1 yr. ago • 96%

What's the first game you fire up after an upgrade?

New monitor this time!

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Disappointed to see it's not Crisis. It was always Crisis.

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This is gonna sound crazy but Star Wars Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight. It was the first game I played on a computer we got when I was in the 4th grade and since then I've made it a tradition to make that the first game I play on any new computer.

To my knowledge it wasn't even a technical power house when it came out but it is always interesting to see it run at resolutions way higher than it was intended for

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- I literally just started playing thru this again a few weeks ago.
  
  Don't think it'll suffice for a stress test these days, but it's such a great game.
  
  I still need to finish MoTS one of these days...
  
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Star Citizen, got to test the thermals of the new kit

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Flight Simulator 2020, went from a i7 4790k / 1080Ti to a 5800X3D / 3090, insane performance. Don’t get me wrong my former build was insane, almost 7 years of use, and still kicking.

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- That 1080ti has incredible legs, mine is still sleeping for when it is needed again.
  
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Honestly, it's 3dMark or the benchmarks from either Cyberpunk 2077, Metro: Exodus, or FFXV. Perfect stress tests.

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- Always 3DMark. I love that program. So many uses.
  
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Blurbuster TestUFO

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Beam.NG, there's always a bottleneck to smash.

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Satisfactory!

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- Pioneer, Ficsit will be upping all personal quotas related to Project Assembly. Currently 100% of your projects are related to Project Assembly. Projection of average quota increases will be directly related to the upgrades made on your new personal computer.
  
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Elite Dangerous

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It was Cyberpunk 2077 last time, because I got a ray-tracing capable GPU.

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What game is this? I want to try it!

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- Doom Eternal I believe
  
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- DOOM Eternal. Really fun game if you're into fast paced shooters with fun movement mechanics. I loved the 2016 DOOM reboot and Eternal is even better in a lot of ways imo.
  
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  Sadly it doesn't have co-op. :(
  
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- Doom Eternal \m/
  
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  Hell yeah! I knew it was supposed to be good. Looks super cool. I played 2016 multiplayer a decent amount. I also tried 1993 around that time. Very dated, but I could see why it was so popular
  
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QIIIA, sometimes Q1 or Q2. It's the law for me.

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- This. Q3A has been a benchmark standard ever since it came out, plus it's still an incredibly fun game.
  
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  The cutting edge of fast, clean, & skilled shootenings! <3 (also buckets of nostalgia)
  
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- Is this some kind of joke I'm too young to understand...? Quake came out in 1999 yeah, that's like saying UT99 is a good benchmark, but I havent played on a pc that cant run UT99
  
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  Hmm ... it's not for tests purposes, if that's what you mean, it's just because I like it.
  
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DOOM and DOOM Eternal

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Heroes of might and magic 2

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Dota

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  Yeah I fire up an ARAM to see the fps boost
  
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This may be the image that convinces me I need a curved monitor

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- I have an Odyssey CRG9. It seems so absurd at first, but after a while it makes using any 16:9 monitor feel cramped as hell. Just be aware ultrawide support is lacking at times, but nothing you can't tweak around. Took me about a month of use to get everything to where I don't have to think about it much anymore.
  
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- It's so goddamned good. Ultrawide curved is just chefs kiss
  
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Elite: Dangerous.

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What monitor did you get?

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Ark Survival Evolved. Been playing it through two GPU-only and one full-PC upgrade. So satisfying to see the game situations which used to send FPS into the single digits, now stay above 60 FPS at all times. (Yes, the game is that horribly optimized.)

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LOTR 2!

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- Lords of the Realm 2? I need to buy this again. Spent hours playing it when I was younger.
  
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I've only technically upgraded twice in my life- First time when I got my first gaming computer, a Dell G7 laptop with i7/1060 MaxQ, and when I upgraded around a month ago to a proper desktop with Ryzen 7700X and Radeon 6700 XT.

For the Dell G7, the first game I remember booting up was Minecraft, since on my old ass laptop before, I couldn't run it without optifine, and even then, it was barely hitting 20 frames. The smooth camera movement was a breath of fresh air.

For the desktop I just got, I had a few choices, since there were games in my steam library that ran pretty poorly on my Dell G7 that I was waiting to play when got an upgrade. Between Days Gone and Cyberpunk 2077, I opted to test out Days Gone first. Still working on beating it, but the performance upgrade still amazes me

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TW3

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Playing on Linux, having updates in the background almost daily, so every game I guess, I only play DCS and a little war thunder these days though, so I think the answer would be DCS, flying a little bit through the beautiful sky and eternal insanity of the growling sidewinder.

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Arma 3 just to see if maybe I can get 2-3 more fps.

I've gone from 30 to 40 in only 3 generations!

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DDLC (◔‿◔)

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