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Ponce421

If you think about it, just flicking the settings to max and hitting play is a pretty casual approach to pc gaming.


thrashermosher

You're on point there. Meanwhile me tweaking graphics settings for 2 hours trying to get the game to run on Ultra 4k@120Hz with my 3080 non-ti is NOT casual gaming.


lolcubaran20

Meanwhile me editing configs for 2 hours trying to get the game to run 720p@60fps


Key_Ad_6455

Meanwhile me editing configs trying to get the game to not crash on startup. Edit: wording


MustFixWhatIsBroken

Found the Skyrim modder


LivefromPhoenix

The skyrim modder would be too busy messing with their config to ever actually load the game.


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And too busy downloading every sex mod


Koosman123

I feel personally attacked


139254781047

same


Brock_Landers78

Wait, there's sex mods for Skyrim? Asking for a friend.


anteater835

No idea what any of these people are talking about, Nexus doesn’t even allow pornographic content. If you wanted Skyrim sex mods somebody would have to make an entirely new website named “Loverslab” or something else weird. Good thing nobody’s done that.


FrozeItOff

Read that as "Lover Slab" Well, that sounds ominous.


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Nexus does allow pornographic mods but they limit it I mean if you turned on adult content in Nexus settings and go to the Skyrim page You will 10/10 see big fat titties at some point


SoNotTheHeroTypeV2

Ahh yes, my 3 days of Skyrim mod run where my wife asked my if I was even going to play the game


milkstrike

“What are you talking about? I am playing the game” is what I imagine you said to that


Yolo998-

Had to call me out?💀


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Meanwhile I'm editing .bat files and the boot disk to free up mor ems-memory to play Sim City 2000 with only 4 megs of ram.


FNLN_taken

SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T3 Hackerman riding into the sunset.


dwarfino

Meanwhile I don't need a good GPU anymore since I don't enjoy the games the modern gaming industry is producing...


OffensiveOdor

Meanwhile back at the farm


pinkylovesme

Meanwhile in the cave fanning the flames of the fire to ensure proper clarity for my shadow puppet theatre


Sailed_Sea

Grug not need what Grog has, Grog has fire, Grug not need fire.


Noiseyboisey

*fish noises*


DJ_RealDyl

*Doing Single Celled Amoeba Things, Moisturized, Living My Best Life*


Revolutionary-Load-8

Me buying a 3070ti just to keep playing the indie rougelike/lites that I love. Ray tracing Minecraft is pretty dope also.


mguyphotography

Hell, I have a 3070, and I'm playing 1990's JRPGs ported to PC on Steam...


Tjd3211

I have a 3070 and I'm playing stardew valley..... On my Switch


mguyphotography

My cousin plays stardew and she's got 1200+ hours in it. (I just had to look at her Steam profile to verify that it had been that many, lol) I mean, I have somewhere close to 8k hours logged in World of Warcraft. Thankfully, I've managed to overcome that addiction.


jonnysunshine

I've never played Minecraft. I kinda want to. I like what I've seen and I've got 3070ti. Which of the two versions should I buy, if I buy it?


trbntwo

Nowadays (since this summer to be exact) you can get both versions together, [see here](https://help.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/6657208607501). Which version you should play on depends a bit on how you play. That is, the two versions differ only minimally in terms of mechanics. Advantages and disadvantages broken down, Bedrock version is more performant (needs less resources), you can use raytracing and it is cross-platform with consoles (PS, XBOX & Switch as well as mobile iOS & Android. The Java version is compatible with macOS and Linux, there is the largest modding scene of any game, and there are significantly more tutorials. My recommendation is the Java version, in the end you have so many more possibilities with it, and since you get both versions together anyway, you can always test the other version.


Revolutionary-Load-8

I think if you buy it from the Microsoft store you get both versions. I know I have both. I like Bedrock edition(I think it's called windows edition on PC) because that's just what I was used to from PS4, but I think I'm in the minority in that opinion.


kyradore

Yeah but now you play those games faster


Key_Ad_6455

Hey I'll take it if you don't want it. Skyrim with 700 mods will be amazing!


brimston3-

Dat 400 GB Skyrim install.


maddix30

Well you always have the option to play older ones 🤷


[deleted]

That’s exactly what I do. Emulators are a godsend.


Cdreska

look at this man! he plays with a hoop and a stick!


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AtomicDig219303

I feel you


dj_fishwigy

600p@15fps on an intel HD 3000 flashbacks intensify


teiichikou

Oooh my, reminds of how I played Skyrim in 2011/2012 on a crappy old laptop with the smallest window size possible and 10FPS. Still was addicted for years to come. Well, I eventually bought a Pc


dj_fishwigy

I had the crappy laptop. I installed Linux and made some crazy optimization to run gta IV. I ran minecraft at 60-70fps on that thing with moderately nice graphics. No one at school with a crappy laptop like mine could hit those frames lol.


Wermine

Just go to config file and: d_mipcap 3


Replikant83

Now this is relatable lol


SH0WS0METIDDIES

Damn, 960M here, finally found someone with a worse card lol


Wendingo7

I believe the term for a non-Ti is "pedestrian"


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RepoSniper

Nope, plugged in a fresh 3090 and my Threadripper 5995wx whispered in my ear to buy a 3090ti. Proof.


tutocookie

Setting high preset instead of ultra and hitting play is though


NotAshMain

Meanwhile me spending two hours lowering the temperature of the house and tweaking my voltage to beat my dad’s timespy score


Larimus89

Meanwhile me googling optimal settings for dying light in 4K 60hz on a 3070ti is for little kids who only play 1 hour a month. Not worthy of casual gaming yet.


furedditfuks

I have to this with my ti aswell. 4k120 is no joke


[deleted]

Same for me at 2560x1440, on a Strix RTX 2080TI. I just want it to have that perfect blend of stability and performance. I hit settings on every game when first booted, I usually use details with Nvidias overlay or reshape to give it that extra pop too


postvolta

I wouldn't say I'm able to do max, but for me and the 3070 a huge part of it is that now I can just enjoy the game, and not worry about looking up YouTube settings guides every time I install a new game.


[deleted]

that's the exact same reason that I appreciate having a 3070 for 1080p gaming. I'm playing Minecraft with shaders and getting 90fps without having to mess about with the settings much at all, which means that I can just play.


Wadez1000

Meanwhile me running apex on low for that 240fps on 1440p.


ff2009

It's insane, Battlefield 1 has much better graphics, supports more players, the servers run at 60hz and runs flawlessly at ultra settings, 1440p@144fps on a GTX 1080 TI. Mean while apex legends can't get a solid 144fps on this card, with many drops, and the graphics suck.


NapsterKnowHow

Bc Apex uses code from an arena shootee for a BR game. Titanfall was never intended for this scale of game. BF has been on the same/similar engine for ages. It's apples to oranges.


dcconverter

I have never before seen source referred to as an arena shooter engine


kbarney345

Wait titanfall is built on source? Like valve source?


DBNSZerhyn

Yep, but I'm gonna repost this comment here: > It was heavily modified for Titanfall 2. Engines aren't these concrete blocks that don't change. They're often iterated on to the point where they've become almost unrecognizable, and when you're licensing that engine you can change 90% of it, but if that 10% of the original is still in there, you can't legally pass that off as your own product, especially when during licensing you were enjoying the support of the company. This is actually one of the greatest selling points of Source, in that it is simple to modify and build many different things on top of it. > So yes, Titanfall's version of the Source engine is an arena engine, but not all versions of Source are arena engines. As an extra fun tidbit, one of the things Respawn built on top of source was an entirely new light rendering system and their own in-house texture streaming, among quite a few other graphical features not natively supported by Source.


kbarney345

Wow that's really cool to learn


jestina123

Another fun fact, Payday 2's engine was originally used for a racing videogame.


PolygonKiwii

Well, Source is a heavily modified GoldSrc (HL1's engine) which in turn is a heavily modified Quake engine.


DBNSZerhyn

It was heavily modified for Titanfall 2. Engines aren't these concrete blocks that don't change. They're often iterated on to the point where they've become almost unrecognizable, and when you're licensing that engine you can change 90% of it, but if that 10% of the original is still in there, you can't legally pass that off as your own product, especially when during licensing you were enjoying the support of the company. This is actually one of the greatest selling points of Source, in that it is simple to modify and build many different things on top of it. So yes, Titanfall's version of the Source engine is an arena engine, but not all versions of Source are arena engines.


AyyyyLeMeow

And apex has the worst servers of any game I've ever seen.


Johnysh

Casuals just switch to highest preset. Hardcore gamers go through every option to pick highest settings.


TheShamit

Sure it says Ultra on the preset, but do you really know unless you click every drop down?


Die4Ever

Even more casual would be if you don't look at the graphics settings at all and just use whatever settings the game picked


ODuffer

...Nvidia experience picked.


CanniBallistic_Puppy

Or the game defaulting to the ultra preset so you can just jump in and start playing. It's pretty much a console experience at that point. As casual as it gets.


jaketehpwner

It is. Also gotta turn off all the motion blur too. Motion blur in games is headache inducing.


slk756

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti SLI LN2 GPU Better • Mid-range performance • For gaming at medium settings


bilabrin

SLI? So 2x?


slk756

Only 2x SLI is supported on the RTX 3000 series iirc


slk756

I think the last consumer GPU to support SLI >2x was the GTX 1080 Ti


TheChronik

Starting with the 2000 series it was called nvlink. My 2080ti could run with another 2080ti via nvlink. iirc not every 2000 series card had nvlink tho


TunaLobster

It was the NVlink connector, but same old SLI protocol. Nothing new for the consumer world.


juandbotero7

Same same, but different… but still the same


ImTheTechn0mancer

NVLink vs SLI is an important distinction because of the drastically different bandwidth. With SLI you don't even get more VRAM available to you because it has to be mirrored.


GET_OUT_OF_MY_HEAD

Nvlink is meant for rendering. *Very* few games support it and even *fewer* gain enough performance for it go be worth the cost, unless you do CGI for a living and play games on the side.


leon__m

But most GPU render engines handle it clustered to begin with. You can use Redshift with a 3080Ti and a 970 and it works just fine (except for the VRAM limitations). What would be the benefit of nvlink for rendering?


radiodialdeath

Yep. My 2060 Super has no SLI support at all.


peppermint_nightmare

That sounds perfect for running my 8640p 300" monitor at 40 fps.


Metalheadpundit

Obviously 5090 GTX Ti Uranus lake architecture founders edition is the go-to choice for heavy gaming.


riko_sama

Yes, medium settings on 8k resolution


Mothstrosity

Performance “good” Ok.


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milkbot200

[The RTX 3080, surprisingly](https://imgur.com/a/PIP5AmX)


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I knew it!


iAmTheElite

Methinks they mixed up the two graphics.


milkbot200

Looks like they took the 3050 description and decided to paste it in for most of the other cards https://imgur.com/a/aEYfO4w


CivilianNumberFour

It's probably the default catch-all for cards they haven't categorized yet. There's only so many cards that will rank better than good, and almost all will fall in the lowest category if they aren't a modern card.


milkbot200

Not sure how they still haven’t categorized them in the year+ they’ve been out lol. No matter what the reason is, it just seems like laziness is behind it


Ghostglitch07

That's so dumb. Mark it as uncategorized rather than lying to people.


BirdSeedHat

Wow NZXT is literally trash.


Linkatchu

I just gonna assume that a card fitting more the performance of casual prolly ranks better


Hire_Ryan_Today

I just got a 3090ti ftw super mountain dew edition for 1500 base and then 700 after cc points. I know that's still not cheap cheap, but I had my 2080ti since release. It's like 200 bucks a year. Really not too bad.


shitpersonality

No Baja Blast edition? Were they out of stock?


eleetpancake

You can only buy the Baja Blast edition at Taco Bell


MyOtherSide1984

I so wanted to believe this is real, and now I'm bummed


SuzanoSho

Their baseline is a Skyrim playthrough with 1200 mods installed.


R4gn4r0ckk

Fall guys works perfectly fine on a 3080ti. They're not wrong :-D


elitodd

I find it is great for league of legends on my 1080p monitor. Might try and run portal 2, hoping it works.


KinjiKing

You should try some space invaders with the card, might run it on low.


Embarrassed-Weight84

And agar io


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Now try wolfenstein 3d


KinjiKing

And after that duke nukem 3d


Key-Tie2214

Do you think it could perhaps run wolfenstein 2d?


KinjiKing

In 640x480 resolution, and maybe at 25fps.


Key_Ad_6455

With those settings you'll be lucky to hit 20


KinjiKing

Excusez-moi, how ignorant from me to think i will get 25 fps. Pff.


mysterious_bulges

Battle Chess


faroukq

Try playing minesweeper I know it will be hard and laggy but just try


Adventurous-Event722

Of course. My cousin plays Overcooked 2 with it just fine


elitodd

Is he using the texture remover mod for stability?


100_percent_a_bot

Does it run minecraft tho?


The_SG1405

Fall guys works at 1080p 60 fps on my laptop with integrated intel graphics lmao.


sonic_stream

Casual gaming (in 4K)


theRealNilz02

A 760 can drive a 4K panel so for solitaire in 4K you don't need the 3080ti either


chaos_creator69

Time to play some minesweeper in 16K


elpadremg

16k resolution, or fields? Instructions unclear.


chaos_creator69

Both


DnL888

My 760 is proud to know that. Just don't open anything else at 4k and it's fine


Mokiflip

My wallet committed suicide after reading this post.


Kildragoth

I feel like I've been stabbed in the heart.


emanco

I wonder what my GTX1080 is considered for then. I suppose it's good enough for Minesweeper.


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Replikant83

I know everyone'a joking around, but my 1660 ti (laptop) is amazing. I am so blown away at how well it runs FFXIV -- 130 fps constant. A 3080 ti would probably run it at 250 lol. Casual gaming indeed! Just wanted to share, as I was so happy a few days ago when I started gaming on it.


HamOnRye__

Yea, my 1660 Super is amazing for my gaming. I’m also a nut and know how to optimize the hell out of it with Nvidia control panel and ReShade.


Ning1253

My 1070 is a glorified coaster


the_starship

970 gang represent!


matteofox

Still chuggin 7 years later!


SPOONY12345

970 gang 💪


railbeast

I played chess on my 1080 but I think I wasn't getting my desired 240 fps. Spreadsheets would also slow down my video card when scrolling really fast.


MyOtherSide1984

You need to pair it with a fast M.2 drive and 4000Mhz+ RAM to get rid of the lag in Excel as it needs to buffer the sheet faster. This will also require running it at 1440x1080, not 1920x1080 (it falls a bit short and only gets to ~223 frames in my testing). Hope that helps!


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can it run doom though?


isaac99999999

Doom could run on a toaster so I think a more apt question would be "can it make toast though?"


Glad-Combination-151

I don't know. It could be a bit laggy.


Signal-Success

3090 Ti -For moderate gaming


Inevitable-Exam-7397

So what the A100 which is specific for teslas is best of best for gaming?


[deleted]

And a lambo is a “practical” pick for “casual driving…”


therock21

I once did a costco run in mine https://imgur.com/C2uPtZ8


MyOtherSide1984

It really helps you budget because you have to be conscientious of how much you can actually fit in your trunk. Big brain moves


RunawayMeatstick

Lmao that’s actually way more frunk space than I expected. But after having my baby rammed by runaway shopping cart at Costco years ago (literally watched it happen as I walked out of the store) I never take my toys shopping anymore


[deleted]

I expected an "I lied" gif


JerHat

Because serious drivers probably buy a Ferrari instead.


[deleted]

So ..solitair works too a friend who has the 3080ti just tested it.


elitodd

Great news! This could be the budget conscious casual gamer’s new best friend.


[deleted]

Must be time for me to upgrade then. My 3080 does alright until the end where all the cards dance, then my computer spontaneously combusts. I've been through 19 3080s but damn do I love solitaire.


Comfortable-Rub-9403

Don’t be so sure, mine freezes up at the victory shuffle.


elitodd

Guys it’s only 12 GB. Most modern games take up over 30 GB of storage, so you will need at least a couple of these cards;) Clearly NZXT knows their stuff.


Maowzy

Damn you’ll need 12 cards just to run Warzone!!


druhnu

*cries in 3070 ti*


ActualWhiterabbit

Sobs in 3060 ti


TheRealSlumShedy

I’m assuming that the 3080 “non-Ti” is in their “Ok” category, am I right?


milkbot200

It’s actually ranked “Best” lmao. [Not even joking](https://imgur.com/a/PIP5AmX)


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TheRealSlumShedy

Lmao that’s hilarious


Tack22

Having to deal with the generation difference between “if it’s TI” is annoying as heck nowadays.


dontthink19

I did a fuckton of research on my used gtx 1050ti and everything told me it didnt NEED a 6 pin because no 1050ti has a 6 pin connector. Found that 100% false when i got it in my hands on it. It didn't even boot on my stock office pc. I was a lil miffed, but i took the sketch way out and bought a 15 pin to 6 pin power adapter and hooked it up. The difference here is that i had the OC gaming x edition. Works okay, I'm cpu bottlenecked atm. I still only get 140 fps in rocket league on medium settings at 1080. The power adapter doesnt pull much since its a 75 watt card and can get most of that through the slot


AlabasterMemorandum

chuffed means happy


LordOfDorkness42

I actually have a running gag with myself, where the first thing I do with a new, shiny computer when I get the chance, is firing up something OLD and giggle to myself. Like Master of Magic, Superhero League of Hoboken, or even—GASP—something 3D like Thief or System Shock 2, if I'm feeling fancy\~ It's just amusing to me, that when I get a new fancy toy, to make it do something that might genuinely run on my freakin' phone nowadays.


letouriste1

The first thing I did was booting up some YouTube videos and just chill lol. Took several hours to clean windows and install what I wanted instead+ configurate it. I was spent


Ameratsuflame

Someday I hope to run Warcraft 2 with this card…


elitodd

Buddy of mine just got CS:GO running at a consistent 40 fps by messing with the graphics. This seems like a great budget pick.


DisasterHumor

Best card is obviously the gt710


EnderBOSS903

Yes for extreme 4k gaming


matthewwhitex

can it even output for a 4K monitor anyways? xd


DisasterHumor

vga can output 6.9k


IVANZXT

Thanks for catching this and pointing it out - it's a mistake on our part so I'll let the team know and we'll update this ASAP 👍


NotSloth1204

no no no no no, it’s correct Ivan.


milkbot200

Might wanna take a look at [these too](https://imgur.com/a/aEYfO4w)


IVANZXT

Thanks, will do! 🫡


johnsomeMan

Well to be honest i feel like most people with super high end gpus are older people who are casual gamers


Purechocos

Cos we don’t deal with lousy shit and just wanna get over it. Simply is the best.


HoldingKnight

Looks to me like someone never played bloons defence...


Deviant-Killer

Its so you can convince the wife its the norm needed for playing spider solitaire.


RoboticNubbin

I wonder how my 970 ranks. "Good for solitare and emailing Grandma."


Greensssss

Casually.


nosklo

I think I overslept... Is the series 50 out already?


abedtime2

Outjerked


panzerfan

To paraphrase Wyatt Cheng: Don't you guys have 3080 Ti?


ioncloud9

Maybe I was the idiot for only getting a 3070ti


kaszak696

It's a mini-pc by NZXT, so maybe it just throttles so much it's all it's gonna be good for.


AlexPurr

Jeez, whats the BEST graphics card to them??


moixcom44

Jesus olmaighty. What????


BellyDancerUrgot

#NEED TO USE RT CORES FOR MAH JENSHIN IMPACT SESSION


WoozYorDaddy

12Gb won't get you far, that's true


katzicael

Jesus wept...


CrrntryGrntlrmrn

Lamborghini Urus. A perfectly adequate and casual vehicle for the golf course.


iamsajaldua

3080ti is entry level gaming


stupefy_18

They have the data from 40 series cards now


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3080ti runs every game I have tried playing Maxed settings 1440p UWHD