Remember Doom 3?

And how everyone ran to the PC store upgrading their PC's on how it revolutionized PC graphics? Is there any game you guys wanted to play so bad that you had to do a major overhaul on that dusty gaming rig?

Here's some games I upgraded for...

2004...

2005...

2007...

I KNOW RIGHT?^^ (No Crysis)

2002: Counter-Strike

2005: F.E.A.R.

2007: Crysis

I didn't have to upgrade to play, but to max them out. For Crysis' I came close but no cigar.

I didn't have to upgrade for Quake 4 but I had to for FEAR it was much more demanding and better looking.

Burnout Paradise

Had to upgrade for the following:- Doom3, FEAR, then Crysis, now GTA4. Hope this latest upgrade will last a bit longer.

I upgraded for World in Conflict in 2008

had to upgrade for any game that wasnt stone age graphics but i bought a new pc for oblivion and garrys mod.

Had to upgrade for the following:- Doom3, FEAR, then Crysis, now GTA4. Hope this latest upgrade will last a bit longer.

DigiTM73

Crysis for sure, but I didn't upgarde enough :P Bioshock actually got me to upgrade because my old SM 2.0 card hard real problems running it, even with the cool mod some guy made it was not pretty.nutcrackr

In 2004, I upgraded for Prince of Persia - SoT and FarCry. A few months ago I replaced that PC.. really, just to play any recent games. Mostly, I'm hoping Starcraft II and Diablo III will run this new rig.flipin_jackass

I disagree that everyone was upgrading just for Doom3. There were a number of other games that were also expected to come out at the same time that were tempting people to upgrade their PC. Half-life 2 being another game that was supposed to release soon after Doom 3.

I disagree that everyone was upgrading just for Doom3. There were a number of other games that were also expected to come out at the same time that were tempting people to upgrade their PC. Half-life 2 being another game that was supposed to release soon after Doom 3.

Skeptomania

[QUOTE="flipin_jackass"]In 2004, I upgraded for Prince of Persia - SoT and FarCry. A few months ago I replaced that PC.. really, just to play any recent games. Mostly, I'm hoping Starcraft II and Diablo III will run this new rig.cluclap

[QUOTE="cluclap"]

[QUOTE="flipin_jackass"]In 2004, I upgraded for Prince of Persia - SoT and FarCry. A few months ago I replaced that PC.. really, just to play any recent games. Mostly, I'm hoping Starcraft II and Diablo III will run this new rig.flipin_jackass

Ah yes, Doom 3

The hightech marines there were too stupid and incompetent to use a flashlight and a weapon at that same time.

Technology to colonize Mars but adding a flashlight to your gun - wow wow wow, are you trying to make this game unrealistic

What a bunch of lamers

I just upgraded to my new snazzy laptop rig (specs in sig) to play most of today's most demanding games (Dawn of War 2, World in Conflict, Empire: Total War, and Fallout 3 to name a few) on high settings at 1920 X 1200. They run silky smooth like the Zohan's hairstyle :)

Is the middle one... Quake? I haven't played the Quake series before. I was thinking about picking up the most recent single player one. Swiftstrike5

The middle pic is FEAR. Quake 4 is garbage. FEAR is a better game.

[QUOTE="Swiftstrike5"]Is the middle one... Quake? I haven't played the Quake series before. I was thinking about picking up the most recent single player one. Skeptomania

The middle pic is FEAR. Quake 4 is garbage. FEAR is a better game.

http://s617.photobucket.com/albums/tt256/cluclap/?action=view¤t=Quake_4_01.jpg

I've already played the orginal FEAR (and expansion). I have no interest in the second one, which is terribad.

[QUOTE="Skeptomania"]

[QUOTE="Swiftstrike5"]Is the middle one... Quake? I haven't played the Quake series before. I was thinking about picking up the most recent single player one. Swiftstrike5

The middle pic is FEAR. Quake 4 is garbage. FEAR is a better game.

http://s617.photobucket.com/albums/tt256/cluclap/?action=view¤t=Quake_4_01.jpg

I've already played the orginal FEAR (and expansion). I have no interest in the second one, which is terribad.

Is there any game you guys wanted to play so bad that you had to do a major overhaul on that dusty gaming rig?

cluclap

Let's see...

I built my first own PC in 2001 (before that I was using my older brother's PC)

Upgrade #1 was a better graphics card (Radeon 9600) in around 2003, for Battlefield 1942 (Voodoo 4 just wouldn't cut it anymore)

Upgrade #2 was in 2004 for Thief: Deadly Shadows. I bought a new rig with AMD 64 3000+, Radeon x800, 1 GB ram IIRC.

Upgrade #3, this nice rig lasted me for years, before it broke down in early 2007. Crysis was coming, so I figured what the hell - I got a new PC with Core 2 Duo 2.4, Geforce 8800 GTS and 2 GB ram.

And... that's it! Huh, weird. I've only upgraded three times during the course of 8 years. And since there aren't really that many games that require insane hardware these days, I don't think I'm gonna upgrade until... let's say 2011-2012.

Basically any game, my old pc couldn't even run warcraft III, now I can max out crysis warhead.

Basically any game, my old pc couldn't even run warcraft III, now I can max out crysis warhead.

Tuky06

Believe or not, I upgraded for civ4 (yes, my pc was not stone age, but renaissance :P). Just wanted to play that game so bad, as I was hooked to civ2 for a long, long time.

[QUOTE="Swiftstrike5"]Is the middle one... Quake? I haven't played the Quake series before. I was thinking about picking up the most recent single player one. Skeptomania

The middle pic is FEAR. Quake 4 is garbage. FEAR is a better game.

LOL it's Quake 4, which was an awesome game. Your opinion is moot if you can't even tell a screen apart from FEAR and Quake 4. :/

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[QUOTE="Skeptomania"]

The middle pic is FEAR. Quake 4 is garbage. FEAR is a better game.

http://s617.photobucket.com/albums/tt256/cluclap/?action=view¤t=Quake_4_01.jpg

I've already played the orginal FEAR (and expansion). I have no interest in the second one, which is terribad.

LOL it's Quake 4, which was an awesome game.

Believe or not, I upgraded for civ4 (yes, my pc was not stone age, but renaissance :P). Just wanted to play that game so bad, as I was hooked to civ2 for a long, long time.

ferran82

before 5 years or so Legacy of kain defiance was released.i went cray for it and bought it right away justo find out that my BS graphics chip couldnt handle it.lol in fact this game was the game that made me know that there is something called video cards that are used to run games.after 1 year of savings i got the 5200FX and went crazy. 6 months ago ai got the 8500GT generally for gaming.it cost me 100$GazaAli

I actually upgraded in anticipation of Arma 2.

[QUOTE="GazaAli"]before 5 years or so Legacy of kain defiance was released.i went cray for it and bought it right away justo find out that my BS graphics chip couldnt handle it.lol in fact this game was the game that made me know that there is something called video cards that are used to run games.after 1 year of savings i got the 5200FX and went crazy. 6 months ago ai got the 8500GT generally for gaming.it cost me 100$cluclap

[QUOTE="cluclap"][QUOTE="GazaAli"]before 5 years or so Legacy of kain defiance was released.i went cray for it and bought it right away justo find out that my BS graphics chip couldnt handle it.lol in fact this game was the game that made me know that there is something called video cards that are used to run games.after 1 year of savings i got the 5200FX and went crazy. 6 months ago ai got the 8500GT generally for gaming.it cost me 100$GazaAli

I bought my first PC in 2001, and I updated it for LOTR Return Of The King, I bought a 64MB card..MX4000 I think...I updated my PC later in 2005, for Battlefield 2, I bought the card and when I sat down to play, I discovered the card didn't run BF2 well enough even on the lowest settings, on 2006 I bought Oblivion and it didn't run well on my 128 MB card, I bought a 256 card, and again, when I sat down to play, problems. But this time it was my GPU, too slow...I gave up upgrading my PC until last year I bought a new one and really got into PC Gaming. rmfd341

doom 3 looks amazingly well for its time, and its a damn long game, defently a buy compare to the crap out there nowadays...dakan45

[QUOTE="GazaAli"][QUOTE="cluclap"] I had a 5200FX for Doom 3 lol...cluclap

well i was smarter with my so called "rig" that i got another 128mb of ram along with the 5200.smart ha,gaming rig XD

[QUOTE="cluclap"][QUOTE="GazaAli"] lol you reminded me,one of the first games i have tried with this card was doom3.did you have the dam problem about OpenGl when you first got the card? i did.everytime i tried to play the game,a blue console screen appears telling me something related to OpebGL is missing.i contacted activision and they finally told me to upgrade the driver,which worked but missed up the whole windows installGazaAli

well i was smarter with my so called "rig" that i got another 128mb of ram along with the 5200.smart ha,gaming rig XD

My first upgrade, which was about 14 months ago, was one of only two upgrades I made. In that case, I got a whole new computer, because I was sick of having a 6800 Ultra and a Pentium 4. I upgraded again at Christmas from my E2160 dual core to the E8400, which allowed me to get a better experience from games like Crysis/Warhead, Far Cry 2, and pretty much all other games that required more horsepower than my measely 1.8ghz dual core could handle.

But yeah, I don't plan on making any huge upgrades for awhile. I'll probably get a new video card and cpu fan/heatsink around Christmas, and then make the upgrade to quad core next year. My current setup (8800GTS 512/E8400/4gb RAM) has served me very well.

In 2004, I upgraded for Prince of Persia - SoT and FarCry. A few months ago I replaced that PC.. really, just to play any recent games. Mostly, I'm hoping Starcraft II and Diablo III will run this new rig.flipin_jackass

I'm with this guy. I just bought a new gaming pc a few days ago to play all the cool games I missed out in the past couple of years. And Diablo III is going to be nice.:) I work with the niece of one of the developers, and she says he told her that it's not coming out for a really long time :(

[QUOTE="dakan45"]doom 3 looks amazingly well for its time, and its a damn long game, defently a buy compare to the crap out there nowadays...cluclap

[QUOTE="cluclap"][QUOTE="dakan45"]doom 3 looks amazingly well for its time, and its a damn long game, defently a buy compare to the crap out there nowadays...Gooeykat

Yeah, I think Half Life 2 has aged a lot better than both Doom 3 and Far Cry...

My first upgrade, which was about 14 months ago, was one of only two upgrades I made. In that case, I got a whole new computer, because I was sick of having a 6800 Ultra and a Pentium 4. I upgraded again at Christmas from my E2160 dual core to the E8400, which allowed me to get a better experience from games like Crysis/Warhead, Far Cry 2, and pretty much all other games that required more horsepower than my measely 1.8ghz dual core could handle.

But yeah, I don't plan on making any huge upgrades for awhile. I'll probably get a new video card and cpu fan/heatsink around Christmas, and then make the upgrade to quad core next year. My current setup (8800GTS 512/E8400/4gb RAM) has served me very well.

TMallory2482

[QUOTE="TMallory2482"]

My first upgrade, which was about 14 months ago, was one of only two upgrades I made. In that case, I got a whole new computer, because I was sick of having a 6800 Ultra and a Pentium 4. I upgraded again at Christmas from my E2160 dual core to the E8400, which allowed me to get a better experience from games like Crysis/Warhead, Far Cry 2, and pretty much all other games that required more horsepower than my measely 1.8ghz dual core could handle.

But yeah, I don't plan on making any huge upgrades for awhile. I'll probably get a new video card and cpu fan/heatsink around Christmas, and then make the upgrade to quad core next year. My current setup (8800GTS 512/E8400/4gb RAM) has served me very well.

cluclap

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