• bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 months ago

    If you don’t upgrade to Windows 11, you can’t use Recall, which is a great reason not to upgrade to Windows 11.

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      I upgraded to Linux. It worked out well for me since I mostly pay retro games and games from yesteryear.

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        I upgraded a Chromebook to Linux recently. That was a huge bump in performance that I wasn’t expecting, not even just for gaming.

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            Yeah it was ChromeOS. It is sort of linux, but google is an advertising company. You can’t ask them to not collect your data and recently they gave up pretending like they cared about user privacy. Linux is none of that. Complete opposite.

            If you compare it to linux side by side, chromeOS is basically the alternate reality evil twin with the goatee

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    People want shiny new things. I’ve had relatives say stuff like “I bought this computer 2 years ago and it’s getting slower, it’s awful how you have to buy a new one so quickly.” I suggest things to improve it, most of which are free or very cheap and I’d happily do for them. But they just go out and buy a brand new one because that’s secretly what they wanted to do in the first place, they just don’t want to admit they’re that materialistic.

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        Free:

        • clean fans and heatsink - others mentioned, and the reason is better cooling so it doesn’t throttle
        • kill unnecessary services - that’s why reinstalling works
        • install Linux - not reasonable for everyone, but Linux uses far fewer resources
        • delete old files - as disks get full, it takes longer to find somewhere for files to go; try to leave 10-20% free
        • try a small overclock - many older CPUs can give a little more without upgrading cooling; only do it if temps look good

        Relatively cheap (<$200 each):

        • upgrade drive to NVMe - huge difference if running an HDD, still noticeable of running a SATA SSD
        • add more RAM (only if you’re constantly running out)
        • upgrade CPU - esp if AMD since they release lots of CPUs for the same socket

        It really depends on what’s making it slow though.

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    If not playing competitive, there’s very little reason to go latest and greatest. Just buy something with software support, or use Linux where support is practically guaranteed for at least a decade

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      Linux is actually a problem area here, because various crucial libraries for running games have limited support for hardware that old. I tried for a long time to get it working with stuff from 2012, my problems disappeared after upgrading my cpu recently. Something with Vulkan compatibility I think.

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    there is no way in hell a 2014 computer is able to run modern games on medium settings at all, let alone running well. my four year old computer (Ryzen 5 4000, GTX 1650, 16 GB RAM) can barely get 30-40 fps on most modern games at 1080p even on the absolute lowest settings. don’t get me wrong, it should still work fine. however, almost no modern games are optimized at all and the “low” settings are all super fucking high now, so anon is lying out of his ass.

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      6 months ago

      It says the story took place in 2020. And that it played “Most games” on medium settings. 30-40 fps is playable to a lot of people. I’m inclined to believe them.