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m0ney on 24 April 2015
ganoncrotch said:
Really great thread idea to show just what's possible in PC gaming either on a budget or on a machine that's a few years old.
Hope you're enjoying San Andreas in HD m0ney.

I know San Andreas has great mods but haven't tried yet.

Now I cranked up the graphics settings to High in GTAV and still get ~40 fps although vram says '1967 of 1023 mb used'. Max Payne 3 didn't allow going over the vram limit so I assumed GTAV would be the same. So I'm getting great performance on High with a 2 year old budget GPU.



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Captain_Tom on 24 April 2015
shikamaru317 said:

Yeah, Digital Foundry just recently tested GTA V with a 750ti and an i3 CPU, a build that would cost maybe $500 (less if you went ultra budget on secondary parts and already owned a copy of Windows). It got better framerates than PS4. PC gaming is not that expensive, especially once you factor in the money you'd save from many new games being $10 less than their console counterparts, as well as the frequent sales that Steam and GoG have.

The only issue I see is that 750ti and i3 perhaps no longer meeting the minimum requirement of games a few years down the road (towards the end of gen 8), last gen both my CPU and GPU were behind minimum requirements by the end of the gen, and they were both high end components at the beginning of the gen. The reason for this is that developers don't put the same level of optimization into older PC hardware as they do older console hardware, the ever evolving nature of PC hardware causes devs to prioritize optimizing for newer hardware.

I just read an analysis on on WCCFTech that showed the PS4 version is essentially the same as the PC version maxed out in 1080p.  So yes the 750 Ti can run it at 60 FPS, but it isn't using as high quality textures and such.  Also yeah we all know the PS4 has the equivalent of an i3, but then again that's all you need unless you are powering a $400+ GPU.



PxlStorm on 24 April 2015

I've bought my PC for 400€ and it can run most modern games on high settings. I agree with you.



Mr.Playstation on 24 April 2015

I know a guy with a GTX 980 who can't get GTA 4 to run at 60fps. This by far shows how well optimised GTA 5 is.



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DakonBlackblade on 24 April 2015

I have a budget PC as well and pretty much play anythign I want to play, ye I cant run things on 4k res with 90000000 frames per second like the high end PCs can, but I play pretty much any game on very decent graphics.



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aLkaLiNE on 24 April 2015

A lot of the inaccessibility for me toward PC stems from the fact that A) my couch is far more comfortable than our computer chair.
B) Justin, my little brother practically lives on it. I couldn't invest that much time in it even if I wanted to.
B.2) I don't WANT to spend that much time on it because I see what it's done for him and his social life.

C) It's the press of a power button and the click of an X to launch a game on PS4, all within seconds. PC is not that fast from a cold boot. It's the little things.

There's honestly not the best stigma about PC players and that's a stigma many of them help foster - 'PC master race' as a term is evidenced by that. As someone who plays video games, the only thing and I mean literally the only thing PC has that might interest me even a little bit are MMORPGs which require ridiculous amounts of time to be competitive in. Other than that one genre, home consoles do everything more comfortably, more accessibly, and you won't have to upgrade in 8-10 years except possibly a hard drive, possibly a peripheral or two and an online subscription.

Many of you downplay these things or use Steam as a point about games being cheap, etc. Second hand console games are just as cheap around here and I don't have to download them (we don't have the fastest internet).

With my lifestyle PC is just not an attractive option. I'm sure others feel this way too; Just feels condescending when PC players don't understand why everyone and their mother aren't on the platform.



ArchangelMadzz on 24 April 2015
shikamaru317 said:

Yeah, Digital Foundry just recently tested GTA V with a 750ti and an i3 CPU, a build that would cost maybe $500 (less if you went ultra budget on secondary parts and already owned a copy of Windows). It got better framerates than PS4. PC gaming is not that expensive, especially once you factor in the money you'd save from many new games being $10 less than their console counterparts, as well as the frequent sales that Steam and GoG have.

The only issue I see is that 750ti and i3 perhaps no longer meeting the minimum requirement of games a few years down the road (towards the end of gen 8), last gen both my CPU and GPU were behind minimum requirements by the end of the gen, and they were both high end components at the beginning of the gen. The reason for this is that developers don't put the same level of optimization into older PC hardware as they do older console hardware, the ever evolving nature of PC hardware causes devs to prioritize optimizing for newer hardware.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OE2iI7OLh8&ab_channel=DigitalFoundry

I assume you're referring to this? My only critism is that the PS4 framerate is Locked, but it didn't drop a single frame in the test video. The PS4 version could be running at 40fps or even 45fps for all we know but Rockstar would've locked it down to 30 if they couldn't get a solid 60. We know the PS4 and the PC perform similarly because during the same sequence (2:30) the PS4 was STILL at 30fps whilst the PC was at 30-34. 



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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 24 April 2015

Yea the port is truly a really great port! Heck, according to digital foundry, even an i3 + 750ti which u can build for ~350 or ~450 if u include windows will get u higher fps than a ps4 while running at ps4's setting! This port is amazing in terms of optimization!



                  

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Ganoncrotch on 24 April 2015
aLkaLiNE said:
A lot of the inaccessibility for me toward PC stems from the fact that A) my couch is far more comfortable than our computer chair.
B) Justin, my little brother practically lives on it. I couldn't invest that much time in it even if I wanted to.
B.2) I don't WANT to spend that much time on it because I see what it's done for him and his social life.

C) It's the press of a power button and the click of an X to launch a game on PS4, all within seconds. PC is not that fast from a cold boot. It's the little things.

There's honestly not the best stigma about PC players and that's a stigma many of them help foster - 'PC master race' as a term is evidenced by that. As someone who plays video games, the only thing and I mean literally the only thing PC has that might interest me even a little bit are MMORPGs which require ridiculous amounts of time to be competitive in. Other than that one genre, home consoles do everything more comfortably, more accessibly, and you won't have to upgrade in 8-10 years except possibly a hard drive, possibly a peripheral or two and an online subscription.

Many of you downplay these things or use Steam as a point about games being cheap, etc. Second hand console games are just as cheap around here and I don't have to download them (we don't have the fastest internet).

With my lifestyle PC is just not an attractive option. I'm sure others feel this way too; Just feels condescending when PC players don't understand why everyone and their mother aren't on the platform.


Pretty much every 8-10 years is exactly the time you don't upgrade your console, it's when you put it to the side and drop the Ps5-6-7-8 in its place. As for boot times of a PC, just dropped 100euros on an SSD, cold boot to in game in WoW would now easily give any console a run for its money (maybe not the cartridge based consoles).

PCs would mostly have hdmi out now btw and can easily pop a wired 360 controller into one to basically make a PC into a couch based console if you wanna chill out with it.



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Livewire on 24 April 2015

true pc gamers need to play on ultra settings at 1080p 60 fps