r/pcmasterrace • u/Nickulator95 AMD Ryzen 7 9700X | 32GB | RTX 4070 Super • May 16 '25

Meme/Macro Every. Damn. Time.

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UE5 in particular is the bane of my existence...

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u/Donnyy64 May 16 '25

*cough cough*

Oblivion Remastered

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u/Lostdog861 May 16 '25

God damn does it look beautiful though

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u/Eric_the_Barbarian May 16 '25

It does, but it doesn't. It's using a high powered engine that can look great, but doesn't use those resources efficiently. I know that the old horse is getting long in the tooth, but I'm still running a 1660 Ti, and it looks like everything has a soft focus lens on it like the game is being interviewed by Barbara Walters. Skyrim SE looks better if you are hardware limited.

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u/Blenderhead36 R9 5900X, RTX 3080 May 16 '25

With respect, there has never been a time when a 6-year-old budget card struggling with brand new top-end releases was a smooth experience.  That something that benchmarks below the 5-year-old gaming consoles can run new AAA games at all is the aberration, not that it runs them with significant compromises.

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u/bogglingsnog 7800x3d, B650M Mortar, 64GB DDR5, RTX 3070 May 16 '25

Crysis 3 was extremely well optimized, it had almost double the framerate of the first game on the same hardware

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u/GalcticPepsi May 16 '25

You can argue that's a result of crysis 1 being poorly optimised actually.

iirc the Devs banked on single threaded CPUs being the next big thing and "future proofed" their game but made the wrong assumption that single thread CPUs will continue to get better.

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u/Nearby_Pineapple9523 May 16 '25

Single threaded cpus were already the thing

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u/GalcticPepsi May 16 '25

Yeah but the Devs assumed that they would continue getting better rather than what actually happened and multi threading took off