

I've just joined the new PC club, as it's been eight years since I built my last one (barring graphics card upgrades). The previous machine is still sound as it's got a GTX 1080, but was starting to show its age with games which require a bit more heft from the CPU - AC Odyssey was noticably suffering from freezes and stutter even at 1080p and medium settings.

 

Anyway, I've gone from an i5-3570K with GTX 1080 to a Ryzen 3700X with RTX 2070 SUPER, tucked into a SFF case. The old machine has been donated to my wife for Sims 4 purposes. Everybody wins!

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I was using GOG Galaxy as a “launcher launcher” but in the end I found the best purpose for that was when I wasn’t sure what to play, so I could browse my library in one place. 
When it comes to launching games, I just use the required launcher and when I’m finished, make sure that launcher is closed. 
 

Steam, Origin, Epic, Twitch Prime, Ubisoft, Oculus... potentially Rockstar and Bethesda. What a nightmare! That’s more than the number of retro consoles I have?!

 

Edit: I forgot the Xbox beta app as well!

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