Even with 4gb ram My desktop is still lagging with just windows 10 did not install any games just word and excel. While old game are surprisingly just 10 mb some even 6mb and pack a lot of content and run smoothly…..
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Part of that is modern games trying to do more especially graphics wise than older games.
Another part is that games today are developed for systems around today.
It might be possible to optimize games to do more with less, but that would take time and money and effort. And companies are reluctant to do so when their customers mostly are going to upgrade their hardware anyway.
For comparison you can look at some older system that were around for long enough hat developers had to work hard to get the most of the system they had.
The C64 was around for a real long time with fixed hardware and many games that came out for it had a chance to to have several sequels where the games had better graphics and sound and bigger maps and enemies.
To a lesser degree you also see that with older consoles like the NES and SNES. If you look at an NES launch game like Wrecking Crew with a late game like Super Mario Bros. 3 or compare games from the start of the SNEs era like super Mario World to something that came out later like one of the later entries into the Donkey Kong franchise, it is hard to believe they are for the same hardware.
The consoles cheated a bit by often adding hardware expansion into cartridges, but even disk based gaming consoles that lasted long enough saw some noticeable improvement throughout their life.
My point is that with PCs you don’t have to work hard to cram more game into the same limited amount of resources. You can just expect everyone to buy new and better hardware.
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