What was PC gaming like in 2007?
>>721512008i was playing dmomm and oblivion and stalker shoc
>>721512008Like how it is today but less gay and more sovlful
i played ffxi and had an 18GB hard drive
>bioshock, portal, crysis >the fucking GPUs still fitted in the case hassle>first foreshadowing of the dark ages of woke, we did not see the danger to our hobby and failed to stomp them out early
>>721512008there weren't as many resources to learn and compatibility was all over the placeI got games from cereal boxes and magazines had at least a demo if not full games
>>721512363*in the case without hassle
>>721512008Games worked and nobody gave a shit about performance because your 10 year old PC could run anything. Crashes due to overheating were the real problem.
>>721512008>Most pc's had a real shit psu
when did you abandon the cd drive?
it was faggy and gay.
>>721512008Same as now except GPUs and CPUs were way cheaper in general.>>721512345>18GB hard driveThat would have been terrible for 2007 lol.
>pay 500 dollars to double your ram>256mb > 512mb
lots of gamer words in voice and chat. good times.
>>721513024>Games worked and nobody gave a shit about performance because your 10 year old PC could run anythingnot sure if trolling or clinically retarded
>>721513425>500 dollarsRam was cheap in 2007
>>721513131Immediately after I installed Windows 7. I realized I streamed instead of watching DVDs and I downloaded games from Steam instead of going to the store.
>>721513131in 2010 when i get my own internet connectioni started to download things, discs became obsolete
>>721512008SwiftShader
>>721513131When burning your backlog on cd became unviable due to size of games
>>721512008Crysis came out in 2007 and the graphics were incredible and truly groundbreaking for the time.
>>721512008>What was PC gaming like in 2007?Imagine being 18 years before current year yet playing games that look almost as nice and with equal if not superior gameplay.Congrats we spent the last 18 years going nowhere.
is there any use for blank cds nowadays?
>>721513482>The only game that people had trouble running was a literal insane tech demo designed for hypothetical future-computers that never actually ended up existing>And even then you can still run the fucking gameWhat did he mean by this being a bad thing?
>>721514097still good as physical extra backup for any really important shit you need or personally make. Unless you work at stuff like graphics or major projects, 700mb is far more than it sounds for a gamer
>>721512008Better
>>721514054>going backwardsfixed
>>721513131I haven't. I have too much physical media to completely abandon it.
for me,>random korean MMOs>counter strike 1.6 and source custom servers>mugen>emulatorsi didn't care for real PC games like RTS, CRPGs, non-valve FPS games.
>>721512008Pins used bo be on the CPU and not in the COU socket.
>>721513482>posting meme gamesNewfag
>>721513131I think in like 2013 when I built my new PC after getting my first job
>>721512008It was funIt was the year i made my first compy
>>721514097I have a bunch of sub-500 GB SSDs that I have no use for. Selling them on ebay wouldn't be worth the trip to the post office.
you bought whatever graphics card had the coolest box
>>721513131when I got a DVD drive
>>721517425glib answer when every single one of them had a cool box
>>721513024That's more of a late 90s early 00s thing
my first pc was our old computer that didn't even have a gpu. I played wow at like 5 or 10 fps. my next PC was an actual gaming PC and the I never felt so much relief to play games at a consistent 60 fps in my life before
>>721512008It was honestly kinda bad.Crysis just came out and you couldn't run it comfortably unless you had Nvidia 8000 series.Playing at 30 FPS was considered normal.Playing at high resolutions? Haha! You can forget about that. Enjoy your 1024*768 because that's the only resolution your 3 years old GPU can pull off.Some people were still using big ass CRT monitors (at least lower resolution looked nice on them).Hardware was deprecating REALLY fast back then (although it slowed down after 8000 series/DX10).Gaming seemed more fun tho. Probably because I was still a teen and Tiktok was not there yet to compete for my screen-time.
>>721512008GPU budget was roughly equal or maybe slightly more than your CPU budget. 8800 GT didn't cost as much as the whole PC, accessories and display included.
>>721522039Top of the line GPUs back then were comparable to modern XX50 series IMO. 8600GT TDP was 47W. PCB/Cooling was really basic too.Nowadays 200W is considered normal for XX60 series card.Every watt is squeezed out of the hardware nowadays.
>>721521445You do have to give credit tho, compared to the hardware market as a whole, G92 chipped 8000 series cards were really cheap and future proofed as fuck and the performance increase Vs. 6&7 serie, and ATI wasn't even competing on high end, was insane. Probably the last time that kinda jump happened for that price. I think I ran 8800/9800 GT for five years on 720p -> 1680xSomething reso.
>>7215223628800 Ultra pulled close to 175 and that was considered ludicrous.
>>721522737Which was ~$250 (inflation adjusted) in 2022.And $250 was the MSRP of RTX 3050 (that was released in 2022).Modern GPUs are just really WAAAAAY bigger (and hotter).
>>721512008You were excited when buying a 100gig hdd cost 100 bucks.
>>721513076Classmate switched the little voltage switch while the pc was running and it burned out. Shit was cash. Teacher was away when he did it so he claimed the pc just kinda died by itself
