I have a merely 3 year old PC I bought for 1500€ a 5600x and 3060ti, yet it for some reason can’t run cronos, a single player linear game, on low settings without constant lags

The whole game consists of grayscale. There is simply nothing that would require the computing power

And its not really a realistic progress of computing requirements, while they state that my entry level ryzen 5 5600x can run it on optimal settings, for some reason they require an extremely up to date GPU, which just tells me that they just crammed in every kind of graphics tech so their Grayscale smog looks better

  • Lumidaub@feddit.orgEnglish
    12·
    17 hours ago

    The whole game consists of grayscale. There is simply nothing that would require the computing power

    I haven’t played the game but I just looked up screenshots and those don’t look like greyscale? It’s toned down but there’s colour and lighting effects everywhere. I don’t even think colour vs greyscale would have any significant effect on performance. You mention “smog” and there is indeed a lot of mist and fog and whatnot in the pictures I’m seeing - that sounds like it would be a LOT more significant, regardless of colour.

    • frongt@lemmy.zip
      7·
      14 hours ago

      Oof yeah transparency effects are expensive.

      Edit: yeah I also looked up screenshots. There are a lot of expensive lighting effects in some of those screenshots.

      You want a visually impressive game, you’re gonna need a GPU that can keep up. If you want to play an actual grayscale game, try The Return of the Obra Dinn. (It’s still full 3D Unity under the hood, so you’ll need some GPU, but the stylization effects means they don’t need to do anything but basic geometry and static lighting.)