I miss 2003. So many bangers from that year. Ignition by R. Kelly. Picture by Kid Rock/Sheryl Crow. P. Diddy's party anthems Shake Ya Tailfeather and Bump, Bump, Bump. You could tune into The Apprentice to learn about business and enjoy Donald Trump's timeless one-liners, or The West Wing to learn about the American presidency, maybe a little Chappelle's Show for some laughs. Apparently it was also the first year we could all go hop on 4chan and Google Adsense for the first time. Anyway, it kinda makes you wonder what all those folks are up to now. I hope they're well.

Wow that’s saying a lot. I would help them to stay away from those habits. May help you as well.

Reminder: Most devs actually care about the things they make. This is a management/timeline problem, not a developer one.

Let's not forget Nvidia created DLSS and Raytracing and directly helped devs integrate them into their games to create demand for their newer cards.

Not sure why most games cant/dont do this, but i've seen Minecraft shaders use temporal upscaling exclusively on the clouds, reflections, and shadows. while using fxaa for the rest of the image.

And/or consumers insisting on playing in 4K because "big number" even though fill rate is a huge issue with modern games and you can barely tell the difference on most setups. Which would not be so bad if they also didn't want ever increasing graphical fidelity and 120+ fps on top of that

Dude we're still playing classic wow and runescape, that guy hasn't missed anything

Arkham City, Crysis 2, Skyrim. It really hasn't changed much. They've spent most of their time wanking over higher resolution and nicer reflections.

For comparison there was 14 years between this:

and this:

Honestly, the jump from 2011 to 2025 doesn't seem nearly as steep as say 2000-2011. Sure games look better today but 2011 games still hold up. In 2000, 3d graphics were still new and most titles are considered unplayable now in terms of graphics and controls

"I budgeted about $500 for my GPU, that should be able to get me a high end card right?"

(That's like $750 today, adjusted for inflation, btw)

Fake resolution has it's place, the problem is when Nvidia pressures reviewers to put its cards running a fake resolution against other cards running native resolution on benchmark charts.

I’ll take fake resolution for other framerates as long as it looks good enough! I play at 1440p though, because I don’t think mid-high level hardware is really there for 4k120+ yet.

What kind of coke do you want?