We are now in the final development stages of the custom loop feature for the game and are hugely excited to bring EKWB into the PC Building Simulator family so that we can use their amazing products to build with!
EKWB are one of the biggest names in custom water cooling components so having them onboard is great news and we are pleased to be able to launch with them heading up this great new feature.
The release of custom loops in the game is still a few weeks away but we wanted to take this opportunity to answer a couple of the most commonly asked questions we get about this upcoming feature:
Can I design my own loop?
Yes, we have created a free-form route system for tubing so that you can design your own custom loops. These can be made from flexible or rigid tubing.
Will there be coloured liquids?
Yes, at launch there will be a wide range of coloured liquids to further customise your custom loops with.
As previously mentioned, we will be exhibiting PC Building Simulator at this years EGX, if you are attending the show please stop by the stand and you can get an early (work in progress) hands on play of this upcoming feature!
Today we are pleased to fulfil another long-standing community request: “Please add i9 CPUs!” This update starts to add a range of Socket 2066 motherboards which allows us to add Socket 2066 CPUs from Intel, more motherboards will follow once they are completed.
Build v0.8.11 Highlights
New Parts
Intel X-Series CPUs
ASUS ROG Rampage VI Extreme (Motherboard
ASUS PRIME X299-DELUXE (Motherboard)
ASUS ROG Rampage VI Apex (Motherboard)
CORSAIR Carbide Series - SPEC-OMEGA (Case)
Full Patch Notes:
(Career unlock level is in brackets after its name, all parts available in Free Build right away)
New Motherboards: ASUS ROG Rampage VI Extreme (23), ASUS PRIME X299-DELUXE (23), ASUS ROG Rampage VI Apex (23) and ASUS TUF Z370-PRO GAMING (16).
New M.2: Team Group CARDEA M.2 (22). Please note due to the large heatsink on this drive it will not fit in m.2 slots that have covers.
New Case: CORSAIR Carbide Series SPEC-OMEGA (20) in Black/Red, Black/White and Black variations.
Added social links to the main menu.
Added a link to the latest news on Steam about the game to the main menu.
Added shut down SFX to the OS.
Fixed an issue where case parts LEDs became enabled when removed and replaced even when a PC was not turned on.
Fixed an issue in OCCT where GPU clock speed was being shown under the Memory clock speed.
Fixed an issue where some jobs listed had a duplicated ‘PC can boot to OS’ objective.
Made some adjustments to the controller detection to reduce some of the conflicts with mouse controls.
Fixed the LED on the ASUS ROG Strix Z370-E Gaming motherboard.
Fixed various instances of GPUs appearing to need 3 PCI slots when they shouldn't.
Made some improvements to the SLI bridge detection so that the flexible bridge is used in more situations to stop clipping of HB bridges on different sized cards.
Fixed the missing CPU socket bracket textures on some Gigabyte motherboards.
Made various improvements to the rear case fan connection points to reduce the need for them to go through things like GPUs.
Updated the ROG logo on the launch splash screen.
What’s Next?
EGX, the team will be showing PC Building Simulator at this years EGX in Birmingham. If you are attending you should swing by the stand and say hi, the team will be there for the duration and happy to answer what questions we can about the game.
Custom Water Cooling is nearly ready to release in an early form but we need to complete a few more assets before we can release it. This should hopefully happen shortly after EGX.
The day everyone has been waiting for has finally arrived, ASUS officially joins the PC Building Simulator family with a whole batch of parts that are included in this update with more to follow in the future.
Build v0.8.10 Highlights
New Parts
ASUS ROG Maximus X Formula (Motherboard)
ASUS ROG Strix Z370-E Gaming (Motherboard)
ASUS PRIME Z370-A (Motherboard)
ASUS ROG Strix X470-I Gaming (Motherboard)
ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 Ti OC Edition (GPU)
Full Patch Notes:
(Career unlock level is in brackets after its name, all parts available in Free Build right away)
New Motherboards: ASUS ROG Maximus X Formula (23), ROG Strix X470-I Gaming (17), ROG Maximus X Apex (23), ROG Strix Z370-E Gaming (15), PRIME Z370-A (15), ROG Strix Z370-I Gaming (15), ROG Maximus X Hero (Wi-Fi AC) (23) & ROG Strix Z370-G Gaming (Wi-Fi AC) (15).
Added the ability to increase/decrease GPU Tuner settings by one via the + / - controls in the application for finer control.
Added lighting information for Case Fans in the shop.
Added chipset type to Motherboard information in the shop.
Fixed an issue that could cause job computers to be generated that didn’t have enough power connections for dual GPUs.
Fixed an issue with the rear of some TR4 socket brackets being transparent.
Fixed an issue with the bios keybind prompts being out of alignment in Simplified Chinese.
Updated the games Windows icon to make it clearer.
Updated game splash screen to include ASUS.
What’s Next?
More CPUs: One of our top requests is to add i9 CPUs and they are coming, we need to ensure we have socket 2066 motherboards ready for use before they can be included though. The new 2nd Generation Threadrippers will also get added in the near future once we have the correct benchmarking data for them.
Custom Water Cooling: This work is still ongoing, once we have it ready in a form that can be properly playtested we will get it in your hands for feedback.
We get a lot of requests for various CORSAIR components so the update today gives a nice bump to the available parts from one of your favourite brands. There are still more to come so don’t worry if something is missing from this update.
Build v0.8.9 Highlights
New Parts
CORSAIR Obsidian Series 500D (Case)
CORSAIR Carbide Series Air 740 (Case)
CORSAIR Force Series MP500 M.2 (SSD)
CORSAIR Hydro Series H115i PRO RGB 280mm Liquid CPU Cooler (AIO)
CORSAIR HD120/HD140 RGB LED 120mm/140mm (Case Fans)
New GPU Tuner UI
We have now completed work on the new design for the GPU Tuner application, this much prettier design is now live in this build.
Full Patch Notes:
(Career unlock level is in brackets after its name, all parts available in Free Build right away)
New Cases: CORSAIR Obsidian Series 500D (22) & CORSAIR Carbide Series Air 740 (22).
New M.2 SSD: CORSAIR Force Series MP500 (24) 120GB/240GB/480GB/960GB.
New CPU AIO Water Coolers: CORSAIR H115i PRO RGB 280mm (25) & CORSAIR H150i PRO RGB 360mm (25).
New Case Fans: CORSAIR HD120/HD140 RGB LED (18), CORSAIR ML120/ML140 (18) & CORSAIR LL120/LL140 RGB (18).
New Motherboard: Gigabyte X470 AORUS GAMING 7 WIFI (17).
Replaced the UI for the GPU Tuner application.
Reduced the supported max PSU length on the Raijintek Thetis.
When the UI is hidden via the hotkey (Default H) it should re-enable when pressing Esc or bringing up the Inventory.
Max RAM voltage has been increased to 2.
Adjusted Simplified Chinese translation of Free Build.
When using a controller you can now pan the camera with the cursor by moving it to the edges of the screen.
M.2 product images are now rotated around the correct way.
Steam Trading Cards for PC Building Simulator are now live! We are pleased to finally have these active for players to start collecting, here is a sneak peek of a couple of our favourite trading cards!
There are 8 different cards in total as well as the usual badges, emoticons and profile backgrounds to collect.
This update also includes a whole batch of bug fixes.
Full Patch Notes:
(Please note that fixes for career jobs will not apply until a job/PC is generated, if you have a PC with an issue in these notes please discard that job and the next time the fix will apply)
Save games are now stored by Steam ID so that multiple accounts on the same machine do not overwrite each other.
Fixed a bug that meant you could no longer break a CPU via raising the voltage too high during overclocking.
Fixed an issue where both HDDs and SSDs could occupy the same slot in the Fractal Design Define R6.
Fixed an issue that caused some job PCs to arrive without any CPU cooler.
Fixed an instance where a front mounted AIO coolers tubes would clip through the NZXT H700i cable management bar.
Fixed being able to remove the PCI slot bracket on the Raijintek Paean when GPUs were installed.
Fixed an issue on the Raijintek Thetis that stopped dual GPUs from working correctly.
The hotkey should now actually work to hide the UI for better screenshots!
The default key for this is now ‘H’ but it can be changed in the key bindings screen.
Fixed the NZXT H500 (White) so it has the correct white panels.
Removed the top radiator slots for the NZXT S340 Elite series of cases as they do not support these in real-life.
Adjusted the air flow stats of the ARCTIC Freezer 33 eSports ONE and Freezer 33 eSports Edition.
Fixed some issues with the wrong SLI bridges appearing.
Fixed the reverse side of the PSU shroud being transparent on the NZXT S340 Elite.
Fixed the CPU socket on the NZXT N7 Z370 motherboard.
Fixed a bug that caused AIO CPU coolers to generate inside HDD bays on the Cooler Master MasterCase Maker 5t.
Fixed the misaligned F2 button prompt on the Bios screen in non-English languages.
The key binding screen will now update when connecting a controller after the game has started.
Thanks as always to everyone providing us the extra detail and save games for some of these issues, it makes it so much easier to find the cause and get them fixed.
Today we welcome another hardware partner to the game, the addition of ADATA (and its XPG range) to the game brings with it a whole range of high speed DDR4 RAM, super fast SSDs and even faster M.2 SSDs!
That’s right, this update also allows you to add M.2 SSDs to your epic PC builds!
Build v0.8.7 Highlights
M.2 Support
M.2 SSD drive support means even faster storage solutions are available to supercharge your new PC builds.
Controller Support
In this update we have added controller support for a wide range of controllers to greater increase accessibility for PC Building Simulator plus make it easier should you wish to chill out on the sofa to play! Controller buttons can be adjusted via the key bindings screen but there is bound to be a few issues with such a feature so please do report any you find in the usual places!
New Parts
XPG SPECTRIX D80 DDR4 RGB
XPG Dazzle DDR4 LED
XPG SPECTRIX D41 DDR4 RGB
XPG SX950U Solid State Drive
XPG GAMMIX S11 M.2 SSD
NZXT N7 Z370
NZXT H700i
NZXT H500
Full Patch Notes:
(Career unlock level is in brackets after its name, all parts available in Free Build right away)
Key binding screen updated to support controller preferences.
Adjusted the UI when using a controller.
Added NZXT bios to support the N7 Z370.
Added a hotkey to hide the UI: Press U.
Updated the inferior part message to show the part type, e.g. CPU, GPU etc.
Removed top radiator slot on the NZXT S340 series of cases to match real-life.
Fixed an issue that could cause low score 3DMark jobs to be generated.
Fixed an issue where random job PCs would get made with no thermal paste.
Adjusted the desktop icon spacing to reduce text overlaps.
Patriot SSD labels have been rotated around the right way.
Adjusted the Vega 56/64 GPU models to smooth out the circuit board that looked a bit like SLI connections.
Fixed a cabling issue on the COMOS C700P that caused them to clip through the side panels.
Added XPG logo to splash screen.
What’s Next?
Steam Trading Cards are nearly ready to release, we are just awaiting approvals from Steam and then they will go live. We have begun early development work on custom water cooling, this is still very early in the process but we will share more info on this as work progresses. This is the current major feature we are working on but we will continue to release new parts and fix bugs while this development is ongoing.
Today we welcome another new partner to PC Building Simulator, the GPU heavyweight ZOTAC! From todays build you will be able to use various members of their GeForce 10 series of GPUs such as the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti AMP Extreme, GeForce GTX 1070 AMP Extreme, GeForce GTX 1050 Ti OC Edition and even the small but powerful GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Mini!
Build v0.8.6 Highlights
New Parts
ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 Ti AMP Extreme (GPU)
ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Mini (GPU)
ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1050 Ti OC Edition (GPU)
Full Patch Notes:
New GPUs: ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1050 Ti OC Edition, GeForce GTX 1060 Mini, GeForce GTX 1060 AMP! Edition, GeForce GTX 1070 Mini, GeForce GTX 1070 AMP Extreme, GeForce GTX 1080 Mini, GeForce GTX 1080 AMP Extreme, GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Mini, GeForce GTX 1080 Ti AMP Extreme. (Unlocked in Career from level 24, or in Free Build mode right away)
New Case Fans: NZXT Aer P Black (120mm/140mm).
Players are now warned when starting a new game that it will overwrite their autosave file. Please make manual saves if you want have multiple career save games.
Fixed a problem that could cause the ‘Inferior Part Message’ to appear before you had even worked on a PC. Please note: Existing jobs that have this issue will need to be restarted for the fix to work.
PC Bay has been removed from the apps available in Free Build mode.
SSD images are no longer upside down.
Fixed an issue where some PSU labels would appear over windowed case sides at certain camera angles.
Fixed an error with the lighting app that was caused by some SLI bridges.
Corrected Antec DF500 maximum CPU height data.
Adjusted the Fractal Design Meshify C so that 2x 140mm case fans can be installed in the front without removing the lower cover.
Fixed the rear and top case fan slots being inverted on the Cooler Master H500P.
Fixed an issue where a HDD bay would vanish leaving the drive stuck on the Fractal Design Define R6. Please note if you already have a job with this issue you will need to abandon it for this fix to then work on future jobs.
Added Patriot logo to splash screen.
Added ZOTAC logo to splash screen.
What’s Next?
Lots going on, but in the coming weeks you can expect the following:
New partners.
Lots of new parts.
Steam trading cards.
M.2 drive support.
Controller support.
Custom water cooling design and prototyping is ongoing, this is a major new feature and is going to take time to implement.
Today we are implementing a few bug fixes, but along with these we are also bringing another hardware partner on board. We are pleased to welcome Patriot to PC Building Simulator and include access to their Viper RAM and Burst SSDs!
Patriot are world renowned for their high-quality RAM and SSDs and now players will have access to some of their finest hardware. Both Viper RGB and LED memory modules provide the best performance and stability in RAM hardware, as well as the most colorful dimensions that come with customised lighting. In addition to the RAM, players will have access to Burst 2.5” SATA III SSD Drives, with an option of 120GB, 240GB or 480GB. Scorch M.2 PCIe Solid State Drives will be available in the near future.
Which Patriot part are you most looking forward to using in the update? Let us know in the comments below!
Build v0.8.5 Highlights
New Parts
Patriot Viper LED (RAM)
Patriot Viper RGB (RAM)
Patriot Burst SSD (Storage)
Full (but small) Patch Notes:
New RAM: Patriot Viper LED and RGB (unlocked at level 21 in Career or available in Free Build mode right away).
New SSD: Patriot Burst SSD (unlocked at level 22 in Career or available in Free Build mode right away).
New Case Fans: Fractal Design Dynamic X2 GP-12 and Dynamic X2 GP-14.
Fractal Design cases now come with Fractal Design case fans.
Fixed some issues with Bios UI being off screen in 4:3 resolutions.
Fixed the issue where clicking on a monitor would interrupt 3DMark.
We look forward to seeing the new builds you create with these new parts!
We’ve been thinking about ideas for Steam Achievements recently and, in early access spirit, we’d like to invite you to help us shape them.
First some rules, most of these are obvious but this is the internet. Any suggestions deemed inappropriate or include bad language will be discounted. Even if you win it doesn't mean we’ll put your achievement in game, the winners of a community vote will receive a prize. If we think any ideas put forward are good ones and are technically possible, we’ll put them in the game. Finally, the vote will be held on Reddit, here. The winners will be the top 3 most up-voted suggestions (that meet the rules). We’ll include a full list of rules at the bottom.
So, what are the prizes? The top three voted suggestions will receive the latest in PC repairman fashion, a PC Building Simulator t-shirt. Custom ordered to your size, you’ll even have choice between a normal t-shirt (boring) and a pun t-shirt (pick this one)!
(images for illustration purposes only, final designs might change)
Lastly, if your suggestion makes it into the top 10 and we use it, we’ll send you a PC Building Simulator sticker!
OKAY! Let the voting begin!
Achievement suggestions should have a name and details of how it is achieved.
All suggestions should be in English please.
No swearing when naming achievements.
Only Reddit votes count.
Our decisions are final.
Stickers are sent out at our discretion.
Open worldwide, but any winners will need a valid shipping address.