dcx4610
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It amazes me how often you hear people use the line 'I know what I am doing' and yet appear to have so many issues when attempting to use a PC to play video games. Is this just sort of trend I am seeing because I want to see it, or is there some substance behind it.
Coming from a developer perspective (desktop apps, not games, but still), these people who tend to have issues constantly are the ones that know enough to be dangerous. They usually change or tinker with various parts of their system thinking that are making 'improvements', when in reality they are just leaving a minefield of incorrectly configured or even broken system ready to rear its ugly head.
I am sure it is the platforms fault though. Somehow.
Since I used that line, I'll reply. I work in IT and I've been playing PC games since the 80s and have been building systems since the 90s as my evidence for I know what I'm doing.
I'm not tinkering with ini files or the registry to make a game run a certain way, I'm simply using the available settings for the games in the options. The same crashes I ran into on my games are the same crashes others have experienced on the same games. It just seems like programming has either gotten sloppy or you can blame GPU drivers for bugs. I also think the community plays a big role in fixing bugs. A game like World of Warcraft runs flawlessly because you have millions of players. If there is a bug, it gets fixed. When it's a smaller game, there's less outcry, less resources and lack of examples to resolve the issue.
I love PC games but it sometimes just doesn't feel worth the hassle, especially with the graphical quality the PS4 (sorry Xbone) is pushing.