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I thought one of the selling points of Stadia was it would let you play games that need a $500 graphics card, without buying a $500 graphics card. And in my mi
by michaelt 4y ago
I thought one of the selling points of Stadia was it would let you play games that need a $500 graphics card, without buying a $500 graphics card.
And in my mind, those are enthusiast games, because only enthusiasts are spending $500 on a graphics card.
- thrwyoilarticle 4y agoAnd if you're willing to take upscaled resolutions like Stadia offers then you can typically go below the minimum specs (which are themselves far below recommended). Direct X versions are more likely to be a blocker than simply not being able to maintain a framerate.
- noirbot 4y agoAnd yet it mostly launched with games that I could play on my 5-year old $200 GPU that I probably couldn't even sell for scrap at this point. People really overestimate how much of a GPU you need to play a lot of these games. Sure, if you have a 4k monitor and you want to play at 144hz then sure, but at that point you've spent $2000 on the monitor, so what's $500 on the CPU.