General Computer Hardware Discussion.

Exactly what it sounds like.

 

(REPOST) My 4GB of VRAM is being rapidly left behind by the gaming landscape. What happened to the days when an Xbox 360 with 512 MB of VRAM was enough to do a whole crap load of a lot. Granted console games are more optimized for consoles, but in theory, you could play the same game with about 1 GB of VRAM. But nowadays you need at least 8GB to run about all of the AAA games, unless you want 40- fps on low settings. What happened to optimizing the graphics of modern games? Also, if you look back to the Xbox 360-era games vs modern games, there are no huge leaps and bounds in fidelity like in the 90s-2000s, only 4k support. But for those of us who don't need or want 4k, it looks the same. How come they can't optimize for lower-end PCs anymore? Why do you need to process every spark, drop of water, and leaf individually? I know there are limitations for 4 GB of VRAM, but holy crap the Xbox 360 had less than 1 GB!!! I know I'm salty because I can't afford anything better, but that still doesn't justify them making hugely unoptimized games for PC. Heck, I can't even get a decent framerate with the T-series and a trailer. Before I could do that just fine. In the push for "graphical fidelity," they leave behind anyone with a skinny wallet. It just gets old not being able to play games that look slightly better than their predecessors, but needing twice the VRAM for a half-decent experience.

Spoiler: Xbox 360 VS PC

Even the PS4 with approx 2GB of VRAM, still runs modern games at 75+ FPS. Granted with lower settings. (long term edit: Apparently it technically had 8gb of VRAM, but that is with a 10+ Year old console, and it underperforms on newer games released for PS4.)

Spoiler: PS4 Performance

 

Yes this is a small bump, but it'd be nice to see this thread have some more posts.

Seeing as its just generalised talk regarding computer hardware, does anybody here have any experience with coil whine on any of their parts? I've heard horror stories of coil whine so unbearable parts have had to be sent for RMA, and it was something that greatly concerned me when building my most recent PC (I really value quiet systems). However, I either got lucky, or the stories were greatly overexagurrated. I hear quite faint whine from my GPU under stress, and none from my motherboard. Whine and boot times were primarily complaints circling B650 boards when they were first coming out with the AM5 platform, but I haven't had any friends say anything notable about it. To be fair though, boot times have significantly come down over time as better BIOSes have been released.

 

Anyone feels the degradation in performance of beamNG? I bought a 3060ti 1 year ago because I knew I wouldn’t need anything better for 4K ultra. Before that I had a GTX 970 and it ran beamng in 1440P at High at 50-60 FPS. By the time I upgraded I could only hope to have 50FPS on high 1080p.
I tested that GPU on a second pc, in 0.32 and I barely hit 60 FPS on Medium settings 1080p.
Go back a long time, I had a GTX 760. It could run beamng at high settings at 720P. I don’t even think it would launch nowadays XD. But that’s fine. What isn’t fine is the fact I need 32 GB of ram to play this game now. Remember when you could play perfectly fine with 6GB of very slow DDR3? Yeah that was long ago. I can’t hit a steady 60Fps at medium settings 4K now… I used to play beamNG on my MacBook Pro 2015. Last time it worked was 0.27, until I ran out of storage because the game doubled in size in 3 years.

I feel like games are steadily getting better and better and hardware too, but the prices aren’t going down. It’s like they think we can still play with 6 year old components when that’s just not true

 

What CPU is your GPU paired with?

 

5700x
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My laptop's GPU has a bit of coil whine, noticeable when watching a 60fps video in fullscreen or when a game gets hundreds of fps (splash screens). Freaked me out at first because it sounds more like buzzing then whining, but it's generally quieter then the fans so not a big deal.

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I've noticed it as the maps get more detailed and the cars get more complex. On my old PC I got 45-50fps when it was new (3.5 years ago), and 30-35fps when I upgraded.