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Anyone sick of these new games requiring so much power to run?

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    Devs want realism, complex logic, etc. and that needs a good pc.

    Only thing you can do is to play older games.
    ...or try to force the game to run at the expense of very low fps

    Edit: It's all cosmetics, actually

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    Except for devs, completely abandoned realism and complex logic mid-2010s and have since been chasing nothing but unparalleled graphic quality at the cost of simulation, depth and realism.

    Like I literally do not give a flying fuck If my puddle can accurately picture in picture recreate the skyline and cityscape with acurate ray tracing. I'm not going to be staring at puddles to notice. I do care when I lob an explosive that should be able to level the building into the building and the building is still standing.

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      It's not just insane power requirements. It's putting graphics bling ahead of playability and fun.

      I recently bought Doom 2016 and Mosa Lina. I've had more fun with the latter than the former, even if I've been a Doom and Doom II player all my life.

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      Ita fucking insanity. I got a great deal on 2 4k monitors from Facebook marketplace (I've edited the post for more context) and now I can't play anything. 😕

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        This is getting out of hand. The other day I saw the requirements for "Hell is Us" game and it's ridiculous. My RX6600 can't play anything anymore. I've downloaded several PS3 ROMs and now I'm playing old games. So much better than this insanity. This is probably what I'm going to be doing now, play old games.

        Edit: I wanted to edit the post for more context and to vent/rant a little.

        I don't want to say I made a mistake, but I buy everything used, and I have scored a good deal on two 27" 4k monitors from Facebook marketplace. Got both monitors for $120.

        They're $800 on Amazon used. Great monitors and I love 4k. I also bought an RX6600 AMD GPU for $100 from Facebook. It was almost new. The owner upgraded and wanted to get rid of it. My whole build was very cheap compared to what I see some folks get (genuinely happy for those who can afford it. Life is too short. Enjoy it while you can).

        I can't afford these high end GPUs, but now very few games work on low settings and I'd get something like 20 FPS max. My friend gave me access to his steam library and I wanted to play Indiana Jones the other day, and it was an "omfg, wtf is this horrible shit" moment.
        I'm so sick of this shit!

        I don't regret buying any of these, but man it sucks that the games I want to play barely even work.
        So, now I'm emulating and it's actually pretty awesome. I've missed out on so many games in my youth so now I'm just going to catch up on what I've missed out on. Everything works in 4k now and I'm getting my full 60FPS and I'm having so much fun.

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        Another reason why I just installed fallout new Vegas

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          Another reason why I just installed fallout new Vegas

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          Hell yeah, I love that game.

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            Try playing Indiana Jones and the great circle on low.

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            is that not possible?

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            • goten@piefed.socialG [email protected]

              is that not possible?

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              I've edited my post for more context. It is not possible in my case. I use all AMD and this game forces DLSS. Setting the game to low at 1080p barely gives me 20 fps and even that is unstable. Going lower res than that makes the game look like absolute dogshit. So I just gave up. I now play everything at 4k 60fps on rpcs3 no problem.

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                Ita fucking insanity. I got a great deal on 2 4k monitors from Facebook marketplace (I've edited the post for more context) and now I can't play anything. 😕

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                Surely you're not trying to use a card that targets 1080p gaming for 4k.

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                • D [email protected]

                  Surely you're not trying to use a card that targets 1080p gaming for 4k.

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                  That's all I can afford. And there was no way I'd pass those monitors. Everything is good when emulating, though. This post was more of a venting/ranting post.

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                    That's all I can afford. And there was no way I'd pass those monitors. Everything is good when emulating, though. This post was more of a venting/ranting post.

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                    I mean you probably are just going to have to run the games at 1080p instead of 4k until you can afford a better gpu

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                    • D [email protected]

                      That's all I can afford. And there was no way I'd pass those monitors. Everything is good when emulating, though. This post was more of a venting/ranting post.

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                      You can always just run the monitors at 1080p when playing games. Perfect integer scaling doesn’t look bad if the display isn’t massive.

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                      • D [email protected]

                        That's all I can afford. And there was no way I'd pass those monitors. Everything is good when emulating, though. This post was more of a venting/ranting post.

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                        That's certainly fair, however it's unrealistic to expect a card to perform the same while doing +4x the work, all else being equal.

                        Have you tried playing at non-native resolutions?

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                        • D [email protected]

                          This is getting out of hand. The other day I saw the requirements for "Hell is Us" game and it's ridiculous. My RX6600 can't play anything anymore. I've downloaded several PS3 ROMs and now I'm playing old games. So much better than this insanity. This is probably what I'm going to be doing now, play old games.

                          Edit: I wanted to edit the post for more context and to vent/rant a little.

                          I don't want to say I made a mistake, but I buy everything used, and I have scored a good deal on two 27" 4k monitors from Facebook marketplace. Got both monitors for $120.

                          They're $800 on Amazon used. Great monitors and I love 4k. I also bought an RX6600 AMD GPU for $100 from Facebook. It was almost new. The owner upgraded and wanted to get rid of it. My whole build was very cheap compared to what I see some folks get (genuinely happy for those who can afford it. Life is too short. Enjoy it while you can).

                          I can't afford these high end GPUs, but now very few games work on low settings and I'd get something like 20 FPS max. My friend gave me access to his steam library and I wanted to play Indiana Jones the other day, and it was an "omfg, wtf is this horrible shit" moment.
                          I'm so sick of this shit!

                          I don't regret buying any of these, but man it sucks that the games I want to play barely even work.
                          So, now I'm emulating and it's actually pretty awesome. I've missed out on so many games in my youth so now I'm just going to catch up on what I've missed out on. Everything works in 4k now and I'm getting my full 60FPS and I'm having so much fun.

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                          people out here really refusing to compress, compile, and optimize their work

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                            This is getting out of hand. The other day I saw the requirements for "Hell is Us" game and it's ridiculous. My RX6600 can't play anything anymore. I've downloaded several PS3 ROMs and now I'm playing old games. So much better than this insanity. This is probably what I'm going to be doing now, play old games.

                            Edit: I wanted to edit the post for more context and to vent/rant a little.

                            I don't want to say I made a mistake, but I buy everything used, and I have scored a good deal on two 27" 4k monitors from Facebook marketplace. Got both monitors for $120.

                            They're $800 on Amazon used. Great monitors and I love 4k. I also bought an RX6600 AMD GPU for $100 from Facebook. It was almost new. The owner upgraded and wanted to get rid of it. My whole build was very cheap compared to what I see some folks get (genuinely happy for those who can afford it. Life is too short. Enjoy it while you can).

                            I can't afford these high end GPUs, but now very few games work on low settings and I'd get something like 20 FPS max. My friend gave me access to his steam library and I wanted to play Indiana Jones the other day, and it was an "omfg, wtf is this horrible shit" moment.
                            I'm so sick of this shit!

                            I don't regret buying any of these, but man it sucks that the games I want to play barely even work.
                            So, now I'm emulating and it's actually pretty awesome. I've missed out on so many games in my youth so now I'm just going to catch up on what I've missed out on. Everything works in 4k now and I'm getting my full 60FPS and I'm having so much fun.

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                            Lower the resolution in the games settings. 1366 isn't any different than 1920 in practice.
                            No one needs 4k graphics. Most games don't even play at that resolution without upscaling anyways.

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                            • forester@pawb.socialF [email protected]

                              Except for devs, completely abandoned realism and complex logic mid-2010s and have since been chasing nothing but unparalleled graphic quality at the cost of simulation, depth and realism.

                              Like I literally do not give a flying fuck If my puddle can accurately picture in picture recreate the skyline and cityscape with acurate ray tracing. I'm not going to be staring at puddles to notice. I do care when I lob an explosive that should be able to level the building into the building and the building is still standing.

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                              You can't even shoot out light bulbs anymore.

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                                Hell yeah, I love that game.

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                                I love the fallout games. I have a Mac, so it’s been impossible to run them on it until I discovered Porting Kit that has the premade wine wrappers and walks you through game installation. Fallout 3 and fallout new Vegas run pretty well on my 2016 MacBook Pro.

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                                • D [email protected]

                                  This is getting out of hand. The other day I saw the requirements for "Hell is Us" game and it's ridiculous. My RX6600 can't play anything anymore. I've downloaded several PS3 ROMs and now I'm playing old games. So much better than this insanity. This is probably what I'm going to be doing now, play old games.

                                  Edit: I wanted to edit the post for more context and to vent/rant a little.

                                  I don't want to say I made a mistake, but I buy everything used, and I have scored a good deal on two 27" 4k monitors from Facebook marketplace. Got both monitors for $120.

                                  They're $800 on Amazon used. Great monitors and I love 4k. I also bought an RX6600 AMD GPU for $100 from Facebook. It was almost new. The owner upgraded and wanted to get rid of it. My whole build was very cheap compared to what I see some folks get (genuinely happy for those who can afford it. Life is too short. Enjoy it while you can).

                                  I can't afford these high end GPUs, but now very few games work on low settings and I'd get something like 20 FPS max. My friend gave me access to his steam library and I wanted to play Indiana Jones the other day, and it was an "omfg, wtf is this horrible shit" moment.
                                  I'm so sick of this shit!

                                  I don't regret buying any of these, but man it sucks that the games I want to play barely even work.
                                  So, now I'm emulating and it's actually pretty awesome. I've missed out on so many games in my youth so now I'm just going to catch up on what I've missed out on. Everything works in 4k now and I'm getting my full 60FPS and I'm having so much fun.

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                                  Once you detach your mind from the big publishers and start looking at small indie devs, there are truly astonishing games out there that could run on potatoes.

                                  My good old RX 480 will last me for a while longer.

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                                    You can't even shoot out light bulbs anymore.

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                                    Come find me in arma reforger!

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                                    • mp3@lemmy.caM [email protected]

                                      Once you detach your mind from the big publishers and start looking at small indie devs, there are truly astonishing games out there that could run on potatoes.

                                      My good old RX 480 will last me for a while longer.

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                                      Indie devs are the only ones making new games anyway. Everything else is just this year's bells and whistles slapped onto the same game they've sold to the same audience annually.

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                                      • mp3@lemmy.caM [email protected]

                                        Once you detach your mind from the big publishers and start looking at small indie devs, there are truly astonishing games out there that could run on potatoes.

                                        My good old RX 480 will last me for a while longer.

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                                        That's another part of gaming I'm going to start to look into, indie games. Thank you for the reminder.

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                                          You can't even shoot out light bulbs anymore.

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                                          This is the real reason why we haven't seen a new Splinter Cell. Can't shoot out the lights, the technology is just lost to time.

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