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Anyone sick of these new games requiring so much power to run? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

You want to play at 4k on an old low end card. I'm sorry but this one is on you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Not the newest game but still newer, but one of my biggest gripes is how much you need to be able to run the newest Ratchet and Clank. I'm lucky my steam deck can run it or I'd be screwed.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It's a PS5-only game running on a portable device. Considering the state of a lot of ports (including this one at launch lol), it's a miracle that it runs this well.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Lmao. That game runs so bad without FSR. Eith FSR on, it looks so weird.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I'm so used to having a toaster for a desktop I had to look up what FSR is. I'm too college student budgeted to touch FSR.

Last I played months ago, I recall it being fine enough when I had my deck docked. FPS was stable and didn't look too bad. Though, I'm not an expert on anything graphics, so my word doesn't mean much.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Idk man, I bought Sol Cesto yesterday, and I'm pretty sure my toaster could run it

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RX 6600, two 4k monitors

Bruh. I have a 3080 Ti and barely feel comfortable running my games in 2k. I'm pretty sure the 6600 was made with only 1080p and lower in mind.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

😂. I know, dude. That's my whole point. Why do WE have to bear the burden of optimizing the game? Why don't the developers optimize their games? It's bonkers the game "hell is us" listed the 4090 as a minimum requirement to run 4k ar 30 fps. I was like wut?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Because running 4k is extreme. Asking it to run well at 4k is asking them to quadruple the pixels for the same processing cost. You're saying you want the vast majority of people who dont have a 4k setup to have their games downgraded so they'll run well on your boutique monitor.

It's a balancing act, and they can either make the game look like something from 2010 on all systems just to make sure it runs in 4k on older cards, or they can design it to look good in 1080p on older or cheaper cards, which is fine for most most people.

If you want to game in 4k, you need to buy a video card and monitor to support it. Meanwhile, I'll keep running new games on my older card at 1080 and be perfectly happy with it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

(And then you have portable boxes that somehow ADvertise to run games in 4k 60fps for 499$ 🤣🤣)

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's why I went back to the roots. I'm now playing older games at 4k 60 fps no problem. I'll stick with emulators. I'd rather not spend the $700. I'll still complain about new games not running for me, though. That's the only thing I can do beside playing older games instead 😂

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Or just run newer games at 1080p. Unless you're unhealthily close to the monitor you probably won't even see the difference.

If you're rubbing it on a TV across the room, you probably literally can't see the difference.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I do run them at 1080p, trust me. Here is the thing, though, running 1080p on a native 4k screen makes for a horrible looking picture. It just looks off and very bad. Try it if you can. It's best when the screen itself is physically 1080p. I think you fat-fingered the "b" in "running". Came out funny 😂

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

1080p scales to 4k perfectly unless you have a weird aspect ratio, since it can just treat each square of 4 screen pixels as 1.

What looks bad is trying to run anything between 1080p and 4k, since it's not a perfect 4:1 relationship.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

You'll want to use Lossless Scaling. It'll quadruple the pixels without any filtering and make the output not look weird on a 4k display.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Elaborate, please. What res would that be?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's not bonkers though. Fill rate (the time it takes to render all the pixels your monitor is displaying) is a massive issue with ever increasingly photo realistic games because you can't rely on any simple tricks to optimize the rendering pipeline, because there is so much details on the screen that every single pixel can potentially completely change at any given moment, and also be very different from its neighbors (hence the popularity of temporal upscalers like DLSS, because extrapolating from the previous frame(s) is really the last trick that still kind of works. Emphasis on "kind of")

If you don't want to sell a kidney to buy a good GPU for high resolutions, do yourself a favor and try to get a 1440p monitor, you'll have a much easier time running high end games. Or run your games at a lower res but it usually looks bad.

I personally experienced this firsthand when I upgraded to 1440p from 1080p a while ago, suddenly none of my games could run at max settings in my native resolution, even though it was perfectly fine before. Also saw the same problem in bigger proportions when I replaced my 1440p monitor with a 4k one at work and we hadn't received the new GPUs yet.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

I'll just play older games. Everything runs at 4k 60 fps no issue on RPCS3 and I've been having a freaking blast. Started with uncharted 1, and man, I've missed out on this game. I'm going to stick with older games.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I've been a PC gamer for almost 30 years now. This perpetual march of buying new PC upgrades to play new games is an old song.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

With a new, much more expensive and faster tune.

Even back then you could play new games with a 2yo mid gpu with ok fps

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hey man, I agree with you on principle but the fact is that you're trying to run new AAA games with an older card at 4K.

Time marches on, and graphics demands have changed. Newer cards are built differently and games are (albeit poorly) designed to utilize the new hardware.

6600 is a fine card but yeah, you're going to have to compromise somewhere. A lot of good advice here to tap into older games, or you can spend $180 and buy a good 1440p monitor and see if that opens up your options as well.

You're hermit crabbing into used parts on the cheap which is great, but if you're not willing to pay a pound of flesh for a new card then you're going to have to settle for reduced performance - it's that simple. Otherwise what's the point of making better hardware, if nothing takes advantage of it?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

I agree with you. That's why I moved to emulation and playing old games. I don't want to stress my budget for something I don't need. I've been emulating PS3 games and they've been running fantastic. Cheers

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

hell is us is an extreme outlier when it comes to performance. and the rx 6600 isn't meant to run games at 4k period. you can probably still play most of the games on steam at 60fps+ on medium settings. high if you play at 1440p instead. yes there is a problem but I think you're over exaggerating a bit, especially considering you are playing at 4k.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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I tend to play shit 2+ years old...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This has been me since the dawn of time. I have never bought a game on release date. My son can vouch for me on this one. Whenever he asked for a PS4 game that just came out, my answer is "we need to wait until it becomes $15 - $20 at gamestop and we will get it". I've never bought a PS4 game for more than $20.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I stopped at ps3/Xbox360 gen.

Back then I'd hit GameStop hard on the "buy two get one free" used days.

Uses to buy dozens of titles. Haha.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Man, those were the days. I have over 50 CDs for the PS4/PS3 until now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Ditto. Went as far as printung box art for the generic GameStop covers

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ditto. Whenever it goes on sale for 75% off 🤣

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

With GOTY and all the "expansions"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Love it when you can get those for a cheap price. I ended up getting a copy of Borderlands 1 with DLC on another disc that's one of those advertised for xbox one and 360 sets for a good price a few years back. Don't remember the price, but it had to have been less than $20 before tax.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Games should be easier to run, with better modding tools. Simple as that, Morrowind with mods is still a fantastic time and it runs well on a Steam Deck, something we can carry around with us.

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