r/pcmasterrace • u/TheGGspot • Aug 11 '26

Discussion Should developers stop making games that require 5090 for max settings now that the card is clearly not for gamers and is accessible to 0.1% of community?

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I get that the games need better hardware to dun better, but who are they really making the game for if you need a 6000$ GPU at this point

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u/-roachboy 9950x, 5070ti, 32gb DDR5 Aug 11 '26

it feels like they just asked an LLM to come up with realistic sounding specs for a graphically intensive UE5 game lmfao

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u/Big-Resort-4930 Aug 11 '26

For a poorly optimized* UE5 game. Nothing in this game looks graphically impressive, it's standard UE5.

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u/Danteska Aug 11 '26

These requirements are 4 months old, they have updated them and they're lower now.

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u/tired_activist Aug 13 '26

for watch lists and presales

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u/teethingrooster i3 8100, Gtx 1050ti Aug 11 '26

Wouldn’t it help get publicity if they are crazy high like this? I feel like if u wanted to play the game you were gonna play either way

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u/Elogotar 5800X︱4070 Super (12Gb)︱32Gb DDR4︱4Tb NVMe︱24Tb HDD Aug 11 '26

Are there ANY UE5 games that actually are optimized?

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u/masterbangau Aug 11 '26

while there are some bad optimized games exists, "optimized" are a vague term now, some idiots use that term while they tries to run some latest AAA games with unoptimized settings on their 10 years old system when chrome with 15 tabs open simultaneously on the background.

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u/Disastrous_Photo811 Aug 12 '26

Arc Raiders, but its not the most visually demanding UE5 game

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u/OneZModrinth Aug 13 '26

Satisfactory is UE5 i believe

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u/Partyrockers2 Aug 13 '26

Love how UE5's advantage is looking good but its offset by unrealistic spec requirements. So the games look bad and run badly too.

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u/Big-Resort-4930 Aug 13 '26

And even when it looks "good", it's riddled with boiling artifacts from fuckass lumen, shitty stock UE5 HDR implementations that ship with almost every game. Traversal stutter is always a guarantee as well.

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u/Partyrockers2 Aug 14 '26

Yep, i dont understand how this engine is so hyped honestly. Considering the only work being put into it only seems to work on Epics own game like Fortnite. Neither do i understand how game studios feel like visual clarity is a second thought.

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u/SynapticStatic 386SX@16Mhz, 1MB RAM, 40MB HD, Soundblaster, 2400 beep boopities Aug 11 '26

That or a marketing guy, pretty much the same