>late 2000s/early 2010s
>turn on the pc
>wait 15 minutes for it to load
>barely running low requirement games
>constantly freezes
>late 2000s/early 2010s. >turn on the pc. >wait 15 minutes for it to load
>late 2000s/early 2010s
>turn on the pc
>wait 15 minutes for it to load
>barely running low requirement games
>constantly freezes
PC gaming was utter shite up until about 10 years ago.
>t. PC gamer since like 1997
t. didnt buy the correct hardware or had his mom buy him the cheapest piece of shits from Best Buy
Nah man, it didn't matter what you bought, it was obsolete in like 6 months. Now, no decent games come out anyway so even my 8yr old PC I built can run 99.8% of all video games I'd ever want to play.
No, you were poor. I ran a Q6600/8GB/2x8800GT rig for a while at 1920x1200.
I mean I was a teenager. Nobody other than gigadorks took any of this seriously anyway until the end of the 2000s.
You're just moronic then, I don't know what else to tell you. Games and windows especially ran smoother back then than they do now. Everything runs like DOGSHIT today. I don't want to hear your opinion cuz it's wrong. Things were better.
It was about the same, people only remember the nostalgia of the old internet/gaming and not all the headaches associated with it. Computers could be rage-inducing 20 years ago too and anyone who says otherwise is full of shit.
>Computers could be rage-inducing 20 years ago too and anyone who says otherwise is full of shit.
Not for the same reasons. Nowadays computers and operating systems are rage inducing because they were designed to be.
This. During my teens, technology advanced fricking fast. You got a good pentium 4 PC and a couple of years later it was fricking struggling. The rapid advance slowed somewhat during the core 2 duo/quad era as you could run that shit for years. Nowadays you can game on 1080p on an 8 year old GPU and CPU no problem
>The rapid advance slowed somewhat during the core 2 duo/quad era as you could run that shit for years.
You're right
>t. PC gamer since like 1997
I didn't even exist back then
t Fraud
PC games were great untll widescreen and lcd replaced no lag screens. Out went gameplay. Anyone with a steam account should be killed too.
>t. picrel
Can't say I've ever heard a more false statement.
You were poor then and you're poor now. The circle of liiiiiiiiiiife--
>moron has a shitty 128 mb ram stick in his pc sram 133mhz
>hdd 5200 rpm
>no gpu
>WTF WHY DID MY PC RUN LIKE SHITE
Sovl
It's definitely a money issue on OP
>be me
>based early 2000s software pirate
>dial up the internet company
>skreeeeeeeednnndnnnnnnnnreeeeeaaooo
>Download Game.00.RAR 1/40
>pray mom doesn't pick up the phone
>do this over the next week
>finally get to.r40
>install game
>it's a porn popup virus
>Oh well, let's try this link instead
>repeat
Did this with fricking rapidshare, had to wait 2 hours in-between downloads, downloading a game took longer than beating it but hell, did I enjoy the game so much more for that
>>2024
>>open Ganker app
>>wait 15 minutes for captcha to load
put in effort for some throwaway bait thread
bump it
Eat shit c**t let us enjoy our nostalgia
the people calling you poor are right. my shit dell pc in 2004 worked perfectly fine to play recent high spec releases like FFXI, Counterstrike Source, and WoW in 720p and probably sub-60 fps. once when i was a little kid in the mid 90s I caused my dad to have to take the pc to a local repair place to reinstall windows after i bricked it deleting folders like "cookies" in system32, though I have no idea why I would have ever decided to do that. he should have set up a guest account and passworded the admin so i couldn't do shit like that
Should have turned off RAM test. Also, format your hard drive and reinstall Windows.
>Playing Second Life in 2008 as a dumb kid using the family imac wondering why this game ran like sub 20fps ass and everyone in the game giving me shit for using a mac
soul
2nd life ran at 20fps for everyone it was extremely poorly optimised
Kind of curious now to run it with a 3060 to see if it's any better now or if they kept adding shit to make it run in perpetual ass mode.
>or if they kept adding shit to make it run in perpetual ass mode.
You just know.
Runs like ass on a 4090.
>come home from school
>boot up PC
>go eat lunch and do chores
>come back to PC
>finally can move cursor and play games
>Launch a game
>Can tell it's almost done loading when the disk drive starts making extra noise
SOUL
>get a phone call
>pc speakers know about it before your phone does.
>launch a game
>can tell it's almost done loading because it just started loading
Look at this cool guy who had a SSD in 1998
RAMdisk, Black person.