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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 80 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Slowly and carefully moves the mouse cursor to the checkbox and clicks Enable Shadows.

"Oh wow..."

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago

"hmmm... There's four settings for this.. I wonder...."

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 points 2 years ago

Slowly and carefully moves the mouse cursor

I hate software rendered mouse too. A checkbox for hw-mouse should be mandatory.

[–] Lepsea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago
  • Using the best setting available the game starts lagging again

  • Tone down the graphics there's still lag

  • Reverted back to the old setting back to normal

[–] toxicbubble@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago (2 children)

now I can play on medium quality instead of low

[–] jettrscga@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Or still low, but with the new texture pack mod!

[–] SeekPie@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Finally can increase the shader quality from "potato" to low

[–] JackiesFridge@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Honestly yeah. Finally got a Steam Deck. Found out it plays PSP games buttery smooth on a great screen and have yet to log any hours on actual triple-A games because nostalgia is happening

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

i mean even your phone can definitely run psp games at full speed, even if it's a budget phone from 2016.
though mobile controllers are quirky (like stretching ones or whatever) and android is really not the best gaming platform (it just doesn't feel right)

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

I know it doesn't feel as good as a PSP, I have one which only works plugged in to the wall, it is a big deal to me so I decided to take my save game and finish P3P in my phone with a Razer Kishi, it definitely made it feel better and the save games and fast forward features were a nice addition.

I still feel what you said though... Some devices such as a Retroid Pocket 3+/4 seems like a better option and keeping it in the Android emulation side.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I remember the early x86 games that were actually clocked to the CPU speed. You literally could play old games faster! Or just hit that turbo button!

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

People still do that way too often in Unity when they don't understand how to use Update() or FixedUpdate() correctly x.x

[–] Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Robmart@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

All beth games do that with physics

E: Actually did Starfield fix that issue?

E2: It did, cool

[–] Koordinator_O@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Just recently bought/built a new pc. 4070ti i9-13900K and the first thing i did was setting max freamerate in all apps to max 60 end every game i start the first thing i do is setting everything to minimum. Playing mostly games like factorio or whatever. The only important thing for me is: never ever any dips below 60fps and almost room temp hardware if possible.

[–] Seventhlevin@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Imagine not using your PC as a space heater for your office

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago

I realized this while playing Overwatch: having settings on Ultra is worthless when you're whipping the mouse back and forth during a 6v6. I could really use 144 fps over Ultra detail on a Japanese temple.

[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As someone with the same GPU, which games drop below 60 on a 4070Ti without excessive ray tracing..?

[–] Koordinator_O@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

basically all pre 30xx cards tend to drop a few frames if some visuals happen to close to the camera, with fog, trees wit high shadow details and when dumping cache and so on. most people don't even realize these droped frames. For my spoiled me this makes many games borderline unplayable. I can't stay thouse little hickups. its just so ermersion breaking. and for games that tend to do that with our gpu. Luckily i have not found one yet.

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Lol, while i would play at 20 fps if my display support it. A discussion in a forum lead me to the conclusion that fps sensitivity (corner of the eye) is mostly trained; people who do lots of image editing/CAD/stuff where you follow object with your eye on screen.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Man, I love upgrading the hardware and playing the same game except setting every graphical setting to ULTIMATE! and getting 200fps.

10 minutes later and it’s “meh…it was pretty. What can I play now?” Proceed to play new GPU demanding game and tweak all the settings for best performance.

Repeat.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

That's the way it's meant to be played!

Right? Guys?

Right?

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Lol, same. Finally upgraded my GPU from a 1060 to a used 2060. Not exactly with the times, but a huge performance boost for me.

I had several games on the back burner, so when I finished my time with Valheim I intended to finally play RDR2. And do you know what I did? I opened Mod Organizer 2 and installed the graphically intensive but wholly realistic Nature of the Wild Lands tree and flora mod for Skyrim that used to run at 40 FPS but now maintains a solid 60. So we're playing Skyrim again...

Note: I'm well aware that many people have moved on to Traverse the Ulvenwald over NotWL, but I personally think Ulvenwald makes some poor texture choices compared to Wild Lands (namely aspen trees) and as a result the woods look less convincing to me once properly compared within the game. Just isn't worth the swaying animations.

[–] tombruzzo@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly GAMMA with all the mods on and no regard for optimisation

[–] EvilEyedPanda@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Nothing like a late Civ 5 game running as smooth as an early Civ 5 game!

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

I bought the most graphics intensive game I could find after building my last PC. But then I did end up going back to old games.

[–] bort@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago

can you run gothic 3 on a consistent framerate now?

[–] Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] crusty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] ericbomb@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Load up AOE2 and let's play forest nothing!

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

I have a huge backlog of games to play on Steam. I prolly got 10 years worth.

[–] jas0n@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

.. loads up fy_iceworld ..

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

I wish PCs still had that Turbo Mode button

[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

That's exactly what I did when I got the PS5. I loved it. First year when it didn't really have much that's all I played. Games were getting patched to perform better on ps5 and it was incredible.

[–] sagrotan@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

My daughter. I bought & built her practically my dream gaming PC last year because she made a great school diploma. Now she's playing Minecraft n stuff on 2 huge screens with no lag whatsoever. 😔

[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Dragon's Dogma with upscaled textures and RetroArch with the mega bezel shader pack.

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

MFW Minecraft is running at 1,500 fps now

[–] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Can I 'borrow' some of those frames?

[–] sebinspace@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] atocci@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Sadly no, Sodium

[–] grubders@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

that reminds me of someone, oh! it's me!

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago

Lower your FPS by turning on vsync until the game runs normally again then.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 3 points 2 years ago

The factory must grow.

[–] patak@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

well, at least I have my own room heater. my 2012 imac (which I have mint and w10 on) has ~80°C gpu temp when it runs a 2007 game 😄

[–] Umbrella8335@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

IQ Level 200...

[–] hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

Dwarf Fortress thanks you for allowing more than 200 hard working dwarves to be a part of a great dwarven empire.