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Going back to your beginnings in PC gaming: the first game you played and loved, but the frame rate and resolution weren't ideal. Your first "I need/want to upgrade my specs" basically.

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[โ€“] Skray@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

World of Warcraft. I was on Windows XP with 512mb of RAM and who knows what graphics card but I was lagging so bad when WotLK came out.

With all the people standing at the entrance to Naxx I had to basically aim myself for the portal and lag my way in without being able to see where my character was walking due to the lag.

[โ€“] lokyst@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Exactly the same game and situation. ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] Talose@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

The golden age of WoW man...

My parents needed a new family PC right before it first launched, and I convinced them to get a slightly better version just so I could spend the next decade of my life raiding with the homies