- Sep 6, 2003
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I have been out of the gaming scene for about 7yrs and am getting back in. The last game I bought was BF4.
Things have chaged since my hiatus.
It appears now that everything is d/l for the most part and that is fine by me.
Wanting to get back in, I would like to get the most efficient single repository, not wanting to have multiple d/l of the same stuff.
From what I have seen it looks like Origin or Steam is the way to go. Which one is the question. Games I plan on getting will be BF2042, BF1, BFV, RUST, FORZA 5, possibly MS FLIGHT SIM & a SIMS game.
The most important game (probably BF2042) will be installed on the main drive, a WD BLACK 500GB SN850 GEN4 PCI-E running on a Ryzen 5600x & mated with RX580 8GB GPU, 32GB DDR4 PC-3600 w/ a 150/10Mb/s internet connection (plan on gaming @ 1920x1080 or 1920x 1200, no QHD or UHD). This machine will also have a 1TB WD BLACK SN750 SE (I have read the issues w) the smaller SSDs in that family), so the other games can go there. Or if anybody has any data showing there is no difference between which drive the games go on, let me know as I also have to install the Office Suite, SolidWorks and an older Adobe Suite on there too.
One caveat is that I have a couple similar in spec machines that I would also like to game on a couple other PCs I own, in the same home, but only be playing any 1 game at a time, but my wife may be playing a different game on my account at the same time.
Please, steer me in the correct direction so I can set this up once, get the most bang for my $$ and keep redundant d/l's to a minimum.
Thanks,
Bob
Additional questions not in the "first draft"
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"Another question - since I am wanting games that are really not easily keyboard controlled, how would a PS3 do? I either have BT or have a BT Dongle for all computers that would used.
Thanks,
Bob"
Things have chaged since my hiatus.
It appears now that everything is d/l for the most part and that is fine by me.
Wanting to get back in, I would like to get the most efficient single repository, not wanting to have multiple d/l of the same stuff.
From what I have seen it looks like Origin or Steam is the way to go. Which one is the question. Games I plan on getting will be BF2042, BF1, BFV, RUST, FORZA 5, possibly MS FLIGHT SIM & a SIMS game.
The most important game (probably BF2042) will be installed on the main drive, a WD BLACK 500GB SN850 GEN4 PCI-E running on a Ryzen 5600x & mated with RX580 8GB GPU, 32GB DDR4 PC-3600 w/ a 150/10Mb/s internet connection (plan on gaming @ 1920x1080 or 1920x 1200, no QHD or UHD). This machine will also have a 1TB WD BLACK SN750 SE (I have read the issues w) the smaller SSDs in that family), so the other games can go there. Or if anybody has any data showing there is no difference between which drive the games go on, let me know as I also have to install the Office Suite, SolidWorks and an older Adobe Suite on there too.
One caveat is that I have a couple similar in spec machines that I would also like to game on a couple other PCs I own, in the same home, but only be playing any 1 game at a time, but my wife may be playing a different game on my account at the same time.
Please, steer me in the correct direction so I can set this up once, get the most bang for my $$ and keep redundant d/l's to a minimum.
Thanks,
Bob
Additional questions not in the "first draft"
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"Another question - since I am wanting games that are really not easily keyboard controlled, how would a PS3 do? I either have BT or have a BT Dongle for all computers that would used.
Thanks,
Bob"
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