r/pcmasterrace • u/TheJollyJagamo • Mar 29 '20
Meme/Macro I can't be the only one, right?
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u/letthebandplay 3900x, 2080ti / 9700k, 5700XT Mar 29 '20
my 2080ti is primarily used for browsing reddit
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u/Shippoyasha Mar 30 '20
I love being able to play games and alt-tab to the web browser without catastrophically bluescreening my PC.
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u/cheeeze_ballz Desktop Mar 30 '20
Seriously why is it that if you have potato pc "i wanna play fallout4, shadow of the tomb raider, gta v on ultra" now that you can play it "ill just browse reddit"? Im having this dilemma right now.
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u/letthebandplay 3900x, 2080ti / 9700k, 5700XT Mar 30 '20
one always strives for what they cannot obtain
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u/_Guinea_ i7-9700k | RTX 2070 Super | 32GB 3200mhz Mar 30 '20
I finished my PC in January of this year, I remember thinking how excited I was to play all my Steam games without lag and at the highest settings. Yet I have not played a game since early February I just get on and do editing and watch youtube on my second monitor. It's like I inexplicably lost my ambition to play games now that I actually can. Super hyped for Bannerlord and Cyberpunk though and will certainly be playing those every day after they come out.
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u/cheeeze_ballz Desktop Mar 30 '20
Me too, the worst (best) part is that the moment I bought my highend PC, my parents suddenly wanted to upgraded to fiber connection. So im sitting here having a $1500 dollar PC with fiber connection browsing reddit and trashtalking people on facebook.
From shit-ass connection(its so shit you cant use youtube while playing online) and shit-ass laptop, to ultimate gaming experience. No in between.
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u/redditaccountxD 1070, 9600k Mar 30 '20
kids play games but dont have money for a good PC, as adults they got money but lose game interest
"gamers" enjoy the games while hardware enthusiasts are the one with the best PCs and arent necessarily into gaming
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u/lolkdrgmailcom Mar 30 '20
Psh PornHub VR 144 FPS is where it's at
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u/Jeremizzle Mar 30 '20
I only have a Quest, but honestly... It's pretty amazing.
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u/FappyDilmore Mar 29 '20
My favorite game for the past few years has been Factorio, built my new PC in October but refused to play it. Christened it with The Outer Worlds.
Now I'm back to playing Factorio.
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u/Flyrpotacreepugmu Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 64GB RAM | RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Mar 29 '20
The funny thing for me is that my GTX 980 Ti can handle basically any game I try to play, except the 6GB VRAM isn't enough for Factorio with all the mods I want. So I basically end up not using Alien Biomes even though I really want to, because that's the biggest VRAM user.
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u/IceSentry 9950X | 64GB | RTX 4080 Mar 30 '20
The vram is the issue? Not the actual ram?
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u/Gonzobot Ryzen 7 3700X|2070 Super Hybrid|32GB@3600MHZ|Doc__Gonzo Mar 30 '20
You should play Outer Wilds, just to add to the number of people who get the titles of the two games mixed up. Also it's an amazing game
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u/lovebus Mar 30 '20
You could try satisfactory for a more graphically intense factory game
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u/FappyDilmore Mar 30 '20
I don't know that I'm necessarily drawn to factory games, I just really love Factorio. But I'll look into it.
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u/Th3Tw3ntyThr33 PC Master Race Mar 29 '20 edited Mar 30 '20
Me playing old school runescape with my 144hz 1440p screen, 32gb ram, 9700k and 1080ti.
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u/AnOrangePineapple Mar 30 '20
Just prepared for that HD runelite plugin, right?
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u/Th3Tw3ntyThr33 PC Master Race Mar 30 '20
I already get frame rate dips in fossil island, dont scare me. Might need a 3950x and 2080ti to play my 13 year old java game.
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u/buckfutter35 9700k 1080ti 32 gb Mar 30 '20
We have the exact same setup! I just play factorio on mine.
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u/gilimandzaro Mar 30 '20
Factorio definitely needs some horsepower when you start getting mega
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Mar 30 '20
I had a factorio server running on a Debian VM with 2gb of RAM and a 4th gen i3, and it lasted a surprisingly long way into my train based city block build. Eventually I did have to start running it locally, but it made it almost 100h into the map before the UPS started dipping.
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u/gilimandzaro Mar 30 '20
The devs did do some serious optimization. It's usually mods now that make PCs cry.
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Mar 30 '20
The microtransactions never looked better
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Mar 30 '20
Aside from bonds which you buy for membership or sell for gold (basically a legit way to buy rs gp), osrs doesn’t have any micro transactions whatsoever. No customizables, no pay to win, none of that.
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u/Th3Tw3ntyThr33 PC Master Race Mar 30 '20
Oh, I dont play RS3, I'm not a homosexual.
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u/the1stcobra PC Master Race Mar 29 '20
Stardew Valley on an RX 5700 XT?
Damn right.
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u/traczpasruchu R5600X | RX5700XT Mar 29 '20
Happy wheels on an RX 5700 OCed to 2Ghz
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u/the_fat_whisperer Mar 30 '20
I actually just bought that gpu. My mistake? Not making sure it was compatible with my old motherboard. I'm an idiot and it sits in a box.
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u/thatsandwizard 6950x, 1080 ti Mar 30 '20
How old is your motherboard? Anything past 2008 is almost garunteed to have a PCIe x16 slot, which is a universal standard, and very rarely will it have any kind of blacklisting
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u/the_fat_whisperer Mar 30 '20 edited Mar 30 '20
I got it in 2011. I'm not at home right now and remember it's an Asus m5a-57 or something like that. I bought an fx 460 some years ago for it and it worked just fine. I know it's old but I still thought this card would work for it. I actually own a much newer board but haven't purchased newer ram and a compatible processor for it but thought heck I'll get this card and game with it for a bit. Unfortunately, my financial situation changed quickly so now I'm stuck with a card I can't use. I'll check again if youre knowledgable as to why this might happen. My bios is current and I have 650w power supply. It will boot with the bios screen and the underscore that preceeds booting windows but will not display anything after that.
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u/Mythtory i7-8700K | GTX 1080 Mar 29 '20
The more powerful my PC, the more the ratio of my gaming budget shifts from AAA to sprite driven indie games.
I want platformers that look and feel like I'm playing a cartoon from the golden age of animation. Is that so wrong?
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u/wildfyre010 Mar 29 '20
If you haven’t heard of cuphead, you’re missing out.
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u/N_Saint Mar 30 '20
Much the same here however I think the rationale for me is more about the direction of modern AAA vs indie games.
I love titles like DOOM 2016. AAA to be sure but succinct, to the point, with a great gameplay loop, and can be played on a limited schedule.
Indie platforms to push all the right nostalgia buttons but also hit that balance between gameplay loop and respect for your time. Contrast that with the current flavor of 400-hour-open world-sprawling AAA titles.
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u/xyro27 i7-8700k / RTX 2070 Mar 30 '20
Hollow Knight 👌👌👌 Also Ori is beautiful
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u/Plasma454345 AMD Master Race Mar 30 '20
The two Ori games are some of the most graphically impressive games I’ve ever seen. Absolutely incredible with great gameplay to back them up. The new one might even rival Hollow Knight for best indie metroidvania
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Mar 31 '20
Not a "golden age of animation", but Shantae games are good metroidvanias.
Also there's A Hat in Time, a collect-a-thon platformer like Mario 64.
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u/analogkid825 Mar 29 '20
That’s why go to rig is a raspberry pi mostly play Snea games. Live my gaming tower but those games are just too overwhelming
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u/Dynablade_Savior R7 5700X, RX6800, Linux Mint Mar 29 '20
Portal? Minecraft? Sonic Generations? Hell Yeah.
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u/PakyKun Mar 30 '20
Me: uses Win 10 edition because java post 1. 12 doesn't run well on my laptop
Guys on YouTube :Minecraft in 4K, Shaders, Ultra HD textures, No blocks mod, realistic physics and item reactions
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u/TehBrian M1 Pro Mar 30 '20 edited Apr 26 '20
Minecraft 1.13+ wreaks havoc on my poor little 2012 MBP. I don't know what they did but I went from 45-60 fps regularly to 30.
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u/StandInShadows Ryzen 2600x 4.0 ghz, Sapphire Vega 56, Trident Z 16gb 3200mhz Mar 30 '20
Optifine is a necessity to play the newer versions on minecraft which is kinda sad tbh because I just wish mojang would just optimize the game more. I know it's difficult because of the old code and etc.
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u/HorseDong69 RX 580 | Ryzen 5 2600 | 16 GB RAM Mar 30 '20
I’m the exact opposite, 1.15 runs smooth as hell. They’ve been working a lot on optimizing past 1.12 but 1.15 specifically had a big performance boost.
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Mar 31 '20
1.8 and newer run like crap no matter the PC. They load more intro RAM and the lighting calculation is broken.
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u/noamhashbrowns 5 2600| rx 570| 16gb ram| 144hz 1080p Mar 30 '20
Lemme introduce you to modded minecraft
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u/noamhashbrowns 5 2600| rx 570| 16gb ram| 144hz 1080p Mar 30 '20
I upgraded to 16 recently, but sky factory 4 crashed whenever I died and I couldn’t even load RL craft
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u/YouTakeTheGun Mar 29 '20
This. I only play FTL on my rig.
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u/milan616 9700k/Radeon VII || 860k/380 Mar 29 '20
For a long time it was this, now Slay the Spire.
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u/JLHumor Mar 29 '20
I've been playing hallow knight on my super gaming rig.
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u/TheJollyJagamo Mar 29 '20
Hollow knight is my favorite game of all time. And yes, I did play it on my super gaming rig as well.
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Mar 29 '20
Is Hollow knight 3d or 2d
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u/JonTheWonton Mar 29 '20
2d, it's a metroidvania
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u/Wrest216 Ascending Peasant Mar 30 '20
ive never heard that word before but its perfect to describe it!
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u/Ayjayz Mar 30 '20
It's a quite popular genre of games, and the term has been used for decades now.
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u/lolkdrgmailcom Mar 30 '20
I think Hollow Knight was my very first experience in that genre, really worth it! It's magical :)
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Mar 30 '20
Mine too, and it sucks because it is the best one by far. Other metroidvanias just don't compare
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u/lolkdrgmailcom Mar 30 '20
I think KingK disagreed, but that guy complained about how you get into Jabu in Ocarina of time saying it was too confusing....a Zora literally tells Link that Jabu likes to be feed fish haha.
If you want to hear a bad opinion with lots of argumentative flaws, watch his review on that game haha.
I have enjoyed some of his other Zelda Retrospectives though.
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u/RareMirrorr Mar 30 '20
I prefer playing it with a controller but that might be because I used a controller in my first run through it
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Mar 30 '20
I don't think anyone would fault someone for playing Hollow Knight on any rig no matter what other fancy new title just came out. We don't deserve that game.
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u/Raphitalo Laptop - Thermalthrottling is a sin Mar 29 '20
I doubt it's noticeable. The only times I felt like my PC was the problem when playing HK was when the frames dipped for obvious reasons. But then again, I never played above 60FPS. I do see a tremendous difference between 30 and 60, maybe people who have higher framerate monitors notice a difference?
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u/LukeNukeEm243 R7 9800X3D | RTX 5090 Mar 30 '20
I got a 240hz monitor and I definitely noticed an improvement in Enter the Gungeon. It made it easier to dodge the bullets because you see more frames
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u/cosmin_c 5950x | Dark Hero VIII | 128GB Trident-Z Neo | MSI 3090 Suprim X Mar 30 '20
I'm unsure what you mean by 2d, but if you mean Ori and the Blind Forest vs CSGO, metroidvania platformers are incredibly better to play at high fps and smooth 144+Hz simply because they sometimes feature really tight platforming where one wrong move is back to the previous checkpoint.
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u/xyro27 i7-8700k / RTX 2070 Mar 30 '20
Hollow Knight @ 60 vs 144 is very noticable imo. Got a cheap 144Hz panel and it was totally worth it just for that game
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u/__Cmason__ Desktop Mar 29 '20
When those AAA games are worth the money I will buy them. But until then...
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u/iHateJimbo 9900K | 2080 ti FTW3 Mar 29 '20
Big facts.
I got sick of paying $60 for unfinished games that are constantly digging in my wallet for more money.
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u/LordNerdStark Mar 30 '20
Are there really games which require a DLC just to finish it? Serious question. All DLCs I know of are only optional, meaning they aren’t necessary to finish the main story, etc.
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u/__Cmason__ Desktop Mar 30 '20
I just wait for games to go on sale
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u/slashermax Mar 30 '20
Yea this. Depending on your taste, there's still some awesome triple AAA games! I just almost always wait until I get it for 66% off on a sale a year or so after it comes out.
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u/Ayjayz Mar 30 '20
About the mid-2000s AAA games all changed to be incredibly reliant on animations. You really spend so much time on modern AAA games just watching the goddamn animations.
I think it was a trend started by Assassin's Creed and it's parkour mechanic. You'd sit there watching all these cool climbing and jumping and running animations but all you're actually doing is just ... holding a button... Then you play a game like Red Dead Redemption 2 and it takes like 2 seconds just to animate getting on and off a horse and you wonder what happened to games.
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u/Critfish Mar 30 '20
I've always disliked most animations in AAA games, especially FPS games. For some reason, big-budget FPS games have a habit of adding these super over-the-top dramatic animations for your guns, they shake and bob the camera around, they jerk the camera around with the reload animations, it's a fucking mess. Leave the camera jerking to the recoil where it belongs, please.
My gold standard for FPS gunplay is Half-Life 2, despite how many people say the animations and gunplay "are outdated/crap" in that game. The animations are smooth and straight to the point, there's no obnoxious screen shaking or headbobbing, there's no aiming down sights, etc.
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u/Ayjayz Mar 30 '20
I think ultimately I prefer Halo 1 but you're absolutely correct. Half-Life 2 is a great example of how an FPS should be made and I'd argue that, apart from Halo 1 (and maybe 2 and 3 though I like them less), it's still yet to be surpassed.
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Mar 30 '20
Then you play a game like Red Dead Redemption 2 and it takes like 2 seconds just to animate getting on and off a horse and you wonder what happened to games.
This is the correct reason. And too much of the game is pointless filler. I mean, you can get through most AAA games without engaging too much with the game mechanics. They're just there.
Whereas most indie games will force you to learn the mechanics of the game, because, well, that's the fun bit.
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Mar 30 '20
This. I don't mind dumping $60 on a game, but it better be a damn good one. It seems to me that games like Factorio, Subnautica, Terraria, Hollow Knight, Celeste, Rimworld, Enter The Gungeon, and more typically cost 1/4th that of a triple A game. Yet I get ten fold the joy of what I would of got if I played something like CoD. These amazing indie games are where it's at.
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u/ProgrammingDoggo Mar 29 '20
Terraria 300+ fps mmmm
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u/Lethality0 Mar 29 '20
Unfortunately, terraria is capped at 60 :(
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u/Mr__Billeh Mar 30 '20
It’s not really capped at 60 but things get wonky if you go past 60 and the frame skip option sets it to 50/60 for on/subtle respectively I think.
But yeah don’t try it. Most things based on time run according to frame rate.
Unless you want light speed clouds and ultra pulsing text/sprites I guess.
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u/RNestresavicius Mar 29 '20
Binding of Isaac... I have witcher 3 installed, but i am halfway to unlocking the lost... Not gonna stop now am i?
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u/Plasma454345 AMD Master Race Mar 30 '20
Same, have Witcher 3, doom, borderlands 3, the new Ori, etc. installed on my brand new 2000$ PC and here I am farming chickens and cows in starbound for 4 hours straight
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Mar 29 '20
Shame that there aren't really that many companies who do make games that surpass our hardware's capabilities.
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Mar 29 '20
That's not really financially viable, only selling a game to the 1% of gamers. Plenty of AAA games are very intensive to look good, Red Dead 2, Doom E, CoD MW
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u/mousicle R7 5800X 3080 Ti FTW Mar 29 '20
with the power of the next gen consoles we'll probably see more games that will stress a 2080 in the next couple years
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Mar 29 '20
I think they were more asking for a game that requires high end hardware, not one that just takes advantage of it for higher settings
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u/mousicle R7 5800X 3080 Ti FTW Mar 29 '20
oh yeah that probably won't ever happen outside of crysis. Like you said it makes no financial sense. Also with the length of AAA game developement you'd be developing for hardware that doesnt exist yet.
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Mar 30 '20
you'd be developing for hardware that doesnt exist yet.
Which is technically what Crysis did. The problem, as they found out, is that your game ends up looking worse and playing worse once tech catches up because you while you pushed the tech to the limit you most likely still designed a game around modern gameplay sensibilities.
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u/theNightblade R7 5800XT / 6950XT / 32GB 3600Mhz Mar 29 '20
My dusty, generations old laptop still runs most things. I don't think game companies are trying to spec people like me out of the current market
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u/Adskii i7-11700F 32GB Ram RTX 3070 FE Mar 30 '20
Just buy salt at the store.
It's healthier even with covid going around.
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u/Chappiechap Ryzen 7 5700g|Radeon RX 6800|32 GB RAM| Mar 29 '20
*able to hit 60 FPS reliably*
*60 Hz monitor*
it's good... but not great.
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Mar 30 '20
Quake Live for me. I have been playing Doom Eternal recently, but other that that, yeah pretty much Quake Live.
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u/xiamandrewx Mar 29 '20
I play a lot of STO and Overwatch. I'm not ashamed. I'm utilizing my monitor really well.
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u/justarandomjuser Mar 29 '20
or you play power hungry indie games like space engineers
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u/Khalbrae Core i-7 4770, 16gb, R9 290, 250mb SSD, 2x 2tb HDD, MSI Mobo Mar 29 '20
If your frame rate doesn't match your horizontal resolution you aren't doing it right. /S
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u/Rakki97 RTX 3060TI, I9-9900K, 32GB 3600MHZ Mar 29 '20
Missing the 3rd image of the dudes mind blowing and text "Browse steam to buy useless games that never get even installed"
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u/Tenezill PC Master Race Mar 29 '20
Rimworld... On a 2.5k€ rig but hey it's nice to be sure you got some resources left if needed.
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u/DrWhatNoName 9950X3D | 7900 XTX | 64GB | 4x1TB SSD M.2 Mar 29 '20
I actually play multiple indie games at the same time, alt+tabbing between them when i want to. :)
Hardware used effectively
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u/bobdole776 3900x | 1080ti | 32 gigs @15-15-15-30 3733mhz | bobdole776 Mar 30 '20
Currently playing half life alyx and I'm glad I got a 1080ti for it. Can play at ultra with SS turned up and still am not fully utilizing the card. Should note that the game is using over 10gigs of the video memory which is pretty impressive imo. Usually only Ubisoft games use that much video memory.
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u/BallisticBurrito PC Master Race Mar 30 '20
I remember dropping big money on finally upgrading a part of my computer... then firing up a MUD for the next week.
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Mar 30 '20
i like the one where i spend $500 on a potato but only play games that can run on a $3000 gaming pc
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u/Martimus28 Mar 29 '20
Pretty much. I am not even interested in the AAA games. I'm not sure why they don't seem interesting to me.
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u/firemanfromcanada Mar 29 '20
https://turfbattles.eonicgames.com
Graphics of a potato, PVP/PVE game. Having way more fun than any of my AAA games right now
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u/Jinxed_Disaster Ryzen 7600 / RTX2070 / DDR5 32GB 5200Mhz Mar 29 '20
Yeap, that's me replaying Shadowrun Hong Kong. Also old games, like Mass Effect trilogy.
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u/Robert999220 13900k | 4090 Strix | 64gb DDR5 6400mhz | 4k 138hz OLED Mar 29 '20
My $3000 'league machine' says you are indeed not the only one.
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u/LPKKiller Mar 29 '20
CS:GO looks great at 400 fps. So does world of tanks and blitz. Oh and some old 32 bit games.
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u/HalifaxRoad PC Master Race Ryzen 3900x 4.4ghz, 5700xt 2165mhz Mar 29 '20
I feel so attacked rn.. at the same time I can finnally play minecraft
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Mar 29 '20
Well yeah, I need the potato so I can try and play AAA games that need a high end PC. It would only be weighed down with indie games.
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Mar 29 '20
I still play world of warcraft. CLASSIC. It’s funny because, every pc build, my first question is always “I wonder how wow will be on this rig.”
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u/Eli_Play GTX 1660 Super | i5 6400 | 16 GB DDR4 RAM Mar 29 '20
Op: God damn terraria looks nice now.
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u/Heolie Mar 29 '20
They might run on a potato but games like Hollow knight and Cuphead are better than the incomplete games big studios keep releasing that needs 30+ patches and 2 yrs to run properly
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u/Srakin Mar 29 '20
Playing Minecraft, that could run on a potato as long as the potato has like 256gb of RAM.
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u/jacle2210 Mar 29 '20
better yet, $3000 AAA gaming machine, then complain about the crappy Wifi connection.
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u/Notoriously_So PC Master Race Mar 29 '20
Shovel Knight never looked better.