Gaming PCs for
Action and Adventure

Competitive shooters are designed to run at very high frame rates on modest hardware — the visual style is kept simple to eliminate GPU bottlenecks. Action and adventure games prioritise visual fidelity and environmental complexity, placing a sustained load on the GPU throughout play. Dense geometry, dynamic lighting, particle effects in combat, and large enemy counts all require GPU throughput that competitive shooters deliberately avoid. The result is that a mid-range GPU that handles Valorant at 360fps will be working significantly harder in Doom: The Dark Ages or Crimson Desert at 1440p ultra. VRAM is a secondary constraint — action titles typically hold more scene data in GPU memory than shooters do at equivalent settings.

Ray tracing is a rendering technique that simulates how light behaves in the real world — calculating reflections, shadows, and global illumination by tracing individual rays of light from their source rather than using pre-calculated approximations. The result is significantly more realistic lighting and shadow behaviour, particularly in dynamic environments where light sources move or where surfaces reflect each other. Doom: The Dark Ages uses id Tech 8, which is built around hardware ray tracing from the ground up — meaning the engine requires a GPU with dedicated ray tracing hardware to run at all, even at minimum settings. This makes GPU selection more critical for this title than for most. Any GPU sold in the past four years from NVIDIA or AMD includes ray tracing hardware, but older GPUs do not. Kevin will confirm compatibility for your specific setup.

Based on confirmed system requirements and released benchmarks, Doom: The Dark Ages and Crimson Desert are the most demanding at maximum settings. Doom requires ray tracing hardware as a minimum and pushes GPUs hard at ultra due to id Tech 8's advanced dynamic lighting. Crimson Desert is built on a proprietary engine with a large open world and dense environmental detail — its ultra 4K target requires an RTX 5070 Ti or RX 9070. Borderlands 4 is the most accessible of the three released titles, with a minimum GPU of an RTX 2070 and reasonable performance from mid-range hardware. Phantom Blade Zero on Unreal Engine 5 is expected to sit between Doom and Crimson Desert once confirmed post-launch benchmarks are available. Each game page in this section covers the full tier breakdown for that title.

For 1440p at high to ultra settings across this category, 12GB VRAM is the practical minimum. Doom: The Dark Ages at 1440p ultra and Crimson Desert at 1440p high both benefit from 12GB to avoid texture streaming under sustained load. At 8GB, some titles will show texture pop or resolution reduction in complex scenes, particularly when running with high texture settings. For 4K across this category, 16GB is the safer choice — Crimson Desert's ultra 4K configuration targets the RTX 5070 Ti specifically for this reason. Call Kevin and tell him your target resolution and the games you play — he will confirm the right VRAM tier for your use case.

For most buyers, yes — and using DLSS or FSR quality mode at 4K is a practical choice rather than a compromise. Both Doom: The Dark Ages and Crimson Desert support DLSS on NVIDIA builds and FSR on AMD builds. At quality mode, both render at approximately 67% of native resolution and upscale to 4K — the visual result at 4K quality mode is sharper than native 1440p and largely indistinguishable from native 4K during play. The frame rate recovery is significant: an RTX 5070 Ti at native 4K ultra in Crimson Desert delivers lower frame rates than the same card at 4K with DLSS quality mode engaged. For most buyers, DLSS or FSR quality mode is the right choice at 4K. Native 4K ultra without upscaling requires an RTX 5080 or above across this category.

Every Ginger6 gaming PC carries a 3-year warranty covering parts and labour. For a build sized for demanding action games at 1440p or 4K, that warranty matters from the day the machine arrives. Kevin is reachable by phone and email after delivery — you are speaking to the person who built the machine. Every machine goes through a 24-hour stress test before dispatch, covering sustained GPU load, thermal behaviour under long sessions, and system stability. Action games run the GPU continuously for hours — a machine that passes a 24-hour test under that kind of load is a machine you can trust in a long session.