Imagine building a high-end PC to play the latest games

[Corona Scurrae]

You crank up everything to max settings and unreal engine 5 presents a blurry image and terrible performance. If this is what the future of video games looks like then I happily avoid the new era of gaming

[lilbnnuy]

thankfully you can still play the older games even on a potato rig.

[Indifference crescendo]

Originally posted by Corona Scurrae:

You crank up everything to max settings and unreal engine 5 presents a blurry image and terrible performance. If this is what the future of video games looks like then I happily avoid the new era of gaming

It's been like this for at least 3-5 years. They no longer optimize games because they want to force people to use the parasitic DLSS/FSR technologies. Nothing released by major studios in those years has been optimized as well as games were in the past. There is absolutely no excuse for high-end hardware, even as old as 2–3 years, to struggle with anything coming out right now.

The fact that even the best hardware available now struggles with new releases is a complete joke and shows that DLSS and FSR need to go so game developers are forced to actually do a good job and optimize.

[Corona Scurrae]

Originally posted by lilbnnuy:

thankfully you can still play the older games even on a potato rig.

I don't understand why it's this bad today. I remember arkham knight on unreal engine 3.5 had crisp image quality then gotham knights released on unreal engine 5 - which was a mediocre game at best - and you notice all the ghosting

Originally posted by Indifference crescendo:

Originally posted by Corona Scurrae:

You crank up everything to max settings and unreal engine 5 presents a blurry image and terrible performance. If this is what the future of video games looks like then I happily avoid the new era of gaming

It's been like this for at least 4–6 years. They no longer optimize games because they want to force people to use the parasitic DLSS/FSR technologies. Nothing released by major studios in those years has been optimized as well as games were in the past. There is absolutely no excuse for high-end hardware, even as old as 2–3 years, to struggle with anything coming out right now.

The fact that even the best hardware available now struggles with new releases is a complete joke and shows that DLSS and FSR need to go so game developers are forced to actually do a good job and optimize.

I got a 13700k 4080s. I'm dumbfounded every time I open up one of these new games and witness the performance and the visual quality

[zMyriad]

Used to be a time when you can buy a PC for $5-600 and run every game at 1080p/120fps and spending $2k on a PC was a meme.

Now it's children asking their parents for a $2k GPU for Christmas.

[Corona Scurrae]

It seems like nobody is interested in games anymore given the vast majority of discussions in this forum are about body types. I guess another blurry unreal engine game gets a pass because the masses are focused on body types again. Why would anyone want a decent discourse about a game in a game forum?

[minisith]

Originally posted by Corona Scurrae:

It seems like nobody is interested in games anymore given the vast majority of discussions in this forum are about body types. I guess another blurry unreal engine game gets a pass because the masses are focused on body types again. Why would anyone want a decent discourse about a game in a game forum?

It is because there is 1000% more people online now vs 5 years ago

[Zodiac011]

Yeah I use a high-end PC, 4090, 9950X3D and 96gb Ram, but I don't play new games until they're considered old, because that's when they're usually fixed.

Literally no game released since 2020 runs or looks how it should. They're all 2016-18 graphics with Ray Tracing poorly pasted over the top, most of them have textures equivalent to GTA 5 at best, a nearly 10 year old game. Games like Immortals of Aveum with no detail in the visuals, dull colours, crappy draw distances, same old effects as games a decade before it, and I get 70-90fps at 4k with DLSS Quality. Red Dead 2 and Last of Us Part 1 and 2 run better and look better than anything else out.

I bought Stalker 2, but don't want to play it until it's fixed. I got Black Ops 6 and knew before I even played it that it was going to be a colossal ♥♥♥♥ up, but my friends wanted me to play it with them.

Other than that I play games that are like 2 years old or older unless it's a remaster/remake/rerelease of a game I really like because 9 times out of 10 they are good, such as Oblivion Remastered, I hear from people who played it that's it's amazing.

[Corona Scurrae]

Originally posted by minisith:

Originally posted by Corona Scurrae:

It seems like nobody is interested in games anymore given the vast majority of discussions in this forum are about body types. I guess another blurry unreal engine game gets a pass because the masses are focused on body types again. Why would anyone want a decent discourse about a game in a game forum?

It is because there is 1000% more people online now vs 5 years ago

You are correct. I forgot the pandemic

Originally posted by Zodiac011:

Yeah I use a high-end PC, 4090, 9950X3D and 96gb Ram, but I don't play new games until they're considered old, because that's when they're usually fixed.

Literally no game released since 2020 runs or looks how it should. They're all 2016-18 graphics with Ray Tracing poorly pasted over the top, most of them have textures equivalent to GTA 5 at best, a nearly 10 year old game. Games like Immortals of Aveum with no detail in the visuals, dull colours, crappy draw distances, same old effects as games a decade before it, and I get 70-90fps at 4k with DLSS Quality. Red Dead 2 and Last of Us Part 1 and 2 run better and look better than anything else out.

I bought Stalker 2, but don't want to play it until it's fixed. I got Black Ops 6 and knew before I even played it that it was going to be a colossal ♥♥♥♥ up, but my friends wanted me to play it with them.

Other than that I play games that are like 2 years old or older unless it's a remaster/remake/rerelease of a game I really like because 9 times out of 10 they are good, such as Oblivion Remastered, I hear from people who played it that's it's amazing.

I got a 13700k 4080s 32gb 7200MT/s setup. 1440p is almost unplayable in these games at native. I set a custom res of 1620p or 1800p and let my TV upscale the image beyond that

You also correctly mentioned another problem I have with these new games. The realistic color palette they opt for. Thankfully I can change the settings on my qd oled and combat that

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by Corona Scurrae:

You crank up everything to max settings and unreal engine 5 presents a blurry image and terrible performance. If this is what the future of video games looks like then I happily avoid the new era of gaming

Considering a fair amount of people consider mid-tier (By today's standards.) PC to be high tiers? Yeah. Games are only blurry if you don't know how to do settings properly. Just turning on DLSS ain't gonna do a thing and not knowing how to adjust your sharpness to your monitor's resolution also has an impact on that. However, if you use AMD and you use FSR? You're borderline screwed in the upscaling department anyways.

[Corona Scurrae]

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

Originally posted by Corona Scurrae:

You crank up everything to max settings and unreal engine 5 presents a blurry image and terrible performance. If this is what the future of video games looks like then I happily avoid the new era of gaming

Considering a fair amount of people consider mid-tier (By today's standards.) PC to be high tiers? Yeah. Games are only blurry if you don't know how to do settings properly. Just turning on DLSS ain't gonna do a thing and not knowing how to adjust your sharpness to your monitor's resolution also has an impact on that. However, if you use AMD and you use FSR? You're borderline screwed in the upscaling department anyways.

It's literally in the post above yours in which I list my specs. I play at native. And if a 4080s is considered mid-tier then this conversation is pointless

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by Corona Scurrae:

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

Considering a fair amount of people consider mid-tier (By today's standards.) PC to be high tiers? Yeah. Games are only blurry if you don't know how to do settings properly. Just turning on DLSS ain't gonna do a thing and not knowing how to adjust your sharpness to your monitor's resolution also has an impact on that. However, if you use AMD and you use FSR? You're borderline screwed in the upscaling department anyways.

It's literally in the post above yours in which I list my specs. I play at native. And if a 4080s is considered mid-tier then this conversation is pointless

The posts were done at pretty much the same time, however. My friend is playing on a 3090 and is playing at 4k with 60 FPS with high settings and DLSS quality and his game does not look blurry? What do you consider blurry?

[76561198042686546]

It's cheaper to hire some 'jeets to crank out absolutely worst, unmaintainable code, hype up, sell, and pass the burden of dealing with the buggy mess to the end user than to do things properly. See: Skyblivion vs. THIS_SLOPPA. Barely-usable buggy mess today makes more money for Micro$$its than quality product 5 years down the line.

And it's not only a video game problem.

[solidap]

Imagine spending top dollar for a top of the line PC and you still have to play Oblivion at native 900p resolution
in 2025

[Corona Scurrae]

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

Originally posted by Corona Scurrae:

It's literally in the post above yours in which I list my specs. I play at native. And if a 4080s is considered mid-tier then this conversation is pointless

The posts were done at pretty much the same time, however. My friend is playing on a 3090 and is playing at 4k with 60 FPS with high settings and DLSS quality and his game does not look blurry? What do you consider blurry?

I play native and can spot the blurriness in motion. I doubt DLSS does a better job cleaning the image. Especially considering how many artifacts the transformer model shows

[The Seraph of Tomorrow]

The games industry has been getting worse the more it relies on investors and the less it cares about its actual customers.