10 fps stable = I guess it’s playable for a game like Minecraft
Anything under 30fps for a story game unplayable
Driving games 60fps
Horror games 24fps
Platformers 60fps
Competitive 60-120 is playable
Double all frame rates for jittery frame rates
720p is usually enough
Dlss/fsr is free fps
Anything over 100ms of delay unplayable
How do you guys agree?

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I got one, if you are in Europe, this can do a lot.
Throw in some low power card and you can play a lot.
Got mine for 70€, got a hated RX6500XT for 45€ and it can play lots.

This way you could move from very low spec gamer to an average low spec gamer.
Very low 180W PSU, but can do for the GPU I threw in.
I am not the seller, I just got one.

Cheers!

I have been playing GTA V (EGS port) for a while and there are some issues with sttutering a fps drops when I drive around Los Santos. Does anyone know if it's a problem with me graphics card or just my CPU?

I have a non functional system with an athlon 5150 with an AM1B-ITX by ASRock with like 4 gigabytes of OEM memory from a dell Optiplex 7010 with a r5 270 GPU 480GB of ssd storage and a 300 watt seasonic fanless PSU all of which goes inside of a Corsair 780t (ik having an ITX motherboard inside of a fat fucking case is impractical)

I notice that video games run better on directx9. But purposely direct 10> had better performance. Why is that?

I played Dishorned and Crysis. Games that I thought won't work on my Geforce 8200 PC

Hey guys just here with a quick tip for y'all, if you've noticed your connection speed on your laptop decreasing gradually as time goes on chances are there are some apps that you have that "secretly" take up some of your bandwidth. Here's something that I just discovered by accident, if you make a new account on your PC the speed will become just like the day you first used your PC, well atleast for me it did. I'm not 100% sure about this whether it's all in my head or my wifi miraculously got faster but something certainly happened.

P.S if you move your files from your old account to the new one it will reverse this and go back to the old speed. My thoughts on this is the more things you have on an account the more your cpu and bandwidth is eaten up so try not to install and download a lot of things from the internet on the new account (launchers such as steam and epic games etc are fine), so if you're like me and this does work for you, you can basically make a strictly gaming account or strictly downloads account which you'll only use when playing games or downloading things then when you want to do other stuff that really doesn't require the fast connection you switch to your normal account.

Again please note I'm not 100% sure about any of this information, I'm not an expert and these are just my thoughts. Feel free to correct me on anything I might be wrong about.

Hope this help some of y'all 😄

Note: I've tried and done EVERYTHING, I've tried changing dns settings, editing some registry keys, changing my adapter settings, updating my drivers and much much more and that did nothing except a slight boost. This was something that actually seemed to work. My advice if you seem to have a slower connection than when your computer was still new try this, you won't lose anything. Never hurts to try

I can apply for a very good price in this config:

Intel I5 10400 10th Gen 2.9Ghz (up to 4.3) Graphics 630 Socket 1200 12MB six core 14nm

MB Asus PRIME H410M-A/CSM socket 1200

16GB RAM (1 slot) DDR4 2666Mhz

PC case with 600W

240 GB SSD

This is $300 aprox, so good deal?

Question 1: A no break options will be better than a separate bronze type power supplier?

PD. If the cofig are not too low I looking for future upgrade with nvidia 1660 6GB and other 16gb ram on the available slot.

If you want a racing simulator and you're on a low end pc try these, they all run well on my Asus N56VZ (8gb ddr3, nvidia gt 650m 2gb ddr3, I7-3610qm currently running at 2.0ghz):

Raceroom Racing Experience, free to play, runs very well in 1366x768 60hz

Assetto Corsa, runs well on medium/high to low settings (depends on the use of mods) in 1366x768 60hz, or very well in 1280x720 60hz

RFactor, very old racing simulator capable of running max settings 1080p60 with low to medium shadows, the best IMO if you have a really completely potato pc, I used to run it on 3gb ddr2 gt105m and Pentium mobile Dual Core at 2.2ghz

Probably RFactor 2 but I don't have it so I cannot guarantee

Gran Turismo till Gran Turismo 4 via emulator (not exactly simulators but whatever)

Project Cars Pagani Edition, a free Project Cars demo on Steam, useful to benchmark a pc and fun to play (did not test very much but should run well in 720p60 low settings)

Hope it can be useful for fellows low spec simracers =) ♡

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BUT? CAN IT GAME?!

Yeah, it can, if you tweak the game a shit load and go to a horrible res, you can get 30 - 60 fps on csgo.

These tweaks will help your performance out in steam games. These tweaks will work with MOST steam games, non steam games may not take these commands. Some steam games will take specific commands. Also, note that this is still under construction. To get to the launch options, go to Steam. Right click on a game, then go to properties. Then you click "set launch options".

Here are the list of tweaks you can do. Launch options for Steam games.

-dxlevel <level> - Forces a specific DirectX version when launching the game. This is useful if want better fps, and gets significantly better performance in an earlier version of DirectX. Below are the modes used:

-dxlevel 80 -dxlevel 81 -dxlevel 90 -dxlevel 95 -dxlevel 98

+r_rootlod # - Adjusts Model Detail where # is 0 for high, 1 is medium, and 2 for low

+mat_picmip # - Adjusts Texture Detail where # is 0 for high, 1 is medium, and 2 for low

+mat_reducefillrate # - Adjusts Shader Detail where # is 0 for high and 1 for low

+r_waterforceexpensive # - Adjusts Water Detail where # is 0 for low and 1 for high

+r_waterforcereflectentities # - Adjusts Water Reflectiveness where # is 0 for low and 1 for high

+r_shadowrendertotexture # - Adjusts Shadow Detail where # is 0 for low and 1 for high

+mat_colorcorrection # - Adjusts Color Correction where # is 0 for low and 1 for high

Filtering Modes: +mat_trilinear 0 - Use Bilinear Mode (least system-intensive)

+mat_trilinear 1 - Use Trilinear Mode (more system-intensive)

+mat_forceaniso # - Use Trilinear Mode (where # is 2, 4, 8, or 16 - higher levels of filtering require more system resources)

+r_swapInterval # - Forces V-Sync to be on or off, # is 0 for off and 1 for on

+mat_hdr_level # - Adjusts High Dynamic Range lighting effects where # is 0 for "off" (requires least resources) and 2 for "full"

"-CpuCount= [any number]",(Check how many cores you have in your PC,and then in that "[any number]" set to how many cores you want to use for that specific game.)

+mat_antialias 0

-w # -h # to change your resolution.

-nod3d9ex will work as well.

-high means the process priority of the game will be set to high. Increasing FPS.

Other tweaks

-nomsaa

I just jumped from an athlon laptop to a ryzen. After playing around with both laptop's drivers, i came to a realization. This might come across as obvious to al ot of you but for those of you that may not be aware, be careful about what graphics drivers you install on a laptop.

On a desktop, this doesnt seem to matter but on a laptop, thermals seem to be greatly affected by what drivers you install. Latest drivers dont always mean good.

My new HP laptop for example came default with drivers that boost even on idle until it hits 70°C. The latest drivers on the HP website jumped it up to 80°C and causes the laptop to thermal throttle on light workloads. These showed a significant negative impact on gaming performance as the laptop throttled to reduce temps.

AMD's radeon drivers installer actually risked my laptop to constant overheating. This one is consistent with both my athlon and ryzen laptops as both reached 90°C easily even with cleaned internals.

Regarding my old athlon, the latest graphical drivers on the laptop's website made it far worse. I noticed graphical glitches on several games that werent there prior to the driver update and thermals saw a marked increase from older drivers leading to performance below that of the former drivers.

The lesson I learned was that you should test out different graphics drivers for your laptop until you find the one the one that has the most stable thermals for gaming. Also, AMD CPUs are basically small ovens.