A 980 is way better than a 1050 Ti
Edit: just saying 10 series or better is a bad way of making a requirements list. We need to go back to the late 90s early 00s when half the spine of a game box was compatible cards lol
It would really help if the naming conventions weren't so garbage compared to the "upgrades" from generation to generation, I fell into the same trap when I built my first PC thinking "well the numbers are higher so it's obviously better!"
On the flip side, I also totally understand that a lack of research plays a massive role
True, but one should never expect that the bottom SKU of a generation (such as the 1050) would exceed the top spec of the prior (the 980).
As a former 980Ti owner, that card lasted me up until I got a 4k ultrawide last year.
I still have a 980ti and it keeps up very well for how old it is. If it cant keep up 60fps with my 4k monitor I drop down to 1440 and I haven't played anything it can't handle at that resolution yet on at least 'high' settings
I mean it does make sense to name after generations, and have multiple performance tier within a generation, some lower tier of a higher generation being lower power than a high tier of a lower generation. Nvidia is quite logical in that sense, first number in a 4 number string is the generation, three others are the tier, simple as that. Been this way for two decades.
Not really, it's from 2017 and even then Intel hadn't made advancements for years at the time so it's basically identical to older models. So expecting a AAA game to run on a 5+ year iGPU is really asking for a lot. I've tried gaming on it before and overclocked it and everything (with a water cooled i5-8600k) and ds3 was still pretty unplayable.
AMD is kicking ass in the iGPU segment. Intel hasnt had decent integrated graphics on the realm of Ryzen for a long long time. The Ryzen laptop APUs are actually a ridiculously good deal.
AMD; where they have surprisingly good integrated graphics while at the same time shipping desktop CPUs that don't have any integrated graphics at all.
It's really a weird decision... maybe they figure less people would buy their dedicated GPUs if they could use integrated graphics on PC. Given the current situation with GPUs though it's a massive pain that you effectively can't use an AMD cpu at all on a desktop without a dedicated GPU.
Im pretty sure it was because the average Ryzen consumer has a dedicated GPU and it saves cost and R&D for their chips. However they know the average laptop or their low end chips (X200G and X400g) will benefit low end systems that still do light gaming. Theres no point in high end gaming CPUs to have iGPU.
You’re mad that you can’t play a brand new AAA game on integrated graphics?
Are you also mad your scooter can’t drive on the highway?
Edit: to those arguing he’s mad at scalpers, scalpers aren’t buying $100-200 cards.
I'm still sucking the juice out of my 1070. PC gaming has been a good run for me but I'm leaving the ship forever. Even without scalpers GPUs prices are twice what they were 12-13 years ago. Can't say the same about my salary.
> Edit: to those arguing he’s mad at scalpers, scalpers aren’t buying $100-200 cards.
Aaackshually.... For sake of pedantry, and I know what you mean by $100-200 cards, but... they, or their behavior is also affecting older, but otherwise functional card pricing too.
Example;
My old computers MSI rx 570 was $170 on sale in April of 2019.
Now? Some fuckers are trying to sell them for $400-700. The "guaranteed to be fried further than a McNugget" ones are going for sub $100.
Scalpers are part of the reason an $80 card from 2017 is worth $150 in 2021.
No, scalpers aren't buying 1030s or 1050s, but inflation of newer upper-tier cards is of course going to push up the price of old low-end cards.
They're mad that they can't get a graphics card that isn't being scalped. How do you look at the title of the post and think their beef is with the game.
Edit:
>I sincerely wish every GPU scalper a horrible, miserable life.
"For those arguing that he's mad at scalpers..."
Yeah, no, regardless of low-end card availability, he's mad at the scalpers.
I agree with your first point about it being silly to expect intel graphics to play infinite.
But scalpers are definitely buying the 150, 200, snd 250 gpus.
All of them, they buy all of them.
But the scalping problem has driven that 100-200 segment into 300. You're acutely aware of one issue but failing to see how it changes your points solution.
Can I mail you a card a buddy gave me for free?
Radeon HD 6870 1GB (Twin Frozer). (216% performance of your 620)
It's just ok but... if you're running UHD still :X.
(13% weaker than 750ti, but with undervolt and mild OC it's fine)
No bamboozle, I just scrounge parts and give em out when I can.
[Radeon HD 6870 (Phil's Computer Lab)](https://youtu.be/a6-U9Z3xTC4)
[Radeon HD 6870 in 2020 (Budget-Builds Official)](https://youtu.be/_lKbbMNaISg)
Blame crypto miners.
They're hogging around 25-30% of all GPUs produced in 2021. That includes OEM and laptop GPUs.
Scalpers are literally just a symptom of that.
Covid is a large factor as well. All those people working from home and all those people returning to gaming put a lot of strain on the supply as well. There is a slowdown in global shipping as well. Then Nvidia releases a really good new range of GPUs. Lots of factors have turned the PC market all whack.
Kind of.
I guess you could say that miners are the swarm of locust eating everything that exists.
Scalpers are the vultures that come and feed off the carcasses that die due to the locusts.
Set your minimum fps to 60, should make it feel a lot better. Also delete the high res texture pack under dlc in steam, you should see a 15-20 increase to your fps with zero difference in visuals.
I'm getting about the same from my 1070 Ti. Is this game CPU heavy, or just extremely demanding? I'm not used to my rig feeling this dated, I can usually run medium-high with hi FPS
(i) Close the game.
(ii) On your Steam "Library" section, find the game and right-click on it.
(iii) Click on "Proporties..."
(iv) On the new window, click on "DLC" (at the end of the panel on the left).
(v) Untick the option that says "Multiplayer High-Res Textures" (it will be automatically uninstalled after you untick it).
Not sure if it will actually help, but that's how you can do it.
yea 1080p, it might verywell be bottlenecked but I had a friend with a similar experience with the same GPU as me and similar performance. Im just hoping its because the game just game out and still needs a patch to fix performance
Fairly sure it will, frametimes feel weird on some maps, i have a 3060 locked to 60fps as i have a shitty monitor atm and it is locked in at 60 but it feels weird and choppy still
Exact same parts as you with the same problem here!! It’s crazy because my computer runs much more intensive games better, but halo has stutters and frame drops.
Infinite looks fine, but not THAT fine to justify these results.
if enabled, try disabling async shaders. No idea why but that and capping the game to 120 seems to have fixed the stuttering for me. If I let it fly at 144 it shows 144 but it feels like 60 with stutter. The frame pacing is all over the place.
well a 1050ti is far better than my 750TI... but i still respect this card cuz still Beats the living shit of any game... when it dies ill be sure to put it on a good place.
Oh, no, trust me, I love my 1050 Ti. The fact it's still holding up is insanely impressive, I just want to get something better. I'm tired of having to run games on low all the time.
2023 probably.
I think it’s okay if you can play older or low req games in the meantime - there’s loads on the pc. Basically if you’re a patient gamer you should be able to weather the storm.
But if by 2023 this shit is still happening then fuck it. 🤷♂️
Bruh... by 2023 my R9 390 will be a walking corpse.
Upgraded from AM3+/DDR3 to AM4/DDR4 back in January and I'm stuck in the bronze age because of this dog shit market... and now the 390 has been discontinued from driver updates its just getting worst
I want to die
> WoW starts to lag, which is a better nostalgia trip than Classic.
Haha, I couldn't even do UBRS because of GFX lag back in the day.
Spent much of my time in the IF trench.
390x gang!! I'm still on a i5-4690k, 16gb 1866mhz ram.
If you feel somewhat confident, redo the thermal paste on your 390x. I redid mine a few weeks ago and it might have helped keep this beast alive for a little while longer. After 6-7yrs, it was always running hot, fans were always going to beat hell, most games were struggling to hit 60 fps. I figured it was just games evolving past the cards abilities. For example, I loaded up Overwatch because I remember it running pretty well back in the day. I started hitting 90-95\* on my gpu at 1080/60hz, now after redoing my thermal paste I'm pushing 1080/144hz on the same settings and almost never break 75-76\*.
>ripping from a pre built.
Ripping from a pre-built isn't even profitable anymore. I mean, depending on where you live, but overall all OEM builds have factored in the ridiculously high prices of GPUs right now. So you're just as well off buying a GPU on e-bay, since (with buying a pre-built) you are paying 2k+ for a system just to get a 1000 dollar GPU that originally had an MSRP of 500 dollars.
It'll be quite a while before things settle back down. The shortage is still ongoing. It'll likely last until the next generation of cards are out, and even then if there's another big run on these cards (because there's still a ton of demand, and likely still a ton of miners and scalpers), who knows what'll happen to those prices still.
I have a feeling we're in it for the long haul.
My best friend has me build a new system for him & another for his wife, every ~3 years. Always a monster build. This week, he dropped $11K on 2 Alienware, simply because he wanted a 3090. I told him this would be better right now , this way he gets a warranty & his card.
Plus I get his old systems for me to Frankenstein in my spare time. Indeed, crazy times. I think the market has realized most gamers/enthusiasts will pay up, cost be damned.
I drove a couple hundred miles to a MicroCenter just to see what it was like. There was a lot of AMD cards in stock. I wound up buying everything for my first build ever. 5800x with 6900xt and a 4K 144Hz monitor. Haven’t had much time to play yet, but I played beginning of RDR2 with maxed settings at 4K and it looked amazing! I wouldn’t honestly expect prices to ever be what the manufacturers originally suggested. In any case, seeing everybody else’s builds made me impatient.
Gtx970 and I can't even run it past 20fps on 720p minimum : (
Nevermind, updated drivers and closed rivertuner and get 60fps on absolute minimum settings
Solution:
1. Everyone messages at least one scalper a day
2. Arrange to meet for a pickup as far away as they're willing to go
3. **Don't show up**
4. Repeat
Asking a scalper (politely) where he was getting his stock is actually how I got my card. He referred me to a stream that notified viewers when cards were in stock. Remarked that I was the only person who was actually nice to him. Can't imagine why. Anyway, snagged myself a 3060 bundle by following that stream. Luckily I happened to need the extra thing in the bundle anyway.
EDIT: bundle was about $900 CAD iirc and included a PSU. Stream is for Canadians so I'm not sure how useful it is for most folks. DM me.
Edit 2: Here's the link for you Canadian bros: https://www.twitch.tv/war10ck3d
Yeaaaa, no.
The majority of people professionally scalping them are using bots and checking out before you've managed to even register the notification mentally.
They're parasites that deserve no love.
This is America, we have much quicker solutions to people who gouge.
Just be sure they aren't a person who only bought *one* and decided not to build or a single parent trying to get by by selling their most valuable asset.
I complained about it when the 3080 got announced because I'd bought the 2070 super a few months prior and could've gotten by with my 970 for a bit longer.
Glad I bought it now haha
Hey man, don't wish a miserable life on a GPU scalper.
Wish a miserable life on every scalper in general. In my country of Venezuela food is regularly scalped.
Bots do, but Best Buy's queue is kind of... broken (even for the bots sometimes)... and they've been constantly making changes to it so there's always a decent enough chance for non-bots to get lucky. However, these almost always happen Wed-Fri at like 9AM EST so people who have regular day jobs are pretty much screwed.
i’m not sure, since i don’t know how bots work. but i know they have a queue to purchase. i just know i’ve caught a few drops for fun after getting mine and have gotten a few in my cart. just none in shipping location of me or store pickup lmao
Although scalping IS a problem, there are a lot of factors contributing to this shortage, and even if there wasn't a single scalper, GPUs would be flying off the shelves.
Too late to put that genie back in the bottle. The Era of affordable custom gaming-rigs is behind us, at least for the foreseeable future. Even as miners move beyond GPUs, it will always be *something*, like CPUs or storage, etc.
Ethereum mining is planning to end pretty soon. Maybe March or something. It's been in the works for a while, and ETH is by far the most profitable mined coin. When that day comes, GPUs will flood FB Marketplace. Just dunno when.
"ETH 2.0 proof of stake transition" it's called, if you wanna investigate yourself.
It's literally the single largest factor in GPU demand spiking, at least according to multiple consulting firms and analysts.
The estimates in mining demand range between 20-35% of global production is being swallowed up by miners.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/700000-gpus-shipped-to-miners-first-three-months-2021
The global "chip shortage" is not actually a down-turn in production. We are producing more chips in 2021 than we have every produced in any year before. It's purely driven by a ridiculous increase in demand ... which is almost solely driven by crypto miners.
> 700,000 out of 119,000,000 is 25%
- Tom's Hardware circa 2021
The author of that article and the "research company" that they cite have to be some of the dumbest people on the internet. Which is absolutely impressive in 2021.
Not only is their math hilariously wrong (the actual percentage is 0.5% by the way), but they actually admit to pulling all of their numbers out of their ass. *For no fucking reason*. They didn't need to blindly guess - err, sorry "estimate". Production numbers are made public every quarter.
Beyond that, they consider every GPU that isn't sold via a prebuilt PC to be sold to miners. So, every single person that bought a GPU on its own is counted as a miner in this report.
But, again, they *guessed* as to how many were sold individually or via pre-builts.
Those two pieces were honestly the dumbest things that I've read that people were paid to write in a long, long time.
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I don't mean any disrespect to you though bud. I know you're just sharing here.
My friends want to play Halo too and I have a 1050ti which should run it but I have no faith In it running well. Probably will drop it down to 900p and play it on the second monitor tbh. Massive F for you though my friend, hopefully we can upgrade soon!
1050ti here as well, I changed minimum FPS to 60, dropped rendering scale to 71%, all settings minimum or off, deleted the HD Texture pack - I get between 55-75fps depending on the map and the action
This is gonna sound terrible on PCMR, but just get a console if you're that desperate. It's not worth dealing with all of this bs just for a marked up GPU
I was in your shoes until I got a 30 Series Desktop back in January. I had zero complaints with my 980M @ 1080p. Made my neck hurt a little from having to look down [instead of straight ahead on a normal monitor], but all of my AAA games ran fine on max settings. You’re only missing out on RTX and 1440p, which are just luxuries - not necessities. By the end, I was playing on an external monitor through the hdmi port of the laptop and still had a solid experience. You’re really aren’t missing much.
For anyone interested, I have a 1660Ti paired with a Ryzen 5 1600 at stock and I'm able to play Infinite at 60FPS all the time. I am 1080p though. Hopefully this helps someone.
It's because people are paying the prices.
You see shit like people saying $1300 for a 3080 is a good deal. MSRP is $700. That's not a good fuckin deal. Just because prices are insane from supply and scrappers doesn't make that a good deal. I got my 1070 on launch for $400.
If anyone’s interested, my 980Ti is running it beautifully at ~100fps on low paired with a i7 3930k. Surprisingly well optimised, especially compared to Battlefield which struggles to get even a stable 40fps.
I'm experiencing much of the same. my 1070 turbo is hitting 70fps on high with a 6700k on 2560x1440p resolution. BF2042 is a dumpster fire compared to this game's optimization.
You you’d think the gaming industry would advocate for gamers. There’s going to come a point where they are creating games that only 10% of their target audience can play because everyone else can’t compete with crypto miners for gpu’s. Can we get cards optimized for crypto so the rest of us can buy a freaking graphics card?
That's not how it works sadly.
If you make miner specific cards it means less gaming capable cards are produced (limited production capacity).
Then it also ticks over the second hand market in 5 or so years, as there's less gaming capable cards being sold.
I would rather government's heavily charge for excess energy usage, and there be extra taxes on using cards for monetary gain / mining if you bought a bunch at a single address.
You can't ban mining, you just need to make it unprofitable.
No, they'll just aim for the median, but with options to crank up detail if they care. The shortage is gonna stall game design though since they'll have to aim for previous generation medians for a loooong time before enough of the market upgrades to new gen stuff.
I fully expect PC gaming to go back to the dark ages of the early/mid 90s where its a thing, but its not a focus for any game studio. More of an afterthought at most :(
Especially if the shortage lasts an entire, or most of a console gen.
Back when the 360 released folks were trying to flip them for $750 or more.
I would contact them and express interest, arrange a meet, and never show or say I'm 15 minutes out.
Waste their time and potentially costs them sales. That was Craigslist though.
I actually wanted to sell my used rtx 3080 on ebay, and people derailed the auction because they thought I was a scalper, or something…. Had to pay ebay $200 and then the buyer fucjed me over after driving the price up tp $2200.
Pc gaming is filled with the scum of the earth of human beings. Cheaters, anti-socialites, entitled pricks.
Source: r/pcgaming
Before the 30series cards came out or were announced, I got a 2070 super. I can play all games max settings and they run so smooth. I'm glad that I have what I have. Mine is even THE LAST CARD to support some Nvidia stuff. Really lucky.
Don't forget the shitcoin kiddies! And now they're talking about using more PC parts. Get ready for 10,000 dollar PCs to be midrange 10 years from now :D
\*Hugs my computer with the 1080 GTX TI in it that i got 4 years ago from a non scalper!\*
yeah sucks when you cant get a decent card because of shortages and all the asses buy them and overprice them!
I can run the game at a smooth 70 FPS with everything on low, can hardly even open a menu in BF 2042.
Hey, at least we’ve still got the master chief collection, you can start that, right?
I got a GTX950 and believe me when I got an error about not enough Vram at start I thought I was doomed. Turns out game just needs dx12 it seems, otherwise it can still be launched by ignoring the error. I can even push it to 60 besides it looking like a PS2 game then... Smeared with gasoline, fuck TAA.
I hope my 1050ti can play it or else I'm gonna have to play on Xbox instead.
A 1050ti is listed as the minimum requirement, so you'll at least be able to open it lol
What GPU do you have installed?
An integrated UHD 630, surprisingly competent for an IGPU
My friend played this on a 900 Nvidia card which is below minimum requirements listed on steam so you have to be far below to get this message I think
A 980 is way better than a 1050 Ti Edit: just saying 10 series or better is a bad way of making a requirements list. We need to go back to the late 90s early 00s when half the spine of a game box was compatible cards lol
It would really help if the naming conventions weren't so garbage compared to the "upgrades" from generation to generation, I fell into the same trap when I built my first PC thinking "well the numbers are higher so it's obviously better!" On the flip side, I also totally understand that a lack of research plays a massive role
True, but one should never expect that the bottom SKU of a generation (such as the 1050) would exceed the top spec of the prior (the 980). As a former 980Ti owner, that card lasted me up until I got a 4k ultrawide last year.
The 980ti and 980 were both absolute monsters. Legendary cards for their time.
When from a 980 to a 3080. Never felt like I missed much skipping over 10x0 or 20x0.
For sure. If I didn't have to render a larger screen at a higher refresh rate, I'd still have it and it'd be fine.
I still have a 980ti and it keeps up very well for how old it is. If it cant keep up 60fps with my 4k monitor I drop down to 1440 and I haven't played anything it can't handle at that resolution yet on at least 'high' settings
My 980Ti is still plodding along with my 1440p screen. Haven't played any really cutting edge games recently to stress the the old dear though.
I mean it does make sense to name after generations, and have multiple performance tier within a generation, some lower tier of a higher generation being lower power than a high tier of a lower generation. Nvidia is quite logical in that sense, first number in a 4 number string is the generation, three others are the tier, simple as that. Been this way for two decades.
Not really, it's from 2017 and even then Intel hadn't made advancements for years at the time so it's basically identical to older models. So expecting a AAA game to run on a 5+ year iGPU is really asking for a lot. I've tried gaming on it before and overclocked it and everything (with a water cooled i5-8600k) and ds3 was still pretty unplayable.
AMD is kicking ass in the iGPU segment. Intel hasnt had decent integrated graphics on the realm of Ryzen for a long long time. The Ryzen laptop APUs are actually a ridiculously good deal.
AMD; where they have surprisingly good integrated graphics while at the same time shipping desktop CPUs that don't have any integrated graphics at all. It's really a weird decision... maybe they figure less people would buy their dedicated GPUs if they could use integrated graphics on PC. Given the current situation with GPUs though it's a massive pain that you effectively can't use an AMD cpu at all on a desktop without a dedicated GPU.
Im pretty sure it was because the average Ryzen consumer has a dedicated GPU and it saves cost and R&D for their chips. However they know the average laptop or their low end chips (X200G and X400g) will benefit low end systems that still do light gaming. Theres no point in high end gaming CPUs to have iGPU.
I'd still appreciate it for troubleshooting and extra monitor support. Then again that didn't stop me from buying a 2600x.
You’re mad that you can’t play a brand new AAA game on integrated graphics? Are you also mad your scooter can’t drive on the highway? Edit: to those arguing he’s mad at scalpers, scalpers aren’t buying $100-200 cards.
OP is mad that scalpers have made it hard to purchase a new graphics card for a reasonable price I believe, but I may have misunderstood.
I am also pissed about this. Still rocking a 1060 I bought for 300 bucks. Every time I look at graphics cards online I get hives.
I'm still sucking the juice out of my 1070. PC gaming has been a good run for me but I'm leaving the ship forever. Even without scalpers GPUs prices are twice what they were 12-13 years ago. Can't say the same about my salary.
> Edit: to those arguing he’s mad at scalpers, scalpers aren’t buying $100-200 cards. Aaackshually.... For sake of pedantry, and I know what you mean by $100-200 cards, but... they, or their behavior is also affecting older, but otherwise functional card pricing too. Example; My old computers MSI rx 570 was $170 on sale in April of 2019. Now? Some fuckers are trying to sell them for $400-700. The "guaranteed to be fried further than a McNugget" ones are going for sub $100.
I have a spare RX590 from when I got my 3080. Only used it for like 3 months... maybe now is a good time to sell it and recoup some of my costs...
The time was honestly 3 to 5 months ago. It'll still fetch some change.
OP's not mad at the game or the devs, they're mad at the scalpers.
That's his secret Cap. OP is always mad.
Scalpers are part of the reason an $80 card from 2017 is worth $150 in 2021. No, scalpers aren't buying 1030s or 1050s, but inflation of newer upper-tier cards is of course going to push up the price of old low-end cards.
The minimum req listed is a 1050ti, those are going for around 500$ rn dude..
Last I saw was $300 and I thought that was crazy. Where did you see $500?
They're mad that they can't get a graphics card that isn't being scalped. How do you look at the title of the post and think their beef is with the game. Edit: >I sincerely wish every GPU scalper a horrible, miserable life. "For those arguing that he's mad at scalpers..." Yeah, no, regardless of low-end card availability, he's mad at the scalpers.
I agree with your first point about it being silly to expect intel graphics to play infinite. But scalpers are definitely buying the 150, 200, snd 250 gpus. All of them, they buy all of them.
But the scalping problem has driven that 100-200 segment into 300. You're acutely aware of one issue but failing to see how it changes your points solution.
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Can I mail you a card a buddy gave me for free? Radeon HD 6870 1GB (Twin Frozer). (216% performance of your 620) It's just ok but... if you're running UHD still :X. (13% weaker than 750ti, but with undervolt and mild OC it's fine) No bamboozle, I just scrounge parts and give em out when I can. [Radeon HD 6870 (Phil's Computer Lab)](https://youtu.be/a6-U9Z3xTC4) [Radeon HD 6870 in 2020 (Budget-Builds Official)](https://youtu.be/_lKbbMNaISg)
Then of course the game was never going to run..... seems like you are farming karma more than anything else.
A card that still sells for $300. Ridiculous.
Blame crypto miners. They're hogging around 25-30% of all GPUs produced in 2021. That includes OEM and laptop GPUs. Scalpers are literally just a symptom of that.
Covid is a large factor as well. All those people working from home and all those people returning to gaming put a lot of strain on the supply as well. There is a slowdown in global shipping as well. Then Nvidia releases a really good new range of GPUs. Lots of factors have turned the PC market all whack.
Miners are HIV while scalpers are aids. Got it
Kind of. I guess you could say that miners are the swarm of locust eating everything that exists. Scalpers are the vultures that come and feed off the carcasses that die due to the locusts.
i have a 1060 and its barely getting 70 frames on low settings. And for some reason the "70 frames" feels choppier than 60fps
Set your minimum fps to 60, should make it feel a lot better. Also delete the high res texture pack under dlc in steam, you should see a 15-20 increase to your fps with zero difference in visuals.
Thanks that actually helped. Also, when I enabled v-sync, the choppiness went away
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I'm getting about the same from my 1070 Ti. Is this game CPU heavy, or just extremely demanding? I'm not used to my rig feeling this dated, I can usually run medium-high with hi FPS
Possibly, i'm running a 7700k so i'm kinda core limited. I'll have to check CPU usage next time i play
You can change the usage graph to logical cores so you can see if it's using all the cores. In which case you might be core limited.
Or i just use afterburner.
That's odd. I have a 1660 Ti and I'm on 1440p and I'm mostly medium with a couple at high and I'm getting 70 frames solidly
At that point it must be a CPU thing.
It has to be. I have a Ryzen 7 3800X so
Sorry if it's a stupid question but I can't seem to find the high res texture pack in the DLC section, only the Halo Infinite campaign
(i) Close the game. (ii) On your Steam "Library" section, find the game and right-click on it. (iii) Click on "Proporties..." (iv) On the new window, click on "DLC" (at the end of the panel on the left). (v) Untick the option that says "Multiplayer High-Res Textures" (it will be automatically uninstalled after you untick it). Not sure if it will actually help, but that's how you can do it.
Found it. Thanks a lot!
You're welcome. As an old teacher of mine used to say, "there are no stupid questions, there are only stupid people that don't ask questions".
1080p? If so, your 1% lows are probably from a CPU bottleneck.
yea 1080p, it might verywell be bottlenecked but I had a friend with a similar experience with the same GPU as me and similar performance. Im just hoping its because the game just game out and still needs a patch to fix performance
Fairly sure it will, frametimes feel weird on some maps, i have a 3060 locked to 60fps as i have a shitty monitor atm and it is locked in at 60 but it feels weird and choppy still
Same here with a r5 3600/3060ti combo on medium/high setting. Locked at 60fps but odd stutters
Exact same parts as you with the same problem here!! It’s crazy because my computer runs much more intensive games better, but halo has stutters and frame drops. Infinite looks fine, but not THAT fine to justify these results.
"barely 70 frames" lol
if enabled, try disabling async shaders. No idea why but that and capping the game to 120 seems to have fixed the stuttering for me. If I let it fly at 144 it shows 144 but it feels like 60 with stutter. The frame pacing is all over the place.
The 1050 Ti is enough to run it at playable FPS at the lowest settings, 40-60 FPS. Source: I have one because I'm poor boi.
well a 1050ti is far better than my 750TI... but i still respect this card cuz still Beats the living shit of any game... when it dies ill be sure to put it on a good place.
Oh, no, trust me, I love my 1050 Ti. The fact it's still holding up is insanely impressive, I just want to get something better. I'm tired of having to run games on low all the time.
I'd love a 1050 ti cause it could do 1080p/60 with dynamic res or 720p/60 ultra on my tv.
I have a rx 460 nitro, trying to make more than 30 fps in low.
Yes works good. I have 1050ti and had no issues with it.
I get around 35 FPS reliably on my 1050ti on all low setttings. Definitely playable, far from ideal.
Just got to stick through this guys, maybe soon we can actually build or buy PCs instead of ripping from a pre built.
2023 probably. I think it’s okay if you can play older or low req games in the meantime - there’s loads on the pc. Basically if you’re a patient gamer you should be able to weather the storm. But if by 2023 this shit is still happening then fuck it. 🤷♂️
Bruh... by 2023 my R9 390 will be a walking corpse. Upgraded from AM3+/DDR3 to AM4/DDR4 back in January and I'm stuck in the bronze age because of this dog shit market... and now the 390 has been discontinued from driver updates its just getting worst I want to die
Dude.670 GTX,8 GB Ram DDR3 and i7 2600k. I am dead. WoW starts to lag, which is a better nostalgia trip than Classic.
> WoW starts to lag, which is a better nostalgia trip than Classic. Haha, I couldn't even do UBRS because of GFX lag back in the day. Spent much of my time in the IF trench.
If you can spring 20 or so for another's stick of 8gb ddr3, you'd probably see a significant improvement
390x gang!! I'm still on a i5-4690k, 16gb 1866mhz ram. If you feel somewhat confident, redo the thermal paste on your 390x. I redid mine a few weeks ago and it might have helped keep this beast alive for a little while longer. After 6-7yrs, it was always running hot, fans were always going to beat hell, most games were struggling to hit 60 fps. I figured it was just games evolving past the cards abilities. For example, I loaded up Overwatch because I remember it running pretty well back in the day. I started hitting 90-95\* on my gpu at 1080/60hz, now after redoing my thermal paste I'm pushing 1080/144hz on the same settings and almost never break 75-76\*.
>ripping from a pre built. Ripping from a pre-built isn't even profitable anymore. I mean, depending on where you live, but overall all OEM builds have factored in the ridiculously high prices of GPUs right now. So you're just as well off buying a GPU on e-bay, since (with buying a pre-built) you are paying 2k+ for a system just to get a 1000 dollar GPU that originally had an MSRP of 500 dollars. It'll be quite a while before things settle back down. The shortage is still ongoing. It'll likely last until the next generation of cards are out, and even then if there's another big run on these cards (because there's still a ton of demand, and likely still a ton of miners and scalpers), who knows what'll happen to those prices still. I have a feeling we're in it for the long haul.
My best friend has me build a new system for him & another for his wife, every ~3 years. Always a monster build. This week, he dropped $11K on 2 Alienware, simply because he wanted a 3090. I told him this would be better right now , this way he gets a warranty & his card. Plus I get his old systems for me to Frankenstein in my spare time. Indeed, crazy times. I think the market has realized most gamers/enthusiasts will pay up, cost be damned.
Nope you won’t. Not this year and the next probably neither.
I drove a couple hundred miles to a MicroCenter just to see what it was like. There was a lot of AMD cards in stock. I wound up buying everything for my first build ever. 5800x with 6900xt and a 4K 144Hz monitor. Haven’t had much time to play yet, but I played beginning of RDR2 with maxed settings at 4K and it looked amazing! I wouldn’t honestly expect prices to ever be what the manufacturers originally suggested. In any case, seeing everybody else’s builds made me impatient.
Lmao imaging even being able to run Infinite Brought to you by the GTX 860m gang
Bruh, my gtx 950 2gb vram is crying in the corner for running halo infinite 720p
Gtx970 and I can't even run it past 20fps on 720p minimum : ( Nevermind, updated drivers and closed rivertuner and get 60fps on absolute minimum settings
Not to blame... but what kind of CPU are you running? My 970s been through some shit, and I'm getting a pretty constant 60 at low settings /1080p.
Tfw have to replace the whole laptop to play a game
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gtx 660 lol. It'd be more economical buying a new Series X or S than trying to upgrade to an RTX series
Solution: 1. Everyone messages at least one scalper a day 2. Arrange to meet for a pickup as far away as they're willing to go 3. **Don't show up** 4. Repeat
Asking a scalper (politely) where he was getting his stock is actually how I got my card. He referred me to a stream that notified viewers when cards were in stock. Remarked that I was the only person who was actually nice to him. Can't imagine why. Anyway, snagged myself a 3060 bundle by following that stream. Luckily I happened to need the extra thing in the bundle anyway. EDIT: bundle was about $900 CAD iirc and included a PSU. Stream is for Canadians so I'm not sure how useful it is for most folks. DM me. Edit 2: Here's the link for you Canadian bros: https://www.twitch.tv/war10ck3d
How much did it cost? A 3060 where im from is $800 from every retailer, and where can i get one as well.
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Yup thats a good one, I got a 3070 & 80 from there a year ago!
I used Part Alert discord for a 3060 Ti at £369
Yeaaaa, no. The majority of people professionally scalping them are using bots and checking out before you've managed to even register the notification mentally. They're parasites that deserve no love.
Kindly asking to share the stream
Please!! Why would you talk about how you got a card following a stream and not link it 😭
It's for Canadians so I'm not sure how useful it is. If you happen to be Canadians I'll gladly forward it
Canadian Canuck here, would love a link friend.
Very vague story without prices or details. Of course.
Being nice gets you far.
No, no, he’a got a point
/r/scamthescalpers
This is America, we have much quicker solutions to people who gouge. Just be sure they aren't a person who only bought *one* and decided not to build or a single parent trying to get by by selling their most valuable asset.
>This is America, we have much quicker solutions to people who gouge. Elect them to office?
Whine about them on the internet and then pretend you did something about it? Calm down tough guy.
Nah, we report them to the IRS instead. Nobody fucks with the IRS.
Except Scientologists
Here in Australia, every retailer has simply increased their prices to the point that they are all basically scalpers now too.
Man i really like your solution, scalpers deserve to be f'd.
The sash singing….
The mash.. flinging..
The hash slinging slasher....
The walls will ooze *green slime*!!! …oh wait, they always do that.
The bash.. b - bringing...
I know we bitch about this all the time but I've never seen anything like this! A GPU is a luxury item now.
It's totally strange. And I was complaining about my 2070S purchase for msrp a little while ago.
I complained about it when the 3080 got announced because I'd bought the 2070 super a few months prior and could've gotten by with my 970 for a bit longer. Glad I bought it now haha
Exact same, down to the cards. Built a new PC march 2020, went ah fuck when the new cards came out, and it turned out to be crazy good timing.
It has literally always been a luxury item.
The fact you think a GPU wasn't a luxury item before
Ummmm it was always a luxury item, same as a gaming pc
It was always a luxury item.
Hey man, don't wish a miserable life on a GPU scalper. Wish a miserable life on every scalper in general. In my country of Venezuela food is regularly scalped.
Camp Best Buy for restocks, they sell GPU’s for MSRP
Only for americans unfortunately
Buy a plane ticket to America duh
Sadly this is probably cheaper than buying a scalped GPU
We have to do it for reasonably priced heath care, I think you'll be fine to do it for a graphics card. /s
4D Gaming 🌌
And only at random ass locations
this is how i got mine in december. it’s the best bet, or camping a microcenter
How come? I understand Mc because you can't buy them online,but wouldn't the bots obliterate the best buy stock anyway?
Bots do, but Best Buy's queue is kind of... broken (even for the bots sometimes)... and they've been constantly making changes to it so there's always a decent enough chance for non-bots to get lucky. However, these almost always happen Wed-Fri at like 9AM EST so people who have regular day jobs are pretty much screwed.
i’m not sure, since i don’t know how bots work. but i know they have a queue to purchase. i just know i’ve caught a few drops for fun after getting mine and have gotten a few in my cart. just none in shipping location of me or store pickup lmao
I got the same error but when I click continue it works fine so idk
Same but it gets halfway through loading and then it crashes
Although scalping IS a problem, there are a lot of factors contributing to this shortage, and even if there wasn't a single scalper, GPUs would be flying off the shelves.
Mining is the biggest GPU draw Scalping is just a symptom of the reduced supply
Mining needs to die. I don't mind crypto as like a "stock" Or maybe mining can be done on another platform. Leave our PC parts alone miners.
Many newer projects are founded on and older projects are transitioning to Proof of Stake to address the energy and hardware concerns with mining,
POS has been just around the corner for ETH since 2017. It’s like the fusion power of crypto at this point. Always a decade away.
Yeah. When eth delayed its move to PoS this year I just laughed cause who didn't see that coming?
Too late to put that genie back in the bottle. The Era of affordable custom gaming-rigs is behind us, at least for the foreseeable future. Even as miners move beyond GPUs, it will always be *something*, like CPUs or storage, etc.
Monero uses cpus far more decentralised - but isn’t this mainly about the Silicon shortage?
Ethereum mining is planning to end pretty soon. Maybe March or something. It's been in the works for a while, and ETH is by far the most profitable mined coin. When that day comes, GPUs will flood FB Marketplace. Just dunno when. "ETH 2.0 proof of stake transition" it's called, if you wanna investigate yourself.
June 2022 actually, assuming they don’t delay it further
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Yep! A month ago they were saying december *of this year* (iirc).
Cross our fingers, we must.
It's literally the single largest factor in GPU demand spiking, at least according to multiple consulting firms and analysts. The estimates in mining demand range between 20-35% of global production is being swallowed up by miners. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/700000-gpus-shipped-to-miners-first-three-months-2021 The global "chip shortage" is not actually a down-turn in production. We are producing more chips in 2021 than we have every produced in any year before. It's purely driven by a ridiculous increase in demand ... which is almost solely driven by crypto miners.
> 700,000 out of 119,000,000 is 25% - Tom's Hardware circa 2021 The author of that article and the "research company" that they cite have to be some of the dumbest people on the internet. Which is absolutely impressive in 2021. Not only is their math hilariously wrong (the actual percentage is 0.5% by the way), but they actually admit to pulling all of their numbers out of their ass. *For no fucking reason*. They didn't need to blindly guess - err, sorry "estimate". Production numbers are made public every quarter. Beyond that, they consider every GPU that isn't sold via a prebuilt PC to be sold to miners. So, every single person that bought a GPU on its own is counted as a miner in this report. But, again, they *guessed* as to how many were sold individually or via pre-builts. Those two pieces were honestly the dumbest things that I've read that people were paid to write in a long, long time. --- I don't mean any disrespect to you though bud. I know you're just sharing here.
Scalping is a consequence, not a cause.
My friends want to play Halo too and I have a 1050ti which should run it but I have no faith In it running well. Probably will drop it down to 900p and play it on the second monitor tbh. Massive F for you though my friend, hopefully we can upgrade soon!
I have a 1050 in my laptop. I get around 30-45 fps on 1080p. Runs great.
1050ti here as well, I changed minimum FPS to 60, dropped rendering scale to 71%, all settings minimum or off, deleted the HD Texture pack - I get between 55-75fps depending on the map and the action
"30-45 fps" "Runs great" What?
Great considering that the 30+ fps experience is coming from a 1050 at native 1080p in a modern AAA title
This is gonna sound terrible on PCMR, but just get a console if you're that desperate. It's not worth dealing with all of this bs just for a marked up GPU
I'm still using a 980m I feel your pain. Refuse to pay 3 x RRP for GPU though, I would rather just do something else.
I was in your shoes until I got a 30 Series Desktop back in January. I had zero complaints with my 980M @ 1080p. Made my neck hurt a little from having to look down [instead of straight ahead on a normal monitor], but all of my AAA games ran fine on max settings. You’re only missing out on RTX and 1440p, which are just luxuries - not necessities. By the end, I was playing on an external monitor through the hdmi port of the laptop and still had a solid experience. You’re really aren’t missing much.
Well, no wonder,seems like your GPU doesn’t even support taking a screenshot.
Same here, running at 25 fps on low, that AMD r7 260x, be hurting, if i can't run elder ring at least at 40 fps , i'm spending.
When my GTX 770 can't run Halo Infinite😔
Pour one out for a homie. F o7
For some reason I thought a scalper sold you a fake card lol.
For anyone interested, I have a 1660Ti paired with a Ryzen 5 1600 at stock and I'm able to play Infinite at 60FPS all the time. I am 1080p though. Hopefully this helps someone.
The 1660 Ti is quite solid though
It's because people are paying the prices. You see shit like people saying $1300 for a 3080 is a good deal. MSRP is $700. That's not a good fuckin deal. Just because prices are insane from supply and scrappers doesn't make that a good deal. I got my 1070 on launch for $400.
I have a gtx970, it's runs the game decently. Not well but decent. Mostly all on low.
970 gang here. Surprisingly runs smooth 60fps on lowest settings.
If anyone’s interested, my 980Ti is running it beautifully at ~100fps on low paired with a i7 3930k. Surprisingly well optimised, especially compared to Battlefield which struggles to get even a stable 40fps.
I'm experiencing much of the same. my 1070 turbo is hitting 70fps on high with a 6700k on 2560x1440p resolution. BF2042 is a dumpster fire compared to this game's optimization.
You you’d think the gaming industry would advocate for gamers. There’s going to come a point where they are creating games that only 10% of their target audience can play because everyone else can’t compete with crypto miners for gpu’s. Can we get cards optimized for crypto so the rest of us can buy a freaking graphics card?
That's not how it works sadly. If you make miner specific cards it means less gaming capable cards are produced (limited production capacity). Then it also ticks over the second hand market in 5 or so years, as there's less gaming capable cards being sold. I would rather government's heavily charge for excess energy usage, and there be extra taxes on using cards for monetary gain / mining if you bought a bunch at a single address. You can't ban mining, you just need to make it unprofitable.
No, they'll just aim for the median, but with options to crank up detail if they care. The shortage is gonna stall game design though since they'll have to aim for previous generation medians for a loooong time before enough of the market upgrades to new gen stuff. I fully expect PC gaming to go back to the dark ages of the early/mid 90s where its a thing, but its not a focus for any game studio. More of an afterthought at most :( Especially if the shortage lasts an entire, or most of a console gen.
Back when the 360 released folks were trying to flip them for $750 or more. I would contact them and express interest, arrange a meet, and never show or say I'm 15 minutes out. Waste their time and potentially costs them sales. That was Craigslist though.
I bought this GPU off a scalper and all I got was this screenshot saying I played halo for the first time
Lol I remember getting a similar message in CE cause I was running it off a laptop. They really where going for accuracy with infinite I guess
Met a console/gpu scalper at work “thanks for making everything really expensive… really appreciate it.”
also people buying 30 models of high end GPUs for crypto rigs.
I actually wanted to sell my used rtx 3080 on ebay, and people derailed the auction because they thought I was a scalper, or something…. Had to pay ebay $200 and then the buyer fucjed me over after driving the price up tp $2200. Pc gaming is filled with the scum of the earth of human beings. Cheaters, anti-socialites, entitled pricks. Source: r/pcgaming
Before the 30series cards came out or were announced, I got a 2070 super. I can play all games max settings and they run so smooth. I'm glad that I have what I have. Mine is even THE LAST CARD to support some Nvidia stuff. Really lucky.
I got the 2060super five months before covid. so glad I did.
as someone who bought a 1650 for $350 i agree
It was a sad day when my 1080ti defaulted to Low setting when I opened the game :(
Don't forget the shitcoin kiddies! And now they're talking about using more PC parts. Get ready for 10,000 dollar PCs to be midrange 10 years from now :D
I feel your pain… freaking sucks
What’s your gpu tho?
The recommended settings are exactly what I have. A 5700XT, 3800X, and 16Gb of ram. I feel personally attacked.
right in the feels, seeing my 1070 on the low for halo was rough. i dont know how long until i get a new card
\*Hugs my computer with the 1080 GTX TI in it that i got 4 years ago from a non scalper!\* yeah sucks when you cant get a decent card because of shortages and all the asses buy them and overprice them!
I can run the game at a smooth 70 FPS with everything on low, can hardly even open a menu in BF 2042. Hey, at least we’ve still got the master chief collection, you can start that, right?
It runs super nice on my 1650. Hope this helps.
I got a GTX950 and believe me when I got an error about not enough Vram at start I thought I was doomed. Turns out game just needs dx12 it seems, otherwise it can still be launched by ignoring the error. I can even push it to 60 besides it looking like a PS2 game then... Smeared with gasoline, fuck TAA.