The PCGamingWiki is a collaboratively edited, free Internet encyclopedia focused on collecting game behavior data (such as save locations and startup parameters) to optimizing gameplay and fixing issues found in PC video games.

https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Home
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCGamingWiki

After helping out a random person on YouTube to play an 12 year old game by simply pointing to an existing PC Gaming Wiki page with all the fixes he needs, I am curious;

How many people do even know about the project ? Do you use it, or just search for fixes on GOG/Steam/etc... ?

I accidentally found about it last year, searching for a fix, and since I mostly play old games I started creating new pages and updating existing ones myself. In the process I also learned about a lot of tools for enabling vsync, forcing anti-aliasing, borderless window, various tools for changing FOV, benefits of dgVoodoo for fixing old DirectX games, WineD3D for Windows... so I can play the older titles how I want and in their full glory (if possible).

I guess I could also ask the same about Widescreen Gaming Forums ? I see many new YouTube videos of people still playing games in 4:3 and stretched widescreen with low FOV when fixes are available. Do you people visit that site for you widescreen and FOV fix ?

http://www.wsgf.org/

Also what other sites do you recommend, if there are others ?

I guess this topic is about raising public awareness of sites like this :)

Yes, its a nice idea, have used pcgamingwiki a few times. There are numerous sites out there however, not just patches and fixes, mods or engine re-implementations and such like.
One I used a fair bit in the past was patches.de, but that seems to no longer be updated. Each game or series can also have its own websites (BG for instance has loads - gibblerings3 for example).
It may also be, for disc based games, you need a nocd as Win10 does not (which is good) allow securom, so you won't be able to start them unless you either have nocd or install securom virus on your machine

I use the website every time I'm about to play/buy a new game, to prepare myself for eventual problems and how to fix them. Pretty good website, helped plenty of times.

Yeah, I do the same when I try to play some of the older titles. But if the page doesn't exist yet, or is empty, I take a deep breath and mentally prepare myself for few hours of tweaking to get the game going how I would want it.

Both are great resources.

I find myself going to pcgamingwiki for nearly every game and maybe printing the page for offline future reference.

Once in awhile I go to wsgf; it's a great resource, just not as often (for me).

I use WSGF directly quite a lot as I have a triplehead setup with 2 24" 1920x1200 displays and a primary display of 30" 2560x1600, so I'm often trying to figure out how to get older games to run at 2560x1600 or whatever maximum playable resolution I can coax out of them, as well as trying to get widescreen to work and dealing occasionally with aspect ratio as well (I'm a card carrying member of the 16:10 Aspect Ratio Master Race(TM). I also set up some games for triplehead Eyefinity at 5760x1200 or 6400x1200 depending on which mode works best with the given game.

When I have bugs/glitches or other problems with games though I hit up a web search engine to seek out solutions, which in turn leads me to a variety of other gaming sites including the GOG fora, Steam fora, PC Gaming Wiki, various game-specific fora, etc. So I often do end up on PC Gaming Wiki indirectly although I do not generally go there directly to start with.

I've used both of them from time to time. They're both excellent repositories of knowledge.

I use it a lot. Sometimes I even try to contribute.