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Inconceivable-2020 t1_j91z6px wrote

Game Developers publishing games that only play correctly on obscenely expensive hardware is strangling PC gaming.

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DST2287 t1_j92iyn8 wrote

Hell, most games don’t play correctly, so many shitty pc ports lately.

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da90 t1_j933pnx wrote

Example: See what’s currently happening with Kerbal Space Program 2

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B_U_A_Billie_Ryder t1_j94612b wrote

I really just peeked the advertising for the first time today.

First thing I thought was gee, remember when KSP taxed the hell out of computers just because of all the parts?

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Now more parts AND particles? It's gonna look great at 5 fps for sure.

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bigtallsob t1_j93lme1 wrote

That's been a thing for a long time. Crysis came out 16 years ago.

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AadamAtomic t1_j93m6sx wrote

Honestly, games have been held back by graphics for a long time, but memory has become much more efficient.

It's likely that we won't need graphics cards stronger than the 4000 series for a very long time as memory and ram are now scaling with graphics performance along with A.I.

GPUs are likely to start getting smaller instead of more powerful.

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Roger_005 t1_j95d1k9 wrote

Really? Smaller instead of more powerful? Did you see the 4090?

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AadamAtomic t1_j95dynr wrote

Now imagining it being small enough to put 4 of them on a single PCI board.

SLI and dual GPU's are already being phased out.

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deltib t1_j93zl5j wrote

Sadly creating game engines exclusively for one type of game is no longer an option for most developers, and an engine created to cast the widest net possible can't really be ideally optimized for specific cases.

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no-name-here t1_j99hc9l wrote

What games "only play correctly on obscenely expensive hardware"? According to the top google result, the most demanding game is cyberpunk 2077. It doesn't require a 40xx, 30xx, or 20xx, or even a 10xx series card - it requires a gtx 780, and recommends a 1060. Even the recommended card series was released the better part of a decade ago.

And there are other comments here that they can run pretty much everything fine on a pre-10xx series card: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/115a172/ultraenthusiast_hardware_is_strangling_pc_gaming/j94xshs/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3

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