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
The only game that I’d considered playing that my build couldn’t run was Starfield. Seems like that worked out for the best.
You ain’t missing anything in that front.
It’s not that bad, Jesus.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My I7-3770 died last week with “no memory installed” errors no matter which stick or slot. It was a trooper until the end.
I suspect it’s the graphics card. It’s been 6 years with me and it was refurbished when I got it.
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.
At an admin command prompt, try:
chkdsk /ror
chkdsk /xAnd 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
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.
I’m there with you. I have no problems but I know I’m pushing my luck.
Now’s a great time to buy an SSD, for any purpose besides data hoarding.
If eight terabytes still sounds like a lot of space - you should go solid-state. And soon. Prices are allegedly going to spike, this year. If the high-end seems pricey, just buy something mid-range and keep your hard disk as well. If SSD prices keep dropping instead of spiking… oh no, you’ll be able to afford something much better next year.
I’m still rocking my i5 3450 over here! My steam deck is much more powerful than my pc now…
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.
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).
Private cloud gaming, you say? That sounds like something I might need to look up.
Well built old PCs are like Shermans. The war horse that gets the job done.
1070 gang checking in
My gt730 envies your 1070.
my 1070 has 2 out of 3 fans on the blink but still gets the job done
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
My 1060-3gb is hanging on by a thread lol.
i5-10400 w/RX6600 here. I’m getting older and older but I still feel young
A i5-6500 is still powerful on everything but windows.
