Re: This is Why Consoles are More Popular than PC's for Gaming

On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 19:58:27 -0500, "HockeyTownUSA" <magma at comcast
dot net> wrote (in part):

> I have been an avid PC gamer for at least 15 years. But recent incidents
> makes me understand the love and desire for a high-end gaming console. For
> one, I had to reformat and reinstall Windows recently. While I have done
> this dozens of times, each time is a new experience with its new set of
> issues, and takes literally 4-6 hours, and that's even if everything goes
> well. Just remembering you needed that faithful floppy disk to install SATA
> drivers only to find out you don't have internet access to download them, or
> even worse yet, a floppy drive to support it since this is a floppy-less
> society, is no fun activity.

Humm.... I've had my PC for years and haven't had to reinstall WinXP.
I haven't had any crashes. Of course that could be because I built my
PC, it's _not_ an off-the-shelf system. I also am vigilant about
maintaining it (optimizing using "Perfect Disk," running Norton's "Win
Doctor," etc.); and keeping my drivers up-to-date, especially my
NVIDIA graphic drivers.



>
> Secondly, I wanted to play Battlefield 2 last night, but since I recently
> reformatted, I had to reinstall Battlefield 2 and Special Forces. This meant
> redownloading a massive patch, and thank God for broadband, but it is only
> beneficial if you can find a website that doesn't throw a billion pop-ups or
> restrict bandwidth. My Gamespot membership this time was well spent. Ok,
> patch downloaded, well the patch took *forever* to install. All in all, I
> spent well over an hour and a half by the time I got everything installed,
> patched, options set, textures decompressed, hard drive defragmented, and
> into the game. I had less than 30 minutes to play by the time I got into it.
>

You download patches every time? You don't keep the file on disk?

I have a folder for "Game Updates" where _all_ my game patches are
kept. Also, when there's the accumulative filesize make it worth it,
I write these on CD, then I can delete them from the folder. Hell, I
still have patches for games I have uninstalled on CD.



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