The game that made you upgrade your computer?

World of Warcraft, made me build a whole new desktop which cost me $1700 last year T_TN0bita

[QUOTE="Bozanimal"]Unreal Tournament. The first one. I'm still running an Athlon 1Ghz Thunderbird.;)out0v0rder

you mean that Nintendo Cartridge?

I don't think I understand the question. I wanted to play Unreal Tournament, but my Pentium 100Mhz laptop wasn't exactly cutting it, so I bought an Athlon, which is old today.

I think I'm going to upgrade, though, with so many awesome games out this years (I can't even run WoW, and with Supreme Commander, C&C3, UT3, and all the other goodness, I can't wait!). 

Black and white 2, made me pester my parents for weeks, until they bought me a new graphics card.Agent_13

your terible but i think thats me becuase i never ask for anything not even help i choose to do things by my self becuase i can't trust people but my dad has some new components our procssors are fine though.

No one game made me upgrade. It was a slew of great games as they came along. Just like whats coming down the road. Gaming4_Life

Yeah that's understandable. I think Crysis is the next thing.

back in 2003-4 I upgraded from some intel 980i **** to a a 9200pci then to a 9600xt for halflife2, doom3, jedi knight adacemy

then this summer I got a new computer, for half life 2, css, doom3, f.e.a.r./ amd althon 3200+, x850xt, 1.5gbs of ram 

Company of Heroes .... $2500redcable

That is very, very sad....

No game in particular, the only thing that I added recently was a 1GB or RAM to help games/applications run smoother(ie: BF2, no more problems at the beggining of the round or when loading new parts of the map, Hammer -it uses a lot of RAM due the large amount of textures it loads- but now that is not a problem).

I bought a new graphic card when Battle Field Vietnam came out. Although I also play BF2 now

I didnt just upgrade, but i built my PC just for BF2. I still play that game to this day.Nayab

you can't beat building them

Which time lol

Once for Castle Wolfenstein

Once for Ghost Recon

Once for Max Payne

Once for  Painkiller

Once for Half Life 2

An the one I have now i'm not sure why I upgraded lol  stupid I guess 

[QUOTE="Nayab"]I didnt just upgrade, but i built my PC just for BF2. I still play that game to this day.Poshkidney

you can't beat building them

Same here. You get what you want. May be pricey to upgrade sometimes for newer games but I think of it as normal upkeep.

got a whole new computer for this years upcoming games eg. crysis, bioshock

Halo PC

$200? 

Half-life 2 and Doom 3

 went from 700mhz pentium with onboard sound and video and 256 ram

to a 2.4 athlon 64

6600gt

1 gig ram 

BF2 got a whole new computer lol just to run it at 60 fps

I bought my first video card was 1 years and some months ago from now. radeon 9600 pro 256 mb for 70 dollars. i bought for no particular games. Just bought to upgrade the video card department of the computer, meanwhile i also wanted to know how much graphically enhancement of my purchased video card than the onboard video for any pc games. After i tried any games, the games do look much better and run than pretty good and no lag with high setting, but only for games produced at year 03-05, later than that, have to turn low or medium setting to play them well. my computer is really not that good compare to other people rig and also by todays' standard, which is dual core, almost everyone use them except some use better core dual and core quad. just wanted to list my specification, because everyone listed them already. so i took the advantage of this topic to list it. Althought my rig not impressive but still wanted to list them to fulfill my urge to list and let people see them. thanks

 my current rig:

windows xp professional service pack 2

office 2003 professional edition with service pack 2 patch update installed 

amd athlon 64 3000+ @2.2 ghz

raidmax 380 power supply 

radeon 9600 pro 256 mb 8x agp

lite-on 16x dvd-rw

western digital 80 gb 7200 rpm

soundmax onboard 5.1 channel sound

1.5 gb ram ddr pc 3200 400 mhz

asua motherboard model  k8v-mx 

a miyako microphone, logitech express web camera

encore wireless adapter, connect it with hawking antenna to receive longer distance wi-fi ranges

2 extra fans in addition to back case fan and cpu fan. 

my first computer was purchased in year 1996 for 1600 USD included crt 17inches monitor, i just recalled the cpu was intel pentium 233 mhz, ram 32 i guess, video is onboard don't know the memory and cd-rom. that's all

I never really upgraded JUST because of a game (that's just childish). However, some games did tip me over when I was thinking about upgrading anyhow and might have helped to speed up the proces... 

Morrowind: new motherboard, processor, RAM and graphics card.

Oblivion: new computer

Hmmm, I do see a pattern here...

Company of Heroes even though I've only played it once since upgrading. $80 to upgrade from 512MB to 1.5GB. $80 to upgrade from AMD Athlon 64 3800+ to AMD Athlon 64 x2 3800+. So in essence, $160 for 1 gig ram and a dual core cpu. Its all temporary anyways until I finish my gaming rig.

Battlefield 2 - Bought an all new computer...

Crysis - Going to buy another all new computer... 

(I also needed and need a new PC both times, so its not purely graphics whoring...;))