Do you remember?

blade · Post by **blade** » Tue Mar 20, 2001 9:01 pm

I never liked Blood, I did like Duke 3d and Shadow Warrior though. Doom never did much for me either actually. It wasn't till Quake. That started it and later I got into Duke, NFSse and Road Rash(both awesome!). Wolfenstein made me too naseaus so I never played it that much either.

But yeah, games do make us upgrade more. I do think computers would still evolve as quickly because of the other apps like photo software and DVD playing. Plus the competition between AMD and Intel.

Aside from the 300a the best upgrade for me was the V3 3k. I could finally play games past 800x600. And Unreal, Q2, NFS3 and others looked soo fine.

the FooL · Post by **the FooL** » Wed Mar 21, 2001 11:16 pm

I was on a 486DX100, with a whole 64M of ram when I went and
did the 3D thing.

For me, the game that made me upgrade was a mixture
of Myth and X-Wing.

I just couldn't run it fast enough.

so I went and bought the Voodoo2 for $250 from Wicked
(who promptly went out of business a year later).

I remember digging up Unreal and playing it since
it actually worked.

Then from there, I went to the celery 300, then onto
the Athlon classic, then to the T-Bird.
It wasn't the CPU that cost me as much as the
Asus V7700 GF2 GTS DLX.
Man... $300 smacks for a vid card?
But I'm happy...
I think I'm good for another year minimum before having to
shell out for the GF4's.

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Wed Mar 21, 2001 11:23 pm

I upgrade for the shear fun of doing it. Try this play with that. I am nto sure if I Ever did it for a game really. anyways the games I usually Like dont require All that much power. RTS and RPG games arnt exactly the hogs of a system. but it is alway fun being the First into a map cause of scsi

Greg

Bilirubin · Post by **Bilirubin** » Thu Mar 22, 2001 4:10 pm

I joined the 3D gaming community a bit late. I had (still have, I'm on it now at work) a K3-233 with a 1 Meg ATI Mach64 vid card. I got sick of playing Quake in sw at 20 fps so I got a used V2. Ahh...

Q3 however forced an upgrade to my current system. I had it tweeked to fugly in order to (almost) get 30 fps--and still managed to win matches on my dial up

Now I'm in a computer comfort zone--until the DX8 games start coming out

Wolfman · Post by **Wolfman** » Fri Mar 23, 2001 11:19 pm

hehehehe...I remeber the old days.....

Started out with an 8mhz 8086 640k memory CGA graphics....

Forced to upgrade when Wolfenstein came out...

Upgraded to a 25mhz 80286 2mb of Memory with a VGA card

Forced to upgrade when Wing Commander 2 came out..

Went upto a 50mhz 80486 with 2mb of Memory and a SVGA card...

Then DOOM came out ....

Upgraded the 80486 with another MB of ram and a Pentium Overdrive CPU that took it to a whopping 89mhz...

Upgraded a year later to a full blown Pentium 120 system with 32mb of RAM....

Then came a P2 200 with 64MB RAM...with two Voodoo 2 8mb cards....

....

Then finally upgraded in 99 to a P3 550 with 128MB of ram.

This system has seen the the Voodoo 2's relaced by a TNT 2 Ultra.....and last year that was replaced by a Geforce 2 GTS 32mb...and the RAM was upped to 384mb...and the motherboard was changed recently to a BE6-II v2.0 motherboard...

I'm scared to add up the cost of what I've spent on PC's over the years....

[Edited by Wolfman on 03-23-2001 at 11:24 PM]

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Sat Mar 24, 2001 1:39 pm

My upgrade path began back in 1991 when Wolfenstein was released. The first 3d shooter and I had a crappy 386 system wiht a POS cga graphic card. I quickly upgraded to a 486/33 system and things began looking better until Doom rolled out in 1993.

I remmoved the cpu and went to a 486/66 system. I then decided to try and play deathmatch against my son on his pc. Since I did not know anything about networks, I decided to hook them up with a 50 foot serial cable.

I had problems at first, but once I got the correct baud rates adjusted, it was barly playable but it was fun to frag your son.

Now Duke 3d rolls out and my system is ok, but it begins to slow down on certain parts of the game. Time for another upgrade. Got a P133 system with a Matrox Millennium video card. SWEET!

Now Quake rolls out and it plays ok, but again, certain parts of the game slows down, and we are now able to have a true frag fest with more than 4 peeps. So I upgraded to a P200 and wow, what a difference. I kept the Matrox card though because it was still working ok until I saw a friend with a Voodoo1. MY GOD! What have I been missing! So I shelled out ~$150 for a Voodoo1 and now I was having fun.

Replaced the P200 with a BH6 and Celeron 300a @450. Best CPU since slice bread. I still have all my Celerons (3 total). I still have my BH6 but it's running a PIII600 and a Voodoo3 card. All I play now is Half-Life TFC and some Counter-Strike.

Kaworu · Post by **Kaworu** » Sat Mar 24, 2001 3:30 pm

You people are upgrading?! I'm a working on building a 486 right now!

When I'm finished it will have roughly these specs:
Intel DX4-100
128MB FPM
3D video card (Matrox?)
6x DVD (Muhahahaha)
Two 10Gb ATA/66 drives on modded FastTrak (Again, Muhahahaha)

Koo Koo Mouse · Post by **Koo Koo Mouse** » Sat Mar 24, 2001 7:10 pm

LOL exe!
It's bitch aint it! I remember tyrin to run doom on a33Mhz machine I got fot free from work. I gave it to my Kids for to learn on, and told EM is not a gaming machine! Dont put no 3d games into that, as I sat back on my p1 100 voodoo1 rig and thought life could not get any better..
I thought I had the world by the balls on a downhill pull.
heh..

Not for long.
Shucks!