There are such weird posts in here from self-described 'PC gamers'.
I suppose if I also just pretended the issues people have with the platform are imaginary, i'd think they were weird too.
You're having to spend 'hours' in 'config files'? What? You're given tweakable in-game presets. Pick one, adjust accordingly. What the fuck else are you doing?
If someone is needing to dive into config files then it's likely they're trying to fix an issue they're already experiencing with the game. People don't go off the beaten path into config files for no reason. Config edits have been around for decades to try to alleviate certain issues like stutter (remember the heaps of UE3 edits people tried to fix Arkham Knight?), disabling mouse acceleration, or unlocking framerates to work on a high refresh monitor. All things that shouldn't require the user to go down such a path, yet we still see them in 2023.
There's even this little website called
PC Gaming Wiki which may nor may not have been started to catalog a lot of this information... I wonder why they need that troubleshooting section? Hmm...
You're having to spend 'hours dealing with drivers'? A driver notification shows up. You install it.
You're grossly oversimplifying it. Drivers aren't perfect. AMD in particular have notoriously buggy drivers. In general, people can experience black screens on launch, FMV playback issues, multi monitor issues, scaling issues, the list goes on and on. A driver isn't just a fire and forget thing, it's its own collection of settings which can be unique - and as a result uniquely broken - for each PC configuration. New drivers are not always a net upgrade either and can sometimes
cause issues with games, prompting a user to rollback to an earlier version.
All of this is why using the
Display Driver Uninstaller software and doing a clean re-install is always the first recommendation to rule out display driver issues. Software like that which completely strips the driver from the PC wouldn't be needed if there weren't any issues inherent to 'A driver notification shows up. You install it.' Hell, maybe you could've saved them years of programming time and suggested just uninstalling it. How about turning it on and off again too?
'Every major release is broken'? Yeah. On every platform. If your PS5 experience has been 'smooth and seamless', you're probably not the market for PC gaming, because PS5 versions of most major releases bring their own set of problems.
Stutter, specifically shader compilation stutter, is one of the most well documented problems in PC gaming right now and is not nearly as prevalent on consoles, since the shaders come pre-compiled specifically for the console. Watch almost any Digital Foundry PC port analysis over the last year or so and there will be recurrent talk of the #StutterStruggle plaguing the platform. They had a whole segment on today's DF Direct Weekly about "PC Gaming in Crisis". Are some of the most knowledgeable people in the Youtube tech corner also on the hysteria bandwagon? What about
nerds on enthusiast forums like Guru3D?
Epic have made a big deal recently about how they are going to try and
solve the problem with automated PSO gathering. Why would they do such a thing if there was no problem?
I mean, the hysteria in here suggests to me that there are plenty of people who began building PCs during the PS4 era because they read about the 'PC master race' meme and wanted to one of the cool kids, but they had no idea what building and maintaining a computer actually meant.
I see the exact opposite - it's the biggest PC gamers who are shouting the loudest about it because it's painful to see the issues on the platform right now. Seems to be the more educated ones, too, if you've spent any amount of time in the other discussions on the forum regarding the issues.
Total strawman, either way.