Having a problem with a “story” quest

[KaizerBlitz]

There is an upgrade quest by Steve P.I. for the computer I built for him earlier in the game. The only problem is that he requested to have dual GPUs but the case used for the build was Antec P6 that only fits one GPU.

Is there any workaround for this, maybe save file editing? Or am I done for here?

P.S. should have made it so he requests dual GPUs in the build stage in the first place

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Unfortunately this is one of the "Gotchas" of the game. The only way around this is if you were in a habit of creating a new manual save frequently before and after each job in the game then you could go back and re-load an older manual save. I've been trying to tell everyone that this sort of thing you did is a bad idea. I don't think folks listen though. Every build job in the game you should always be a habit of building them a computer that can be upgraded in the future. Give them a computer case (and motherboard) that supports running dual video cards (AMD CrossFire and Nvidia SLI both, not all boards support both). Pick a case with at least 3 bays for 3.5" hard drives so you can add additional drives. Don't max out the motherboard's memory, pick the minimum and use 2 sticks instead of 4, etc. It's up to us the player to build a system correctly that can be upgraded later and if we build it wrong the first time then you end up stuck and there's nothing you can do short of going back to re-build the original system. And about your PS: Nope they should not. That's part of the game. You should of built their system in a way that could be upgraded and if you didn't do it and end up stuck then that's on you. You could of totally built it differently and not end up in this situation but you didn't.

[Longpal]

Originally posted by Aquafawks:

Unfortunately this is one of the "Gotchas" of the game. The only way around this is if you were in a habit of creating a new manual save frequently before and after each job in the game then you could go back and re-load an older manual save. I've been trying to tell everyone that this sort of thing you did is a bad idea. I don't think folks listen though. Every build job in the game you should always be a habit of building them a computer that can be upgraded in the future. Give them a computer case (and motherboard) that supports running dual video cards (AMD CrossFire and Nvidia SLI both, not all boards support both). Pick a case with at least 3 bays for 3.5" hard drives so you can add additional drives. Don't max out the motherboard's memory, pick the minimum and use 2 sticks instead of 4, etc. It's up to us the player to build a system correctly that can be upgraded later and if we build it wrong the first time then you end up stuck and there's nothing you can do short of going back to re-build the original system. And about your PS: Nope they should not. That's part of the game. You should of built their system in a way that could be upgraded and if you didn't do it and end up stuck then that's on you. You could of totally built it differently and not end up in this situation but you didn't.

To be fair - OP is kinda right though. That's one thing this game seems to be missing - customer knowledge. If you wanted to upgrade your IRL PC to run 2 GPU's, but your case can't support it, that's not the guy who sold it/built it's fault - you buy a new case/motherboard and whatever other components you need to make the upgrade happen.

Much like how I understand the game mechanic of a benchmark score, but the customers asking for it sure as hell don't seem to in game - why they are asking for it seems arbitrary - "fix my computer so it that score number go bbrrrrrrr" without letting me know what parts they want is weird, people that care about a 3D Mark score IRL are at least a little knowledgeable about PC components and have an idea of what parts they want in their build to achieve a particular score. I'm still kinda early in the campaign (only picked the game up today) and I've been rejecting jobs that have a score requirement after the first two - trying to figure out what the right part to buy is to increase the score just enough, but without going over budget is a pain in the ass - I imagine, I'll need to adapt and learn it though.

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Originally posted by FuggenYEET®:

To be fair - OP is kinda right though. That's one thing this game seems to be missing - customer knowledge. If you wanted to upgrade your IRL PC to run 2 GPU's, but your case can't support it, that's not the guy who sold it/built it's fault - you buy a new case/motherboard and whatever other components you need to make the upgrade happen.

I agree that it's not realistic but that is how the game is coded. In this game the burden is on us the system builder to design a system that can be upgraded later. If we don't pick the right parts it then it's our fault, not the customer's fault, in this game. We should plan every "build me a computer" system to be possible to upgrade it later.

Originally posted by FuggenYEET®:

Much like how I understand the game mechanic of a benchmark score, but the customers asking for it sure as hell don't seem to in game - why they are asking for it seems arbitrary - "fix my computer so it that score number go bbrrrrrrr" without letting me know what parts they want is weird, people that care about a 3D Mark score IRL are at least a little knowledgeable about PC components and have an idea of what parts they want in their build to achieve a particular score.

This is how the developers have chosen to add some difficulty and challenge to the game: It's up to us to figure out what parts are needed to meet their scores. There are people here in the community that have made "3dmark calculator assistance" things that can help us figure out what to use in the game to make it easier. But it's supposed to be a challenge.

Originally posted by FuggenYEET®:

I'm still kinda early in the campaign (only picked the game up today) and I've been rejecting jobs that have a score requirement after the first two - trying to figure out what the right part to buy is to increase the score just enough, but without going over budget is a pain in the ass - I imagine, I'll need to adapt and learn it though.

Just so you know for the future: In the game the video card's performance accounts for 85% of the overall 3dmark score where the CPU and system ram account for the other 15%. Use the part ranking app in-game to see what other video cards you have access to and how they compare to the one already in their computer. All 3dmark jobs are solvable within budget in the game. Also: 3dmark jobs reward the most experience points out of all jobs in the game. You can skip them but you will probably level slower without doing them.