Games should be easier to run, with better modding tools. Simple as that, Morrowind with mods is still a fantastic time and it runs well on a Steam Deck, something we can carry around with us.
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Lower the resolution in the games settings. 1366 isn't any different than 1920 in practice.
No one needs 4k graphics. Most games don't even play at that resolution without upscaling anyways.
I don't do much gaming these days, so my hardware isn't appropriate and this likely wasn't going to go anywhere anyways, but yesterday I had a quick thought whether I should buy Blue Prince and play it myself, before I watch someone else play it. And I kid you not, my first thought why I shouldn't buy it was "Nah, it's got 3D graphics, it's probably not going to run well".
I genuinely have no idea, if that even makes sense. The game uses cell-shaded graphics, so you probably could've implemented it on the PS1.
Well, except that it needs a fairly high resolution to be able to see some of the puzzle clues. And it's got soft lighting and whatnot. And the solo dev probably didn't spend their entire dev time optimizing for hardware as weak as mine.
I just thought it was funny that we've been doing 3D for 3 decades and somehow it's still relevant for my judgement how a game will run. 🫠
100%. And this is my whole point. Why is it OUR problem not the devs problem? Why do I have to buy into expensive shit?
Ive had to undervolt my GPU/CPU to use less, but yeah it is terrible usage now days.
Don’t worry - once you’ve upgraded everything the games are still the same yellow-markings-mean-climbable, branching-skill-tree, press-Y-to-Parry, level-gated-fetch-quests, enemies-drop-loot-that-is-not-as-good-as-what-you-already-have, collect-all-the-orbs nonsense your computer could already play.
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people out here really refusing to compress, compile, and optimize their work
That's my whole point. Why are we fsulting ourselves and defending big studios who got greedy and lazy? Games used to look good and play good on shit hardware because developers had no choice. Now, you get downvoted a berated if you say that. It's not a hardware issue, it's a game industry issue. They are lazy. They don't give a shit. They release shit half baked and broken then "fix" it later.
Bro what are you smoking. You can run PS3 games, but can't play cutting edge PC games?
That's insanity.
I just upgraded my CPU from a 2700X to a 9800X3D and can finally play PS3 games emulated, my performance in AAA games hasn't changed but then again I don't use AMD GPUs which are basically productivity cards at this point that can run some games as a coincidence, nor do I try my luck at 4K.
1440p, RTX 3090, path tracing in CP2077, even with DLSS is barely playable at 30 FPS.
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Dude can you link me to the ps3 tutorial or whatever software you used to get emulation running? I’ve got games, tried to rip them for the emulator or something, but still no joy. I am ze dumb :( oh and the “newest’ games I’m playing are near mage (released last month 2d point and click adventure game) so check out the Indy scene or different genres like map porn (crusader kings 3 & Europa universalis), couch games, etc…
Look up RPCS3. There are tons of videos about it. And for games, look up "PS3 roms" and you'll pull a ton of sites that have all kinds of PS3 games. I like a site called "nopaystation" because it has .pkg and .rap and those are almost always guaranteed to work and are better than getting a .zip then extracting it into an .iso the. Extracting that into a folder.