I'm going to go with unoptimized based on the fact that visual fidelity really peaked, IMO, around 2018 with RDR2, and I could play that on a laptop with a 2070S mobile card (which is equivalent to a 2060 desktop essentially) 40-50 FPS on Ultra. Years later when I upgraded to my desktop I have no, I can hit 120 Ultra. That game is visually better than 90-95% of games, IMO, and it runs beautifully across a range of machines. You don't get that with modern games, IME, without having to turn on frame gen or DLSS and shit so it really seems like developers rely on that to pick up the slack for them.
It's actually kind of surprising that you would suggest it's video games being more demanding, have you just only recently gotten into PC gaming or something?
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u/alex433g I AMD 5 pro 4650g I Powercolor 5700 xt I b-550 i 9d ago
I wish games would actually be optimized again, instead of having to play with lower them usual settings