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gergroy on 12 July 2014
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VanceIX said:
gergroy said:

I have an out dated gaming pc.  Stopped playing games on the pc a while ago.  Also, you do lose optimization.  Games are optimized to run at a certain configuration, if your pc isnt good enough, you can turn off settings, but the visual result will be far less than if it had been optimized to run at those settings.  It may be playable to olay a game without most of the shaders, lighting stuff turned on, but it woukd be an inferior product to that of most console games.  

If a game was optimized to run on the high end of PC's, if you tried to play it on a mid range pc it would look way worse than what the current consoles can output because the console games are fully optimized to run at their specs.  Even though that PC would technically be better than the consoles in almost every category.  

Developers are smart enough to realize this and develop their games with the majority in mind, not the minority.  

Absolutely wrong. Once again, I don't know when you last played PC games, but the market is very different today. If you play Crisis 3 on PC on a high-end card, it blows away the console version. If you play it on medium, it still looks better than the console version. It's all the matter of how a game is optimised. You don't neccessarily optimise a game for the high-end cards per se, but for PCs in general. That way, when you lower the setting, all you do is lose out on some effects like AA or high-end textures, while still keeping a great looking game.

Again, bad comparison.  Crysis 3 is not on current consoles, it is only on last gen consoles.  If you had a pc with the specs of a last gen console, good luck getting crysis 3 to run at all on it.  

Also, there is a reason pc games list an optimal specs required and a minimum.  The games are optimized at certain specs, but you can play a gimped minimal requirement if you want.  If they werent optimized for a specific spec, they wouldnt list it.  

Anyway, we can go round and round all day, so Im just going to end the conversation by saying it is smart for developers to make pc games optimized for lower specs.  It is much easier to find your audience that way.  I mean look at Blizzard, most successful pc developer there is and none of their games are optimized for high end PC's.  Just some food for thought for you.