Initially when pc games were developed, they were sold on floppy disk or CD-ROM and well boxed in very large unnecessary boxes. To get a PC game then, you are required to go to the video store or electronic store. However in this era with the advent of free downloads over the net, you can always save time, money and even the stress by pc games download directly to your computer and this can be either with the use of steam, through torrents or even through the game maker sires.
There a quite a number of ways to download pc games but we’ll have a look at a few processes involved in each method.
- Legal Games Download
- Search for the game you want to download
- Compare and contrast the system requirements of the game to your systems
- Click on download game and follow whatever instructions are displayed in-screen for payment
- Follow the developers instruction to have the game downloaded
- Install the game if it doesn’t install automatically and Boom! You’re good to go.
- Downloading PC games using Torrents
- It is quite important for you to understand the risks involved and the legality of the use of torrents
- Get yourself a torrent client. E.g. uTorrent or Bit Torrent
- Search for the torrents of the game you want to download
- Observe the number of seeders found on a certain torrent to determine its level of originality and safety of such torrents. There is no specific amount of seeders that you should be looking for but more than 10 seems like a good torrent that you can easily trust
- Using the magnet link, download the game
- Finish installation of the game by opening the ReadMe or Install .txt file which often appears in the downloaded game file.
- The game can thus be launched by double-clicking it on the desktop screen.
- Checking your system requirement
It is always annoying for you to wait for hours for PC games download only to discover that you can’t play the game because of your system’s inability to meet up with the games computer requirement or specifications. However the essentiality of this part is to save you that stress.
- Know for sure that not all PC’s can play every single game
- Check your computer’s video card against the games recommended cards
- Also check the RAM and processor that your computer possesses
- Availability of enough space on the hard drive
- If you checked your system capabilities and they happen to meet the games computer requirements then you can always download such pc games and play them smoothly on your personal computer without slagging or poor graphics quality. It is however important to note that the use of game boosters will compound your problems rather than solve them as such applications cant boost themselves not to talk of another application on the system, so stay away from them as much as possible and use the task manager that is on your computer to terminate unwanted tasks.