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At PCGamingWiki, we have spent a decade documenting the nitty-gritty technicals of games. We pride ourselves on giving the PC gaming community a reliable source for optimizing, fixing, and improving the experience of their games. However, there has been a crucial element missing from our pages, and one we have working in silence to rectify for years. It occurred to us that in many cases, we document fixes with no understanding of who is affected by them. This is why starting this month, we will be introducing the new "Works on My Machine" vote. In the near future, this vote will roll out automatically to every issue logged in either Issues fixed or Issues unresolved per page. Why are we changing this? This is a response to the issue of users being confused as to which bugs and problems they may face when purchasing a new game. "Well, I want to buy ELEX 2, but I don't have a Vega graphics card. Will the skybox bug still hurt my experience?" "I have an SSD and my loading times are near instant. Why are people complaining about hitching and long loading times?" "Why can't PCGW be representative of my perfect gaming experience?" Well, now it can be! How does it work? This feature will begin exclusively for the Issues Unresolved section. When the feature goes live, an up and down arrow will be available for votes on every issue. Voting will be restricted to logged-in users and only one vote, positive or negative, is allowed for users. If any issue receives enough positive votes to equal 10% of the average views per week of a page, the Issue will be marked as "Works Fine" and strikethrough will be applied to the issue. From this point onwards, the issue will no longer be available for editing, effectively closing the issue entirely. In the future, we will take these stray, irrelevant issues and compile them into a new category, Issues disregarded. Here, users can bid on NFT memorabillia of past issues so they can take a small piece of PCGW with them wherever they go using the power of the Blockchain!* *Acquiring a PCGW minted NFT will not result in ownership of any PCGW content. How can I help? When the feature goes live in the near future, we encourage you to log in and vote on issues for the games you play regularly. Going forward, the PC gaming community can finally have a reliable place to document which games are working correctly on their PCs, adding transparency and removing unnecessary concerns or investigations from the equation. In summary In the near future, expect a slew of important changes to finally make the Issues section of our pages retain their usefulness to everyday players that never run into bugs. We hope that going forward, you will enjoy browsing our pages more often with odd one-off cases and hardware-specific issues no longer clogging up the page of your favorite games. View full article

I actually think this is a solid idea. I would take this a step further and use this to point out if the EXE is in a subfolder as well (example: {{P|game}}\Binaries\Danielle\x64\Release\Prey.exe) Normally I would also say that Installation Folder isn't all that helpful, but there are some edge cases that are... unreasonable. Most notably, you may have trouble finding Mega Man Legacy Collection 1 in your Steamapps\common folder. That's because it's called Suzy. I could see it being standard practice to have an {{ii}} under game data if the folder has a strange name such as this, or note that every game in a collection has its own data stored in a dedicated subfolder. It would probably be best as a table in #Game_data as @SirYodaJedi suggested, with Mac/Linux file names directly below the Windows EXE.

I've had my eye on this game for ages, it's been in my backcatalogue of "games that will never see the light of day during your lifetime." If progress keeps going with this, hopefully the current license holders (probably EA and/or Warner Brothers) will find it worth their while to sell the game once again on GOG/Origin/Steam with a simple ScummVM setup should a company like Night Dive approach them. It's still a bit of a pipedream, but at least 1% based in reality now.

It's kinda funny seeing this name, as I haven't gone by this in a long time. It was kind of just a random two names I threw out there, and it stuck... but then I started seeing it elsewhere, or I would try to sign up somewhere and find the name was already taken. It quickly became more trouble than it was worth. It took a very long time to settle for a good name, much less one that actually meant something, and finding something actually original was even more difficult. Not an elegant tale nor a very interesting one, but there it is.

Hi, At the moment, I am preparing to create a page for Serious Sam Fusion 2017, which released recently in beta. However, since this name may change to "Fusion" or a different year in the future, should I leave the year in the name off when creating the page? For reference, here is the game in question: http://steamcommunity.com/app/564310/

Garrett has the right idea. Star Wars: Dark Forces II had the same issue on Nvidia graphics cards that tried to use 3D acceleration back when the game first launched on Steam. If all else fails, try a Software renderer (if the game has one).

I would go for Head Bobbing (or some other name, like "Movement Animation") and combine the rest into Extra Effects. Much like Antialiasing, the Notes box can be used to specify Chromatic Aberration, Bloom, Motion Blur, Vignette. I'm just not sure that the effects in that category really need to be separated. EDIT: A box for Enabling/Disabling HUD would also be a nice addition.

To add to what's here already, two fixes that have been of great use in the past to me: BAD WINDOWS 10 UPGRADE PERFORMANCE​ (Multiple Games, e.g. Shadow of Mordor) - The Windows 10 Upgrade can really reduce performance. Make use of the "Reset Your PC" option in Settings > Recovery or complete a Fresh Install to resolve this problem. It will take a bit of time, though. All your old programs will be under Windows.old, though I'd recommend backing up the actual data portions of this (e.g. saves that store themselves in the game directory, custom INIs, Steam\userdata, Steam\music) before doing it... just in case. You should also back up Documents, Pictures, etc. FIRST RESORT TO 'UNFIXABLE' BUGS (Example: Grim Fandango Remastered) - Restart your computer. I'm dead serious. It's stopped an unavoidable crash in the past for me, the most recent case being the end of the Sea of Despair in Grim Fandango Remastered.

Quick question: how about SLI/Crossfire? ​It seems a bit mixed, the way we talk about this now. Sometimes it's a {{--}}key point, other times it's left as a FixBox. I think a dedicated Video Settings spot for Multi-GPU configurations may be a good addition to the normal Video Settings chart, right next to 4K and Windowed. A clear Native/Hackable/No might be a good addition to this chart, to make talking about multi-GPU setups a bit more standardized.

Perhaps it's time to add an area to the system requirements where the actual size of the game is mentioned? This may help for games like Overwatch, where the game recommends a good 30GB of space on the box then only has a 6.1GB file size. Yes, Overwatch really is that small. It may get updates over time, but 30GB won't fill itself.

Can't say much about most of these points, but perhaps it's time to add icons for more DRM systems? For example, a dedicated SafeDisc icon, a SecuROM icon, a Tages icon, a picture of an optical disc drive with a question mark for "Disc must be in system," etc. I can see this being particularly helpful, especially when SecuROM and Starforce are thrown into the mix.

Thanks, I'll update the wiki page to properly use this.

For the game "Afterlife" by LucasArts, there are three configuration files; the one for the DOS version, the DOSBox.conf file, and the Win95 version. How can I format this to make two paths under the same OS family?