swiftleeo :
bgunner :
I can not speak for every one here but for me 1080p @60 fps is my minimum. Anything less and I can see it and more to the point feel it in the movement of the game. This is why i spent over $300 on just a GPU. Please read the Bethesda release and not toms rewrite of it.
"Note: We do not have a list of minimum requirements for the game. If you’re trying to play with a rig with settings below these requirements (you should plan to have 4 GBs of VRAM regardless), we cannot guarantee optimal performance."
optimal performance being studders and hickups due to the fact you have run out of GPU ram. You should plan to have 4 GBs of VRAM regardless ? please the only cards that have 4 or more are super top end cards. most being x2 cards.
What game developers need to try and do is optimize versus just making a big mess. It's harder to do for the PC vs. console because of varying components, but they should at least have a baseline for both AMD and Nvidia cards, as well as AMD and Intel processors. It will still vary, but it won't be as bad.
I have an Intel i7 4790k and an Sapphire R9 290 4GB Tri-X, so I'll be fine. It just bothers me that it has to cost this much to game comfortably...
I totally agree with you on this but just to play devils advocate for a post or two, mainly to get people thinking and no other reason but.
Lets look at it from a developers point of view. It "costs" money to port any game properly for the PC from a console port. They are in the business to make money, right? Well it costs less to make a game for a console then just barely make it compatible for PC then it does to fully make it compatible with all PC's with the graphics options.
My view is much different than the statement above mind you. If the company makes the game better for PC, more options for graphics, better graphics, more control over the game play with console commands the more likely I am to purchase the game. Why? Because it reminds me of the days where games where build for PC's and ported for consoles. This control is everything to us PC gamers because then we have a game for the masses that is changeable, customize-able, mod-able and upgrade-able for the masses. Company's no longer want "us", the public, to be able to control what we have that they, the company's, thought of. It is all about control.
The days of COD-MW are over, free maps, free updates that help the community, We now need to pay for it. Bethesda is no different. They make the games for consoles and only put as much work in to the PC port as necessary to make it playable.
I hate to say it my friends but we, as PC gamers, are and have been pushed to the back seat like a red headed step child because we are now the minority. Consoles out number gaming PC's so company's think of us as the economy class seats on this plane ride they think they have all the power over. Many of them are forgetting that we, the older generation, made gaming popular. Thinking of me and my TSR-80 back in the day.
Piss on those that make you and you loose your base. What happens when a flood eats at the footing "base" of a bridge? It falls, simple, and this how gaming is. Keep making games for the masses that your "base" (mid to lower end gaming PC's) can't play and you loose every thing above. Hell the damn games are made ON PC's for god sakes. Crytek had the idea with Crysis 3, that the PC gamers are here to stay and they made one hell of a game that they ported to consoles that looked good even on crap hardware. Bethesda hasn't gotten that idea yet. Lets see if they do, Aye?
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