to walkthrough or not to walkthrough

[Oldgamer51]

Anyone else like myself keep a secondary pc beside the gameing platform you game on, use it to follow faqs/walkthroughs.  my second pc is pretty much set up for that task and I think I have the biggest collection of walkthroughs outside of gamefaqs there for playstation walkthroughs there is and I have always have ign.com on standby for my pc games...lol

[progets]

I don't do that but here are some suggestions:

- put them on your gaming PC and access then over the WiFi (or LAN) from your cell phone, tablet, laptop, etc.

- put them on your gaming PC and access them from RocketLauncher/Hyper Pause menu (no real time side-by-side in this setup)

- put them on your gaming PC and run a second monitor to view them on one monitor as your viewing the game you're playing on another monitor

- use one of many tools to give your Windows machine multiple desktops (very common in the Linux world) and run HyperSpin on one desktop and your walkthrough/guide on another desktop and toggle between them

- put them on you gaming PC and run RDP (Remote Desktop) to access a Windows desktop as a different user account (will steal desktop if you use the same user account) from your tablet, cell phone, laptop, etc.

- put them on your gaming PC and run a second virtual machine to view the walkthrough/guide via toggling, different monitors, RDP, etc.

 

To each their own but powering a second desktop PC to see a guide seems like a lot of space and power than could be saved. I don't use these but if you want to I think you have better options for ease of use, saving of space and saving of money.

[Oldgamer51]

thank you progets for the time using tips only if I had a monitor hook up on my card plug up  to cause im sure once you are using a "after market graphic card" you cant hook up to your pc's intergrated graphics to run a second monitor correct?

[JoyStickKilla]

Nope I don't use guides or walk through. Ruins the experience in figuring it out yourself imo.

Yes some boards you can use the integrated graphics alongside the graphics card

[Lucky1]

I usually finish the game withOUT the walkthrough first to get a good experience and a good flow. 

[dougan78]

I load up on walkthroughs. These older games are tough enough I only get a couple hours here and there. I will give a game a few sessions before I bust out a walkthrough, I really need to be stuck. I mostly do hyperpause and look at my stuff there as I am just getting past one part.

[Oldgamer51]

so do what I do plug in a second monitor in to the intergrated slot and pray?....lol

[progets]

The built-in video will work as a second monitor on most computers these days. Sometimes you need to make adjustments in the BIOS for it to work. Some older computers don't support using the built-in video for a second monitor but that's fairly rare these days. If you can't use the built-in video you could use the video card out of your other computer, buy a cheap video card or even get a USB video adapter.

[Oldgamer51]

I would like to thank each and everyone of you learned individuals for your sound advice and replys.  and speaking of adding a second monitor I did managed to track down a not so old none pcie slot able graphic card but my big old GeForce 750 is covering them uo so I don't have access to them darn it.  and speaking of that (since I like to waffle) I really never knew how important ram was when it came to gaming...here I went and brought that GeForce in preparation for up games I was drooling over and I don't have enough.  I have witcher 3 but with my 5.50 gb (mypc started out with 4 but I stole 1.50 gd from my vista) im still not doing so well, the stutters terribly playable only if you don't mind the pauses...lol   but again I thank you all your all aces to me and thankful to this old gamer hows its being done now and im grateful.