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Hardware performance has so badly out performed most common software demands in the last decade that it isn't an issue these days in most cases, in my opinion.
by moonshinefe 11y ago
Hardware performance has so badly out performed most common software demands in the last decade that it isn't an issue these days in most cases, in my opinion. I use a 5 year old computer essentially and it can still play most modern games on medium settings.
This wasn't nearly the case in the 90s-early 2000s (as far back as I go), where one's computer would be obsolete and fail to run many programs even 2-3 years after purchase.
- fsloth 11y agoIt's an issue with decades old commercial codebases which have been developed with the mindset that it's not worth it to optimize since increasing computer performance will buy it for free. Add to this the 'optimization is evil', 'compiler will optimize it', 'is there a framework for it' mentalities and we are talking of serious amount of professional time wasted using programs that are far more sluggish than they could be.
- spdionis 11y agoDid you try to play fallout 4? :(
- Jordrok 11y agoFallout 4 was the game that finally got me to replace my ~9 year old Frankenputer. Almost every part inside of that case had been replaced at least once and it was still trucking along just fine for most games until F4. Even on the lowest possible settings it would still slow to a crawl if too many enemies showed up at once. On the bright side, at this rate my new rig should last me even longer!
- eli_gottlieb 11y ago>Hardware performance has so badly out performed most common software demands in the last decade that it isn't an issue these days in most cases, in my opinion. Ever tried sending your web-browser to a site that does everything with Javascript front-end code? That'll slow it right down.