I keep my gaming pc updated?

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Are you one of these?

  • Perfectly updated OS
  • Perfectly optimized for gaming
  • Bioses flashed with latest / custom
  • Perfectly defragged - well back in the day with custom profiles. Lol.
  • Screen Perfectly calibrated and setup
  • Sound Perfectly calibrated and setup
 
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This post made me think of this all over again

OP - bioshock remastered
Unplayable
Shame. Not playable in modern pcs. Constant crashes on the same point. I tried so many tweaks nothing worked. What is happening? This is Bioshock what the developers doing all these years? A remastered version and its unplayable.. Wtf
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The this reply... haha
I just completed it tonight with 100% achievements, played it for 69 hours, most of which was in the last few days playing very long game sessions. My PC is modern. I'm on the latest Windows 11 and fully updated. It has a 5800X3D CPU, RTX 5080 GPU, 32GB DDR4 RAM and playing on a 240hz 4K monitor. Hasn't crashed once.

What you need to do first is download the latest versions of your GPU driver, then uninstall your GPU drivers with DDU (display driver uninstaller)in safe mode and make sure the ethernet is unplugged and wifi turned off before you do this so windows update wont automatically install a driver from the internet when you reboot the computer. Then you run the drivers you downloaded before you uninstalled with DDU. This ensures there is nothing conflicting with your GPU drivers from older versions of files and registry entries that may be left behind.

Then i would suggest updating the BIOS for your motherboard.

Once you have done that, go to your CPU manufacturers website (intel or AMD) and download the chipset driver for the motherboard, latest version of course, DO NOT download it from the motherboard manufacturer. They always have the outdated versions.

After you have done this make sure that you update the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable runtimes for Windows. Also update the .NET framework to latest versions.

Uninstall the game and delete all the configuration files from the hard disk. Then reinstall the game.

Also make sure that Windows 11 is up to date.

When the game crashes check the event log in windows to see what is causing it. ChatGPT will help you diagnose anything showing up there related to the game.

The reality is that it's not working because something on your computer is not configured right or you have some form of hardware instability. If you run software that puts any sort of overlay onto the game window, shut that program down and make sure anything you don't need running in the background is shut down in task manager .

The game works fine you just need to figure out what it is on your setup that is causing the crash.
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Well, yes. Everything is the way I want it, from apps to folder looks.

Its a given that you have to do a quick optimization before you start up games and press play. Its a PC not a peasant box. Power Options > Display Driver > In-Game Settings. Takes a few minutes no big deal.

And, yeah, of course there'll be issues now and again, especially with old games. Wolfenstein, Metro, FEAR, all these old games will crash on modern systems. It is what it is.
 
Driver and OS updated sure, do not defrag modern ssds.
 
Audio only on the initial OS setup, since I use an interface with a PodMic and headphones.

Need to update the motherboard BIOS but have not gotten around to it and am usually late with driver updates as well. So, mostly, no. Windows will update regardless since it's Windows.
 
1. Yes. It's necessary for security posture maintenance.
2. No. It's mixed-mode so has to do gaming + dev + virtualisation + LLM noise
3. N-x - Only when compromise exists or driver issue presents. Sadly, UEFI is just as compromised these days as the actual OS.
4. No need. NVMe and SSD only.
5. Yes.
6. No cares given. Partially deaf so can detect zero difference between caterwhaul and perfection.
 
OS? Nope, Win 11 is a f up, I delay each update by like 5 weeks, something minor always breaks, last update I did on time broke RDP
I do keep my ubuntu server PC up to date though

Bios I stopped updating last year, my CPU generation stopped appearing in the patch notes, I probably will update it again eventually but I'm in no rush

I do update my Graphics divers and Chipset drivers often though, AMD made it a lot easier now that its all been integrated into adrenalin. back when I had a 2070 though I did delay driver updates, every second driver version just broke Overwatch and Battlefront 2. 0 issues with my current 6800 and my old 1060 though, I think Nvidia just hated the 20 series line
 
Monkeyz said:
OS? Nope, Win 11 is a f up, I delay each update by like 5 weeks, something minor always breaks, last update I did on time broke RDP
I do keep my ubuntu server PC up to date though

Bios I stopped updating last year, my CPU generation stopped appearing in the patch notes, I probably will update it again eventually but I'm in no rush

I do update my Graphics divers and Chipset drivers often though, AMD made it a lot easier now that its all been integrated into adrenalin. back when I had a 2070 though I did delay driver updates, every second driver version just broke Overwatch and Battlefront 2. 0 issues with my current 6800 and my old 1060 though, I think Nvidia just hated the 20 series line
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Nope, they hated the 30, 40 and 50 series as well, this Nvidia drivers are optimised is BS ;-).
 
Herr der Verboten said:
Are you one of these?

  • Perfectly updated OS
  • Perfectly optimized for gaming
  • Bioses flashed with latest / custom
  • Perfectly defragged - well back in the day with custom profiles. Lol.
  • Screen Perfectly calibrated and setup
  • Sound Perfectly calibrated and setup
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Only thing I do here is DIY written app that puts os in best state before gaming - I got tired of stopping, starting, ending tasks and few other things each time. Now it is just one button, if this does make difference who knows but its that 1% less **** running :ROFL:

My OS / Drivers / Bios / Utilities - is updated when I update it

I don't overengineer the rest any more. I used to with stuff like patchmypc, but these days its just click to run and if it runs cool otherwise minor tweaks.
 
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