I trawled forums and asked folks - what does do? Can I change it in the game's files? Which setting has the biggest effect? What effects could I live without? I had never done that before, but looked up what all I'd need/how to do it, and from there started really getting in deep to figure out what I could do to get the game to work. I started exploring the computer itself, learning the basics of how games work on a PC (the real basics, I mean - as in, what does a gpu do, why does RAM matter, etc). What do I do? I trial-and-error'd my way through some of the graphics options, but couldn't really connect the dots on which settings did what/how to go about targeting better performance. Thing was, I had no background knowledge. The game worked great in an unlit, dx8 mode, but it looked terrible, so I was determined to see that game the way it was intended. ~10-15fps when trying to play in any of the dx9 rendering options. Turns out, it couldn't, or rather, it could, but performance was really poor. I saw it in a Walmart, looked at the back of the box, and it was so neat and strange that I figured I had to try it, not knowing at all whether my computer could even do it. I didn't know about that game at all, at the time. With the new laptop, I guessed (somewhat correctly) that I could play new things, so I went out and bought a bunch of games I'd always intended to play. I really didn't know anything about computers in general, besides some basic maintenance - I genuinely just didn't comprehend "hardware requirements". Prior to that, I had a WinXP desktop from.at least 5 years ago, which was never really built for playing games.
In 2007, I graduated high school and got a new laptop. The game was STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl. For me there were a few, specific games that ended up playing a big role in my personal history, but one in particular that I can say had an immense impact on who I am today.
I was talking with a friend not too long ago about this, and I'm curious what others have to say.
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