Danman27 said:
Yes plugging in two things is a lot harder than pluggin in two thi- Hey wait! No it's just as easy. |
My experience:
Console
- Unplug power and hdmi (have them in both locations) just take the console out the AV cabinet
- Bring it in the room, plug in power cable and hdmi cable, done.
PC
- Wait for PC to shut down, if unlucky windows wants to finish installing updates first
- Unplug all the cables behind the desk (joystick, external hdd, lan, mouse, keyboard, card reader, camera, monitor, sound, power)
- Bring it in the room, plug in power cable, hdmi cable, lan cable
- Bring keyboard and mouse with usb extension cables and put them on a carboard box next to the couch.
- Power up, if unlucky windows needs to process recently installed updates, wait until windows is actually finished powering up and becomes responsive.
- Plug in controller with another usb extension cable, launch motioninjoy.
- Log in to Steam
That's just all the steps if games and controls are already configured correctly. Some need driver updates, some need changes in the ini files to enable correct controller support, some need key bindings set up.
Some games still need the keyboard and/or mouse next to controller for certain functions, always akward to do on the couch.
Windows doesn't care about overscan, I've set my projector to overlap the black borders slightly to get rid of edge noise in tv programs, results in half the start bar missing for example.
My PC only supports stereo over HDMI. My amp doesn't have separate analog inputs to get surround sound from the sound card, so I'm stuck with stereo for pc games.
It's still worth it, playing Fract OSC on the projector was awesome. Yet had it been available for consoles I would have bought the console version without thinking twice about it. Next week I'm going to give Tropico 5 a whirl on ps4, no more balancing keyboard and mouse on my lap.
