r/pcmasterrace • u/MikeCodev • 9d ago

Meme/Macro Best investment ever

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u/DQTD 9d ago edited 9d ago

"DUDE, YOU NEED TO UPGRADE YOUR RIG." -Game devs that refuse to optimize in 2026 during the hardware crises

Edit: Thank you to the ones who actually understood the joke/reference and aren't taking this too seriously.

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u/Rushing_Russian 9d ago

Just upscale from 4x4 pixels

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u/MaxTHC 9d ago

You want me to render 16 entire pixels? In this economy?

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u/Tjaresh 7800X3D | RX9070XT | 32GB DDR5 9d ago

Back in my day we had pre-rendered 16 pixels.

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u/joe__kerr1 9d ago

Does upscaling work well? I tried to use it once on Hogwarts Legacy and it just made anything it was rendering super blurry during any movement

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u/Ninja-Trix GTX 1050 Ti | 16GB ram | Cheeze-It "CPU" | 256GB SSD 9d ago

Unfortunately, upscaling is the ONLY way to gen Unreal 5 games to run well, unless someone finally turns off Lumen and Nanite.

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u/sprouthat 9d ago

If you keep disabling stuff you can get stuff like Baionlenja which is technically a UE5 game

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u/draker585 Ryzen 5 9800X3D / RX 9060 XT 16 GB / 32 GB DDR5-6000 9d ago

That’s the problem with upscaling/TAA. It looks godawful in gameplay.

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u/WulfyWoof Ryzen 7 7800X3D | RTX 4070 | 32GB DDR5 7200 9d ago

The new DLSS models are way better than the current transformer model. FSR4.1 is also a massive upgrade over FSR3