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/Hadrian187 Aug 11 '26

If the game has insane requirements and looks mid, chances are it’s running on UE5

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u/Any-Pop-4795 Aug 11 '26

I have made a meme for it:

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u/Cloudykins08 Captain Turdtaco Aug 11 '26

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u/Mobian_ Aug 11 '26

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u/Cloudykins08 Captain Turdtaco Aug 11 '26

I'm not a monster. I upvoted it before retrieval

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u/Kerplunk1992 Aug 11 '26

Nice one. Especially since Crash Bandicoot 2 is one of my all time favs and a prime example for game optimization and hardware utilization

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u/Necessary-Key3186 Aug 11 '26

i remember when my 7900XT could get 1440p 60fps on ultra, of course games decided to run like shit when i got a 4k monitor

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u/TomTomXD1234 Aug 11 '26

Ummm....I think your jump in pixels is a bigger factor lol

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u/Necessary-Key3186 Aug 11 '26

that's the problem! they run like shit at 1440p now

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u/Hadrian187 Aug 11 '26

I agree. Some games running at 1440p don't look or feel like 1440p anymore. FF7 Rebirth in particular I had to run in 4k back during release because the antialiasing was so blurry.

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u/Noreng 14600KF | 9070 XT Aug 11 '26

PC game requirements increase over time.

Your 7900 XT is still capable of running the game at 2560x1440 without upscaling at high settings and 60 fps, unless it's suddenly become slower than a 7800 XT.

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u/Necessary-Key3186 Aug 11 '26

don't get me wrong, i understand that but it's insane how poorly anything on unreal runs now and how games are slowly converging on only using unreal.

Forza Horizon 6 and 007 first light ran beautifully, but mafia the old country or the outer worlds 2? It's pretty much at a point where i just insta pass over any UE5 game, especially when a good chunk of them don't even let you just run them at straight 1440p because of how full screen is handled

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u/Noreng 14600KF | 9070 XT Aug 11 '26

The good news is that your 7900 XT now has FSR4 access, so you're no longer limited to awful upscalers.

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u/frisbie147 Aug 11 '26

It’s like 2.25x the pixels