The first 10 things to do when your PC can't run a new game

I went through all of this with Dark Souls 3. Numerous people with the same type of CPU still facing the same issue, still no patch. From pls
 
Simple fix for low frame rate....TURN DOWN YOUR RESOLUTION!

Personally, I like setting the graphics options high for single player, which I normally play before diving into multiplayer. When I'm moving to multiplayer, frame rate is the MOST important thing, so I back the settings down. I don't need full eye candy in MP, I need quick response with a solid frame rate!
 
That's why you don't buy new games! You wait for them to be "Game of the Year edition" or "Director's Cut" or "Legendary Edition" or whatever "Definitive Edition" or "Complete Edititon" or sometimes even already "Redux" or something... wait for sale with at least -75% and then you buy it for 10-5€ and it works... usually. :D
 
Just as I expected... another click-bait from Techspot - misleading title... and... looking at the comments, it worked...


The title should be something like "what happens when you find your new game not running well as you have expected"... this is NOT a solution thread ... it just shows some wild assumptions...

First of all, most new games are okay with the optimal settings. Most new games will try to select the optimal settings - read safe and lower - settings.

Secondly, if you don't have a fast CPU or flagship graphics card, you're f_cked. Well, at least if all the anti-aliasing nonsense are turned on.

What's the point of this article anyway?
 
Just as I expected... another click-bait from Techspot - misleading title... and... looking at the comments, it worked...


The title should be something like "what happens when you find your new game not running well as you have expected"... this is NOT a solution thread ... it just shows some wild assumptions...

First of all, most new games are okay with the optimal settings. Most new games will try to select the optimal settings - read safe and lower - settings.

Secondly, if you don't have a fast CPU or flagship graphics card, you're f_cked. Well, at least if all the anti-aliasing nonsense are turned on.

What's the point of this article anyway?


Yep, my views exactly. My guess is someone who can write articles for TechSpot bought a new game that isn't running well on their computer, and they are really REALLY pissed about it. So pissed that I better not let them know I got it running on my Commodore 64 with max settings.
 
This is mostly awful advice! What the heck Techspot. Did you get a teenage console gamer to write this??
 
Haha, the CPU bound bit reminded me of my old Fx6300. I remember overclocking it to 4.6ghz and being really proud of the performance increase I got from it. Of course it still got humiliated by an i3 but it was fun to overclock!
 
I LOVE THIS ARTICLE.

I recently went through every point on this article when I purchased Gears of War 4.

I tend to play on consoles, but when PS4 / Xbox One came out, the specs were pathetic so I purchased a GTX 750 Ti for a spare PC with an i3-2120 and set it up as my gaming PC.
I know, not the greatest of specs. but it has been playing most games I care about at medium-high settings with decent FPS at 1600x900, which is still better than the console counterpart.

And then Gears of War 4 came out, and my CPU really bottle necked the game to the point it was unplayable.
From AVG 50 FPS in multiplayer at medium-high settings, it would drop to 4-5 FPS during heavy battle scenes (Horde Mode mainly).

So I went through point on the article, hoping to settle with "Eventually, you will play this game. Someday."
Then I thought, let me treat myself with a decent gaming PC!
GTX 1060 with an i7-6700 in a Silverstone ML08B-H.
Now I get a solid 60 FPS at a 2k resolution (2560x1440) on ULTRA settings.
The game really is well made, the i3 CPU really was bottle necking the game.

The real upsetting part of spending almost £800 on my new gaming rig, is was when I decided to upgrade my workstation with the now obsolete GTX 750 TI, my workstation has a Xeon-1230.

It runs Gears of War 4 at High settings with 45-60 FPS @1080p (1920x1080)!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNl0pjA_LOc
Which isn't bad at all... making me regret my PC purchase, especially with VR around the corner, I now have a gaming PC which may not be as powerful as the Xbox Scorpio whenever it is released.
 
I don’t get what everyone here is complaining about. Running the game at max settings on a GTX 770, solid 60fps. No dips.

God, those people.

And if you quiz them then, it's a case of "well I turned this this and this down to low, but it's still near max and those settings are stupid anyway" and if you push further "no it never dips below 60 as long as I stay in this one spot staring at the concrete and not actually playing the game, but there's barely any difference between 60 and 40 anyway"

I ran into one that was actually telling the truth once. With Deus Ex, same GPU, CPU, AND Mobo as me, and they got 60fps. Even recorded a video to prove it. They claimed it was because they were using 'old' drivers. God, I hated them.
 
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