Going back to your beginnings in PC gaming: the first game you played and loved, but the frame rate and resolution weren’t ideal. Your first “I need/want to upgrade my specs” basically.
Warcraft III. Voodoo2 wasn’t cutting it, upgraded to a GeForce4 MX420.
… which still wasn’t really cutting it, so I spent every penny to my name and upgraded to a Radeon 9700 Pro like 6 months later.
Man, I loved that card. Used it for years. To this day I think it was the card I held onto the longest.
Doom - we upgraded to 16MB of RAM so we could play it through Windows 95.
Win95 wanted 4MB and Doom wanted all 8 that we had, so we had to exit, reboot, and go to DOS then run it manually.
I had to run a boot disk because we couldn’t run Windows 3.1 and Doom 2 at the same time. Good times.
My brother had a friend who knew how to upgrade computers, but we never got permission to do so. And then some years later my brother’s friend was taken by the state because his parents believed some of that early Sovereign Citizen bullshit and stopped paying taxes. I think there were also some drug charges. It was just personal amounts of pot, but it was the early 90s, so they were fucked.
World of Warcraft. I was on Windows XP with 512mb of RAM and who knows what graphics card but I was lagging so bad when WotLK came out.
With all the people standing at the entrance to Naxx I had to basically aim myself for the portal and lag my way in without being able to see where my character was walking due to the lag.
Probably Dungeons of Daggorath for the TRS-80 Color Computer.
Edit- It was a Tandy Color Computer 2 circa 1986ish, went from 16K to 64K ram.
Not sure if this really counts, but I was given a copy of ‘The Movies’ when I was younger. Turns out it needed a DVD player to read it, but at the time I only had a CD player, so had to go out and buy an external DVD player to use it. Besides a few very lightweight PC games, I played on console most of the time and never got a true understanding of ‘specs’ until later in life.
