Given the state of SLI scaling, it's already here and it's called "a 980ti". :thumbsup:
I'll stop caring when they give me something with 980ti SLI performance in one gpu
I went from being an enthusiast to only really caring when upgrade time comes around, which I align with video card releases, but it's been so poor for the last 6-8 years that I've not even really bothered. Being stuck on the 28nm process has been the worst time for providing more GPU horsepower for a long time. That's why the 1080 is so refreshing and whatever Nvidia have up their sleeves for a Titan like variant.
I care about the games more then the gpu's these days.
All this rage about how card X gets 10% higher performance then card Y in some game no one wants to play anyway, and anything less then a 970 would be considered un-usably slow. Yet I'm playing with people who seem to be able to play everything they want to just fine with 3+ year old gpu's that weren't even top end when they bought them (i.e. if you were to play them on-line they'd probably thrash you despite your 4k screen and quad SLi).
I've always bought the kit so I could perform better, but it turns out these days past a certain point which includes some pretty old kit it makes very little difference. Everyone else here must be buying just to look at the pretty maxed graphics, but really the difference between mid and maxed settings in most games isn't that great - you got to spend a lot of money for a little more sharpness. Anyway no one actually plays games to look at the pretty graphics (well for more then an hour or two) - how fun a game is has very little to do with being able to run graphics at max not medium.
Overwatch is a case in point - that game is actually fun to play, looks great even on mid settings and runs on lots of old kit. Around the world there are people playing that on kit everyone here would look down on and playing well having lots of fun, while this forum would just argue about how dumbed down games are and how there's no maxxed setting to make it worthwhile having quad Sli. Outside of here people just play the game on it's own merits and on those it's better then pretty well anything else around. On this forum for the last few months all that matters is Aots, but really that's a dull game no one much wants to play. Here lies the difference between geek gpu forums and geek gaming forums. I'd argue the geek gaming lot are having a lot more fun...
But yeah, I kind of find it somewhat amusing these days when many posters argue about X brand over Y for 10% difference in games no one plays, about features that really doesn't really add to anything to gameplay
I've seen those on reddit as well. I've said it before, uninformed people buy Nvidia. Informed people buy Nvidia or AMD.There was a post in another thread where a longtime Nvidia user was considering the RX 480 and asked, in all seriousness, "What's it like to use an AMD card?" I'm still not even sure what kind of answer he was expecting. "Well, AMD has historically had some driver issues, so every morning you have to walk in a counterclockwise circle five times. Make sure the diameter of the circle is at least the height of your mother, otherwise you'll get a lot of screen tearing."
There was a post in another thread where a longtime Nvidia user was considering the RX 480 and asked, in all seriousness, "What's it like to use an AMD card?" I'm still not even sure what kind of answer he was expecting. "Well, AMD has historically had some driver issues, so every morning you have to walk in a counterclockwise circle five times. Make sure the diameter of the circle is at least the height of your mother, otherwise you'll get a lot of screen tearing."
Fanboyism is one of the things that I never miss in the times when I stop following hardware developments closely. Just buy the best parts for your budget, regardless of the brand.
Really? My GTX 970 is great @ 1440 with my specs. I never use AA as that was marketed for 640×480 back in the day that always stuck with me. Don't have a clue why ppl think it's for higher resolutions, but hey maybe I'm just old school & the marketing from 15 years ago stuck.My 970 gtx isn't jack anymore. Seemed like a good card last year minus a couple titles. Now I got games pushing me below 30fps @ 1080p. I can only imagine how VR would be, even on a 1080 gtx, I bet it won't be enough without castrating my graphic settings.
hear, hear.There was a post in another thread where a longtime Nvidia user was considering the RX 480 and asked, in all seriousness, "What's it like to use an AMD card?" I'm still not even sure what kind of answer he was expecting. "Well, AMD has historically had some driver issues, so every morning you have to walk in a counterclockwise circle five times. Make sure the diameter of the circle is at least the height of your mother, otherwise you'll get a lot of screen tearing."
Fanboyism is one of the things that I never miss in the times when I stop following hardware developments closely. Just buy the best parts for your budget, regardless of the brand.
I've seen those on reddit as well. I've said it before, uninformed people buy Nvidia. Informed people buy Nvidia or AMD.
BTW I have never encountered any problems with so-called terrible ATI drivers since 2004.
Really? My GTX 970 is great @ 1440 with my specs. I never use AA as that was marketed for 640×480 back in the day that always stuck with me. Don't have a clue why ppl think it's for higher resolutions, but hey maybe I'm just old school & the marketing from 15 years ago stuck.
Nor have I, but I've always been lucky with drivers (I installed Vista the week it was released and never had a problem). But it's been so widely reported that I trust it's a real thing. Never had a problem with any of my Nvidia cards, either.
That said, I did have to wait a day after Just Cause 3 launched to get updated Radeon drivers that allowed the game to be played for more than eight minutes. But I'm leaning towards that being a Just Cause 3 issue that happened to be fixed by updated drivers, considering there were issues with that game across all platforms. And even if it was AMD's fault, they fixed it in a day, not a big deal. Better things to do with my life than complain about waiting an extra day to play a game.
Nah, aliasing is one of those things where if it's pointed out to you once, you start seeing jaggies everywhere. (IE, can't unsee the aliasing).
Nah, aliasing is one of those things where if it's pointed out to you once, you start seeing jaggies everywhere. (IE, can't unsee the aliasing).
I think age has a lot to do with it. The sense of wonder and excitement I experienced when playing a game for the first time back when I was 8-14 was wholly different from the way I experience a game now at 22.
That existential state of ecstasy and/or amazement, not only concerning games, but in all stimuli encountered in our daily lives fade with age. We become desensitized to that which we've already experienced and relegate interactions in our minds along with the other menial events on which we have already developed a reaction to. Becomes routine, becomes mundane. We seek other outlets to satisfy our need for something new.
I will always love games, but curiosity fades somewhat if you let it. That's what it is to be human.
There's also just fewer paradigm shifts, no games that are just a total novelty. There's a whole bunch of games, and each is trying a few new mechanics and some of them are great and start showing up in other games, but when's the last time a new genre got codified?