Why has hardware/software become so stagnant?

Grantelicious

Grantelicious

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I pulled out my 2012 2600K/680 PC and it can play almost anything still today, I mean still all the games I want to play it's running them in the hundreds lol. Which sadly speaks of the sad state of software in the AAA space :/ There has never been another time where you can pull 12-13 year old hardware and still play the latest stuff. Makes me wonder why not much changed still the PS4 launched really, like modern titles still run fine on that dated thing.

Feels like we got to this point 10 years ago and stayed here, now everyone is fannying around with 300+FPS or Ray Tracing and things that you have to squint hard to see a difference just because there is some bottleneck somewhere. Is it the software developers that cannot keep up? Have we hit the point of deminishing returns?

I just feel really bored of gaming now it seems to have stopped evolving.
 
The almost anything you describe doesn't sound quite right to me. No 2GB card will run AAA new games at 1080p without scaling.

The lack of gameplay innovation in the mainstream is in simple terms due to AAA titles just selling regardless of quality, possibly thanks to excessive marketing.
 
Maybe if you like playing modern AA and AAA games at 720p and 20fps, even using scaling technology I don't imagine for a moment anything on the likes of UE5 would be remotely playable. What games exactly do you actually play?
 
There hasn't been much progress outside of graphics, so I sort of agree with your last point.

However, there's no chance of that machine running the latest games over 100fps unless you're playing at a very low resolution with everything on low.
 
Ayahuasca said:
There hasn't been much progress outside of graphics, so I sort of agree with your last point.

However, there's no chance of that machine running the latest games over 100fps unless you're playing at a very low resolution with everything on low.
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I said there are still games I play that run at that, like Dota or CS or WoW or Overwatch. Games that are the most popular still today. Also people calling BS :S I can load up GTA V Online on my 750ti and it runs perfectly fine, not at 4K but whocares? 1080p at 24 inch is great, there isn't any need for a higher resolution unless you move up in screen size. I have my 4090/7800X3D PC hooked up to my 4K TV and it's great, but I'm not playing anything other than single player games like that.

I also do not think low settings are bad anymore, low to high looks almost identicle these days apart from details you do not pay attention to outside of screenshots.

I just think graphics became boring 10 years ago and we never evolved. I still look at high framerates or RT and all the places they've gone to so they can sell you a new card and there is barely a difference. With my VR headset, over 90 I cannot see a difference :/ When I see RT vs non RT, again unless you look closely there is barely a difference other than the glass looks nicer.
 
Grantelicious said:
Also people calling BS :S I can load up GTA V Online on my 750ti and it runs perfectly fine, not at 4K but whocares? 1080p at 24 inch is great, there isn't any need for a higher resolution unless you move up in screen size
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GTAV launched on PC in 2015, the Nvidia 750ti launched the year prior.

The 750ti was lauded as an excellent budget gaming card at the time and reviewed extremely well.

My decade old GPU can run a decade old game well at 1080p!

As for low vs high looking the same on modern games, that's absolute guff and easily disproven unless you're blind as a bat tbh, there's certainly an argument for high vs ultra, but not to that extreme.
 
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