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

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Halo PC. Had some shitty eMachine with integrated graphics. Had to get my parents to buy some cheap graphics card from Best Buy.

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Every single game that comes out..... Currently on a dell dimension 4600i with integrated graphics.

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building one currently for suff like star citizen and witcher 3, the laptop im using now struggles to run tf2 above 20fps

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I'd have to say it was Starcraft 2 that made me do it.. Try getting over 20FPS with a zerg rush coming at you on a ATI Radeon HD 5550 on lowest settings with its 512MB of VRAM..

 

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BF3 I think is the only one in particular that I upgraded for. 

 

I had planned to for BF4 also...but seeing how that mess turned out, I didn't bother until about a year later when my PC really needed an upgrade anyway - though I still haven't upgraded the GPU. (still on GTX 570 which I got for BF3)

 

The next one no doubt will be Star Citizen, may even go for a 980 depending on how that goes...

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First upgraded my entire computer for The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim.

 

Before I didn't care for games, especially PC games, so I only ever upgraded to keep up with software demands. Though I technically did it once before many many years ago to be able to play Star Wars Starfighter...I don't count it though.

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Need for Speed Most wanted

 

I was 12 (ish) and I spared up somehow £30 to buy an ATi 9550. It had a blue LED it was so cool :D

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Diablo 2 and Deus Ex  :D

Mind you these games ran at a decent FPS on a 486 CPU with just 32 MB of RAM back in the days. Talk about optimising the code..

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Build my first rig a while I didn't have specific game to play because it was my first rig that could play games before that it was pre-built my parents buy because fuck my opinions about pcs, anyways right now the only game that I do want to upgrade for is star citizen and future in general a GTX 560 can only do so much these days

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Grand Theft Auto IV and LCPDFR mod. Still is slow and buggy though  :P

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I just got into pc gaming and my laptop just sucks, I buy games that I've wanted to play when they're on special on steam that way when I finish my build hopefully by February I'll be able to play them all :D

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The same game that even got me into PC gaming: an RTS called Supreme Commander 2. Not even a very demanding game, but I was using some super old Dell Inspiron so I shoved in a $70-ish graphics card back in like 2008.

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Witcher 2.

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CRYSIS 

the physics engine and lighting alone deserve to be fully appreciated 

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This is so funny because it's feel's like an history now day's. I always remember when the first Unreal game was out. Man i was so anxious to play it with good setup. But only what we have was, that crappy old DELL computer. O'h man do i hate that brand so much. Then the other game was Command & Conquer that FPS release. 

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Two words.

Star Raiders.

Made me upgrade from a trs 80 model 3 to an atari 800

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The Witcher. I was determined to wait to get a good PC before I played it.

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I think I might be showing my age here, but Lego Chess was the first game I had purchased that actually required 4MB of VRAM on a video card, something that I didn't realize was different from having 4MB of RAM in the computer at the time. Let me tell you, this was a big surprise and crash course into what the heck was inside a computer, and looking back a decade and a half later, it was a great learning experience that shaped the way I look at computing.  Then again, when I stop to think that my current GTX980 has a factor of 10^3 more than this requirement from my childhood, I feel old.

 

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