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I work in video games. My Lead QA recently accosted me regarding the low-spec machine being unusable. (it's an 11th Gen i5, 16GiB Ram and an Intel ARC A750). H
by dijit 3y ago
I work in video games. My Lead QA recently accosted me regarding the low-spec machine being unusable. (it's an 11th Gen i5, 16GiB Ram and an Intel ARC A750).
He wanted me to get a better machine.
I politely declined indicating that this is the low spec machine, he made a fuss and I said if we can't make it run on that then we should stop making video games.
For context: The weak part for us was the CPU; the ARC A750 is a pretty poor GFX card but it should never be unplayable, it's around RTX 2060-2070 in speed, not unreasonable for a low spec machine.
It's very easy just to say yes to creeping performance demands, even in video games that are historically highly optimised. (obvious caveat here: sometimes things are not well optimised and hugely neglected)
- Xeamek 3y agoGames are lightyears ahead of 'common use software' when it comes to usability. Sure, there are bad, poorly optimized or simply unplayable games out there. But still, even the lowest of them are still insanely complex when compared to the software we are complaining here, ie. text communicators.
- alentred 3y agoAgree. And there is also actual progress in the rendering engines. Modern AAA games are incomparable with what they were 10 or 20 years ago. Most desktop apps on the other hand... Yes, of course they have more features than their predecessors. But still they have the same core functionality, though. A word processor is still a word processor, but modern ones come with a latency on an every button, including the old ones that didn't have it before.
- timw4mail 3y agoThe A750 is not that poor of a GPU either. If that's considered low-end, then gaming on a Steam Deck, or a budget gaming computer is impossible.
- Ekaros 3y agoTo me those specs sound pretty decent... i5 isn't Atom or Celeron... Intel Arc is bit weird, but not iGPU...