Are you "PCGaming - Ready" ?

[DEATHMASTER]

I'll call it meh in comparison but it's enough to get me by for more than a couple years.

 

[Avoidist]

Intel P4 3.0GHz
7600gs (AGP)
1GB ram
120GB HDD

Yeah, I think I need to upgrade.

 

[Krynn72]

Just wondering, but did you ever get Gothic 3 to work?

Just a suggestion, but that could be why you were getting like 3 FPS. Some games don't like overclocking.

That's why I never do it.

(I never played Gothic 3, I just remembered you were having serious FPS trouble with it.)

Yeah I got it to work. It had something to do with the game loading this huge font file every few seconds. I had to find another font that was normal size, and that took care of everything.

 

[jimbo118]

Well, that is have you upgraded your rig or you PC to play the line of games coming out over these two months?

Like what?

*rubs chin

 

[Shamrock]

Q6600 3.2 GHz
2 GB DDR2-800 RAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
ATI Radeon HD2900XT 512
Pants


I think I'm pretty set.

Also, I has 360.

D:

 

[jverne]

i'm boycotting the gaming industry by not upgrading my rig and thus not buying games until they actually make a game that is compelling. i'm sick of these 10 hour long shoot'em up PG-13 brain raping games.

i had my hopes for Fallout 3 but that obviously got raped in the butt, now my hopes lie on the X-Com sequel.
i was even dreaming of a next system shock (that would not be watered down as bioshock) or deus ex.

 

[Saturos]

Yeah I got it to work. It had something to do with the game loading this huge font file every few seconds. I had to find another font that was normal size, and that took care of everything.

You mean font .dll files used for stuff like menus and in-game dialogue/subtitles? Interesting. I never heard of a font file causing that much havoc to performance.

 

[WhiteZero]

(just gonna copy and past my sig from HardForum.com)
Intel E8400 @ 4014MHz |==| Thermalright Ultima-90 + Scythe Karma fan
Abit IP35 Pro |==| VisionTek Radeon 4870
4GB (2x2GB) G.Skill DDR2-1000 |==| Corsair 620HX PSU
SoundBlaster X-Fi XtremeGamer |==| Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Speakers

Yeah, I'd say I'm good to go for awhile...

 

[nurizeko]

I keep wanting to upgrade my graphics card but I am scared because it seems more complex and delicate a procedure then compared to my RAM.

 

[soulslicer]

i'm boycotting the gaming industry by not upgrading my rig and thus not buying games until they actually make a game that is compelling. i'm sick of these 10 hour long shoot'em up PG-13 brain raping games.

/Facepalm

 

[Saturos]

i'm boycotting the gaming industry by not upgrading my rig and thus not buying games until they actually make a game that is compelling. i'm sick of these 10 hour long shoot'em up PG-13 brain raping games.

Oh god another one of these? How did I miss this earlier? :dozey:

While I'd admit not as many games out there these days seem to focus too much on shooting alone rather than braving the unknown to try something new, there's still plenty of games out there that aren't mindless shooters. *Isn't there?*

Doesn't matter to me. Video games give me an oppourtunity to do something mindless to un-wind after a long day.

Also:

10 hour long shoot'em up PG-13 brain raping games

He must be talking about HL2! Angry mob! Angry mob!

/me hides around corner to watch while an angry mob of fanboys forms to rape jverne.

 

[WhiteZero]

I keep wanting to upgrade my graphics card but I am scared because it seems more complex and delicate a procedure then compared to my RAM.

It is a bit more complicated than RAM upgrading, thats for sure. When upgrading your video card, you have to make sure of the following things:
1.) Get a card using the right interface. Weather that be AGP or PCIe. With PCIe, if your mobo has atleast PCIe v1.1, you can get any video card (PCIe v2.0 is a joke, there is no single graphics card out that needs the bandwidth PCIe v2.0 is capable of, even though the packaging for the video card touts "PCIe 2.0" on it).
2.) Make sure you have enough room in your case. If you have a compact case, you won't be able to fit in some of the larger profile cards.
3.) Make sure your power supply can meet the needs of the new card. This means not only making sure you have enough spare Watts, but also making sure that if your new GFX card requires power connections, that your power supply has those connections or that the GFX card comes with adapters.
4.) If your going to buy a high-end video card, make sure it's not so powerfull that the rest of your system is going to bottleneck it. Example, a 2GHz single-core processor would probably bottleneck a GeForce GTX 280.

 

[jverne]

Oh god another one of these? How did I miss this earlier? :dozey:

While I'd admit not as many games out there these days seem to focus too much on shooting alone rather than braving the unknown to try something new, there's still plenty of games out there that aren't mindless shooters. *Isn't there?*

Doesn't matter to me. Video games give me an oppourtunity to do something mindless to un-wind after a long day.

Also:



He must be talking about HL2! Angry mob! Angry mob!

/me hides around corner to watch while an angry mob of fanboys forms to rape jverne.

you see...it's not just about shooters. pretty much of all the games got really boring and way to simple.

even HL2 was way easier to complete than HL1, for me.
but HL thankfully is still quite decent compared to the rest out there.

i could mention Portal as it seems that it stands alone quite good. but i've would have loved so much if some of it's aspects were merged in the original HL2.
HL2 had way to easy puzzles and the sort.

just take a look at oblivion and you'll know what i mean.

 

[Saturos]

you see...it's not just about shooters. pretty much of all the games got really boring and way to simple.

even HL2 was way easier to complete than HL1, for me.
but HL thankfully is still quite decent compared to the rest out there.

i could mention Portal as it seems that it stands alone quite good. but i've would have loved so much if some of it's aspects were merged in the original HL2.
HL2 had way to easy puzzles and the sort.

just take a look at oblivion and you'll know what i mean.

I see your point jverne. Tell me, are you one of those jaded old-school gamer types? (Like me for instance)

Even though there are plenty of good games out there, well, even GTA IV which I hoped would be uber-ground breaking, and even though it was great fun, it just felt like something was missing. I can't quite put my finger on it. Maybe I've just seen it all compared to younger gamers.

Oh yeah, I actually enjoyed Oblivion, but I agree it could've been so much more. Especially if it didn't crash so often even when fully updated and on a stable system.

The, "Oh, but it's such a big game" isn't really a good excuse for shoddy programming imo.

 

[Javert]

8800GT should still be fine for a good few months.

Make that up to a year.

 

[SamuraiKenji]

Upgraded and ready to roll

 

[Bakurei]

Shitty broken laptop and ready to roll!

WAIT WHAT!

 

[3ssence]

Well, a large proportion of my rig is actually coming up to 3 years old, yet surprisingly i should be able to play most coming games pretty well. Still on a socket 939 system, but i bought an X2 4200+ very cheap early in the year, which i overclocked to 3.0 ghz, and i sold my old 8800GTS 640mb and bought the new 512mb version when it was released. So specs currently look as such:

X2 4200+ @ 3.0ghz
2gb OCZ low latency
8800GTS 512mb (heavily overclocked)
X-Fi

Which even in the current climate of quad core monsters and 4870/GTX280's should actually play most of the upcoming games at fairly high settings.

What is most alarming is that it was only 2 years ago that i would probably be having cold sweats at the thought that my pc didn't have the very latest hardware inside. Ah, how times change ! Lol.

 

[Paulaner]

I think it's gonna last for a couple of years since I'm not obsessed about new games with better and better graphics, but I also want to play games up to four years old that I missed out on because my old comp couldn't run them on full.

^ This

 

[Steven]

The video game industry makes too much shit for me to get a job and spend that much money on them

 

[The Brick]

My pc is two years old... But thanks to the fricking slow hardware development, it's still top notch.

e6300 @ 3.3ghz
2gb ddr2-944
8800gtx

 

[Kula Meenur]

Personally, I'll stick with my 8600Gt for the time being, until I get a kick-ass upgrade in December.

Got a 8600m GS. :thumbs:


Can't wait to try my baby on the new stalker!