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.
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 replaying Half Life 2 and it loads and plays like a song. Try playing some old games, Half Life 2 still plays great.
current? we've been on this path since everything became 3d in the 90s
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.
no game needs to look more realistic than MGSV. we shoulda just stopped there
That's def where we peaked for sure
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.
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
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.
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)
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
I'm going to pretend this post is what caused the ban cause it'd be really funny
There are so many games that don't have this problem. How about you play those?
I'm having the opposite experience with Indiana Jones, I expected it to be unplayable on my mobile 3060 but in fact it runs great. I had to set a weird launch option that I found on protobdb but once I did that it went from unplayable under 10fps to a smooth 60fps in 1080p
Try enabling this setting
__GL_13ebad=0x1
The price of storage dropping quickly ruined optimization, so things turned from "how do I get the most out of a tiny bit of space" to "Fuck you. Upgrade your gear!"
I look at system requirements now and I have no idea how my current hardware even compares to what's listed. AAA PC gaming has moved beyond me monetarily lol
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