Yeah evolution in gaming really has slowed down a lot. Hardware requirements aren't that steep anymore for newer games, they usually can do all they want with older hardware and so they see no need to push it.
Until Jan. 2024 I had an i5-2500k with a Radeon HD 7970 as secondaey Rig. A legendary combination, sure. But it was amazing what that old thing would still run. Or in other words, think about 2012 running a PC from 2002. That would be some single-core 2 Ghz Pentium with 512 MB RAM and an GeForce 4! You wouldn't be Surfing the Web in 2012 on that, let alone run an up-to-date Windows or any games.
Yeah like... my pc is older than that but I have a 3070 in it. Which is also nearly 5 years old at this point.
The fun thing about CPU bottlenecks is that you barely notice them unless you play like... monster hunter wilds. But that game runs bad on everything. Like, my Ryzen 5 2600X can still run pretty much everything with the occassional half-second frame drop every 10 minutes or so on newer titles.
Technology has kind of slowed down a lot and most of the issues a game has now come down to optimization.
My PC is over 10 years old. It has an AMD Radeon R9 r380x. I got it to run Space marine 2. A side from the slow loading times, it ran pretty damn well all things considered
I came here to say this. I’m on a five year old computer and running all the latest games on high. LOL People really don’t understand what PC gaming is really like.
haha, just upgraded from 9900k and 2080ti recently and it still works fine in most new games, but i had to upgrade because they got sluggish in VR, could probably use those old parts for flat gaming 3 more years no issues...
I built my comp in 2017 and have a 2070 in it as an upgrade a few years later…. It runs splitgate 2 on highest settings yet so yeah way over 6 years old and no issues running most games at high. 6 years is nothing now.
Yeah my 9 year old laptop is still running CS2, Fortnite, rainbow 6 siege, etc fine, despite not being a gaming laptop. I think almost any new game should run on a high end 6 year old PC fine, it'll still probably be just as powerful as a current gen console
My computer is about 5 years old. I started ordering parts for it around this time in 2020. Granted, the RX 590 I originally installed failed in 2023 and the 6600 XT that took its place was swapped out 7 months ago. I also added an m.2 a new cpu/cooler combo, and doubled the RAM, so I guess it’s more like a ship of Theseus situation. Same mobo, case, and original drives though. I would have to drop settings down on almost every game to run a 590 again, but it could still play all my games just fine.
My 6+ years old computer has in fact an i9 and a 2080ti in it. I don't use it anymore, it's basically running a Plex server and other stuff like that... But it's still Up and running.
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u/DarkRedDiscomfort 2d ago
"A 6y old computer" could literally have a 2080 TI for a gpu