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Now that FSR 4.1 is available on the Steam Machine, Valve seems to have used it to update the store page to, well, temper expectations. Valve now claims that the CPU and GPU combo can do "up to 4K gaming with FSR 4.1," which is a much safer claim.

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[–] warm@kbin.earth 25 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

If games were actually optimised for this kind of hardware, there would be no problem. We dont actually need all these hardware upgrades every year. Games still run like shit, at some point we have to demand better from our games, rather than constantly upgrading our setups for nothing.

[–] xploit@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

This, Valve spent a lot of time optimising their own engine to run on potatoes because of Dota's popularity some time back. But ofc they've added a whole bunch of stuff afterwards that undid bunch of it. Havent tried anything with source engine since early "open beta" days of Deadlock so not sure where it stands now.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 3 points 21 hours ago

Source 2 is overall pretty good. It's definitely one of the most performant engines, in the right hands. I'm not fussed about bleeding edge graphics though, I'd much rather have more framerate instead of a few more lights.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours ago

I do not disagree, it’s too easy to ship unoptimized crap in the name of shipping velocity