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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. theandrewbailey · 1789559075 · focus · HN ↗

      > a Pentium 3 & a GeForce 2

      That's the spec of my retro PC. I never had one of those back in the day, but it scratches the itch.

      1. anthk · 1789581270 · focus · HN ↗

         I had an Athlon XP with a GF2 and Max Payne and Deus Ex played great.

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