Microsoft Is Finally Looking Into the August Windows Update That Keeps Killing Your Games

[David_Schroth]

A week of players yelling into Discord finally moved the needle. Microsoft opened an investigation late on August 19 into reports that its August Patch Tuesday update is breaking PC games, after a studio publicly pinned the crashes on the patch and Microsoft spent several days saying nothing at all. The update in question is […]

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[Grimlakin]

Thankfully I game so little lately that it doesn't matter. part of me wants to game more... part of me wants more sleep at night... being over 50... damnit...

 

[Ditchinit]

Thankfully I game so little lately that it doesn't matter. part of me wants to game more... part of me wants more sleep at night... being over 50... damnit...

There's plenty of game time after you retire. Ask me how I know.

There isn't a lot of disposable income for building the latest and greatest PC ever made ... which is compounded by current economics.

 

[Dan_D]

There's plenty of game time after you retire. Ask me how I know.

There isn't a lot of disposable income for building the latest and greatest PC ever made ... which is compounded by current economics.

Yeah don't get me started on that. I make more money than ever and it doesn't go as far as my salary from 10 years ago did. I used to be that guy that built a new PC every year or two. I'd upgrade to nearly every generation of GPU and CPU, etc. Now, I'm looking at my current rig as if it will be my last.

If pricing doesn't return to something more akin to what we are used to, this may very well be my last DIY PC. Granted, the lower price tiers aren't impacted as badly, but I've always been a high end PC build kind of guy. Even if I adopted a longer life cycle for my machines, building a high end PC at current market prices falls somewhere between financially irresponsible and totally impossible to afford.

If I had to duplicate my PC tomorrow it would easily cost me four or five thousand dollars more than I paid for it a year and a half or so ago.

 

[Grimlakin]

Yeah don't get me started on that. I make more money than ever and it doesn't go as far as my salary from 10 years ago did. I used to be that guy that built a new PC every year or two. I'd upgrade to nearly every generation of GPU and CPU, etc. Now, I'm looking at my current rig as if it will be my last.

If pricing doesn't return to something more akin to what we are used to, this may very well be my last DIY PC. Granted, the lower price tiers aren't impacted as badly, but I've always been a high end PC build kind of guy. Even if I adopted a longer life cycle for my machines, building a high end PC at current market prices falls somewhere between financially irresponsible and totally impossible to afford.

If I had to duplicate my PC tomorrow it would easily cost me four or five thousand dollars more than I paid for it a year and a half or so ago.

This is my first top tier (not top OC tier) pc ever. I've always in the past bought 1 - 2 tiers from the top to balance performance to budget. I built everything but my GPU replacement right before everything went into the crap for PC parts. In reality I got very lucky. This year I got the 5090... (not so lucky.) But I'm happy with my setup.

And honestly current gen top tier I think is going to have a longer lifecycle than ever before in the consumer space, at least until the VC and Nvidia circular money train dries up.