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On Mon, 05 Sep 2016 10:33:49 +0300, Anssi Saari <a...@sci.fi> wrote:

>* GTA V
>
>Picked up my old save which was just after all the intro stuff and
>started playing again. It feels good. Did the first heist, went crazy as
>Trevor, reached Los Santos with him. We'll see but I think I'll finish
>it this time. I guess I've needed a longer break from GTA anything as it
>actually seems fun now.

Your new card might be contributing to the fun factor more than you
realize (depending on what your framerates were like with your old
card).  Just wait till you get a Gsync monitor ;)  

Buttery framerates are one of the most overlooked aspect of gaming, a
lot of folks don't realize how much the subpar framerates of
underpowered GPUs detract from immersion, until they get accustomed to
high framerates and then try to go back.  There seems to be the need
for a reference point for comparison.

With the upper-performing GPUs of the last couple of years, combined
with Gsync, its largely become a non-issue in gaming for me, as I
rarely have to worry about it.  Stuttering, tearing, etc. all gone, as
issues.  

It kind of reminds me of the old days when things like IRQ and DMA
conflicts were causing problems in a lot of games.  So, rather than
understand the problem and either fix it yourself or wait for the
technology itself to catch up with a solution, a lot of people just
gave up, concluded that PC gaming sucked 15-20 years ago, and went
console.  I actually know guys who still avoid PC gaming for this
reason (bad memories of dicking around with card jumpers and spending
more time fixing hardware than playing).

The only thing now is that instead of spending a lot of time tweaking
video and optimizing FPS, I am now left to simply evaluate the game
based on whether or not it's worth playing :)  And sometimes that
doesn't work out well for the title and ends up in a Steam refund.