>some settings max at High >other settings max at Very High

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>High
>Off

>>386394686
>there's a "maximum" preset
>it doesn't put everything at the maximum

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>edit settings
>you must restart your game for it to take affect

>>386394686
>other settings max out at Ultra

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>>386394898
>not everything as a "maximum" setting

>everything on maximum
>game still looks like shit

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>Game detects your GPU and won't let you adjust settings higher than what they recommend

>>386394898

Why the fuck does Doom and DXMD leave anisotropic filtering at 8x on the ultra preset. It's fucking free.

>play guitar hero 2
>wolfmother

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>you can't keep clikcing right until you get the highest setting because it loops
>every max setting is different
This is one of those inexcusable sins.

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>put everything on highest
>52 fps
>put everything on lowest
>55 fps

>>386395056
Fucking hitman

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>top of the line specs
>pc port barely playable

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>Hit "Recommended settings"
>Game runs at 15FPS with all post processing on ultra and textures/shadows on low/off
>Game runs solid 60fps with ultra textures and post processing on variety of medium/high

>>386394791
Where is that from

>>386395120
the thing i don't get in doom is that you can adjust the render resolution only below 100% if you want to upscale your shit etc
you have to use AMD or Nvidia higher res emulation

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>>386395071
>old game doesn't recognize your GPU and gets confused, puts everything at very low settings

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>fxaa/off

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>>386395340
>You have so much RAM that the game thinks you don't have enough and refuses to load without tweaks

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>>386395340
>you have to emulate MS DOS

>>386395306
>game runs at 10 FPS with all settings set to max
>turn shadows down and don't adjust any other settings
>stable 60 FPS

>60% GPU usage
>60% VRAM usage
>60% CPU usage on all cores
>60% RAM usage
>Silky smooth 30-45 FPS
How?

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>>386395362
>exclusive anti-aliasing options
>on or off

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>>386395214
>put everything on highest
>55 fps
>put everything on lowest
>52 fps

>>386395551
Name 17 games that do this

>>386395513
Fallout 4 in a nutshell

>completely unplayable with default key layout

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>a single option that barely does anything cripples the framerate in-spite of every other option set to maximum
>game requires a restart to change said option

>>386395587
Literally all UE3 games in existence.

>>386395587
Almost every single PC game nowdays. Optimization is a lost art, and the difference between very low to ultra is barely anything.

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>>386395663
>movement isn't WASD

>sound options default at 10
>later discover they can go up to 11

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>>386395513
>>386395657

Fallout 4 will plummet the framerate everytime it's struggling to load in things. My framerate issues went away by moving it onto an SSD.

Thanks Bethesda

>turn on ultra settings
>game says HOLY SHIT

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>5 different types of motion blur
>Can't tell the difference between any of them
>turn it off

>On
>Off
>config options are greyed out
>cant change resolution
>need to restart computer to save changes
>everytime you exit game it fucks up your computer drivers

>>386395587
almost every game where you are CPU limited
DOOM with my FX 6300 wouldn't push more than 160 frame no matter the settings

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>PC port doesn't have mouse support for camera control

God tier:
>poorest settings on best specs

Good tier:
>highest settings on best specs

Medium tier:
>highest settings on worst specs

Poor tier:
>worst settings on worst specs

Shit tier:
>recommend

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Is it even possible to run this game with everything high, with no upscale at anything better than 30fps? One of the worst pc ports I've ever played.

>>386395663
>Every Koei Tecmo PC port
They design their keyboard layouts for people with three hands.

>>386395071
What game does this?

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>most graphic setting changes require the entire game to be restarted.

>>386395793
The settlement building menu is the worst offender, I moved my game over to a SSD as well.

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>camera controls are on the keyboard

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>game has chromatic aberration turned on with no way to disable it

>>386396152
Lost Planet 2

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>Subtitles under audio

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>only two options
>it loops
>can't tell which option you're on because both selected and not selected are just different colors

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>Depth of Field

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>toggle through anti aliasing types
>MSAA
>TXAA
>FXAA
>CPAA
>USAA
>TNAA
>MLAA
>EQAA
>DCAA
>SSAA
>AAAA
>FQAA

can't they just have fucking LOW to ULTRA settings like everything else?

>>386394686
>[Wolfmother beatboxing in the distance]

>>386396152
A lot of new games hardcap your max texture settings depending on how much VRAM you have. It's kinda weird that it's a trend now considering VRAM requirements have been a thing since they first slapped memory on 3d accelerators in the first place.

>Rated M for Mature
>Gore: On/off
>Swearing: On/off

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>>386396386
>game has anti aliasing settings
>ultra is just higher FXAA

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>AA: on/off/maybe

>>386396386
that would be heresy

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>>386396386
>Google the AA techniques you've never heard of
>Each leads to a mile long Wiki page detailing how the underlying technology works and gives you no clue as to how effective or demanding it is

>>386396386
This is justified though since different types of AA do radically different things. Good games will have options lest people sperg out that the game is using the "wrong" kind of AA.

>>386396550
NAME TWO(2) GAMES THAT DO THIS

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>>386396386
>Highest and lowest setting make barely a visible difference
>Make a processing difference of 15-25fps

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>>386396386
Because those actually mean shit and there isn't an objective best, speaking of that.
>anti aliasing option is just low to ultra

>>386396386
>Use highest AA setting.
>Entire screen blurs together.

>reset controls is in a completely different menu than where you assign the controls

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>>386396634
>needs to be spoonfed
go back to plebbit you nigger

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>game can't run in 16K resolution

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>Subtitles have real work put into them, color coded for each character and timed not to spoil anything where necessary

>>386395964
actually

god tier
>mixed settings to achieve 100+ fps on a 144hz monitor
>buying new hardware every few years

retard tier
>ultra settings regardless of fps
>buying a gpu every year

>use a mod to disable shadows
>gain 40fps
Name the game

>>386396751
>>386396634

Haha funny guys. I know we're all having fun here but can we please refrain from the racism?

>>386395214
>>386395551
Turn off VSync u faggot

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>game has a setting that literally does nothing
>google it
>nothing comes up

>>386396841
One of the performance mods for Nier:Automata on PC involved disabling one of the lighting methods in the game and was a huge boost to FPS

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>>386396853
no thanks, spic

>>386394958
>game has a super long loading sequence and takes forever to get you back in the game.

>have to make a minor adjustment w/ the settings again

>>386395710
Not to mention you can't turn off a lot of things.
Every game these days is BLOOM BLOOM BLOOM, but the only options you get are sixteen different kinds of motion blur.

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>Game doesn't let you re-orient the camera.

>>386396386
MSAA is best but it's not supported by a lot of modern technologies. FXAA and TXAA are good but blurry in motion, FXAA in particular

>>386396824
god tier
>everything on the lowest settings to make the game playable
>buying new hardware when the old one explodes

retard tier
>everything else

>>386396959

The first thing I always do when starting a new game is disable bloom and motion blur.

Motion blur can be ok but I don't understand why anyone likes bloom.

>>386397041
I'm the opposite. Motion blur is trash but I like a bit of bloom.

>>386397041
>I don't understand why anyone likes bloom.
Properly used you don't realize it's there but it increases the quality dramatically. The right question is why do they exaggerate it, and it's because giving games a cinematic feeling has been a fad for a few years

>>386397041
Especially with how overdone it is. Oh there's a light in the direction you're looking? The top of everything is now a miniature sun, but you still cant see the wall because it's too dark in here.

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>>386396962

>pc plods can't move two analogue sticks at the same time

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>>386397041
>Motion blur is the whole screen
>No option for per object motion blur

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What path must I take to make stuff like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3LtFrMAvQ4

I really enjoy architecture and spaces. Especially games like "The Beginner's Guide". I want to create environments and stories.

What's the best way to go? Should I take programming in college and some random design/animation courses? I'm sort of lost.

>>386397034
you're right actually

>>386397314
Woops, was gonna post this on front page

>>386395309
Rage

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>What PC parts should I buy to make it last 5-6 years?
I have no idea why people ask that, how are people supposed to predict the future? The 2500K only stayed relevant so long since Intel has done jack shit to improve their CPU's since then. Not to mention it's completely subjective, what if you want to change resolutions or buy a high framerate monitor down the line? I don't understand how someone can just say "I'm going to keep the same PC for 5 years and that's that."

>>386397235
>console retards can't play without aimbot

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>>386397034
I miss the days when changing graphic settings actually made a huge difference.

>grown used to the low frame rate
>some special place you stand in makes the frame rate shoot up for a moment
>most satisfying sight while it lasts

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>>386397041

Wind Waker HD is the biggest offender of this.

I really, really do not understand how so many people praised the graphics of this game. It looks absolutely disgusting and legitimately hurts my eyes. I'd rather play the GC version.

>>386397314
uncharted 4 looks better than that video cuz it has great colors and style

>>386394686
What year are we in?
Forgive me.

*farts into mic*

>>386395056
>everything on minimum
>game still runs like shit

>>386397580
just turn the brightness down on your screen

>>386396884
Then I would have to limit the framerate because of the horrid tearing, which it would be more or less the same anyway because it would still appear on the edges of the screen.
There's no escape from shit optimization.

>>386397558

>he thinks I'm using the controller on a console

enjoy your microsoft word piano slab my man, I'll snipe you from across the map the way god intended

>>386396841
Total war??

>>386397580
If your PC isnt a toaster, you can run it in Dolphin and make it look pretty much just as good, obviously it doesn't have the bloom effect and a handful of bugs remain unfixed.

>>386396270
name 4 games where subtitles option ISN'T under audio

>>386397758
>he thinks I'm using the controller on a console
What's the alternative?

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>>386397314
>What's the best way to go? Should I take programming in college and some random design/animation courses? I'm sort of lost.
I did a bit of archviz to prototype a game level. Programming won't help you at all, neither will animation. Unreal Engine is free, honestly going to college for this stuff is retarded, you can learn by yourself, books and online resources.

>>386397815
wind waker hd is on wii U, the emulator is cemu not dolphin and it'll probably run at 12fps.

>>386397758
Gears of War 4 is fun for things like that. It has a bunch of cross-platform modes and 90% of the playerbase are Xbox players.

Almost nobody goes for the weapons that require a degree of accuracy so the sniper and torque bow are pretty much untouched. All the Xbox players do is either roll towards you with a shotgun or stand upright, slowly strafing to one side while hosing assault rifle fire roughly at your Torso.

>>386397838

>Hello Kitty Advance
>Mulan 2: Trouble At The Wedding
>Grimsworth's Tale Online
>Tetris Super Go!! Neo

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>take comparison screenshots between high and ultra
>the only discernible difference is ultra runs worse

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>>386397937
Wind Waker HD is just Wind Waker at 1080p, an annoying bloom effect and a couple of bugs fixed.

You can emulate Wind Waker on Dolphin and increase the resolution to 1080p to match the Wii U version.

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>select Ultra, the highest setting
>options aren't even maxed, mostly set to "very high"
>turn them to the max setting individually
>max settings name for each is "ultra"

>>386398113

God the right looks so much better, what were they thinking with that retarded bloom effect?

>>386397856

plugging it up your moms vagina and making her take a shit on your PC

>>386394686

>turn audio all the way down
>can't hear game

I'm sorry are you hearing this? What year are we in?

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>>386395792
>lower sound volume to reduce distortion
>it just attenuates the already mixed, already clipped signal
Fucking hack frauds at Valve I swear

>>386398146
Fuck this shit

>>386398113
They fixed a bunch of gameplay, controls, and they generally made the game better.

Except for the fucking bloom.

>>386398146

If I had to guess why

>hordes of normies buy alienware tier stuff
>they don't know what an anty alien eye is but they're sure going to fucking select ultra on the settings because alienware is the batcomputer
>everything seems to run okay

>PC port of console game
>play it with controller
>can't get rid of the mouse cursor
>move cursor to the edge of the screen
>it recenters itself every few minutes

>>386398213
Okay well, that was a mature discussion.

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>>386398536
>pc port of a console game
>needs a mod for keyboard and mouse to even work
>ban people for using it

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>Game runs as well wether everything is set to max or min

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>Set all graphics settings to Ultra
>Warning message saying not recommended because of current hardware

>>386398536
>thinking pc games playable with a controller have a cursor on the screen
You have not seen a pc except for Microsoft Word at work, have you?

>>386394686
>Mirrors edge has low, normal, high, ultra and hyper
fuck you catalyst, you piece of shit.

>>386398720
>it's from a 2001 game that you run at 700fps

>Devs say the game requires 8GB of RAM
>Turns out it requires more than that due to a problem with the latest patch

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>>386398720

>works fine anyway

>>386394686
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XbjuEM3jCs

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>Settings on high.
>Game is lagging.
>Changes settings to low.
>Lags even more.

>max settings just make the game darker
??? fucking shadows I guess.

>>386398951
>change back to high
>performance stays at lows levels

>>386396386
No, because all AAs have their pros and cons.

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>Start game, 900 fps
>look around, 9 fps

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>Game comes with MSAA+TrSSAA out of the box

>>386398292
>brown bricks setting
>on/off duty

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>Setting only goes up and loops around back to the lowest
>Not sure if it's maxed so you click on it again
>It goes to lowest and you have to max it out again

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>game locks video options if your hardware doesn't meet the required specs

>>386398736
Visible most cursors without function do occur sometimes in sloppy PC ports. Dark Souls immediately comes to mind. I don't know why you're being a faggot about this just because you've never seen it happen.

>Trying to figure the best settings for your computer
>Have to restart for changes to start
>Unstoppable cutscene in the beginning

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>>386395741
>run/sprint on ALT

>>386398113
HD version is superior except for the bloom, hopefully Cemu lets us fix that

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>>386399613
>Launching game for the first time
>Everything is maxed out at native res
>Runs like shit
>Forced into an unskippable cutscene

>>386398993
>restart game
>it doesn't launch

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>>386399652
>interact button is SPACE
>jump button is E
hold on...

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>Go to friends house to look at his new gaming pc
>He played through a whole game in 800x600 standard resolution and settings

>High is appreciably better than Medium while still being easy on hardware
>Very High has no visible difference from High
>GPU usage 99%

Fuck you.

>>386394686
I know this isn't mu but everything Patton touches is pure gold

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>>386399178

>only 2 frames per second
>pause the game and leave it paused overnight
>all the saved up frames give me silky smooth 60 for about six hours

>>386395741
>Look is set to PAD0

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>>386396301
>The different colors aren't red/green or dark/light

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>>386396884
>turn of V sync
>get over 3000 fps
>GPU whines like a bitch and dies in a year

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>>386399895
>try to play with a controller
>buttons are named PAD1/2/3 in settings instead of A/B/X/Y etc

>notices vsync is on.
>goes to settings.
>vsync is off (questions life).
>changes back to on
>vsync is now off in the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPLKXEUm0jE

>>386396982
SMAA a best

>looks great
>little to no blur
>small perfomance hit

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>>386399960

>Delete data?
>Yes
>No

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>player voice chat scales the audio based on where they are in relation to you
>Scales from maximum volume if you're literally standing inside of them to being unable to hear them at all if you're a room's length or so away from them; even if you're standing a few feet away, they're at 50% volume
Having voice chat being based on what area you're in is one thing, but this shit is just fucking terrible. You might as well not even have voice chat.

>change game settings
>game has a revert settings timer
>game freezes for longer than the timer
>timer runs out
>can never change settings

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>>386400016
>Try to play with a keyboard+mouse
>Tutorial is for controller

From you lazy niggers. Your B team is shit and DS2 base was shit too.

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>Quit Game (without saving) button is on the pause menu
>Just as big as every other button
>Doesn't even ask "are you sure", just closes the program the instant you even click on it

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>GPU and CPU utilization stays ~30% no matter what
>40 fps
>Can't improve it

>>386398716
Never happened.

>>386395309
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqVKvRTmbj0

>>386395136
this is the best reply in this thread, you get it

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>Quitting the game takes you back to the main menu where it makes you watch all the intro company logos again
>Alt-F4'ing instead bans you from multiplayer temporarily if you do that too often, even if playing alone

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>>386400658
>pressing ESC closes the entire game without so much as a prompt
Why do the Japs do this?

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>>386397758
>IS A FUCKING IDIOT WHO IS OBJECTIVELY WRONG
>ABOUT THE FUCKING SUBJECT THAT HE IS SHITPOSTING ABOUT

>>386401364
Doujin games are hell.

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>get a new computer and for the first time in my life have games that automatically set themselves to ultra settings

>>386395992
That made my I7 2600 and GTX 1070 cry at 40fps at 1080p max no upscale so no you need a nice CPU im guessing

>>386401618
Games used to to that on my old laptop, probably because it had an i7 in it. Didn't stop them running at 10fps on recommended settings.

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>>386401618
I just got my first actual gaming PC after years of only really using laptops. This is amazing.

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>>386400194
>yes is default so if you press too fast by accident or mistake you're fucked

>>386397561
Why do the clouds look so much nicer on low

>>386401337
>select quit game
>as soon as the save icon disappears and you hit the intro close the game
Wow so hard

>>386396258
nuDoom has this. Except turning off the setting doesn't turn it off completely

>>386401948
I used to alt-f4 as soon as the first game logo appeared and still faced the "you have been blocked from online play" requiring me to use the white circlet.

>>386402101
I never had that happen. You shouldn't even be connected to the game server at that point.

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>you can set graphics settings higher than "max" by tweaking numbers in the config file

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>>386399720
>play an old game
>launches at 600x800
>fucks up the placement of things on your other monitors
>mouse movement is super slow
>can't change reach the options menu until you beat the tutorial

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>>386402223
>game requires you to tweak ini files just to get the game to not look like shit

>>386398856
fucking oblivion thinking I have a pleb PC fuck you Todd

>>386402223
>make it so high it loops around and becomes a single giant pixel before making your computer go nuclear

>>386395214
cpu bottleneck u faggot. upgrade your core 2 duo maybe?

>>386402223
>opening the options menu in-game resets your .ini tweaks
>get paranoid about misclicking whenever you open the menu

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>>386394686
fucking gw2. i can't tell if im maxing the game or not because all the highest settings are different and the stupid drop down menus blend together.

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>>386402427
I recently modded Oblivion into perfection, it took hours. I played for maybe 5 hours, then for some reason after I installed my new GPU the next day (My 780ti died so I bought a 1080ti) the HUD scaling was off and super small, the map is no longer confined to the TAB screen and would take up the whole screen, also my mouse cursor was slightly above where it actually was so I had to aim higher than I should have in both menu and in-game so that I could actually click on items and pick up objects. I guess I'm not playing that again for another couple years.

>>386394686
serious pipes

>>386402901
>Guild Wars 2
>remember it looking beautiful
>go back for the new expansion
>it looks terrible
WHAT HAPPENED

>>386397636
>game runs like shit
>turn everything to low
>runs worse than it did on high

>>386402901
And everything on its highest barely looks any good.

>>386403351
>>386403056
I thought it was very pretty as far as MMOs go, but I've been out of the scene for a good five years. What are the better looking MMOs on the market? (besides BDO, tried it before buying GW2, very boring).

>>386403484
Some of the environments were either really gorgeous or nonexistent.

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>>386399178
>Look at highly detailed scenery
>60 fps
>Look directly at wall texture
>20 fps

>>386403484
Better looking MMOs? Not sure anon, I don't really play any outside of Guild Wars and WoW. Maybe check out FFXIV.

>>386403679
>multiplayer game
>suddenly get huge frame drop because windows decides to do something in the background
>have to run around looking at the floor or it's too jerky to tell where I'm going

>>386401174
Fuck bohemia

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>Have toaster
>Load game
>It's set to high on default
>It's like 5 FPS on the fucking main menu while I desperately try to set it to the lowest possible settings

>>386402908
what do you mean modded to perfection? how much did you tweak, beyond the obvious graphic overhauls?

>>386404273
you forgot the part where just starting the game and getting to the start screen itself takes so long you're not sure if you clicked wrong or if it froze.

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>>386404540
>The intro cinematic is a slide show

>try to install old game
>it doesn't recognize hardware from this decade, so it just says you don't meet requirements and refuses to install
FUCK YOU HOT WHEELS WORLD RACE

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>>386401785
I'm saving up for one right now. Meet ya on the other side

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>Spend several hours tweaking settings to get the game to run perfectly smooth in the tutorial level
>Finish the first level, get introduced to the main hub
>20fps

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>>386395931
>PC port doesn't have mouse support for menus

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>>386407349
One of the many things that outed pic related as consolized garbage.

>>386405603
>2 weeks later your config gets wiped in a freak accident
>Can't remember how to put any of it back

>>386395792
Spinal Tap

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>>386394686
>Googled "Wolf Mother Hater"
>First result

>>386403160
What is Arma?

>watch dogs 2
>have gtx 1070, 8 gigs of ram
>game runs at 10 fps on low or ultra
>get 16 gigs of ram
>game never drops below 60 on ultra
good fucking port

>>386408574
That thing below your shoulda.

>>386401924
Static skybox vs. volumetric clouds.

>>386397314
The Sims

>>386402908
How did you make Oblivion look like that?

>>386395120
dunno

same reason consoles use like 4x AF even though 16x AF costs zero performance on any hardware past 2004, yet improves the image quality dramatically

>>386396485
more retards in pc gayming since twitch/mobas and shit

>>386399845
GPU usage 99% is a good thing though

>>386401174
all the arma games are optimized like dog shit

I honestly thought they would fix it with arma 3 after the dayz mod became popular and everyone saw how shit the engine ran in multiplayer

>>386399747
>uninstall game
>update starts downloading

>>386396152
GTA IV did this.

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>Cancel?
>Yes / Cancel

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>>386409025

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>>386394686
>2010 game
>Settings set low
>Download a mod for even low graphics
>Literally makes trees and bushes look like Doom's Sprite
>12 fps

One of these days I will have enough money for my own PC, even if it costs me a testicle.

Not like I would use it anyways.

>>386409025
possibly a good old case of "fuck up but keep tweaking because you'll get it right eventually".

then after hours of looking around and changing settings and optimizing shit you finally take a look at what you have and see pic, and decide you invested far too much to uninstal now.

>>386401618
there is no better feel

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>>386409025
>>386409775
its a painting

you cant tell paintings from video games?

>>386396812
Please tell me what game this is

>>386409618
>if you choose cancel the option goes away and you have to quit the game and enter the settings menu to manually change it.

>>386409884
in my defense Oblivion had a mission that literally took place inside a painting.

>>386394958
>edit settings
>you must restart your game for it to take affect
>restart game
>long load time/long title sequence
>don't like new settings
>have to restart game again

>>386400496
>change settings
>Apply Changes?
>click yes
>game crashes
>won't launch again

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>launch game
>hear EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>main menu runs at 1600 fps

>>386410085
yeah with those op as fuck trolls, either that or I fucked up my characters stats

after a few tries and just running past them I found out u can just go over a rock behind where you enter the painting and only need to kill 2 of them

>>386410814
what games does this happen on?

literally never happened to me during 10~ years of pc gaming on high end hardware (8800 GT, 4870, 6970, 7970, 980ti)

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>>386410814
>PC port of a console game
>Game logic runs at 1600 fps because they didn't put any delta time in
>But it doesn't matter because you can't install it anyway because it hard-checks for windows 98

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>mouse acceleration turned off for years
>game doesn't take this into account and makes the mouse speed insane/has mouse acceleration on for the game and you can't turn it off.

>>386395452
>game requires swap file, even if you have 32GB RAM

>>386411157
WINE wins again?

>>386411150
STALKER, to name one.

>>386411157
That doesn't even make any sense because it worked on my XP and 7 partitions, including CD audio and controller axes for steering and pitch

>>386410934
they were hella strong if you fell for the overlevelling trap or went in too early. you do however get turpetine at the start of the quest which acts like poison on your blade and deals a ton of damage to them.

>>386409884
i wouldn't know anon, i'm blind.

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>>386411629
yeah I remember having turpentine but I dont think there was enough to kill them all

unfortunately I did fall for the overleveling trap but around level 20 I just enchanted all my shit with +str and was op as fuck

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>GAME runs smoother when completely maxed out

what the fuck, the sign of a truly unoptimized game.

>>386395056
me when I first played mount and blade warband

>Game shipped with a buggy d3d9.dll
>Replacing it with one from the previous game results in an incredible performance boost with no adverse side effects

>>386409884
It actually looks like one of those filters you put a screenshot through to make it look like it was water colored

>>386403484
>>386403056
I shit you not but its a zone by zone basis
I set the game to max settings in draconis mons and it was the most putrid thing ive ever seen
then i go to some place like rata sum or even like some human/norn starting area and everything is beautiful

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>>386396386
>AAAA

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>All settings on max
>Game fails to recognize your GPU, keeps settings on max in menu but in-game they're at lowest
>Have to modify the engine data itself to change graphics input and texture settings

How the fuck are the Mass Effect ports so shit at optimization

>>386411150
Far cry 3 did this. I used to use it to test my overclock.

>>386397521
>what PC parts should I buy to make it last 5-6 years
Lower expectations
>>386397521

>select the max preset
>doesn't max all the options

>>386394686
Goddamn why are reaction images so fucking good? I can just imagine you all acting like pic related to your problems.

>>386400170
I agree

>>386411150

The remastered Homeworld games do this.

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>16G of RAM
>free RAM is like 11G
>"Low memory. Please save your data and close Total War: Warhammer"

>>386416340
someone fell for "disabling pagefile will increase performance" meme

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>default control scheme is whatever the idiotic developer was used to rather than a standard layout
>have to go into the config to change it

>>386404796
That game was tight

and before anybody will start yapping away about subject they don't know diddly squat, here's some useful info for you
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/259142-30-turn-virtual-memory
>Leave your page file alone.
>Changing it or turning it off does nothing to improve performance. This was an old trick way back in the Win 95/98 days when it would have cost you thousands of dollars to buy a couple gig of memory. If you could afford it, then turning it off was supposed to help some, as Windows didn't manage memory, processor usage, or the pagefile as well as it does now. It was also a fact that hard drives were mud slogging slow compared to todays drives. All this no longer pertains or makes any sense if you are running Windows XP or later, and halfway modern hardware.

https://superuser.com/questions/810170/should-i-disable-swap-file-if-i-have-lots-of-ram-or-should-i-move-it-to-a-virtua
>No matter how much RAM you have, you want the system to be able to use it efficiently. Having no paging file at all forces the operating system to use RAM inefficiently for two reasons. First, it can't make pages discardable, even if they haven't been either accessed or modified in a very long time, which forces the disk cache to be smaller. Second, it has to reserve physical RAM to back allocations that are very unlikely to ever require it (for example, a private, modifiable file mapping), leading to a case where you can have plenty of free physical RAM and yet allocations are refused to avoid overcommitting.
>Consider, for example, if a program makes a writable, private memory mapping of a 4GB file. The OS has to reserve 4GB of RAM for this mapping, because the program could conceivably modify every byte and there's no place but RAM to store it. So immediately, 4GB of RAM is basically wasted (it can be used to cache clean disk pages, but that's about it).

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>>386395587
PUBG literally ran like shit on low textures because the game doesn't have any actual low-res textures, it just down samples the high-res textures. So it still has to load the high-res textures anyways, and then it has to convert them to low-res ones on the fly.

Pajeets have ruined software.

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>>386408728
Fuckin dickhead

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>>386417590
>game lets player have 10 weapons plus
>expects you to press buttons 7,8,9,0,-,= to choose the latter ones
>doesn't have an option to assign 2-3 weapons per button

>>386418082
>end up playing the entire game ignoring half of the arsenal

>>386408352
But why not just make 10 the loudest?

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>No FOV Slider
>Default unchangeable FOV Set to 65 or so

>pc port
>runs at 30 fps on low as well as ultra no matter your specs
>change a few launch options
>140fps
fuck just cause 3

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>>386394686
This is actually the one true master race settings.

>>386415740
You've earned a (you), faggot

>>386396386
Just use DCAA faggot

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>Age: 99

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>friend buys overpriced shitbox gayming PC from amazon
>plays games on default settings @ 20 fps
>has the time of his life

>options menu can only be accessed in game, not the main menu
>have to restart game for changes to take effect

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>game will now auto-detect appropriate settings
>graphics have been set to LOW

fuck you buddy

>launch game
>Your PC's hardware does not meet the recommended system requirements to play this game.
>no other options than "OK" and close

>>386419939
The other option is to get some better hardware

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>>386419939
>Pirate game
>Runs at 60 fps on max

>fantastic specs
>many games stll have trouble hitting 60fps at 1080p on high settings
And people say we can do 4k, an absolute fucking pipe dream, i shouldnt be struggling with so many games with an i7 and 1070, devs need to fucking optimize better, DOOM was a godsend for once.

>Settings
>Low
>Medium
>High
>Very High
>Ultra
>Ultra doesn't even max it out

>>386395491
I swear to god skyrim is the biggest fucking culprit of this
>Max settings 1080p
>game runs at unstable 40 -60 fps outdoors
>Turn shadows down to high
>barely looks any worse
>stable 50-60fps outdoors

>>386418793
too much milky

>>386399662
>hopefully Cemu lets us fix that
There is a patch for it in CEMU. I haven't tried it though so i can't speak for how good it is.

>game runs like shit in smallest available window
>turn it to fullscreen
>runs perfectly
>nearly made me upgrade my pc

>>386404749
>gameplay and cutscenes run amazingly at 60fps 1080p even on toaster notebooks
>the moment 2D cutscenes play the framerate drops to 5 fps because of overuse of DOF
Fucking shadow warrior

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>double click game.exe
>nothing happens

>>386412010
Are you sure maxing the settings isn't enabling Temporal or some sort of checkerboard options? Watch dogs has it as an AA option and it actually improves performance a bit.

>game literally looks the same on highest setting as it does on second highest
>it even says that it will only look different at 4k, so the game tells you not to overstress your PC by using those settings
Thanks Vermintide, more devs should do this

>>386421019
>open task manager
>game is running but not responding
Fucking Tripwire, why does this only happen on your fucking games

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>>386420182
>tfw hardware is 10 times faster than the recommended system requirements

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>>386396386
>FXAA 1
>FXAA 2
>FXAA 3
>FXAA 4
>FXAA 5
>All FXAA settings are just how strong the effect is
>Playing in a low res boils down to either having a pixelated image or smearing vaseline over a CRT.

>>386421248
>the game STILL runs like shit

>Exit to desktop button in menu
>Click it
>Game.exe has stopped responding

Why?

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>Game has actual graphics

>>386421363
>game is broken since rendering methods aren't supported
>only way to run the game well is by having hardware from the time

>>386409932
Telltale games I believe

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>running 2017 AAA games on default settings @ 30 fps with PC hardware made in 2009
>none of the games are good enough to warrant upgrading
>still want to upgrade

>>386421552
>getting 30fps with 2009 equipment
I assume on lowest of settings, because a large chunk of these games cant even get 60fps on modern hardware due to horrendous optimization

>>386411150
Starcraft 2 did this on launch. Supposedly it melted graphic cards that didn't good enough cooling since they were forced to run as hard as possible.

>>386421552
>hardware made in 2009
Nigga my 2014 machine struggles to even run some games. What kind of fucking hardware are you using?

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>>386400472
While I agree with you, the thing with CSGO's voice chat cutting off when you die is fucking hilarious.
"Guys I don't see any thi-"
kek every time

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>>386398113
WW on Dolphin with HD res, post processing and texture pack by one rando on the internet>WWHD

>>386421831
Too bad it has none of the gameplay fixes or QOL improvements, if WWHD just got rid of the fucking bloom it would be far better

>>386409223
Consoles really have an excuse though, their memory bandwidth isn't enough to use x16.
Even in some pc games that use all your vram you can see an impact going from x8 to x16 (rise of the tomb raider is an example).

>>386401206
Didn't dark souls have this issue?

>[Enter] Accept
>[Esc] Cancel
why do we need this prompt again?

>>386420470
Skyrim (and all gamebryo games by extension) do shadows entirely on cpu.
It's a 20 year old engine and it shows.

>>386421623
Nope. High tier hardware from 2010 (I though it was 2009 but just checked again). 2x Xeon x5550 and a Quadro 4000.

>>386395314
Why would you upscale the resolution?
What emulation?

>>386422254
also 1366x768

>>386422317
>the year is near 2020
>most laptop still use 768p resolution

>>386396925
No it didn't, it just allowed you to lower the quality of the global illumination.
Turning it off altogether makes the game look like shit and everything turns red.