This meme was apparently from 2022, but it’s still true.

  • Cagi@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    2000 gamer: Yes, I can get this game to run in 1024x768!

    2024 Gamer: At what FPS?

    2000 gamer: No it’s an RTS.

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      3 months ago

      But honestly, going from software rendering to 3D acceleration with a 3dfx Voodoo 2 accelerator with a whopping 8 MB RAM made me appreciate FPS. I spent several minutes just switching weapons in Jedi Knight and marveling at how quickly that suddenly went.

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          3 months ago

          I was genuinely upset that my parents didn’t get me the 12 MB version which locked me at 800x600. But I didn’t really get the distinction between system RAM and graphics RAM so I couldn’t formulate my frustration.

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            I bought my voodoo 2 12mb on eBay in college. It was my first eBay purchase fall 1998 I think, but I never saved up for a second card to do SPI.

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        3 months ago

        That’s so funny you say that, Jedi Knight is where I first got to appreciate 3D acceleration, too. I must have racked up hundreds of hours in that game once upon a time.

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          Funny thing is that the game is actually worse 3D accelerated because the trilinear filtering made textures blurry and thus removed special colors that made specific colors glow in the dark.

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      3 months ago

      I think I played Dawn of war at like 20fps on my old potato of a desktop back in the day

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      I played warcraft 3 with literally less than 1fps during combat. Out of combat it was like 20fps during which I would prepare then attack move and go take a break

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          3 months ago

          oh, I only played SP back then, with the pc I had I would get booted before even loading any maps in MP

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            Yeah, I played through roc and tft many times before finally getting into MP, the trick was usually to try and find the maps on epic war first and dl them ahead of time, or find really nice people who’d let you stay to dl, most of the ones I played weren’t too large like kodo or ent tag, or any of the line tower/maul gsmes but the old RP maps took forever.

            I gave back a bit and would host DL Only games while at school so peeps could come in and dl maps :p