I'm new to games and it might not even be possible for a system to handle medium settings for that many years, but I was wondering if I want a system to be capable for that length of time if it would need to be the best medium level currently, or a system that handles ultra? Thanks for anything on this =)
What kind of specs to be able to play medium settings for the next 8-10 years?
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James Mason
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8-10 years is REALLY pushing it, you'd have to buy a top of the line system today to achieve those kind of results ($2000-3000)
Infact I'd doubt you'd be able to, the software (direct-x,drivers,ect) 8-10 years from now won't work on hardware today most likely.
Windows XP my have been around for 12+ years, but the hardware it was on certainly isnt.
Infact I'd doubt you'd be able to, the software (direct-x,drivers,ect) 8-10 years from now won't work on hardware today most likely.
Windows XP my have been around for 12+ years, but the hardware it was on certainly isnt.
jaguarskx
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8 - 10 years is a bit unrealistic for PC games. For ultra graphic settings I would say that is impossible. Medium setting is possible assuming you do not have high expectations. Crysis 3 is an example of a game where even playing on high graphic settings and getting good performance requires a very high end rig right now.
My current rig is a 6 year (in 2 months) Core 2 Quad Q9450 with a 4+ year old Radeon HD 5850 which provides me with pretty decent gaming performance. Games that are not too demanding can be set to high while other more demanding games would need to be set to medium. The Radeon HD 4890 is an example of an almost 6 year old GPU and is about 15% - 20% slower than the Radeon HD 5850.
Compared to a modern GPU the Radeon HD 4890 would be about equal to a Radeon HD 7790 / R7 260x which are considered to be mainstream graphic cards ($100 - $130). It can probably give you around 36 FPS in Crysis 1 and half that performance in Crysis 3 at 1920x1080 resolution with ultra settings. However, that's using a Core i7-4770 @ 4.2GHz. A Core 2 Quad Q9450 is quite a bit less powerful than a current generation Core i7 CPU so the 36 FPS will decrease.
Lastly, the Radeon HD 4890 is only a DX10 graphics card. That means it cannot be used to play any games that are exclusively DX11 only. In 8 - 10 years there will very likely be new DX versions released. Say you buy the most powerful DX11.1 graphics card today which is either the Radeon HD 7990 ($900) / GTX 690 ($1000). Then let's suppose that Widows 10 will be released in 2015 and it will introduce DirectX 12, any game that exclusively uses DX12 will not be playable with a current day graphics card.
My current rig is a 6 year (in 2 months) Core 2 Quad Q9450 with a 4+ year old Radeon HD 5850 which provides me with pretty decent gaming performance. Games that are not too demanding can be set to high while other more demanding games would need to be set to medium. The Radeon HD 4890 is an example of an almost 6 year old GPU and is about 15% - 20% slower than the Radeon HD 5850.
Compared to a modern GPU the Radeon HD 4890 would be about equal to a Radeon HD 7790 / R7 260x which are considered to be mainstream graphic cards ($100 - $130). It can probably give you around 36 FPS in Crysis 1 and half that performance in Crysis 3 at 1920x1080 resolution with ultra settings. However, that's using a Core i7-4770 @ 4.2GHz. A Core 2 Quad Q9450 is quite a bit less powerful than a current generation Core i7 CPU so the 36 FPS will decrease.
Lastly, the Radeon HD 4890 is only a DX10 graphics card. That means it cannot be used to play any games that are exclusively DX11 only. In 8 - 10 years there will very likely be new DX versions released. Say you buy the most powerful DX11.1 graphics card today which is either the Radeon HD 7990 ($900) / GTX 690 ($1000). Then let's suppose that Widows 10 will be released in 2015 and it will introduce DirectX 12, any game that exclusively uses DX12 will not be playable with a current day graphics card.
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