I have a merely 3 year old PC I bought for 1500€ a 5600x and 3060ti, yet it for some reason can't run cronos, a single player linear game, on low settings without constant lags

The whole game consists of grayscale. There is simply nothing that would require the computing power

And its not really a realistic progress of computing requirements, while they state that my entry level ryzen 5 5600x can run it on optimal settings, for some reason they require an extremely up to date GPU, which just tells me that they just crammed in every kind of graphics tech so their Grayscale smog looks better

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[–] 46 points 1 year ago (9 children)

When game developers noticed the market for GPUs is growing and processing in general are getting more advanced, they started to care less about optimizing their games. That's literally it. It's laziness.

There are still devs that do their best to really optimize their games but most studios, especially AAA ones don't care.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Yeah! Check out the impossible port videos by modern vintage gamer.

    It really shows how well games could run on older hardware if devs cared to optimize it.

    With that being said, someone is porting Mario 64 to the gameboy advance by super optimizing it.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    It’s not laziness, that’s always been a stupid oversimplification. The workers work hard on your entertainment product. It‘s a business decision.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    It‘s a business decision

    To what end?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    To optimise project parameters.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    In other words, to take a shortcut to avoid expending resources at the cost of quality.

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