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Currently trying to refund the new Indiana Jones game because it's unplayable without raytracing cri. 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.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

video games need to go back to looking like halo 1

pre-rendered cutscenes should look like gta 4

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

All games should go back to looking, playing, and being Halo: Combat Evolved (2001)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

every game should just be made with the same engine as doom 2016. it looks amazing, runs really smooth on modest hardware, and it isn't unreal engine 5

frostbite engine too. battlefield looks amazing, and runs really well on modest/mid tier hardware. i actually thought the new indiana jones WAS running on the battlefield engine just based on how it looked. but apparently not

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Fox Engine is incredible and it’s a shame only a couple games were made with it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I'm replaying Half Life 2 and it loads and plays like a song. Try playing some old games, Half Life 2 still plays great.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"3K" doesn't translate to any specific resolution, and it's exclusively a thing in higher end laptops afaik. Anything from 2560x1600 to 2736 x 1824 to 2880x1620 to 3260x1834 or other totally random display resolutions are marketed under this label.

Totally unusable terminology.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

current? we've been on this path since everything became 3d in the 90s

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

There are so many games that don't have this problem. How about you play those?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yea that's fair, it's just hard to think of it being outdated when I paid so much for it. Also it's the first time I've experienced VRAM size being the chokepoint of what I can run, but maybe that's just the new normal.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah it feels arbitrary, especially given how cheap VRAM is. Common Nvidia L (not that they care given the stacks they're making with data centers)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

no it's not a Gooner game

For you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah, I see. I haven't played it myself. I try to avoid all those gacha-style games.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Its actually really good the Gacha Mechanics are super subtle and it's the best game Hoyo has made

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm going to pretend this post is what caused the ban cause it'd be really funny

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