What game made you upgrade your computer?

[DarkWillow]

What game did you upgrade for? For me it was Resi Village recently, before that it was Doom 2016, and for my first graphics card I really wanted to be able to play Warhammer 40k Dawn of War 2

[SorryBella]

Regrettably, Rainbow Six Siege.

[OneOfYas]

Resident Evil 8. Replaced my GTX 760 with an RTX 3060.

[WhitetailAni]

Super Timmy Wii, a NSMBW hack

 

My GTX 650 Ti BOOST could not run the game at 60 FPS with Dolphin, but my GTX 690 can

I am going to upgrade to a Titan Z and move my GTX 690 to the lower slot because the Titan Z has 6GB of VRAM per GPU instead of 2GB, but that's for a later date - for now the 690 does fine

[Raven Manuel]

This game, and lots of emulation.

[DarkWillow]

I always find it fascinating what games people upgrade for, with the constant drive for more and more framerates and newer titles

[flibberdipper]

There isn't really any particular game that's going to make me upgrade, but the one I'm the most hyped up for is Insurgency Sandstorm. The ol 1050Ti puts in a valiant effort, but it'd be nice to run it at a higher framerate and detail settings with no resolution scaling.

[JR1911]

My latest upgrade was for Cyberpunk 2077, replaced my i7 4770K + 2x R9 290X for Ryzen 5 5600X + RTX 3070. I don't really play much on PC anymore as I've pretty much completely switched over to Playstation but I wanted to play CP2077 on PC as I wasn't able to get a PS5 in time for its release.

[xAcid9]

-Bought a new PC with HD7950 from a laptop with HD6770M because I want to enjoy Assetto Corsa and rFactor 2 circa 2013.

-Upgraded to R9-290x because I want to enjoy GTAV and Witcher 3 in 2015.

-Upgraded again to 980 Ti + 16GB RAM because of Just Cause 3 and Project Cars which was notoriously bad on AMD GPUs. 

 

 

Also bought my first graphic card back in 03 because I want to enjoy Ragnarok Online and Fifa. ATI Radeon 9200. 

[beace]

None, lol. My first PC update was absolutely necessitated by the fact that, while swapping the case and putting all the parts into a new one without any prior PROPER experience of doing so, I connected the CPU fan wire to something else entirely (and I don't remember what to exactly), simply frying the entire thing on the first push of the power button.

 

Parents bought the new PC after that, which has been with me since, I think, 2013. Got it some updated in 2017 and 2020 (GPU + RAM and storage + RAM respectively).

[varrys]

I had an i5 4690 and a Radeon 390 that ran 1080, then got a 1440p 60Hz monitor and it held up okay. Then Rise of the Tomb Raider came out and was so pretty, plus Alien Isolation, so I got a GTX 1080 that worked great for 1440p 60Hz.

 

As the CPU got a bit long in the tooth and Cyberpunk came out, and some newer games started slipping to 45-50 fps, that prompted a full rebuild to 5600x, then got a rx 6700 XT when I could. This resulted in a monitor upgrade of 1440p and 144Hz.

[Ithanul]

Typically, I don't upgrade parts for games.  Mostly either upgrade for say BOINC, F@H, Blender, encoding, etc.

 

Though, this time around.  Been waiting to upgrade the GPU (at the moment I not in the mood to pay current prices for one) for Beat Saber and VR....I have become quite addicted for more fps so I can hit blocks faster.

[LogicalDrm]

So many. First was Counter-Strike in early 00s. Then I build whole rig in 2008 so next upgrade was for BFBC2 in 2010. Battlefield 3 was one of the reasons for platform upgrade, but the ones after that have been for productivity.

[Gazereths]

Most recently Cyberpunk 2077 as I wanted to try the pretty ray tracing. Changed platform to AM4 and originally ordered a 3080 TUF from overclockers, but after months of waiting I cancelled and was lucky to get a 3060ti FE for MSRP.

 

TBH I was meh on the game anyway. A real nice open world, especially Night city, but the rest of the game is lacking. Played it through once and haven't touched it since.

[jones177]

The original Doom in 1993 was a slide show on my 386 so I built a 486 and 6 months later upgraded that to a Pentium.

 

Then there was MS Flight Simulator 2000. It was the first sim/game that I added content to on a regular bases from an line web sites so performance got bad over time, then I upgraded, repeat.    

 

Next was my modded Oblivion in 2007. It introduced me to a new kind of stutter and that was from open world load ins. So in 2007 I started using 10,000rpm HDDs that cost around $300 back then and continued using them until I switched to SSDs in 2016. 

Last year I found the game with all its mods on am old HDD and installed it. It runs perfectly on modern hardware.

 

Next is the original Skyrim. The vanilla game ran perfectly on my new i7 2600k/GTX 570 computer but as soon as I started modding, it started crashing. I found in testing that it was a vram issue so I needed more vram. So the GTX 570 with1280mbs was replaced with a GTX 670 with 2gbs, then later a GTX 680 with 4gbs and so on.

 

I started using ENB with Skyrim witch is a lighting mod that destroys frame rate so I needed not only vram but GPU power as well and that put me on the path of buying high end GPUs. 

 

Then in 2015 I bought a 28" Samsung 4k monitor after watching a LTT video on it.  With it I could actually see all the detail of the textures I added to Skyrim. In 2015 I was using a GTX 980 and at 1080p it could do 60fps in Skyrim with ENB but at 4k that was 20fps. That changed my goal to 4k 60fps and that was not achieved until I got a 2080 ti in 2018.

4k is also what started me using 2 gaming computers since in the same year I bought my first ultrawide and liked it as much. 

 

With 2020 came Windows Hell.

One update destroyed the i9 9900k computer I am using now but another stopped games that used the Havok physics engine from running with the CPU overclocks that I have been using since 2018.

I did not know if it was ever going to be fixed so I needed CPUs that were as fast stock as my i7 8086ks were with a 5ghz all core overclock. The i9 10900k could do it as well as the 5800x so a really expensive way to fix some old games that I have spent 1000s of hours in.

Windows eventually got fixed.    

  

 

 

[Montana One-Six]

Only once I upgraded mainly because of a game. That was 2011 for BF3. Went from a Laptop with a Pentium T4200 and a Radeon 4570 to an Acer Predator with an i5-2500 and a Radeon HD 6870.

 

[Mark Kaine]

None, for me was the other way around,  bought a 1060 and then figured what game to play with my new powers.

 

6000 hours of MHW (with high res texture pack) later....

 

 

(OK, meanwhile I have a 3070, but the game worked well with the 1060*)

 

 

*Edit: actually,  since most people talk about GPUs, i forgot, the 1060 was fine, but now i was having a hard core CPU bottleneck, so I had to upgrade from 2200G > 3600.

[FruitOfTheLum]

Amusingly, for me it was Skyrim!

 

I had been out of the PC space for a few years, ever since my last PC broke and I couldn't afford to repair it at the time. Last year during the first lockdown I got a semi-decent laptop with a 1650, and I started playing PC games again. Fallout 4 and Skyrim especially, which I'd already played to death on consoles, but had been limited in terms of modding. When I discovered the extent of the mods available on PC, I went a bit overboard, and the game ended up looking amazing but it was chugging along at 40fps! That was the moment when I decided that I was going to build my first new PC in ages.

 

It took a while, though. I started gathering components in December. The graphics card, as you might expect, was the hardest part to source, so I didn't finish it until June/July. 

 

Still, Skyrim looks amazing on a 3070! I have run some other games, of course.

[LloydLynx]

Minecraft and BeamNG, pretty much the only games I play. 

[Fr33K!e]

I wouldn't say it was just one game that got me to upgrade; RDR2, Warzone, Cold War, Horizon Zero Dawn to name a few... I also considered what is coming out Like Forza Horizon 5 and Vanguard (and whatever comes after those that spark my interest).

[IPD]

Half Life 1.  640x480 was about all my poor K62 with a hercules GPU could stomach.  Most upgrades since have been because of failing hardware:

 

-GTX 260M (twice failed in my sager)

-3k screen failed on my MSI (GT60, i think)?

-Constant GPU fan failures on my Gigabyte P35Xv6

 

Funnily enough, the HP Pavilion from 2006 was still going fine when I gave it away.  And the MSI GX660R from 2010 is still plugging along without a hiccough.  Technically the GT60 still works (but has a 1080p screen).  And I still use the P35X....but my god the designs of laptops get worse and worse.

 

[Toolhead1987]

I got my new setup for BF2042.

Didn't like the Beta though and it ran like shit.
I hope too hit 120 once the final version releases.
3080ti/5900x

[diegoaccord]

Cyberpunk and the new consoles.

 

I had a 2070 Super and 3700X and since I planned to get the consoles, and they would be around that spec, I had to upgrade. Also I knew that Cyberpunk would not be playable maxed out so either way I needed a 3080 or 90. Got 3080 a few weeks after launch. 

 

Then I got 3080 Ti for no reason really.

[rikitikitavi]

I believe Half Life 2 was the major game that pushed me to replace NVidia Riva smth with GeForce 7200 GS.

... next 'upgrade' was for Mass Effect - had to get xbox360

[LH747]

For me it was a display upgrade really, got a 4k display, and my 970 didn't cut it anymore. Plus I wanted to get into BF2042 since I love BF4.

Ended up with  3080Ti