AbsolutSurgen Posted January 24, 2023 Share Posted January 24, 2023 DF Direct Weekly: are PC minimum specs out of control? WWW.EUROGAMER.NET Or is it time to bid farewell to classic PC graphics hardware? Spoiler Not really. Covid preventing the full console transition to PS5/Xbox SeX, probably delayed this happening by a year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted January 24, 2023 Share Posted January 24, 2023 Headlines to articles like that when the answer is “no” are silly. I agree with both points though, this is what’s supposed to be happening as we cross into the new generation of hardware capability and also on the gpu side of things it’s unfortunate there isn’t really a good “1060 but for 2023” option yet. The only way I see that happening in the 4000 series is a 4050ti or something if that hits the mark of like a 3070, amd is just too far behind in RT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsolutSurgen Posted January 24, 2023 Author Share Posted January 24, 2023 2 minutes ago, stepee said: Headlines to articles like that when the answer is “no” are silly. I agree with both points though, this is what’s supposed to be happening as we cross into the new generation of hardware capability and also on the gpu side of things it’s unfortunate there isn’t really a good “1060 but for 2023” option yet. The only way I see that happening in the 4000 series is a 4050ti or something if that hits the mark of like a 3070, amd is just too far behind in RT. Those headlines are how they get the clicks. We get complaints from folks whenever games start being targeted at "next gen" consoles. I think we are there this year. I wonder what will happen when games start requiring DirectStorage steaming and PCIe4 NVMe drives.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted January 24, 2023 Share Posted January 24, 2023 1 minute ago, AbsolutSurgen said: Those headlines are how they get the clicks. We get complaints from folks whenever games start being targeted at "next gen" consoles. I think we are there this year. I wonder what will happen when games start requiring DirectStorage steaming and PCIe4 NVMe drives.... Or even just require a ssd period! I don’t think that’s happened yet, I can’t wait for the whining on that one that their 20 year old hard drive is no longer supported. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsolutSurgen Posted January 24, 2023 Author Share Posted January 24, 2023 3 minutes ago, stepee said: Or even just require a ssd period! I don’t think that’s happened yet, I can’t wait for the whining on that one that their 20 year old hard drive is no longer supported. There are a couple (Dead Space has a Sata SSD as a minimum req, NVMe as recommended), but your point is 100% valid nevertheless. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Vic20 Posted January 24, 2023 Share Posted January 24, 2023 Its about time PC specs moved forward! Now fix micro stutter and get rid of LOD tiles all together. Put the whole damn game in RAM, GPU RAM! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spork3245 Posted January 24, 2023 Share Posted January 24, 2023 1 hour ago, Mr.Vic20 said: Its about time PC specs moved forward! Now fix micro stutter and get rid of LOD tiles all together. Put the whole damn game in RAM, GPU RAM! Direct Storage 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imthesoldier Posted January 24, 2023 Share Posted January 24, 2023 53 minutes ago, Spork3245 said: Direct Storage That got me thinking. What is the next "big" thing in hardware? Back in the 90s, GPUs became a hot ticket thing, and games were hardware accelerated vs. Software. We've had many strides in trying to offload cycles off the CPU over the years, and now with DirectStorage, plus GPU decompression, we're further offloading resources from the CPU. I know in terms of gaming, I've been wanting next-level strides in terms of Physics, and A.I, so wonder if Neural Processors or something similar might have some use outside of machine learning, and into the gaming realm to help accelerate those processes into the next generation. EDIT: I guess technically nVidia's Tensor Cores do the same type of stuff, but what else could it be used for besides image upscaling, and frame interpolation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted January 24, 2023 Share Posted January 24, 2023 I think the next big thing was temporal upscaling tech and now it’s frame generation and next is probably more AI cost savings off of the cpu doing some other kind of magic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spawn_of_Apathy Posted January 24, 2023 Share Posted January 24, 2023 What makes this a Microsoft topic? Is that a dig at the Series S? lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted January 24, 2023 Share Posted January 24, 2023 1 minute ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said: What makes this a Microsoft topic? Is that a dig at the Series S? lol Windows! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwinIon Posted January 24, 2023 Share Posted January 24, 2023 5 hours ago, stepee said: Headlines to articles like that when the answer is “no” are silly. I agree with both points though, this is what’s supposed to be happening as we cross into the new generation of hardware capability and also on the gpu side of things it’s unfortunate there isn’t really a good “1060 but for 2023” option yet. The only way I see that happening in the 4000 series is a 4050ti or something if that hits the mark of like a 3070, amd is just too far behind in RT. Betteridge's law of headlines 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 Yo momma is out of control Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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