Keyboard is PS/2.

Mouse is USB and headphones are USB.

That is all.

I haven't purchased any other games this year other than Helldivers 2. I've been having a helluva good time with it. Convinced 4 people to get a copy, they all love it and out of those 4 people they have convinced another 4 people to get a copy. My understanding is all those people are liking it, too.

Surge protector wouldn't be needed. You'd want to get a line conditioner if you think the power is not clean.

However, as already suggested, if you feel the power is an issue have an electrician check things out.

Also, nothing wrong with a house with old fuse type box. I lived in one 20ish years ago. Had a fuse box like that. We ran computers and all sorts of other electronic equipment without issues.

I greatly dislike the GeForce Experience crap they have. If the new control panel wasn't integrated with it, I'd give it a try.

Fanatical had a 17% off coupon that I made use of, plus I had some $2 off coupon from some purchase a while ago that I applied to the purchase. Game only cost me $30. My brother picked up his copy off Fanatical, too. Cost him about $32 with that 17% coupon.

We've been having fun dropping in and getting whopped on or taking out bugs. We've only put in about 6 hours into the game but it's been good fun.

I'd have been content spending an extra $10 and paying the full price for it. $40 isn't much for a game these days considering some of the dribble that's been coming out is pushing $60-70 for just the base game and if you want the stupid little extras they dangle in your face for a "deluxe" copy you're now spending $100 easy.

Fun game, I'd say well worth the $40 price tag if you enjoy these types of games.

I haven't really had any issues with the game other than the downtime on the servers for maintenance the other day.

I've been playing Aliens: Fireteam Elite and it's okay. I've had more issues in that game than I've had with HD2 so far, but it's still entertaining as long as you can find a team to join or have at least one person to coop with. L4D2 is dated and I never really got into that one. Vermintide 2 was okay, never played it much, but played the crap out of the first one.

If matchmaking can get smoothed out more I think HD2 will do just fine. It runs smooth on my system. I got the game for about $30 so I won't complain about the price, it could have been a crappy priced game like Ubisoft did with their Skull & Bones game being priced at $60.

I could, however, do without the shitty anit-cheat software. Hopefully that crap completely uninstalls when I get to the point that I'm done with HD2 and I remove it from my system.

6 hours into the game and the only thing I learned is how to walk.....the story hadn't even become interesting and all that you pretty much do is walk. Only reason I even tried the game was because I got it free on Epic. Glad I didn't pay money for it.

I kept my 980Ti for 6 years and I used it across multiple resolutions (1920x1080 and 5760x1080 - when a game properly supported it) and that meant as time went on I was adjusting down settings to keep decent frame rates, but it's not the graphics that keep me playing. I'm hoping my 3080Ti gives me a similar opportunity.

Not everyone is a graphics whore and needs try to max out every game when there is almost no difference between high and ultra settings.

If the GPU plays games to your expectation I would think you're not in the need to upgrade. Even with my 3080Ti I don't bother with DLSS (there is blurring from it that bugs me, regardless of what others might say about it) and I don't give a rat's ass about RT so I never enable it.

I play games I enjoy. I'm not a big AAA gamer because I think most of the suck or are such a poor state when they're released that I won't touch them for a couple of years after they've released.....there are exceptions, there are games that have been out a couple of years that are still in shit condition that I will never get (I'm looking at you Dying Light 2).

If you're on the boards looking for validation on if you should get a new GPU from strangers, you probably don't really need one. You're not missing out on things, no matter what Nvidia or AMD try to tell you with their software that downscales and then upscales and RT is handled so poorly by both sides that the only competition they can do between each other with it is to try and be the one that does it slightly less crappy than the other.

In all honesty, I've been having fun going back and playing older games over the new junk that's been coming out. Check out the list of games I've been playing lately:

• The Saboteur
• Soldier Of Fortune
• Call of Duty 2
• Advent Rising
• Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
• Shadow Ops: Red Mercury
• Rise of the Argonauts
• Boiling Point: Road to Hell
• Diablo II (not the updated Resurrected one)
• I'm currently playing Company of Heroes and also Fable: The Lost Chapters

All you fools paying for games/movies/music that are only useable with a specific digital platform.

Back when PC games were on physical media (which pretty much doesn't exist anymore) there was a time when you could do what you want with the game. Install it on whatever computer you want, play it when you want, how you want and so on. Eventually Steam came along. You could download a game or even physical copies of some games started requiring a Steam activation, even though the game was on the CD/DVD, you still needed to link the game to Steam to activate it.

When Steam started to take off and digital only was becoming more of the norm, the physical games became fewer and fewer and by this time any physical games (for example: Assassin Creed games to Uplay, Mass Effect games to EA and so on) required a digital DRM link to a digital platform and you were at the mercy of needing these digital platforms active in order to play a game you paid for.

Soon movies/shows and music were on the same path. Rarely do you see a new album release on CD and many movies/shows are no longer transitioning to physical media after they've left the theater or ran their run on TV. Many of these shows/movies are being produced and only available on some streaming platform or they're ran on TV or the theater and instead of going to physical they drop into a streaming platform that the developer/distributor owns. 5 years ago you could go into any local store such as Target, Wal-Mart, Best Buy and so on and you'd walk down several aisles of physical media for movies/shows/music (on CD) and now when you go into these stores you see a small end cap with DVDs or in the case of Best Buy, they no longer carry DVDs/Blu-Ray media.

People today are so okay with giving up their control for the idea of convenience of all these streaming channels or digital gaming platforms and then they have the audacity to turn around and bitch when they're told they will no longer own games. Ha, you fuckingretards, you brought this upon yourself. You already surrendered your control years ago. We won't get it back so shut the fuckup and take it up the ass.

I'm personally on a mission to get as much physical media as I can for older PC games (already sitting on 120+ older games I can play when I want) and movies (over 1300 movies and 40 complete TV show series owned on media which I've got all on my plex server) that I can watch on Plex or if I really needed to I can pull out one of my multiple DVD/Blu-ray players and connect them to my TVs to watch media that way. Any new PC games I get I strictly purchase off of GoG because I can download the game files to my side and install the game when I want, where I want and I don't need any kind of digital platform to run the games.

You said he had to install them off DVD. He doesn't have them on DVD. They files are already on a drive on his side, he simply just needs to install it. Installing a game from files already on a drive is a lot faster than having to wait for them to download and install.

You clearly didn't read all of his post:

I have a large library of original gems like Dungeon Keeper, MGS, SIMS, Flight Simulator, Crysis, Dead Space, Elden Ring, and more backed up on my 3 TB drive that I can play even 20 years after release. I converted all my physical games to digital formats for preservation. My kids can also play them without having to purchase them again.

Here are the steps:

1. He buys recent games from GoG.
2. Downloads the files to his side (he doesn't need to install them at this point in time if he doesn't want to)
3. Game files are readily available on his side to do with as he pleases. He can install, uninstall, install uninstall the same games when he wants without having to re-download them because he has the files on his drive.

If you didn't know, having a game downloaded from GoG requires zero internet connection to play the and requires no DRM of any kind to run the game. Steam or Origin or Uplay (maybe EGS, I don't really know much about it), they are digital DRM platforms. You need them to run the game, even if it's in offline mode for Steam you still need verification to initially run the game before going to offline mode. GoG requires none of that from the a games you purchase from it.

So, yes, you misread it. He has the game files already on his side which is why he said no need to redownload and wait 7+ hours.

I've got a couple 50+GB games saved on my computer, these are game files that are not currently installed. If I want to play one of the games it takes maybe 10 minutes to install it. I play the game and I can uninstall when I'm done. If for some reason I want to play the game again later I just install and wait about 10ish minutes then I can play it again.

Sorry if you don't understand.