What's the first game you fire up after an upgrade?
What's the first game you fire up after an upgrade?
New monitor this time!
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Disappointed to see it's not Crisis. It was always Crisis.
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It was Cyberpunk 2077 last time, because I got a ray-tracing capable GPU.
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This is gonna sound crazy but Star Wars Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight. It was the first game I played on a computer we got when I was in the 4th grade and since then I've made it a tradition to make that the first game I play on any new computer.
To my knowledge it wasn't even a technical power house when it came out but it is always interesting to see it run at resolutions way higher than it was intended for
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I literally just started playing thru this again a few weeks ago.
Don't think it'll suffice for a stress test these days, but it's such a great game.
I still need to finish MoTS one of these days...
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Beam.NG, there's always a bottleneck to smash.
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Honestly, it's 3dMark or the benchmarks from either Cyberpunk 2077, Metro: Exodus, or FFXV. Perfect stress tests.
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Always 3DMark. I love that program. So many uses.
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Star Citizen, got to test the thermals of the new kit
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Elite Dangerous
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Satisfactory!
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Pioneer, Ficsit will be upping all personal quotas related to Project Assembly. Currently 100% of your projects are related to Project Assembly. Projection of average quota increases will be directly related to the upgrades made on your new personal computer.
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Flight Simulator 2020, went from a i7 4790k / 1080Ti to a 5800X3D / 3090, insane performance. Don’t get me wrong my former build was insane, almost 7 years of use, and still kicking.
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That 1080ti has incredible legs, mine is still sleeping for when it is needed again.
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DOOM and DOOM Eternal
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QIIIA, sometimes Q1 or Q2. It's the law for me.
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Is this some kind of joke I'm too young to understand...? Quake came out in 1999 yeah, that's like saying UT99 is a good benchmark, but I havent played on a pc that cant run UT99
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Hmm ... it's not for tests purposes, if that's what you mean, it's just because I like it.
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Heroes of might and magic 2
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This may be the image that convinces me I need a curved monitor
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I have an Odyssey CRG9. It seems so absurd at first, but after a while it makes using any 16:9 monitor feel cramped as hell. Just be aware ultrawide support is lacking at times, but nothing you can't tweak around. Took me about a month of use to get everything to where I don't have to think about it much anymore.
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It's so goddamned good. Ultrawide curved is just chefs kiss
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What game is this? I want to try it!
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DOOM Eternal. Really fun game if you're into fast paced shooters with fun movement mechanics. I loved the 2016 DOOM reboot and Eternal is even better in a lot of ways imo.
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Sadly it doesn't have co-op. :(
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Doom Eternal I believe
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Doom Eternal \m/
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Hell yeah! I knew it was supposed to be good. Looks super cool. I played 2016 multiplayer a decent amount. I also tried 1993 around that time. Very dated, but I could see why it was so popular
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Blurbuster TestUFO
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Elite: Dangerous.
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Ark Survival Evolved. Been playing it through two GPU-only and one full-PC upgrade. So satisfying to see the game situations which used to send FPS into the single digits, now stay above 60 FPS at all times. (Yes, the game is that horribly optimized.)
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What monitor did you get?
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LOTR 2!
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Lords of the Realm 2? I need to buy this again. Spent hours playing it when I was younger.
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TW3
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Sapien//Halo Custom Edition. Spent like 19ish.. almost 20 years using the old HEK so it and halo are the only things I normally have installed
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I've only technically upgraded twice in my life- First time when I got my first gaming computer, a Dell G7 laptop with i7/1060 MaxQ, and when I upgraded around a month ago to a proper desktop with Ryzen 7700X and Radeon 6700 XT.
For the Dell G7, the first game I remember booting up was Minecraft, since on my old ass laptop before, I couldn't run it without optifine, and even then, it was barely hitting 20 frames. The smooth camera movement was a breath of fresh air.
For the desktop I just got, I had a few choices, since there were games in my steam library that ran pretty poorly on my Dell G7 that I was waiting to play when got an upgrade. Between Days Gone and Cyberpunk 2077, I opted to test out Days Gone first. Still working on beating it, but the performance upgrade still amazes me
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DDLC (◔‿◔)
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