Oblivion Remastered and Indiana Jones are the two games I know that cannot run on GTX card or non ray tracing cards. While one of them still runs like hot garbage even on RTX cards, the other runs smoothly from launch.
Oblivion Remastered and Indiana Jones are the two games I know that cannot run on GTX card or non ray tracing cards. While one of them still runs like hot garbage even on RTX cards, the other runs smoothly from launch.
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King’s Quest V
Tomb raider 1
Forced me to upgrade to voodoo 2.
With 32mb
Mech Warrior forced me to upgrade to savage 4 64mb
Not yet upgraded but will upgrade to play ghost of tsushima, current pc is complete trash, but still plays games i want to play, even some newly released games, but it lacks the newer technology some games need to run
Lord of the rings, that crappy original one. Got me a sweet GeForce 4 mx440 lol
Monster Hunter Wilds. And even then the game still runs bad
Diablo III back in 2012.
Escape from tarkov lol
Google chrome
Starfield (I don’t game much) and needed a new GPU. Then got an AMD card that included Starfield as well. Lol.
You probably wouldn’t know but there was a free-to-play game called Firefall (shut down already) that was developed primarily for single core (took them freakin’ 6 years to develop before it came out, in which by then dual and quad core processors were out). So even though I easily passed their recommended GPU requirements my quad core CPU (AMD Phenom II X4) would reach 100% on Core 1 (other cores were tops 20%) and slow down the game at times. Very annoying! Upgraded to a 4th gen Intel i5 which remedied the problem but even then I was still reaching up to 50% on Core 1 (other cores tops 15%), yet again. But at least I was able to play the game.
Shogo – Mobile Armor Division
Had to buy a $29 video card.
Fallout 4 made me build a PC after using an old AMD laptop that ran Morrowind, could just handle Oblivion at 720p, and struggled to run Skyrim at 480p Low.
One of the Joint Operations games. Might have been Typhoon Rising… Honestly, I dont think I ever ended up playing the game, either. Either way, swapped in a shiny new ATI graphics card.
Only 4 games i would upgrade my pc for:
GTA 6,
Arma 4,
The Elder Scrolls 6,
Days Gone 2.
*Special one*
Remake of BF3/BF4
BeamNG.Drive
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Unreal absolutely needed a 3d accelerator card back in ’98. Bought a Riva TnT for it.
Ultimate Doom
Cyberpunk 2077.
It ran badly on the 3GB 1060 I had at the time, settings needed to be rather low and while thats not as bad-looking as with most other games, it was still a bit stuttery because of the lack of VRAM so I went for an RX 6600 eventually. Runs smooth as butter now, even at 1080p native with medium settings. RT is overrated.
Escape from Tarkov also really benefitted from that upgrade.
Also, much longer time ago, Battlefield 2. Ran an 8500GT and Intel Core 2 Duo @ 1.8 Ghz back then. The 8500GT was a complete turd at anything but video decoding, so I eventually decided to overclock it. First time I had done such a thing, and the warranty just ended, too. It lasted a week before the GPU and motherboard just died and I got a 9800GT instead.
Le Mans Ultimate
Total War Rome II
Duke Nuked 3d forced me to double my ram from 4mb to 8mb of ram
Star Citizen – twice
– up to gtx 780, a few yeats later an SSD, recently a 4080 Super
Imagine upgrading for Oblivion and then it still runs like shit because it’s fundamentally flawed technically.
Dragon’s dogma 2 was the game worth it? Definitely no 😮💨 but on the bright side my pc can pretty much run any game i want now.
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The original Command and Conquer. I spent £80 on the two megabytes of ram (yes, Meg not gig) because the game needed 4mb of ram. Totally worth it.
Crysis
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020/DCS
Diablo. I had to upgrade to 16 or 32mb of ram to play on Battle.net.
The demo of Doom wouldn’t run on my 386SX with 2MB of RAM, so I begged my parents hard enough for them to buy me additional 2MB in SIMM modules, and it did run, only to make me realize that that computer was not fit for that task. It was only when I got the 486DX fitted with 8MB of RAM that I was able to enjoy the game.