That headline sounds expensive for us gamers.
this is the new normal… only way to fight is to squeeze the most of what you got, don’t feed the troll
Not to worry, discrete GPUs will likely go away completely within a few generations.
With how well AMD APUs are doing in regular PCs and the Steam Deck, I see it as a way for developers to standardize their game optimization like they would on consoles.
I already have a 4090 and I’m going to buy a 5090 and there’s nothing any of you can do to stop me.
Random Tangent: I rather buy a nicer HDR monitor with that money. HDR Gaming is where it’s at. SDR looks like washed out, dim dogshit to me now.
I offer an alternative to people who want nicer graphics: consider an OLED HDR monitor. HDR has like no performance impact but looks 10,000x better.
Anyone who has a 4090 more than likely already has an HDR monitor.
Otherwise, what are they doing?
I have a 4090 and my display supports HDR and its disabled because fuck HDR. Do people actually like getting blasted with a floodlight because HDR automatically maxes your screen brightness? Like fuck I think my screen with HDR enabled is brighter than my lamp.
That’s not at all how HDR works.
You don’t have it configured correctly. That’s not what HDR is supposed to do. Or you have a fake HDR monitor.
That’s default behaviour on windows11, I have an MSI titan laptop that definitely supports it. I’ve done 0 to configure it. My brightness is typically at minimum or near to, enabling HDR immediately and consistently maxes brightness on the majority of the screen. It’s utterly unusable. It goes with things that people say matters like 1000nits of brightness or whatever when I actually want like 300, so my eyes don’t start bleeding.
I’ll say it again. You have it misconfigured. That isn’t what HDR is supposed to do. You either have settings wrong in Windows, or in the games.
That is default windows, if it’s misconfigured then it ships misconfigured. I’ve done nothing except click the slider that turns it on, and then 5 seconds later off again as the dark mode settings menu blasts me with the full force of the screen.
If default doesn’t work, I don’t really feel like repeatedly blasting my eyes with full brightness until I figure out how to make it not burn out my retinas.
I think the issue is HDR requires the r part, being range, and I want it to not blast my eyes which anything above 20% brightness does if I’m inside, and default probably uses 100% of the brightness range and that actually causes pain.
Edit: to be clear, never made it to a game. Getting flash banged by the settings menu was bad enough thanks, don’t need to deal with something intended to be a flashbang.
I’m using a 55 inch LG C4 as a monitor
His jacket annoys me more than it should.
5060 will be $1999
My Nvidia cards anytime anyone suggests I should “upgrade”.
I still have a computer with a 980 ti, and I haven’t played a single game that doesn’t run on ultra.
Unfortunately, screens have gotten larger lately.
