I have a merely 3 year old PC I bought for 1500€ a 5600x and 3060ti, yet it for some reason can’t run cronos, a single player linear game, on low settings without constant lags
The whole game consists of grayscale. There is simply nothing that would require the computing power
And its not really a realistic progress of computing requirements, while they state that my entry level ryzen 5 5600x can run it on optimal settings, for some reason they require an extremely up to date GPU, which just tells me that they just crammed in every kind of graphics tech so their Grayscale smog looks better
When game developers noticed the market for GPUs is growing and processing in general are getting more advanced, they started to care less about optimizing their games. That’s literally it. It’s laziness.
There are still devs that do their best to really optimize their games but most studios, especially AAA ones don’t care.
Developers deserve some blame, but Nvidia does a lot of work to get them to use their proprietary stuff that inly runs “well” on their most recent, high-end GPUs.
Yes. It‘s basic theory. Everyone does it all the time and you‘ll always find a customer/user who will say that some aspect of quality has been reduced too much.
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When game developers noticed the market for GPUs is growing and processing in general are getting more advanced, they started to care less about optimizing their games. That’s literally it. It’s laziness.
There are still devs that do their best to really optimize their games but most studios, especially AAA ones don’t care.
Developers deserve some blame, but Nvidia does a lot of work to get them to use their proprietary stuff that inly runs “well” on their most recent, high-end GPUs.
It’s not laziness, that’s always been a stupid oversimplification. The workers work hard on your entertainment product. It‘s a business decision.
To what end?
To optimise project parameters.
In other words, to take a shortcut to avoid expending resources at the cost of quality.
Yes. It‘s basic theory. Everyone does it all the time and you‘ll always find a customer/user who will say that some aspect of quality has been reduced too much.
It’s pedantry really. No one thought they meant the devs just didn’t feel like optimizing it.
When hearing laziness that’s always been my assumption. Laziness due to business.
Laziness implies that the workers who make the actual games are lazy which is obviously not true, unfair and audacious. Just use the right words.
Yeah! Check out the impossible port videos by modern vintage gamer.
It really shows how well games could run on older hardware if devs cared to optimize it.
With that being said, someone is porting Mario 64 to the gameboy advance by super optimizing it.