08-25-2003, 05:14 PM
well, it looks like i won't be getting/building a new computer powerful enough to play hl2 in all it's glory until at least january. therefore, i'm sticking around a while longer. i don't think i'm alone. those who have good, but relatively old, computers who refuse to spend substantial money and upgrade because of one computer game will stick around...possibly for quite a while. there's people still playing quakeII on their P233MMX systems...so why not? i mean hl2, if anything like the first, will be in the stores for a very long time. i, myself, just got into hl just last fall.
i thought about it and realized the only reason i want a new computer is because of hl2. i always told myself that i'm not going to invest in a new computer solely because of gaming...it's the principle of the thing...plus i have much more important things to attend to. i may just wait until this machine has completely become inoperable...this computer is over 4 years old and it doesn't look like it's slowing down any time yet. only when valuable new software packages don't run on the windows98 platform, will i strongly consider upgrading my system before then.
just yesterday, i turned in my riva tnt 16mb for a geforce2 64mb and am now getting double the framerate at vads...(~40-50fps compared to ~20-24fps).
i thought about it and realized the only reason i want a new computer is because of hl2. i always told myself that i'm not going to invest in a new computer solely because of gaming...it's the principle of the thing...plus i have much more important things to attend to. i may just wait until this machine has completely become inoperable...this computer is over 4 years old and it doesn't look like it's slowing down any time yet. only when valuable new software packages don't run on the windows98 platform, will i strongly consider upgrading my system before then.
just yesterday, i turned in my riva tnt 16mb for a geforce2 64mb and am now getting double the framerate at vads...(~40-50fps compared to ~20-24fps).