all us pc gamers know the struggle

Merp?

Time to over clock.

i doubt overclocking that PC would nothing but damage it at age three lol

I managed to get my 7 year old rig running gtaV running at 90 fps.. Long story short, you can beat new tricks into an old dog

yep but my system is held back by graphics card I think everything else is reletivly new or least not caveman yet

The very common problem of powercreep in hardware D:

yes............

:c I feel ya

Eh, I feel the problem isn't that bad in the last 5 or so years, compared to, say, 2000-2010.

Well, I suppose that also coincides with me moving away from triple A gaming, and going more towards indie games and/or Triple-As that have been released 3+ years ago that I can pick up GOTY versions for sale for $20 or less, true.

But even still.

I've got a PC that's 6 or so years old and it runs several nice looking games at modest (not ultra, though) settings to this day and it's even not that powerful of a computer (even when I made it) since I tend to build bang-for-buck PCs.

So true!

It's like a fuel gauge, you can watch your video game quality go lower and lower as you put miles on your graphics card... So tragic

Usually a lot of troubles come from a CPU that is bottlenecking your entire system, doesnt matter if you have a powerful graphics card. try to check it or see if you can overclock it!

Another issue i noticed personally myself is that more and more games are focusing on windows 10 and are half-assing optimization for windows 7. So if youre on windows 7 like me, soon it will be time to finally give up, as much as i DONT want to say it, and go on windows 10.

The graphics bloat is real.

At least he CAN run it. On my 10 year old laptop some games won't even start... :'-(

Time to grab the Ye'old Hamster wheel help boost the computers power output. (about 20 of them all linked together) Then grab our ultra fancy 3d glasses ya nabbed from the movie theater a while back ago to give you those fancy graphics!

But in all seriousness yeah, I feel ya. That's why I build my own rigs to last and I put a bit extra into them so i get about 6-9 years out of them with very little upgrading needed down the line. Depends on how long the CPU cooling fan lasts primarily or if I can get a replacement down the line. But over all I am happy with my gaming/art rigs for a long time.

on the bright side there are tons of older games which still hold up well.

Me every time I try to run Quake Espilion Mod in Ultra and having a ranged FPS of 10 to 120.

THIS IS NOT PLAYABLE.

Thankfully a feat that's obtainable these days if you can settle for 1920/1080 without breaking your bank.
Your only going to really need mega high end specs for 4K anyways. VS before when when the game simply wouldn't run, at all.

Yet another reason why this PC Master Race B.S. is just that, don't have that on console.

Also, the 'master race' can get viruses, while console is technically immune due to os used and effort-to-gain ratio.

Yepper.

A few years ago, a gaming PC could last 5-6 years. But now it's all about graphics (at the same time we have a huge indie market, big paradox) and gaming PCs don't last 4 years.

I actually just had this happen to me with the new Gears game. Except even on the LOWEST setting my system was like 'You sure? I'm not sure I can run this well mah dude... if you insist.'

God I feel the poor guy's pain. Seriously. I can't even play DOOM 2016 fluidly on the lowest graphics setting possible. Still jumpy and slow as fuck.

I agree with Xylia. This isn't really an issue for most of the hardware. The only thing really making gains now are the graphics hardware. My PC I got a few years ago still plays everything on the highest settings. The only thing I've replaced is the video card. Replace the video card, not the whole computer.

Moore's Law is dead -- the computers of today are not appreciatively faster than they were several years ago.

Ahh the reason i never got into PC gaming until recently. I didn't like the idea of buying new equipment every couple years back in 2000. Today I got a medium PC rig and playing games 5+ years ago on very decent settings without hardly warming up the video card up.

Considering i'm happy with SNES graphics, i don't need ULTRA settings to be happy.

*Nods*

That, is why you ALWAYS go custom. It's far easier to keep your system up to par with minimal changes vs a whole machine

Tell me about it T_T

Awww óò

oh no, sad cheese D: