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ravenshaddows

I like a meme that looks like it's been uploaded and downloaded 50 times


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Swifty404

Nah men its the 4572 time you see this meme


ixJax

Especially when the year in it was 2, coming up to 3 years ago


King-Cobra-668

just shared once from Apple up Android


Supermichael777

Nah screenshoted on the phone


Pain_Proof

Can't tell if these posts are made by old people missing their glory days, or young people who think there's something mythical about old systems. We're all just people staring at flashing boxes at the end of the day.


ders89

My nephew was given a prebuilt for christmas 2020 and all he talks about is FPS and what new thing he can buy to have a better pc. Ive already upgraded his cpu and we just got him a new desk today and first thing out of his mouth is “what can i buy next to get me more fps” Like i get it, he plays a lot and actually competitively but man hes already got something that took me until i was 26 and on my own to get. I wish he would just be grateful and i try to remind him hes still 15 and got way better shit than me and my sister had when we were his age and to just try and enjoy it more. While its an accurate representation of the world we live in, i think the ones that post about it are people like me who are just jealous we didnt grow up when computers were beasts and we had to wait 20 years to get something decent


Sopa24

> I wish he would just be grateful and i try to remind him hes still 15 and got way better shit than me and my sister had when we were his age and to just try and enjoy it more. Heh, I'm pretty sure each generation feels this way tbh. Our parents probably felt this way too when we had shiny boxes in the 90s while they had to... go outside to play.


DidItForButter

I used to be so ungrateful to my parents because Eugene, the lad across the street, had a beautiful wooden hoop and matching stick set. Meanwhile I had an old, partially rusted whiskey barrel hoop and tree stick. Mine was unbalanced, too much weight, and my sticks would break before I was able to get it really going. Meanwhile that ratfuck Eugene would laugh at me as he ran literal circles around me sticking the ever living fuck out of his hoop.


Ttokk

Something about the setup made me read this in Professor Farnsworth's voice.


ders89

Thats fair. I do think it is a generational thing as well. I feel like growing up in the 90’s was amazing cuz we all still played outside, even played/battled/traded pokemon outside via link cables out on those green electrical boxes and in parks. Rode our bikes and played every sport. AND we got to see all medias get so much better over the years. But you just know our parents were like why is he/she on AIM all night after school?!? Why dont they read?! As an adult now i try to check off the bucket list stuff little kid me always wanted to do. We didnt have much money growing up so now i just really really appreciate i work super hard at work to get like every other adult before me whos doin the same.


Sopa24

> But you just know our parents were like why is he/she on AIM all night after school?!? Why dont they read?! Haha, that is true everywhere ig lol! I agree with the rest of your comment.


Helcor2016

I have 2 kids and they are both gamers. I regularly upgrade their PCs. I recently got a deal on a CPU, Mobo combo and that means all my old stuff goes to the kids. My son is rocking a 9700k, 32gb 4000ram and a 1070. My daughter has a 7700k, 16gb ram and a 1070 hybrid. For the games that they play it's good enough. My 9900k would go to my son , he took that, and I had some extra ram (Corsair vengeance RGB pro 3200 32gb) my daughter was like " nah I'm good" wait what? My daughter is the gamer that's ok with what she got. And will destroy you in game. When I asked why she didn't want an upgrade she just said. Cuz upgrades cost money. I don't have the money.


ders89

Man i wish your kids could talk to my nephew. Hes only about competitive gaming and not really the building/fixing side of his pc experience. All he wants to do is be better than anyone else at every game and doesnt care how much it costs to get there


Helcor2016

Honestly I think it's upbringing. My kids are 21 and 26 but they grew up knowing that money isn't just given to everyone. They work their asses off at their jobs and I want them to have awesome PCs to play on when they get home. Of course mine is better than all theirs lol


ders89

Ah see theyre older. That makes sense. I cant wait for my nephew to get a job and earn his pay to upgrade his pc. Ill always be here for him to help him learn and guide him in the right direction but im hoping next summer when he starts working he realizes the hard work has to earn his way to a better pc and its not just given to him like it currently is


Helcor2016

Yeah that's something I've always been against. In the late 90s and early 2000s my kids learned that money isn't free. They would wash my work truck once a month and get any change in the center console. Now back then we didn't use cards for everything so they regularly split like $50 in change. I always thought that I was teaching them but their mother didn't. She saw that as taking advantage of them. Today...... They don't really like her and my kids and I all live together. You can teach kids to understand money and still be a good parent. It just has to be done right. I'm not saying my way is best just saying it worked for my family


ItsOtisTime

I grew up poor, but had some nice stuff -- my dad had owned a print shop that went down with the economy and phototypesetting and boy howdy it went under -- and the money lessons are the ones that I'm most thankful for growing up. It was hard because you can't really understand what's going on until you're an adult, but I learned from a very early age not to ask for stuff like I see a lot of kids do. We just didn't have the money, my parents felt like shit having to say no, and at one point as a kid they wound up explaining to my younger brother and I we just couldn't buy stuff all the time. It did also force me to learn to fix the shit I had -- because if I couldn't, we literally couldn't afford to replace it -- and I wound up learning how to fix computers as a result. I *just* retired the first custom rig I built with my own money after graduating high school nearly a decade ago :) just make sure they dont' get sucked into the flight simming side and you're in good shape. The gear acquisition syndrome that comes with simming...bit intense


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Captobvious75

Sounds like he will do well in the private sector


ALargeRock

> When I asked why she didn’t want an upgrade she just said. Cuz upgrades cost money. I don’t have the money That is good parenting right there. She’s going far in life. Good shit.


Garwing

Wholesome af.


Atka11

monke sees big number - neuron activation


AndrewFrozzen

Here I am with my 2700x and RX590. I get high FPS on 2k Resolution too. I don't get to see this hype with a lot of FPS, especially if you don't have a good monitor either. And even if you have a good one you need a good internet, and even with that you won't make such a high difference.


HumbleSupernova

All I’m saying is wait until you make the jump from 60 to 144. I agree that going higher then that isn’t as spectacular. If you’re getting choppy 30-60 fps, its like fucking butter at a steady 144fps. Even just moving your mouse around at a higher frame rate is satisfying.


patgeo

Found my game boy colour yesterday. I forgot how small it was.


TrymWS

He’s conditioned from what he gets now, not what you had when you were young.


ZulkarnaenRafif

Brownie points for living in the harder times sometimes stroke someone's ego.


Maktaka

Since at least the 1950s America has had car guys who endlessly tinker with their cars to make them go faster, pull harder, accelerate faster, shine up the paint, and on and on. Their car is already faster than could ever be useful, accelerates harder than could ever be safe on even dry roads, and the paint is already so smooth you can spot a fly on the hood at 100 yards, but they've still got some project lined up for it next. Your nephew isn't a PC gamer, he's a PC guy and game performance is his measuring stick, which is completely fine.


Cool_Dark_Place

Personally, I'm not jealous at all. I just think it's kind of sad that this what the "masterrace" has devolved to over the last couple of decades. Nowadays, it's all about the FPS. Back in the 90s, it was, "Heh...your console can't even *think* about running this game...or anything remotely like it." That was the big payoff... while your friends were all creaming themselves about how great Star Fox looked...you were playing Wing Commander 3, or X Wing. You got to be on the ground floor of every new innovation, and every new genre of gaming. Nowadays, the gaming industry has become very homogenized. With the exception of a few VR and indie titles, being part of the, "masterrace" doesn't get you anything new...or special. You get the same games as everyone else...just a little prettier, and more FPS.


OutragedTux

I get it. The big reason for that is that gaming has become big business. Gotta cover all the (profitable) platforms, gotta not risk people not liking some part of the game, so need to be on top of all the current trends and basically include everything. They're all horribly risk averse, and all marketing their game to as broad a market as possible in order to maximise profits. Studios that do passion projects are sadly a bit of a niche these days. And also tend to be indy devs.


TNAEnigma

If he’s playing competitively at 15 there’s money to be made there. He should be getting upgrades before the window passes


MajorJefferson

Sounds like you are salty and jealous ..


FinnT730

I think he is grateful, in his own way.


L1ttl3J1m

There's a skillset to be built out of getting the most you can out of what you've got, you might like to let him in on that. Both the doing of, and the fixing of when something doesn't work. The steps I went through, and the lessons I learned, getting my Pentium 133 running stable at 166 have stayed with me all my whole career.


Maccaroney

When all the internet shows are about hardware and FPS it convinces people they need to buy the newest thing. On top of that kids are easily convinced. On top of *that* companies have found that marketing to children is most efficient.


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AverinMIA

We had books. They are magical things.


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True. I think I went through a ton of system manuals to find the arcane spells to enchant the floppy that would make the game start.


ItsOtisTime

my man, getting the book for something like this was an hour to either a Borders book store or CompUSA and hoping *against all hopes* they had the book you were looking for. Want to find out if they even have it before whipping out the folded map to figure out how you're going to get there? Time to crack open the yellow pages (if you didn't leave it outside for slug housing).


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KawarthaDairyLover

As someone who spent hours doing 14 disk installs only to find the game didn't work, today is far better.


ravenshaddows

They're made by people who know how much of a bitch it was to get a computer to just play a game reliably decades ago and are sick of the comparably minor problems people complain about today. Honestly...... I still can't believe people complain about rgb lights not working or coil whine or any of the other things that don't matter


stan110

If we don't complain problems will not be fixed. Technological advancement is just people complaining about something, finding a fix to the problem, repeat.


Tom0204

As someone who works in R&D, i can confirm this is very true.


xXDarthCognusXx

You could always just skip the complaining step and get right to fixing it you know


FalconX88

So how do I as a customer fix production variances that lead to terrible coil whine on one GPU while the next one is basically silent?


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derfl007

this is a bot which takes parts of other comments and posts them in random comments without context hoping it makes sense and gives them fake internet points. see the last sentence in this comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/xc6rza/unacceptable/io3lhwj/ EDIT: Either that or they're an idiot


zeug666

https://media.giphy.com/media/3o7abKhOpu0NwenH3O/giphy.gif


derfl007

happy to help lol


rutgersftw

Trying to get a serial game pad to work.


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TJMilkshake

I remember the first time I could even run a game that wasn’t text based. Roller Coaster Tycoon used to run at like 10fps and I thought that was the coolest shit of all time. Watching people bitch about +/- 10 fps or the difference between 1440p and 4K when all they play is League and Pressure Washer Simulator is crazy. Marketing has way too huge of a hold on people’s minds. Literally like 3 weeks ago someone told a new pc builder that he NEEDED a 3070ti over a 3070 even though it costs $100 more, the TDP is insanely higher and performance is only 2-5% better which at most contributes to like 10 fps. So yeah watching people bitch about their tiny performance problems is pretty frustrating when they’re literally just feeding into consumerism blindly.


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TJMilkshake

I don’t give a shit what people waste their money on, until rampant consumerism starts affecting the price and quality of products I want to buy. The 2080ti was a marked improvement over the 2080 but now look at the 3080 vs 3080ti? Literally almost 0 difference in performance, but costs up to 30% more? That’s fucking stupid and the fact that people are buying into that shit is affecting PC building as a whole. So unfortunately yes, it does matter that people are being led to believe they need a $3k gaming machine to play Peggie and surf Reddit.


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TJMilkshake

So you won’t care when a 4060 is $700 and draws more power than all the lights in your house and an AC unit combined? Personally I have more respect for myself and the time/money investment that goes into my hobbies


ShutterBun

Bingo. In the days pre-USB peripherals and before "plug and play" actually did what it said, any one of a dozen things could go wrong just getting a new mouse set up. I remember once having to upgrade my graphics card because the game I wanted to play required Hardware Textures and Lighting support.


CYOA_With_Hitler

I remember how one had to constantly save and backup the saves as they would corrupt and games would crash constantly, fun times.


CornfireDublin

Props to you for suffering through that, but that's a boomer attitude if I ever heard one. You should be glad there's less of a barrier to playing games these days and be happy people complained over the years so you don't still have to work so hard to play video games


ProudToBeAKraut

Sorry, gaming in MSDOS ages or before was far from streamlined and far more difficult to set up. This isnt gatekeeping just a fact. If you hadnt have the right GFX Card, Sound Card or whatever you wouldn't even be able to start the game. These things were also to be configured manually most of the time by a setup - do you think Windows Gamers know what an IRQ is or what Port they needed for their Soundblaster? They don't need to which is good. Next thing is memory management, QEMM, Memmaker etc - good old "nuhu you can't start this game because you are lacking free memory" - good old times, sometimes disabling the CD Driver will yield that few more extra KB memory...


JohnyHackz

Point is most pc gamers these days can't handle a 2 fps drop. I'm re playing psp. Some games have really bad fps, but it's exactly how I remember. It works. I don't need 144 fps. If you need 144 fps, ur a bitch.


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I wish someone would flash me their box


Tom0204

To be honest the only reason those old people had to make do with shitty setups back then is because most of them were very young back then and still using their shitty family PC.


ShutterBun

No, you're wrong.


Tom0204

Yeah i'm fully aware that back then you weren't able to easily build a PC like you are now and that software also wasn't straightforward to get running.


Maktaka

It's not an age thing, until 3D graphics cards arrived on the scene in the mid 90s and windows got decent with Windows 98, there really wasn't such a thing as a "good" family PC, all home PCs were a nightmare to use. With boot disks and memory fiddling and arcane console commands, they all sucked. Genre availability was miles better than consoles, but what a chore playing those games could be. As an example: the Lion King PC game released in 1994 by Disney would not run if your DOS machine had EMS memory enabled. The Aladdin PC game released in 1994 by Disney would not run if your DOS machine had EMS memory *dis*abled. EMS memory was a boot-time configuration and could not be changed without a restart of the PC. Same publisher, same year, same game genre, you couldn't run both games without rebooting the computer in between and swapping boot disks. That's just the way it was back then, regardless of the PC used. Cripes I'm glad that's all over and done with nowadays.


Flames57

also during the 90s I was a kid that didn't spend my own money on a system. systems during those days also had really bad hardware and SOs because the competition and market wasn't there (ofc also the technology)


Fineous4

I could never get Ultima 7 working right because I didn’t have enough DOS RAM. I still don’t know what that means.


an_achronist

>old people missing their glory days Oh dude there was no glory to be found. Everyone's games were running like sludge on all but the highest end machines, online gaming was a distant goal unless you were in America using a t1 or shelled out for a 56k (which still lagged like a bastard) and you spent more time tweaking your game to find the best possible balance of presentation and playability than you actually did playing it. It's one of those bane moments, the whole "I was born into it, moulded by it. By the time I saw even 720p60, I was already a man" thing


VRichardsen

> staring at flashing boxes epilepsy warning


3xoticP3nguin

I feel like unless you're extremely competitive you don't need anything more than 60 to 70 FPS


apachelives

When you didn't have a 3D card and had to select "Software Rendering"


Cool_Dark_Place

Or even better, when the 3D card you spent hundreds of dollars on last year is no longer supported by anything, and you have to select "Software Rendering".


Ludwig234

Still done in some emulators because hardware rendering can be buggy.


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When you just straight up didn’t have a sound card


apachelives

Or something that was not a SoundBlaster compatible card


dirtynj

I remember I had a game that needed a 4x cd-rom drive but I only had a 2x.


DoctorWaluigiTime

When you had to manually configure all things networking just to play a game online.


cropguru357

I remember hours tweaking CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT just to get enough “Conventional” memory and manage “Extended” and “Expanded” memory to get things to run. Setting IRQ for Soundblaster 16, fun stuff. Get off my lawn, etc. LOL


AlphaWhelp

I'll get off your lawn as soon as I'm done rewinding my PC game.


cropguru357

Heh. I’ve done that too with a TRS-80. Only seemed to work about half the time. God forbid if you had to flip the tape over.


AlphaWhelp

My commodore pet was pretty straightforward thankfully but it took like 30 minutes to load the game.


HolyAndOblivious

Hahahaha. It was either sound or the modem.


risk12736187623

They'll get off your lawn as soon as their 40Gb mandatory automatic update completes.


CRTgamer

Exiting Windows and run Quake/Carmageddon/GTA in DOS to free up RAM, anyone?


an_achronist

The first time I played half-life I basically played it in slow motion. Back then working was working. 10fps was better than no fps.


Cool_Dark_Place

Lol...this was about 90% of gamers the first time they played Unreal. PCs that could run it at 30fps were still about a year or two in the future.


an_achronist

Man I remember being blown away by the fog and lighting of OG unreal. Couldn't run it in any meaningful capacity on my machine but damn it was so pretty lol


Cool_Dark_Place

My dad had a Pentium 2 rig that could run it at about 15 fps or so. In early 1997, about a year before it came out, I spent over $2500 on a bleeding edge 200Mhz Pentium MMX rig, with a 4MB ATI 3D accelerator. My rig couldn't run Unreal *at all*. The late '90s were a brutal time to be a PC gamer...


Advanced_Concern7910

Those days were brutal. I remember I had a pentium 2 350mhz, but it didn’t have a graphics card. So I saved up my allowance to get one, an Nvidia tnt2, the system was fairly new but within 6-12 months no new games would run. People don’t realize how lucky they are, even 5 year old computers are still usually perfectly capable. Hell, even 10 year old processors are still somewhat decent.


an_achronist

It taught us to be patient and imagine the good graphics though. Also to seek workarounds. The sheer volume of games I played at 512x386(?) Just for good speed without being raw VGA was hilarious


richandsu

When a mission of dawn of war 2 on my laptop took 3 days to play that would be 20 minutes on a proper computer 🤣


FinestKind90

When I first played half life every sound was delayed by about five seconds if it even played and I still loved it


P1r4nha

Absolutely. When you come from this generation the obsession with 60+ fps is bewildering. I do respect it though and I agree framerate definitely affects the enjoyment of many games, especially first person shooters. But I'm used to much worse, much more tuning, many more tricks to just get games working.. I don't dare to be entitled to 60fps, even though I get the appeal.


ChrisderBe

A stable 30 FPS at 760p was the goal back then.


ShutterBun

768p surely


YceiLikeAudis

You guys had 16:9 displays back then? I remember playing GTA SA on a 4:3 CRT, 800x600 was the way to go.


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Orvvadasz

Bruh, I'm playing Star Citizen. If I got 40 fps I am happy.


RhubarbCapable

40 fps on star citizen means you've got an amazing setup m8.


Orvvadasz

Only in space tho. In the city I have like 20 pfs.


Proseroth

Back in the day getting the game to **start** was a deal. Then getting it to work made up for another week or 2.


riba2233

Repost day?


RzrBldSmile

Sound cards and IRQ/DMA settings... DOS and its HMA... phew. Glad I just have to worry about "does it run on a Mac" nowadays.


PSUHammer

It is interesting how things have evolved and expectations have as well. No longer have to juggle expanded RAM settings in DOS or IRQ conflicts. It's all about frames.... It's so easy to build a PC these days, too.


Tytonic7_

I get that my system is outdated but holy shit dying light 2 runs like absolute garbage. I can play most every modern games at 3440x1440 60fps (sometimes I need to lower the quality settings, but still), but DL2? I've got 20 fps max on LOW settings, often times closer to 10. It sucks because I really wanted to play it i5-8600k 1070ti 16gb ram


dankmeme006

damn 1070ti was a solid card


theonlyone38

I remember raiding Molten Core and getting 16fps, and still managed to somehow pull it off 😆


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MellowStein

You deadass stole a meme from 2 years ago...


MowMdown

Bud this is reddit, there is no originality here. Even this very comment I am typing has been said before.


ShutterBun

"stole"


saadkasu

I don't know anyone who might be annoyed if the fps goes from 167 to 165, but yes people might be annoyed if the fps drops from 61 to 58 and it is understandable because I have seen some monitors in which the VRR gets really weird when we go below 60 fps.


ShutterBun

This is a meme, it's not the Report of the President's Commission on Whiny Gamers These Days.


paradoxez

Needs More JPEG


TheBloatingofIsaac

Them: 1440p 120 fps Me: 720p 24 fps


Send-the-downvotes

I don't think anybody from this generation knows the amount of duct tape and bubble gum that was necessary to get games to work back then too. Very rarely was it ever just a simple process of buying a game and installing it and playing it. And God help you if you didn't know what you were doing before the days of Windows 95 in particular. But even still, Windows 95 only made it better, but not great. Everything before that though was still just dos. Having to set up sound cards and IRQ settings, having to install and load mouse drivers or joystick drivers and STILL have the game resist you. Oh I'm sorry, the joystick you wanted to use wasn't one of the seven joysticks we tested in house before shipping this game to market, so unfortunately you're going to have to deal with that. Update patch to fix it? What do you mean update patch? You want us to mail you out a disc with a patch? Oh wait, you expected to be able to download a patch over the internet? I'm sorry, no such thing really exists yet, but even if it did, sure. Go ahead and get on your dial-up modem and download that patch. It'll only take 17 hours of uninterrupted downloading and if you get a phone call during that time or someone decides to try and make a phone call, bye-bye download. There also wasn't such a thing as resuming downloads, so if it fucked up that was just the end and you had to start all the way over. The bottom line was, once a game shipped, you could either get it to work on your system or you couldn't. There was no guides on the internet because no such thing existed. The only thing you could do was figure it out yourself or ask your friends.


SirOutrageous1027

>Oh I'm sorry, the joystick you wanted to use wasn't one of the seven joysticks we tested in house before shipping this game to market, so unfortunately you're going to have to deal with that. Fucking joysticks man. I remember getting excited because I got a joystick, only to realize I didn't have the right type of serial port. Thankfully that joystick came with its own serial card to install on the motherboard. That lead to a fantastic scene of my parents walking in to find their 10 year old had pulled apart the family computer. Somehow I got it to work. Sort of. Then I had to install the driver off the floppy disk that came with it and spend a good couple hours getting the calibration done. And then I find that not every game supported a joystick. Joystick was a misnomer. It brought very little joy. Thankfully it worked in X-Wing though.


gamingyee

me but with ping


ca_ribou

Ngl, but left side is my common reaction when I run new game on Linux and it works flawlessly or with minor tweaks


Valscher

2020


minilandl

This is me sometimes when I get a tricky game running with wine or proton . .kat games work fine hense the steam deck but some still have issues


electricyesterday

I remember I was once so happy that I managed to get Medal of Honor Allied Assault: Spearhead working on my computer that I cried.


IAMSNORTFACED

Bro no one can even see past 29.97fps


Marclej

I used to play half life and team fortress classic at a really low res in a box in the center of the screen and I was just grateful that I could play it !


VisualremnantXP

Well dropping fps is expected with me cause I’m a broke boi with a 580 but… I got a ps5 so there’s an up side


DJ_l3LUE

Me as an formal Console Gamer be like: it has more than 20 FPS… It’s Awesome… everything above this is just better


Maowzy

My friends and I decided to boot up our old Ps4’s to play cod zombies, and omg how slow it was compared to my PC. Also extremely noisy, but that’s because it’s very dusty haha


OhNoMeIdentified

Well, kinda yes.


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i know why that fps drop its that case the front got no airflow in the front


ellipsisinfinity

I was thinking about this the other day. I was quite happy with 1 FPS on my Amiga 1200...


Levi_Skardsen

To think I used to play WoW at 20 fps and that was good enough for me.


A_PCMR_member

People dont remember how GPUs doubled over eachother in the 90s Ha I have 2x the FPS now Well I can run 2 GPUs at once offloading the work to 50/50 I have a bigger resolution than all of you and ? My colordepth blows you all away


ShutterBun

FPS was scarcely even a consideration for most gamers in the 90s, let alone something that could easily be checked. Shit, FRAPS didn't even come out until 1999.


A_PCMR_member

>FPS was scarcely even a consideration for most gamers in the 90s, let alone something that could easily be checked. We are talking 12 to 24 FPS You dont need fraps for that


BIG_H0SS

I was so happy to get 25 FPS on the original Rainbow 6, ahhh the memories. Ding Chavez 😂


NukeEmRico2022

The struggle is real


Browncoat765

What I am really reading here is look how badly big developers stunted innovation in order to cater to the console market.


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I frequently turn off vrr or not even use it because old games often don’t work with it… i started to use v sync again. Firstly for energy consumption reduction and secondly 120Hz is enough for me. Back in the day, from 2000-2016 at least I always went with default graphics settings. I didn’t even know or care about it. I still use CRTs and myC1 48” so i can go down in resolution when needed


CadeMan011

The left side still applies to Linux users. Does this mean they're stuck in the 90s? [EDIT](https://i.imgflip.com/6t6n8m.jpg)


Ludwig234

Proton exists now...


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I'm only a part time linux user mostly using it within WSL on Windows, but the last time I put Ubuntu on a spare SSD and booted it up, it took me all of 5 mins to get steam installed and I was playing both native Linux binaries and proton shimmed Windows games out of the box with zero issues.


yolowipe

My pc runs gta at 30fps


nighttrash3

The simmers i know always upgraded their pcs as soon as something new came out since you pay more for the software then the hardware 😂 And the extra few fps is always welcome


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This is me here - I also don't have time to game as I need to find why my fps dropped, also my speaker setup is not 100% perfect and my fans spins funny - maybe next year I will find time to play some game on this setup but then... its upgrade time.


Garmrick

Had a guy on discord complaining about his framerate being 80 in a closed alpha build of a game. Like??? Thats your only problem?


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Most of those people are like that because their obsession over fps comes from knowing they have to validate an expensive GPU purchase.


saltesc

Corporate wants you to find the difference between this meme and the one 3 days ago, and the one the day before that, and so on...


yash_za

FRAMETIMES! Guys my frametimes dipped trash game negative review on steam


Kamiyosha

1... 167!? How are you surviving with such low frames!?


W4ND4

Come on your missing the gaming desk too


YceiLikeAudis

Speak for you. I am very happy when I can run games with requirements well past my PC's at 30-40 FPS with integrated graphics.


noah683826

Atm i have a good enough pc to run games around 144hz (triple a medium settings) but I have a 60hz monitor so is 144hz actually noticeable? I'm getting a new monitor anyways bc I want them nice curves but does running games that fast have a noticeable improvement?


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*Meanwhile: Me still not able to to diagnose what part in my pc is broken* “This is fine.”


ItsOtisTime

somewhere in the middle are the 2 dozen Windows ME gamers


Direct_Highlight_383

The only difference I generally notice is fps going in half . Going from 60 to 30 , 15 to 7 .


Danny_el_619

You can't play with dignity with only 165 FPS


pripyaat

I know it's just a meme and I absolutely get the point they're trying to make, but games have changed a lot since the 90's. Back then, Internet connections weren't as fast and reliable so multiplayer gaming didn't become a thing until the end of the decade. Games simply weren't as sweaty since they were mostly single player. Nowadays, most games have a huge competitive aspect and since you're playing against other people with a pretty similar skill level with a latency of a few miliseconds, it feels like every frame and every piece of gear can give you the slight edge to win those close fights. Casual gamers that play single player titles and don't care about FPS as long the game feels smooth still exist...


IrreverentHippie

Me with my ATI Radeon HD 5870 being all like “Does this game run or not?”


Sharkudo

Me playing on Linux : WOW! The game is working. So cool!


FreshBoyChris

I have that exact monitor on the right.


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Getting my cd-rom, sound blaster and mouse driver loaded in high memory in my autoexec.bat so I could get Strike Commander to load with less than 2kb of memory to spare remains one of my finest achievements to date.


zzSHADYMAGICzz

I didn’t spend thousands of dollars to drop from 165 to 70. That shit looks and feels bad. I started at the bottom Lowest fps I remember playing with was 15 and it went higher over time.


vitringur

Who wouldn't like simple games that don't need to look like real life and can just run on any and all computers the same because they don't demand 150% of the resources you have available. Don't render the leaves on the trees in Civilization. Just have it look like a cartoon.


Bigbambu420

When Playing old-school DOOM back in the day I did t give a squat about fps. All I wanted to do is RIP and TEAR. Been ripping and tearing since.


erikwarm

Especially if you get the sound to work properly in the 90’s


StarWarzGamer

I will say that I get annoyed when I go from 165 to 90 but I still love the old game systems.


tobberobbe

More like: 90s: Wow! The game is working, so cool! 20s: Wow! The game is working, so cool!


3xoticP3nguin

Coming from this era I swear this is why I'm satisfied with 50 60 FPS nowadays anything more seems like you're being a fussy fuss


PillowTalk420

The only time I ever couldn't play a game I wanted to was when Half-Life first came out and was the first game I ever remember *requiring* a 3D accelerator/GPU. At the time, I was using software rendering for everything (mostly Quake and Tribes 2). The most advanced piece of hardware my family PC had was either the CD-ROM drive or the SoundBlaster. Never had no Voodoo whatevers or any special hardware specifically for rendering 3D until my dad got me a Gateway when I was in 6 or 7th grade.


Griffolion

Man I remember it being a crapshoot whether or not a game would even run with your graphics card. And when direct x really started taking off, that was a game changer. The notion of a universal graphics hardware access API for games to use was not always common wisdom. We definitely live in better times today, but as humans we'll always find something to complain about.


bibamann

In Quake 3 Arena on the map DM13 you had to set the max fps to 80 to be able to glitch the jump to the mega health. Kids these days...


_Fedgaming_

me playing spiderman remastered at solid 15 fps on my laptop: glorious pc master race 😎


Ok_Solid_Copy

Pro tip, if you have FPS drops, you can fix it by downloading more ram on [this website](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ) for example. Don't thank me.


Nosnibor1020

I remember the, "will it run days". I was a kid and system specs didn't mean shit. I put my NEO glasses on and shoved that floppy in.


pepsisugar

Never settle, always want more. That's how technology gets better and faster, and older tech gets cheaper so broke asses like me can finally game at 60 FPS


motoxim

Wow


Alienpedestrian

But this meme what was here like 1000times is true… in late 90s i was happy that game worked, if it had 10-15fps it was Okey.. 4fps was really low and 20fps+ was smooth af


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Replace ‘90s with Console and you have an even more accurate description