Currently trying to refund the new Indiana Jones game because it's unplayable without raytracing 
. My card isn't even old, it's just 8GB of VRAM is the absolute minimum apparently so my mobile 3060 is now useless. I miss when I used to be able to play new games in 2014 on my shitty AMD card at 20fps, yeah it didn't look great but developers still included a very low graphics option for people like me. Now you need to be upgrading every 2 years to keep up.
People were saying this about Morrowind
They were kind of correct back then two with the amount of upgrading the industry would expect you to do. That just petered off there for a while, luckily. seems to be back in full force now though
That said, at least back then all the shit gave you actual functionalities as per graphics instead of like raytracing on retinas or some bullshit you'd never notice
Can confirm
if a game can't run on everything people have run Doom on, i don't want to play it
duke nukem: that's a lot of ~~words~~ VRAM. too bad i'm not buyin it.
seriously, i hate this shit. i have a 1080 ti that i got used several years ago when the market had hit a bit of a lull and it's got some firmware bug that stops it from running most modern games, even ones it h as enough vram to run. this is why indie games and old games that people are still making mods or private server sets for like cod4 are so great.
My 1080 kept having performance issues with each update. I had to revert to an older driver in order to get anything to work. Nvidia and whatever game devs blamed each other for the issue, so I haven't figured out why it was happening.
My CPU is 12 years old and my GPU 7. So yeah... I’m gonna stick with indie and older games.
video games need to go back to looking like halo 1
pre-rendered cutscenes should look like gta 4
I've said this before but Fallout 4 came out nearly 10 years ago. And in a just world there would have been 3 New Vegas style spin off sequels of variable quality and a 4th on its way.
There are so many games that don't have this problem. How about you play those?
This kind of thing is why consoles are so popular. No need to worry about insane specs, graphics card prices, etc, you just buy the console and it's good for 6-9 years.
mobile 3060
If your using a laptop you need to do maintenance on it. If you don't reapply thermal paste/pads and clean your fans your GPU and CPU will throttle.
2nd addressing the thread more generally if you have a 1440p or 4k monitor you will struggle. Lowing resolution is a very quick way to get performance. This is why the steam deck and switch are 720p screens. My laptop is a 3k monitor and have to downscale any game I play on it.
Also "can it run crysis?" was a thing almost 20 years ago now
I feel like that trend is actually past us. Maybe I haven’t followed gaming too closely but there doesn’t seem to be a benchmark game that is as overwhelmingly demanding, considering the landscape of tech during its time, as something like Crysis.
The most popular games nowadays don’t seem to be prohibitively demanding for commonly bought pcs. Maybe im wrong
There is some boundary pushing, but I feel like the time period between 2005 and 2015 was like... If you had a two year old graphics card you'd struggle with the latest games. Or something. Certainly, a 5 year old graphics card in 2005 would have been rough (as some people mention in this thread).
I think graphics cards have comparatively gotten more expensive though, compared to the rest of the computer.
My card isn't even old
It's about 4 years old, which is pretty old for an entry tier card to be running the latest triple AAA titles. My Radeon 7770 was only three years old when The Witcher 3 came out and it couldn't hit minimum spec. Only two years for AC: Unity but that was especially demanding
I do think now is an awkward time where we're shifting to new tech that isn't quite ready for prime time, but it's never going to be until we shift to it
I have been pleasantly surprised that Path of Exile 2 runs at a pretty stable 40fps on my 6 year old GPU so long as I keep global illumination off. But other games have been a complete crapshoot like Returnal and Death Stranding.
I'm doing the electric archer build and if I drop too many lightning rods and start chaining lightning like 50x it gets real stuttery and I have a 3070ti, probably will have to adjust settings as I get further in the game
That's probably the spammiest build in the game, and I'd be surprised if that's GPU bound. Maybe the particles are a problem without dynamic culling. But otherwise that's probably a CPU bound thing.
current? we've been on this path since everything became 3d in the 90s
I’ve heard that you can leave on most of the settings (except path tracing) and turn down the texture size/cache setting and it should run fine on 8GB cards.
I believe the problem is that the card in question has less than 8 gigs of VRAM
Yee I'm stuck on a 6GB card so im SOL
I've got 8 but it looks like my GPU and CPU are now listed as the minimum requirements in new game releases. Oh well
continues emulating 20+ year old console games
Yes, I just got a new laptop with 16GB of RAM but it still struggles with a lot of games also I downloaded Zenless Zone Zero a month ago (no it's not a Gooner game the Fanservice is quite mild) and it gobbled up 50 goddamn gigabytes off my 2TB hard drive everything is so badly optimized this is Ridiculous
no it's not a Gooner game
For you.
It's not a Gooner game, it just has Hot Characters they aren't pushy with it in-game (but they are in the Promo material)
Ah, I see. I haven't played it myself. I try to avoid all those gacha-style games.
Its actually really good the Gacha Mechanics are super subtle and it's the best game Hoyo has made
Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.
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