That’s how i feel recently before i saved enough money to upgrade my pc from a lower end pc from 2015, but in your case, you can just install linux(mint, cachy, steam) and play indie games, there’s thousands of great indie that i’m sure you haven’t played. There’s no need to quit gaming just because the latest and newest looks so shiny and you can’t play it, i literally replayed games from 2010s before this and to this day there’s still tons of games i haven’t even touched.
New games doesn’t mean its good though.
Also since your laptop is older gen, 2nd hand part should be plenty. After i got my new pc, the old one i upgraded it to better hardware before i give it to my sister. It can run AAA game released up till 2024/25.
My laptop is only one year older than that commenter’s and I’d also describe it as “midrange” (at the time), and it struggles even with those types of games. It’s partly the lack of software support for the iGPU, but it just isn’t fast enough even for most pixel graphic games - they don’t need a LOT of performance, but they also just aren’t programmed as efficiently as they would have been in 2015, nevermind the actual 90s console games that inspired them. My options on that device are basically visual novels, emulators for like SNES or Game Boy, or games more in the vein of Minesweeper.
That said, I could upgrade to a much more powerful refurb laptop for only ~200€ that should be able to play at least pixel graphic games. I do have a PC for gaming, though, so I don’t bother.
That’s how i feel recently before i saved enough money to upgrade my pc from a lower end pc from 2015, but in your case, you can just install linux(mint, cachy, steam) and play indie games, there’s thousands of great indie that i’m sure you haven’t played. There’s no need to quit gaming just because the latest and newest looks so shiny and you can’t play it, i literally replayed games from 2010s before this and to this day there’s still tons of games i haven’t even touched.
New games doesn’t mean its good though.
Also since your laptop is older gen, 2nd hand part should be plenty. After i got my new pc, the old one i upgraded it to better hardware before i give it to my sister. It can run AAA game released up till 2024/25.
My laptop is only one year older than that commenter’s and I’d also describe it as “midrange” (at the time), and it struggles even with those types of games. It’s partly the lack of software support for the iGPU, but it just isn’t fast enough even for most pixel graphic games - they don’t need a LOT of performance, but they also just aren’t programmed as efficiently as they would have been in 2015, nevermind the actual 90s console games that inspired them. My options on that device are basically visual novels, emulators for like SNES or Game Boy, or games more in the vein of Minesweeper.
That said, I could upgrade to a much more powerful refurb laptop for only ~200€ that should be able to play at least pixel graphic games. I do have a PC for gaming, though, so I don’t bother.