2mo ago

I hate the current push towards insane graphical requirements in PC games

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.

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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.
- 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.