gaming PC windows setup

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OS

Use Rufus to create bootable USB. You can download Windows ISO from Rufus. Or, use AtlasOS(Install on a USB).

• Boot into USB and install Windows!

After first boot up

• open this webpage. It will help to walk you through everything.
• Install chocolatey
• Install firefox choco install -y firefox Extensions: 1password Duckduckgo ublock origin dark reader ttv lol refined github
• 1password choco install -y 1password
• from desktop, open Atlas directory. you will want to install some stuff. Nvidia drivers using NVCleanstall. System drivers via snappy driver installer.
• Activate windows by connecting to the Internet. Hardware verification should have succeeded. Windows 10 key located in 1password if needed.

programs

the list below is in order that you should install them.

choco install -y dropbox --pre 

By having dropbox enabled now, you can download settings used by some programs.

choco install winaero-tweaker

When you open Winaero Tweaker after install, you can import changed settings.

Utilities

choco install -y winrar 7zip vlc msiafterburner rufus f.lux launchy

After install of MSI afterburner, select settings > monitoring > select GPU usage and select "show on screen display" checkbox. do this for CPU usage and framerate.

Rivatuner is installed when msi afterburner gets installed. Open it and make sure to enable to boot when Windows boots.

Chat clients

choco install -y discord

Game launchers

• vc runtime all in one this will get things working like rockstar launcher. I used to get error msvcp140.dll was not found. Fixed by running this.

choco install -y steam goggalaxy epicgameslauncher playnite origin livesplit itch

• Steam - After login, open settings > downloads > steam library folders. Make sure to add D://steam
• battle.net launcher

Anti-virus

* kaspersky free antivirus - this was chosen because it's supposed to be light on your system resources and free. Login with account. settings are pretty good defaults except it wants to run extra stuff for you. in start menu, you can select the VPN for example and uninstall the program entirely. for other features, you just disable them.

Use Windows Defender.

Development

choco install -y github-desktop visualstudio2022community dotnet vscode

Entertainment

choco install -y streamlink-twitch-gui
choco install -y freetube --pre 

Program settings

Download syncfolder (other link). Import the settings from dropbox folder settings. It will import settings and put the files in the folders the computer requires.

Oculus

For oculus quest 2 VR:

• virtual desktop streamer server
• oculus software

symbolic links dont work for the dropbox file sync. 2 issues:

1. not sure if i want to use hard or soft links. confusing to see what one will work.
2. I setup a soft link. source of truth dropbox file > destination where program expects it. I then ran program and what it did was delete the old file and create a new file. what that did was delete my soft link!

The solution I am thinking of should be...

• OS independent. works on windows, linux, macos
• GUI because command line on windows is no fun
• be able to import settings of this program (maybe even sync them!) and it will do all of it's management.
• simply syncs files and folders between each other. program checks the modified date of both sides and whatever one is newer, copy it and paste it on the other side. needs to work on folders and files.