I'm not rich but I don't have to worry about upgrading my computer.
As I mentioned in another thread, a friend of mine gave up pc gaming because he didn't want to constantly upgrade his machine. When he does play games he uses a console.
My thought is if one wants to play a particular pc game then make sure you can play it. If you can't then it's not a "Right" to play games.
LoL, Sovrath this is not health care, I do not think anyone is saying they should have a "right" to play games:)
I've been on these forums for years. You'd be surprised with the posts where people start complaining that a certain game "should" be for PC as well or a certain game "should" have an easy mode, or a certain game "should" have non-pvp/ffa-pvp servers, or that games should take into account old computers.
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I'm not rich but I don't have to worry about upgrading my computer.
As I mentioned in another thread, a friend of mine gave up pc gaming because he didn't want to constantly upgrade his machine. When he does play games he uses a console.
My thought is if one wants to play a particular pc game then make sure you can play it. If you can't then it's not a "Right" to play games.
LoL, Sovrath this is not health care, I do not think anyone is saying they should have a "right" to play games:)
I've been on these forums for years. You'd be surprised with the posts where people start complaining that a certain game "should" be for PC as well or a certain game "should" have an easy mode, or a certain game "should" have non-pvp/ffa-pvp servers, or that games should take into account old computers.
saying a gme should be out for a certain system, even more a PC is nothing new, though we on a pc can emule it anyway so no biggie, now asking for a easy mode, most games now are easy mode, I don't think it was even possible to be even easier, unless the bad guys can't shot anymore
but that is teh funny thing about opnions everyone ahve yours and not always it smell right, hence why opnions and asses everyone have yours
I'm not rich, but I try my best to save up for good hardware. Gaming is my hobby, so that's what I do. GPU prices are coming down lately, but I was lucky to get my GTX1080 back in 2016. It still plays games like a champ at 1440p. A decent quad core CPU can get you far, and with multithreading, even better. The big issue is the GPU. These days, I wouldn't recommend a quad core without multithreading anymore, but get a decent CPU, and it can be ok for years.
The first thing I do when I see a title come out that gets my attention is check system requirements. In the immediate moment, games don't dictate my hardware choice but hardware dictates what games I buy.
In the longer term, when considering hardware, I will take a game I play and if the hardware doesn't meet or exceed recommended requirements I won't add it to the options list. Suggested for Fallout 76 is a 1060. As such to me, getting anything below a GTX1060 seems like a band-aid right now. That's the current gen gaming template.
There are games that poor 95% of their budget into the game, and games that put 95% of their budget in how the game looks and sounds. I am not interested in watching a video game nor listening to one, I am interested in playing it. Gameplay is king, and people that play games for the game part rarely, if ever, have to worry about performance. Unless its getting an old game to run on a modern system.
As long as I can play at 1080 I do not care about the graphic settings. My monitor is 23" i believe so at 1080 I can turn things like AA off and what not and not notice much difference. I also do not care much about the shadows and things that are frame rate hogs. I have an R9270x w/ a first or 2nd gen i7 processor. I can run most game on at least medium settings @1080. I think my card was $160-170 at the time I got it and it was a mid range card. Now like someone said the mid range cards are more pricey due to the stupid bit mining......
I got a deal on an over-clocked 970 not too long ago and haven't had an issue running anything. Even the Witcher 3 is on high settings. Kingdom Come is slightly less optimized, so I had to turn down some of the heavier options to medium (I enabled volumetric fog and the game isn't optimized for that, so I had to turn those effects down to compensate), but everything else is on high and the draw distance is at or right below max.
I would advise against upgrading whenever possible unless you have an enormous budget and don't mind spending it. Rather, there are only two good reasons to upgrade:
1) The old computer is no longer good enough for some particular purpose. This includes some non-gaming uses where today's top of the line is not good enough, and so you upgrade as soon as it becomes available. 2) The old computer is no longer reliable enough. This could be due to general wear and tear concerns with aging components, finicky problems that you can't fix, or the old computer having died outright.
I prefer a midrange card. Currently, I'm using 1060. I have better cards, but they generate too much heat for my taste. They also draw a lot of power. I'm pretty happy with mid to high settings usually. I play a lot of old games and they don't need much power. I sometimes play new games and can get away with mid to high settings 60 fps 1080p depending on the game.
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I would advise against upgrading whenever possible unless you have an enormous budget and don't mind spending it. Rather, there are only two good reasons to upgrade:
1) The old computer is no longer good enough for some particular purpose. This includes some non-gaming uses where today's top of the line is not good enough, and so you upgrade as soon as it becomes available. 2) The old computer is no longer reliable enough. This could be due to general wear and tear concerns with aging components, finicky problems that you can't fix, or the old computer having died outright.
This was me this year. Gaming laptop hit the 4 year mark which is 1 year past my usual upgrade point.
Just could not see spending $3 to $4K on a new one as there are no games I'm planning on playing this year which requires better.
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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Honestly speaking I can't think of a game in the last 10 years that I was excited about to drive me to purchase a high end gaming system. First person shooters are all the same, RTS is kind of dead, they don't make MMORPGs anymore, in kind of an ironic way a good bit of the innovation you see these days uses old style graphics that a 15 year old computer could run.
There just isn't anything to be excited about, we just had E3 and there was nothing worth a sheit that was announced. I may be getting old but I just don't see gaming advancing.
You don't need to be rich to upgrade a comp every few months, just cut spending on stupid crap every month and You will save the money.
Also, @Vrika, your post was quite haughty. You started by saying. "No, I am an adult . . ." Insinuating that people who can't afford to upgrade a comp are Not?
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The only triple AAA PC game I can think of that I'm interested in is Cyberpunk 2077, but I'm not sure if it will be the same for me as the Witcher series. Other than that I play old games and indie games. It seems like the age of video game infatuation has passed. It doesn't hold the same blind fan base it did in the 80s, 90s, 2000s.
I never worry about it. having said that I just got a 1060. Awesome upgrade for the price. I am just going to stick with 1080 resolution and then no issues for awhile. When I decide to go up I will likely jump to 4 K since I will need mostly all new parts. I will wait until that is common though.
I happily enjoyed gaming with medium settings. . until I upgraded.
I would never say I am worried about running things but I do get the itch often to upgrade something
I Just get "last years gear" every 5 years or so. And I've never needed to worry about not running anything (for single player games), and for MMOs I've never needed to worry about not running near max settings (these games are normally a year or 3 behind, in part from larger asset pools and from long dev cycles).
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When I was a kid, I had a laptop to play games on. But because I knew nothing about computer hardware at the time, I often bought games that my laptop could not run at all. My parents refused to buy me a new PC/laptop and so I had no choice but to simply stash those games (digital download was not a thing back then) in a closet and hope that one day I'll get a new PC to play them on. It went like that for years and my stash grew from a couple games to a dozen. These days, I'm never worried about not being able to run a game, not only because I got a pretty powerful PC, but also because it used to be the norm rather than the exception for me.
If I'm addicted enough to a game to upgrade my computer for it, then it is worth it. But I've never had that happen so I haven't worried about it.
But you see if I can't play a game on good graphics then I won't get addicted to it. Thus, I don't worry about it.
Plus, I'm cheap when it comes to video games so I'm not used to the best graphics, so I don't know what I'm missing.
But I'm screwed with cars. I have a top of the line car, and thus everything that isn't the car, is junk. In one year I went from having a 12 year old car to having imo the best car lol.
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In the longer term, when considering hardware, I will take a game I play and if the hardware doesn't meet or exceed recommended requirements I won't add it to the options list. Suggested for Fallout 76 is a 1060. As such to me, getting anything below a GTX1060 seems like a band-aid right now. That's the current gen gaming template.
1) The old computer is no longer good enough for some particular purpose. This includes some non-gaming uses where today's top of the line is not good enough, and so you upgrade as soon as it becomes available.
2) The old computer is no longer reliable enough. This could be due to general wear and tear concerns with aging components, finicky problems that you can't fix, or the old computer having died outright.
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Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
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"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
Just could not see spending $3 to $4K on a new one as there are no games I'm planning on playing this year which requires better.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
There just isn't anything to be excited about, we just had E3 and there was nothing worth a sheit that was announced. I may be getting old but I just don't see gaming advancing.
Also, @Vrika, your post was quite haughty. You started by saying. "No, I am an adult . . ." Insinuating that people who can't afford to upgrade a comp are Not?
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You can see my sci-fi/WW2 book recommendations.
I happily enjoyed gaming with medium settings. . until I upgraded.
I would never say I am worried about running things but I do get the itch often to upgrade something
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You can see my sci-fi/WW2 book recommendations.