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Is it cheating if you learn to play better watching other gamers?

I also learnt about response times the hard way with the first LED monitor I bought. I never bothered with LCD, I knew they were rubbish and I hung on to my old CRT screen way longer than most.

With modern games and good graphics 5 miliseconds is probably about the slowest that you'd consider acceptable.
 
This is only generalised information and there'll be exceptions out there, but as a general rule computer monitors have many more pixels per inch than a TV and that's where the difference in image quality stands out.

Another big difference between a monitor and a TV is the response time - how quickly the monitor can update changes in the image. In the image you posted above the monitor advertises a 1 milisecond response time which is pretty good, most TVs have a response time of around 25 milliseconds.
The mouse moved oddly when I used the tv. It moves fast on the monitor.
 
ChatGPT told me if I buy a game on Steam for macOS and it plays on Windows, I can download both because I paid for one. That would be great. I am finding Tomb Raider games frustrating and they are the only PC games I have. The games I really want are $60 now. That is too much. I want the Call of Duty games, Resident Evil and Sniper Elite 5. It is easier to play on the Mac and the screen looks better. There is a lot to learn. I think I can.
 
ChatGPT told me if I buy a game on Steam for macOS and it plays on Windows, I can download both because I paid for one. That would be great. I am finding Tomb Raider games frustrating and they are the only PC games I have. The games I really want are $60 now. That is too much. I want the Call of Duty games, Resident Evil and Sniper Elite 5. It is easier to play on the Mac and the screen looks better. There is a lot to learn. I think I can.

Yeah, if you buy something on Steam, it's just set to your account, so anywhere you can access Steam, you can always access whatever games you bought from it. It's never tied to just one machine or anything.
 
Yeah, if you buy something on Steam, it's just set to your account, so anywhere you can access Steam, you can always access whatever games you bought from it. It's never tied to just one machine or anything.

I did not think I could buy a game that works on macOS and Windows .. I did not think I could pay for one version and use both. That would be great. I like Steam more and more though I have twice bought games from them for macOS and they both crashed it. I think most of them must work or they would not sell them.

I really want some action games, nice AAA graphics and voice actors and stories but unless they are discounted they are $60. I will wait but to play on my PC I need something other than Lara Croft. It is fun and I love how it looks but I do not like puzzle games, I like skill games. I am stuck in Lara Croft now. I will need to find an IGN guide for this spot. Hard to remember the name of the game though because there are so many with almost the same Lara Croft name.
 
I did not think I could buy a game that works on macOS and Windows .. I did not think I could pay for one version and use both. That would be great. I like Steam more and more though I have twice bought games from them for macOS and they both crashed it. I think most of them must work or they would not sell them.

I really want some action games, nice AAA graphics and voice actors and stories but unless they are discounted they are $60. I will wait but to play on my PC I need something other than Lara Croft. It is fun and I love how it looks but I do not like puzzle games, I like skill games. I am stuck in Lara Croft now. I will need to find an IGN guide for this spot. Hard to remember the name of the game though because there are so many with almost the same Lara Croft name.

I have a site for you that may help: gamefaqs.com

Video guides are nice but they are often missing info (since recording footage of something and all that goes with it can be quite the process) and it can often take forever to search through a guide to find the bit you want, if that bit is even there. Gamefaqs is text-based guides, which means they often have descriptions of everything in a game. And I mean *everything*. If you dont understand how a given mechanic works? A well-written guide on there probably explains it (and the rest of the game in question). If you want to find secrets? Yeah, they'll be in there too. Stuck on a puzzle? Someone will have written out the solution.

It's a site that's been around for ages... they've got guides for games even I've never heard of. Usually a game will have more than one guide... same thing but written by different authors, so the style of guide can vary from one to the next. But they're an *excellent* resource for pretty much anyone in the hobby. It's pretty much the main site people go to when they get stuck in something.

Also yeah, the Tomb Raider games, which Lara stars in, are very much not pure action games. They're sorta like an Indiana Jones kind of concept, and much like in his stories, Lara's adventures frequently involve dealing with loopy puzzles and traps and dangerous areas, with combat being less frequent. In the older games the combat was honestly awful (seriously if you were to see it, the shooting and fighting look so absolutely goofy by today's standards) but the design of everything else was super high quality. From what I understand, the series as a whole has kept to that formula. Though perhaps with less goofy shooting.
 
I have a site for you that may help: gamefaqs.com

Video guides are nice but they are often missing info (since recording footage of something and all that goes with it can be quite the process) and it can often take forever to search through a guide to find the bit you want, if that bit is even there. Gamefaqs is text-based guides, which means they often have descriptions of everything in a game. And I mean *everything*. If you dont understand how a given mechanic works? A well-written guide on there probably explains it (and the rest of the game in question). If you want to find secrets? Yeah, they'll be in there too. Stuck on a puzzle? Someone will have written out the solution.

It's a site that's been around for ages... they've got guides for games even I've never heard of. Usually a game will have more than one guide... same thing but written by different authors, so the style of guide can vary from one to the next. But they're an *excellent* resource for pretty much anyone in the hobby. It's pretty much the main site people go to when they get stuck in something.

Also yeah, the Tomb Raider games, which Lara stars in, are very much not pure action games. They're sorta like an Indiana Jones kind of concept, and much like in his stories, Lara's adventures frequently involve dealing with loopy puzzles and traps and dangerous areas, with combat being less frequent. In the older games the combat was honestly awful (seriously if you were to see it, the shooting and fighting look so absolutely goofy by today's standards) but the design of everything else was super high quality. From what I understand, the series as a whole has kept to that formula. Though perhaps with less goofy shooting.
I am looking at the site now, thank you very much. I hope I can solve the puzzle where she is now. I thought I looked around pretty carefully but somehow I am missing something. Also, the game it meant for an X Box controller though it can work with a PS4. The directions in the games call for buttons I do not have but I figure out.
 
2) Response time 1 to 5 milliseconds measured through GTG. (Clarity during fast movement) The lower, the faster. (Manufacturers love to express response time in MPRT, but that's more indicative of refresh rate than actual response time.) MPRT makes such stats look better than they are, IMO.
Having a monitor with a good response time is important if you want to be competitive in First Person Shooter games.
I prefer that over quality, and usually reduce my in game setting overall, or I did when I used to play multiplayer.
 
Luckily the technology has come a long way since then. Though with an Nvidia 1660Ti, if I ever do get back into gaming it will adhere to that 1080p number, to mitigate game detail and frame rates. I still think about getting a 3060Ti....but then I think about the thermodyanics as well.
I have one now that I bought during COVID.
It was at the time where newer video-cards/computers were hard to get because of lock downs disturbing shipping.
I grabbed a new gaming platform when I had the chance while it was on special.

BTW:

Nvidia Reportedly Discontinues RTX 3060 Ti to Make Way for RTX 4060 Ti​

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-rtx-3060-ti-discontinue-rtx-4060-ti
 
The games I really want are $60 now. That is too much. I want the Call of Duty games, Resident Evil and Sniper Elite 5.
I would recommend the "Battlefield" franchise.
They usually have a co-op and/or single player choice that makes it free of hackers.
 
Yeah, if you buy something on Steam, it's just set to your account, so anywhere you can access Steam, you can always access whatever games you bought from it. It's never tied to just one machine or anything.
Almost all of my games are bought through Steam.
It is my preferred choice.
 
I would recommend the "Battlefield" franchise.
They usually have a co-op and/or single player choice that makes it free of hackers.
I just looked at Battlefield. It is expensive. Thank you for the suggestion though.
 
Almost all of my games are bought through Steam.
It is my preferred choice.

Yeah, same here. Most of my collection (that isnt emulation) is gotten from Steam.

Well, no, technically the larger part is over on Itch, after grabbing one of those mega-bundles that had like 1500 games in it. But for stuff I bought individually, it's mostly on Steam, with a few on Epic.

The Xbox has some stuff too, mostly larger games, since my PC is low on space, so the games that take 5 zillion gigs go onto the console.
 
When playing a game through Steam whether purchased or not, does it show up through their proprietary interface like a website, or does their games render independently on your monitor?

I may test out Steam in the near future when it comes to Linux games available. I just remember how much I hated EA games with all that Origin crap opening up online when I just wanted to play the Sims....maybe Tiger Woods PGA Golf 2003 as well.
 
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Yeah, same here. Most of my collection (that isnt emulation) is gotten from Steam.

Well, no, technically the larger part is over on Itch, after grabbing one of those mega-bundles that had like 1500 games in it. But for stuff I bought individually, it's mostly on Steam, with a few on Epic.

The Xbox has some stuff too, mostly larger games, since my PC is low on space, so the games that take 5 zillion gigs go onto the console.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is on sale on Steam. It looks like what I like, the beautiful graphics and places to go, great voices. It says it needs an Xbox controller and Steam does not know if it will support a PS4 controller.

I like the way the game looks and sounds and it is affordable now but I do not like Westerns, maybe I could like this anyway because .. if it has a good story. Do you advise me to get it and am I supposed to buy an Xbox controller just for the game? Sorry for awkward sentences, words are hard right now.
 
When playing a game through Steam whether purchased or not, does it show up through their proprietary interface like a website, or does their games render independently on your monitor?

I may test out Steam in the near future when it comes to Linux games available.
Once a game is launched it runs basically as if Steam was not running.

Steam is an application that includes a storefront to buy games, a game manager (download, update, etc), game launcher, and friend list (chat and invite to join games). It also includes Steam input which allows controller input to be customized. There is an optional Steam overlay that can be bound to a key combination (shift-tab by default). which allows quick access to friends, controller setup, etc while in a game.

Valve has done a lot of work to make a Windows compatibility layer for games called Proton. It works so well now that I haven't had a problem with any game on my Linux computer in years. You can just install the game in Steam and it works normally almost every time. I think the main category of games that don't work with it at this point are multiplayer ones with kernel level anti-cheat systems. If a game is listed as supporting the Steam Deck that will work. The Steam Deck runs Linux.
 
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Red Dead Redemption 2 is on sale on Steam. It looks like what I like, the beautiful graphics and places to go, great voices. It says it needs an Xbox controller and Steam does not know if it will support a PS4 controller.

I like the way the game looks and sounds and it is affordable now but I do not like Westerns, maybe I could like this anyway because .. if it has a good story. Do you advise me to get it and am I supposed to buy an Xbox controller just for the game? Sorry for awkward sentences, words are hard right now.
I would be very surprised if it doesn't work with a PS4 controller on PC because the game is on the PS4. Most games like that even show the right button icons, but worst case it would show xbox ones instead. Usually it is possible to configure the controller in the Steam settings so that the correct icons show up.
 
Valve has done a lot of work to make a Windows compatibility layer for games called Proton. It works so well now that I haven't had a problem with any game on my Linux computer in years. You can just install the game in Steam and it works normally almost every time. I think the main category of games that don't work with it at this point are multiplayer ones with kernel level anti-cheat systems. If a game is listed as supporting the Steam Deck that will work. The Steam Deck runs Linux.

Thanks- good to know. I've been following "Glorious Eggroll" and his Linux Nobara so I know his version of ProtonGE is quite good. To date I've tried to get older 32-bit Windows games to work using Wine 9.0 without success.
 
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Red Dead Redemption 2 is on sale on Steam. It looks like what I like, the beautiful graphics and places to go, great voices. It says it needs an Xbox controller and Steam does not know if it will support a PS4 controller.

I like the way the game looks and sounds and it is affordable now but I do not like Westerns, maybe I could like this anyway because .. if it has a good story. Do you advise me to get it and am I supposed to buy an Xbox controller just for the game? Sorry for awkward sentences, words are hard right now.

I dont actually play any of the big-budget games myself, as they dont hold my attention and the visual style kinda puts me off (not fond of realism). I'm aware of Red Dead, I know what it is and what it's like, but it's not one I'd ever play myself, so I dont really have any opinion of it since I've not played it or watched any gameplay of it.

Not to mention that as a rule I'm not very trusting of any AAA game (which is the category all of the really high-budget games fall into), so it's rare that I'll ever directly recommend one.

What I can say though is that pretty much all of these games you're looking at are going to involve a lot of game mechanics that you arent familiar with yet, and may get stuck on. These games are typically made for players who have already been doing this for awhile, so the games are absolutely complex in a lot of ways. Or at least, complex to someone new to the hobby.

That's one of the issues with this hobby, for newcomers... it does a very bad job of teaching you stuff you need to know, but the very first games it will shove in your face are the very expensive ones, making it even harder to learn.

So, that's just something to keep in mind... no matter what you pick, you absolutely will have to learn a bunch of things. My #1 suggestion is to not just leap into a given purchase. I'd say the #2 suggestion is that once you do pick something, stick with it even when you hit a wall. Just bouncing off every time you get stuck, only to go buy another very expensive thing that you may get stuck on, wont help you learn (but it will help you lose money!)

But if you take the time to learn, you can slowly stop getting stuck. Remember, it's like learning VR, which you already did. And you know how that was: you had to stick to it and not give up, yeah?

Remember "Jeff"?
 
I dont actually play any of the big-budget games myself, as they dont hold my attention and the visual style kinda puts me off (not fond of realism). I'm aware of Red Dead, I know what it is and what it's like, but it's not one I'd ever play myself, so I dont really have any opinion of it since I've not played it or watched any gameplay of it.

Not to mention that as a rule I'm not very trusting of any AAA game (which is the category all of the really high-budget games fall into), so it's rare that I'll ever directly recommend one.

What I can say though is that pretty much all of these games you're looking at are going to involve a lot of game mechanics that you arent familiar with yet, and may get stuck on. These games are typically made for players who have already been doing this for awhile, so the games are absolutely complex in a lot of ways. Or at least, complex to someone new to the hobby.

That's one of the issues with this hobby, for newcomers... it does a very bad job of teaching you stuff you need to know, but the very first games it will shove in your face are the very expensive ones, making it even harder to learn.

So, that's just something to keep in mind... no matter what you pick, you absolutely will have to learn a bunch of things. My #1 suggestion is to not just leap into a given purchase. I'd say the #2 suggestion is that once you do pick something, stick with it even when you hit a wall. Just bouncing off every time you get stuck, only to go buy another very expensive thing that you may get stuck on, wont help you learn (but it will help you lose money!)

But if you take the time to learn, you can slowly stop getting stuck. Remember, it's like learning VR, which you already did. And you know how that was: you had to stick to it and not give up, yeah?

Remember "Jeff"?

Thank you for this advice. I am grateful. I would not have thought of those things. I think you are right I need to stick with something so I can get better instead of going from game to game.

I will never forget Jeff. You helped me change who I am, that is how I beat Jeff. I never felt such a wall. That feeling when he was really really dead (they trick you) I never felt that before. For a while I did not keep playing. I stayed there feeling what I did. The whole game had become about getting past Jeff which seemed very unfairly impossible. You said to get a little further each time. That is how I made it. The tiniest bits. I have used that with other games now. I would like if I could use it in my life but I still get that stuck feeling and I stop thinking.

I have that guide you linked to for Tomb Raider. I will learn from that and try to play through for a while. I do not like her a lot but the game can be good and I love the sounds. I think you are right and I have to learn to get better so I will try to do it with her.
 

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