2mo ago

I hate the current push towards insane graphical requirements in PC games

Currently trying to refund the new Indiana Jones game because it's unplayable without raytracing

. My card isn't even old, it's just 8GB of VRAM is the absolute minimum apparently so my mobile 3060 is now useless. I miss when I used to be able to play new games in 2014 on my shitty AMD card at 20fps, yeah it didn't look great but developers still included a very low graphics option for people like me. Now you need to be upgrading every 2 years to keep up.

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mobile 3060
If your using a laptop you need to do maintenance on it. If you don't reapply thermal paste/pads and clean your fans your GPU and CPU will throttle.
2nd addressing the thread more generally if you have a 1440p or 4k monitor you will struggle. Lowing resolution is a very quick way to get performance. This is why the steam deck and switch are 720p screens. My laptop is a 3k monitor and have to downscale any game I play on it.
Also "can it run crysis?" was a thing almost 20 years ago now
- What resolution is 3k?
  
  "3K" doesn't translate to any specific resolution, and it's exclusively a thing in higher end laptops afaik. Anything from 2560x1600 to 2736 x 1824 to 2880x1620 to 3260x1834 or other totally random display resolutions are marketed under this label.
  Totally unusable terminology.
  
  Yea, I found a heavily discounted Huawei at Fry's that had not sold like 18 months after the sanctions hit, it's 3200x1800.

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