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Just as the title suggests, what video game forced your first ever PC upgrade?

 

For me it was Wing Commander 3, I had to beg my father to buy us one of those fancy new CD-ROMs!  Another one I remember from my childhood is installing my very first graphics card, a 3DFX Voodoo Banshee, in order to play Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit.

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I don't think I ever ran into this, I just always suffered through until the computer took a shit and then I built a new one, at least that was when I was a kid and had no money. 

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I don't think I ever ran into this, I just always suffered through until the computer took a shit and then I built a new one, at least that was when I was a kid and had no money. 

minus the no money part.

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doom 3 I believe was the first game (that I can recall) that destroyed my gaming PC, and made me want to upgrade. Crysis was another. I was playing on 1680x1050 with an 8800GTX card, and Crysis tanked my machine.... was a real eye opening and wallet emptying experience after that.

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Just as the title suggests, what video game forced your first ever PC upgrade?

 

For me it was Wing Commander 3, I had to beg my father to buy us one of those fancy new CD-ROMs!  Another one I remember from my childhood is installing my very first graphics card, a 3DFX Voodoo Banshee, in order to play Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit.

Battlefield 4 I was playing the beta with my old pc and got like 15-20 fps average

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World of Warcraft back when I was gaming on my old laptop in the good old days of Wrath of the Lich King.

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Minecraft lol. I used to have a crappy old hp laptop. That's when i built my first PC about 5 years ago cause i was trying to host a server for my one friend and I to play on and it kept crashing with like 7 fps xD

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Resident Evil 2 back in the late 90s.  I didn't have a gfx card at the time (just onboard gfx) which could not handle the flame effects at all and just wouldn't load it most of the time.

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Resident Evil 2 back in the late 90s.  I didn't have a gfx card at the time (just onboard gfx) which could not handle the flame effects at all and just wouldn't load it most of the time.

im glad i didnt have to deal with any of that shit.

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None so far. My computers were always more or less good enough to handle games and by the time they weren't, I had already upgraded it long ago.

Right now, Shadow of Mordor seems interesting and I know I would barely be able to run it on low, but I'm not a fan of the LotR franchise so I gave up on that idea.

Who knows, maybe when the Oculus is released I might upgrade to play games with it... other than that...

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Battlefield 4

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Starcraft 2 forced me to buy a new GPU. CS 1.4 also forced me to get a new GPU as well, but that was so long ago that I don't remember it too well. I think I got by for a long time by turning down a few things and waited a bit, so I'm not sure counts.

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Battlefield 4. I built an entire new rig for that game. Looking back now, it is almost like I wasted my money, as I barely play that game any more. 

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It all started from Team Fortress 2, but from there it railed to loads of other games. That was back then one of the few reasons for me building my current rig, but now I would find it hard to sell this anymore, it's a part of my life.

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warcraft 3, i could playit  but i always wanted to be able to playit smooth in max settings, and Shadowbane made me buy new gpu back when ATI and AGP slots exist

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I wanna say gta 4... But that runs like shit on anything.

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I don't know. probably would be Morrowind but back then I was so young that 10 FPS was smooth to me...
Still ended upgrading for oblivion later on the road.. old p4 could satisfy my RPG needs just fine then. right now it's nothing more than a beautiful memory.

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Just as the title suggests, what video game forced your first ever PC upgrade?

 

For me it was Wing Commander 3, I had to beg my father to buy us one of those fancy new CD-ROMs!  Another one I remember from my childhood is installing my very first graphics card, a 3DFX Voodoo Banshee, in order to play Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit.

 

Voodoo Banshee was my first decent graphics card. Before that I had a sheit PCI Pine 2.0MB non 3d, a 4MB ATi Rage 3D pro 3d, and then the Banshee. I got it for Quake II.

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A combination of Just Cause 2, and the new games (like Shadow of Mordor and Witcher 3) that are coming out. I can't afford a new gpu yet however.

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I think the games that made me wanna upgrade most were Borderlands 1, MW3 and Red Orchestra 2. Those are the games I remember wanting to play so badly on PC but just couldn't handle them with my 9500GT. 

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im glad i didnt have to deal with any of that shit.

Yeah gaming on PC in the 90s could be a bit hit or miss with gfx support.  I think I got a Voodoo Rush or Voodoo2 at the time and that did me till I got a new PC in about 2002

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