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[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 2 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Do you blame them? So many games these days force ray tracing. If your card can’t do that very well, then that game runs like crap.

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Please do tell which games force ray tracing?

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Alan Wake 2, Indiana Jones, Doom TDA, Stalker 2 all have no fallback lighting option and won't work on PCs less capable than a Series S or Nintendo Switch 2.

[–] DdCno1@beehaw.org 4 points 5 days ago

Which is totally fine. Not every game has to support older hardware. Games are allowed to use "newer" tech.

Worth noting that I played Indy at 1600p/60 on an RTX 2080, which is a card from 2018 that I bought used for 200 bucks two years ago. This card can still run every single game out there and most of them extremely well, despite only having 8 GB of VRAM.

The whole debate is way overblown. This doesn't mean that there aren't games that could run a whole lot better, but overall, PC gamers with old hardware are still eating good.

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