I wish I had a console for this reasons instead of a computer

PC playing is really great. You will get access to so many games, there are countless different shops from which you can get your games, so many options to adapt the games themselves and your game experience. It's like a paradise for those who want more freedom.

But this freedom comes with a lot of responsibility. PC playing is not for a weak heart. When everything works, you feel unstoppable and play the latest games for max settings with a diverse modes. And if it doesn't work, you will think “Why didn't I just get a console?”

10

Put it together

It is great that there are so many pieces. I love it, really.

Building a computer is a bit like a lego. You have all the pieces, you know it fits together and what it should look like, it will only take time to get there. With the exception of the LEGO, many parts of the PC are incredibly fragile and will not simply work unless they are placed in the right place.

Can my computer customize the graphics card so large? Should my sticks go to alternate slots or next to each other? How should my fans face? It's a trial by fire. See the manual as much as possible, but sometimes you have to learn what a piece actually gives to the right.

9

Drivers

Yes, more than just a graphics card

I started the game several times and wondered why it just didn't work. I think I played yesterday and it was okay, so what changed? It turned out that they were my drivers. Sure, I'll just update them quickly, everything should be fine. Oh, now my driver doesn't work. Ugh.

When you remember that drivers are a thing, you usually just think about graphic controls. It will fix most of the problems, but not all of them. Sometimes you have to find your Bluetooth drivers, drivers drivers, audio controls. Sometimes your chipset drivers can also be outdated. And you prefer to find where to find the most modern.

8

Can my computer actually run it?

Specifications are more instructions than a request

As for the production of games, it is generally a little easier for consoles. You know the exact hardware you work with, you have a real console manufacturer with you, and you know that these specifications don't have a way to change. PC developers work more in specifications rather than accurate.

I have a nice and modest RTX 4060. I see something requires RTX 2080. Hm, my graphics card is newer but has less vram than an older card. Can I run it? Oh, my processor is much better than what is required, even if it helps to increase where I could be smaller, or is it just excess energy? A lot of time is just an attempt and a mistake and why you should always try a demo before you buy the whole game.

7

What do all these settings mean?

You'd rather wipe your shortcuts

With the consoles you tend to gain more curatorial experience. The way the game looks and plays is mostly predetermined for you. This is the advantage of set hardware, so you don't have to worry about any other settings. They will not even exist. Surrounding occlusion, anti -aliasing? He's not worried about it.

Are you on a PC? Do you know what DLSS is? Frame gene? Fidelity FX? The difference between the reconstruction of the beam monitoring and the beam? Scaling of resolution? Then there are even graphics settings on the entire PC that exist outside the games. Sometimes these settings go together, sometimes not. Keep your browser's open card and see this site as a dictionary.

6

Hackers for multiplayer

Freedom of PC, Hogwarts and everything

One of the great joy of PC games is the ability to get your game to look and play as you want. I used a large number of Skyrim and Minecraft modes to make these games basically a completely different experience. Freedom, which is present only on PC. However, this may exist.

And they would be all hackers and cheaters. This is not an exclusive problem for a PC, nor in some of the most active multiplayer games is not a huge problem. But if you want to play a great game that is simply not monitored very well, you will have to fight lobby full of fraudsters who are not for a fair game. And because the PC is so easy to modify, you don't really have the means to fight it.

5

So. Many. Cables

Who knew you need more than HDMI and strength?

I remember when I got PSVR2 and was shocked by the fact that the whole headset could work by connecting only one cable to the PS5. Sure, PSVR2 itself is not well supported, but it is a really impressive piece of set. Then I decided to get the PSVR2 for PC to get it more and the number of cables grew exponentially.

In fact, if you do not rely on Bluetooth Dongles, you will have cables everywhere. Only when I got a table with built -in cable management, did I realize how many were. If you do not care about them, they will weigh and frayed, and it is very difficult to move or replace in the future. Please take the time to arrange cables before it becomes a problem.

4

Compilation of Shader

Why is it whenever I don't have time?

To be too technical with all this, but shaders are in short instructions for GPUs on how to portray complex graphics. For incredibly detailed games, it is necessary for your GPU to render the game properly. That's why you don't see it very often for older games, but it's basically a necessity for modern games.

Because shaders are instructions for GPUs, they need to be assembled in advance, because the PC game cannot guarantee what you have GPUs. And that is why after each driver update, you also need to compile these shaders if your GPU does not process them in the same way. Since the consoles have set hardware, these shaders are often assembled, which will save you the effort to spend the evening watching shaders of compilations when you start the game.

3

DRM and its many invasive forms

No, I don't need a built-in anti-cheat on my computer

This is not a problem that is present only on the PC, although it is the one that is most perceived on the platform. DRM, or management of digital rights, is the Bane of most modern games. Its goal is to force games to check online so that your license can be verified, as well as blocking certain modifications of the game. As such, the DRM is quite prevailing in online games, even if it crawls into a lot of single player games.

Where it becomes a bigger problem, the anti-cheat is at the core level. This will be injected to the deepest level of your computer and allows it to functionally do what it wants to cancel cheating. But because of this unlimited approach, the system can also interfere with the unnecessary extent, so games are much worse than they should remove without an easy way to remove such a system.

2

Just broken pc games

How new and old

While the PC can offer you some incredible experiences that are extremely overcoming what is possible on the current generation of consoles, it is also harder for them to develop. The developer can never guarantee what specifications you have and what functions they have, which means that PC will generally always be a bit more unstable.

However, this extends only modern games. It is almost impossible to fully demonstrate something. Suddenly archaic games that should be possible so that brutal power simply does not work. Memory leaks occurs because the game does not know how to interact with more advanced hardware or some hardware function on which it relied on which it no longer exists.

1

He never knew what was broken

Is it my fault or something else?

The worst aspect of playing games on the PC is not undeniably knowing what is happening. If your entire computer collapses and encounter a blue screen, you get at least a blue error code. When your game is stuttering or graphics flashes, or suddenly become slow, sometimes there is no way to get to know a real problem.

Maybe the driver is outdated. Or your processor is defective. Or maybe the game is just a mistake. I recently had a problem in a game where it would only crash when loading into certain areas, but not always. Nothing at my end has changed, nor stand -up of the game. So it was Windows update, or has any unclear background detail changed? Maybe I never know.