Gaming Essentials?

[BuniBealla]

what are to you some recommended essentials gamers should have?

this can be certain games, snacks, pc parts, software, music or anything else uwu

[kbiz]

Messaggio originale di Hammer Of Evil:

a great mousepad, and multicored rig if you wanna do video encoding and not die of old age before its finished and ready to upload lol

Cheers. I do a lot of video encoding.

[InfinityJosh]

Games:
-Age of empires 3 (RTS)
-GRID 2 (racing)
-Serious Sam 3 (fps)

PC:
-intel CPU
-NVIDIA GPU
-SSD

Food:
-crispy mc bacon/gran crispy mc bacon (mc Donald’s)
-coffee sundae, smarties mc flurry (mc Donald’s)
-bacon chicken burger (Burger King)
-the meal with grilled chicken (don’t remember name but is delicious)

Drink:
-coke zero
-Sprite Zero
-monster ultra

Anyway for good gaming experience:
-60 stable fps (99% time)
-1920x1080p resolution
-FXAA (best antialiasing and low demanding)

For racing games:
-Xbox one gaming pad

Monitor:
-60 hz is enough put anti blue technology on and eye relief mode on (yellowish screen)

[St✩rlight]

Messaggio originale di Caldari Ghost:

A proper non-logitech gaming mouse.

You prefer Razer?

[Fajita Jim]

2nd monitor.

You'll never want to live without it once you've done it.

[Poyzo]

A chair (office) that leans back.

[Fajita Jim]

Messaggio originale di Poyzo:

A chair (office) that leans back.

Hell, no. Don't do that to yourself. 😠

[Nimsosim]

https://youtu.be/NqvyGqoO5Ag?si=q0TuFBGaujm4gHXR

[kbiz]

Messaggio originale di Fajita Jim:

Messaggio originale di Poyzo:

A chair (office) that leans back.

Hell, no. Don't do that to yourself. 😠

An ass-comfortable chair is essential for proper gaming form.

[Fajita Jim]

Messaggio originale di kbiz:

An ass-comfortable chair is essential for proper gaming form.

Just sit properly. Tale care of your back. There's not much more crippling than a weeks-long backache, and if you keep sitting like that, they're coming.

[Basarab Laiota]

Messaggio originale di Fajita Jim:

2nd monitor.

You'll never want to live without it once you've done it.

sometimes i get more gaming done when i turn that 2nd monitor off

[BuniBealla]

Messaggio originale di Karumati:

Messaggio originale di Uncle Sam:

Water instead of energy drinks or other beverages.

energy drinks is life essentials

which brand tho? uwu

[isomorphic_projection]

Electricity

[Devsman]

Messaggio originale di kbiz:

Messaggio originale di Devsman:

Let me ask you this:

About how long does it take a new keyboard to become shiny?

The keyboard and mouse need to consider the possibility they might get gunked up. Yes, there is a chance. But what happens when you want to both eat and play at the same time? What do you do? Do you go for it?

If it ever happened to me (which is another mystery; Bowser ain't exactly making me crave taquitos), I'd just hit pause or wait it out.

Messaggio originale di Tonepoet:

Not entirely true. First, higher framerates translate into more frequently updated game states even if you can't see the frames. This leads to more analogous input.

I guess it depends on the game. I don't have any specific examples, but it's not hard to imagine some games could poll for input and recalculate stuff more often than they refresh the screen.

I know of a couple of cases from the PS1 days where they did sorta similar stuff. In FF7, the battle screen refreshed at 15FPS and the menu below it refreshed at 30FPS. At one point before release, Crash Bandicoot (1) recalculated its physics 1000 times per second.

Strictly speaking, there's also no reason an input has to be directly liked to a particular frame anyway. But now we're getting too speculative.

[De Hollandse Ezel]

a custom build pc, no parts in it ever more than 5 year old (replace them when they do) with in it
that will cost you at least 1200 euro :
-
essential parts :
a motherboard (with a decent audiochip)
2 sticks of ram
a cpu
a cpu cooler
a dedicated gpu
a psu
a storage device (m.2 in this day and age)
a case
at least 3 casefans of 120mm
a monitor minimum 1440p
a mechanical keyboard
a decent mouse
some decent speakers
**an usb stick for bios flashing
**an instalation disk or usb for windows/your prefered OS

thats it.
anything else is not needed
more or larger casefans are optional
anything beyond aircooled, is optional, AIO/full custom loop not at all demanded.
more or larger storage decvices is optional
an optical drive (cardreader and/or blue ray/dvd reader) is optional
microphone is optiomal

...
headphones.. I never ever owned them.. I hate anything on my head while gaming.. so.. not needed to game at all.

a gaming chair.. sure I have one.. but I have gamed years on just a normal deskchair or office chair.. so just "a chair" will do fine.

mousepad? a flat surface is fine... I found most desks are flat enough to work as mousepad themselves.. so a mousepad is optional

I would say knowledge how to build that pc, and take it apart again is also essential, and ofcourse the ability to install it.

I'd say the basic things you want install is
**OS
**update & flash bios
**drivers
**virusscanner (can recoment kaspersky.. but feel free to pick what you like
**an office program (corel wordperfect is my prefered, most pick MS word.. openoffice is available too
**some codec pack.. or a dedicated program to play all audio and video without issue.

-I usually also add deamontools for dvd ripping, your prefered p2p download program, and powerdvd but I consider those personal.

[Devsman]

Messaggio originale di Xero_Daxter:

Messaggio originale di Fake:

Underwear that absorbs farts already exist. . . .

So you’re telling me that scientists went out of their way to make something like this?

What’s next? A pants that scratches your butt for you?

Forget flying cars, why don't we have this?!?

Messaggio originale di Electric Cupcake:

Speaking of desks, every good desk needs a power and USB hub grommet.

If the bloody Resolute Desk doesn't have a grommet, it's automatically a ♥♥♥♥ desk.

https://www.homedepot.com/b/Tools-Power-Tool-Accessories-Drill-Bits-Hole-Saws-Hole-Saws-Bits/N-5yc1vZc268

It's the one disadvantage to using a table over a desk. I have to actually put my surge protectors on top of the table instead of having them built in. Otherwise, going table instead was the best home office decision I've ever made.

Messaggio originale di Fajita Jim:

Messaggio originale di Poyzo:

A chair (office) that leans back.

Hell, no. Don't do that to yourself. 😠

Bucket tilt > no tilt > that inconceivable ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ where the back tilts but the seat stays level