The struggle that is PC gaming...

My friend: that is not pc gaming These are poor console games. Very simplstic and devoid of incredible pc gaming intrinsicenseses .

Modern pc gamers may shout pc gaming is better while promoting such titles; these are console ports and these people are console gamers.

Because not everyone has the same problems as you?

"Oh my God, I have lots of problems with PC, PC is horrible in all ways!!"

Just considering Post-2000:

Mafia (2001), Serious Sam:First Encounter (GOTY right here on GS)

No One Lives Forever 2, Black and White,Warcraft 3(2002)

Neverwinter Nights ,Silent Storm (2003)

Far Cry, Half-Life 2(initially exclusive), World of Worldcraft(GS GOTY), Warhammer 40K:Dawn of War, UT 2004- (2004)

FEAR (exclusive untill 2008), Battlefield 2, Civ 4

Company of Heroes (2006)

Crysis, STALKER:SoC, Supreme Commander (2008)

CiV 5, STALKER:CoP (2010)

Minecraft (was exclusive when it got the award) (2011)

Path of Exile (2013)

Divinity:Original Sin (2014)

All games have gotten GOTY on major international game publications (not counting non-English european publication)

That's just off the top of my head. So thanks for lying I guess ?

The idiot hermits in this thread being dismissive can go to hell. I had this exact same problem with Ground Zeroes on PC (white loading circle at startup would freeze, game then crashes) and it's a known issue. As Gue1 said other people are reporting it on the game's Steam forum.

What I did to fix this issue:

1. Go to your Steam library

2. Right click Ground Zeroes and then click "Properties"

3. Go to the "Betas" tab. Click on the "Select the beta you would like to opt into" dropdown and choose 1.002. Let the game resynch up to 100% and try launching.

4. If that doesn't work, check what devices are plugged into your USB port. I play most of my games with a wired 360 controller, but I also use a Mayflash USB adapter for my Gamecube controller(s) for Dolphin. There's a currently unfixed issue with GZ where certain USB controllers that aren't supported will cause the game to crash at startup, and so disconnecting my Mayflash was what fixed it for me. Try disconnecting any of your controllers or peripherals connected via USB and see if it has an effect on the game launching.

Reading through these replies is pure cringe.

Literally everything you pointed out points to console developer incompetence.

As a gamer who has been primarily a PC for the last 13 years I can honestly say this lazy trend picked up half way through last console generation when developers relied on brute force of PC gaming to hide their laid back approach to porting and optimizing games for PC.

As a PC gamer I can say I feel your pain BUT you are pointing the finger at the wrong thing... DEVELOPERS suck not PC gaming.

As for console gaming... No thank you I don't like my games running at 20-30FPS on a my 50" TV at 720/900p.

Been a while since I've seen a game crash. Had no probs with DX:HR or Ground Zeroes.

:-P jk

30 to 60/120/144 fps isn't noticeable?. (sub)1080p to 2k/4k isn't noticeable?. You're not fooling anyone.

RDR is a great game, luckily the vast majority of PC gamers also own atleast a few consoles and will have most likely had ample opportunity to play RDR already, same can't be said for consolites owning capable gaming PCs though. TC being a good example of that with his 4 imaginary games.

You don't know this guy do you ? Check his post history. More likely then not, he doesn't have a PC. He's posting a screen shot of a common problem in an attempt to troll. Everyone knows the solution to this crash.

@Blabadon lol PC gaming

Its funny that all these problems only seem to happen to console gamers the moment they touch a PC,lol

True. I'm currently playing the 1st witcher, a game that didn't recognize my graphics card and I had to do some tweaking to make it work. Pc gaming is more of an hassle than what not. Master race my ass

@charizard1605:

Nah he's running Windows Millennium.

What is your graphics card?

Think about that for a second; A game from 2007 using a heavily modified 2002 game engine only needing a tweak to get it to properly recognize a modern system. And if I recall correctly the proper tweak had more to do with windows than it did with the game.

@wis3boi said:

Anyone wanna play bingo?

I lol'd.

So OP was just trollbait? TC abandoned the thread as soon as it was clear he was lying?

PC Nerds gonna sit and pretend like this issue isn't a 49page thread on Steam? You geeks crack me up

https://steamcommunity.com/app/311340/discussions/0/619574421284555292/

Are we for real here?

I've been playing PC games for a LONG time and they used to be an absolute nightmare. These days on my current rig I have zero problems with games and I play a lot of games. PC games really are pretty much plug and play now, something they advertised for many years and never were (that's Microsoft lying again, the playful young scamps).

If you're having trouble getting PC games to run you're not following the simplest of instructions and may well struggle getting a PS4 or Xbox One game to work too (they can be complicated, make sure the console is switched on, correct disk in the drive etc....).

GT 840M. Its not a powerfull card by any means but it sure as hell can handle the game

When launching the game said I didnt had the minimum req specs wich was bullshit. My GC can handle the game more than enough. The hassle wasnt that big but it still required some thorough google search.

I'm surprised there's so much fanfare for a non-unified, open platform like PC. It's not even a standard system because of unlimited modification possibilities.

It shouldn't even be part of System Wars due to its never ending generation and ability to have games made for it from anybody, unlike single companies' systems.

@Vatusus:

That minimum requirements issue had to do with some directdraw emulation thing in windows 64bit(?) if I am remembering everthing correctly. I believe changing that reg setting is what I did to solve that error ways back.

Not sure what you're insinuating

I would just like to say that anyone struggling with modern PC gaming should avoid toasters, microwaves, cars, crossing the street without the help of an adult, possibly avoid any working machinery they don't understand specially if it has switches that may do unpredictable things.....

Yeah, seriously, just play with Mario on your Nintendo Gaming System and alert your parents when you are going to leave your house.

To be fair....crashes for me have been scarce in recent years.

My games run great, my games look way the **** better and consistent in comparison to their console counterparts.

Your butthole ass tv that can't display 1080p right is why you can't see that, and lol at the 'this game isn't built for 60 faps"...yeah okay bro, going back to console frames is sluggish, like instantly sluggish once you've been spoiled with 60 frame games.

on pc you have crashes. on consoles you have 3h long loading screens.

And this sucka right here is your typical console gamer.

PC players are used to fiddling to get their games to work. This is why thy think that consoles are a cop out, and they confuse the consistency with inflexibility.

If a console needed as much tinkering as a PC, then you can be sure it would be rejected within a few days of launch.

Operator Error.

"Out of the 4 PC games I have"

There's your problem, you know nothing about computers, PC gaming, how to maintain them or anything else... There is no struggle, you just can't be a console gamer and expect an On button to do everything for you...

Most PC games you have to tinker with until a few patches, it's just the way it is. Usually when games first come out you have to wait for driver updates to sort out performance issues as well.

Anyone that says otherwise is a fucking liar.

Anything made by Ubisoft is a minefield for a start.

Tinkering with patches?. Installing drivers for every game?

What kind of out dated bullshit bait is this.

http://www.wired.com/2014/12/halo-master-chief-collection/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_technical_problems

Just stop.

This is not true.

Then 2014 happened.

heh. do people really have trouble with this stuff? that must be embarrassing.

You and I seem to be the few that are able to see this. A PC Gamer of today is just a glorified console gamer. In the past, pc gamers would shun such releases. Perhaps still enjoy them from time to time--even buying a console for them--but their main interest was still that of games which fully utilized the pc format. All these genres thrived because of it. Now, the "pc gamer" as you and myself recognize it is more of a niche market like Nintendo has become.

Enitrely hardware specific. A good PC game will rarely crash, if at all, when you have recent hardware. I used to have a lot of crashes with my 560 Ti but I have had NO issues since I upgraded to 970... Literally can't remember when I last had any recurring issues

You know, easy doesn't automatically make something better. The feeling when you resolve a technical issue on a PC is similar to the feeling when you beat a Dark Souls level for the first time, see the appeal?

They are very much the Rocky III's of the world; paper champions undeserving of the belt.

When console gamers run out of nonsense to throw at PC gaming they just make it up. You can pretty quickly tell the ones who either are trolling or have no idea about PC gaming. This tired old line is still in existence from 2000 rather than 2015.

However on the games with issues there are usually workarounds, unlike all the broken console games atm where you're stuck with a pile o' crap, no fixes and no fixes on the horizon. Yay console games!

Everyone seems to forget that the things you can do with a PC besides gaming are..........practically limitless.

Also, with each new generation of consoles, they are becoming more akin to just a gimped cheap PC.

A console......you can do games and Netflix. OoOoOoOo!!!!!!!!!!!

Fact: Brain dead people can't use PC.

Well let's put that theory to the test.

Steam stats top played games(past 24hrs):

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This looks very PC-gaming to me. MOBA, classic PC FPS CS/TF, SIM, mod/creation tool, RTS, MMO sandbox.

It's interesting that there's almost as many people playing Arma 3 as BF4 on any console platform. How hardcore is that?

This is my main gripe with consoles. The hardware is capable of so much more than the manufacturers will allow; such is the nature of closed systems. In the early days of the PS3 you could install a third-party OS and that was pretty cool. Since the removal of that feature it seems these companies have only gotten more controlling. Such a waste.

@GioVela2010: We're insinuating that a mere glance of a gaming PC gives you a throbbing diamond shattering hard on.