My PC and the Crap Weekend it Made For Me.

I recently blogged about wanting to try my first MMO and I’ve decided I really want it to be on a PC. The rig I got is decent but it needed a graphics card and a fresh install on Vista (don’t want to pay for Windows 7.) Everything seemed to go well with the fresh install but I noticed a very major problem; it won’t connect to the Internet. After messing around with it all night I decided to take it to Best Buy with me and have Geek Squad look at if as I pick up my Nvidia 9800.

They hooked it up and told me it’s missing a couple drivers and it would take them seven to ten days and $140 bucks to fix it. I thought that was too ridiculous and figured I could teach it to myself, this leads into Sunday.

My network card drivers expired for some reason and the one I needed wasn’t available anymore. I turned to Yahoo answers and after a couple hours a guy pointed me in the right direction. I’m happy to say I got that working, got the graphics card installed, and was finally able to access the Internet. This all took six hours of my lazy Sunday, which sucked because I still had issues for some odd reason.

After downloading Steam and installing some games I decided to start working on iTunes and moving my music over. Plugged in my phone and discovered my two front USB ports don’t work, and still don’t as of this writing. It’s just something else for me to try and figure out. All this mayhem with my fucking computer stemmed from a faulty Weather Channel desktop app that corrupted my system.

It still works, and I played Half Life: Ep. 1 for a bit and it worked fine. I tried downloading the benchmark Final Fantasy XIV program a fellow member of giantbomb alerted me to but it wouldn’t work. I even downloaded Maple Story from a recommendation (never played an MMO) and it ran like shit, even though my computer can handle something like Half Life. This all brings memories back with me trying to run Medal of Honor on a machine years ago that could handle it but just refused to. I applaud all PC gamers out there that put up with bullshit like this. I’ve never had a good experience on my PC besides Diablo 2, Plants vs. Zombies, and the Command & Conquer series because something stupid always fucks up; you need special drivers, or its not compatible with your OS.

I know some people never have problems with their machine, but all this bull crap makes me rely 100% on my consoles. I’m not an idiot with computers, but some of this is just ridiculous. I love how Vista always tells me it will look for the right stuff which it has always failed. I was so pissed off all day Sunday until I finally got shit working sorta; my USB still doesn’t work on the front but all four in the back work so any help would be appreciated for that. I will say I love how my computer looks now.

If there are things that I can improve without buying more items, like special drivers or something else, please let me know. I’m real interested in PC gaming and have been my entire life but everytime I pursue it, something always stands in my way. Also I will say I own two Macs and love them both. They just work but sadly Steam on Mac has been a big disappointment and continues to be so. Also didn’t care too much for Maple Story.

That’s all, I hope to have a better week this week. Getting Heavy Rain from Gamefly and will probably start my epic playthroughs of Mass Effect 1 and 2; I haven’t played either.