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Why do people still think you need a high-end rig updated every year or two just to be a PC gamer? Almost every game I want to play runs satisfactorily on a fiv
by PhasmaFelis 9y ago
Why do people still think you need a high-end rig updated every year or two just to be a PC gamer? Almost every game I want to play runs satisfactorily on a five-year-old machine.
This is bad for the tech-obsessed top 10% of PC gamers. For the rest of us it's meaningless, and it's not going to last in any case.
- usaar333 9y agoDepends on how quality your five-year old machine is. Graphics matter, less CPUs these days. e.g. I found I could play high-end games (Deus Ex: MD for instance) fine on my rig with a Core i7-3770 (almost 6 years old!). However, it lagged on my original Geforce GTX 650 (~4.5 years old at that time), prompting an upgrade to a Geforce 1060 (an upper-mid end card that is now super expensive)
- lithos 9y agoGames I shove the most time at aren't even that intensive. Klei, and Zachtronic games.
- reificator 9y agoIf those games are your thing, you'd probably love Factorio.
- rwmj 9y agoWe've had the most fun recently with one of those "Pandora's Box" pirate 1980s arcade simulators. I believe internally it runs on a 32 bit ARM chip.
- Simon_says 9y agoYou should be glad those people exist, because they subsidize the R&D for people who buy older/cheaper cards.
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoEnh, honestly, if graphics somehow stopped advancing forever right now, it wouldn't bother me that much as a gamer. The era where good game concepts just couldn't be made because the hardware couldn't handle it are long over. We're just adding successive layers of polish now. That's nice, but it doesn't add much to gameplay or fun.
- Simon_says 9y agoWho do you think paid for the R&D on the 5 year old cards you're playing on today?
- bootlooped 9y agoYou could find somebody who said or thought this very thing each year for the last 20 years.
- mozumder 9y agoA lot of those people are buying cards/systems for the next 5 years, replacing their 5-year-old setups.
- tyfon 9y agoIt's kind of funny when 99% of the games are optimised for PS4 or maybe xbox, and both run the Jaguar cpu and 1.8 tflops cpu (xbox slightly lower) My i7 4770k with a gtx 670 is still running all the games i throw at it, even if i might have to go down from ultra high effects in some. However I have to admit I play mostly on PS4/switch now a days.