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Couch gaming and offline gaming are essential to the longevity of video games.

I wonder if this has a part in why a lot of PC games have steep hardware requirements. Optimization feels like a lost art at this point.

Mutas face after he dropped the steam deck is gonna be a new meme

dude..... you emulate Switch games???????

I miss the 1998-2012 era of gaming, when we mostly got finished products, regardless of PC or Console, but yeah the stutter issues are really bad lately. Shader stutters are a big oof

bro got a problem with everything bruh

Gamed on console my entire life up until just a couple years ago and what I noticed is games tend to run like garbage for months on pc before they're fixed while it always worked fine on console on release.

Finally someone else who also sees this as a huge issue.

My only issue is how people will react to my personal decision of emulating old games.

It’s to the point now where the PC version of new AAA games is the one you DONT wanna play at launch. Case and point Wo-long fallen dynasty.

Muta: "I'm all about game preservation"

I just wish companies could take more stylized approaches like indie games... So sick of realism at this point

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This is why I'm a big advocate of a unified/standardized GPU ISA. That way we can bypass the drivers/APIs entirely (which are getting too bloated anyway) and compile our GPU code once and ship it once without shader compilation stutters. Kinda like how we have a unified CPU ISA for desktops. You don't need to recompile your program every time you upgrade to a new CPU, so why should you have to for your GPU?

I will always 100% take a longer first load if it means its compiling the correct shaders for my system so I can have a stutter free experience in the long run

I think devs, because of publishers, don't take the time to optimize their games around dx12. It's not really a hardware variety issue, it always has been like this on PC. Why does this stutter issues exist on all PC with different parts?

It has been 1.5 years and counting since my old franken PC crashed and I haven't been able to get it up and running. Been console gaming ever since and it's...nice to not have to tinker with stuff all the time when I just want to spend 5 minutes jumping into a game quick.

I honestly haven’t had problems like this because the games I play aren’t graphically demanding. Outer wilds, satisfactory, factorio, hades, signalis, and several others prefer a great art style as opposed to insane graphics. I think that’s why I’m still on the pc side because I never had these issues, or they were so small that I didn’t care.

Happy you covered this, I’ve been screaming about it since Jedi: Fallen Order (which stutters horribly) and everyone at the time didn’t seem to care or notice. Hopefully with the attention this topic is getting lately we’ll be close to complete solution