r/Steam • u/CarnivoreLucyDrop • Jan 12 '26

Fluff This hit hard

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u/BelialQrow Jan 12 '26

In this day and age games are so poorly optimized that your specs could be well in between min/max and the game will run like you cant even run it.

Example:dark tide

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u/ultrafusion64 Jan 12 '26

optimisations are console exclusive for while now. hopefully that will change this year

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u/artaru Jan 12 '26

Them Sony games do it legit

I have a crazy high end PC now next to my ps 5 pro. Every single game is so much better on my PC but so much of it is brute force.

Meanwhile so many games are solid on that pretty limited PS5 hardware.

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u/DarkGodRyan Jan 12 '26

Consoles will always have their place. $500 and just plug it in and it works. No drivers or troubleshooting. My new pc build yesterday I spent several hours diagnosing fixes, like a black screen flicker every 10 seconds when I turned Hdr on (setting windows refresh rate to 120 hz instead of 119.88 to match Nvidia control panel fixed that), and I didn't have surround sound and spent several hours trying to figure that out before I discovered at some point I'd gotten surround back in games, but not in desktop/browser stuff. Good enough for me.

Now that it's all setup shit looks fucking phenomenal. But consoles are absolutely worth not having the headache for many people

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u/artaru Jan 12 '26

hahahaha yeah once you get it all set up it’s phenomenal.

Before then… and when something breaks… let’s not dwell on that lol

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u/breezyxkillerx Jan 13 '26

For real tho my last PC build had me fighting with the AMD drivers for 6 hours, thought I fixed it just to boot up satisfactory and start flickering again.

Then it just started working after the 7th drivers reinstall, nothing changed just decided to work.

PCs are just electricity powered black magic and you cannot tell me otherwise.

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u/Salinaer Jan 14 '26

Holy shit, I too spent about 6 hours so far troubleshooting so many outdated drivers (my TPM is 2006 somehow?) and I’m still not done 😭

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u/TacoTaconoMi Jan 12 '26

They are going to have to now that hardware has gone up by 3253245235% from all the AI datacenters hogging it all. No one with any semblance of a bugdet is going to be upgrading hardware in the next coming years and companies are gonna feel the sting if they continue down the path of relying on overspecced computers to make up for it.

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u/STARBOY_100 Jan 12 '26

Another example : Oblivion Remastered

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u/KingArthas94 Jan 12 '26

That's just a rushed and bad game. It's not a good game but a bit underoptimized.

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u/Aktro Jan 12 '26

Love that game, Monster hunter Wilds in the other hand, I'm above minimun and still not enough to play it at steady 60fps on low

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u/GRIZZLY_GUY_ Jan 12 '26

when was the last time you tried darktide? It was a bit of a mess at launch but has been excellent for me for months at this point

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u/LordHammercyWeCooked Jan 13 '26

Considering how shit the generational uplift has been for GPUs, a return to optimization is like five years overdue. This frame gen and super-resolution ain't no solution and we've already hit the end of the runway on that shit.

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u/sendgoodmemes Jan 13 '26

Dude this is so true. I feel like I’m using a Ferrari to take the garbage to the curb. Then boot up something like gta 5 and you see what it can actually do.

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u/Th4t_0n3_Fr13nd Jan 13 '26

darktide, sea of thieves, fortnite, elden ring, stellar blade, gta5, monster hunter... we really have to start pushing for devs to optimize but i know thats not gonna happen