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Top 10 Ways to Enhance Your PC Gaming Experience

PC gaming is fantastic, but it’s more complicated than console gaming. PC gaming comes up with many benefits over consoles, such as installing mods, good quality graphics, etc. Still, to enjoy such benefits, your computer must be optimized for the best performance.

On the other hand, console operating systems are there for running games only and few simple applications; however, they can be more productive with the resources. You have many options on PCs, but that gives other programs much potential to reduce the video game performance and steal processing power.

PC gaming experience offers you many hardware options to choose from, like tweaks to enhance performance and other ways to make your experience better. All this is only possible if you are ready to put in time and effort.

Here we have lined up the top 10 PC mods and tricks for you to have a better gaming experience;

Overclock Your Video Card

This is said to be one of the freest and easiest ways to boost your gaming experience by overclocking your video card. It is effortless to do and won’t cost you a lot but can show you visible performance improvements. This feature won’t make your unplayable game playable, but it can allow the game to run smoothly and look a little presentable.

Hook Up a Gamepad

We firmly support mouse and keyboard camp, but this is somewhat true that some games are much better with a gamepad. The Xbox 360, in this case, is preferable, but there are other good options too, which are relatively easy to set up.

Ultimately many games should support gamepads, but if your chosen one doesn’t, then you can use tools like Joystick Mapper (on your Mac devices) and JoyToKey (on Windows) so that it works.

 Back-Up and Sync Your Saved Games

Ever experienced a hard drive that failed to save you games? Or have you played on another PC that couldn’t save your progress? Steam’s built-in cloud feature can sync some of the saved games, but it is not always reliable as it doesn’t work with all the games.

However, a tool like Game Save Manager can sync and back up your games with Dropbox. Moreover, if GameSave Manager does not support a particular game, or you prefer to do it yourself, you can sync your games and save them manually with Dropbox.

Organize Your Overflowing Steam Library

Most PC gamers use Steam to manage their games. Using Steam means you have too many games. Fortunately, Steam comes up with certain built-in features that enable you to control the overflowing list. You can add games in different genres and categories manually or do it automatically with tools like Depressurizer. Steam also offers some different ‘views’ that make browsing easier in some circumstances.

Get Hold Of Some Awesome Hardware

An excellent gaming PC goes a long way, but there is more to the category of hardware. Are you looking for some responsive controls? Get a fantastic keyboard and mouse. Prefer a better-looking picture? Make sure you have a great monitor for such visuals. Want to have a good sound while playing? Get hold of headphones with good sound quality.

If you prefer playing online, then attach a microphone to your headphones or get a gaming headset. In case your computer is very loud, control the noise through water cooling or controllable fans.

Load Up on Mods

One of the great things about PC gaming is undoubtedly the mods. Don’t like something particular about your game? There are chances that someone must have created an installable mod to tweak.

Mods make the graphics of your look impressive; they add relatively new features and missions, which paves the way towards modern features and retro games.

Tweak Your Settings for Optimal Graphics and Performance

Choose perfect settings for your hardware. It is a time-consuming process to learn what each setting says but this will make your process very easy. Through this, you’ll know which ones are best performers and troublesome. You’ll be able to get a perfect match as per your taste.

If you don’t like tweaking, you can even try a preset like ‘medium’ that works for you; also, certain apps can provide you with perfect settings. They usually work well, but they can be a good starting point, but a little bit of manual tweaking can help you for some optimal settings.

These are some of the ways that can surely enhance your PC Gaming Experience.

Christopher Stern

Christopher Stern is a Washington-based reporter. Chris spent many years covering tech policy as a business reporter for renowned publications. He has extensive experience covering Congress, the Federal Communications Commission, and the Federal Trade Commissions. He is a graduate of Middlebury College. Email:[email protected]

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