RTX 3050Ti's future on The Last of Us Part I

[Theta]

Do you guys think upcoming patches & fixes makes the game playable on that gpu?

[Virguuuuuule!!!]

hum, Playable in Medium/high 1080p DLSS balanced, maybe

[Rick]

That's a laptop only GPU and the top model has 4GB of videoRAM, so it won't run great.

Nvidia did have a driver update for issue's with The Last Of Us on RTX3000 series GPU's, you could try that but you are barely on minimum specs.

[Profugo Barbatus]

Depends what you mean by playable. If you mean 720p with shakey frames and potato mode visuals, but the game runs, then that should be the goal. It is the listed minimum. If you mean anything better than that, then exceedingly unlikely.

While mores stylized games may get acceptable results on the bottom barrel of their specs range as the lower quality doesn't impact the design as much, one of the tradeoffs of aiming for more photorealistic stuff is it looks really, really bad when its cranked back down. There's a reason nobody is pining for a return to the early days of "everything brown" attempts at photorealistic stuff.

[Ottomic]

Originally posted by S4RGE™:

Do you guys think upcoming patches & fixes makes the game playable on that gpu?

Absolutely. The game will be optimized as it goes on, and a 3050 is not that far off from what a PS5 packs so you should definitely expect performance to increase on it.

How much performance you should expect from it depends on the rest of your rig, but performance will absolutely improve with patches.