modern gaming grapics

[mrblindcat1]

Well this is a post i have it always annoys me when a new game comes out the graphics keep getting better and better but the thing is that i don't have a super computer to play this shit i guess you could argue that the graphics help improve it but the thing is I can never seem to run any of them.

thoughts

 

[Sassafrass]

It seems to me that with PC gaming you have to constantly upgrade your computer every 6 to 12 months. This is one of the reasons I'm a bit 'Meh' on PC gaming as I cannot afford to upgrade it every year at least. It is also one of the reasons my PC games consist of Civilization 4 and various Footie Manager games. It is a bit harsh that many games on PC have to be run on medium to low graphics but game companies aren't going to make their graphics worse just so others can run them.
That is the way every business is run. It's all about the money.

 

[FoolKiller]

It's also the reason that many people stick to console gaming. I personally only once built a gaming computer and even that had troubles within about a year.

 

[Starnerf]

Yes, PC games look great. Good thing people with lower-end computers can disable the high-power stuff so they can play them, too.

 

[BENZOOKA]

The only true gaming is PC gaming. Hit me.

You can always lower the graphics, if it's simply because of your hardware doesn't fill the minimum requirements: that's too bad, but then again you can't play PS3 games with PS2. It's pretty much a generation thing in PC gaming too. Sometimes you just need to upgrade a part or two.

Laptops aren't really meant for gaming. Of course there are gaming laptops, that cost strawberries, and do their job but with the same money you can buy a desktop PC that has a lot better performance and everything else.

 

[ribonuge]

Lack of punctuation is only for Yahtzee.
I've had my PC since May now and it can still run all games flawlessly.

 

[Admiral Stukov]

Well bulding your PC yourself helps.
And if you put a little more money into it from the start, you won't have to upgrade all too often.
It's been almost a year since I upgraded my PC, and it can still run any new game I'm intersted in on highest setting.

Building yourself means a lower price, since you don't have to pay for assembly, thus you can afford better preformance.

 

[wasalp]

It seems to me that with PC gaming you have to constantly upgrade your computer every 6 to 12 months. This is one of the reasons I'm a bit 'Meh' on PC gaming as I cannot afford to upgrade it every year at least. It is also one of the reasons my PC games consist of Civilization 4 and various Footie Manager games. It is a bit harsh that many games on PC have to be run on medium to low graphics but game companies aren't going to make their graphics worse just so others can run them.
That is the way every business is run. It's all about the money.

wtf 6-12 months lol do you upgrade it to barely run the games everytime

 

[TBR]

I've had my laptop for nearly 2 years and it'll play Crysis happily (except the menus, which for some reason are maybe 5fps at best), and games like Fallout 3 are a breeze on max settings. Now, if I can do that with a 2 year old Asus laptop that didn't cost an arm and a leg, then maybe the console gamers should be putting a bit more thought into the hardware side of PC gaming before they start complaining like babies.

Really, they're not that expensive to buy or to keep up to date, and if you have half a brain the results will blow every console game apart from maybe GT5, Heavy Rain and a small handful of others away graphically.

Think; next time instead of just going for a normal boring PC and a console, forget the console and put that money towards the PC and get a decent one. on't even bother with the 'latest and best', because you can guarantee they're the first bits that are going to be replaced and within weeks they'll lose all their value. Go for something that's just above the middle, you won't get the blistering graphics, but you'll be nicely ahead of 99% of console gamers

 

[leady129]

I think i this day and age we're being spoilt with all these HD games with super-fine textures. Lowering the graphic settings will not diminish the experence unless you REALLY allow it to get to you. There's no point spending thousands on a new computer until you hit a point where games will not run on the lowest settings. Or you old computer breaks... or gets a virus... you get my point.

 

[Contextualizer]

For those of us who work with computers in some professional manner, consoles always lose the value proposition until they can run the Adobe Creative Suite as well as a PC can. It just means you have to buy another system.

 

[blankedboy]

Grapics?

Troll alert.

 

[Ironwampa]

It seems to me that with PC gaming you have to constantly upgrade your computer every 6 to 12 months. This is one of the reasons I'm a bit 'Meh' on PC gaming as I cannot afford to upgrade it every year at least. It is also one of the reasons my PC games consist of Civilization 4 and various Footie Manager games. It is a bit harsh that many games on PC have to be run on medium to low graphics but game companies aren't going to make their graphics worse just so others can run them.
That is the way every business is run. It's all about the money.

If you buy a good gaming PC you should only need to upgrade the graphics card once in its 5-6 year lifetime and otherwise not need any upgrading. No game developer is going to make a game that requires the latest graphics cards and maximum settings are unnecessary.

 

[NoNameMcgee]

Upgrading once a year/year and a half is enough to play games on highest or at least almost highest settings. There's so much BS spread about 'not being able to play games', when in actual fact what people mean is "Oh noes its been a year and now I can't play games on VERY HIGH with 16x AA in 2560x1600" yes you'll have to trim the settings a little on the newer games after a while, but most games still look equal (or prettier) to the console versions on 'High' instead of 'Very High'

Seriously any PC gamer who ever complains about "not being able to play" something, ask him what settings he has to put the game on, he'll reply with "yeah this is total BS I have to put the shadow quality on Medium and AA on 2x, everything else is highest though. But wtf, I only built this 6 months ago!!"

Most of us PC gamers are snobby dipshits who need everything maxed out to be happy. It's SAD.

If you HONESTLY can't run (and when I say can't run, I mean its slow in lowest settings) some games, then that just means your PC is ancient. That's not anyone else's fault but yours.

About a year ago I had a pile-of-crap PC that was about 4 years old - FOUR YEARS OLD. It played Crysis. On lowest settings. But yes, it played, smoothly, and I finished it. It looked like shit, but I wouldn't have gone on forums saying I "couldn't run it" because I could. Yet some people would have. It played pretty much every other game out there at the time too, except Mass Effect for some reason.

Realistically, to keep games running smooth and looking pretty on fairly high settings you should be upgrading once every year or year and a half. Unless you need everything completely and utterly maxed out, of course. THEN it gets pricey.

 

[Worgen]

ehh for about 600 bucks you can make a pretty kick ass gaming comp that should last a few years and the best part is that you can upgrade it as you like, usualy just getting a new graphics card solves any problems playing new stuff

 

[MR T3D]

okay, the only gsame you NEED to be ablee to run is BF2.
that ios easy, your machine, if it has a graphics car, and is newish, should be up to it.

that won't be obsolete until 2011ish and BF3.
that you upgrade so it runs it on max, and then are good for another 4 or so years.

 

[iPatrick]

Graphics don't make a game fun, but they can improve it vastly.

 

[Volafortis]

Build a PC. You can get the hardware on Newegg for a current PC for about 1K, and it isn't hard to maintain, and if anything goes wrong with it, you know the hardware perfectly well, as well as having the original OS discs. I just built my first one last summer, and it was the best thing ive ever done.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Well this is a post i have it always annoys me when a new game comes out the graphics keep getting better and better but the thing is that i don't have a super computer to play this shit i guess you could argue that the graphics help improve it but the thing is I can never seem to run any of them.

thoughts

Build you own PC? Also you have be willing to spend quite a bit in the first place to be able to play top of the line new games. After that your PC will last for about 6ish years but taking down quality WHICH PC games are not about graphics they are about custmoizability mods and competitive communities.