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PCGamingWiki was founded on 09 February 2012. The site and its community have attracted some of the most friendly and passionate PC gamers motivated in helping others with their problems.
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== Support Us ==
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==History==
'''Why support us?'''
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PCGamingWiki was founded on '''9 February 2012'''. The site and its community have attracted some of the most friendly and passionate PC gamers motivated in helping others with their problems.
*We are here to stay until every PC game gets fixed (the long haul).
 
*Ads are disabled for logged in users as a thank you to contributors.
 
*Daily publicly available XML dumps and the [[PCGamingWiki:CitadelProject|Citadel file hosting project]] means that this project will always live on.
 
  
'''If you found this wiki useful:'''
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PCGamingWiki ran a successful [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/438955692/pcgamingwiki-a-new-game-fixes-project Kickstarter campaign] in 2013.
Please [[File:Paypaldonate.gif|alt=donate|link=https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=22R7R7AJ6BWZ8]] via [https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=22R7R7AJ6BWZ8 PayPal] to help pay for server and bandwidth costs. Thanks to:
 
*<div style="font-size:80%">[[User:ratpad|ratpad]], Daniel Krummen, Casey Fulton, Andros Lee, [[User:X5trid3r|x5trid3r]], Andre Bubel, David Marchetti, Ruwald.</div>
 
  
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==Contact==
 
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In order to contact us about a general site issue, please leave a message on the [http://community.pcgamingwiki.com/forum/7-development/ forum] or visit our [https://discord.gg/KDfrTZ8 Discord server].
== Contact ==
 
In order to contact us about a general site issue, please leave a message on the [[PCGamingWiki:Forum|Forum]] where the admins and moderators will be notified immediately by email.
 
  
 
Andrew Tsai aka [[User:Andytizer|Andytizer]] (Founder) is available on:  
 
Andrew Tsai aka [[User:Andytizer|Andytizer]] (Founder) is available on:  
*reddit:[http://www.reddit.com/user/Daily_concern/ Daily_concern]
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*[http://www.reddit.com/user/Daily_concern/ /u/Daily_concern]
 
*[http://steamcommunity.com/id/andytizer Steam]
 
*[http://steamcommunity.com/id/andytizer Steam]
 
*[https://twitter.com/#!/Andytizer Twitter]
 
*[https://twitter.com/#!/Andytizer Twitter]
 
*[mailto:afj.tsai@gmail.com afj.tsai@gmail.com]
 
*[mailto:afj.tsai@gmail.com afj.tsai@gmail.com]
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*[https://discord.gg/KDfrTZ8 Discord server]
 
*[http://webchat.esper.net/?nick=&channels=pcgamingwiki IRC WebChat]
 
*[http://webchat.esper.net/?nick=&channels=pcgamingwiki IRC WebChat]
 
*GTalk: andytizer@gmail.com
 
*GTalk: andytizer@gmail.com
 
*Skype: Andytizer
 
*Skype: Andytizer
  
Forrest Fuqua aka [[User:JRWR|JRWR]] (Server Admin) is available on:
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[[User:Pridit|Pridit]] (Press Contact) is available on:
*[http://www.reddit.com/user/xJRWR/ reddit]
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*[mailto:press@pcgamingwiki.com press@pcgamingwiki.com] for press enquiries
*[http://steamcommunity.com/id/JRWR Steam]
 
*[mailto:jrwr00@gmail.com jrwr00@gmail.com]
 
*[http://webchat.esper.net/?nick=&channels=pcgamingwiki IRC WebChat]
 
*GTalk/Jabber: jrwr00@gmail.com
 
*Phone: 636-492-1205
 
  
== Thanks ==
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==Thanks==
It's an honour to be working on a project which I hope will benefit the PC gaming community.
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It's an honour to be working on a project which I hope will benefit the PC gaming community for years to come.
  
 
Thanks to:  
 
Thanks to:  
*Everyone who has written, edited and helped with the content on the site.
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*everyone who has written, edited and helped with the content on the site
*[[User:JRWR|JRWR]] for his server admin help.
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*[[User:JRWR|JRWR]] for his server admin help in 2012-13
*The [[PCGamingWiki:Moderators|moderators]] for all their help.
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*the [[PCGamingWiki:Moderators|moderators]] for all their help
*All the people who have made donations. Your names are on the home page to show my appreciation to all you guys.
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*all the people who have made [[PCGamingWiki:Donators|donations]]
*[[User:GumboJelly|GumboJelly]] for the current logo design.
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*[[User:GumboJelly|GumboJelly]] for the current logo design, and [[User:Hungry_eyes|Hungry eyes]] for updating it
*Randall Munroe from xkcd for having such an awesome usage policy for his comics.
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*Randall Munroe from [http://www.xkcd.com xkcd] for having such an awesome usage policy for his comics.
  
== Reddit Comics ==
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==Support us==
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Please help us to pay for server and bandwidth costs. Donations can be made on our [[PCGamingWiki:Donate|donation page]].
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Purchasing from some store links on game pages helps us out by sharing a portion of the purchase price with PCGamingWiki. This currently applies to [[Amazon|Amazon.com]], [[Amazon|Amazon.co.uk]], [[GamersGate]], [[GOG.com]], [[Green Man Gaming]], and [[Uplay]].
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==Reddit comics==
 
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File:PCGamingWikiragecomic.png|What I love about PC gaming/What I hate about PC gaming (fixed)
 
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== Origin Story ==
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==Media==
I’d just picked up Titan Quest on a Steam sale. I spent a huge amount of time navigating through search engines and forum posts trying to see what to install to get the best experience from the game. It turned out that there were a large number of fixes, fan patches and mods developed by the community after the demise of Iron Lore, which vastly improved the original game. However, information about this was strewn all over the internet and hidden in blog posts comments and buried in multi-page posts. Once I was done with the game, however, I realised that I had spent more time setting up the game than I had spent actually playing the game.
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PCGamingWiki has been covered by various sites and popular figures including the following:
 
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*[http://kotaku.com/5889069/pcgamingwiki-wants-to-solve-the-biggest-problems-with-pc-gaming-intimidation-and-confusion Kotaku]
I decided to write down all my own research so that I could share it back with the community. However, I wanted the format to be very simple and to contain everything required to get the game to run well on a single page. Instead of a putting everything into a blog or a forum, however, I thought ‘this kind of information would be much better on a wiki where other people could help keep it up to date’. It reminded me of reading the recent xkcd comic alt-text (displayed on our front page) where all long forum posts should have a user-editable section saying – ‘DEAR PEOPLE OF THE FUTURE – this is what we’ve figured out so far…’
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*[http://www.destructoid.com/pc-gaming-wiki-2-0-aims-to-help-fix-every-pc-game-222697.phtml Destructoid]
 
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*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW5ldLD0ysI#t=9m04s TotalBiscuit]
PCGamingWiki was registered on the 9th February and I began posting slowly on the site, adding pages here and there as I was setting up and playing more games. It was only when I started asking for help from reddit, that their PC gaming community went into a frenzy for it and upvoted my posts to the front page. I was tracking the real-time analytics (normally 2-3, now in the hundreds from reddit) when I suddenly saw a max influx of referrals from Twitter, and before long we had over 500 concurrent users on the site. TotalBiscuit had tweeted the site and my server was completely overloaded and no one could get in. Not long later, my hosting company told me my traffic was too much for them to handle and they dumped the site and refunded my money.
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*[http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/03/04/the-sunday-papers-208/ Rock Paper Shotgun]
 
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*[http://web.archive.org/web/20140330223912/http://www.gamingdaily.co.uk/2012/andrew-tsai-interview/ GamingDaily]
From the server outage, I had an outpouring of support and interest from the community for help with hosting woes. This included offers for assistance with the server move, free hosting and sponsorship. From this, I recruited JRWR, an amazing server administrator, to help with migrating the wiki to a new service and to help with all aspects of the backend including load balancing and caching. So far we’ve been managing the load really well and the site is growing massively. As of 29th February 2012, we’re standing on 1000 articles and 300 registered users, all in under 3 weeks, and it's still growing immensely.
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*[https://truepcgaming.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/pcgamingwiki-interview-with-andrew-tsai/ TruePCGaming]
 
 
The community has been really amazing on this project, and I was really surprised and appreciative of the number of donations I received and the level of contributions that people have made. Our users are extremely active, adding fixes and guides, requesting wiki features, spending time in our IRC channel, debating over categories and policies and really taking time to care for the site. I see the wiki as only really working with the support and knowledge of the community and the industrious editors, who only want to help the rest of the community.
 
 
 
My hope is that the site will address PC gaming’s biggest problem - it's intimidating and confusing. My aim is for there to be a single page about every PC game that has and will ever exist, and to list the things that we all want to know about how to fix them and get them to perform the want you want them to: Where are the save games? What’s the difference between the GOG, Origin and the Steam version? What exactly is Steam Cloud syncing? How do you fix the FOV? My wish is that when anyone gets a problem with a game or think of a fix for a game, they turn to PCGamingWiki instead of the forums. This will allow us all to collate information on fixes in a central communal location, in a simple and consistent format, that’s user-editable and can always be kept up to date. Ultimately, I hope that this resource will make PC gaming simpler and better for everyone.
 
  
 
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Revision as of 22:02, 3 September 2018

xkcd: Wisdom of the Ancients

History

PCGamingWiki was founded on 9 February 2012. The site and its community have attracted some of the most friendly and passionate PC gamers motivated in helping others with their problems.

PCGamingWiki ran a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2013.

Contact

In order to contact us about a general site issue, please leave a message on the forum or visit our Discord server.

Andrew Tsai aka Andytizer (Founder) is available on:

Pridit (Press Contact) is available on:

Thanks

It's an honour to be working on a project which I hope will benefit the PC gaming community for years to come.

Thanks to:

  • everyone who has written, edited and helped with the content on the site
  • JRWR for his server admin help in 2012-13
  • the moderators for all their help
  • all the people who have made donations
  • GumboJelly for the current logo design, and Hungry eyes for updating it
  • Randall Munroe from xkcd for having such an awesome usage policy for his comics.

Support us

Please help us to pay for server and bandwidth costs. Donations can be made on our donation page.

Purchasing from some store links on game pages helps us out by sharing a portion of the purchase price with PCGamingWiki. This currently applies to Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, GamersGate, GOG.com, Green Man Gaming, and Uplay.

Reddit comics

Media

PCGamingWiki has been covered by various sites and popular figures including the following: