This is one of those things where I’m not sure what people mean when they say it.
There are bugs that affect performance, and yeah, we’re generally more likely to see bugs fro several reasons now. But there’s also games just being heavy. We’re not in a cycle where the top of the line hardware just maxes out many games, because… well, we’re doing real time path-tracing, we have monitors that go up to 400 Hz and resolutions up to 4K. The times of “set it to Ultra and forget about it” with a 1080 are gone and not coming back for a really long time. Plus everything has to scale wider now, because on the other end we have actual handhelds now, which is nuts.
So yeah, I’m not sure which one people are complaining about these days. I’ll say that if you can play a game in a handheld PC and then crank it up to look like an offline rendered path traced movie that’s way more thought to scalability than older games ever had, but maybe that’s a slightly different conversation.
This is one of those things where I’m not sure what people mean when they say it.
There are bugs that affect performance, and yeah, we’re generally more likely to see bugs fro several reasons now. But there’s also games just being heavy. We’re not in a cycle where the top of the line hardware just maxes out many games, because… well, we’re doing real time path-tracing, we have monitors that go up to 400 Hz and resolutions up to 4K. The times of “set it to Ultra and forget about it” with a 1080 are gone and not coming back for a really long time. Plus everything has to scale wider now, because on the other end we have actual handhelds now, which is nuts.
So yeah, I’m not sure which one people are complaining about these days. I’ll say that if you can play a game in a handheld PC and then crank it up to look like an offline rendered path traced movie that’s way more thought to scalability than older games ever had, but maybe that’s a slightly different conversation.