So long as it's a standardisation process I think it's fine. Most are using prebuilt anyway so having a few standard levels SIs certify to makes it more consoley and anyone who's rolling their own can use it as a guide or not and it's exactly the same as the status quo.
BeardedGingerWonder
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Yeah it really is, I jump on protondb and read like 2-3 reviews to make sure the performance is adequate and there's no major game breaking bugs and it's fine.
I don't think the point was ever to have to buy the hardware from valve, or that's not how I saw it anyway. They wanted other manufacturers in on the steam machines, I think there were even units produced. The idea (aside from more steam sales) was to standardise PCs around specific performance levels so developers could target them without the faff of having to know how a 12900K stacks up against a Ryzen 7 7800X3D or a 13700 with a 3080, 4070Ti or a 7800XTXxXTTX.
This game is certified steam medium tier, I have a steam high tier machine, I will get xyz performance.
It's a different thing IMO, futzing around with PC settings is a pain to a lot of people, which is where consoles lie. Also your 6 year old PC cost twice what your console did. It's not a like for like comparison.
Maybe Valve should take another crack at the console market.
People are complaining because they don't like a thing, that's fine. Same as you're complaining in this post. Call companies out on their bullshit. Also don't buy bullshit, that's a good point too.
Any % speedrun is already under an hour!
Kinda looking forward to her OF career if I'm honest.
It gets closer for a bit and then gets further away again. It'd need to be a huge leapfrog for me to want to give up the ability to replace a discrete GPU with an integrated one. Probably good for the laptop crowd though.
I was joking
Nothing precludes the head of compliance from being a cryptobro or a programmer.
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NGL, I don't game as much as I used to so the sample size is probably terrible and I'm on ultrawide which only makes it worse, but the last couple of games I've installed either went a bit too conservative on settings or enabled some form of ray tracing because my graphics card supports it - but ultimately it made the game an unpleasant experience.