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Through out the time you have PC gamed.
I don't just mean now.
I mean back when you first started PC gaming. For some it may be just Crysis, obvlivion and some others but there are a few people on here that have probably been gaming for a good 8 years or so.

Just wondered as I have only been Pc gaming for about 3 years so only know of the current ones (Metro and Crysis and most other DX11 featured games)
 
Thinking back..

Supreme Commander w/Forged Alliance used to make processors break down and cry :D..probably not a problem these days though..

Before then, Far Cry, starting Crytek's tradition of putting GPUs into therapy.

Doom 3 way back when was a real demander when it came to running it at decent settings. Thinking back though, there was maybe a bit more breadth in game settings to deal with people on baseline vs. hardcore enthusiast rigs.
Half Life 2 was a good example of a game that catered to a large range of hardware performance.

Dunno really before then, I remember trying to run Deus Ex on a 200MHz Pentium 2 with a Voodoo 3 once. That did not end well :D. Suppose Quake 3 is quite well remembered?
 
For me it's Doom. Bought my first pc back in 93 just to play it. I remember my uncle only had 2 meg of ram on his pc(I think mine had 8), so he had to mess around with it to get it working. Then dark forces, but ive been gaming since about 81, 82.
Just before graphics cards were out.3D ones anyway.
 
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A good 8 years? Try a good 14 years :)

I guess Unreal 1 was the first one that made me get the upgrade bug - really struggled on my P233 and Voodoo2......upgraded to a 433 and added another Voodoo2 as a result.

Then Quake 3 Arena came out and struggled on my Voodoo 2's - time for a card with Hardware T&L...

More recently, Oblivion is the only one I can think of. I didn't play Crysis until the past few weeks, and it runs great on my system. If I had played it on the system I had when it first came out.....yeah, would have been a slideshow :)
 
Alex74 said:
Thinking back..

Supreme Commander w/Forged Alliance used to make processors break down and cry :D..probably not a problem these days though..
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lol try it with 8 players, sorian AI on hard and watch it chug :D my i7 sweats buckets when theres close to 5000 - 6000 units running amok :D
 
DisrupTor75 said:
lol try it with 8 players, sorian AI on hard and watch it chug :D my i7 sweats buckets when theres close to 5000 - 6000 units running amok :D
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Haha, I can imagine. I dont think I went over 3 AI players on my puny P4, nor my current dual core, so i'll have to take your word on that :D.

Sounds epic though :eek:
 
Mine was Red Alert 1 as I didnt have enough RAM to have many units on screen and the movies wouldnt play either. After that it was Medal of Honor. I had to play it on 640x480 with lowest settings at first, I was too young really to afford a "high spec" system. After that it was the normal, Doom 3, FarCry, SimCity4 (god that game brought my PC to its knees everynow and then), GTA3, Crysis...etc...
 
when i got into pc gaming around 2004 i had my trusty old geforce 4 mx 64mb :p Used to struggle with doom 3 and Far cry, HL2 ran surprisingly well.
 
Probably would have to be Unreal.

The first game to really push hardware, and warrant upgrades for me.

My old Matrox Mystique 220 + M3D card just couldn't cope, even at 640x480 in software mode, so I had to get myself something better - a Voodoo II - and suddenly I had massively smoother graphics, even up as high as 1024x768!

I even got myself a new sound card and speakers to go with it - one of the first games too with positional audio!
 
lemmings 2, spent a few days reading up on how to use memmaker so I could get enough free conventional memory so the game would actually run!

in terms of performance, doom was rather choppy on a 386 :D
 
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