What was PC gaming like in 2007? Were PATA/IDE/EIDE Hard Disk Drives really that bad?
i built my first gaming computer in 2008 and everything worked fine, including those shitty ide drives, but it's laughable compared to today's techthe old stuff had more soul, tho i'll say that
>>721205960>What was PC gaming like in 2007it was great other than my BITCH MOM
>>721205960No. Why would it have been?>>721206089This. New "tech" is completely soulless. It's all just plastic toys.
>>721206089>the old stuff had more soulYou're a fucking retard. Try to explain what you mean instead of spouting 'le soul' like a fucking faggot.
>>721205960same as today really, but games were more optimized back then because game devs had a lot more limitations bec of space on CDs / DVDs, RAM and processing power
>>721206284are you going to kill yourself?
>>721206284okay i'll be honest you are weirdly overreacting and i can't figure out why
>>721206325>games were more optimized back thenOn release, Quake ran at sub 50 FPS at the lowest resolution (320x200) on the absolute most powerful consumer CPU available (Pentium 200)
>>721205960It was alright. Boot time without SSD was the biggest difference compared to today
>>721206476WEEWOO A NORMIE POST WEEWOO
>>721206641>"normie"hello normalfaggot nigger migrantreturn to your subhuman site
>normieClockwork.
>>721206549hes talking about 2007, not 1997
>>721206549>On release, Quake ran at sub 50 FPS at the lowest resolution (320x200) on the absolute most powerful consumer CPU available (Pentium 200)What was Doom 3 like in 2004?
>>721206751>What was Doom 3 like in 2004?With the absolute top of top end machines you'd get between 70-80 FPS at 1024x768
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>>721207317Little off there.
>>721206549>a groundbreaking 3D game from the era of no GPUs>>721207559>one of the worst failures in gaming history
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>>721207792Doom 3 was a critical and commercial success on release, it was id's best selling game at the time. People are more mixed about the game today but calling it a failure is just revisionism.
>>721207559It's funny how so many people somehow think 00s PC games ran at 60 FPS max graphics on mid tier hardwareNot retro but people don't realize the peak of performance for the money was the GeForce 10 series
>>721208403If you weren't using the high tier.. lol>GeForce 7950 GT - 512 MB, GDDR3, 256 bit >GeForce 8800 Ultra - 768 MB, GDDR3, 384 bit >NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX - 512 MB, GDDR3, 256 bit>NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 - 1536 MB, GDDR5, 384 bit>NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 (dual GPU card)- 2 GB, GDDR5, 256 bit>NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti - 3 GB, GDDR5, 384 bit>NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti - 6 GB, GDDR5, 384 bit>NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti - 11 GB, GDDR5X, 352 bit>NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER - 6 GB, GDDR6, 192 bit>NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti - 11 GB GDDR6>NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 - 24 GB, GDDR6X, 384 bit>NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti - 24 GB, GDDR6X, 384 bit>NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 - 24 GB, GDDR6X, 384 bit>NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 - 32 GB
>>721208726What is that list of GPUs supposed to mean?The 10 series was the only time you could get 120+ FPS with relatively mid range cards sold at a relatively low priceAre you seriously implying the value of a 50 series card today is as good as a 10 series card in 2016?
>>721206325There has always been shit that didn't work right.
no because games weren't bloated to shit.
>>721206284Do your own work for the marketing survey.
>>721205960>Were PATA/IDE/EIDE Hard Disk Drives really that bad?the cables were a pain in the pass but otherwise fine.
>>721205960Tech moved faster, but the technical bottlenecks were different. Overclocking hardware made more sense because you could get 15-20% more performance out of something that you needed to replace anyways, and that could get you another six months before you had to upgrade.Most "party" games that you'd play at LANs like Q2, Q3, CS (UT if you were shit) and such were fairly forgiving when it came to specs, and if you were any sort of serious, you cranked the graphics settings down to minimum for more stable framerate and better visual contrast anyways, even if you had a beast rig that could easily do all the pretty shit.Load times were load times. They generally weren't awful until BF1942, but loading in that wasn't frequent, and once you were in, you were in. There was no getting around it unless you RAID your drives but the performance gains from that were marginal, and the controllers were either expensive or fairly prone to errors, which was a pain in the ass because unless you had your OS on a separate disk, you'd have to reinstall everything.Doom 3 was posted above, and don't let anybody fucking lie to you, that was an incredibly hardware demanding tech demo, and the MP gameplay was absolute shit. Even at Quakecon 2K4, nobody was playing that seriously outside of the people aiming for the tourney rewards. More people were playing JKII in the BYOC than Doom3.Outside of LAN gaming culture, PC gaming was an individual hobby. Nobody gave a shit. Then when broadband became widespread in the late 00s and consolebros started becoming the primary spenders, thinking they were FPS gods with their slow-ass halo games, LAN culture died and the "PC Master Race" shit was just cope from the people who didn't get to be there.
>>721210216UT if you were the* shit
>>721205960Same shit. Old hardwares ran with the same efficiency cause the old shit back then are also more optimized than the shit today.The only thing really bad back then are consoles because they weren't glorified budget PCs yet.
>>721205960>PC gaming like in 2007I miss server browsers and I miss TS3 being the thing people usedFuck Discord, it's satanic
>>721205960>XFXMy first card was an XFX AMD something something. I wonder if they're still around.
Why did ATi and Radeon get so much hate?
>>721205960Gotta be honest I didn't notice anything going from IDE to SATA. I vaguely remember duo core CPUs making shit faster but other than SSD>HDD it wasn't anything major. The thing I remember most was when GPUs were these little cards that, maybe, had a small fan, not the gigantic beasts with huge fans and cooling they do now. Some even need a stand to hold them up or they sag and fuck the connectors.
>>721211027discord can be used the same way as teamspeak and vent etc. and if the latter two had persistent public interest servers populated enough to require moderation they'd be full of trooners just the same as discord. IRC is a good example of this. that shit's been around forever yet it's still somehow full of troonies now.
>>721206549>quake>arguably the greatest technological leap in video gamesSuch a dishonest argument. Explain to me why BL4 running like ass is acceptable but quake isn't.
>>721205960I didn't really game in 2007, I was too busy with drugs and women, but Jazz Jackrabbit, Roller Coaster tycoon, Diablo 2, and Heroes 2/3 were cash when I was growing up.
>>721211825>The thing I remember most was when GPUs were these little cards that, maybe, had a small fanLaptop gpus are still like that, just with a big ass heatsink usually
>>721205960it was fine this sound card was great
>>721212046Why would anybody argue with some retard who is just hallucinating?
>>721210174>the cables were a pain in the pass but otherwise fine.I personally find SATA cables to be much more of a pain in the ass.SATA cables are so thick and inflexible and yet the plugs you need to plug into feel really flimsy. What people used to hate about ribbon cables was they're unsightly (lol who gives a shit?) and the myth that they interfere with airflow which is just not a thing.As far as cables go, I prefer ribbon. Everything else, e.g. the limits on how many you could hook up, having to faff with jumpers, the slowest drive setting the speed for all drives, etc. sucked.
>>721208403I remember getting into an argument with some retard on /v/ who claimed Deus Ex was highly optimized because that's how good all the devs were back in the day. I posted excerpts of review after review, all of which made a point of saying the game runs poorly for its graphics and requires an expensive computer to run well, and yet this retard just refused to accept that reality and continued to insist Deux Ex was a very optimized game that would run well on a toaster.
The little pre-recession family PC that could.
>>721213097People play early 00s games on their mid 10s toasters and for some reason don't consider the fact that their mid 10s toasters are supercomputers compared to an early 00s PC>with some retard on /v/The OP also made me think I was on /vr/ for a minute
>>721211447Because they didn't buy up 3dfx's assets and forever rendered themselves second best.
>>721205960Nah. It’s was perfectlyFine. Hardly different from today. Just more stuff to plug in. It’s DOS gaming that was an actually pain in the ass and that was all configuration on the software side.
