PC Gaming vs Console Gaming

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SvennoJ said:

d21lewis said:
I only glanced at the op. I'm not a pc gamer but--why can't you use a TV as a monitor? I have a PC and a laptop connected to different TVs using VGA cables. They look great!

It's a bit fiddly. PC normally doesn't take overscan areas into account. I lose half of the task bar on my projector as I have it calibrated for TV and the image is not a perfect rectangle. My PC also gets 'confused' when I temporariliy change inputs, switching the desktop to a different resolution when hdmi loses focus which tends to crash certain games.

Besides that it's just not comfortable playing civilization type games on tv. They're not comfortable on console either, yet if you're going to game on PC, why ignore the genres that work best behind a desk.

It can be an extra though, not essential. You can always move your tv onto a desk, or put a desk in front of the tv. (If you live alone...)

If your graphics card is having issues going back and forth between monitors and resolutions it could be time to google the name of it and best driver for multi monitor displays, could be a simple task of going with a slightly older driver. Alternatively upgrade your OS HDD to an SSD and if you run into issues after changing display output just restart the PC after you change screen you're using, from an SSD a reboot takes about 15-20 secs and it'll iron out and display issues from the other output. Hopefully anyways.