Just received a hand me down PC from a sibling who got a new one, which is awesome cause hey, it’s free. As it’s my first PC aside from laptops, I’m wondering just how low my expectations should be when it comes to gaming with it.
She got it about seven years ago, it has a 1050ti, AMD Ryzen 3 1200 quad core, 8gigs of RAM, 1TB HDD. If I missed any relevant specs just let me know, I’m a bit new to this.
So my understanding is that I definitely won’t be playing any new AAA games, I expect the same goes for most FPS games that have come out in the past five years, etc. I know there will be major limitations, but I guess what I’m wondering is in what manner do those limitations manifest?
Will games that exceed the specs just run so unbearably slow that it’s unplayable, lagging from frame to frame? Or would they just fail to load entirely? When a games minimium specs are above what someone is running, what actually is the point of failure or barrier, is it graphics? Maybe it’s a bunch of things?
Any information or thoughts would be appreciated. At the end of the day I guess the main thing I’m asking is, like I said, just how low should my expectations be when it comes to using this as a gaming rig?