The reason people are complaining is the stupidly overpriced gpu's we're having and the 70+$ label on games. Just think about it: you need to spend 400-500 $ for a decently performing hardware (in theory) and 70 $ for a game, but once you do, you run into these issues. It's not about lowering the settings. It's more about not expecting to lower settings for the price. From this perspective i think it's pretty reasonable to complain.

@bemusedkidney8619

9 ай бұрын

Spot on!

@amehu

9 ай бұрын

In other hand: why are you falling into buying 500 bucks gpu? At least before watching any review.. I'm enthusiast with 20y experience- the most I'm paying for gpu to play on HIGH settings is 300 bucks. Same goes for mobile phone too, actually. Simply, set the limit. There's other fun stuff in life to spend money on than PC hardware which Nvidia and Intel (sometimes AMD too) make obsolete in a year or two by pushing "new awesome features " while game devs simultaneously make ULTRA preset so you feel miserable.

@gergoturi7559

9 ай бұрын

​@@amehuI think you missed the point. It's the cost per expectation, that is in a crysis. I know you can find decent used hardware, if you're willing to go deep in the market, but come on, this whole situation is just stupid. For 500$ + 70$ people deserve to have a good experience, period. Money isn't falling from the tree for most, let them enjoy, what they paid for.

@amehu

9 ай бұрын

@@gergoturi7559 yes, that's correct. But guess what it's not 80d or 90s anymore. Corporations are abusing their position as market leaders hence they make $500 gpu equivalent of $250 gpu 10 years ago. And all is masked behind Covid and Ukraine! Sure there's some inflation due to lockdowns and logistics issues but why the corporations have to still getting overly rich? They don't want cut profits! And that's the problem. Limitless wealth accumulation for the rich.

@gergoturi7559

9 ай бұрын

@@amehu I am well aware of that. Only way to force their hand is to complain first, then quit if they fail to meet expectations. Usually a civil conversation has no effect on corporations, since they think they still can control the situation through sheer bs-ing.

I think the astronomical cost of these graphics cards are setting the expectation that these games should run "ultra" down the list. Ultra Prices demand Ultra settings. Every card fails to meet expectations.

@skorpers

8 ай бұрын

Supporting a company that admitted to bulk selling their GPU's to crypto miners at a pre scalped price is part of the problem

@Peppeppukii

7 ай бұрын

@@skorpers part of that reason is also they sells the newest tech on the market now... if only there're more reliable competitors though...

@skorpers

7 ай бұрын

@@Peppeppukii AMD has been doing just fine for the past 17 years, and ATI before that. Gamers demanding they use nvidia is super weird. And if gamers hadn't been weird about gaming for the aforementioned last 17 years then there's a high chance Nvidia wouldn't be a trillion dollar company today.

@Stubbies2003

7 ай бұрын

@@skorpers You seem to have completely missed the fact that a good chunk of that time AMD's driver department has been lackluster at best. Both compete just fine in the hardware department. In software support of that hardware there is no direct comparison to be had. To the OP your argument is too subjective. What is an "ultra" price to one gamer might be a drop in the bucket to another.

@skorpers

7 ай бұрын

@@Stubbies2003 AMD drivers have been fine. So many of the issues are pebkac.

The concept of the video is correct and i always tweak my settings even if i get 60fps to help the low’s but what i find COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE is the fact that on a 2-3k pc i have to lower settings because developers can’t optimize anymore, i remember half life 2 at launch was INCREDIBLE to see and super optimized, it could run or medium hardware no problem, if today i launch alan wake on medium grade hardware i can barely reach 30-40fps if i use decent details and is crazy

@maksim1415

7 ай бұрын

rtx 4060 (300$ gpu) gives 30 fps in most demanding areas like forest and NY and about 60 in metro and town. That's with optimized settings (almost no visual loss) AND raytracing on. 1440p Dlss balanced, FG on

@ynotwaffles

7 ай бұрын

Alan wake is basically the top tier of rendering tech. It’s basically the Crysis of 2023. I understand that prices are ridiculous on pc hardware. I’m running a 10gb 3080 and Alan wake runs just fine. As long as you’re not an idiot that tries to use path tracing or something. Alan wake looks amazing at all low settings. It’s a bad example to use honestly. I think Remedy has done an amazing job at advancing graphics rendering and using next gen features. The naming scheme of their graphics presets seems to be the only issue. We live in a time of over priced everything. Not just pc hardware and games. I really do think too many are complaining. Espy when they can’t run the most cutting edge game in their most current midrange gpu. We all have to use up scaling now. And it looks like FG will also be needed to keep pushing graphics tech. Since I’m still on a 30 series card, I most likely won’t upgrade till 50 series launch. I applaud remedy for what they’ve done with AW2. It’s breath taking at the lowest settings, and for their vision they didn’t want to compromise any further. Your card can still do decent. It’s not like you have a 4090. Turn settings down.

@burrfoottopknot

7 ай бұрын

then you get people thinking scaling is a good thing instead of just tuning the settings, and developers relying on scaling because they rush a game out so the publisher is happy

@justinfolk2832

6 ай бұрын

You think Alan wake is bad try ark survival ascended, lol.

@SSXVegeta

6 ай бұрын

Agree there is zero effort into optimization nowadays, I ran half life 2 on low hardware with minimal issue,

The main reason I wanted to get into PC gaming was the ability to change settings in the first place. Just being able to turn something lower or higher depending on your needs and wants sounded amazing to me.

@Smok0z

5 ай бұрын

Bingo couldn’t have said it better god bless you and take care ❤️🙏

@SpoopsAHoy

5 ай бұрын

Choice. Choice is King. While consoles aim to give a "streamlined experience", this experience lends itself to the consumer having very little choice in the way they run & play games. Personalization is critical as we all have different priorities about what we want out of our games and systems.

@K.C-2049

5 ай бұрын

settings, optimization, and MODS. I don't think I would have got into PC gaming without RDR2 honestly, I just wanted to put Athur back into the epilogue and once I did that I was like "welp never going back to consoles" lol

@K.C-2049

5 ай бұрын

@@SpoopsAHoy and no upgrades until the manufacturer tells you you can and charges you out the butt for a whole new system rather than one component at a time if you prefer.

@Physics072

5 ай бұрын

Really? Amazing to you went its been ho hum for PC user for 30+ years

bro made a 13 minute video to say "Dont run on the highest settings"

@grandam.

8 ай бұрын

True

@Willpolita

5 ай бұрын

youtube today in a nutshell

@chekitatheanimatedskeptic6314

2 ай бұрын

Im baffled as well. Mid video the dude just straight say people want to run on ultra, this is pretty much bias on his part, small sample and/or assuming lack of info means people didnt try to lower settings. Personally i never, ever run games on ultra even when I can with my system and I can guarantee that people trying to run games and having trouble do change those settings 😂

I never touch Ultra, and never have. That is not the core issue with modern PC games. The core issue is the lazy ports. Heavy use of UE 4 and 5, without any optimization, etc.

@yumri4

8 ай бұрын

I have a few times but only when running older games on modern hardware. Mostly not wanting to mod the game to get good visuals. Now for games that came out after 2015 yeah i don't put them on ultra as in most games high looks the same as ultra but runs a lot better performance wise. IF having issues with high i go into performance tuning but in most games i play i can run them at the preset of high locked at 60fps with V-Sync buffer 2 at native 2560x1600 without upscaling. I do tend to turn off motion blur and turn down AA to x2 as no AA looks bad but i can't notice any change above x2 anyways.

@diysai

8 ай бұрын

​@@yumri4true, games like cyberpunk and the last of us look good even on low presets unlike older games.

@AmigaWolf

8 ай бұрын

Most people do not use Ultra settings, I almost never do Ultra or very high settings, mostly high.

@VeggyZ

8 ай бұрын

I agree, but I use Ultra in any game I can - I also don't play too many competitive multiplayer games though, so as long as it feels buttery smooth and makes me drool, I'm probably going to be happy. There are definitely unoptimized games of course, but lazy ports are even worse because it's usually lacking multiple aspects.

@yumri4

8 ай бұрын

@@VeggyZ Do you mean like 3:4 16:10 kind of multiple aspects or do you mean like 21:9 and 32:9 kind of thing?

A lot of games this year suffer from traversal or shader compilation stutter which is why ppl say they r unoptimised cause no matter how low the settings are it happens. Those hitched in hogwarts u mentioned I find worse than just bad framerate, they r so distracting.

@Freemasons1732

5 ай бұрын

Totally agree. The stuttering is a huge problem for me.

7:54 The more important part is that it tells you how it will affect performance. A lot of settings barely have any impact at all while others can completely wreck your performance for little to no gain.

@swolly0079

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for saving me time

Yeah, that is a fair point, but imagine spending 1600$ on a 4090 and having to turn settings down. Of course people get mad. 😀

@yonghominale8884

9 ай бұрын

I have a 4090 and I get 80 to 150 FPS in Starfield at 1440 p on Ultra with the DLSS mod. I probably get better perfromance If I dropped down from 90% to 75%. You get what you pay for and if want great performan on a first day release be prepared to pay alot.

@PastorVivonZulul

8 ай бұрын

@@yonghominale8884 Starfield didnt come out with DLSS. Without the genius making the mod, the game would be disgusting to play.

@OmgHeDidntJustDoThat

8 ай бұрын

@@yonghominale8884I have a Samsung ark 4k 55inch monitor and a 4090. On medium settings, I can’t run the game more than 50 frames with FSR2. I could use the DLSS mod, but I want to enjoy the game how it’s meant to be played first with no mods. This game is actually disgusting.

@Ku5hFi3nd

8 ай бұрын

​@@yonghominale8884you say that like 1440p 80 fps is great performance for a 4090😂. I also have a 4090 and while I play at 4K not 1440p the fact that I get below 60 fps at times with everything maxed is ridiculous. Game looks dated, nothing to justify needing that much performance. I don't feel like I got my 1600 dollars worth of performance (more like $2700 when you account for the rest of the PC parts) when playing Starfield.

@AmigaWolf

8 ай бұрын

What means I get 80 a 150fps in Starfield with a GeForce RTX 4090?? If you have to use DLSS on 1440p to get 80 FPS, it means it's a VERY bad optimist game, a GeForce RTX 4090 is $1600+ and then you only get around 80fps on 1440p, that is bad, really bad.

i DID NOT spent 4.7k $ on my 7800x3D Rtx4090 Alienware AW2723DF 280Hz 1440p System to game at 60FPS due to gaming studios / developers being too bored to fckn OPTIMIZE the game pre-launch and justify their own fckn salary. EDIT: I dont even put ultra settings i dont give a flyin fck about visuals i just want 240fps+ and stability

@DannyzReviews

9 ай бұрын

I mean with a modern high-end set up like that, I'd be pretty mad too if I couldn't get good performance with high settings. It's why I gave the starfield example. Overclocked 13900K and 4090 struggle with 80fps at 4k, while a game like cyberpunk (also open world) does just fine and looks better.

@Taima_the_lion

9 ай бұрын

Respectably, you got ripped off dude lol

@kostistsiutras4373

9 ай бұрын

thats an amazing comment that fails on the simple focus that there are infinite countries in the world with different taxation % especially on comodities classified as electronics etc @@Taima_the_lion

What I do is change the settings to the "Low" preset, then play the game a little bit while checking framerate. That will tell the best framerate you can hope to see on your system. Then switch to "Ultra" and do the same thing. That will tell you the worst case framerate you'll have. As an example, if Low gets you 85fps average while Ultra gets you 35fps, now you at least know what range you'll be working in. This way, if you tweak the settings you'll already know what's the best you can hope for instead of having to guess.

@amrphous5267

5 ай бұрын

nice idea

I mean, i was able to instantly tell which ones were in ultra preset. It looks better. But i agree that the mixed settings still look beautiful enough and the fps boost is in fact, well worth it. First time i boot up a game, i always spend time in the settings to make sure i get the best mixed settings possible. Shadows always go down a notch from the recommended because it gives such a boost for not a lot of graphic change

@nimrodpaul6875

7 ай бұрын

I'm really new to pc's but I like messing around with settings

@KClove.

7 ай бұрын

as someone who cant afford a good pc (meaning i cant play any games that have came out in the past 5-4 years) i really couldnt tell, i have to tweak settings even to play something like a 2D, 8-Bit game but still, both looked very very similar and its def worth it, i just hope that the gpu economy fixes itself at one point so i can actually play games :p

@emporioalnino4670

7 ай бұрын

It clearly looks better. But not 30% frame rate drop better.

@Ubeogesh

5 ай бұрын

I agree with Hogwarts, shadows and some object blending gave it off... But can you point at some detail in the LOU comparison where Ultra is better... All I could see was the gun in the back pocket aliasing being worse in Ultra.

@GewelReal

5 ай бұрын

low settings masterrace pumping those hundreds of frames out

Don't buy games at lunch wait for at least 2 months, and don't use ultra settings and you're pretty much set..

@dragon1130

9 ай бұрын

With few exceptions (Doom Eternal being theo nly one I can think of immeadiatly) I always practice this. Heck, I'll just wait for a steam sale when the games like 50% off or more. I have over 600 games in my library, I can play one of the many games I haven't played yet because I got them in a humble bundle, or just bought them on sale with a bunch of other games and never got around to them.

@MrVecheater

3 ай бұрын

I'll buy them at breakfast

On some points i can agree but most of what you say sounds like "your hardware is too old, suck it up" when it is crystal clear that most games are coded by monkeys.

personally no matter what my hardware has been, I've always found using the medium preset in most games a great balance. sometimes I tweak the aa settings afterward or sometimes bump up the textures a little.

I was expecting some advice on what settings to turn down that don’t have a big impact on visual quality. Please make another video with some tips on what settings to change.

The obvious problem with custom settings, is that the average person likely has little to no idea which settings to reduce, and by how much, to achieve maximum performance benefit with minimum visual impact.

@ichtozavuzovsky8370

8 ай бұрын

Bro just called most PC users stupid for no reason. The guy making the video took a sample of redditors, those are not average representative.

@rodrigofreitas3288

8 ай бұрын

Basically, you need to test settings one by one and a lot of games need a restart for that, which can get time-consuming, as you often see yourself tweaking settings more than actually playing the game itself.

@GeneralS1mba

7 ай бұрын

this is why we need previews like in the last of us, consoles come settings optimized and that is why idiots think their $1000 pc is slower, knowing that certain settings look close enough at high with 5-10% more performance is great without side to side comparisons

@crymaker9628

6 ай бұрын

How the fuck is it hard?

@unknownorigin8446

6 ай бұрын

All settings can be reduced. Just going from Ultra to Very High or High (depending what is the next best graphical option compared to ultra) will yield performance gains without any significant reduction in visual quality. That's the first thing everyone can do for an easy FPS boost. Ultra settings are a gimmick.

I'd like to say thank-you to Todd Howard...for adding so many new NMS players in the last few weeks...we play load-screen free.

@AntonChigurh-

9 ай бұрын

Fuck No Man's Sky. I don't appreciate games being released broken on launch. And no, "redemption" isn't possible. You release your games in a good state, or you can fuck off.

@imnotusingmyrealname4566

9 ай бұрын

NMS?

@leviathenx7531

9 ай бұрын

@@imnotusingmyrealname4566 No Man's Sky I assume.

@imnotusingmyrealname4566

9 ай бұрын

@@leviathenx7531 ohh, to that I say does No Man's Sky have the same mod support Starfield has, does No Man's Sky have the same story telling Starfield has? I mean I haven't watched anything on No Man's Sky since launch but back then it was a walking simulator with having to hold your mining gun on stuff to collect ressources and repeat. It was really empty back then.

@JRose-zn7iw

9 ай бұрын

@@imnotusingmyrealname4566 No Man's Sky.

Well, Forspoken WAS in fact unoptimized on launch. Performance was massively improved around 3 months after launch. (Also standard settings, which you used ontop of the graphics options limit the amount of vram and system ram which the game will use.)

@shy_doge

5 ай бұрын

so was the last of us that used code for memory sharing on the console. since consoles share ram with the gpu the game would do that on pc at launch, making the game run like shit. they updated the game to actually use vram correctly, improving performance.

@Waldherz

5 ай бұрын

Interesting. I wonder how many other games of 2023 did this mistake. Most of them ran like crap.@@shy_doge

@DeadNoob451

5 ай бұрын

Yeah but it was sadly still forspoken just running better.

I'm not sure about this, but I think that some games adjust the video settings based on the installed hardware the first time we run it. Maybe ppl got used to this, while some new games still start with ultra setting right after the 1st run (no auto-correction)

First thing i always did in a game that is demanding is to set shadows to medium, and then downgraded some other settings that doesn't need to be on high or Ultra if needed. In Starfield for example i get 65 FPS outdoor and up to 90 FPS indoor. I'm surprised how well Watch Dogs Legion and Spiderman performs even with full Ray Tracing enabled.

@dsandoval9396

7 ай бұрын

What's your rig specs? (If you don't mind me asking)

@elitepauper7400

7 ай бұрын

Same thing. I always turn down shadows in favor of everything else!

@BRANFED

6 ай бұрын

@@elitepauper7400 same.. 1st thing i do is lower the shadow quality because shadows is a huge impact on performance

@dansmith1661

6 ай бұрын

Except when it doesn't like with Robocop. The market really is for whales in 2023.@@BRANFED

@unknownorigin8446

6 ай бұрын

Agree. Shadow quality is overrated. Often times Ultra vs High is pretty much the same. In some games, there is no difference between Ultra and Medium, you really have to stare for the difference to be noticeable.

Am I reading the description correctly that this was tested with a 13700K? The CPU and RAM setup these tests were done with is extremely relevant to getting that consistent smooth performance. The issue with most of these awful ports was rarely the GPU side scaling, it was poor CPU side code and performance/terrible PC streaming systems. For example, UE games are notorious at this point on PC for both asset streaming stutter and shader comp stutter and how much those will be noticed comes down to if you can brute force past them somewhat with god tier CPUs and Memory speeds. On my 5800X / 3070 / 16 gigs 3600 MHz DRR 4 / NVMe / Gsync system no matter what I put graphics setting too there’s no fully removing the traversal stutter that some games have. Turning down texture quality/LOD/Shadows/RT seems to have the largest impact but even at low with a 60 FPS cap I still see and feel those stutters regrettably. Same things for any of the Arkham PC games as it turns out - even at minimum settings those games all have really nasty streaming/traversal stutter no matter what you do. The biggest plague on PC gaming right now really is the stutter struggle and devs/publishers just don’t seem to care for whatever reason.

@Durayne

8 ай бұрын

The Starfield footage he shows even has a 13900k.

@Artimidorus

7 ай бұрын

You could try the answer of tuning your memory. Would that extra 0.01ms response time help? If not, maybe time to get a $10,000 system instead of a potato $3,500 system. I find it so funny that "did you try lowering settings?" is the suggested solution.

@thomassp

6 ай бұрын

It’s funny that on console you dont hear any issues because ofc games have precompiled shaders since hardware is all the same so you dont need the cpu to start async shader comp while rendering. To make it worse, games are not using multiple cores and threads properly. Idk why people think its a gpu issue, its definitely not. I play elden ring on pc with a last gen i7 and overclocked 4060 and notice stutters while traversing areas but if im staring at complex geometry while not moving around I get 60fps locked which is the highest the game goes. I start moving around and get dips as bad as 40fps until an area has loaded in properly. I only have 16gb of RAM on single channel which im planning to upgrade to 32gb dual channel. Seems like on pc we’re getting single core and ram bottlenecked harsher due to poor optimization.

I was waiting for a specific graphics settings that should be toned down to most games to improve performance though... but I agree to the point. most gamers do not have the patience in tweaking settings for better exp, expecting plug n play, with max settings.

@kleinfeicht

6 ай бұрын

If I pay 2k or 4k for a pc I don't want to spec down my settings because the garbage game publisher can't optimize its game We now have worse looking games sometimes with far worse framerate and the aaa say that is totally ok ...

@Arasaka.Employee

6 ай бұрын

Agreed, Some Ports are Just Awful nowadays@@kleinfeicht

Actually shocked at the 20 series performance. Shows how much “fine tuning” does for quality and consistency

@berrylongname

5 ай бұрын

I have a 2080ti since 2018 and don't see my self upgrading till 5000s come out. Friends laughed when I payed near 1k for a video card it has served me well get 60 90 fps with most settings on ultra with ray tracing off in Cyberpunk.

Thats the acute beauty about PC. C'mon guys, there is nothing wrong with mixing and matching to achieve the most optimized settings. You have the benefit, use it for chrissakes. Thanks for the video Dan!

@imnotusingmyrealname4566

9 ай бұрын

Exactly. This is another advance of PC. A PC with components from before the PS5 was released can run a PS5 game with PS5 graphics and 60 fps if you optimize the settings yourself.

@unnamed715

8 ай бұрын

Bro you realize you're talking to a bunch of zoomers that can't fathom why their 3050 can't max out Cyberpunk, right? 🤣🤣

@nimrodpaul6875

7 ай бұрын

Should I go into bios and enable xmp? I just bought a prebuilt i5 13400f, 32tb ddr5, 2tb gen4 nvme m.2, 4060 and im completely new to pc and pc gaming. I heard him mention in the video about going into bios and enabling xmp,, I wouldn't have a clue how to do this or if I need to

@imnotusingmyrealname4566

7 ай бұрын

@@nimrodpaul6875 yes enabling it does help quite a bit, you can go into BIOS either by pressing a key when the computer starts or through Windows in the reset windows section under advanced startup

@imnotusingmyrealname4566

7 ай бұрын

@@nimrodpaul6875 looking up on KZread how to enable XMP also helps

It would be fun to know what kind of backroom dealing goes on with game developers and GPU manufacturers. It seems there is a common interest in releasing unoptimized games. Developers get away with less work and when they say "just buy next gen hardware", they are working as sales people of GPU manufacturers. And lo and behold, how convenient that GPU manufacturers are having some difficulty in getting their over priced top of the line products sold.

@q-_-p.d-_-b

8 ай бұрын

The back room deals are between publishers and game reviewers. There are cases where the reviewer would get a free car etc.

@ConsecDesign

8 ай бұрын

There are so many explanations other than a conspiracy

@OutLanderUSN

7 ай бұрын

I like a good conspiracy just as much as the next guy, but I feel like this would make way more sense if these games weren't running like garbage across the board. If there were these backroom deals, they should at least run well on *something*

@bricaaron3978

7 ай бұрын

It's rather simple: Way, way too many people rush to throw top dollar no matter _what_ a company excretes. They get away with it because they _can,_ and they _know_ they can. The other problem is the corrupt media who work for the companies they are supposed to be policing. The people that many gamers look up to and trust are trying to sell video games instead of educating gamers about horrible business practices and what is and is not excusable regarding product quality. But make no mistake: The simple answer is that an unscrupulous company makes crap because way too many people _buy_ the crap they make. And come rushing back for more.

What settings are the ones to spend time in settings dropping???? Hopefully you have a list that would apply to all games?

I think ram plays a part in this as well. If you're playing with a 1080p monitor and have an average gpu which likely has 8gb vram then to play on higher settings your system is going to need more ram. An average person's computer probably has 8 or 16gb of ram. When you crank settings to high or ultra some of these games will use 12-20gb of ram.

@nimrodpaul6875

7 ай бұрын

Does upping ram help at all or are you referring to vram only because I have a prebuilt with the all time hated 4060 lol with 32 gb ddr5

@adammiller7648

7 ай бұрын

@nimrodpaul6875 I'm referring to system ram. I see a ton of pre-built computers that only come with 8gb ddr4 or ddr5 ram. Vram is needed for Ray tracing and higher resolutions. Playing on ultra settings at 1080p resolution is going to put a lot of work on cpu which needs way more ram.

@GeneralS1mba

7 ай бұрын

16gb is probs the minimum for AAA games now, the performance leap from 8 to 16 is crazy, and 32gb is becoming recommended so much

@adammiller7648

5 ай бұрын

@@GeneralS1mba exactly. If you upgrade your ram, I would go straight to 32gb.

The only setting I usually keep at ultra is textures the other settings i adjust between high & medium depending if there's a noticeable difference, then I look at what framerate the game is stable & butter smooth with and lock it to that target framerate so I get no frametime hitching or stutters.

@Wickerrman

7 ай бұрын

Anisotropic filtering is a nice simple "leave it at max" setting since it hardly affects performance but games quickly look ugly when lowering it.

I didn't realize people don't tweak all the settings, I only select a particular option for benching. You usually need to drop textures if you are running older or weaker cards with less vram but you can often keep the other settings jacked up. I've noticed some games have lower 1% lows with the framerate unlocked, not sure if v-sync adds a bit of input latency. On racing games it can be really noticeable.

@dimlockfork5170

8 ай бұрын

@@M-uj2tr same here

@winonesoon9771

7 ай бұрын

​@@M-uj2tryeah true.... It's why I always go and put shadows to medium first ..... That will always usually give you the boost ya need and won't look to bad depending on the game

Thanks for the video!

Hello, on forza motorsport I've tried all your advice on settings, but seems Im stuck on 36fps😭 and its frustrating af. Any further solution please? optimizing nvidia control panel(how)? something else? a miracle peraphs? please I'm desperate!!! TIA 1080p 60Hz Screen CPU i7 10700k GPU RTX 3080 16Gb RAM DDR5 win 10 fully updated latest nvidia drivers

Thanks for the hard work on this vid. I appreciated your points showing how you can achieve great performance on PC with an entry-level GPU if you spend a little time in the settings. As a more technical user, I can get value from this sort of feedback, but I think 90+% of gamers will be very intimidated. Folks just want to play the game without having to go under the hood. This is, after all, a relaxation activity for most. I think requiring settings tweaks for a good experience is genuinely asking too much of folks. I absolutely understand your point about people wanting to run "ultra" on everything. That is misguided of them. However, the studios should at a bare minimum give users an easy button to good quality-performance balance for their system, with light nontechnical direction from the user. Thank you for hearing me out!

@davidjosephjohn8599

8 ай бұрын

I disagree that gamers are intimidated to play with game settings. Maybe Im just different but to me I love tweaking a game to find the sweet spot. Maybe its because I love tearing apart and rebuilding computers and absolutely love modding a game. But I will acknowledge that most gamers are just rock dumb when it comes to their own rig and are probably just too lazy to do some research.

@migueldossantos9875

7 ай бұрын

I think if people want not to dig in settings just buy a console for gaming ps5 Xbox or switch simple

@gozutheDJ

7 ай бұрын

then why do they have a PC if they just want to plug and play?

@GeneralS1mba

7 ай бұрын

@@davidjosephjohn8599 honestly, having a modest entry level set up at first then switching to whatever would definitely help some of these people "if its not on ultra I might aswell buy a console like a peasant"

Turns out, AMD did not block DLSS. Starfield is getting an official DLSS support soon.

@jonnyvelocity

8 ай бұрын

How could they have? they didn't make the game

@nosliwec

8 ай бұрын

I mean it actually feels like AMD did pay off Bethesda to block it otherwise Bethesda would have had DLSS support at launch, but they waited until modders implemented it and decided maybe they should have that feature.

@somedude96

8 ай бұрын

@@nosliwec whatever you think about AMD, only Nvidia can pull off such a scummy move.

@nosliwec

8 ай бұрын

@@somedude96 Nah. They both can. When Bethesda's specs included only AMD cards and no mention of nVidia cards (gamers can figure out which cards are comparable, sure), it is pretty obvious that Bethesda and AMD had partnered up. And it's fine up to the point of not utilizing features the other brand has. Then it is putting companies interests ahead of consumers and as gamers we should call these behaviors out.

@somedude96

8 ай бұрын

@@nosliwec Xbox and Playstation are powered by AMD chips so Bethesda prioritized AMD cards. Not necessarily AMD had anything to do with that.

My laptop can barely handle oblivion on medium settings but i can still play it on lower settings with medium textures but its not that easy with other games. Do you have any recommendations for gaming laptops that can handle games on either medium or lower settings?

okay, so what settings can I use with my RX 5500XT for games like Forza Horizon 4/5, CoD Warzone, RDR2 etc games for a smooth yet visually satisfying experience?

So you are with Todd. The problem is that we spend over 1k for just a GPU and then STILL have to lower the settings when developers could just take a little more time to optimize the games and we wouldn't have to lower the settings. There will come a time and I think it's fast approaching that people will start to rebel.

@DannyzReviews

9 ай бұрын

Did you even watch the whole video?

@tsdobbi

7 ай бұрын

"that people will start to rebel." Jesus Christ.

@neilamos9260

7 ай бұрын

but what does that mean - "developers could just take a little more time to optimize the games". PC games come out with a variety of settings. The idea of ultra is usually for the absolute top of the line hardware, and may not be designed for 4k at 60fps on current hardware. For people who prioritize a high resolution and frame rate, that is normally achievable via the settings. the alternative is that developers turn down the maximum graphical fidelity of their games so that people can tell themselves they're running the game at "ultra" while still achieving high framerates on a variety of hardware. This would come at the price of there being no options to improve the visuals for those who dont mind losing some frames, people who have crazy high end equipment, or people who are playing the game further down the line with hardware that isnt out yet. also, what do you mean that people will start to rebel? as long as a game has a variety of settings which change both the visuals and effect the performance, the game is "optimized"

@baritone8037

7 ай бұрын

So graphics in games should not improve because your RTX 2080 can't run present day games on ultra settings but could do that when it got released?

@brazil7028

7 ай бұрын

NO the problem is that they keep making games that are not optimized so you HAVE to buy the latest graphics cars which just keep raising in price. Soon it will cost you as much for a current (ie future) graphics card as a damn car! But I guess you are rich and it doesn't bother you that a top of the line graphics card in this generation is almost 2K dollars.@@baritone8037

Great video! Just one thing - usually people don't go through Settings not because they are afraid, but simply because everything in there is so damn confusing. The majority of users don't have the knowledge what all those acronyms and terminology means and therefore in their opinion is best to just leave it alone just in case. If I may - could you consider making an explanatory video going through all the usual settings in Video Preferences with a bit of general explanation of them? I think that you will really help a lot of people. Cheers!

@alexspeed8888

5 ай бұрын

Thats what the general settings slider is for

@xerxeslv

5 ай бұрын

@@alexspeed8888 The is another reason why people don't use general slider - cause it's too "general", like if you have relatively slow GPU but a lots of vram (just as example) setting game to low will lead to low textures, decals, anisotropy and other stuff that will make game look really bad and would actually run great at high settings. Would be cool if devs would implement a "simple\custom" graphics settings mode switch where you have a general slider and an optimised slider in "simple mode", say "optimised performance level: faster ormal\best visuals" so that user could get better performance or visuals applied in a smart way. It could be a preset generated on the first run by reading a system info or something like that. I am pretty sure I have seen some games use this approach...

The problem that you run into is that to the vast majority of players, the settings menu is like reading an advanced calculus book. They have no clue where to begin or what setting will have the largest impact.

@destroreact5706

7 ай бұрын

Game: What value should Anisotropic Filtering be? 2x? 4x? 8x or 16x? Player: What the--

Thanks for the video! I'm playing EA WRC Rally on 3080Ti and Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 49" (5120 x 1440 244hz). Would you suggest locking the FPS to 60 or maybe lowering the monitors Hz and then locking it to for example 120 to match the lowered Hz? I've done a lot of testing with different settings and it's running pretty good but I haven't locked the framerate to anything yet.

@club4ghz

5 ай бұрын

If it's smooth, don't lock it. 60 Fps lock is just hard to move the mouse around. And if you have to lock then just lock it with MSI Afterburner on the game exe.

Worse thing is when ppl use the GPU driver control panel to set and or over ride gfx settings (from within game settings) which can conflict or cause performance issues

@phr3ui559

7 ай бұрын

ok

You can make 60fps looks like 150fps of motion clarity by using a good display with a black frame insertion mode. Works on any games, no fake frames, no artifacts, or any hit to input lag whatsoever and games will look a lot less blurry and you will no longer feel the need to hit over 100fps with overpriced hardware.

@andreslossantos3972

7 ай бұрын

and what do I have to do to make it stay the same?

Can you make a video how to optimize settings? Like idk what's the difference between many options in anti-aliasing.

I could tell which one was mixed settings every time, but only because mixed didn't have post processing enabled things such as depth of field, mixed was generally a sharper picture.

@VORASTRA

7 ай бұрын

Thing is, even while playing the games with maxed everything, settings like Depth of Field, Motion blur, etc. in majority of games turned on by default just makes graphics worse.

I agree with most of this particularly with shadows or clouds. The issue I have is the traversal stutter. The FPS can be locked 60 and you still get garbage frame timing….ee Jedi Survivor, even latest patch 7.

@thechurchofsupersampling

9 ай бұрын

It isn't a locked 60 then

@bricaaron3978

7 ай бұрын

*"The FPS can be locked 60 and you still get garbage frame timing"* That's what VSync is for. VSync doesn't just eliminate tearing, it eliminates _judder_ (i.e. uneven frame pacing) as long as your framerate stays at or above your refresh rate. I'm certain that many people have no idea what solid, smooth motion looks like because they have been "misinformationed" into not using VSync. No --- properly-coded VSync does _not_ induce any noticeable input latency. Unfortunately, it is true that the Great Consolization of 2008 has brought many instances of poorly-coded VSync that induces significant latency, but fortunately most of them can be resolved via GPU driver VSync or third-party VSync. If you can afford it, running at a higher framerate helps as well. VSync must _always_ be used as a matter of course. The only exceptions would be truly competitive multiplayer games and the really bad games in which the latency is noticeable no matter what VSync solution you use. But personally, for single-player games I would much rather just deal with a bit of latency than horrid tearing and horrid, juddery motion.

It doesn't help tho that most game settings menus don't show any preview of what's been changed or the impact on performance, as in Call of Duty and The Last of Us. These QoL info should be standard already and companies should communicate more transparently about how their games run before launch so that the community can at least prepares to tweak settings. Maybe even send the game early to tech reviewers so that they can inform the community of which settings is best to tone down. Lot of possibilities but for the vast majority of gamers, they aren't gonna get the performance by themselves unfortunately.

@imnotusingmyrealname4566

9 ай бұрын

TLOU is actually an amazing PC port then. The attention to detail in the settings is more than pretty much every other game on PC.

@ano_nym

9 ай бұрын

@@imnotusingmyrealname4566 didn't it look worse than the original or something?

@imnotusingmyrealname4566

9 ай бұрын

@@ano_nym You might be confusing it with the PlayStation 4 version. It was called The Last of Us Remastered and it only looked slightly better than the PS3 version.

@ano_nym

9 ай бұрын

@@imnotusingmyrealname4566 I think it was rather that which looked good. That the new PC one looked goofy or something.

@mitsuhh

9 ай бұрын

if you think TLOU remastered looked only slightly better, you need to get your eyes checked@@imnotusingmyrealname4566

Hi great vid. I’m one of them that is unsure how to optimise my games. I don’t go and bad mouth them as I know it’s me lol. However if you could give me some advice on optimising Icarus it would be greatly appreciated. I play on a nitro 5 laptop with a “rtx3060” 32gb ram. I get 30-40 fps which can go a low as 8

I got used to maxing out most games on Ultra after I bought my GTX 1070, until a few years passed and I suddenly found myself dealing with high-30s/mid-40s fps drops in most new games I played. I didn't even start trying to optimize game settings until I bought RDR2 a few years after it released, a game that basically forced me to be OK with lowered graphical settings. Ridiculously, by the time I finally wised up, I'd already spent a few years prioritizing graphical fidelity over framerate on a 144 hz monitor. The OCD nerd in me really hates it when I can't put most settings on Ultra, but once I got used to games running at a consistent and smooth framerate, I couldn't go back to Ultra settings unless they gave me at least 60 fps. Lush graphics aren't worth it if the game world constantly stutters.

Thanks for this video! Playing "ultra" is often inadvisable, particularly if you don't have an "ultra" CPU+GPU but apparently many people struggle to understand this.

@imnotusingmyrealname4566

9 ай бұрын

Wasn't being able to adjust settings a flex from PCMR some time ago?

@mitsuhh

9 ай бұрын

Yeah but now consoles are playing with higher fidelity and their excuse goes back to 'ultra quality' again@@imnotusingmyrealname4566

A lot of people find the settings daunting. Often, instead of user-friendly terms that anyone can understand, such as "shadows", "background", "blur" and "frames per second", they see things like "anti-aliasing", "interpolation" and other things that scare them straight out of the settings. A lot of game companies fail badly when it comes to settings.

@dodiezero

6 ай бұрын

True but thankfully there are games that Explains what those changes do, even better some that displays a quick render that displays the comparison

@GlennsFastReviews

6 ай бұрын

Yes, @@dodiezero . I was answering Danny's "Why?!" question.

@ninamercer6807

6 ай бұрын

Are they really that hard to understand though?

@estebanpavez3162

6 ай бұрын

I had fun adjusting Callisto Protocol running on 6gb Vram at 60fps with high textures and lighting. and refraction. Mesh medium. Texture filtering low. And I had to make adjustments on my Video Card Software to overclock it and overvolt so it doesnt self destruct. Learned a lot too about settings and Game mods that increase performance. PC master race its not an easy task. Console people will never have the real fun experience from pc. Because they didnt put the efford to get the best experience that their device can achive. After you work hard and succede! Its an achivment to celebrate.

@GlennMcGrewII

6 ай бұрын

I'm not a novice but, yes, @@ninamercer6807 , they are hard to understand. Most people never hear these words and, if they do, they have no idea what it means. It certainly isn't taught in school or even in programming classes until you get to advanced stuff that requires a firm understanding of the advanced terms used. I can generally learn what they mean but for some people the explanations are often too technical and they won't be able to grasp it. This is, in part, because of the dumbing down of education - at least in the USA.

What about a amd 7950x cpu with a amd 7900xtx gpu? Should be good in ultra settings right? 😅

I got a question, how do you manage to keep the OS and the apps running in the background take around 800mb of memory? I stay on desktop and I have like 3 gigs of ram used

I can almost agree, tweaking options in order to make your system (Also of course your games) run better is one of the beauties of being a Pc user, but, in one hand is undeniable that most (not all) pc games these days are coming up unoptimiced, relying on upscallers just to run "fine" even with high end hardware (And it´s sad, because upscallers were soppose to be tolls to bring a new life to older hardware, or help mid range one to run modern features like RT) and, in the other hand, the process of optimizing games performance use to be not so intuitive, so you shouldn´t expect everybody to be able or even willing to expend time researching just to get that "image quality - performance" equilibrium. Most people just want to install, play and have a good time, and it´s perfectly reasonable, we´re not Pc master race anymore but almost as mainstream as console players and everybody have a lot going on in their lives already to be asked to make their leisure another task. So is not unreasonable to be angry at Bethesda for asking people to expend their money in new hardware to play a game that looks mostly like shit, to ask developers to customize the preset of their games to fit better with the hardware configuration or to ask for better, easier to understand tools to optimice the experience so people doesn´t have to go to reddit to know how much performance impact will have that shadows or clouds resolution option. Sorry for my english btw

@yumri4

8 ай бұрын

For the settings that will work for almost everyone who wants 60fps 16.6ms frame time in almost every game their system meets the recommended specs of is medium preset. For most games medium and high look almost identical and almost all games ultra / max look identical to high unless it involves a lot of staying in 1 place admiring the scenery. So if they want to not go into graphics settings for every game past using presets the preset of medium is what most PCs that meet recommended specs can run. Depending on the game it might have less NPCs, less trees, and/or less grass than on high and ultra but that will be the only part noticeable. If they want the best visuals for the least performance impact nVidia and AMD has their own optimization programs that do it for them for most triple A games and some others too. So the part of not wanting to spend the time to tune it isn't that valid of an argument when there are so many ways for them to just get around not having to do so. Yeah if they stare at the screen for long enough they might notice a difference but most won't unless it is side by side.

@KoKaiNiKo

8 ай бұрын

@@yumri4 That is true and also half true. There is third party software that can ease the process (is not perfect but it´s usefull), but as i was saying with Reddit (Or whatever )research, i feel that it´s unfair and unproductive to ask the user to do the job for you, meaning with "do the job" researching how to have a "normal experience" with their hardware, installing and using third party programs or even going as far as creating mod (or having to install mods) that resolve performance/stabillity issues. Companies are supposed to want to sell their games, not hardware and recentlly specs are going out of the hand (Specially when it comes to CPU where we´re seeing that they ask for current high-end CPUs to run mid/high settings in a bunch of games due to the automatization of some process like lighting). Also, no, games like Starfield doesn´t run fine in mid in most systems and there is no way they can justiy that kind of performance. We´re also to blame for pre-purchasing some games and for being to impatient sometimes, but my point is that if i buy...idk an air fryer, i expect it to work smoothly without having to tweak it. If i have the oportunity to tweak a game to make it looks better or run better or only display what i want it to put in the screen, amazin, but the leats i want to expect from it is to run just fine withing the marging of what is reasonable coming from my hardware

@VORASTRA

7 ай бұрын

Sadly, it is due to the fact PS5 is also heavily reliant on upscaling technology.

@yumri4

7 ай бұрын

@@VORASTRAIf that's true then we will need around a 2x GPU compute from where we are right now to run the same program at native res. It will get worse as they start adding in stuff we asked for for years in part as the tools to make it happen are even easier to use now but also in part as consoles can also do it.

@VORASTRA

7 ай бұрын

@@yumri4 for example, to run Alan Wake 2 in 1440p with 60 fps, PS5 uses 720p internal resolution and mix of low and medium settings.

Unfortunately from what I've seen with many games it doesn't make enough difference (to performance) if you play on low or ultra. So in those games you're screwed.

@selohcin

9 ай бұрын

Exactly right. I still can't get 1% lows above 60 even on an RTX 3080 at 1080p on High settings!

@krakadzil

5 ай бұрын

Upgrade cpu

question for maybe another video. what kind of setting should we look for like what to turn off or low and what leave on high/ ultra? i have a vega 64 lc and every new title i have to tweak the graphics in order to have a nice game but sometimes i think i could have it better.

I do that everytime with every game that I launch, but even capping my games at 60 fps causes stutters and sometimes lags, and I don't understand what I'm doing wrong, I can go higher with fps, but I want it to get stable at 60, why is it so difficult? Why does it have to get at 59/58 sometimes and cause stuttering? Even in this video when he was playing Hogwart's Legacy I saw the micro stutters, 60 fps, to me, doesn't seem fluid, I need to get it to 90/100 fps to get something fluid, I was hoping to see the answer to my question in this video.

The problem is that usually playing with settings does not give some noticeable improvement for problematic releases as the example - Starfield at the release state. The difference between ultra and low on my 2080ti was from 0-10 frames between the planet location e.t.c. Only FSR did make a real difference regarding the frame rate. And according to the metrics - my card under performed as even at 100% load it consumed like 160 watts what is low comparing to the stock power limit(250W and 300W for my card). And I got an idea, what if i'd use DLDSR for example? And there was no difference for the frame rate at all. So I could run Starfield with DSR 2x and FSR at the same time and had the same performance with better clarity. So yes some games are being called non-optimized not without a reason. Also there is another case, when the visuals on Ultra settings and performance that we're receiving are not correlating with each other so yes when you have card for 1600 bucks and look at typical cross-gen graphics and your 4090 struggles to reach even stable 60 fps - of course you will have some questions.

@Steir12

6 ай бұрын

Check your CPU it migh underperform and bottleneck your GPU. If you can fiddle GPU-intensive settings without much effect of FPS there must be something in the system hardcapping it.

@sannfred

6 ай бұрын

@@Steir12 thank you for reply. Regarding Starfield: I have 5800x3d and i'm satisfied the CPU performance. GPU was loaded to 99% all the time but with way too small power consumption. That's why i saw it as a optimization problem of a game. In general my point was that in modern games more and more often graphical settings does not change some crucial settings for the graphics but rather the cosmetic ones so sometimes clicking between settings won't give some really noticeable improvement.

@TeddyKrimsony

5 ай бұрын

the bottleneck is most likely the RAM I got +10 FPS by changing my RAMs from CL18 3200 to CL15 3200 modules

@sannfred

5 ай бұрын

@@TeddyKrimsony ram 3733 CL16 dual rank dual channel. FCLK 1866. And I believe there's no reason to argue since Bethesda fixed the synchronizations between the processes and gpu now works as it should be.

Dont forget to turn off Anti Aliasing if you are playing above 1080p, you wont notice the edges and it boosts performance by a lot

@CosmicCustodian

7 ай бұрын

Sad thing is, SOME games don't even have the option to turn it off. The Division 2's anti-aliasing setting is either Medium or Ultra 😂 I know it's an older game but it's the first that came to mind that doesn't let you turn AA truly off

@bricaaron3978

7 ай бұрын

*"Dont forget to turn off Anti Aliasing if you are playing above 1080p, you wont notice the edges..."* This is actually false, even though many people believe it. Whether or not AA is needed is not determined by resolution, it's determined by _angular resolution._ Put simply, angular resolution is the combination of your actual resolution, your _screen size,_ and your _viewing distance._ If you have a 4K display and it is 55" and 24" away from your face, you will absolutely need AA. Keep the resolution and the viewing distance the same, but shrink the screen size from 55" to 27"??? You may not need AA at all. Likewise, keep the 4K display at 55", but increase the viewing distance to 100" --- again, you may not need AA. When you change any of those three factors, you change how large or small the pixels appear to your eyes, and the size of the _pixels_ is what determines whether AA is required. I guarantee that you don't need any AA at 640 x 480 --- as long as you're playing on a 3.5" mobile screen. :P

@orion8981

5 ай бұрын

Yes you will. Foliage and hair are the main culprits. Whether or not it bothers you is a different question.

at launch i cranked starfield down to MINIMAL settings, and was still not getting consistent framerates in the intro (an indoor space) on my 3080ti, so sometimes it really is just poor optimisation

So the thing is, I do go into the settings menu, and it seems that a lot of the time going down in resolution or turning off shadows is the only way to get any performance. Hi res textures seem to do nothing, view distance doesn't seem to do much.

I love your workarounds with unoptimized games for a good experience Keep up the great work!❤

@Revener666

7 ай бұрын

It is not a workaround to change the settings in a game. The setting are there because people have wastly different hardware, compared to consoles.

So your telling me that The Last of Us 2, a game that in the pc launch, used to take double the VRAM, than today after paches, is optimized, or that Starfild a game that runs at 30fps in PS5, is optimized? I agreed that some people should change the settings, but there are indeed a lot of porly optmized games, just look at a good optimized game, FH5 and you will se the difference. It is not the gamers falt, it is the companies falt. Obs.: sorry for English, no my native language.

Hi, my computer doesn't come with G-Sync, it is a RTX4060 but I was wondering that if maybe for games capped at 60fps, is V-sync better for maintaining those framerates. Thanks, and this video is very true, what I ALWAYS do in a game, I go to the settings and just tweak them to see if that setting I lowered really compromises my performance, it is now that tough to do and takes minimal time.

@orion8981

5 ай бұрын

V-sync eats into performance and is only necessary on 60/75Hz displays when you're pushing way beyond that. Turn it on if you get screen tearing, leave it off if you don't.

@user-fs5ls1fo2w

5 ай бұрын

@@orion8981 Thank you, no I have not noticed screen tearing and I don't see the difference with it on or off

well, with my old friend GTX 1050 Ti I have already managed to run two games that according to the minimum requirements my GPU will not run the game correctly, and how do I do that? I spend time testing various settings, both in-game and in the operating system....

You will need to buy a new PSU if you want to overclock a 4090 to get mote performance out of it. The power consumption is insane.

@ReDHaWko

8 ай бұрын

It's actually quite efficient compared to a 3090.

@imnotusingmyrealname4566

8 ай бұрын

@@ReDHaWko fps per watt when undervolted yes

@ReDHaWko

8 ай бұрын

​@@imnotusingmyrealname4566stock mine runs 2760 ish at 430 watt. Unv runs 2930 at 250 watt in re 4 with max quality and native res thats crazy

@imnotusingmyrealname4566

8 ай бұрын

@@ReDHaWko wow only 250 that's extremely good, tweaking is definitely worth it

I played Cyberpunk 2077 on PS4 at release without any issues other than minor lighting and popin. I believe it's because i was playing at 720p at the time. Played through it three times like that and it was beautiful. I think i agree with you that people aren't even trying to adjust things for themselves anymore, especially on PC where you have the ability to change much of the video settings.

@Artimidorus

7 ай бұрын

Except 2077 was not "settings" so much as "truly broken". Pretty heavily documented and the developer spent a year constantly trying to fix it. Sometimes it's just the game.

@DrunkFlux

6 ай бұрын

He's refering to performance though, which isn't exactly the same as say physics bugs and quest design flaws/mistakes/oversights/bugs that ruin the quest or break immersion. I had no performance issues for cyberpunk 2077 myself but found many bugs in it, granted, wasn't on PS4 cyberpunk 2077. But i also did not play on ultra like so many insist on. I never play on ultra on ANY game unless i'm on hardware that exceeds the generation the game is released on.

@jacobrjager

6 ай бұрын

@@DrunkFlux I too was referring to performance only mentioning the other things because that's all I experienced which wasn't much at all in my case 😉 I have no idea what my frame rates were but I didn't see any drops bad enough to notice and the only thing I did notice was graphical glitching and the occasional vehicle or person sunk into the ground

Unfortunately, I don't have a graphic PHd backround and don't know what a pixel shader vs dlss antivector alias is. I just want to click a general setting and play without 5 years of research finding out what all that craziness means.

@eliadbu

4 ай бұрын

Don't have to be genius, few minutes reading online you can get basic idea what each setting do, few more minutes experiment by turning things on/off changing resolution/upscaling and you can get something that is good for you, wannabe lazy boy and not do this? look for discussions what other people /creators use for their optimized settings, wannabe even lazier? Use the game presets.

To give Todd Howard a little credit, my old rig with a i5-2700, a GTX 1060 6gig, and 16 gigs of DDR3 stayed between 28-35 fps in Starfield on 1080 low-med settings. A cpu from 2012 and a low-mid tier gpu from 2016 had playable performance on a game that everybody says is super un optimized

Gamers don't want to tweak settings besides of all other reasons is a lot of shortcuts fxaa dlss but what these are doing is simply in most games unexplained or as you said without preview how it will looks so... it's not ideal...howevwr i love tweaking and learning how games and their engines works so i know which is which but many peoples don't

@DannyzReviews

9 ай бұрын

Honestly for those that are scared of a settings menu, they should just stick with a console

@lukaskucerik3751

9 ай бұрын

@@DannyzReviews definitely agree

@Vecchete

9 ай бұрын

​@@DannyzReviews100% agree

@imnotusingmyrealname4566

9 ай бұрын

​@@DannyzReviewsI'm not scared I'm just annoyed at how much time it takes to find the best configuration. In older games I enjoy going into config files and raising graphics settings above the in game max so they look even better.

@imnotusingmyrealname4566

9 ай бұрын

​@@DannyzReviewsThe advantage is with consoles you can play and enjoy everything. With PC you need to play a bit to find the best area to benchmark, then tweak for hours and then you can play again. Or maybe start the campaign again with optimal graphics settings but see everything for the second time? I remember with modding in Witcher 3 I never got to play the game because I was constantly trying new mods.

People are their own worst enemy. This was a great video and is spot on. Life is not fair and we don't live in a perfect universe. You work with what you have. God forbid if you can't see the pores in people's faces.

@skorpers

9 ай бұрын

You can indeed do that on "optimized" settings as texture settings are 99.9% your total vram and not even as much as vram performance itself!

@temperedglass1130

9 ай бұрын

Simp

@korinogaro

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, right. Lets just flow with everything, lets not complain that we get much less performance boost from new hardware per $ with every new generation, that games are unoptimized and full of bugs causing for eg. memory overflow killing performance. For sure no complaining will make hardware manufacturers and ves pay more attention to quality of the goods they're selling.

@josephschultz

7 ай бұрын

Yeah I end up paying 2-3grand for pc top line components and then another $60-$80 dollars for game that needs day one fixes and then several if not more "hot fixes" to run correctly? I paid the high cost because I wanted it to look like the Trailer they put out of game and top of the line hardware should be able to run it no problem considering the money spent, problem is games are being released not optimized and full of bugs just to make a quick buck and if no one complains the game DEVS are happy because then investors are off their backs about return on investment all just my opinion and I do understand what he is stating in video, it still sucks

@Chris.Thanopoulos

6 ай бұрын

@@korinogaro you know what ??? stop spending all of this crazy money for pc gaming and buy console to keep your head calm or stop complaing !!!! if you didnt stop buying all of this hardware to play on ultra and you cant play, amd and nvidia just will drink your blood !!! and thats why i stopped spending money any more for pc upgrades !!!

Totally agree with this video. Problem with me is that, whenever I cap any game at 60fps or the fps drops to 60fps… the game would look CHOPPY asf, like it is 30fps ONLY whenever I do a camera panning. FUNNY thing is that this happened to me on my 165hz FREESYNC PREMIUM (adaptive sync) monitor which supposedly solves this…

This served as a great reminder to me that I need to get back to customizing my own settings like I used to in the old days. Thanks~

How hard for a game can it be to determine the VRAM size and GPU performance to propose the optimal settings? I fully understand that 90% of the players don't want to fiddle in the advanced video settings...

@rangerhawk

8 ай бұрын

Sorry, but that's unrealistic for game developers, way too many variables. If you have an Nvidia card, try GeForce experience. It's much easier for a hardware manufacturer.

@Stubbies2003

7 ай бұрын

@@rangerhawk Not true. GTA 5 has this very thing and that is anything but a new title.

@rangerhawk

7 ай бұрын

​@@Stubbies2003 Rockstar spent 270 million over a three-year period collaborating with over a thousand developers on GTA5. And they were not dealing with same technological envelope developers have to deal with now.

@rangerhawk

7 ай бұрын

@@Stubbies2003 I would agree that the talent pool at many companies has gone down, but then again, the market has expanded faster than the talent pool. There are only so many John Carmack's or Hideo Kojima's each generation.

@gozutheDJ

7 ай бұрын

anyone who doesn't want to touch their graphics settings needs to play on CONSOLE it is THAT SIMPLE wtf is wrong with you people

DX12 work very different in many "new" games, dx12 may do better performance or be like 60 fps on rtx 3070. Where dx11 insted do twice as much and better performance in 95% games that came out. So not only u need to test DX11-12 or vulcan rendering also u need to slightly adjust settings to make your game do better frametime. PS. shaders compilation eat so much performance and if u do not like stutters to exist be patient and open settings menu)

@Mattribute

7 ай бұрын

If a new game is running best on DX11, then it IS poorly optimized.

@gozutheDJ

7 ай бұрын

wrong

@bricaaron3978

7 ай бұрын

*"If a new game is running best on DX11, then it IS poorly optimized."* You're right, but the problem is actually poor _coding,_ not insufficient optimization. Optimization is something you do _after_ a game is properly coded. These are console games designed for console hardware. They are not created or intended for PC hardware. But most gamers throw top dollar no matter what a company excretes, so they know they can get away with releasing poor PC versions, and thus they _do_ release poor PC versions.

@Mattribute

7 ай бұрын

@@bricaaron3978 Console hardware is PC hardware. It's an AMD CPU paired with an AMD GPU. Using a modern API will be good for either.

@bricaaron3978

7 ай бұрын

@@Mattribute "Console hardware is PC hardware." It is not. Modern consoles use a shared memory architecture, whereas PCs use separate RAM and VRAM. That alone is a huge difference, but in addition PCs have much more RAM and VRAM than consoles. An XBox Series X has 13GB of RAM available for games to use. A mid-range PC has a total of 24GB (16GB RAM + 8GB VRAM) and a high-end PC has 48GB (32GB RAM + 16GB VRAM). And mid-range and high-end PCs have _much, much_ faster CPUs. Games are coded and optimized not just for hardware, but for the _speed and capability_ of the hardware. If two console generations had identical HW but one was 4X faster, you wouldn't expect the games to be designed the same, would you? The 4X faster console, even with the same HW and API, would be capable of doing things the slower console can't. There are many other issues, but console HW is not PC HW. Use logic: If using a modern API was good for either, we wouldn't have the problems with PC ports we've been having ever since the Great Consolization of 2008.

At 5:30 did he even use Ultra settings on the right side before? I feel like it didn't look the same before and after the frame cut

Curious to know if you recommend any game optimising tools? It's been a while since I have tweaked graphics settings and in some ways an app that did that for me would be handy.

@MrNecryptic

6 ай бұрын

Nvidia GeForce has an optimize button for the lazy. Might want to start there.

Heres the thing, what your doing and advocating for with lower settings is correct, but these ultra settings that dont do that much but considerably lower performance should either be doing more visually or not run that different from the lower settings, so yes it is unoptimized, not getting a visual return for the lower performance is bad optimisation.

Im kinda of hoping for working DLSS or FSR out of the box to help with performances since it was advertised when they are selling GPUs. But you are right, its better to manually tweaks yourself a bit for the best experiences since everyone have different rigs.

@allxtend4005

8 ай бұрын

FSR and DLSS are tools for 4k gaming not for 1080/1440p. You know how bad Native 4k Experience is ? You think a 800 - 1000$ Gpu will give you 60 fps in Native 4k with high settings ? Come on this is why they Implemented DLSS in the first place and this is why DLSS is working the best in 4k, because then you can get above 60 fps and think you made a great deal.

@CosmicCustodian

7 ай бұрын

​@@allxtend4005your first sentence is objectively and factually wrong. DLSS and FSR are for everybody!

Yeah, tweaking the settings is one of the first things I do if I notice things aren't running well with whatever came set as default. I was pretty happy with my RTX 1650 Super for the longest time since it ran games pretty well as long as the game was calibrated correctly for what my system could handle. It's the same situation for the Steam Deck; it performs great for a lot of games, but the more resource-hungry games will need some tweaking in order to run well. I'll only complain about a game's performance if it still runs like crap after adjusting the settings.

@slamkam07

5 ай бұрын

GTX 1650 super* (Yes I know it has RT capabilities, but you can't use them also it's labeled GTX for that reason)

What do you think about NVidia Experience and their auto optimize? Should make a comparison video of that!

Get an overclocking utility like MSI Afterburner, then regulate the maximum frequency downwards by about 200 to 400 mhz, and the minimum frequency upwards (something like adjusted maximum minus 400 mhz). This way you save power by reducing the maximum and keep minimum/maximum/avg fps in a much more controlled range (fps equivalent of exactly 400 mhz in this example). Paired with FSR/DLSS this can work magic. Since I've done this, I have no stutters whatsoever in games anymore. Granted some games do still need to be installed to an NVMe because I/O is sometimes a concern, like Counter-Strike 2 and Cyberpunk 2077. I have an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D and an AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT, but still when I was playing GTA V singleplayer my fps were all over the place. It was stuttering like every next second, which I felt like was absolutely off considering my specs. Stable 90 fps all throughout after I applied the minimum/maximum mhz range. Cyberpunk was different. The fps were not all over the place like GTA V (probably due to GTA V being somewhat more CPU heavy), but it was using like 320 watts while stuttering crazy. After applying the mhz range, I got it down to 170 to 230 watts while also stabilizing at around 75 to 85 fps. This mhz range will only be applied on 3D applications, so you won't use more power when you're surfing the web (GPU is like 20 watts for me). One upside to this also: As soon as Windows (or the GPU driver, don't know) recognizes that you're running a 3D application, it will ramp up the GPU clock to the minimum you've set, so instead of like, I don't know, starting at 700 mhz and going from there, it goes straight to 1700 mhz or whatever and you are ready to play. Oh and don't forget to adjust your power limit and memory frequency as well, since ramping up from 0% to 90% can cause your game or driver to crash if power isn't taken into account. Adjusting memory frequency helps to reduce stuttering when loading assets etc. I did not touch my CPU clocks by the way. I play all games at high settings 1440p, not ultra, and it's been a pleasure ever since. Hope this helps somebody.

@vinegar6676

6 ай бұрын

bro just say "overclock"

@cheebadigga4092

6 ай бұрын

@@vinegar6676 it's more like underclocking, reducing maximum frequency is not overclocking at all

The problem isn't setting up the graphics settings, the problem is that it's not easy, you have like 10 options to setup and all have like 4 levels from low to ultra, you can spend hours by tweaking the game. The best thing is just choose a lower preset or google some settings people have.

60fps is vary low on a gaming monitor. I have a mid gaming monitor. Its 165hz 2k. I think 60fps is vary low. i have my cap on 165fps. any more will disable g sync ? if im not wrong.

What do you do for star citizen. As this I find know matter what settings I chose I cannot get a smooth game

Well said about optimizing the settings of the games. Always have and rarely go for Ultra unless on older easy titles. However on my system which is decent for 1440p and on highly tweaked settings with The Last of us I still get in certain areas of the game some slight stutter and slower FPS. Even with FSR. It's also the game. But at the end it runs mostly smooth and looks great even without all the silly Ultra stuff. I also don't see all the fuss about the latest and greatest UE. Smooth playing experience should be n.1 on the list. They have got it backwards nowadays.

I prefer my games to play very much like a slide show. I feel it helps add more challenge to the game play.

I found a somewhat good and somewhat bad work around for games I can’t run. I have a Radeon rx 500 I think and I turn the resolution down and turn any sort of anti aliasing up. It somehow looks exactly like a full resolution game just only a little blurry, i will have more frames and u can turn on more tasking graphics settings.

Am using ryzen 7 5800h rtx 3070 whet settings do you suggest I use

i think this video is great, but for me the point is paying more than a entire console aka more than 500 usd or more for a gpu and then you have to drop settings just to play the game................ ohh and yes the current games look shit, are not optmized and are fukin boring..... for you to give you a reference, my first gpu that i upgraded my pc was the fast gpu in the market at that time , riva tnt, i could play all the games in max settings for years and it costed me 150 usd at that time... now not even with 1500 usd you can have that performance and the games back then were more fun!!!!

the first thing i always do when i start a new game is go into the settings and disable motion blur, because who's that for anyways, and also tweak other settings as needed.

Even with a 4080 and 13900k i dont put every thing on ultra for 2 reasons. The minimum increase is not worth stutters or fps hits. second is that i can never see a enough of a difference from high to ultra so whats the point of going ultra then.

Wow that insane, you can play almost without lags and blurry textures with 400$ entry lvl GPU like 4060

What's the game at 4:16 ? It looks amazing.

Would be nice to have a guide on how you recommend people configure their settings? Its one thing to go "everyone is idiots for having this mindset" but then not show them how to be better.

Something as simple as dropping shadows, skybox/clouds/weather, effect and post-processing (if available) down a notch or two is gonna net you a surprising uplift in performance without looking much worse. And it's possible to tweak it even further still. Edit: just heard the comment about "starfield looks like a game that came out in 2015", well it's not entirely untrue. The engine the game runs on is fairly 'old' at this point. From other debates, it seems like about 10 years now? Whatevs, that made me chuckle.

@bricaaron3978

7 ай бұрын

*"The engine the game runs on is fairly 'old' at this point. From other debates, it seems like about 10 years now? Whatevs, that made me chuckle."* Nope --- at least _20_ years old. Bethesda's engine is based upon NetImmerse from the 1990's, which was modified into what they called Gamebryo. For Skyrim, they simply changed the name to Creation Engine even though it was still Gamebryo with some improvements. So even if you _don't_ count NetImmerse, and even if you only go back as far as the development of Oblivion, it's 20 years old. There's nothing wrong with improving an engine of course, but at some point you can't keep duct-taping on modifications --- you have to take what you've learned and build a new engine. Bethesda has more than enough money to hire the most genius experts in the world. There's no excuse --- they just haven't done it because they believe that most gamers won't _make_ them do it and will rush to throw top dollar at them no matter what they do (or don't do). And they're right.

This makes sense. I watch a Hardware Unboxed video comparing Cyberpunk ultra vs Medium settings and there was almost no difference, but it allowed me to play at 1440p at 55fps on my 1080ti (before FSR)

I genuinely thought this was common sense, I have a second hand 3090 and I still mix settings because mid to high settings made almost no visual differences when compared to max settings. Runs smoother when settings are mixed as well.

Is that the on screen overlay msi afterburner?

Bro. Where have you been all these years ? This is exactly what I've been looking for ❤❤❤ subscribed

When I try a game, I really don't expect to be able to run it on ULTRA. Might be because when I was a kid, I played games with my crappy laptop and all it could manage to do was barely run games. Now I'm happy when the games run even at lowest setting and will only try to tune it higher if I can get more quality.