I don’t like the implied sociopathy in that assessment. It smacks of "i got mine, fuck you ". I’m not implying that is your attitude, just pointing out that people who don’t care because it does not affect them overlap the population that is all for fascism because they are in the “in” group and aren’t (obviously) harmed.
Building to work well on low-end systems does not take from high-end systems unless the devs don’t take advantage of it when it is available.even then, they are not worse off. They just don’t get something better than “the pleebs” are getting.
I don’t know how you can even get to this conclusion from what I said.
It depends on the optimization for low-end systems that is being done, if it will have an effect to high-end systems. All I say is, that optimizing a game for Steam Deck does not mean it will have an effect to high end machines (btw my system isn’t even high end…, I’m not an elitist). In other replies I tried to give a few examples of what I mean.
A very simple example would be having low quality textures added to a game, to make it run with the constraints of the Steam Deck (or other low end machines). If the game was already running well at 60 fps with high quality textures, then it will not benefit from option to set low quality textures. And just to make it clear: I am not against optimizations for low end hardware. In fact I own a Steam Deck and love it and my PC is not even high end, some may even say low… (at least the GPU).
I don’t like the implied sociopathy in that assessment. It smacks of "i got mine, fuck you ". I’m not implying that is your attitude, just pointing out that people who don’t care because it does not affect them overlap the population that is all for fascism because they are in the “in” group and aren’t (obviously) harmed.
Building to work well on low-end systems does not take from high-end systems unless the devs don’t take advantage of it when it is available.even then, they are not worse off. They just don’t get something better than “the pleebs” are getting.
I don’t know how you can even get to this conclusion from what I said.
It depends on the optimization for low-end systems that is being done, if it will have an effect to high-end systems. All I say is, that optimizing a game for Steam Deck does not mean it will have an effect to high end machines (btw my system isn’t even high end…, I’m not an elitist). In other replies I tried to give a few examples of what I mean.
A very simple example would be having low quality textures added to a game, to make it run with the constraints of the Steam Deck (or other low end machines). If the game was already running well at 60 fps with high quality textures, then it will not benefit from option to set low quality textures. And just to make it clear: I am not against optimizations for low end hardware. In fact I own a Steam Deck and love it and my PC is not even high end, some may even say low… (at least the GPU).