1 Game? What Game?
1 Game? What Game?
I'm a dedicated PC enthusiast with an IT career, always looking to upgrade and enhance my gear. My current setup includes a solid quad-core processor, NVME M.2 storage, a larger 2.5 SSD, two monitors, and a comfortable chair—just the basics! But I recently got an OC'd R9 3900x (64 GB, 3600 MHZ GSkill DDR4) paired with a Noctua cooler that offers nearly the same cooling performance at a much lower cost. I won’t go into detail about all my other components, but everything is top-of-the-line and a bit excessive. Notably, I don’t need an RTX 2080ti since I’ve never played games beyond Solitaire on my PC, and it cost me a lot of money.
I work remotely, editing, coding, browsing, and emailing frequently—so Office 365 is also using some resources. That’s why I’m reaching out.
If you have a similar or better setup and are serious about gaming—especially immersive, ray-tracing enabled titles—I’d love to hear your thoughts. I feel it’s time to invest in myself and my machine before it gets too old! Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot!
Minecraft with the RTX add-on lets you customize it freely, and the ever-changing environment highlights the power of ray tracing for realism.
Probability is low. If I were stuck for a weekend with nothing else to do except play one game... Well, I’d probably choose The Witcher 3, it’s been a while since I last played it.
But remember, preferences vary a lot, especially when it comes to games. If you really want to dive into DXR, Metro Exodus would be a good pick.
Battlefield V.
It looks amazing on ultra, has Ray Tracing and, despite some of DICE's screw ups around the game, is an extremely fun Battlefield game that you should get a few hundred hours out of.
Also just out of curiosity, what’s the top driving sim that takes RTX into account these days? Because I really enjoy those kinds of games, but I often feel they’re either too unrealistic or just not realistic enough—so I end up using a full simulator cage. I’ve got a real 660 HP Modified BMW, which is why I haven’t played any sims lately. My friend who loves them can’t decide, and I gave up playing his games a while back for the same reasons.
Absolutely, especially for a visually appealing but slower-paced title like Witcher. For FPS games I tend to prefer a standard 16:9 screen. Ghost Recon Wildlands has impressed me with its quality, and the map is incredibly large. It doesn’t rely on RTX, and some missions make stealth quite challenging—you have to avoid detection carefully, because even if you kill someone before they react or alert others, you’ll still be caught through magic and fail the mission. So you can’t just remove your suppressor and go all out for fun. Overall, it’s been really enjoyable and looks great without any RTX features.
Other than that, Skyrim seems legendary to me (though I haven’t played it yet), Minecraft is popular with others, and games with strong mod support are great—many even include ray/path-tracing mods, though they usually don’t use the RT cores.