Dark Age of Camelot, back in 2002 because it was only guaranteed to work on about 10 tested video cards so I went out and bought one of them. (my current "Hercules" graphics card was not working on it)
I must not have ever had one of the ten...That game always ran terrible on my PCs.
yeah, I wouldn't have known except I called tech support and they gave me a list of the video cards to purchase, and I went with one of the mid-range ones and had decent performance. (except for that famous lag spike you'd get when the zerg would suddenly get on grid or something, but on the plus side, you always knew it was coming)
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I think it was an early Geforce card, but my gateway PC with ME (anyone remember that shit?) wouldn't run a newly released Neverwinter Nights (Bioware) so I had to buy a new card.
I think I bought a card for Myst, on Windows 3.1. I'm not sure I needed the card, but I wanted to upgrade something. I think my next significant video card purchase was a Diamond something for one of the MechWarrior games. I never did buy a Voodoo type card and I think my next significant purchase after that was for WoW. Between MW and WoW, I was doing mostly programming and web development instead of playing games, so I didn't pay that much attention to the cards I was buying.
I can not remember winning or losing a single debate on the internet.
I bought it for the Star Wars Pod Racing game, back in 1998(?). If memory serves me correctly, that video card lasted me until 2004; it even played Final Fantasy XI flawlessly.
I bought my first computer in 1998 to play Ultima Online after a friend of mine got me hooked on it. I had some sort of ATI graphics card, don't remember what it was.
I can't remember the game or the card exactly but I do know the first card I bought was an EGA card so I could try out some of them thar new fangled 16 color games.
My first video card was purchased to run Earth and Beyond. IIRC it was an ATI Radeon All in Wonder. Cant recall what series number it would have been at that time.
Everquest in '99. I saw that using MB graphics meant I could barely move and mobs were often 20' in front of where I saw them. It was an nVidia/GeForce 16MB as far as I can recall, something like that.
I didn't buy it, as I was 14 at the time, but in 1999, Everquest, I convinced my parents they needed a new card to make our computer run faster (so EVERYONE who uses it could enjoy the upgrade).
It still took a minute to transition zones though :-/.
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Me buying my own graphics card? I would say Eve Online/Planetside since they came out about the same time. I remember my computer did not meet the minimum requirements graphics card wise, so I went out and bought a new one for $200 (thing WAS a beast.)
Then most recently...buying a whole new computer in general...for..well...any game that comes out and I want to run :P
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EQ1. I remember playing on my old system and everything was fine. Then one day they released a graphic update and suddenly all of my toons were naked. I was still kind of a pc noob back then. It took me a while to figure out my onboard graphics weren't enough for the game anymore!
Originally posted by bakabröd mine was for unreal 1.
Same deal for me
"In the immediate future, we have this one, and then weve got another one that is actually going to be so were going to have, what we want to do, is in January, what were targeting to do, this may or may not happen, so you cant hold me to it. But what were targeting to do, is have a fun anniversary to the Ilum shenanigans that happened. An alien race might invade, and they might crash into Ilum and there might be some new activities that happen on the planet." ~Gabe Amatangelo
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yeah, I wouldn't have known except I called tech support and they gave me a list of the video cards to purchase, and I went with one of the mid-range ones and had decent performance. (except for that famous lag spike you'd get when the zerg would suddenly get on grid or something, but on the plus side, you always knew it was coming)
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Voodoo for Quake. In related news I upgraded to windows 95 to be able to play the Mech Warrror games
I think I bought a card for Myst, on Windows 3.1. I'm not sure I needed the card, but I wanted to upgrade something. I think my next significant video card purchase was a Diamond something for one of the MechWarrior games. I never did buy a Voodoo type card and I think my next significant purchase after that was for WoW. Between MW and WoW, I was doing mostly programming and web development instead of playing games, so I didn't pay that much attention to the cards I was buying.
I can not remember winning or losing a single debate on the internet.
+1
Voodoo3 2000 PCI!
I bought it for the Star Wars Pod Racing game, back in 1998(?). If memory serves me correctly, that video card lasted me until 2004; it even played Final Fantasy XI flawlessly.
I can't remember the game or the card exactly but I do know the first card I bought was an EGA card so I could try out some of them thar new fangled 16 color games.
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Voodoo 3 for Everquest
I didn't buy it, as I was 14 at the time, but in 1999, Everquest, I convinced my parents they needed a new card to make our computer run faster (so EVERYONE who uses it could enjoy the upgrade).
It still took a minute to transition zones though :-/.
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Me buying my own graphics card? I would say Eve Online/Planetside since they came out about the same time. I remember my computer did not meet the minimum requirements graphics card wise, so I went out and bought a new one for $200 (thing WAS a beast.)
Then most recently...buying a whole new computer in general...for..well...any game that comes out and I want to run :P
I am entitled to my opinions, misspellings, and grammatical errors.
that's awesome
Diamond Monster 3D video card (Original Voodoo?) for playing Quake back in the late 90's.
My first PC game, though, was Leisure Suit Larry in the Lando f hte Lounge Lizards, which was back in the late 80's. 25 years ago.
Same deal for me
"In the immediate future, we have this one, and then weve got another one that is actually going to be so were going to have, what we want to do, is in January, what were targeting to do, this may or may not happen, so you cant hold me to it. But what were targeting to do, is have a fun anniversary to the Ilum shenanigans that happened. An alien race might invade, and they might crash into Ilum and there might be some new activities that happen on the planet." ~Gabe Amatangelo