How big of an issue would you say troubleshooting is in PC gaming?

How big of an issue would you say troubleshooting is in PC gaming?

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Yes

Inevitable if you're playing small niche stuff or big AAA stuff. Its just part of the experience.

If its hardware its godawful. If its software usually theres a recipe to follow and thats it.

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You will spend time troubleshooting to some degree there is no way around it.

>Its just part of the experience.
do PC fats really just accept this like cucks? kek

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Unless you are modding the hell out of a game, not much. 99% of everything works out of the box and the rest works in compatibility mode.

Kinda, I remember when RE2 remake first came out and it would just boot up to a black screen and then crash with no error message.
Took me half an hour scouring the steam community page to see if anyone else had the same problem. Apparently I had to go into a config file and manually disable some setting.
This sort of thing isn't too common, but it's common enough that you basically have to expect it (and oftentimes if an issue is big enough then going into config file won't fix it and you have to wait for a fan-made patch because devs don't typically give a shit about pc)

I rarely have problems with games. If I do it's usually some shit on Origin because EA games never work proper and have the weirdest bugs and crashes.

it's just as hard as making sure your car doesn't stop working out of nowhere.
just keep it in check and you won't have any troubles with it.

For the record I have much more problems with Win10 because its trash than with games. Just with normal daily use of Win10 I come across countless bugs and wonky shit.

its only an issue when trying to run something on lower than recommended hardware, running something that is not a full release or beta/dev build, running a very old game, or installing mods.

all of which you cannot do except in very rare cases on console. so.

If you're not pirating stuffs it should be plug and play.

This is true as well.

nonzero, but easy if your brain works and you can use a search engine.

Honestly it really depends on how much of a fuck the devs give.

Game optimization tiers:
Ark: Ark, survival evolved
Shit: Rust, RDR2
Bad: NMS, TW:WH2, Subnautica
Eh: WoW, most other major titles
Actually good: DOOM/Eternal, Witcher 3.

Depends on how retarded you are.

It's unavoidable, but it's not very common. Put it this way, it's not enough to make me give up 60+FPS, 4K, cheap games, mods, and emulation.

You will always be tinkering with your PC.

If you just wanna play modern games?
Not much
If you're playing anything old or modding?
Then expect some trouble shooting.

RE3 is amazingly well optimized

really love how RDR2 looks like completely blurred dogshit with TAA but MSAA kills frames

The industry has and always will cater towards consoles. Sad reality.

Pretty big deal. It's very luck dependent too. Sometimes the issue is piss easy to fix and the first google result works. Sometimes no matter what you do shit just won't work and you can't do anything about it.

You can somehow mitigate this by sticking to steam shit and waiting 6 months for games to be patched then playing in 1080p/60. But the further you want to take advantage of PC, like with mods, or simply using unconventional resolutions or framerates the more bullshit you have you have to go through. And don't even get me started on emulation or trying to play older early 2000s PC games.

Also it's not really troubleshooting but you have to waste time trying different setting combinations to get the best balance between performance/visuals. Makes you want to murder the people who thought rebooting the game to change a tiny texture quality setting is acceptable.

Still worth it for those rare moments when everything finally works as you want it to.

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This. 99% of my fiddling with old games were from games that came out more than 15 years ago.

Most issues are easily fixed but if the issue is for something older or esoteric you're in for a real wild fucking ride.

Took me like six hours to install aa2 to a playable state back in the day, now it's just one click and you're done.

AoE2 DE: wouldn't run when I first bought it and it turned out I was missing a dll and it wouldn't tell me why. Twenty minutes of google issues until I fixed it.

>consolefag most of childhood
>switch to pcfag most of teens/young adulthood
>like plugNplay of console, hate untweakability
>like tweakability of PC, hate troubleshooting
>now no matter which I play, I can't not focus on the negatives anymore
>mfw I don't like videogames anymore
I should have just stuck with one and maintained bliss of ignorance

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Most of all is that on console, a lot of your favourite games will forever be stuck at whatever res/framerate they released at, or just be borderline unplayable on the new platform.

For example, as much as I love Persona 5, I can never bring myself to make PS my primary platform due to the fact that it'll always be at a fake 4K and 30FPS.

This desu. Microsoi's desire to automate and streamline everything can be a pain in the ass.

Using windows and i haven't had to troubleshoot a game in probably 8 years? Idk maybe i'm just lucky.

Holy shit this. I wish we could just have an OS that doesn't completely hold our hands, and yet doesn't need hours of tweaking to get to an acceptable standard. Windows 10 is literally the reason for any negative of PC gaming.

I wish they'd just let you buy Windows 7 and run everything on that still.
Most of the shit they change just makes things less convenient and perform worse.

You kind of have to pick one and stick to it. 30fps becomes surprisingly playable when you get accustomed to it and can even unironically make 60 feel "soapy".

A viable alternative is go full retrogamer idort. Makes you appreciate games in regards to their hardware. Playing early 360 feels like time traveling, the games are preserved in how they looked and played.

Whenever I go to play Persona 5 for a bit, I adjust to 30FPS just fine, but when I come back to my PC and boot up a game at 144FPS, it feels so damn good.

That soapy shit only happens when watching a video at high framerates with perfect frametimes,