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Diplomjodler3, do games w For people who want to play their favorite games but are unable to, what are you currently doing?
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You could try to get a used Steam Deck. That will let you play most current AAA games and plenty of indie or older titles for not a lot of money. Apart from that, I wish you all the best and I hope things get better for you.

ProvableGecko, do games w For people who want to play their favorite games but are unable to, what are you currently doing?

You could get monthly subscriptions for services like Geforce Now or Xbox Cloud Gaming. With a decent internet connection and a controller, pretty much any device that can display video becomes a gaming device. Obviously this may work out to be more expensive in the long run and these services have some weird terms of service so a decent research before subscribing is required but if you need to game for a month with minimal upfront investment they are pretty good.

ahornsirup,
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Doesn’t GeForce now have a free tier?

Coelacanth, do games w Developer interview: my Q&A with a PC game 'repacker'
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Love your work as always! I hope your health improves soon ♥️

Dyskolos, do games w Developer interview: my Q&A with a PC game 'repacker'

Nice interview!

I was a major in the scene back then when they all rose. Razor, fairlight and the unknown nonames. A time where you could sell a warez-cd for 200 moneyz and it all was IRC, FTP and BBS. The days with phones lines bills >1000 bucks because you HAD to call this one foreign board 😁

I miss these days… It was all about fun, friends and fame. Same with competitive gaming.

simop_jo, do games w Yep, I actually own 7,255 games on Steam. I’ve played 23% of my library. I regret nothing.

Steam summer sale final boss

Blackmist, do gaming w Do you prefer Performance mode or Quality mode?

Performance, but Death Stranding 2 looks weird (really washed out) in that so I left it on quality. It’s not a fast paced game, so I’m ok with that.

echodot, do games w Why don't Steam or Discord offer the option to hide when we're typing?

There was somebody else who works at the company I work at with the same name as me. I will often see my boss typing a message and it goes on for a very long time and then suddenly stops, that’s when everyone lies that right at the last minute she’s realised she’s messaging the wrong person.

I cannot say I find the experience overly distressing.

Aielman15, do games w Developer interview: my Q&A with a PC game 'repacker'
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This is top quality journalism offered for free. We don’t deserve you.

PerfectDark,
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Oh gosh you’re way too kind. I wouldn’t call it that, but I am happy to share interesting things here. And I’m so lucky that you all read it and agree with me that it is worth the read!!!

Thank you so much!!!

ipkpjersi,

I definitely agree that this is interesting, this was a great read!

thingsiplay, do gaming w Do you prefer Performance mode or Quality mode?

I think this question also applies to PC. Why? Because we are limited too. I try to reach 120 fps and consider it performance mode when dialing back quality settings, and enabling upscaling to reach that. If not, 90 fps is also pretty good. For certain games, 60 fps feels like what you describe of 30, but that does not apply to all games. There are single player rpgs played with a gamepad, that I would even consider playing at 30 fps if there is no other option. The problem is, games are not designed to be played with that low fps, as the input latency increases.

I’ll compare this to the Switch, playing Zelda (emulated with Yuzu). Breath of the Wild on original Switch is designed to be played at 30 fps. Playing it on my PC like that felt like a slideshow, but one can get used to it. If I didn’t had the 60 fps patch, it would still be fine at 30. The next game in the series, Tiers of the Kingdom, was not stable at 60, so I was “forced” to play at 30. And after some time playing it felt pretty good and not upsetting like in the first few minutes.

What I mean by that is, performance mode if possible, I would sacrifice quality. But not too much, because at some point the image looks really bad.

Kolanaki,
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PC is harder to define since everyone has varying hardware and specific setting preferences. Most PC games let you change nearly everything and let you mix and match what is high, what is low, what is on or off, etc. And if you have the money, you can get both performance and quality if the game isn’t busted. :p

thingsiplay, (edited )

That’s not entirely true. Because even if you buy a strong PC, you have to make choices, depending on the game. It’s just the fps and settings we are talking about are higher floor. In example on PC people can enable RayTracing, which tanks the fps a lot. Do you go for 120 fps or 60 or maybe lower fps with higher fidelity and RayTracing in example.

So the question to answer is still the same, its just on PC we have a bit more individual choices to make.

Edit (added): Most people don’t have the strongest PC anyway. Look at the Steam hardware survery, most have common graphics cards like the 4060 in example. Or look at handheld PCs and laptops, with fixed hardware. And as said, even in high end with lots of money people need to make cuts in fidelity or performance; just on a higher level in that case. So your question applies to PC as well.

who, (edited ) do gaming w Do you prefer Performance mode or Quality mode?

sufficient performance > sufficient beauty > power usage > max beauty > max performance

I set a frame rate limit in most 3D games, to avoid inflating my electricity bill for barely noticeable effects or FPS improvements. Plugging my system into a Kill A Watt was enlightening.

ggtdbz,

sufficient performance > sufficient beauty > power usage > max beauty > max performance

This is basically alien to me. I think it has to be game specific.

Euro Truck Simulator? Beauty is more important than performance, unless playing it on my handheld, in which case I can knock the FPS limiter down to 40 and crank the settings down

Satisfactory? Performance over everything.

Granted most of the games I play are older (so I don’t need to choose) or CPU-bound simulation games (Raising the graphics doesn’t make it run meaningfully slower if your CPU is the bottleneck).

Although I must also point out that I think the current trend of “fidelity=beauty” is ridiculous. I recently played INFRA, a game built in Source, and while the fidelity was clearly “outdated”, the game looked fantastic.

Plugging my system into a Kill A Watt was enlightening.

Laptop gaming is a harsh but educational mistress re: power consumption (even when it’s plugged in), I’ll tell you that. All the heat you generate is right in front of your face, as is all the airflow (and noise) needed to wick it away.

who,

This is basically alien to me. I think it has to be game specific.

Sufficient in this context means an amount that depends on the game.

TheFriendlyDickhead, do games w Day 352 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

I love driving around in that game. It feels so cozy

tourist, do games w For people who want to play their favorite games but are unable to, what are you currently doing?
@tourist@lemmy.world avatar

I would probably be unable to buy a PC or console ever again.

Shit dude, that’s rough
If I may ask, what happened?

Otherwise, no nearby gaming cafés? They’re usually reasonably priced

darkguyman,

I haven’t heard of those but I don’t think there’s any nearby anyway.

SnotFlickerman, do games w For people who want to play their favorite games but are unable to, what are you currently doing?
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and as far as I’m aware, I would probably be unable to buy a PC or console ever again.

I don’t have any suggestions but I am so, so sorry and I really hope things turn around for you for the better.

darkguyman, (edited )

Hopefully so, the gaming market in my area has gotten rough. Maybe it’ll calm down for the future but that’s likely not gonna happen too soon. I’m thinking of passing the time without a PC for now. I don’t think I’ll able to afford a PC for a few years at best. Sorry for making it sound too dramatic in the post.

Regrettable_incident, do games w I'm impressed by Rambo III for DOS
@Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world avatar

I’m pretty sure that was the year I was mostly playing Populous, on the Amiga IIRC, or maybe spectrum. I think my little brother may have had a copy of this though. There were some good games back then, the late 80s were when they really started to branch out into genres that we still see today.

jawa22,

Platformers of various kinds were dominant for so long (especially on consoles), it was always cool to see something even kind of different.

byzxor, do gaming w Do you prefer Performance mode or Quality mode?
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I tend to stick to quality mode unless it causes too many < 30fps drops OR it needs a higher FPS e.g. driving. I don’t play shooters or any PvP games on console though

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