One thing about having old hardware is that you can dispel myths that have come about re: performance/visuals. There is this meme circling about about older games running incredibly well on launch hw while looking great. Fact is, that was rarer. Games like HL2 ran like dog at launch on top end kit.
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Gothic 1 for example was limited at 24 fps I think, Age of Empires 2 ran even slower.
Totally different times and the price argument doesn't really come into play when you couldn't play a game because your CPU was 33 MHz short.
Trick to playing Steam games on older PCs after their end of support? I do have Orange box.
While completely ignoring the countless updates it's received throughout the years.
UE4+ ubiquity marked where it shifted for the worse. The stutter, the ghosting and blurry resolves from everything relying on upscaling, DRM overheads, and pushing out broken PC code to match console release dates.
AMD XP4000+
Asus A8N SLI Deluxe
2 x Inno3d Geforce 6800GT
2 x 200MB SATA HD
DVD-ROM
DVD-RW Dual Layer
Soundblaster Audigy 2ZS
HEC 550W PSU
Don't recall any issues with it but didn't look at the FPS back then. I probably still have it upstairs somewhere.
The latter's still in use in a friend's lab at Queen Mary University London for an ISA card operated microscope!
Doom 3 though runs incredible on period hw.
When I played HL2 in 2007, I had an 8800GT and a Q6600; overkill hardware for that game.
So it was relatively cheap to run everything at 60FPS.
But yeah, while I've never played the original BFG Edition, I'd imagine it's in a similar boat to Orange Box HL2.
If you played on a lower end GPU in 2004, you would reduce res and AA.
It's the same as people who say games didn't have updates. My dude (it's always a dude), do you know how many bug fix and performance updates DOOM had?
PCGH is great for this, they don't even test with DLSS.
https://www.pcgameshardware.de/Geforce-RTX-4070-Ti-Grafikkarte-279172/Tests/Vergleich-gegen-Radeon-RX-7900-XT-1409936/3/