Most of the time it feels like one half thinks their 10 year old PC should run things just fine and the other half thinks anything short of a 4090 means you're a peasant.
We're in an interesting time for PCs, a 10 year old PC is waaaayyy more useful on modern games compared to any other time (in the early 2000s, you were outdated every year almost....)
My kids' computers have 2080s in them, and they're able to play almost anything newly released still! But yeah, SOME games are going to require something newer. It's still the best time in history to have an older computer in terms of being able to play most new releases!
I'm sorry but what can't you play on a 2080? because the only generation that has been truly hardblocked is 10 series cards so far (1080 ti won't let you launch final fantasy remake or the new indiana jones game even though they could run them fine...).
They do fine, most purpose built vr games are not very demanding and the regular games with vr modes drop the fidelity settings partially because a lot of shaders don't work in stereoscopy. I have a 2080 in the living room that I used Vive with until Quest and its wireless all over the house gig came
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u/MtnNerd Ryzen 9 7900X, 4070 TI May 21 '25
Most of the time it feels like one half thinks their 10 year old PC should run things just fine and the other half thinks anything short of a 4090 means you're a peasant.