Bloody pc gaming
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Having been an avid pc gamer for the last 35 years its all come to a head tonight. Recent purchases of fallout 4 and dirt rally through steam which dont work. Just bought a new graphics card. 4 gb memory that replaced my old radeon hd5750. Running with a amd 3.4 chip with 12 gb ram. Still doesn't work. I really bloody hate steam. Thinking of throwing pc out the window and going console gaming. Never had this much trouble before.
I really fukkin hate steam. God knows how they keep winning the best bloody platform of the year.
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I really fukkin hate steam. God knows how they keep winning the best bloody platform of the year.
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Yes, I think I've posted several rants about Steam here over the years. The most unnecessary and unreliable piece of software I have ever encountered. Buy disc, put in drive, play on own with no internet, no multiplayer: that's all I want. Worked well for years.
The evenings I've wasted resetting passwords and setting up new ids to log the problems I'm having with the other id. All with unfathomable captchas and oh no you've used that password before somewhere. So reset again ad infinitum to a new email address not the defunct one from 3 years ago when you last gave up. Total and utter sh*te. Pretty much resulted in me giving up gaming (probably no bad thing at my age).
However, I was at my nephews at Xmas and saw him playing Civ5. "Here, you have a go". Several unsocial hours later, "I want that"."It's on sale, the whole lot for £8". What, I'm in.
So tried yet again and so far so good.
In fact I shall go and fire it up now (hopefully)...see you at 3am.
The evenings I've wasted resetting passwords and setting up new ids to log the problems I'm having with the other id. All with unfathomable captchas and oh no you've used that password before somewhere. So reset again ad infinitum to a new email address not the defunct one from 3 years ago when you last gave up. Total and utter sh*te. Pretty much resulted in me giving up gaming (probably no bad thing at my age).
However, I was at my nephews at Xmas and saw him playing Civ5. "Here, you have a go". Several unsocial hours later, "I want that"."It's on sale, the whole lot for £8". What, I'm in.
So tried yet again and so far so good.
In fact I shall go and fire it up now (hopefully)...see you at 3am.
HairyBeast said:
Having been an avid pc gamer for the last 35 years its all come to a head tonight. Recent purchases of fallout 4 and dirt rally through steam which dont work. Just bought a new graphics card. 4 gb memory that replaced my old radeon hd5750. Running with a amd 3.4 chip with 12 gb ram. Still doesn't work. I really bloody hate steam. Thinking of throwing pc out the window and going console gaming. Never had this much trouble before.
I really fukkin hate steam. God knows how they keep winning the best bloody platform of the year.
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Firstly, if the games you've just bought don't work on your system, get a Steam Refund.I really fukkin hate steam. God knows how they keep winning the best bloody platform of the year.
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k fk fkity fk. Secondly, sort out your PC. Why any serious gamer is running AMD is beyond me. I've been Intel & nvidia on several gaming rigs over the past 15 years and never, ever had a conflict which prevents games from running.
Thirdly, when you have put together a decent Intel & nvidia PC, re-buy your games on Steam.
HTH
Avid pc user myself, have plenty of steam games and recently ive wished all my games were on CD, because then I actually own them. Steam has no competition to worry about because they have dominated the market which is why their customer support is near impossible to get hold of.
Not good.
Not good.
mp3manager said:
Secondly, sort out your PC. Why any serious gamer is running AMD is beyond me. I've been Intel & nvidia on several gaming rigs over the past 15 years and never, ever had a conflict which prevents games from running.
HTH
Money. HTH
Any pc you build with intel nvidia I can build a similar spec for £150 - £250 cheaper. Are intel and nvidia superior ?? CPU yes and GFX probably but you bloody pay for it. I am AMD for CPU and GFX and I have no issues with incompatibility and my rig plays all the latest releases just fine thank oyu very much., That is not the issue here, there is something else.
Also Which "amd 3.4 chip" are we talking about? Not all chips are created equal. A more detailed specs list would help to see what the issue is.
I've got something like 60 games on Steam and only one didn't work straightaway, which was HD Monkey Island. OP, do a bit of googling. Others will have had the same problem as you and fixed it.
I find the wishlist on Steam very useful as you can add a game to your wishlist and Steam will send you an email when it's on sale. Most of my games were bought on sale.
You can buy from GOG as an alternative to Steam.
I find the wishlist on Steam very useful as you can add a game to your wishlist and Steam will send you an email when it's on sale. Most of my games were bought on sale.
You can buy from GOG as an alternative to Steam.
AVV EM said:
Avid pc user myself, have plenty of steam games and recently ive wished all my games were on CD, because then I actually own them. Steam has no competition to worry about because they have dominated the market which is why their customer support is near impossible to get hold of.
Not good.
What do you mean by "actually own them"? You can easily backup games from Steam onto another drive or burn them onto a CD (although I doubt most stuff will fit, even on a DVD).Not good.
I've run into hardly any problems with Steam.
Monty Python said:
AVV EM said:
Avid pc user myself, have plenty of steam games and recently ive wished all my games were on CD, because then I actually own them. Steam has no competition to worry about because they have dominated the market which is why their customer support is near impossible to get hold of.
Not good.
What do you mean by "actually own them"? You can easily backup games from Steam onto another drive or burn them onto a CD (although I doubt most stuff will fit, even on a DVD).Not good.
I've run into hardly any problems with Steam.
They require steam authentication to launch. A lot of them require steam for matchmaking.
So when steam kicks the bucket everyone is left with a hard drive full of unusable games.
Steam also as the power to remove any games from your library. I had one removed once that was gifted to me as the person who gifted it obtained it illegally.
I don't think Steam will be going anywhere for a long time. In any case, you can set Steam to offline mode and play games without an internet connection. If Steam was to kick the bucket someone will come up with a patch to let you play the games.
If it's far into the future we will be able to play the current games on abandonware websites through out browser on our super duper broadband.
If it's far into the future we will be able to play the current games on abandonware websites through out browser on our super duper broadband.
OP.
Have you run cccleaner and reinstalled all your GPU drivers?
Additionally, verify your game files.
Games can have odd conflicts,for example on my system, mirrors edge would not start, this was cured by a BIOS update.
In 12 years or so of steam,I have only had one issue after an update, which was cured by a steam reinstall.
Be thankful it isn't G4WL
Have you run cccleaner and reinstalled all your GPU drivers?
Additionally, verify your game files.
Games can have odd conflicts,for example on my system, mirrors edge would not start, this was cured by a BIOS update.
In 12 years or so of steam,I have only had one issue after an update, which was cured by a steam reinstall.
Be thankful it isn't G4WL
J-D-Stagpump said:
Money.
Any pc you build with intel nvidia I can build a similar spec for £150 - £250 cheaper. Are intel and nvidia superior ?? CPU yes and GFX probably but you bloody pay for it. I am AMD for CPU and GFX and I have no issues with incompatibility and my rig plays all the latest releases just fine thank oyu very much., That is not the issue here, there is something else.
Examples? Haven't looked at things recently but didn't think there was much difference...Any pc you build with intel nvidia I can build a similar spec for £150 - £250 cheaper. Are intel and nvidia superior ?? CPU yes and GFX probably but you bloody pay for it. I am AMD for CPU and GFX and I have no issues with incompatibility and my rig plays all the latest releases just fine thank oyu very much., That is not the issue here, there is something else.
Also, OP, I've never had a problem with Steam itself, only trying to run older games on a Windows 10 machine. So we need more info
mp3manager said:
Firstly, if the games you've just bought don't work on your system, get a Steam Refund.
Secondly, sort out your PC. Why any serious gamer is running AMD is beyond me. I've been Intel & nvidia on several gaming rigs over the past 15 years and never, ever had a conflict which prevents games from running.
Thirdly, when you have put together a decent Intel & nvidia PC, re-buy your games on Steam.
HTH
There's absolutely nothing wrong with AMD, many serious gamers run AMD. They have a better price/performance ratio and they rival nvidia pretty well. AMD is constantly improving on the driver front and for a similar price you'd pay for nvidia you could actually buy a better performing AMD card.Secondly, sort out your PC. Why any serious gamer is running AMD is beyond me. I've been Intel & nvidia on several gaming rigs over the past 15 years and never, ever had a conflict which prevents games from running.
Thirdly, when you have put together a decent Intel & nvidia PC, re-buy your games on Steam.
HTH
FYI I run intel/nvidia but theres nothing wrong with AMD!!
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