are there less troubles these days

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in my quest to get back into PC gaming i've been asking a few questions
in various sections of the forums the last few weeks regarding, hardware, graphics ect.
thanks to the members here i've been brought up to speed.

when i eventualy take the plunge i shall be using an Nvidia GPU.
my GPU choice isnt up for debate. probably be going for a GTX 460
and using Windows 7 64bit.

in "general" what are games like to get running these days?
i remember some years ago a lot of issues with games bombing back to the desktop and freezing ect.
i dont mind the occassional issue as thats just life.

so basicaly is gaming more problematic than it used to be or less ?
 
Generally I dont have as many problems as what I used to. I remember having to add certain commands in execution lines to get games to run, to have to manually disable x-fire/sli for certain games to work etc, now I don't have to google a game to find possible fixes to make it run before I play them.

Most games now just work, some work better on one or the other brand of GPU. I'm having some niggles with ATI (or AMD now) as some of their drivers are crap and I'm having memory leaks and other problems on certain games but they are relatively far and few between.
 
movingtables said:
in "general" what are games like to get running these days?
i remember some years ago a lot of issues with games bombing back to the desktop and freezing ect.
i dont mind the occassional issue as thats just life.

so basicaly is gaming more problematic than it used to be or less ?
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Personally I never remember it being problematic, for at least 16 years, I would put any problems you had down to your set up, pc gaming in general is not "problematic".
Can't remember the last time I had running issues with multiple games, the last was ARMA2:OA on it's latest patch 2 weeks ago, and force unleashes crashing to desktop once around the same time.
 
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ChrisJSY said:
Personally I never remember it being problematic, for at least 16 years, I would put any problems you had down to your set up, pc gaming in general is not "problematic".
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Bioshock (broken DRM, crashes to desktop and audio issues for many), Stalker (bug ridden at launch) and Crysis (game breaking bugs) say hi!

To the op: It's still got its issues, but no more than it had 10 years ago.
 
Streeteh said:
Bioshock (broken DRM, crashes to desktop and audio issues for many), Stalker (bug ridden at launch) and Crysis (game breaking bugs) say hi!

To the op: It's still got its issues, but no more than it had 10 years ago.
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Bioshock worked for me from day 1, Crysis was alright as I had a top end system at the time, stalker I agree, it ran badly but that was pretty much it, I didn't crash or encounter any noticeable bugs but it ran badly.

That's the thing though, one persons troubles can make it look like gaming is generally a ball-ache but ones like mine make it seems questionable to why it's ever brought up ;)
 
Streeteh said:
Bioshock (broken DRM, crashes to desktop and audio issues for many), Stalker (bug ridden at launch) and Crysis (game breaking bugs) say hi!

To the op: It's still got its issues, but no more than it had 10 years ago.
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True but would say these days it more bugs and glicthes than crashes and getting things running.
 
ChrisJSY said:
That's the thing though, one persons troubles can make it look like gaming is generally a ball-ache but ones like mine make it seems questionable to why it's ever brought up ;)
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Thing is, it's not just 'one persons troubles', it was thousands, even tens of thousands. I'm not going to bother listing the issues but they were many and unavoidable in some cases, it wasn't just a case of poor choice of drivers or hardware, i'm also not talking about performance, i'm talking about actual game affecting bugs.
 
Anyone remember swing v tie fighter and trying to allocate enough memory editing files to get it to run and having to carefully watch your memory usage those were problematic modern games just work and when they don't are easily fixed
 
Little change I'd say, probably slightly better in that drivers are better than they used to be, there seems to be much fewer issues with openGL gamma etc.

Obviously the downside is that some older games have trouble with widescreen resolutions or compatibility with 64bit windows, but the latter is pretty rare.

It depends how far back you are looking really, if you are thinking of more than 10 years ago (DOS/Win9x era) then things have definitely improved.
 
Oxy said:
I have never under understood how people can have all these "problems". Simply install the game, double click the launch icon, job done...
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Not only this, but things like GFWL are also not as bad as people make them out to be. The only problem I get is the occasional CTD, but it happens so infrequently that it's not really an issue.
 
I think this depends on what you play and how often you update your graphics drivers.

I generally don't play the latest games, and only update drivers when they fix something that is broken, e.g. I was forced to update when they released a patch for portal recently. I don't recall having any major issues with games in the last few years.
 
I built this rig around a year ago. I have played around 20 new and slightly older games on it. The only problem I had was with Fallout3 where I had to edit the ini file to stop the game crashing. Everything else has run absolutely fine.

I find PC's much less problematic than say 10 years ago, (touch wood, don't want to jynx myself!!).

It can be a bit more problematic if you want to play older games. I decided to play the Myst series through from the start and Myst 3 Exile was a bitch to get running. New games though and I think you will be safe.
 
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