Important programs for PC gamers

Xelene · 31 Aug 2011 at 21:12

Essential application?: Half Life 2

QlimaxUK · 31 Aug 2011 at 22:52

jp_bl_68 said:
I think you mean "They're" and "they're". We all make mistakes.

bahh i knew i did something wrong there, but i was thinking it was between there/their so i went for 'there'

...i is nut gud wid gamma

Curunen · 31 Aug 2011 at 23:05

Steam and Fraps for me.

Reaper 392 · 31 Aug 2011 at 23:14

am i the only one who uses MSI afterburner to monitor their FPS, take screenshots and record gameplay?

Curunen · 31 Aug 2011 at 23:32

Reaper 392 said:
am i the only one who uses MSI afterburner to monitor their FPS, take screenshots and record gameplay?

I guess a lot of people do, from reading around.
I only use fraps because I happened to buy a license over 18 months ago, and then only really for screenshots and movies. Don't ever use the benchmarking, or bother with the fps counter much.

TheBrooder · 31 Aug 2011 at 23:35

I used to use a program that shut down all background processes and non essential stuff when gaming, no idea what it's called though.

Teaf · 31 Aug 2011 at 23:36

TheBrooder said:
I used to use a program that shut down all background processes and non essential stuff when gaming, no idea what it's called though.

Sounds like Game Booster

bigjimmyauk · 31 Aug 2011 at 23:36

I'm surprised nobody has said game save manager,

For me an invaluable tool for backing up all my saves from 1 easy to use program.

gropingmantis · 31 Aug 2011 at 23:48

bigjimmyauk said:
I'm surprised nobody has said game save manager,

For me an invaluable tool for backing up all my saves from 1 easy to use program.

Agreed. I wish Valve would put something like this in Steam for all games not just games with Steam Cloud. It is all very well being able to redownload and install all your games whenever you want but if you cant save your saves then its not that helpful.

HangTime · 1 Sep 2011 at 00:28

-MSI Afterburner: Overclocking and monitoring
-Mumble: Voice comms
-MIRC: Text chat
-Doodle (not strictly an app, as it's a website): Coordinating calendars with clanmates

Amnesia · 1 Sep 2011 at 00:54

gfwl...........worse piece of software that is needed by so many games.
it just wont die and go away.

GTRacer · 1 Sep 2011 at 01:02

Origin.

wakayoda · 1 Sep 2011 at 01:04

Steam rules all, the sooner other companies realise this the better!

Jasonst888 · 1 Sep 2011 at 01:08

should mention msi afterburner can cause bfbc2 to crash...if thats a game your gonna play you would be best to turn it off before you start.

Luv steam has gotten progressively better and less resource heavy, not a fan of origin...but its still young so we shall see! and need it for bf3!!!!!!!!

buchtis · 1 Sep 2011 at 01:15

These are the only things you need:

Steam
Mumble
MSI Afterburner

Tummy · 1 Sep 2011 at 01:56

The only application I really use is Steam. I have Skype too, but that's normally for just chit chat with friends.

Tempted to get Fraps and see about making some (bad) video's

bhavv · 1 Sep 2011 at 02:02

Theyre was once this time when I saw some chavs over their causing mischief. There all evil I tell you, evil chavs!

Squark · 1 Sep 2011 at 06:59

Troll fail bhavv

MeMeMeMe · 1 Sep 2011 at 21:58

I don't think any programs are essential, aside from the afiorementioned GameSave Manager.

If you have an ati/amd graphic card, RadeonPro is handy, though not essential. It allows you to save video game setting profiles for games (functionality that should be in the basic drivers), along with settings you can't set in the drivers.

Zietlogik · 13 Sep 2011 at 05:51

buchtis said:
These are the only things you need:

Steam
Mumble
MSI Afterburner

Are you able to have mumble and Afterburner working together? For some reason it will never let me start recording if I have any voice com program open (i have only tried vent and mumble though)