In this episode of The Full Nerd, Brad Chacos, Adam Patrick Murray, and particular visitor Brad Shoemaker of Nextlander and Brad & Will Made A Tech Podcast (when you love Full Nerd, you’d love BWMATP too!) dig deep into the controversies swirling round PC gaming this week.

First, we kick issues off with a dialogue round whether or not 8GB of graphics card VRAM is sufficient lately, after Sony’s disastrous Last of Us PC port wolfed that (and extra) even at 1080p decision. Other video games like Hogwarts Legacy and Resident Evil 4 Remake additionally suffered on 8GB GPUs lately. Are they outliers, or ought to we anticipate this to be the norm now that next-gen consoles with 16GB of (shared) RAM are the event focus for a lot of studios?

Or may it simply be one other dangerous PC port like Forspoken and a swath of others? These terribad cross-platform performers land in our crosshairs subsequent, as that matter’s deeply intertwined with the 8GB dialog.

Next, that upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 RT Overdrive mode with full path tracing appears to be like completely sick.

Finally, we wrap issues up by answering the nerdiest questions poised by the dwell viewers and Full Nerd Discord members, then teasing the live PC build we’ll be doing with Brad Shoemaker on April 13.

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