The PC market is fucked. With all the insane graphics cards specs and prices, no one is going to optimise anymore. Triple A PC gaming will from now on be seen as a luxury market by the games companies, that consists of people spending high mileage used car prices so their video games look slightly better. The average PC gamer is absolutely screwed from here on out.
Every game is going to be like the original Crysis now, you need top of the line hardware just to run it.
At least there's no different slots on the motherboard for different kinds of graphics cards, yet... Remember AGP? Just waiting for the news that PCIe isn't enough anymore and they need a new slot.
I always thought it was weird when people said that they played almost exclusively older games, but the older I get the more I start to notice that I either player 10-20 year old games or indie stuff with actual artstyle instead of photo-realism-graphics-card-hogs.
Expensive graphics cards should make companies more focused on performance right? MMOs have historically had low poly counts because of their need to capture a wide audience of people. Things like this happen because of business people setting deadlines instead of developers. I guess I just don't understand your reasoning.
It really seems like EA is just completely shitting itself here. Of all the "this is just straight up broken for no reason despite looking like shit and there being nothing going on to actually use CPU time" games they're more or less all EA shitheaps loaded with this year's Denuvo. Like Wild Hearts, a game that chugs along with low, unsteady frames despite having fairly low CPU and RAM usage, and single digit GPU usage. It's genuinely kind of baffling what a trainwreck that is. At this point I'm assuming it's just a combination of Denuvo getting progressively worse until it's eating more resources than the game and making the game wait on its constant checks, and EA's dogshit proprietary engine being the new CryEngine in terms of being a broken mess of substandard performance.
Jedi Survivor, like Fallen Order, runs on UE4. And that's the main issue - it's at the end of its life and is being pushed to do things it can't handle.
Nothing to do with Frostbite. Which isn't dogshit.
Maybe if the handheld PCs like Steam Deck catch on more, mid-range and budget PC setups will still manage to survive. That's what I'm hoping for, at least.
I spend more time emulating old games on my phone thqn playing new stuff. Mainly because of electricity blackouts. But I do find the older games much better in certain ways
The PC market is fucked. With all the insane graphics cards specs and prices, no one is going to optimise anymore. Triple A PC gaming will from now on be seen as a luxury market by the games companies, that consists of people spending high mileage used car prices so their video games look slightly better. The average PC gamer is absolutely screwed from here on out.
What a fuck up.
Oh good, back to the Voodoo3-GeForce1-TnT days where Morrowind required you to have a job at CERN to run it.
Every game is going to be like the original Crysis now, you need top of the line hardware just to run it.
At least there's no different slots on the motherboard for different kinds of graphics cards, yet... Remember AGP? Just waiting for the news that PCIe isn't enough anymore and they need a new slot.
Introducing PCIe x64: The slot is 2 and a half feet long and requires 3 CPUs to have enough PCIe lanes, 4 if you want a hard drive.
Agreed. Just for fun, I took a look at the Steam Hardware survey and market share by Nvidia card generation is:
GTX 1000: 27.77%
RTX 2000: 15.26%
RTX 3000: 33.12%
RTX 4000: 0.67%
I always thought it was weird when people said that they played almost exclusively older games, but the older I get the more I start to notice that I either player 10-20 year old games or indie stuff with actual artstyle instead of photo-realism-graphics-card-hogs.
fuck i think i'm old :chomsky-yes-honey:
You play indie games because you like unique gameplay and story
I play indie games because my pc can only run 60 fps on low graphic video games.
We are not the same.
Not missing much anyways, given how bad most of them are. Even without the technical issues, this is probably just a mediocre game.
People are saying that the game stutters on consoles as well lol
Expensive graphics cards should make companies more focused on performance right? MMOs have historically had low poly counts because of their need to capture a wide audience of people. Things like this happen because of business people setting deadlines instead of developers. I guess I just don't understand your reasoning.
It really seems like EA is just completely shitting itself here. Of all the "this is just straight up broken for no reason despite looking like shit and there being nothing going on to actually use CPU time" games they're more or less all EA shitheaps loaded with this year's Denuvo. Like Wild Hearts, a game that chugs along with low, unsteady frames despite having fairly low CPU and RAM usage, and single digit GPU usage. It's genuinely kind of baffling what a trainwreck that is. At this point I'm assuming it's just a combination of Denuvo getting progressively worse until it's eating more resources than the game and making the game wait on its constant checks, and EA's dogshit proprietary engine being the new CryEngine in terms of being a broken mess of substandard performance.
Jedi Survivor, like Fallen Order, runs on UE4. And that's the main issue - it's at the end of its life and is being pushed to do things it can't handle.
Nothing to do with Frostbite. Which isn't dogshit.
Maybe if the handheld PCs like Steam Deck catch on more, mid-range and budget PC setups will still manage to survive. That's what I'm hoping for, at least.
Hopefully, that and other SOC based computers
meanwhile: me playing my weird 2d simulator games on a potato :sicko-fem:
I spend more time emulating old games on my phone thqn playing new stuff. Mainly because of electricity blackouts. But I do find the older games much better in certain ways
May end up being a great era for indie devs. Also, learn to do piracy everybody