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what is going on with all the system requirements in games? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by Luffy879@lemmy.ml to c/gaming@lemmy.ml

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I have a merely 3 year old PC I bought for 1500€ a 5600x and 3060ti, yet it for some reason can't run cronos, a single player linear game, on low settings without constant lags

The whole game consists of grayscale. There is simply nothing that would require the computing power

And its not really a realistic progress of computing requirements, while they state that my entry level ryzen 5 5600x can run it on optimal settings, for some reason they require an extremely up to date GPU, which just tells me that they just crammed in every kind of graphics tech so their Grayscale smog looks better

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Oof yeah transparency effects are expensive.

Edit: yeah I also looked up screenshots. There are a lot of expensive lighting effects in some of those screenshots.

You want a visually impressive game, you're gonna need a GPU that can keep up. If you want to play an actual grayscale game, try The Return of the Obra Dinn. (It's still full 3D Unity under the hood, so you'll need some GPU, but the stylization effects means they don't need to do anything but basic geometry and static lighting.)