This may sound like an extreme counter-example that would never realistically happen and that I am making it all up, but we see it all the time here and other places where player game support is provided. I guarantee you I can walk into an office supply store or visit one online (or even Amazon or the equivalent) and acquire a brand new laptop or desktop with all modern but low-end hardware that cannot possibly be expected to run the entire TS3 game. And players do actually do these things.
I'm talking about U- or Y-series processors, no dedicated graphics cards or the lowest end of the current dedicated ones like MX 150s and 250s, what were in the prior series also called GT 1030s, or AMD Vega 8s that sound like dedicated cards but really aren't so, not enough RAM (less than 6 GB although this is a bit less commonly seen now), not enough hard drive space meaning 128 GB or less. These are systems that are meant for lightweight mostly online tasks other than games, yet sometimes the price tag is all the player can see or this is all they can afford. Some of them are really nothing much more than souped up tablets with insufficient or no internal cooling systems. The game will not run well, if at all, in such environments and some players honestly cannot tell the difference between one of these and a more mid-range system just by reading the specs because it's all a foreign language to them.
Yes, a GT 1030 will need to have its fps rates capped like the other stronger cards. That doesn't mean it can really be expected to carry the entire game well on medium to high graphics settings. The same was true of its predecessors, the 940Ms, 940MXs, and 840Ms, etc.
I'm very sorry, but again I will push back and essentially telling me that I am out of touch without using those exact words when I've been supporting TS3 continuously here and elsewhere for years doesn't really add anything helpful to the conversation.
But again, we do at least agree on the need to check those frame rates in-game and take action on just about any hardware set that requires it.
