Post by mslo79 on Nov 5, 2017 5:24:20 GMT
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Yeah, you definitely want to avoid laptops for gaming as you need a desktop as they are much better for gaming as they are more powerful and can be upgraded etc.
basically where laptops really suck is they tend to have really underpowered GPU's and that tends to be a show stopper especially if your game is fairly new.
Ill definitely avoid Microsoft games on PC simply because of this issue i had (which never happened to me before with the typical ways games are installed on the PC)...
1)install Forza 7 demo to another drive outside of your main boot drive. NOTE: i installed to my Z drive which is a 5TB hard drive. my main boot drive, that Windows 10 is on, is a 250GB SSD.
2)at this point everything is fine and you can play the game.
3)format main drive and reinstall windows.
at this point you can't get all of your free space back on the 5TB drive you installed Forza 7 demo to. only way i could get my free space back was to get all of my files off of the 5TB drive i installed Forza 7 demo to and then format it and then transfer the files back. after that issue i am done using any of that Microsoft BS as that simply should never happen. normally you can simply delete the installation directory and your free space is freed up but not with this.
how i noticed this was when i selected all of the files on my 5TB drive and checked the properties and compared that size to the used space when you right click the 5TB drive and select properties as there was something in the ball park of 7GB of space difference when those should be pretty much the same. but after i temporarily transferred the files on the 5TB to my other hard drives, then formatted the 5TB, and transferred the files back to the 5TB hard drive... when i checked those two things again they played out as i expected them to as the used space of the files were basically the same as the used space when checking the drive itself (and no, there was no hidden files etc as i already checked this).
hell, the folders Forza 7 demo created you could not even delete. even when i tried booting up a live linux disc and removing the directory, while that removed the directory, it never freed up the storage space that it should have.
basically you can't even view the files of the Forza 7 demo when it's installed or even see how much storage space they take up etc. that's just taking stuff too far on Microsoft's part.
p.s. there was no errors on the drive either as it works 100%. it was definitely something tied to the Forza 7 demo not freeing up the space it should have. i am not even sure if MS is aware of this issue or not. but that wasted several hours of my time to fix it having to transfer files around between hard drives.
Personally I'm not interested in using my laptop for gaming. I got a few games on here that I can't get on a console. And like I said I got a game and it wouldn't work on this computer. That was really annoying.
Yeah, you definitely want to avoid laptops for gaming as you need a desktop as they are much better for gaming as they are more powerful and can be upgraded etc.
basically where laptops really suck is they tend to have really underpowered GPU's and that tends to be a show stopper especially if your game is fairly new.
The strongest argument consoles have anymore are the games themselves... And that's not a factor for Xbox since now Microsoft is putting all it's games on both Xbox and PC.
Ill definitely avoid Microsoft games on PC simply because of this issue i had (which never happened to me before with the typical ways games are installed on the PC)...
1)install Forza 7 demo to another drive outside of your main boot drive. NOTE: i installed to my Z drive which is a 5TB hard drive. my main boot drive, that Windows 10 is on, is a 250GB SSD.
2)at this point everything is fine and you can play the game.
3)format main drive and reinstall windows.
at this point you can't get all of your free space back on the 5TB drive you installed Forza 7 demo to. only way i could get my free space back was to get all of my files off of the 5TB drive i installed Forza 7 demo to and then format it and then transfer the files back. after that issue i am done using any of that Microsoft BS as that simply should never happen. normally you can simply delete the installation directory and your free space is freed up but not with this.
how i noticed this was when i selected all of the files on my 5TB drive and checked the properties and compared that size to the used space when you right click the 5TB drive and select properties as there was something in the ball park of 7GB of space difference when those should be pretty much the same. but after i temporarily transferred the files on the 5TB to my other hard drives, then formatted the 5TB, and transferred the files back to the 5TB hard drive... when i checked those two things again they played out as i expected them to as the used space of the files were basically the same as the used space when checking the drive itself (and no, there was no hidden files etc as i already checked this).
hell, the folders Forza 7 demo created you could not even delete. even when i tried booting up a live linux disc and removing the directory, while that removed the directory, it never freed up the storage space that it should have.
basically you can't even view the files of the Forza 7 demo when it's installed or even see how much storage space they take up etc. that's just taking stuff too far on Microsoft's part.
p.s. there was no errors on the drive either as it works 100%. it was definitely something tied to the Forza 7 demo not freeing up the space it should have. i am not even sure if MS is aware of this issue or not. but that wasted several hours of my time to fix it having to transfer files around between hard drives.