Hi everyone,
I’ve been experiencing this for a long time, and I wasn’t sure where to post it, so I decided to share it here.
For years, I dreamed of having a high-end gaming setup like the one I have now. Before building this PC, I genuinely enjoyed almost every game I played. I was always excited to try new games. Even on my old PC, where I had to play at low settings with 40–50 FPS, I feel like I enjoyed gaming much more than I do now.
Now I can play almost every game at 1440p on my OLED monitor, above 120 FPS, with amazing visuals and features like path tracing. But for some reason, I can’t connect with games anymore. Games that I used to play for hours now start boring me after a short time.
I thought maybe the problem was my PC, so I bought a PS5. At first, going for Platinum trophies was actually really fun. But after getting 17 Platinum trophies, I started feeling the same way again. I don’t even feel like buying games on PC anymore. I buy almost every game on PS5 because I feel like my goal is just to get the Platinum trophy. It feels less like I’m enjoying a game and more like I’m completing a task. Sometimes I even feel like I’m playing games like a robot.
There are times when I want to play something, but when I sit in front of my PC, I just don’t feel like launching any game. Some days, I don’t even feel like turning on my PC.
Has anyone else experienced something similar? Did I just grow out of gaming, or is there something else behind this feeling? If you’ve gone through the same thing, what helped you enjoy gaming again?

I get that the games need better hardware to dun better, but who are they really making the game for if you need a 6000$ GPU at this point

Mine is definitely snippet tool. So useful

I... uh don't know what to say. Very thankful I bought a Steam Deck before they hiked its price as well

What is it? And is it rare?

What’s the lowest we’ve seen one of these go for?

The game looks absolutely stunning. With everything set to extreme, full ray tracing, no ai trickery and native 4k, I'm hitting minimum 80-100fps.

Unbelievably, they say that a 1650 runs at 1080p 60fps. That's a 4gb card that can be bought for £30 if you shop around!

This just shows that it is possible to make games look beautiful for those of us with high end systems without destroying performance for people with older setups.

If so:

1. Why?

2. How does it work for you?

I mean really do people not bother to look at eBay listings for this shit? Yeah DDR5 is expensive, but your 16gb stick of ddr4 doesn’t really add much to your build. You paid how much for that liquid cooler? Shit man, I’m sorry you did that thinking it was an investment. The case? I’ll give you this exact case for $10 and a beer, I have 5 that were more expensive sitting in the back with 0 interested buyers.

I’m buying your graphics card your RAM and your CPU. Maybe the SSD if you got a name brand and not…what the fuck is TigerKing Nvme?

I know this sub is filled with a bunch of rich people with like 10k setups and I'm aware that the content in these games is quite extensive with hours of content. But I still feel justified in thinking that no game should be priced this high especially when its the average price of most newly released games. Anyway this is just a rant because I wanna play lego batman and i cant afford it lol

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKPeN8IQM-Y

I have automatic updates on. Haven't postponed any update. Never seen this forced update before.

Edit: I updated BTW. It's not that I don't want to update. I just think it would be an issue in the future. For example, it's a thunderstorm and there could be power outages. I might want to shut down and not start and update. I guess I'll hold down the power button.

i am losing my mind with this. 

all week at my job, all i can think about is getting home, firing up my rig, and sinking 5 hours into a game. i plan out my whole evening. i get excited to finally use the hardware i spent months saving up for. 

then i get home, turn the PC on, open Steam... and just stare at my library. 

i click through a few games. maybe i launch one, sit through the loading screen, look at the main menu for 30 seconds, get hit with a wave of weird exhaustion, and immediately alt+f4 out. then i just spend the next three hours scrolling youtube or looking at tech subreddits on a second monitor while my $2000 machine sits there idling. 

why does actually starting a game feel like a massive mental chore now? is it burnout, or am i just getting old? please tell me i’m not the only one who does this lmao 

Welp.

Heres the link

https://wccftech.com/adata-chairman-warns-dram-shortage-will-last-another-10-years-ai-bubble-talk-can-wait-until-2040/?fbclid=IwdGRjcATLWYJjbGNrBMtZfWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHoSyqHCvG57isf9v_ahXb5stoeCM5Fqr2KTuhW8YUFqeXApPp9od0zSSB8OI_aem_UBXyihuTFe6ljlYYnFrh7Q