I use my 4090 mostly to play old Doom wads and DOS games.

>>715924125 (OP)
I'm surprised a PC gamer is playing "games" at all.

>>715924157
What should we be doing?

>>715924125 (OP)
Awwwww who's a quirky chungus. You are anon, you are. A-goochy-goochy-goo. A-goochy-goochy-goo.

>>715924125 (OP)
what wads and dos games you playing anon?
i only got a 3080 but modernity sucks

>>715924250
Death Stranding 2

im playing mass effect right now

>ME is actually almost 20 years old

>>715924157
Yeah, those silly PC players with tens of thousands of games(digital distribution, physical, emulation, flash games)

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>>715924125 (OP)
>it's a peaceful life
True. I haven't even had to think about loading times for years now

>>715924302
Wads:
>The Adventures of Square
>Inquisitor 3D
>Prodoomer
DOS:
>Raptor Call of the Shadows
>God of Thunder
>Serenity 2000

>>715924406
>ME is actually almost 20 years old
Someone needs to update OPs image to 30 year old games...

>>715924524
>all slop

5080 here, and I've been enjoying Wu Kong and Nightrei I'm just kidding, I've been playing Ephenea PSO and Crystal Project. Crystal Project isn't 20 years old, but looks like it is. PSO actually is 20 something years old. Modernity isn't the word I'd use, though. The issue is and always will be the ever increasing need to reach a larger market to make a profit and watering down of the core of the game. They don't want the 'modern audience', they want them TOO and wind up captivating nobody.

>>715924125 (OP)
Anon
These games are now over 30 years old

>>715925020
>I'm just kidding
You had me there for a moment you slut.

>>715924250
Shitposting and gooning all day

I used my 3060 to emulate GBA games.

Why buy newer hardware if you're going to play 30 year old games

>>715925259
Personally, I enjoy building and tinkering with my PC. Replacing parts, seeing if I can get it to run cooler, or faster or with increased storage or memory. I also have a fucking lot of disposable income and it keeps me off the drugs.

>>715925154

I have a 1070 but I plan on buying a 9070 at some point in the future. I love playing big budget mainstream games with great graphics at 1080p so I'll be eating good once I upgrade. I've got a whole lot to catch up on
>coe33
>Spiderman 2 even if the writing sucks
>horizon forbidden west
>a plague tale requiem
>jedi survivor
>silent hill 2
Right now I've been playing a lot of emulated games. I finished Mario 3D World which was awesome and now I'm playing Wind Waker HD.

>>715925789
>9070
So you'll be buying a new GPU in 2074?

>>715925259
having instant load times is amazing

>buy 7900 xtx
>use it to play classic need for speed games at 4k
Feels fantastic man.

>>715924280
Lel

>>715925919
That looks very cool. A lot of people, especially on this board, tend to complain that pumping old games up to frightening resolutions kills it, and the game looses some soul if you can't count the pixels, but I argue the other way: the sleek shapes with the old textures looks super neat.

>>715925351
>it keeps me off the drugs
kek

>>715926069
Honestly it is games where they stretch textures (ala trespasser for the rock canyon) that looks real bad at high resolution.

Games then: game
Games now: SAS+DLC+Microtransactions+patches+maybe game

>>715924125 (OP)
This but JRPGs and random indie games that are > 3 GB.

I'd argue this crushing heat makes it a perfect time to play old games. Been playing a lot of old PS1 games recently.

>>715925125
It got you because they are bad games that people seem to like. It also makes me sad, brother.

>>715926828
Speak for yourself, it's 17 degrees outside where I live.

>>715924125 (OP)
You ever try DLDSR (Deep Learning Dynamic Super Resolution)?
It's rendering the game at higher resolutions and down sampling. It's suppose to work better than regular AA.
AMD has Radeon Super Resolution (RSR),
Anyone ever use these? Are they worth trying?

>>715927206
Its alright because it lets you run otherwise unrunnable games on inferior hardware at a decent framerate but its very artifact heavy, as in a lot of ghosting and blur effects to try and mask stuff. I'd say its not worth buying a GPU for it but its cool to say, extend the life of a GPU well after its time, what devs use it for is for a shortcut to release unoptimized games with which is frowned upon in here.

>>715927443
That sounds like DLSS or FSR. I'm talking about the opposite direction, rendering at 8k or 4k and downsampling to 1080p.

>>715926889
>It also makes me sad, brother.
Me too Anon. Hopefully it will get better.
It won't.

>>715927206
>>715927443
>>715927571
Are you people in the wrong thread?

>>715926069
The biggest flaws with cranking up 3D games:
>sometimes you see tiled texture borders as seams
>the HUD elements end up looking faggy
Other than that, 3D is meant to be jacked up as high as you can.

>>715927571
oh that, yeah ive used it on some lower end games, pretty much just easier to use Supersampling, pretty good for screenshots as it takes the raw resolution at full size without needing to set the monitor to 4k or something.

>>715924524
>>God of Thunder
nice

>>715927758
If you have a massively overpowered GPU and play 20 year old games, you can use DLDSR/RSR to render them at a very high resolution and down sample to improve image quality.

>>715928432
how is that different from just normally upping your res?

>>715928773
Your display is 1080p or 4k.
You render at 8k
You set game resolution to 8k.
You use DLDSR or RSR and the software down samples it to 1080p or 4k using an algorithm
Supposedly this makes the game look better and not require AA. (I have not tried it yet)

>>715929076
oh
consider me informed
as you were then

>>715924125 (OP)
I'm using my 4060 to emulate monster hunter on 3ds since wilds was such a shitshow

>>715924250
genning porn

>>715925897
You already get instant load times with decade old hardware running 30 year old games

assuming this isnt a bait/troll thread. legitimately why? do you do a bunch of work or ai shit on the side or something? If all you do is play doom theres no reason to buy a 90 class card, and honestly even a 40 series.

>>715929421
Idk. For me, it's just a habit + disposable income
>hey new hardware
>mine is getting old, maybe time to upgrade (3+ years)
>get it
>still play the same old af games that were running fine on old hardware

>>715929421
NTA, but I play newer stuff, but I also play a lot more older stuff. Sometimes I run out of newer stuff worth playing, so I crank up a game from the 90s.

I've been playing porn games lately

>>715929421
new bad
old good
unironically

>>715929871
I agree.

>>715929871
>new bad
>buys new hardware

>>715929607
its just irresponsible use of money. even if you can afford it its still just money wasted on features, performance, and power inefficiency you'll never use. im sure that money could be reallocated towards more lucrative or enjoyable aspects of your life.

>>715929871
not even close. its more like those middleaged women that drop tons of money into a kitchen renovation and buy really expensive stoves - yet eat out 5 days a week and the few day they do cook its basic shit like pasta or cupcakes. its just overkill for the need. Theres nothing wrong with 80/90 class cards - including the 50 series, its just that most people legitimately dont need them and its purely wasted money if you're really only playing really old games.

>>715930019
>power inefficiency
But it's more efficient than prior generations.
As for reallocation, some people don't have to choose between a GPU and other things.

>>715924125 (OP)
The peak of this is using a very powerful CPU to run 86box and emulate a 166 Mhz pentium computer with a S3 Virge videocard, to experience gaming as bad as it was with this card.

>>715930120
>But it's more efficient than prior generations
comped to cards of the same class*
If you only needed a 3050 to do what you're doing, a 4090 is way more inefficient because its a much higher powered card.

>As for reallocation, some people don't have to choose between a GPU and other things.
even if you're making millions theres always reallocation considerations. you could easily see more enjoyment out of that $2k by investing it, having a nice meal, going gambling, or whatever else the fuck you enjoy and have zero impact on your gaming experience. Just because you can afford something doesn't mean its good value, and the moment people stop caring about value is also when people start losing money through bad poor decisions.

>>715930447
Don't fret, anon. I don't exclusively play old games so all that capability isn't wasted. I just spend most of my gaming time on older games is all.

>>715930447
I'd be willing to bet what a 3050 needs more power at full tilt than my 4090 needs to render the same scene while it naps.
Pricewise, yes, a 3050 is cheaper. But it's not more efficient powerwise, because Ada is a smaller process than Ampere.
>you could easily see more enjoyment out of that $2k by investing it, having a nice meal, going gambling, or whatever else the fuck you enjoy and have zero impact on your gaming experience
I can do that as well. I'm not OP, but I do drift into phases where I'm only playing older stuff. I do play enough modern stuff where an unnecessary performance cap is something I avoid, though.

>>715930019
>its more like those middleaged women that drop tons of money into a kitchen renovation
No? Your comparison only works if people like OP weren't playing games on their hardware, and were instead using game streaming or something equally faggy while owning a 5090.
Making a dish from the 1600s in a new professional kitchen doesn't detract from the kitchen or the dish.

>>715930447
>Just because you can afford something doesn't mean its good value
i don't understand who it is you're arguing with here
people who play old games on new hardware are usually people who enjoy old games but own new hardware
it really isn't more difficult than that

>>715930939
It's just a waste.

>>715929076
RSR is just some fancy marketing for driver level FSR1 so it is upscaling rather than any form of downscaling.

>>715931104
life is a waste
there is no grand destiny awaiting any of us, we're just toiling away doing pointless crap from cradle to grave
if we find something entertaining along the way, good for us

>>715931201
But you could spend your money on what *I* want you to spend it on!

>>715924125 (OP)
>tfw only use my gaming PC to connect to work and play Daggerfall all day.

>>715931159
Yeah I was wrong, looks like AMD's implementation is called AMD Virtual Super Resolution.

>>715924157
this tbqh. I haven't played a videogame all week on my 5070

>>715925020
based Andrew's game enjoyer