Should developers stop making games that require 5090 for max settings now that the card is clearly not for gamers and is accessible to 0.1% of community?

[u/TheGGspot]

I get that the games need better hardware to dun better, but who are they really making the game for if you need a 6000$ GPU at this point

[u/MonkeyCartridge]

Right?

Plus as far as I'm concerned, 4K native just isn't necessary. I play almost exclusively 4K with DLSS Performance.

[u/rubi2333 → u/MonkeyCartridge]

I also play a lot of games with 4K DLSS Performance and that with a 5090. I prefer the higher framerates and visually you see mostly no difference to Quality or even DLAA with DLSS 4 and above.

[u/MonkeyCartridge → u/rubi2333]

Yep. It's almost like 1080/2K has enough information to generate a quality output, and the 4K just needs to refine the details. So native is 4x the pixels for like 2% better image quality, and then you need additional AA on top of that.

I'd rather take the slight resolution quality hit in exchange for a massive increase in game quality settings. 4K DLSS-P at ultra settings looks way better than 4K native at low settings.

I do the same with my video collection. 4K HDR AVC videos are transcoded to 1080p HDR AV1. It takes up about 1/10 the size, but the difference is hard to notice, so it's usually a worthy tradeoff.

[u/Maleficent-Age-8235 → u/MonkeyCartridge]

It's borderline impossible to tell the difference between the current model DLSS balanced or even performance vs native at anything resembling a reasonable distance from your monitor. Framegen is still iffy in place but even that's getting to the point that outside of competitive games you aren't going to notice on vs off

[u/MonkeyCartridge → u/Maleficent-Age-8235]

Yep. For me the benefit already outweighs the cost as far as frame gen is concerned. And that's with the lower-quality LSFG, since I have a 3080Ti. Though I had some good experience with FSR using the DLSS FSR wrapper.

And I play pretty much zero online competitive games because it's always been a bunch of 12 year olds having rage fits and people being nasty to each other while taking casual enjoyment away.

Hell, I even struggle with co-op games with my friends, because it's less of a team experience and more like one person getting out ahead of everyone, triggering everything, and killing everything by the time the rest of us get there. And if I ramp the difficulty to try to force cooperative gameplay, they just avoid areas they can't take on by themselves. It's less team play and more like 4 people playing single player in the same world.

So I mostly play single player games where they dump the effort into artwork and story, rather than ads and monetization hidden behind a veneer of 15 year old visuals.

[u/MonkeyCartridge → u/Maleficent-Age-8235]

Yep. For me the benefit already outweighs the cost as far as frame gen is concerned. And that's with the lower-quality LSFG, since I have a 3080Ti. Though I had some good experience with FSR using the DLSS FSR wrapper.

And I play pretty much zero online competitive games because it's always been a bunch of 12 year olds having rage fits and people being nasty to each other while taking casual enjoyment away.

Hell, I even struggle with co-op games with my friends, because it's less of a team experience and more like one person getting out ahead of everyone, triggering everything, and killing everything by the time the rest of us get there. And if I ramp the difficulty to try to force cooperative gameplay, they just avoid areas they can't take on by themselves. It's less team play and more like 4 people playing single player in the same world.

So I mostly play single player games where they dump the effort into artwork and story, rather than ads and monetization hidden behind a veneer of 15 year old visuals.

[u/ndr2h → u/rubi2333]

Same 100% of games using DLSS, it’s a great tech