Your first "Uber Demanding" game which kicked your rigs butt?

Already been mentioned, Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight.
Had to run it at a stupidly low resolution to play it and boy was it ugly.
Then I got a 3D accelerator card. Hallelujah! What a difference it made. :D
 
Something probably on amiga but for PC and owned by me I would definately say Unreal.

Unreal on a Cyrix chip and 4mb Matrox Mystique 220 rendered Unreal at about 2 - 10fps max. I could only play the 'darkmatch' because it ran ok - deathmatch in the dark with torches.

My friend (his dad) had a high spec pentium pc with a voodoo gpu and i went to his house to play games instead. I got a voodoo 2, years later and enjoyed Unreal for myself. Massive difference going from a 2d gpu to my first proper 3d gpu, the voodoo 2. 800 x 600 at about 25-30fps was incredible. The very first time a game had 3d lighting, reflections, smoke, water etc etc. Every console game didnt come close...

Then along came Half Life, Starcraft and Thief. Mid - late 90s, a fantastic time for gaming
 
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Quake 2, can't remember what I had at the time but it was unplayable, then I managed to scrape enough together to get a VooDoo2 GPU. I don't recall what I did to get the cash being only about 15 at the time, but I'm pretty sure it involved signing a contract with this red guy with horns and a goat legs.
 
Jedi Knight II for me. Had a PII 350 and a Voodoo Banshee at the time. I played the first level okay, but on the second level the outside scenes right at the start brought the rig to its knees. It just got stuck and froze with looping sound effects.

The same machine was starting to struggle with some of the new maps in CS at around that time too and I was routinely taunted when people knew what I was playing on.

Was really disappointed and it was another two years before I managed to upgrade my PC and play it all the way through (although it was nice then with an Athlon 2500 and 9600pro to be able to turn the settings up).
 
Delta Force Land Warrior . My first ever pc was a crappy eMachines etower 667ir (Celeron 667 MHz - 64 MB Ram - 15 GB HDD and integrated graphics) and I went down to my mates house and he was playing a game online, looked amazing. It was Delta Force LW. So i rushed out and bought it that day. Installed it and got a whooping 15fps!

A week later i bought a gf2 mx400 and it was 50fps heaven!
 
On the subject of Farcry, my housemates birthday was in 2004 and wanted to play Farcry. He got money for his first GPU and went against my advice and bought an entry level one, using most of his birthday money on beer and clothes.
He fired up the farcry demo that started on the boat and it did start but ran at about 3fps! I literally fell to the floor laughing. Anyway, he returned it and added a bit more money and got something like a 6700 instead of the donkey he first bought for around £40. It did then work and was playable
 
robfosters said:
I reckon Nvidia and AMD bung Devs a few quid to produce these system killers. :D
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The thing is games like Farcry and Unreal offer brand new technology so upgrading is worth it. First time seeing water, smoke and reflections in a game or big open world islands are incredible from a tech point of view.
Games that run crappy now are just **** console ports. Games like Crysis (1) are proof of this - a game thats almost 10 years old and looks better than most console games!
God knows what games devs could create if consoles had an i7 cpu with a gtx970 (or other mid-high range gpu)
 
Operation Flashpoint, my poor XP2100/GeForce 2 MX200 rig damn near imploded the first time i played that, you where fine as long as no armour showed up, as soon as the shells, rockets, & explosions started it became a choppy unplayable mess as your fps dropped to about 3.
 
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The thing is games like Farcry and Unreal offer brand new technology so upgrading is worth it. First time seeing water, smoke and reflections in a game or big open world islands are incredible from a tech point of view.
Games that run crappy now are just **** console ports. Games like Crysis (1) are proof of this - a game thats almost 10 years old and looks better than most console games!
God knows what games devs could create if consoles had an i7 cpu with a gtx970 (or other mid-high range gpu)
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Yeah, after Half-Life (which pretty much holds sole responsibility for getting me into PC gaming in the first place), Far Cry was the first game to amaze me with its visuals. I did end up upgrading my 9600pro to pump up the settings on that game - a card that was only four months old at the time! I remember just looking at it and enjoying the views.
 
The only way i could play flashpoint was if i looked at the floor! If i lifted my head it ran at ~5fps. Looking at the groud was fine though! A steady 20 odd
 
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