Since the minimum and recommended specs for Starfield have come out, I’ve been budgeting to do a big upgrade on my PC with an AMD 6800 xt and a fancy new 1 TB SSD (which is the first game I’ve ever seen that requires an SSD) just so I can run the game in all it’s space epicness.
What was the game that you were so excited for that you made the jump to upgrade your PC to the next gen of hardware? New or old!
Sekiro - This was January 2020 so the timing was perfect just before covid hit (in my country). Back then I just had the opportunity to build one so I didn’t think twice cuz I wanted a gaming pc since forever.
I had at the time so many games in mind for years and also in my backlog, so it was incredible to finally build one and play all of them during the lockdowns lmao
Quake 1 - though not quite at launch, it was the game that pushed me to get a Voodoo 1 card. Half-Life 2 - due to the delay I ended upgrading my video card twice, ending on an ATI Radeon 9800
For me it was PUBG. I had been away from pc gaming for a while, and my friends wanted me to join them in PUBG. I had an old laptop with dedicated graphics, but the game was so horribly optimized that it was unplayable. I built my current rig then.
guild wars 2. it’s always guild wars 2 I come back to…
Like most MMOs, it’s pretty CPU heavy, and it just goes up when more and more players are onscreen.
I read that it’s now on DX11, does that help? XD
I had an i3 3240 paired with GT640 before since 2013 until 2020, it was good for 720p… hehe, yes that was enough for me.
But then Bannerlord came out and had me really excited, I loved Warband so I really wanted to play it, in my old PC Bannerlord barely ran at 20fps with heavy stutters and looooooooong loading times.
Then I did the unthinkable, heresy in the PC community… I bought an affordable pre-built and then I added more ram and an SSD.
Anyway, I still don’t play Bannerlord, I got sidetracked with other games lmao
