What game encouraged you to make your new PC, or upgrade?

Since the minimum and recommended specs for Starfield have come out, I’ve been budgeting to do a big upgrade on my PC with an AMD 6800 xt and a fancy new 1 TB SSD (which is the first game I’ve ever seen that requires an SSD) just so I can run the game in all it’s space epicness.

What was the game that you were so excited for that you made the jump to upgrade your PC to the next gen of hardware? New or old!

RowDizzleForShizzle,

When I wanted 3 monitors for my sim racing addiction. Definitely needed a beefy gpu, especially at 1440p for each screen.

BudgieMania,

The game that fully got me into this PC madness was the glorious Battlefield 3 in 2011-2012.
Before that I had dabbled somewhat into PC gaming, even changing a graphics card and what not, but I was still rather clueless about it... Until EA and Dice dropped this fucking megaton into the unsuspecting world:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FktL2pu2wE

Nowadays, that gameplay above? It merely looks decent. But back in the dying days of the PS360 generation? That shit looked BANANAS, let me tell you. It was, legitimately, like a generation and a half of visual improvement. We couldn't believe it, it was fucking insane. And that, combined with the start of the golden era of PC and the disastrous aging of PS360, meant that I HAD to get a PC, like a decently built from scratch, purpose-built-for-gaming PC. So I started getting informed and saving for the components all throughout 2011 so that I could be there for BF3 day one on the ground floor.

I ended up saving around 450 euros, and this was back in the day when 500 bucks got you an pretty good computer. I got a Radeon HD 6850 and a Phenom 955, and the latter is still working to this day back in my family's house. Every buck and minute of research was worth it, and it even led me down the road of getting into IT as a profession. I have so much to thank to whoever were the people that made that reveal look so sick lol.

spaxxor,

I wanted the most extreme sff pc I could afford at that time. I really didn’t need an upgrade, but I was at the end of the am4 platform with my 5800x3d, so am5 with all it’s quirks was it.

BettyWhiteInHD,

Witcher 3 since my old 2500k/gtx 570 rig couldn’t run it to my satisfaction. I briefly upgraded to a 660 which did the job when the game came out, but I’ve been rocking a 7700k/gtx 1080 and a 144+hz screen since 2017. Man that game was a masterpiece in a lot of ways when it came out and still looks fantastic.

I’ve been considering building a new beast rig maybe for Starfield if that’s actually any good, but god damn it the PC I want to build is gonna run $3,000, which is fucking nutso. Been putting off playing some more graphics intense recent titles until I got a new computer, so it should be fun to catch up on some of those.

catalyst,
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While this wasn’t the sole reason (I was just kinda due for an upgrade anyway), I was interested in playing Half-life Alyx and Star Wars Squadrons in VR.

kurosawaa,

Half life alyx was the inspiration for me too. In the end I mostly play Slay the spire and cities skylines on it…

AnonymousLlama,
AnonymousLlama avatar

Total war games have historically pushed both my GPU and CPU upgrades. I'm still amazed how poorly their engines are optimized, how I can run into the high 200 FPS+ range on some demanding games with my 4090 but playing Warhammer 3 on ultra quality at ultrawide 1440p pushes it to almost 100% GPU usage at around 100 FPS.

Really great game when when your can have massive battles without lag, but still amazed that even with a 4090 / 12900k the campaign map and battles aren't perfect

BudgieMania,

Yeah that's true, Total War games are super weird about that! Like, I get that they are doing lots of impressive things under the hood, but it's still weird how, past a certain point, they just flat out don't scale with any more hardware. I've always been curious about what's going on inside them and what kinds of bottlenecks prevent them from performing past certain limits.

As much as I love the series, I've stopped taking them into account at all when deciding my upgrades because I know I'll be disappointed about the expectations vs result.

AnonymousLlama,
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At least with Warhammer 3 / Troy the game does at least leverage multi-core CPUS, however it really seems to cap out at 5 or 6 cores. I've noticed on the 12900k that it works really hard on 3-4 cores and somewhat on the others.

I'm hoping the next total war mainline game has a full engine refresh, one made for modern multi-core CPUS and leverages at least FSR 2x/DLSS 2+. If there's a game that I think could use upscaling support, it's a total war game.

Still amazed that I can play multiple games at 4k anywhere from 144-288hz at maxed settings with everything cranked, but I'll get GPU capped on my 4090 in Warhammer 😮

BudgieMania,

Yeah, an engine rework that is up to current standards and can make the best of 2023 hardware is the dream... But I fear that one of the reasons why the series is still worth it for SEGA may be because they don't incur any crazy costs and investments like that and stay cost effective with minor iterations. Well that and because they release 25 dlc per game lol.

Personally I think that, until one of the potential competitors starts putting all the pieces together and becoming a real alternative, we will not see a significant technological change like that in the series again. At most I see some simple upscaling implementation but not much else.
I would be soooooo happy to be proven wrong on that though.

LeylaaLovee,

My first PC ever was built because I really wanted to play modded Skyrim, Minecraft, and Metro 2033. i3 3225 and a 7750, later upgraded to a 2500k with a 7950. That machine was insanely badass. When the i5 and 7950 were overclocked, they outperformed my brother’s 4th gen i5 with a 970.

Strangle,

I always build a new PC whnen there is a new Diablo game

orientalsniper,

Jedi Survivor, it was a buggy release.

Fireinthesky7,

iRacing has driven (heh) the vast majority of my PC upgrades over the past few years. Changing from monitors to an Oculus had me upgrading GPUs back in 2017, I got a 3080 two years ago which let me upgrade to a Reverb G2, then realized I was getting CPU-bound fps drops so I ended up with a 5800X, all in the interest of higher settings and more cars on track at once. Unless someone comes out with a worthy upgrade to the Reverb, I think I’m set for a bit.

Blxter,

For me I originally built my PC 6-7 years ago because of Rainbow Six Siege and the leaning without ads and to be more competitive. Only upgrade I have done is the GPU and honestly should’ve waited but here we are.

QubaXR,
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No game. GPU-accelerated rendering engines. Faster cards with more memory mean I can make much more complex scenes and shaders

qnick,
@qnick@lemmy.world avatar

Dwarf Fortress

Salad_Fries,

For me, it was Cities:Skylines. My old PC couldnt play it (first game i wanted to play that it couldnt run), so i upgraded.

Now that Cities:Skylines2 is coming out in a few months, i anticipate needing to upgrade again lol.

frost_,

Just wanted to mention that I’ve had the 6800XT for a little while now, and I am very happy with it. Runs the majority of games great at 1440p/144FPS, and I’ve never had any issues with temperatures or drivers. I will mention, however, that the 6800Xt is a big, big SOB and barely fit in my case, so make sure you measure your case a bunch.

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