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First video game you had/wanted to upgrade your computer for

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CS1.6. We needed real video card :) Next was BF2, then BF3 for me.

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First Splinter Cell. I upgraded soon after it came out. Other games have run poorly since (Crysis anyone) but this was the first that wouldn't run on the video card I had at the time and specifically upgraded for. Since then I just lower the settings to make it playable but don't change my upgrade plans for a single game.

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When pixel shader 3.0 was announced everyone was losing their minds and guess who was asking for it Ubisoft! At least back then they cared about PC tho. But i think this always happens when the pixel shader changes. ''Splinter Cell Double Agent will NOT support anything older than pixel shader 3.0 at the time of release''

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Well both Doom3 and Half Life 2 (at the same time).

But in general I try to look for industry trends rather than individual games.

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I needed a new GPU for Team Fortress 2, and I actually overheated the iGPU with it multiple times. So, the motherboard died. It had a Pentium D anyway, so not a too big loss.

Later, I upgraded for Left 4 Dead 2. I could finally run at glorious high settings at 1440x900 or 1280x800! (I used a 16:10 monitor back then)

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Honestly, the Tony Hawk games. They were the first games I played on a PC ever, but my PC couldn't handle them very well.

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Battlefield 2 - Started out with a 6800 AGP. Built a new machine, but I forget what card it started with. I do remember that rig ended up with a watercooled BFG 8800 GTS. 

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The first was probably Morrowind.

 

Up until that point I had always had powerful enough hardware to do just about anything, then Morrowind came along and cockslapped my computer.

 

Ironically, Oblivion was the one after that again, lol.

 

Elder Scrolls troll me so.

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Bioshock Infinite...my computer was barely capable of running Bioshock never mind at a decent resolution.

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My first upgrade was the nVidia GeForce2 MX200 for my wicked Pentium 2 233Mhz so I could play THPS2.

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My laptop could handle minecraft med settings 60 fps, But Guns of Icarus online lagged at 20 fps and Cube world was borderline playable at 28 ish.

War of the roses barley ran at 12 and really, Stuff wasn't fun.

So I got a gaming PC , now I'm rocking the 60 Fps max if not almost max settings.

But Minecraft at 32 Chunk render distance brings my Computer to it's knees with the whole 4225 Chunks around me (each chunk being a 16*16*256 Rectangle.

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The first Far Cry.. It was glorious fully maxed out at 1680x1050... AA was still scary to run at the time though. I had an ATI X800 Pro, or XT.... Then Doom 3 was another that pushed my system.

 

However, when I first played Halo CE when it first came out on my friends OC'd P4 and 9800 PRO I was hooked on what computer game graphics could do. I had really only paid games like Starcraft prior to that, which isn't very demanding.

 

Edit, come to think of it I did play a lot of Motocross Madness and Need for Speed on an old Voodoo graphics card... But I wasn't in control of ugprading the system at that point so I didn't really understand and the games just "worked".

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Battlefield 3 and Guild Wars 2 made me upgrade my PC. At the time I had a build that was meant for COD4 and CSS

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Some old lego MMO when I was younger, moved from a core 2 duo vista laptop with 4 GB of ram and integrated graphics, to an athlon II x4 W/ an 8600GT (It was $10 and I needed a gpu after I ran out of budget, don't hate me) with double the ram.

 

Man, I remember when Win7 was the new kid on the block, feels like ages ago.

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i'm about to upgrade from a crappy ultrabook mainly because I cant find a single game that can play above 15 fps

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i'm about to upgrade from a crappy ultrabook mainly because I cant find a single game that can play above 15 fps

 

Ultrabooks aren't crappy. They certainly aren't gaming machines. You're using your ultrabook for the wrong purposes.

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Doom 3 and Quake 4 in 2004, The Witcher 2 in 2010 and The Witcher 3 now.

Well, other than The Witcher 3 I want to play some S.T.A.L.K.E.R. mods that I can't run decently with my current rig ( Phenom II 955, GTX 470, 4 GB RAM ).

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My weakest computer that I ever really gamed on had an i7 and a 640m.... So, I have to say AC Unity because my 670 will apparently get wrecked

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