Recently I’ve finally built something that I could consider ‘decent’, 10th gen i5 and 16GB of DDR4 but what aggravates me the most is that I could only attain an RX 570 4GB within my extremely tight budget, how much can I get out of said cards nowadays? Specially given how stupidly high PC game requirements are nowadays. I play at 1080p, not even 2K.
I have a dripfeed of an income so it can be very difficult for me to even upgrade a storage device.
On 1080p I would say it would be fine? Just don’t expect to play everything maxed out.
This. What primarily uses up the space is:
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textures (twice the size, four times the storage) and having a colour / bump / reflectivity / emmisivity / diffusivity / &c texture for every surface
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shadow maps - (most) lights have a high-resolution texture associated with them, see how far they ‘shine’ in every direction before they hit something. Modern games have a lot of lights
Turn down texture and shadow quality, watch your GPU RAM usage drop right off.
Don’t expect to play everything maxed out
Nah, my aim has always been smooth/high framerates over “ultra” settings so I don’t have worries about that sort of thing. Never been an “eye candy” kind of guy.
shadow maps
This I didn’t know, I thought that textures were the main thing that really made GPUs choke nowadays, given how devs are obsessed with things like 8K textures and whatnot.
Still, good to see that I didn’t buy an useless card for today’s gaming, or at least I think so. I run Gundam Battle Operation 2 perfectly fine and stable so far.
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I game on an Nvidia GTX 970ti and it still keeps chugging along. As long as you are merely trying to get games to run, not necessarily on high settings, you can get most games to work. Sometimes you need to make some sacrifices in terms of performance.
Digital Foundry has a really good video on PC settings: https://youtu.be/A8VrFUi79yo
They also have really good videos on… well, just about everything. Sometimes they have optimized settings for games as a good starting point.
4gb is going to be tight, if it’s possible to find a 580 for a decent price, I’d do that instead
