This is why I don't buy PC Games
Dec. 27th, 2007 01:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
slycatI had seen that Unreal Tournament 3 was in the January sales for £20 which was the same value of the Xbox 360 remote which Rapido got me for Christmas but already had on order. So I first looked online to check out the technical requirements for the game knowing that Crysis had no hope of running on my system based on the demo's performance. However the requirements seemed within my system's capabilities (An Alienware m5550 laptop with 2ghz Core2Duo, GeForce Go 7600 & 4gb 667hmz DDR ram) so I went and exchanged the remote for the game. Firstly, the game took over 6 hours to install due to what appeared to be some sort of disc seeking problem probably with the disc itself, but it did eventually install. Once installed, I installed the latest patch for the game and then fired it up.
Alarm bells started ringing when the menu on default settings was so slow it was difficult to accurately move the mouse as it kept on stuttering across the screen. The game itself wasn't much better with not many frames per second. I tried updating my graphics drivers to the latest beta drivers available, however still no improvement. The game is just totally unplayable, which is a real shame as I had really enjoyed the previous tournament games in the series.
To me, this is just another nail in the coffin for PC gaming. With my Xbox 360, I can buy a game and know it will work out of the box without requirement for installation. No need to worry about any driver issues, hardware performance or in most cases, patches or slowdown issues either. Whereas with PC, there's so much that can go wrong because the hardware is not set. Now I'm not saying there's no point in PC gaming, I'm just saying it's something I've now just totally lost interest in. All my alleged gaming laptop is good for gaming wise is playing the new Sam & Max. Yes, it will run Half Life 2 and other games made before it, but no modern games will work. Which seems a shame as you'd kinda expect a machine built this year which cost £1200 to be up to the job. I guess I was just expecting too much.
From now on, I'll keep to playing on the 360. I've no idea if Game will let me take the game back as it works without the CD and I used the CD Key on installation. I hope so tho as I did check the spec and the game just isn't playable.
Alarm bells started ringing when the menu on default settings was so slow it was difficult to accurately move the mouse as it kept on stuttering across the screen. The game itself wasn't much better with not many frames per second. I tried updating my graphics drivers to the latest beta drivers available, however still no improvement. The game is just totally unplayable, which is a real shame as I had really enjoyed the previous tournament games in the series.
To me, this is just another nail in the coffin for PC gaming. With my Xbox 360, I can buy a game and know it will work out of the box without requirement for installation. No need to worry about any driver issues, hardware performance or in most cases, patches or slowdown issues either. Whereas with PC, there's so much that can go wrong because the hardware is not set. Now I'm not saying there's no point in PC gaming, I'm just saying it's something I've now just totally lost interest in. All my alleged gaming laptop is good for gaming wise is playing the new Sam & Max. Yes, it will run Half Life 2 and other games made before it, but no modern games will work. Which seems a shame as you'd kinda expect a machine built this year which cost £1200 to be up to the job. I guess I was just expecting too much.
From now on, I'll keep to playing on the 360. I've no idea if Game will let me take the game back as it works without the CD and I used the CD Key on installation. I hope so tho as I did check the spec and the game just isn't playable.
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