The original post: /r/pcgaming by /u/Useless_Asset on 2024-12-21 22:00:19.

So I work as a backend software developer and I don’t understand the reason for increasingly high hardware requirements (for PC games). If you look at games from like 2015 (Witcher 3, fallout 4, AC: Syndicate etc) I don’t really see any dramatic difference in graphics or mechanics that would require a much better CPU/GPU to run modern games. Yet most modern games struggle to run on my (to be fair, rather mediocre) setup that can easily handle any of the slightly older games. Am I not understanding something about modern games or is it all about modern games being unoptimized due to investers’ demands and deadlines?