Things to remember when downloading/buying PC games

Here are a few things all you nice people should keep in mind if buying or downloading games for your PC.

• Various games have different system requirements. While 3D games have higher requirements over its 2D counter-parts, older games require lower specs than newer games. The latest games will rape it, but older ones (2006-ish) should work well on the latest built-in Intel HD graphics and don't require external graphics cards as such. That being said if you're into the latest games, you need a good GPU so invest in one. That way you wont end up watching you're dream car stutter miserably frame by frame and taking 10 minutes around the first bend.
• Download managers like FDM should come in handy for managing big downloads and also for numerous small downloads. This will help stop you from punching your wide screen Sony monitor if your download stopped at 91% (I know I know, but shit happens). For downloading torrent files, a Bittorrent client like qBitTorrent is required. Alternative to bittorrent client.
• While games usually come as installers (.exe), they may also be packed as archives (.zip, .7zip, .rar etc) and you will require an archiver like 7-zip to extract these games and play. Usually they don't require installation, but certain installers may also be packed. 
• Games downloaded in the form of image file format (.iso), must be mounted in virtual drives using tools like Winarchiver Virtual Drive. 
• Certain games requires Direct X11 which is provided only in Vista and Win 7. Win XP has support only for Direct X9 which is required if you don't have Win 7.
• It's good to install .Net Framework and Visual C++  from Microsoft as games might require them.
• ALWAYS CHECK THE REQUIREMENTS ON THE BACK!!! Actually I should have said this 1st, if purchasing this can save you a lot of frustration and the dreaded "*game title* has stopped working" window.

So there you have it guys, and remember buying games for your PC is a lot different than buying for a console, so make sure you have loads of disk space ;-) Cheers, Sam