If you’re still interested in some video games there are always open source (FOSS) games to turn to.
Here are a few from the top of my head:
Minetest is a great one. I’ve spent way too many hours playing it. It can be similar to Minecraft, however Minetest by itself is just an engine. You have to install mods (which is relatively easy and can be done in-game) to basically make your own game. Think Garry’s Mod but with Voxel graphics.
There is also Veloren which is a FOSS Cube World clone. Though this one does require decent graphics hardware to be playable. I have a Radeon RX 560 and that game makes that card rather toasty to say the least.
Another one is 0 A.D. which is basically a FOSS clone of Age of Empires III that has been in constant development for over 20 years now I believe. Can be very addicting. Though it also requires a relatively beefy GPU. (which is understandable, because it looks really good on high settings)
Here are some probably lesser known FOSS games that are less demanding in terms of resources but can still be pretty fun imo:
There are probably more, but these are just some that I’m familiar with. If you’re on Linux or a BSD, just search the package repositories for “game” and see what comes up. That’s how I found a lot of these.
I have been playing Veloren with my family. Thankfully my brother actually likes it and seems to be playing it instead of the old Cube World exe from a youtube video.
My 960M 2016 gaming laptop cannot really handle it and the graphics are pretty alright so that’s some reference.
I just don’t feel comfortable with rendering on a nicer display with some non-adequate graphics card. My 960M cannot hit 1080p 60fps on games I actually tend to play and be interested in like modded Minecraft and Veloren. The displays I am looking at these days are 1440p 10bit 165hz gaming monitors and 4K 120hz OLEDs.
Newer x86 CPUs are just not a great value unless you need something specific like PCIe 4 or lowest possible power consumption (but then you may not want an x86 system). I’m rocking 14nm CPUs and single threaded performance is massively overrated that AMD still seems to dump transistors on.
But you’re prob not going to get over 4TFLOPS on a 28nm GPU. And eventually I will prob need to buy a 7nm GPU even if it is to just forward frames to it’s HDMI 2.1 port.
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If you’re still interested in some video games there are always open source (FOSS) games to turn to.
Here are a few from the top of my head:
Minetest is a great one. I’ve spent way too many hours playing it. It can be similar to Minecraft, however Minetest by itself is just an engine. You have to install mods (which is relatively easy and can be done in-game) to basically make your own game. Think Garry’s Mod but with Voxel graphics.
There is also Veloren which is a FOSS Cube World clone. Though this one does require decent graphics hardware to be playable. I have a Radeon RX 560 and that game makes that card rather toasty to say the least.
Another one is 0 A.D. which is basically a FOSS clone of Age of Empires III that has been in constant development for over 20 years now I believe. Can be very addicting. Though it also requires a relatively beefy GPU. (which is understandable, because it looks really good on high settings)
Here are some probably lesser known FOSS games that are less demanding in terms of resources but can still be pretty fun imo:
There are probably more, but these are just some that I’m familiar with. If you’re on Linux or a BSD, just search the package repositories for “game” and see what comes up. That’s how I found a lot of these.
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I have been playing Veloren with my family. Thankfully my brother actually likes it and seems to be playing it instead of the old Cube World exe from a youtube video.
My 960M 2016 gaming laptop cannot really handle it and the graphics are pretty alright so that’s some reference.
I just don’t feel comfortable with rendering on a nicer display with some non-adequate graphics card. My 960M cannot hit 1080p 60fps on games I actually tend to play and be interested in like modded Minecraft and Veloren. The displays I am looking at these days are 1440p 10bit 165hz gaming monitors and 4K 120hz OLEDs.
Newer x86 CPUs are just not a great value unless you need something specific like PCIe 4 or lowest possible power consumption (but then you may not want an x86 system). I’m rocking 14nm CPUs and single threaded performance is massively overrated that AMD still seems to dump transistors on.
But you’re prob not going to get over 4TFLOPS on a 28nm GPU. And eventually I will prob need to buy a 7nm GPU even if it is to just forward frames to it’s HDMI 2.1 port.
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What’s that. I also care about graphics for reasons that aren’t gaming.
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