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SvennoJ on 11 November 2017
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BasilZero said:
Replicant said:

To answer the OP, I choose to play on my consoles more often than on my PC, simply because I'm reaching the goal faster which is to sit back in my couch and have fun. My time is limited. I don't want to waste it on not having fun.

 

As Peter Tran puts it:

Console:
1. Buy game
2. Put game in
3. Play game

PC:
1. Check to see if your hardware will be up to it
2. Buy the game
3. Put the game in
4. Find out that the disc has no data on it
5. Download and install the game through some DRM software
6. Run the game
7. Game crashes on loading of the main menu
8. Spend a few hours on the internet to figure out why
9. Figure out that it's a specific issue with a certain program you have
10. Uninstall that program
11. Run the game
12. Configure all your graphical settings to make sure it runs well
13. Study the controls and configure the keyboard
14. Start the game
15. Game breaks
16. Spend a few hours on the internet to figure out why
17. Find out that it's a bad port
18. Wait for a patch
19. One week later install patch
20. Play game
21. Find out it's horribly optimized
22. Turn down graphics settings to minimum
23. Play game locked at console settings anyway

No idea who Peter Tran is...but this would have been true if it was 2005 lol.

 

For me right now its...

Console

1. Buy Game (Digital through DD store or physical through store)
2. Put game in/download game
3. Download updates
4. Install Updates
5. Play game

PC
1. Buy game (digitally only)
2. Download game (Includes all updates)
3. Settings are autoconfigured but game gives you a option to customize settings if needed, otherwise click on "Continue".
4. Play game

2005? I had that this year with Ori and the blind forest definitive edition on Steam.

Sure it downloaded all the updates straight away
My laptop far exceeds minimum specs, however with the default settings it ran like crap
I lowered the settings, still kept getting bad drops and sound cutting out
Settled on minimum specs, playable, but still hard drops in fps during fights making it hard to play.
Since my laptop has 2 gpus, I tried to find out whether it was maybe using integrated graphics instead of the GeForce card, seems it was using the GeForce.
My laptop is 2 years old and the gpu gets pretty hot, maybe that is the cause, dunno, no warnings or anything anywhere.
Downloaded new drivers for the NVidea Geforce experience didn't help. Except now Spin tires ran like crap as well :/ Used to run at 60fps... (could have been a game update too)
Besides all that I use a DS4 with Steam, however the game expects an Xbox controller,  prompts were all wrong and some buttons didn't work. I had to download another program to configure the DS4 to pretend to be an Xbox controller. Confusion stayed with button prompts.
I gave up after 111 minutes according to Steam, haven't touched it since.

Instead I played Infinifactory on my laptop though remote play from the ps4. No performance drops, no hassle., can freely switch between tv and laptop to tinker away at it when some time was available yet not the tv. Correct button prompts, gameplay recording not effecting the game.


Most of my encounters with PC gaming nowadays is through my kids, They play Minecraft on it and always want to try out mods they've seen on You tube. Fuck mod versions, minecraft versions, forge versions, java settings, random crashes, crippling slowdown, incompatibility between mods. I spend more time trying to get the mods to run and play nice together than my kids actually play with them. 10-15 minutes later they're bored and look for the next mod.