Since the minimum and recommended specs for Starfield have come out, I’ve been budgeting to do a big upgrade on my PC with an AMD 6800 xt and a fancy new 1 TB SSD (which is the first game I’ve ever seen that requires an SSD) just so I can run the game in all it’s space epicness.

What was the game that you were so excited for that you made the jump to upgrade your PC to the next gen of hardware? New or old!

  • Razgriz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    I assembled my current workstation with an RTX 3080 to coincide with Cyberpunk 2077 release.

    Now I was lucky I bought it right before prices got gouged by scalpers, and to this day its considered a high end PC. 2 years with 0 issues and easy customization.

    In hindsight that piece of trash scam of a game was a blessing in disguise.

  • Molecular0079@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    For me, it was Cyberpunk 2077. I wanted to run around Night City with ultra graphics and raytracing. Too bad it launched in such a badly optimized state.

  • Fireworks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    While I just needed an upgrade in general ( Went from a 1060ti/i7 8gen to a 3070ti/i7 12gen), I was in the middle of God of War and the improvement was incredible. Didn’t realize how much better games could run. 😅

  • Salad_Fries@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    For me, it was Cities:Skylines. My old PC couldnt play it (first game i wanted to play that it couldnt run), so i upgraded.

    Now that Cities:Skylines2 is coming out in a few months, i anticipate needing to upgrade again lol.

  • Fonderthud@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Cyberpunk 2077, bought it on sale and my 125 gb SSD, FX8350 and rx580 weren’t terribly happy. Grabbed a used ryzen 3600 and used 2080 super for $200. Board, ram, and m.2 drive for about the same new. Now I’m debating the 5600xcd or just hold off till I want the AM5 chips, that’ll depend on how Starfield runs.

  • trankillity@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Control got me to build a new PC. I had an average laptop before, but sold the laptop and built a PC with a 3080 in it for the sweet raytracing. Managed to pick the 3080 up at RRP before all the Crypto boom started, so I was stoked! Still going very strong after almost 3 years.

  • Fireworks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    While I just needed an upgrade in general ( Went from a 1060ti/i7 8gen to a 3070ti/i7 12gen), I was in the middle of God of War and the improvement was incredible. Didn’t realize how much better games could run. 😅

  • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    During the pandemic I had a power surge that torched my motherboard and power supply. I didn’t want to have to spend the inflated costs to replace my PC so I just sold my GPU and bought a NUC for a couple hundred dollars.

    I used GeForceNow to play PC games on my phone or TV now. Works out for me. I have a PS5 for games that I want a local experience or aren’t available for GeForceNow. Pretty much any game that doesn’t fall into those two categories such OOTP can run on the NUC. Not a bad setup if you have the connection for it

  • dub@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Gonna date myself a bit but Diablo 2 was the first time I really needed to upgrade our computer. Needed more space.

    Then games like Crysis (shoutout 5970) and most recently cyberpunk