**Gaming with Low-End Hardware: A Look at the GTX 1050**

Sticking with low settings and keeping the anti-aliasing option high, coupled with the Epic view distance setting, resulted in an average of plus 100 FPS with a few drops here and there. This created a playable and enjoyable experience at Native 1080p, especially for those who are competitive and want to optimize their gaming performance. However, if you're on a tight budget, the GTX 1050 is still absolutely fine for this title, assuming you have a 144 HZ monitor.

For those with tighter budgets, I would recommend sticking with these settings, as they provide a good balance of performance and visual quality. If you have a 144 HZ monitor, it's recommended to drop the resolution or reduce the r-scale setting slightly more in F-Zero. On the other hand, pushing the game to high preset resulted in Ultra settings at 30 FPS plus average, likely due to memory limitations. However, tweaking individual options can help achieve better performance.

When working with game presets for simplicity, it's essential to understand that everything can be tweaked individually. The beauty of PC gaming lies in its flexibility. For this preset, I've chosen a different set of settings, which still provides excellent performance and visuals. By dropping the preset to Medium, with MSAA setting at 2x Ultra quality and Dynamic Resolution enabled, the difference between Native and these settings is not noticeable unless compared side-by-side.

**God of War: A Decent Experience**

Setting God of War to Original resulted in a game that still looks good like the PS4 version and runs slightly better. With closer to 40 FPS than 30, it's a decent experience albeit with a few hiccups during heavy fighting scenes or when walking between different areas. No major problems were encountered, but those aiming for 60 FPS can enable FSR and choose Performance Mode while maintaining a 1080p base resolution.

**GTA V: High Settings**

Choosing the low settings mainly due to in-game VRAM limits, I opted for these settings instead of maxing out the system's capabilities. This will ensure a decent-looking and well-performing game without overloading the GPU. By enabling FXAA, it provides an additional layer of visual quality.

**Red Dead Redemption 2: Low Settings**

In Red Dead Redemption 2, I chose the low settings primarily due to in-game VRAM limitations. To compensate, I manually changed the texture quality to High and enabled TAA. However, the game reverted to its default high preset setting. By keeping these settings, a solid balance of performance and visual quality is achieved. With Medium settings and utilizing Low Settings (apart from FXAA), 60 FPS can be achieved at 720p.

**Warzone: A Notable Experience**

With the use of NVIDIA Image Scaling and NIS to run Warzone at 1130x635, I was able to hit 60 FPS on average. However, there were still significant drops below this value as expected. This is a testament to the game's performance capabilities with lower-end hardware.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, if you can find the GTX 1050 for around £50-£60 (or equivalent), it's not a bad choice for those looking to build a lower-end or tighter budget-friendly gaming system. With proper tweaks and settings, this GPU is still capable of delivering smooth performance and decent visuals on various titles.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everyone and welcome to another video now while the 4 gigabyte GTX 1050ti makes for a better buy thanks to its 4 gigs of vram it's baby brother the standard 2 gig 1050 can sometimes be found for 3/4 of or even half the price I paid just over 50 for this gigabyte card and what I like about it aside from the design is its lack of external power requirements it should work with even the most questionable of power supplies making it an easy yet effective upgrade to any basic desktop PC even in 2022 but should you buy one if you want to turn a home or office system into a budget gaming rig will a 1050 still suffice let's see I'm going to continue with my method of providing two sets of benchmarks for each game the first will be an example of how high you can push the visuals to retain at least 30 FPS the frame rate I'd recommend targeting for this card and then we'll be seeing just how much we have to reduce the visual quality in an attempt toit 60 this is where things will get a little bit ugly there are a couple of exceptions namely in fortnite and War Zone where a higher frame rate is almost a must to stay competitive to achieve at least 30 FPS in cyberpunk 2077 I went with a 1080p resolution low settings including crowds and textures and enabled FSR I set this to Quality mode this meant that the game didn't look too different from native although it isn't quite as sharp this is probably how I'd play the game with this card because as you'll see in a very short moment 60fps is doable but not without some serious sacrifices to the graphical presentation for 60 FPS I kept the same settings with the same base resolution but I had to set FSR mode to ultra performance this renders the game at an even lower internal res of course and while we do get 60 FPS on average it is far from consistent and it just hurts to look at as suppose you could guarantee a solid frame rate by choosing a lower base resolution like 720p and then enabling performance FSR but I dread to think how bad that would look Elder ring runs with at least 30 FPS using the low preset at 1080p I did mess around with anti-al lising and texture options and while setting textures to medium and AA to high will still mean a plus 30 FPS average there were far more dips below this so opting for lows seemed to be the best bet considering the available amount of vram you could always enable Nvidia NIS or image scaling if you wanted to but I found that an upscaled image here doesn't look very good at all that's just personal opinion of course Elder ring has a 60fps cap by default and in order to get as close to it as possible most of the time 720p low is the best option in my opinion 720p doesn't look as bad here as it does in other games I don't know if there's some sort of sharpening going on and it may be linked to the reason why Nvidia image scaling doesn't look that great but I'd be tempted to keep these settings especially as this lower resolution will help account for the inevitable slowdown in denser areas and during action-packed fights Far Cry 6 will perform very similar at both 1080p low with FSR off and 1080p medium with FSR on quality mode for that reason I chose the latter for my plus 30 FPS gameplay test the game looks almost as good as native and performance sits between 30 and 45 FPS most of the time it's a nice Middle Ground to settle on for a card like this and so far for £50 the equivalent to $65 or 60 I'm pretty satisfied with the performance on offer here not to mention that this card is still supported by Nvidia and it supports dx1 12.1 so it will run or at least start every game currently available while 30 FPS is easily achievable 60 requires a little more sacrifice a 720p base resolution with quality FSI mode enabled will make this doable but to be honest I'd probably settle for somewhere between 30 and 60 as I said before this isn't really a 60fps card and shouldn't be thought of as such but it's nice to see that we don't have to turn this game into a complete mess in order to hit that average if you're using a lower resolution monitor then a 1050 should certainly be more than fine for all of your modern gaming needs though in fortnite the more frames the better so I stuck with the usual low settings and kept the anti lising option at high with the Epic view distance as well this meant a plus 100 FPS average with a few drops here and there but it's a very playable and enjoyable experience at Native 1080p if you're particularly competitive but you have a tight budget to work with then a 1050 is still absolutely fine for this title unless you have a 144 HZ monitor then you'll want to drop the res or the r scaling a little bit more in fza I pushed the game to the high preset and although Ultra a 30 FPS plus average there were too many dips and drops likely due to that memory limitation you could always set a few options to ultra as I mentioned before I tend to work with game presets for the sake of Simplicity but the beauty of PC gaming is that everything can be tweaked individually what I show you is sort of a starting point to work with in a way with this preset the game doesn't dip below 30 FPS either and it still looks really good that said I probably wouldn't play it like this I'd probably choose these settings instead I've dropped the preset to medium though the msaa setting is still at 2x Ultra quality Dynamic resolution is also enabled here and again the difference between this and Native isn't that noticeable unless you were running the two scenarios side by side with these settings 60fps is doable though you should expect some dips below this as with all of today's tested games God of War is set to original this still looks good like the PS4 version and runs a little bit better in fact with with closer to 40 FPS than 30 it's a decent experience albeit with a few hiccups that can occur either during heavy fighting scenes or when walking between different areas no major problems though those of you who want to aim for 60 FPS can enable FSR and choose performance mode while maintaining a 1080p base resolution I'd probably set this to balanced instead and enjoy a 40 to 60 FPS experience and there will be dips below 60 FPS anyway no matter what FSL preset you choose overall God of War will run fairly well no matter what frame rate you decide to Target and it won't look terrible either I don't think I need to say much for GTA 5 high settings with the sliders turned halfway up nearly maxes out the in-game vram usage calculator but this can be exceeded anyway if you want to I wouldn't suggest doing so here and instead I'd stick with these settings with FXAA also enabled of course this will give you a decent looking and well performing game not much else to say because this game came out before the GPU and has always ran well with it in Red Dead Redemption 2 I chose the low settings mainly due to the in-game vram Limit but I went into the documents folder and changed the texture quality to high manually TAA was also set to high I did choose medium but the game reverted to high as it always does and I just decided to go along with it I'm sure there were a few other settings I could have tweaked and still got at least 30 FPS but I found that low settings with high textures seems to be a pretty solid bet in terms of achieving a nice combo of performance and visual quality 60 FPS is also achievable by setting the game to 720p and utilizing the low settings in their entirety apart from FXAA which was set to enabled 720p was the necessary resolution here and this ensured that the performance held steady even when venturing through busier areas and settlements finally it's war zone I apologize for the footage it looks like it's lagging or it's slowed down but I think my recording software didn't agree with the Nvidia image scaling I used NIS to run the game at 1130 by 635 where it was sharpened and upscaled the smaa setting was also set to one but this is about as high as I could push things and still hit 60 FPS on average but with that said there were still some big drops below this as to be expected it's playable but doesn't look brilliant I think is fair to say overall for a 2 gigabyte once budget graphics card the 1050 is still holding up fairly well and if you can find one for around £50 to £60 or the equivalent in your chosen currency it's not a bad choice if you're looking to put together a lower end or tighter budget friendly gaming system perhaps you've got a pre-built that needs a bit of a boost thank you for watching if you enjoyed this look back at the GTX 105 2022 leave a like leave a dislike if you didn't subscribe to the channel if you haven't done so already and hopefully I'll see all of you in the next onehello everyone and welcome to another video now while the 4 gigabyte GTX 1050ti makes for a better buy thanks to its 4 gigs of vram it's baby brother the standard 2 gig 1050 can sometimes be found for 3/4 of or even half the price I paid just over 50 for this gigabyte card and what I like about it aside from the design is its lack of external power requirements it should work with even the most questionable of power supplies making it an easy yet effective upgrade to any basic desktop PC even in 2022 but should you buy one if you want to turn a home or office system into a budget gaming rig will a 1050 still suffice let's see I'm going to continue with my method of providing two sets of benchmarks for each game the first will be an example of how high you can push the visuals to retain at least 30 FPS the frame rate I'd recommend targeting for this card and then we'll be seeing just how much we have to reduce the visual quality in an attempt toit 60 this is where things will get a little bit ugly there are a couple of exceptions namely in fortnite and War Zone where a higher frame rate is almost a must to stay competitive to achieve at least 30 FPS in cyberpunk 2077 I went with a 1080p resolution low settings including crowds and textures and enabled FSR I set this to Quality mode this meant that the game didn't look too different from native although it isn't quite as sharp this is probably how I'd play the game with this card because as you'll see in a very short moment 60fps is doable but not without some serious sacrifices to the graphical presentation for 60 FPS I kept the same settings with the same base resolution but I had to set FSR mode to ultra performance this renders the game at an even lower internal res of course and while we do get 60 FPS on average it is far from consistent and it just hurts to look at as suppose you could guarantee a solid frame rate by choosing a lower base resolution like 720p and then enabling performance FSR but I dread to think how bad that would look Elder ring runs with at least 30 FPS using the low preset at 1080p I did mess around with anti-al lising and texture options and while setting textures to medium and AA to high will still mean a plus 30 FPS average there were far more dips below this so opting for lows seemed to be the best bet considering the available amount of vram you could always enable Nvidia NIS or image scaling if you wanted to but I found that an upscaled image here doesn't look very good at all that's just personal opinion of course Elder ring has a 60fps cap by default and in order to get as close to it as possible most of the time 720p low is the best option in my opinion 720p doesn't look as bad here as it does in other games I don't know if there's some sort of sharpening going on and it may be linked to the reason why Nvidia image scaling doesn't look that great but I'd be tempted to keep these settings especially as this lower resolution will help account for the inevitable slowdown in denser areas and during action-packed fights Far Cry 6 will perform very similar at both 1080p low with FSR off and 1080p medium with FSR on quality mode for that reason I chose the latter for my plus 30 FPS gameplay test the game looks almost as good as native and performance sits between 30 and 45 FPS most of the time it's a nice Middle Ground to settle on for a card like this and so far for £50 the equivalent to $65 or 60 I'm pretty satisfied with the performance on offer here not to mention that this card is still supported by Nvidia and it supports dx1 12.1 so it will run or at least start every game currently available while 30 FPS is easily achievable 60 requires a little more sacrifice a 720p base resolution with quality FSI mode enabled will make this doable but to be honest I'd probably settle for somewhere between 30 and 60 as I said before this isn't really a 60fps card and shouldn't be thought of as such but it's nice to see that we don't have to turn this game into a complete mess in order to hit that average if you're using a lower resolution monitor then a 1050 should certainly be more than fine for all of your modern gaming needs though in fortnite the more frames the better so I stuck with the usual low settings and kept the anti lising option at high with the Epic view distance as well this meant a plus 100 FPS average with a few drops here and there but it's a very playable and enjoyable experience at Native 1080p if you're particularly competitive but you have a tight budget to work with then a 1050 is still absolutely fine for this title unless you have a 144 HZ monitor then you'll want to drop the res or the r scaling a little bit more in fza I pushed the game to the high preset and although Ultra a 30 FPS plus average there were too many dips and drops likely due to that memory limitation you could always set a few options to ultra as I mentioned before I tend to work with game presets for the sake of Simplicity but the beauty of PC gaming is that everything can be tweaked individually what I show you is sort of a starting point to work with in a way with this preset the game doesn't dip below 30 FPS either and it still looks really good that said I probably wouldn't play it like this I'd probably choose these settings instead I've dropped the preset to medium though the msaa setting is still at 2x Ultra quality Dynamic resolution is also enabled here and again the difference between this and Native isn't that noticeable unless you were running the two scenarios side by side with these settings 60fps is doable though you should expect some dips below this as with all of today's tested games God of War is set to original this still looks good like the PS4 version and runs a little bit better in fact with with closer to 40 FPS than 30 it's a decent experience albeit with a few hiccups that can occur either during heavy fighting scenes or when walking between different areas no major problems though those of you who want to aim for 60 FPS can enable FSR and choose performance mode while maintaining a 1080p base resolution I'd probably set this to balanced instead and enjoy a 40 to 60 FPS experience and there will be dips below 60 FPS anyway no matter what FSL preset you choose overall God of War will run fairly well no matter what frame rate you decide to Target and it won't look terrible either I don't think I need to say much for GTA 5 high settings with the sliders turned halfway up nearly maxes out the in-game vram usage calculator but this can be exceeded anyway if you want to I wouldn't suggest doing so here and instead I'd stick with these settings with FXAA also enabled of course this will give you a decent looking and well performing game not much else to say because this game came out before the GPU and has always ran well with it in Red Dead Redemption 2 I chose the low settings mainly due to the in-game vram Limit but I went into the documents folder and changed the texture quality to high manually TAA was also set to high I did choose medium but the game reverted to high as it always does and I just decided to go along with it I'm sure there were a few other settings I could have tweaked and still got at least 30 FPS but I found that low settings with high textures seems to be a pretty solid bet in terms of achieving a nice combo of performance and visual quality 60 FPS is also achievable by setting the game to 720p and utilizing the low settings in their entirety apart from FXAA which was set to enabled 720p was the necessary resolution here and this ensured that the performance held steady even when venturing through busier areas and settlements finally it's war zone I apologize for the footage it looks like it's lagging or it's slowed down but I think my recording software didn't agree with the Nvidia image scaling I used NIS to run the game at 1130 by 635 where it was sharpened and upscaled the smaa setting was also set to one but this is about as high as I could push things and still hit 60 FPS on average but with that said there were still some big drops below this as to be expected it's playable but doesn't look brilliant I think is fair to say overall for a 2 gigabyte once budget graphics card the 1050 is still holding up fairly well and if you can find one for around £50 to £60 or the equivalent in your chosen currency it's not a bad choice if you're looking to put together a lower end or tighter budget friendly gaming system perhaps you've got a pre-built that needs a bit of a boost thank you for watching if you enjoyed this look back at the GTX 105 2022 leave a like leave a dislike if you didn't subscribe to the channel if you haven't done so already and hopefully I'll see all of you in the next one\n"