TWRoO said:
Yesterday I opened Steam for the first time in about a month as I wasnted to screenshot Portal for VGC Most Wanted. I had to wait 10 minutes for Steam to update, then a further 10 minutes for Portal to update. Had I not been online it might have done it without needing to update, but who is likely to be offline nowadays unless there was a power cut or something. Now this does highlight an advantage of PC gaming in that I was able to get my own screenshot easily without extra kit, however it took long enough, print screen it seems just records black if you use it for a full screen application, and exiting it crashed the game (running it with Photoshop open at the same time meant an atrocious framerate while playing too) I managed to get it though by restarting and playing the game in a window. Including the playing time to get to the bit I wanted (boss fight with GlaDOS) it took me almost 50 minutes to get a screenshot. |
I've been offline for an entire week now, and playing King's Bounty.
Anyway, the problems you had with crashing happens when you're using a resource-heavy program like Photoshop while playing a PC game, especially if you PC isn't good. Why didn't you just use Paint?
I've been playing King's Bounty and had Firefox opened all week, and King's Bounty never crashed on me. The problem you had was because your PC wasn't powerful enough.
As for the updates, they're amazing. Steam keeps improving with those updates, and games too. Why wouldn't you want updates? Especially since it only took you 20 minutes to download a month's worth of updates :
