Question for you - why don’t you buy a console? (I agree with you by the way, it’s why I have a ps5)
replyI never played using a controller and I never will. And I do want a high end PC for other use cases.,
reply_most_ games now do KBM on console and matchmake separately for it. It's still not perfect, but it's gotten much better.
reply> And I do want a high end PC for other use cases.,
Right, you don't want two devices (that's fair). How can you _possibly_ trust the locked down device won't interfere with the other open software it's installed side by side with?
Those use cases don't work with completely locked down OS.
replyAlso you can plug a mouse in a console… that's a weird excuse.
I don’t need to game in the same OS that I do other things. But having two sets of hardware seems like a waste.
replyHaving a useless locked down machine isn't a waste?
replyNot if I can just leave that sandbox when I want to (boot another OS/mode/leave a sandbox etc) no?
replyJust know that it will still get cracked and cheats will exist. I suspect this is Microsoft's next "console" as they have been developing "anti-cheat" for quite some time.
reply> it’s not acceptable to leave 5% performance on the table whereas for other uses it usually is.
replyI think that’s an incredibly rare stance not held by the vast majority of gamers, including competitive ones.
I don’t think a sandbox like a VM would work even if it could be done with only 5% perf hit? Wouldnt any game run in a VM be possible to introspect from the hypervisor in a way that is hard to see from inside the VM? And that’s why these anticheats disallow virtualization?
replyThat would mean those who are concerned about the integrity would want to sandbox everything else instead. And even if people are ok with giving up a small bit of perf when gaming, I’m sure they’re even more happy to give up perf when doing online banking.
Get a console then.
replyOr we just boot into some console-esque gaming OS or mode to game. I’m not sure why this would be so controversial. The alternative is the one we see here.
replyBut that requires you not owning your computer, which I hope is controversial.
replyMid range hardware can run majority of games at high fps. You can easily leave performance on the table.
replyNo. No it can not. Unless you mean a 5070/80 is mid range.
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