been gaming off and on since the 80s, hardcore pc gamer 1995-2010 with hundreds of titles on my book shelves...around 2009 i decided I needed more in life than just gaming, i was spending every weekend gaming and working lots of hours monday through friday ( I was also getting bored with new titles just being repeats and no innovation).

Today, I have about 30 titles that I cant live without and havent purchased anything new in a year, I might game this weekend for a few hours and then not touch anything again for months. It might take me years to get through the witcher 3 but i cant do long gaming sessions anymore, life is too short and discovering other things in life is key. I probably wont give up gaming completely , still enjoy it on rare occasion and building new pcs .

hard core simulation = PC domination ....fly sims- military sims - racing sims ...this is really the only thing I care about anymore, but yeah I remember when PC had more focus and consoles were lucky to get those great games made for PC

Windows xp was great, still have a few PCs around the workplace still deployed on xp that are running older CNC machines...our workstations are 80% windows 10 and 20% windows 7 now in 2019

if you are into racing games I would get an 21:9 ultrawide monitor, which I also find nice for fp shooters...very immersive I have an LG 29" 2560 x 1080p ips 75hz

go on amazon and search for "bed desk" or lap desk....thats a starting point, lots of options

Battlefield 2/Bad Company 2

bf2 hooked me like no other sometimes spending an entire weekend playing, quake 3 team arena- ut2004 wasn't bad either

meh, I have a 1070gtx oc 8gb and it does the job... I would get an 8gb card and skip this 1660ti 6gb from the prices ive seen as of today.... even for a budget build

the new bf games dont appeal to me, BF2 was the peak and I also like BFBC2 and still play it. The series strayed from what set it apart from everyone else and feels cheap. I now hangout mostly on arma 3 , squad

doesnt sound like you are actually connected to wifi, reset the network adapter? What browser?

I have a 29" ultrawide but its flat, not curved. I looked at the curved monitors but didnt pull the trigger on one, they looked ok though ....for work related stuff I prefer 16:9, but 21:9 gaming is more immersive