Archive of ‘computer gaming’ category

28
Jul
2022

We are making progress re-downloading games!

categories: computer gaming; word count: 205 words

I am actually almost done re-downloading Bub’s games because of our hardwired connection!

Weirdly, a few times the SSD has shown up on the drive list of the gaming PC… but I’ve always seen it vanish, so I know not to depend on it for anything important. It’s also vanished each time it’s shown back up, and the time on that has varied. Sometimes it hangs out there on the drive list for a few others. Other times, it’s there for ten minutes. Either way, it’s getting replaced at some point with something that can actually be depended on and relied on, and I’m not using the one that’s currently in this computer until it’s replaced with that more dependable and reliable one. As much as I don’t like having to break into this computer again (or even the laptop, for that matter), I know that it’s going to have to get done at some point, just like how I want to upgrade the 1TB HDD in my laptop that stores Bub’s games to a 2TB one to avoid me having to shuffle games around on it to make room. These things are like my babies too! I want to take good care of them!

26
Jul
2022

Well, that was certainly new and unexpected.

categories: computer gaming; word count: 235 words

For some reason, the gaming computer — the desktop — seemed to have some kind of BIOS or hard drive error, or… something that completely formatting and reloading fixed, and now that I’m getting to be on the tail end of that I’m finally writing this post. I’ve finally gotten Windows 11 back on here, have downloaded and installed all of the Origin games we have (here’s looking at you and the newest few expansion packs, The Sims 4), am about midway through our Steam collection, and will get to our Epic Games collection once I am all done with that. I will then cull startup processes that don’t need to run when the computer is started up and make sure that nothing is running that would actively slow down the computer, because that’s never good. Right now, I’m choosing not to format the internals beyond that or any of the externals, and I’ll see where that takes me in terms of free space. Luckily Bub managed not to know that this actually happened.

He did see me tinkering around in the computer at one point, but he didn’t know that I had to reload the OS.

I might buy a cheap SSD hard drive off of eBay just to have on hand, just to be on the safe side.

These have been days… days that have ended in y and have caused migraines that have lasted for days.

24
Jul
2022

We’ve finally solved the problem, so let’s do this.

categories: computer gaming; word count: 225 words

I’ve resumed streaming now that the gaming PC is hardwired straight into the modem! Now that there is a more direct connection to the Internet, I only had ten or eleven slow frames… not five hundred (or worse, more) like I had been getting some of the time, which is great. I can and will definitely take that. Streaming at 720p was almost effortless, as were following Twitch Studio’s recommendations based on the computer that I was on and what my bandwidth and Internet speeds were. I tested it out with Among Us, and in the coming days and weeks I’m going to start (almost) all of the games over that I had been attempting to stream wirelessly so that I can get more hours out of streaming them on the computer that is currently hardwired to the modem. I’ve also been continuing to finagle with the Steam Deck setting certain buttons to certain actions in… certain games so that they are more playable, although I am seriously impressed with Valve’s level of commitment to making games optimally compatible with it, resulting in me having to let sometimes up to twenty games update each morning when I turn the thing on. Good times, am I right…

Maybe I’ll get Twitch Affiliate sooner than I had originally anticipated. At any rate, let’s finally do this, folks!

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