I feel like I'm done... with badly optimised games

[Teh_Next]

Which is why it had vsync enabled by default and you had to mess about with the .ini file to disable it.

So your original point is moot as it was a poorly optimised game on hardware/peripherals that were common, seven years ago or not.
Even with the fixes it still threw some models around, it was a mess.

 

[Ocean Breeze]

PUBG

So bad it became unplayable for me so had to uninstall it.

 

[just Scott]

I had no problem with Nier in terms of performance on my R5 1600 and 970.

 

[Wilko_Dog]

Resident Evil 2
Sekiro

They're probably the only games I can comment on that I've played recently but both run extremely well on pc for me
I have had problems in the past though with poorly optimised games, Rage springs to mind when looking down my steam library. I hope they do a better job with 2.

 

[Omaeka]

It is possible to beat the engine into some kind of working beyond its limits - with external programs that modify the way it uses memory and ENB to change the way some of the rendering stuff works, etc. you can get something reasonably decent out of it. Though I then beat it into a 25 FPS mess again by using a mod that goes nuts with grass density (it was holding a solid and responsive 60+ FPS before that though).

Lol I'm glad I'm not the only who nuked his Skyrim with a grass mod

 

[Rroff]

I had it running full detail trees, etc. to the horizon and crazy density grass:

Sadly I forgot that changing you graphics card and it nukes your video settings and I hadn't backed up the last lot of changes and could never get it to run again after that as I couldn't remember 1-2 tweaks.

EDIT: Not to everyone's tastes I'm sure but I had it modded for a drenched moody lighting setup kind of after the apocalypse kind of feel that screenshots don't really do justice to the atmosphere of when playing:

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