Current Events > Back in 1996, you needed a $2,000 powerhouse PC to run Quake at today's standard

(+) Yeah! (+)

Or else your PC pretty much died at the room at 98 degrees trying to run the damn game...

CPU: Intel Pentium(R) 75 MHz processor or better (future proof cost appx $800-$1K retail)

GRAPHICS: 2MB VGA Graphics Compatible card (3Dfx Voodoo or ATI Rage either appx $250-$300...AND THAT'S IT.

RAM: DOS -- 16 MB / Win 95 -- 24 MB <---- JFC!!!!

GPU: VGA compatible display or better (better whip out the ol Compaq)

OS: MS-DOS 5.0 or higher or Windows(R) 95/98 operating system

Hard disk drive with 80 MB of uncompressed space available

Sound: 100% Sound Blaster-compatible sound card

Double-speed CD-ROM drive (300K/sec, sustained transfer rate)

Online: Supports modem, network, and Internet play

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/4/1/AAUQbgAADfX9.jpg

Lawl @ goddamn tech inflation

ok

In 2000, PS2 was one of the cheapest DVD players on the market.

Moore's Law gave up somewhere around 2010.
Basically, its remnants are RAM and flashRAM capacity regularly doubling every two or three years.

huhh! huhh! huhh!

2022: Doom running inside Doom

https://youtu.be/c6hnQ1RKhbo

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idk I don't think my Galaxy Note 10 can run Quake in its ideal state

*edit*
ehh it likely can.

Jagr_68 posted...

idk I don't think my Galaxy Note 10 can run Quake in its ideal state

Yes it can.

Tyranthraxus posted...

2022: Doom running inside Doom

https://youtu.be/c6hnQ1RKhbo

Suck it, Skyrim. Taste this witchcraft!

Tyranthraxus posted...

Yes it can.

Yeah I rethought that and also remembered even my 3DS can run Quake 2 pretty decently albeit with cumbersome controls.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Moore's Law gave up somewhere around 2010.
Basically, its remnants are RAM and flashRAM capacity regularly doubling every two or three years.

I feel like it happened at more like 2004 for CPUs. Intel and AMD both ended up having to go to multi core architectures at around that point and it stopped being a straight speed upgrade from that point on in the sense that it was before and since then its slowed down even more noticeably.

My computer wasn't great but it ran quake ok. 120mz Pentium 1, 16mb ram, windows 95t. It didn't even have a dedicated graphics card.

Back then they knew that most people didn't have dedicated graphicss and state of the art computers so most games would run on basically anything, but you wouldn't be able to get crazy high resolutions or anything.

Atralis posted...

I feel like it happened at more like 2004 for CPUs.

That may be right. 2006 or so seems like when the GHzs just stopped increasing for some reason

Questionmarktarius posted...

That may be right. 2006 or so seems like when the GHzs just stopped increasing for some reason

Modern CPU architecture is extremely complex and you can't really gauge performance on frequency alone. These days CPUs have their own memory that caches instructions from memory so the CPU doesn't (shouldn't) have to access RAM to find out what it does next.

Tyranthraxus posted...

Modern CPU architecture is extremely complex and you can't really gauge performance on frequency alone.

Plus, you know, core dogpiles.

wasnt a $2000 desk top pretty standard for 96? Like if it came with word and a few other programs, it seemed like $2k was what my parents always spent, and that wasn't outrageous. It seemed like around the year 2000 was when $2k would actually get you a good gaming rig.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Plus, you know, core dogpiles.

Core dogpiles are nice and all but shoddy software engineering rarely uses them appropriately.

But Parallel.ForEach is some good shit man. I inject that directly into my aorta.

Questionmarktarius posted...

That may be right. 2006 or so seems like when the GHzs just stopped increasing for some reason

I got a gaming PC back in 2003 (I got to pick the family PC and my parents were making good $ at the time and gave me a budget of like $2000). I got a top of the line Pentium 4 with a Radeon 9800 pro and my PC was many times better than any console on the market for 2-3 years until the PS3/360 came out in late 2005/06.