Comment on Anon is a gamer

bulwark@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  We really need to get rid of this line-go-up mentality, because it translates directly into tech companies telling you to buy something new every few months. Phones, GPUs… Every time they can push for shorter replacement cycles, they will. Good on you to not cave in to the pressure, my 1050Ti still runs as great as day one for the games that I play since day one.

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  • CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    “I don’t have a large TV or monitor so nobody needs an up to date GPU!”

    It’s a much different story at 1440 and 4k.

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    • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I mean, if a slight increase in visual fidelity is worth a couple hundred (if not thousand) bucks every year or two to you, then sure, treat yourself. But I don’t see the need to buy a slightly faster thing every year that basically will do the same as the old. And that’s before mentioning the resources used up for producing soon-to-be-ewaste or software bloat.

      It is always the same story, cars, phones, computers, smart fridges… companies try to push people to buy the shiny new thing for obvious reasons. Companies trying to build products that last get out-competed. The line must go up.

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      • CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        GTFO 🤣

        The card is 9 years old, not 2. I bet you the number of gamers swapping cards every 2 years is in the single digit percentage.

        I am in a peer group of friends and colleagues making 175-300k a year and not a single one of them is swapping a GPU every 2 years.

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    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      A 1050ti would play games worse than PowerPoint on my 1440/165hz monitor.

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  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Maaaan. My 1080 was chuggin for games I was playing three years ago. I’m lucky I got a sweet deal on some secondhand 3070tis for my partner and myself from someone my mum knows. I got a new game a couple days ago for us and we both had to drop down to “high” for 100FPS at 1440p.

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    • InFerNo@lemmy.ml ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I have a 1060 with 3gb vram, my kids both have a 1080 and they still work great

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      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I don’t doubt they work great for a lot of games! But I’m not going to be able to use those to play Abiotic Factor at 1440p…

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• SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  To get a stable 60 in Grounded 2 I have to run it at 50% render resolution. Why yes, it uses UE5, how did you know?

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• ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  glances at 1660 Super…

  Does math…

  Greetings, Comrade!

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  • FinalRemix@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    1660su works with everything except shitty Unreal5 games with forced lumen and stuff. I just replaced mine with an AMD somethingorother, but it wasn’t because of performance.

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    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, I’ve got no complaints; I mostly play Indie titles anyway so nothing too strenuous. Balatro & Deltarune aren’t exactly a stress test, I doubt Silksong will push beyond its limits either.

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  • b000rg@midwest.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I plan on running this bad boy until it bites the dust. And then I’ll get an AMD card so I have an easier time with the drivers. Took me days to get my games running on Debian.

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s partly on Debian, they really don’t want you running proprietary drivers. Or anything with a license other than GPL, ideally.

      That said, nvidia should still stop being a bunch of cunts. While it’s gotten easier and they’ve open sourced parts of their drivers, there’s still a proprietary binary blob involved, whereas AMD’s Linux drivers are fully open source and integrated into the mainline kernel, usually enabled by default in most distros.

      Personally if my 3060 Ti dies, I’ll also want to move to AMD, but I hope it lasts a long time because the 9070 XT costs more than twice as much for twice the fps, despite being several years newer (okay the 3060 Ti of course now costs much less than it did when it came out, but still about what a 60 series card SHOULD cost brand new if you go back to before the AI and crypto booms).

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• cepelinas@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Mine is going to go to 2nd grade in like 10 days.

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• FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  yipes, my gpu cant manage max settings anymore, time to sell my other spleen I guess.

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