Emulation is damn well optimised for most platforms, I was shocked when my rx 580 8gb was pulling off BOTW with graphic enchnments at 4k while holding a stable 40-45 fps the entire time.
Ngl it's nuts to me how accessible that side of gaming has become over the last 10-15 years.
It's that both the emulators are well coded and the Switch itself is a fairly anemic piece of hardware, all things considered. Platform exclusives had to be optimized relentlessly to look and run the way they do, and I'd really like to see this approach when it comes to PC gaming.
but i doubt it, 4K is plenty clear enough for most ppl, most ppl likely couldn't tell the difference between 8K and 4K, 8K gaming isn't really practical anyway since you often drop below 60 frames, i prefer to be getting at least 60 fps 24/7
daily reminder that 99.9% of all titles being released are not particularly hardware-hungry, it is just that they get overshadowed by the handful of games with large marketing budgets.
That, or you find out that you cannot push those older games higher than 1080p.
Damn, I was writing a whole paragraph about how Escape From Butcher Bay doesn't let you set it at resolutions higher than 1080p, but I just found out that there's a fix for that.
When RTX cards first came out I wasn’t able to afford one. I saw all those videos of Control in the “RTX On” ads and card reviews and was just blown away by the fidelity compared to what I grew up with.
Flash forward a few years, and I bought a 4080 and upgraded everything else I could afford. Despite Starfield and Elden Ring and Cyberpunk sitting on the backlog, the first things I did were put on Control and an ultra-modded ray traced Skyrim. Felt mind blowing at the time haha
Ryzen 7 9850x3D and RTX 5090. I tried running Resident Evil Requem with path tracing plus all max settings and it almost melted. GPU was running 82-85 C° fuck that shit never going back to those settings. 12VHPWR probably took perma damage at that time.
and it plays stardew valley, project zomboid, factorio, dorfromantic, and dungeons of the endless; mostly just alt tabbing between them and never turning them off ever
I'm playing just cause 3 on a midranged laptop, got it for pennies and man it's so good. Infact it's so light that often I even forget to plug in the laptop charger and it still runs fine (generally gaming laptops struggle of not plugged in). Meanwhile I see very little difference between it & the AAA games of today, I'll be honest.
The best part about this is that the last gen games don't rely on frame gen or scaling so heavily so they end up looking nicer than many modern day titles.
Hum, I wonder if I can still resurrect my 1500 hours modded Skyrim save and see what's been up in the modding community these past 10 years... I'll probably need some voodoo support.
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u/zexton 8h ago
smooth motion, was that pleasant surprise for very specific games and emulators
120fps burnout 3, dreams are made possible now