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  • verstra@programming.dev
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    6 months ago

    If you feel any better: i think that modern requirements for games are bizarrely too high for relatively small gains over what we had 10 years ago.

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      6 months ago

      Yes, because

      • developers can’t be bothered to optimize the game if management breathes into their necks
      • DRM like Denuvo tanks performance, ironically only for the people not pirating and thus paying for the game
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        6 months ago

        No kidding, denuvo made me stop buying games every time because I just detest it and what it stands for. Also, boggles resources way too much (and no, having a root kit is a no no for me). But more importantly, single player games with denuvo is the ultimate low.

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          The fact denuvo can make a 20+ year old port run like garbage is especially impressivly bad. It’s sometimes hard to avoid, but usually it gets dropped because it’s a subscription a publisher has to pay. Patient gamers just have to be patient.

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      I recently went installed GTA SA and my CPU was running at freaking 20% with graphics cranked up. I remember when I played it around 2010 by potato PC was lagging and freezing. But anyway the game still rocks after 24 damn years and it only requires 4-5 GB