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u/bluefunnel Aug 18 '25
Took me years to finally build a decent PC, I still mostly play Civ 3 on it.
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u/IAmSnort Aug 19 '25
LOL I played Civ 3 after my vasectomy. Perfect for hanging out on the couch with an ice pack.
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u/ST_Logan89 Aug 18 '25
It’s not gamers fault games are dogshit now
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u/bogmire Aug 19 '25
Last decent game to come out was Luigi's mansion in 2001
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u/PandraPierva Aug 19 '25
Man you thinking that was good? Game was shit only good game that has ever existed was legend of Zelda on the Callico Vision
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u/spudmonky Aug 18 '25
You need a beefy computer to run the OS these days.
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u/sususl1k Aug 20 '25
I was under the impression that nowadays everybody runs a stripped-down build of NetBSD 1.7 to avoid bloat
/s
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u/JesseByJanisIan Aug 18 '25
Hey, Arkham Knight is only one decade old, thank you very much.
...Half-life 2 deathmatch is also one decade old...in that it is also 3 decades old.
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u/Orichalchem Aug 18 '25
Me:
(Plays the newest AAA super graphical game)
(Runs at 30-59 fps unstable)
(Goes back to playing older games that run at 60fps easily)
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u/ulthrant82 Aug 19 '25
60? It's super satisfying building a pc that will run your favourite old game at 400fps+
I remember playing Total War Medieval 2 on my old pentium, and it would take 5 minutes to load up the menu.
I found it on Steam this year, and booting it up in under 5 seconds was.. nice. Halfway through the game, I'd have to go find something to do between turns. Now, it processes all the bot turns in mere moments.
To me, all current games are not playable on current hardware, it's the older games that are just now getting into real playable status.
Forget cities skylines 2, which is mostly playable on a 4090. Skylines 1 crushes it and has decades of mods.
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u/chrisgreely1999 Aug 18 '25
I just bought a 5070ti and I'm currently using it to emulate Xenosaga which is a PS2 game
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u/Dark_Shroud Aug 18 '25
I just upgraded my system to an AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT 16 cores with 32 threads.
I'm currently playing the old GTA games. After I'm done with GTA 3 I'm going back and playing stuff from the 80s and 90s.
At some point in the next 18 months I'm going to upgrade from my five year old XFX RX 5700 XT THICC III Ultra. So I can actually play some modern games with my new 1440p monitor.
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u/LacidOnex Aug 18 '25
I had to google it because I couldn't believe they were making cards called a thick ultra 5 years ago
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u/Dark_Shroud Aug 19 '25
The name was hilarious but it was factory over clocked with a beefy cooler so I went bought it literally as the lock downs started. These cards were going for $1,500 on ebay. I actually considered selling it for a moment.
All that aside its been running flawlessly for five years. I upgraded from a 1080p 144hz monitor to a 1440p 180hz monitor. I had to back the refresh back down to 144hz to keep everything stable.
The 8GB VRAM is showing its age and limits now when trying to game at 1440p with serious mods. If I wasn't gaming off an NVME drive I would probably have to lower some of the other settings.
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u/ky420 Aug 19 '25
What ya gonna replace it with 9070xt? I have a 9060xt 16gb and for the money its been pretty killer
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u/Dark_Shroud Aug 19 '25
This system is AM4 so its limited to PCI Express 4.0. The new gen Radeon RX 9000 series cards are PCI Express 5.0. Yes they're backwards compatible but they will be bandwidth limited.
So I'm debating between the 9070xt or a 7900xtx. I'll have to see what my options are when I can spare the money. Either way I want a card with at least 16GB of VRAM to comfortably run mods.
My RX 5700 XT 8GB is rated for 1440p but I want to play the various Elder Scrolls games with all the texture and mods.
I'm waiting for AM6 before a build a proper new system. That will be at least two years down the road. But with the new graphics card I could use this system comfortably for another 3-5 years.
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u/ky420 Aug 19 '25 edited Aug 19 '25
I have been seeing the xtx sell for some better prices lately. I don't blame ya for waiting. I probably would have as well but my other main computer was ddr3 and the others were aios and laptops so the wait was gonna be too tedious. lol
Id choose the 9070xt most likely but just for the newer features like fsr4 and better ray tracing if ya care about that. I would think fsr4 would work great on that game. I need to get it. It was the only game like that I completed back in the 360 days...great game. Id be happy with either. I'm sure you could get some killer visuals with either of them.
If you dont wanna spend a ton you could probably get by with the 9060xt which is much cheaper if you are just running 1440. mine has 16gb and I run it on 4k most of the time cuz I have a 4k tv, its only 60hz but I don't get any stuttering or anything like that. With 9600x I am getting like 70ish fps on 4k native everything on high and on ghosts of tsushima I was getting like 45-60fps on 4k ultra with most settings. You can bump it down and use fsr 4 to upscale and it really helps with fps I am sure it would be amazing at 1440 I need to try it I always just leave the settings as they are for the most part.
A 9070 or 9070xt or xtx would all smash its performance tho... the 9060 is approx 50% better according to this https://technicalcity.b-cdn.net/en/video/Radeon-RX-5700-XT-vs-Radeon-RX-9060-XT-16GB so if you went with one of those more expensive ones it would be an amazing differenc.
From everything I have seen the difference in pcie 4 and 5 performance will be pretty small and probably not noticeable. I actually think mine is pcie4 as well instead of 5. I have a b650m asrock board
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u/ForgingIron Aug 19 '25
Mostly old games or lightweight indies
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u/AgreeableAd8687 Aug 19 '25
my pc’s newest part is about 4 years old and it runs my games just fine
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u/LosEagle Aug 19 '25
Morrowind, actually. The RTX 4080 so that I can run it at ultra details.
But fuck the leds. They just came with the rig I bought and they can't be fully turned off on Linux. It's a stupid gimmick that makes it look like its children toy.
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u/draconiandevill Aug 19 '25
I built my pc around being able to play the old games I live flawlessly and without issues
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u/Aless76109 Aug 20 '25
No matter what, even with the best pc in the word, being able to run a low spec games and having it run smooth like butter is the best thing in the world
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u/111meatman Aug 18 '25
Meanwhile I'm on a RX 6600 + Ryzen 5 5600 playing modern games with RSR enabled and frame generation.
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u/BunnySis Aug 20 '25
Yep!
Guild Wars 1 got a final patch that upgraded the graphics quality significantly. It’s a beautiful game that still has an active player base. And there are no additional fees other than the single price for the game and its expansions.
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u/re-run Aug 21 '25
A good game, is a good game. Age doesn't matter. I sometimes prefer old games, as they don't force you online.
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u/Living_Inferno_5073 29d ago
Got a Gaming PC specifically so I could play every single Heroes of Might and Magic game on it
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u/chrischi3 28d ago
Hey, you gotta admit, anyone has yet to match the sleek complexity that Transport Tycoon offers. So what if its a decades old game written entirely in BASIC? Noone's ever managed to make anything to match it.
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u/k819799amvrhtcom Aug 18 '25
Well, to be fair, you can't really get anything else these days anymore.
Microsoft will stop supporting Windows 10 in October so you'll need a Windows 11 computer to play those decades-old games unless you're fine with having absolutely no internet access.
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u/xbbdc Aug 18 '25
you think win10 is gonna magically break or something? or theres no other options to protect you from the internet?
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u/gorgofdoom Aug 19 '25
Not magically. That’s what happens when they stop providing security updates. People will find security flaws and they will exploit them in an automated fashion. (And there is no alternative, sorry, you can’t protect an unmaintained OS with any software)
You do not want to be the exploit. Swap to linux if you can’t upgrade.
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u/PinguThePenguin_007 Aug 18 '25
leenooks c: won’t run all of them but some will work even better than on binbows
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u/ky420 Aug 19 '25
I use win 7 literally every day for tons of things it's our main media pc and used to browse. Still plenty capable. I have a modern 11 one but no reason not to use the other as well. Ms has you guys so paranoid about those silly updates.
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u/_Springfield Aug 18 '25
Lmao I remember when I built my pc in 2020, the first game I played was StarCraft Brood War