I've recently seen a trend in tech communities on lemmy where people have developed this mentality that computer hardware is as disposable as a compostable cup, and that after 10-15 years you should just chuck it in the bin and get something new. If someone asks for tech support, they'll just be told to buy new hardware. If someone is saddened their hardware is no longer supported by software they are just entitled, need to pull up their bootstraps, and "only" spend $100 to get something used that will also not be supported in 5 years. It doesn't matter if there is actual information out there that'll help them either. If the hardware is old, people will unanimously decide that nothing can be done.
I've seen this even in linux communities, what happened to people giving a damn about e-waste? Why is the solution always to just throw money at the problem? It's infuriating. I've half a mind to just block every tech/software community other than the ones on hexbear at this point.
This is way worse with
. A few years is ancient to a lot of them to play some unoptimized slop made with unreal engine on the lowest settings.
ue5 is the bane of gaming to me. there’s not a single ue5 game that runs well. the entire engine is nothing but diminishing gains. “here we made lighting look slightly better but you need 16gb of VRAM and upscaling to make it work even with this setting off anyway”
i see people on reddit talking about gpus like anything that isnt the top top top of the line is “mid tier” and shouldn’t expect good frame rates at high settings.
A lot of that is that nvidia, in addition to jacking the prices to the moon, changed the way their skus are lined up. Instead of the old way where the top of the line gpu such as the titan or xx90 was a lot more money for a small performance increase, the top card is miles ahead of the one below it. The difference between the 5090 and the 5080 is about the same as the 1080 ti and the 1070.
nvidia cards are insanely overpriced. very true. i think my next card will be intel. i have amd currently and many games ive wanted to play just dont work well with amd gpus for some reason. for example the 2014 wolfenstein or the first evil within.
I’d expect even more driver problems with intel to be honest with how late they are to the game, especially with older games like that. They’re definitely priced more competitively though. I’m just begging for the AI bubble to pop already
as far as ive heard intel had terrible driver support up til recently and now the drivers are good. i was actually gonna shell out more for a less powerful nvidia card myself til i heard intel drivers have gotten more usable. maybe you’re right tho and they’re still bad. its also tempting to just buy an old 1080ti for cheap. i only play at 1080p so it should be good for a while but with driver support ending soon it’s probably not worth it
They’ve definitely improved substantially very quickly as I understand it I just don’t know if they’d be at AMD’s level yet, especially with older games that came out before Intel had dgpus. I didn’t have too many issues back when I had an rx480 myself though so maybe they’ve gotten worse.
I hate UE5, but so far STALKER 2 is the only game I haven't been able to get running in an acceptable manner. Stutters and all that shit persists in UE5 no matter what I do, but with STALKER, even if I accept a (barely) consistent 30fps, its still a blurry, ugly mess. Granted I know they patched it a couple times since launch, but as far as I'm concerned the game isn't even coming out for another year. Maybe by then they'll get the fuzz off the trees.
thats not one i’ve tried personally but yeah thats most of what i hear about it. more than “finally a new stalker game! its awesome!” its just people complaining that it runs like shit because the engine sucks. apparently if you can get beyond that there’s fun to he had tho
I put about 20 hours into it and then there were like 4 game breaking bugs that there was no workaround for. Not reinstalling until the game is, you know. Finished.