Should we change our game testing?

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Should we change our game testing?

We currently test all games on Ultra settings. For laptops my gut is people are happy to drop down to High for more frames. In desktops perhaps not.

I feel this means that we aren’t currently showing what most people would experience. Plus it makes the 8GB VRAM issue alot worse. For laptop GPUs with only 8GB of VRAM you are far likely to hit memory issues on Ultra settings than High.

Josh

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Hi Josh, been subscribed to your channel for a while and have made many comments on your videos. I just wanted to reiterate some of those points here regarding your game testing. Let me start by saying I have no issue with altering your testing in this manner. High settings are perfectly reasonable when testing moderately priced gaming laptops. What I would recommend is that you be more specific when calling out upscaling and frame generation settings. When enabling upscaling, what mode do you use? This should be consistent in your benchmarking and stated for the reader/viewer. Same goes for DLSS frame generation, especially with the RTX 50 series since it has 2x, 3x, and 4x modes, and games may default to different settings. It should be made clear that frame generation is not a performance enhancing technology but rather a performance smoothing one. A reported frame rate of 60 with frame generation on means the actual baseline is lower, which most users will likely feel in the form of input latency. Lastly, and this is a general point that can be applied across a review, not just in performance analysis, in the videos, would it be possible for the presenter to speak more about specific numbers? Not saying you need to go full podcast, but a few more spoken details during a review would be really helpful for people who might be listening rather than watching.

Apologies for the lengthy post, but I hope you’ll at least consider this feedback. Really appreciate what you do in this space and that you’re taking the initiative make your own community. I used to moderate the GamingLaptops subreddit and had to quit because it just became overwhelming.

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This seems like a reasonable decision

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Hey,

Your gaming laptops reviews are good, you cover most of the pros and cons in your videos. The things I wish you could do to improve the gaming laptop reviews are:-

  1. Emphasise more on the battery run time of the gaming laptop. I believe like me, most of the people watching your videos must be students, and they can only Afford a single laptop that they would use for 3+ years or even till their course is finished. So they want something that is powerful and somewhat portable. Obviously gaming laptops are not portable at all, but if you could spend a few minutes explaining how a gaming laptop performs in certain use cases (like office work, coding, video playback, video editing, etc basically everyday use scenarios) they would have an idea on how well the laptop would serve them and how will daily life with that laptop look like.
  2. Yes gaming tests must be done in high settings and not ultra, I rarely play games in ultra, high would suffice for most of the people.

Well I do enjoy your videos and I am loving this site.

Thank you.

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Hi @saturnotaku I’ve definitely seen your comments. I’m going to send it to Cierra and Seth to put on our graphs. Yes we agree this is more smoothing between frames than a performance enhancement. We do test on 4x btw.

What kind of spoken details about numbers would you like? Could you give me an example?

All good re the lengthy post, we like feedback