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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.

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.

video games need to go back to looking like halo 1

pre-rendered cutscenes should look like gta 4

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 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

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

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

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

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

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