Back when Gothic 3 was released I had saved enough money to build an absolute beast of a PC and took two weeks of vacation to play it.
That’s when I learned that SLI isn’t worth it and means just more hassle.
I just upgraded from an RTX 2060 to an RTX 5060 Ti thanks to Reentry
Morrowind.
Then Skyrim.
Then fallout 4.
Each one was roughly when I wanted to update anyways.
fallout 4 was when i lasted consciously upgraded my hardware too.
Ace Combat 7 was the trigger last time, and Ace Combat 8 is making history repeat itself. Remains to be seen what the system requirements will be, but I suspect they’ll be higher. I’m just hoping component prices go down a bit before some unspecified date in 2026… don’t have a lot of faith in that.
Half-Life Alyx did that to me several years ago. Amazingly, it ran acceptably on an RX 580, but that game combined with a then-recent monitor upgrade to 1440p high refresh rate convinced me to upgrade my graphics card.
It damn well made me buy a $300 meta quest bullshit, now with Facebook logins.
The Valve Index was almost twice as much. And I just wanted to play HL Alyx.
Crysis! I built my first high end desktop when it was coming out. Athlon 64x2 4400+, 4GB RAM, 2x7900GT in SLI.
Raptor main drive, 320GB secondary drive. Cost me about 2.5kUSD. Played Crysis just about the best a computer could.
I have a 256gb raptor from that era that is somehow still working fine. I use it as a steam library drive.
Doom 2016 several years after it’s release.
The one game that has gotten me to upgrade my PC so far has been minecraft :3… I ended up getting a better CPU and doubled the RAM in it
I never really understood why Minecraft requires high specs.
It’s not a very well optimized game :3
There’s no LOD system so stuff far away is rendered at full detail, and it also renders stuff you can’t see like caves, on top of running primarily on a single core, so once you try to play on higher settings, with shaders or mods, or when you build big builds with lots of entities, like if you have farms or use a lot of item frames or armour stands the game really starts struggling to keep up :3… there are optimization mods for it tho, which makes the performance a lot better (with sodium + lithium I can usually increase my FPS by 200-300%)
It’ll be alan wake 2.
My cpu doesn’t have the instruction Set to even start it.
Dwarf Fortress
You actually want to downgrade for better performance in DF. It runs better on a single core CPU with a higher clock speed; like something pre-Core2Duo.
