sc94597 said:
This is not true at all. Games are running flawlessly on lower and lower end GPU's as time progresses. Today even integrated GPU's are able to keep up on the low-end. Hell, for years (2010-2014) I was playing many of my games (albeit at low-medium settings) on a laptop with a 2 core 4 thread i5 and a low-end discrete Nvidia GPU (425m) that was weaker than a desktop 9600GT. Games I enjoyed in that period were (Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Dark Souls, Dishonoured, Skyrim, Fallout New Vegas, Crysis 2, Bioshock Infinite, Battlefield 3, Diablo 3, Dragon Age 2, and the last game I played on it was Dragon Age Inquisition.) It is telling that the game you had to cite for causing issues is a PC exclusive. Anybody who has a gaming GPU (r7 and up for AMD for example) can run any game (albeit maybe not at max settings) for the rest of this generation. |
Yeah, I'm also playing some games on my MacBook Pro Retina (some kind of i5 an Intel Iris graphics) but the experience isn't all that great. Cities Skylines runs good at the start, but once my city grows larger, I can't get beyond 20 fps even on minmal settings (720p). Kerbal Space Program also struggles very hard when I build a spacecraft with many many parts on them. Civilization 5 runs quite decent, but in later stages the loading times are killing me. I sometimes wait more than 3 minutes for a turn to end! I thought Fallout 3 should run very well, but have you tried to play that game with Windows 8 or Windows 10? It won't work. It simply won't work for whatever goddamn reason.
Games do run somewhat, but it's far from optimal and I don't think game developers will take care of old hardware too much. In 2007 I bought a GeForce 8800GT (refresh), which was quite a good graphics card at the time. I was very pleased to run Crysis at high settings and stuff like that. But afterwards I never bought new parts or a new desktop computer, I went with notebooks instead. When I tried to run some newer games around 2010 I already had trouble running new games like Bad Company 2 or Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit with high settings at Full HD. Most of the time I had just to switch to medium settings and 720p to get at least solid 30 fps. The games didn't look THAT much better than on console and that was with a relatively expensive graphics card from 2007. It was that time when I just switched completely to console because I didn't care about graphics anymore anyway. So I never tried to run games from after 2010, but I bet for example Tomb Raider or Metro: Last Light won't run all that good on a GeForce 8800GT. I played those games without any problems on the PS3 and they actually looked pretty good!
Now if I imagine to buy a middle-class or entry-level graphics card, I just can't possibly imagine that they will be enough for EVERY game for the next 5 years or so. Maybe I'm wrong, what do I know. But only with a console, I can be absolutely sure that I can run any games that will release throughout the generation.
That's all of course my personal opinion and I don't want to say that PC gaming is bad or anything. I just don't think it's the best idea to buy a cheap build and then think it will have better looking games than the consoles for all eternity. If you really want to play on PC that's fine, everyone has their preferences. I just think that you should invest a little bit more.
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