In a nutshell: While modern aircraft carriers are gigantic vessels packed with amenities one might not expect to see on a warship, the UK Royal Navy’s HMS Prince of Wales has something unique: a full eSports/gaming suite for the crew to compete against each other.
In February, permission was given to set up the suite on the 1,600-crew carrier as part of a partnership between the Royal Navy and the British eSports Federation.
The gaming room includes 12 high-end Alienware Aurora R15 gaming desktop PCs, featuring RTX 4080 graphics cards and Core i7 CPUs – the systems are capable of running far more than just low-demand eSports games. The room also has LED lights, a widescreen TV, and office chairs.
I see they’ve gone the route of getting the most overpriced and underperforming gaming hardware for this.
These machines are capable of running high-demand games in the sense that a program crashing presupposes that the program loaded to some extent in the first place