Me upgrading my computer to kick ass just so I can play Old School Runescape
Hey, the GPU plugin in runelite that adds lighting effects can absolutely EAT GPU power.
Yeah it can, if I use that plugin fullscreen on my 1440p monitor, I can’t even watch YouTube on another monitor because my GPU is maxed out lmao
Me playing OSRS with 1k+ days on it, what’s other games?
this failing isn’t on you though. AAA games is not what it used to be, I feel like between 2008 to 2014 game companies have all progressed and transitioned into something they didn’t use to be.
my $4k gaming PC at this point is a glorified FFXIV machine although, I do plan to play other things soon.
I mostly play indie games, but I sometimes play AAA games (Ghost of Tsushima right now) and I am glad that I have my rig that can get 90 fps @ 4k (with fsr).
It’s not because you don’t use it every single time that you play a game that it is a waste of money.
This exactly. I bought a custom build specifically for Elden Ring. After blowing that out of the water, my next most played game that year was Stardew iirc. It’s about having power for when you need it rather than always using it to feel like it has value
I feel like the last few years at least have had like one worthy game per year, which for someone with a lot of work to do and now a family, is plenty. I’ve yet to finish Elden Ring and Baldur’s Gate III, and while I completed Cyberpunk, I never got around to the DLC.
I do certainly feel like between 2016 and 2021 or so, we barely got any good games. The biggest release of 2020 took a year or 2 to be decent and even then never lived up to its’ hype because what was promised was simply too much. 2021 the biggest release was Forza Horizon 5 which I loved, but a lot of gamers don’t really care for.
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2016 we got Blood and Wine for Witcher 3 and Fallout 4 (which is a good game, just not a good Fallout game). Oh and we got Doom.
2017 wasn’t that great for AAA, except for Nintendo. But we still got great games like Breath of the wild, Prey, Nier Automata, Hellblade, Hollow Knight, Undertale to name a few.
2018 we got Red Dead Redemption 2, Monster Hunter World, God of War.
2019 we got Death Stranding, Divinity Original Sin 2, Sekiro, Resident Evil 2
2020 we got Final Fantasy 7 Remake, The last of us 2, Hades
2021 is kind of a dud because of covid.
So I’m terms of AAA only 2017 and 2021 can really be considered duds. But indies released some absolute bangers between 2016-2021. For example Disco Elysium, among us, outer wilds, Stardew valley, inscryption etc.
I’m OK with 2D but draw the line at pixel-art. Pun not intended.
Me with a:
Ryzen 5 5800x, RTX 4060 TI, and 32GB RAM.
Plays: Factorio and Minecraft 😂
Lol that’s almost exactly my specs except I have 46gb ram
I play a lot of dungeon crawl stone soup
That’s like minimal speks for properly modded Minecraft
Now download optimization mods to offset the overhead of the other mods.
What’s funny is that a new GPU alone will set ya back that amount already. I’m hopefully picking up the 5080 at launch for 1k
I was just going to say my new PC was $5000 and $1,200 of that was the GPU.
Just to game though?
My desktop is literally only used for gaming (I have a separate PC for everything else) and I spent probably 3-4k on it.
Buy a lot of high end NVMe storage and I could easily see it costing 5k.
I don’t see how a gaming only pc has $3800 of non-gpu costs. There has to be a threadripper equivalent cpu and/or a shit ton of storage/ram on there.
Motherboards aren’t cheap, nor is the top of the line CPUs. The 7950x3D is still $600 on amazon. X670e boards start at like $200 and go up over $500 easily. If you just say fuck it and buy the best you can easily hit that number, especially if you throw in some high end storage drives.
I’m looking to replace my CPU, mobo and ram and I’m looking at at least $1200 for that.
Wait for sales and you can spend half that. If you’re willing to settle for anything less than top of the line, you can go even lower. I picked up a 7900X3D under $450 CAD this summer. My Motherboard was under $200 CAD for an ITX board, and I got 32GB of 6000mHz RAM for $125 CAD.
The 7900x3d isn’t that great of a gaming CPU, you’d be better off with the single CCD 7800x3d.
But if you’re going for high end why wouldn’t you go for the 9800x3d/9950x3d? The only reason I picked the 7000 series was the lack of availability with the 9000 series x3d at the moment. And if you’re getting 90000 series x870e offers a lot of features as standard over x670e.
If it’s just for gaming, you really don’t need the absolute top of the line in terms of CPU. I can’t think of a game I’ve ever played that maxes out my CPU on all cores.
Unless you’re also using it for CPU-specific and intensive work outside of gaming, you won’t gain much from spending more money.
I’m hopefully picking up the 5080 at launch
why tho
For the pixel art.
Not OP but my GPU is a decade old, would be nice to have the latest for once.
You might be better off with a 4000 series, unless you got a new motherboard that won’t be bottlenecked much by the pcie version jump.
Unless you’re getting a 5090 the pcie bottleneck should be negligible compared to your CPU or other things.
On pcie 3 the 4090 gets about a 5% performance penalty. I’d assume the 5080 is about the same performance as the 4090 so the hit should be similar. Unless you’re like me with a 5800x3d on a garbage B450 motherboard your CPU is probably going to be holding you back so much more than the pcie version.
My guess is that if a 4090 is bottlenecked 5% on pcie 3.0 (although I think it’s closer to 10%). Also if pcie 4.0 is double the speed as 3.0, and pcie 5.0 is double 4.0. Then the bottleneck will be closer to 10% if running a 5080 on pcie 3.0.
The only caveat to that is that the card must be using x16 bus speed for the negligible impact, which only the high-end cards reliably do. A bunch of the 70 series and under cards are actually x8 bus speed, and then pcie 4 actually matters. ~20% vs 5% performance loss for 8x bus cards over pcie 3.
Bethesda games aren’t gonna run themselves
Bethesda games aren’t gonna run
themselvesBethesda games need 5080?
Did Starfield become a good game?
I enjoyed it.
The criticisms are valid, but I still think it was a fun time.
Depends if you like starfield
Personally, I didn’t like it. I think a lot of it comes down to two things: Do you care about the writing and the world they’ve built? If so, how critical of it are you (or alternatively, have you seen the sci-fi tropes done well).
Starfield has some really bad world building. In particular, it doesn’t understand why we use sci-fi, and why it’s tropes are interesting. it’s to create an anologue of our world and to break it down, criticize, and point out it’s flaws and ways to fix them.
Starfield is the least critical writing I’ve ever seen I think. The Earth is destroyed, and instead of using this to discuss us destroying the planet right now, it’s just some technobable that has no parallels. Also, when fleeing Earth, they don’t try to solve issues. They just set up new corporations doing the exact same stuff in other places. When the game presents a problem where taking down a CEO would be one of the best possible outcomes, it isn’t an option. Literally everything you do in the game is maintaining the status-quo of the modern world, despite it being the source of so many issues in the game. You can’t change anything and no one wants to either.
Starfield doesn’t understand sci-fi. Fallout does a better job as a sci-fi series than Starfield does. If you’re still interested, the gameplay is also slow and boring and there’s almost no interesting stories or characters. Continue if you want, but I regret spending time on it for the price of $0, and I generally love Bethesda games and the sci-fi genre (although, as mentioned above, I think this is part of why I don’t like it).
Also, when fleeing Earth, they don’t try to solve issues. They just set up new corporations doing the exact same stuff in other places. When the game presents a problem where taking down a CEO would be one of the best possible outcomes, it isn’t an option. Literally everything you do in the game is maintaining the status-quo of the modern world, despite it being the source of so many issues in the game. You can’t change anything and no one wants to either.
That sounds pretty realistic to me. I’m not sure if it’s intentional, but this counts as a commentary on our social situation. Probably doesn’t make for a compelling game, though.
If it were commentary, they’d talk about it. It just is, and it can’t change. They just copied what they know without considering why.
Why?? Just get something a few years old, it’ll do the same thing anyway
Used graphics card prices aren’t that much better than new.
The 4090 still has a VRAM advantage over the 5080 so it’s probably going to continue to hold it’s value pretty well. Especially since there’s a massive voice in pricing between the $1k 5080 and the $2k 5090.
Unless the 24gb ARC GPU comes out (or AI crashes) I see the 4090 just not depreciating a substantial amount. And that’s the only option that would compare to the 5080 since AMD isn’t even trying to make high end.
It’s wild how many comments I got saying buy used when if you check HWS it’s full of 4080s clearing $900-$1000 used
I feel like kinda the main reasons to pick up a latest gen gpu nowadays are energy efficiency and a warranty (although 5000 series doesn’t look all that energy efficient, we’ll see i guess)
otherwise you can definitely get something better on ebay for cheaper
but if you live somewhere where energy is expensive, the difference might be significant. 500w is kinda a lot lol, any difference in performance/watt will add up
prices are going to drop when the new gpus come out and people need to get rid of their old ones, but currently with a little bit of looking i could find a ‘buy it now’ 7900 xt for $640, a 3090 for $775, and a 3090 ti for $850
honestly these aren’t great deals you could probably find better ones
Yep. Hexcells Infinite hasn’t overtaxed my RTX 3080 yet. That may have been a slight waste of money.
I don’t like the picture
Terraria
Me with me $3000 AI laptop. Copilot shit on Windows Console programs on LinuxNormally me too, but then there’s always one game I want 60fps that I’m like wait I thought I maxed out my build pretty decently for my budget and it’s like, you can play on ultra sure but there will be so many 5 fps hiccups
Balatro got me like…
Why play expensive games when you can get addicted to Balatro
I don’t get the Balatro addiction stuff. It’s a good game, but after you’ve played it a few times it gets boring. Sure, “number go up” but it’s like people have never played a video game before. There’s so many Skinner boxes that, at least for me personally, it becomes numbing. I also don’t easily get sucked into other manipulative addicting things in other games though, so maybe it’s just something wrong with me.
What makes you continue playing Balatro after you’ve “figured it out?”
Playing different Antes, Decks and Challenges has kept it fresh and interesting for me: forcing me out of my comfort zone to find new combinations and strategies that works. It might help to change the game speed to 4x so it’s not so showy with the jokers and you can iterate different strategies faster. Or it’s not your thing. Nothing wrong with that.
I find it fun
Once I “figured it out”, I realized I was beating the decks using flushes. So I decided trying different styles like building a deck for playing straights, full houses, two pairs. I found out you can play a full house flush. It isn’t on the list of poker hands so that was fun to stumble upon.
For me it’s 2 things :
- Making a deck that works so well that it crushes everything. -Getting shit cards and making it works.
The first one gets me hooked, the second one keeps me going. It takes a long time to figure it out, as you put it.
With how much Factorio I’ve played, I’m down to less than $0.10/hr with the Space Age expansion. I’m nowhere close to done.
I’ve played like 50 hours of Factorio in 2 weeks, then it started feeling like a job. Not in a sense that it was a chore, but in a sense that I literally do this kind of automation and optimization at my job, and I enjoy the process.
Sadly, the young’uns can no longer play the 18+ restricted card game that’s explicitly got zero gambling in it. They’ll have to get addicted to real gambling in EA sports games
The cure is one of the jokers. Just keep playing Balatro, you’re close to finding a way to quit.
Compensate by running an electron app alongside it.
everyone reading that probably had one in mind. i bet ill hit 75% of them with the balatro/stardew/terraria combo, though if yours is far more obscure, by all means enlighten me so i can buy it and let it sit in my backlog for years because of my own game addictions.
I’m always a huge fan of Deep Rock Galactic, Moonring, Rimworld
I’ve been having a lot of fun with Vagante recently
Gelatine and I wanna maker are cool obscure games
Celeste is also fun, but less obscure
Undertale
Noita, Streets of Rogue, and Dwarf Fortress are some of favorite games.
I haven’t played it, but Animal Well looks great.
It’s not a pixel game, but because it has Sims 1 graphics, I think Project Zomboid should get a special mention.
Also, zomboid used to be a pixel game
Have your heard of our Lord and Savior… balatro?
oh you mean the “The wheel of fortune is fucking rigged” simulator? Why yes. Yes I have.
Dead cells, factorio
Holocure rn for me
