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23 hours ago, Samfisher said:

Can't power through badly optimized game.  You may get slightly better frames, but you'll always overpay to get the performance you want, and somehow still not actually reach the performance you want.

 

23 hours ago, Valkyrie Lenneth said:

u need nasa computer to play poor optimized games properly

Alright, i get the memo.
Generally just better overall hardware. I assume mostly just either GPU or CPU depending on what the game is most dependent on (In its badly optimized state).

And i understand. That price wise, its a bad price to pay.

I'm looking forwards to building a new PC Q4 of this year.
One thing that has always bothered me. Has been my struggle with getting early access or poorly optimized games to run well. Therefor i have this question.

Is there any hardware i should consider, that can help my frame rate in such games?

we are talking games with memory leaks and all sorts of flaws.


I am not purely looking for a better frame rate in these games. But here is a list of games i believe to be badly optimized from my experience:

VRChat

DayZ

PUBG
Arma 2

Arma 3

ARK: Survival Evolved

The Forrest

Dirt rally in VR

Many early access indie games...

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10 minutes ago, CarlCarl said:

I'm looking forwards to building a new PC Q4 of this year.
One thing that has always bothered me. Has been my struggle with getting early access or poorly optimized games to run well. Therefor i have this question.

Is there any hardware i should consider, that can help my frame rate in such games?

we are talking games with memory leaks and all sorts of flaws.


I am not purely looking for a better frame rate in these games. But here is a list of games i believe to be badly optimized from my experience:

VRChat

DayZ

PUBG
Arma 2

Arma 3

ARK: Survival Evolved

The Forrest

Dirt rally in VR

Many early access indie games...

What is your budget.

Some generally good CPUs are:

Low

R3 3100

i3 10100

R3 3300x

 

Mid

R5 3600

i5 10600K

i5 10600KF

 

High

R7 3700

R9 3900x
i9 10900k

 

used

E3-1620v1-3

E5-2620v1-3

E5-2670v1-2

R7 2700

i7 8700k (same as 9900k)

i9 9900K (if you have a z370-z390 board and you find it used for a good price)

 

As for ARK, the game is optimized like pure ass, you need a Titan RTX to run that fucker at more than  30 FPS, the game is fun but damn if the devs are incompetent

 

 

 

 

 

Main PC [The Rig of Theseus]:

CPU: i5-8600K @ 5.0 GHz | GPU: GTX 1660 | RAM: 16 GB DDR4 3000 MHz | Case: Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic | PSU: Corsair RM 650i | SSD: Corsair MP510 480 GB |  HDD: 2x 6 TB WD Red| Motherboard: Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Pro | OS: Windows 11 Pro for Workstations

 

Secondary PC [Why did I bother]:

CPU: AMD Athlon 3000G | GPU: Vega 3 iGPU | RAM: 8 GB DDR4 3000 MHz | Case: Corsair 88R | PSU: Corsair VS 650 | SSD: WD Green M.2 SATA 120 GB | Motherboard: MSI A320M-A PRO MAX | OS: Windows 11 Pro for Workstations

 

Server [Solution in search of a problem]:

Model: HP DL360e Gen8 | CPU: 1x Xeon E5-2430L v1 | RAM: 12 GB DDR3 1066 MHz | SSD: Kingston A400 120 GB | OS: VMware ESXi 7

 

Server 2 electric boogaloo [A waste of electricity]:

Model: intel NUC NUC5CPYH | CPU: Celeron N3050 | RAM: 2GB DDR3L 1600 MHz | SSD: Kingston UV400 120 GB | OS: Debian Bullseye

 

Laptop:

Model: ThinkBook 14 Gen 2 AMD | CPU: Ryzen 7 4700U | RAM: 16 GB DDR4 3200 MHz | OS: Windows 11 Pro

 

Photography:

 

Cameras:

Full Frame digital: Sony α7

APS-C digital: Sony α100

Medium Format Film: Kodak Junior SIX-20

35mm Film:

 

Lenses:

Sony SAL-1870 18-70mm ƒ/3.5-5.6 

Sony SAL-75300 75-300mm ƒ/4.5-5.6

Meike MK-50mm ƒ/1.7

 

PSA: No, I didn't waste all that money on computers, (except the main one) my server cost $40, the intel NUC was my old PC (although then it had 8GB of ram, I gave the bigger stick of ram to a person who really needed it), my laptop is used and the second PC is really cheap.

I like tinkering with computers and have a personal hatred towards phones and everything they represent (I daily drive an iPhone 7, or a 6, depends on which one works that day)

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Can't power through badly optimized game.  You may get slightly better frames, but you'll always overpay to get the performance you want, and somehow still not actually reach the performance you want.

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When there is no danger of failure there is no pleasure in success.

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23 hours ago, Samfisher said:

Can't power through badly optimized game.  You may get slightly better frames, but you'll always overpay to get the performance you want, and somehow still not actually reach the performance you want.

 

23 hours ago, Valkyrie Lenneth said:

u need nasa computer to play poor optimized games properly

Alright, i get the memo.
Generally just better overall hardware. I assume mostly just either GPU or CPU depending on what the game is most dependent on (In its badly optimized state).

And i understand. That price wise, its a bad price to pay.

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You forgot escape from tarkov. That game is a turd. 

No cpu mobo or ram atm

2tb wd black gen 4 nvme 

2tb seagate hdd

Corsair rm750x 

Be quiet 500dx 

Gigabyte m34wq 3440x1440

Xbox series x

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  • 2 months later...

 

I realise this thread is old, but it's an interesting question.

 

Games are built on computers, are they not?

 

Consoles are essentially just computers doing one thing, and the desktop is able to do anything gaming related a console can do (and obviously more besides).

 

My question then, is why are any games released in a "poorly optimised" state at all?

 

It's not like they built Ark, to use an example mentioned above, on a microwave and so it is difficult to get it running on a computer. 

 

PubG wasn't built from the ground up on a George Foreman Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grilling Machine, so why the issues when it is running on a computer?

 

Am I making sense?

 

What causes these games to run so poorly on the systems they are designed and built on from the ground up?

 

Is it about making it run on all types of hardware that is the issue, such that only a computer as powerful as the one it was built on can run it the way it was intended?

 

Then what's the point in releasing it when 99% of players can't match that kind of computing power?

 

Does that explain how these games are still not able to run with good fps on the industry leading GPU?

 

Or do they and I'm misunderstanding?

 

Please, someone educate me.

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