Really, some entreprises are frying my nerves.
Some games and prgs require minimum hardware to be run. Normal.

But some STOP THE PROGRAM FROM EXECUTING if it doesnt match the needs.

- Cyberpunk 2077
- MS Flight Sim 2001 (ahem i meant 2020)
- Valorant
- Battlefield 2042
- Control - DX12
- DaVinci Resolve
- Autodesk
- Epic Games Store (sux btw)
... an many more

I mean lemme fry my own shit and have a bad experience !

That's weird. I bought Cyberpunk 2077 on GoG on opening day and it ran fine on my old i7-9x series + 2080-Ti.

https://battlepenguin.com/gaming/...

I started playing Control but never got far in it. DaVinci Resolve should run on anything .. I've run that on ancient hardware.

Are you running on like a 6th gen Intel or something? How old is your system that stuff won't start? Does the error say it's because of your hardware?

Didn't nvidia release some shit driver/firmware that didn't read the internal temperature properly. This is turn fried a bunch of video cards. Then people blamed Oblivion Rehashed for burning up their cards because the driver came out at the same time as the game.

That's kind of the opposite of my experience. I remember when I started playing Control - I don't remember if DX11 or 12 - but with a GTX 1080 back then I was impressed that I was able to actually turn on raytracing. Granted, it was practically a slideshow (1, maybe 2 fps), but everything was rendering correctly, I was even able to walk around in photo mode to take some shots - so I suppose it has some software fallback if the hardware can't play ball.

@djsumdog AHAHAHHAHA my ancient hardware is pentium g2030, gtx 745/iGPU

@kamen i got a gtx 745... cant run the game

I mainly get those errors when I'm trying to run a game on a video card that doesn't support some features it uses, which is difficult to mitigate. My impression is that devs add these aborts into error handlers for hard errors that can only really trigger outside their platform support bracket. Which is fair, that is why you have a platform support bracket.

that annoyed me to when it started happening over a decade ago.... so i just kept fucking with shit like the registry until those things thought i had whatever nonsense they wanted... windows thinks my laptop passed the windows 11 health check thing... i never even let it check, just added the registry value/key myself... i also didnt actually want windows 11, it was the damn principle of the matter!

I think while there are cases where the hw genuinely isn’t able to run the program, there are also a lot of cases where the devs or the publishers do it to not get bad publicity by people who complain about the game running like shit.

@lorentz i mean a gl 4.5 card supports already many things, just not

spirv stuff

some weird texture filters

polygon offset clamp

and thats basically it

and sometimes the CPU is also contested

@awesomeest exactly!

@Lensflare for me, bad publicity is exactly this.

I mean, lemme fuck my old gtx and thats it

@3dgoosee a video on youtube about how the game doesn’t run hurts them less than a video about how it runs badly.

@Lensflare i know i know, but hey, most games run badly due to poor optimization

It's been bugging me forever when people say "poor optimisation" when 99% of the time it's just about inefficient, badly written stuff. You don't "optimise" that; you throw it out and start anew.

I remember the first time around I finished playing 'StarCraft II' was on a heavily underpowered PC. All quality settings set to minimum. The game ran at a _mostly_ stable 30 FPS... Well... we do what we can, w/ what we have...