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STEAM | August 2015 - Three versions of Windows since the last Half-Life
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go on a movie/tv show/anime binge instead. Eventually you'll get bored of those and come round to games again.
I do it quite regularly.
Eanan
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When I finish a big single player game like TW3, I usually take a couple weeks break from gaming bar the odd quick multiplayer game of fifa/COD/Halo etc.
Makes me actually want to play a new game and not feel like a chore, since ya know, gaming is meant to be fun, not like a job.
Tizoc
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Shovel Knight looks like something I played on my NES :V
Categories. And put a date on the evelope for one week or a month from today. If you haven't finished the game by the date on the envelope, you mail the envelope.
This is usually what I do, but it hasn't seemed to work for me lately.
It would be a great callback to the original release which came with a DQ8 demo.
Maybe a priority acces thing. Get it a month before it goes public. That way everyone wins. Time is negotiable
thesaucetastic
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Use steam roulette, play for 10 minutes, if it doesn't click, spin the roulette again.
someguyinahat
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"Spark is a professional jester formed in the Comedy University of the Moon."
Even in games like this they have to sneak in dirty acronym jokes...
Going back in time and playing some instant classic from 10-20 years ago usually does it for me.
But I don't really fall into many ruts. I instead have genre fatigue from time to time and going back to play classics makes me love it again.
Hell yes. More Shoot'me up goodness. I don't see how they won't bring this to Steam since it's announced on PC.
You got that backwards. DQ8 came with a FFXII demo.
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It's been a while. Things get mixed in my head. But it would still be a great call back
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There are no dirty acronyms; you;re just overthinking it.
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I have been having some pretty severe problems with my Steam/PC in the past couple of weeks and I am not really sure what I should be doing to troubleshoot.
Pretty much everything runs at <10 FPS regardless of how graphically intensive the game is.
I have Win 8.1 running on an i5 4690, R9 280x, and 8GB of RAM. I have not made any hardware changes since November. Games that previously ran well don't work. I haven't made any big changes to what software is on my PC, other than installing regular updates to what was already there.
Everything works fine outside of gaming. No viruses.
Does anyone have suggestions on how I can fix this? I briefly had Valkyria Chronicles running at 30 FPS today but then it cut back down to 5 FPS in the middle of a cinema and has stayed that way despite restarts.
EDIT: I think I solved the issue. Thanks everyone!
Pretty much everything runs at <10 FPS regardless of how graphically intensive the game is.
I have Win 8.1 running on an i5 4690, R9 280x, and 8GB of RAM. I have not made any hardware changes since November. Games that previously ran well don't work. I haven't made any big changes to what software is on my PC, other than installing regular updates to what was already there.
Everything works fine outside of gaming. No viruses.
Does anyone have suggestions on how I can fix this? I briefly had Valkyria Chronicles running at 30 FPS today but then it cut back down to 5 FPS in the middle of a cinema and has stayed that way despite restarts.
EDIT: I think I solved the issue. Thanks everyone!
Jawmuncher
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Have you tried downloading drivers for your card? Seems the W10 update might role people back. If not that it sounds like you're using your motherboard graphics card instead of your actual GPU if games are the only issue.
Are really old games working just fine? Like stuff from the 90s?
It's everything. Even SpaceChem runs at <15FPS, and that game should run fine on 10 year old PCs.
I am running AMD Catalyst version 15.7
I will try CCleaner first. Obviously I would like to avoid a format if possible.
Nyteshade517
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AMD did put out 15.7.1 drivers the day Windows 10 launched....no idea if that would solve your issue though
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
You have way too many sub genres in my opinion. What if a certain game fits more than one of your genres? I mean for example, Deus Ex Human Revolution fits RPG First Person, RPG Action, Stealth First Person, FPS Science Fiction. Let alone games like Fallout or Elder Scrolls that lets you change to first and third perspective whenever you want.
How long have you been running 15.7?
Maybe roll back to an older version?
Could also be a dying drive sucking up cycles, I guess.
Anything have abnormally high cpu percentages in task manager?
someguyinahat
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My categories:
"Finished"
"Games"
And that's it.
"Finished"
"Games"
And that's it.
LurkerPrime
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Have you run any benchmarks recently? Maybe it's a heat issue or faulty hardware? I really can't think of anything else that might cause that.
Try the TechSupportGAF thread if you're unable to find a resolution. They may be able to give you a better idea of what's wrong.
crazyrabbits
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I have "Completed", "Removed Games", "Simulator Games" and "Games" categories.
You have the best witcher 3 screenshots and comments on them of any I've seen.
Still Punk band Geralt was best Geralt!
I have 6 steam categories.
- Backlogg
- early access games played when out of early access
- Gave up/shit/not interested
- Singleplayer games played right now
- Completed
- Multiplayer games
Ha, whups. I'm really late to this and wanted to apologize. My post was mostly a reactionary response to this idea that people should wait that long just to get the complete version.
I suppose that could work, depending on how many games you have though. Otherwise I think it could use an extra folder here and then. At the moment I have a map for series if I own 3+ of its games, a general map for each of the bigger genre and a folder called "uninterested" with games I have no intention of ever playing, mostly games I got from bundles and stuff.
It is! I think I'm going to swap back to it, disappointed that I only found 1 new hair in Novigrad
thesaucetastic
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This is mine too, except I have an extra category for in-progress games.
Wow, Hitbox is pretty nice. Might switch over to it from Twitch entirely. Lag's way better, for one thing.
Also, yeesh. I have categories for favorites, finished, early access, 'endless' (stuff that doesn't really have a campaign to it that can be completed), multiplayer, and then various alphabetical categories, a 'queue' for games I'm going to try but haven't yet, a win10 incompatibility category, currently playing, and a hidden 'z' folder for games I won't play anymore (or stuff like expansion packs that launch into the default game where you need both installed but only one needs to run to access both).
Also, yeesh. I have categories for favorites, finished, early access, 'endless' (stuff that doesn't really have a campaign to it that can be completed), multiplayer, and then various alphabetical categories, a 'queue' for games I'm going to try but haven't yet, a win10 incompatibility category, currently playing, and a hidden 'z' folder for games I won't play anymore (or stuff like expansion packs that launch into the default game where you need both installed but only one needs to run to access both).
I uninstalled catalyst and that gaming evolved app, ran CCleaner, and reinstalled the newest packaged. Everything seems to be working now. The last AMD driver version must have had some bugs with my hardware config.
Thanks to all that offered help/advice!
Dongs Macabre
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Yeah, the delay is much shorter, which is great for games like Quiplash.
How do you keep track of all this? I have 4 categories total:
Betas
Finished
Focus
Multiplayer
That list seems difficult to manage, the more games you have.
I play something short and effortless. Platformers, generally. Or old titles. Last time I was burnt out I replayed Majora's Mask.
Or I play nothing at all and wait until the urge returns. Sometimes a break is nice. Read or do something else.
No worries. I know how it gets browsing at night. We're good. o/ 5 years for anything is absurd, let alone a complete. I don't have that sort of patience.
corrosivefrost
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People posted their categories a while back, here's mine + bonus look at my dwindling backlog
Half finished = not done, but probably never going back to those games again
Meh as a category?
Shalashaska
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Here's my highly innovative naming scheme:
corrosivefrost
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This factors into mine as well, though I usually do it for 2 or more now -- franchise tagging.
I try to give each game that isn't a bundle +1 that doesn't pique my interest a genre tag too.
I periodically look through everything that's installed -- sometimes I cull things and say "I'll install it agian later if I ever feel like starting it", or I just move it to #BACKLOG (and Favorites if it's on the short list to be played soon).
Dongs Macabre
aka Daedalos42
So since last night's impromptu Quiplash night was fun, I'll be hosting another one tonight.
You don't need to own the game to play!
All you need to do to join is go to jackbox.tv on your mobile device or web browser and type in the room code that will be on screen. Even if you don't get into the game as a player, you can still vote on your favourite quips as an audience member.
Rules:
1. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
The stream will be here. There's a slight delay (around 5 seconds I think), so keep an eye on your browser/mobile device.
I used to categorize games by bundle - that didn't take long to become a clusterfuck.
It would be neat to see the library system overhauled. I think a tagging system would work nicely - functionally similar to how you can multiple categories for a game now, but allowing you to filter by one or more tags for whatever reason (e.g. 'unplayed' + 'fps'). Having multiple sub-libraries would also be helpful.
As of now I mainly use a spreadsheet to help keep track of games and what to play.
It would be neat to see the library system overhauled. I think a tagging system would work nicely - functionally similar to how you can multiple categories for a game now, but allowing you to filter by one or more tags for whatever reason (e.g. 'unplayed' + 'fps'). Having multiple sub-libraries would also be helpful.
As of now I mainly use a spreadsheet to help keep track of games and what to play.
pantsattack
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I do something else, another hobby or project for a while. Another tactic of mine is to look through the steam store and "shop"for things I already own trying to conjure excitement I had for whatever game I had before owning it. Watching the pre release trailers can hype me up too.
Also, sometimes I start a game if I see it on sale and pretend I just got it and can play along with other new owners.
So since last night's impromptu Quiplash night was fun, I'll be hosting another one tonight.
You don't need to own the game to play!
All you need to do to join is go to jackbox.tv on your mobile device or web browser and type in the room code that will be on screen. Even if you don't get into the game as a player, you can still vote on your favourite quips as an audience member.
Rules:
1. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
The stream will be here. There's a slight delay (around 5 seconds I think), so keep an eye on your browser/mobile device.
I'm going to win atleast once this time!
I start up a game even if I don't feel like it, then after I've started I almost always enjoy the game.
So since last night's impromptu Quiplash night was fun, I'll be hosting another one tonight.
You don't need to own the game to play!
All you need to do to join is go to jackbox.tv on your mobile device or web browser and type in the room code that will be on screen. Even if you don't get into the game as a player, you can still vote on your favourite quips as an audience member.
Rules:
1. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
The stream will be here. There's a slight delay (around 5 seconds I think), so keep an eye on your browser/mobile device.
I'll join in this time. Seems a fun time.
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