(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); This thread is just to help out general PC Gaming issues and problems, also gives some tips if you want to start PC Gaming! if you have any more questions, please let me know, If you have anything else i can include, also please let me know! :y:

Essential Hardware & Software Threads

Latest Drivers

Drivers for your spanky new You must login or register to view this content. are important, as in most cases updates offer framerate increases or can remove glitches or texture problems, so well worth keeping up to date! Make sure that you have all essential drivers installed before you start using everything, the essentials will come with the card as well.

Note that if you have Steam installed, they also provide an update for ATI cards as well.

SSD Drives

More and more popular as the prices falls below a £1/Gb, these drives just make your PC feel a little quicker in response in everyday apps like browsers and they also help games load quicker (if your drive is big enough to install them on). A video to install them is here:



3D Gaming

For those of you with 3D enabled GPU/TFTs and really want that extra level of emersion into your games, then I recommend you buy the You must login or register to view this content., the homepage is You must login or register to view this content., you must make sure that you install the necessary drivers before use!

Games

Steam/Origin

Both You must login or register to view this content. and You must login or register to view this content. are two (free) client installations that are online stores as well as game matchups and messenging services (see above for usernames) and logging achievements for games played.

Quite frankly they are at the core of PC gaming now, and you simply cannot do without at least one of them. Steam is the daddy at the moment, with 6+ years under its belt, and a massive wealth of 1000's of games from A* titles down to Indie clasics.

Origin you will have because you will be playing Battlefield 3, Fifa or The Sims, and its much the same, just on a smaller scale (and always will be unless it entices more publishers away from Steam.)

Pricing for both stores for titles are as normally higher than the bricks and mortar stores (and even online), but when the sales hit town.......you will try holding on to the purse strings, but find them oh so willing to part with your cash.

Popular Games

This small section is to advertise some of the most popular PC games on the forum, click the pictures to be directed to the appropriate forums

Amazing post bro this will help alot

Great post once again mud :p If I'm not mistaken, Origin is EA's PC Game Store :p I don't think they sell anything other than their products on Origin

Oh yeah, haha, I should remove that, but oh well :p and thanks for the feedback man

Nice thread,top work :y:

Been thinking of pc gaming for a good few years now,just have to convince the wife to let me spend a £1k on a set up

Good luck with that one mate

Cheers bud,been 2 years of nagging and I'm still not giving up

Tell her if she does. You will make her sandwiches.

Lol,would do bud but she cannae eat carbohydrates,so I'm a bit screwed on that front,its looking like a iMac as well as rig,she's an apple freak :/