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1. monster_truck · 1789538207 · focus · HN ↗

   I mowed lawns for two summers to save up for a Voodoo 3000 PCI, still didn't even have half of what I needed. Parents covered the rest. Basically nothing I had hoped to be able to play worked. Spent an entire summer just trying to get Arcanum to even run, never did succeed. Learned a whole lot.

   Goddamn if that buyer's remorse didn't scar me for life, the amount of researching I did before any purchase from then on was obsessive. I still think of the card fondly for what it represented to 10 year old me. This story does have a happy ending, we ended up getting a Dell XPS not long after with a Pentium 3 & a GeForce 2, back when they were still beige.

   1. cjrp · 1789550692 · focus · HN ↗

      I remember exactly that feeling; I had a cricket game where my PC met the minimum specs, but it ran terribly. That's the day I learned that minimum is not enough.

      1. ahartmetz · 1789595425 · focus · HN ↗

         That has changed a little. Today, you can often play OK with minimum specs. You might need to switch to an embarrassing resolution to get 60 fps. In the 90s, with minimum specs you got like 5-10 fps at minimum details (and usually fixed resolution).

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