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[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (2 children)

My RX580 is about to be seven years old, and I still haven't encountered any game that is 1) too intense for it and 2) actually worth playing, considering usually only AAA games are resource-intensive and 99% of them are MTX trash

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The only game that I'd considered playing that my build couldn't run was Starfield. Seems like that worked out for the best.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You ain't missing anything in that front.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It’s not that bad, Jesus.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

I didn't say it was bad. Just that you're not missing anything if you don't play it. Where do I say it's really bad?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Nah, but it isn't that good either. It's very much mediocre and would have to be as revolutionary as Bethesda claimed it would be to justify the ridiculous hardware requirements.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Everything it does other games do better.

Space travel and exploration (space and ground, seemlessly), as well as space combat? Elite: Dangerous.

Story? Literally anything.

Combat? Damn near any shooter made in the last 20 years.

Dungeon looting? Just play Fallout 4, which has plenty of issues but none as bad as Starfield.

It's not bad. It's just not good at anything. I have no reason to play it over so many other games. It feels like it doesn't know what it's supposed to be, so it doesn't do anything well or interesting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It feels like it doesn't know what it's supposed to be, so it doesn't do anything well or interesting.

I haven't played Starfield. But that was pretty much what I felt playing No Man's Sky.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

In my opinion, having played both at launch, it's a pretty similar experience, except I could see what NMS wanted to be. It wanted to be an exploration game. It just didn't have any systems to make that interesting.

Starfield doesn't want to be an exploration game I don't think, but it does have things to explore but it never makes it interesting or necessary. It's sci-fi, but that genre is supposed to be used as a lense to look at real-world issues, and it doesn't critique anything except maybe saying pirates are bad. None of the companions are interesting enough to care about, and they're almost all identical, so it isn't about them. The looting gameplay is pretty bad where you just do the same five dungeons over and over, so that obviously wasn't a priority. I just can't think of a single thing it actually makes important to the experience, so I don't know what it's trying to be.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I upgraded my PC for that, so yeah just be glad you weren't that stupid. Oh well, at least baldurs gate looks shiny now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I upgraded for freaking Hogwarts Legacy...

But hey, it prodded me to pick RDR2 back up and beat it, so it wasn't a complete waste.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Similar situation. Still running my 980, and the only games it can't run are some of the AAA titles. Not even because they are too intense but my card is only supported up to like VidX and they are now on Vid11 or 12.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Mine is randomly hanging up. It's either bad memory sticks, hard drives failing (again). Or, it's finally time to splurge on a new system and retire this one after 12 years of loyal service.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My I7-3770 died last week with "no memory installed" errors no matter which stick or slot. It was a trooper until the end.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I suspect it's the graphics card. It's been 6 years with me and it was refurbished when I got it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I had a semi-similar issue where games would randomly "freeze" - or rather, you could still hear stuff happening and reacting to key inputs, but the screen was completely frozen. Turns out slightly lowering the clock speed of my GPU basically fixed the issue. I wonder if something similar would be able to extend the life of your GPU too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

At an admin command prompt, try:

chkdsk /r

or

chkdsk /x

how to use chkdsk

And also maybe check the SMART reports: Monitoring hard disk health with smartmontools

And then run the memory diagnostic: How to run Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Thanks for the well intentions, but so far I know it's not the disks, I changed them last year. I run Linux Mint, so I use other tools to monitor the disks and memory. I actually suspect it's the graphics card getting funky because running things in software render mode solves the random hang ups.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I'm there with you. I have no problems but I know I'm pushing my luck.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm still rocking my i5 3450 over here! My steam deck is much more powerful than my pc now...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I have an even older (but initially somewhat beefier) i7 2600K. My computer still works just fine. Even for modern games, even with my dusty old GTX1080Ti.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My i7-3990k with a 1060 came out of retirement for Baldurs Gate 3 and now I have plans of giving it a new life as our private cloud gaming computer at home, since my wife decided to start playing some games as well (puzzle games like Creeks).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Private cloud gaming, you say? That sounds like something I might need to look up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Well built old PCs are like Shermans. The war horse that gets the job done.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

1070 gang checking in

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

My gt730 envies your 1070.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

my 1070 has 2 out of 3 fans on the blink but still gets the job done

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

My 1060-3gb is hanging on by a thread lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

My i5-4690k is definitely showing its age. Especially since I have a Titan X Pascal that gets bottlenecked hard. The cpu in my 4 year old non-gaming laptop is more powerful

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

A i5-6500 is still powerful on everything but windows.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

i5-10400 w/RX6600 here. I'm getting older and older but I still feel young