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dahuman on 23 July 2010
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TWRoO said:
shio said:
selnor said:

I have no interest in what any of that offers me. 

PC gaming doesnt offer me the most important aspect to me. Ease of use and jump in and play. And as long as Halo is not on PC at launch then I'll never consider it. 

I'm glad you like PC gaming. I dont.

Actually, it does offer that... ever heard of Steam?

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.

that happens with 360 and PS3 though, don't turn it on for months, and you turn it on, updates updates updates, that's the norm these days, I think the problem is with your hardware if you are crashing so I'd ask what video card you have, which driver version and what CPU you have, and I'd be happy to help. There shouldn't be any reason that it should take 50 minutes to get a screenshot when I can boot up my PC and starting streaming live in HD in under 5 minutes. feel free to send me a PM about PC issues, anybody really, I'd be happy to help for free since I'm nice, if I get to it anyways =P.