• @Bytemeister
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      109 months ago

      Now remind me I’m supposed to schedule a prostate exam.

  • @[email protected]
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    709 months ago

    Dude what are you talking about, it was still here less than 15 years ago. The Nintendo Wii literally had an ATI GPU

  • BargsimBoyz
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    249 months ago

    Yes, anyone over 30 is super old omg lol. I can’t even imagine how horrible it must be!

  • Obinice
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    209 months ago

    Is ATI not still around? I thought I still saw Radeon GPUs pretty regularly, no?

  • IWantToFuckSpez
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    209 months ago

    So every GameCube owner? Since the GC has a “Graphics by ATi” sticker on the front.

    • @CertifiedBlackGuy
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      69 months ago

      Fuck you, I wish you a continued long and healthy life ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

  • @khannie
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    129 months ago

    ATI 9800 pro held a special place in my heart. If I remember correctly it’s what I played half life 2 on.

    • @Psythik
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      89 months ago

      IIRC that was the ideal GPU to play Half-life 2. My 9700m could not keep up. I was only 16 at the time, so I fell for the lies from the DELL salesman when I was buying my first gaming machine for that game. He told me that mobile GPUs are almost as good as desktop GPUs, and that the 9700m was almost as good as the 9800 desktop card. It was not.

      Barely got 30 FPS on medium, and I couldn’t run it at the laptop’s native resolution of 1900x1200. Had to settle for 1280x800 and the crappy upscaling of the time.

      I worked my ass off an entire summer for that stupid brick of a laptop (it was a first gen XPS, BTW), and it couldn’t even do 60 FPS in the latest games. I was betrayed so hard by that purchase that I learned how to build my own PCs so I’d never have to settle for an overpriced “gaming” laptop ever again.

      • @khannie
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        29 months ago

        Oh jeez. Fuck that salesman. :( That’s an awful thing to do to a kid. Money comes so hard at that age.

        I had a self build and a decent CRT at the time so scaling wasn’t an issue but I remember how horrible it was in those days on LCDs. It actually put me off moving from the CRT for a long time.

        I definitely overclocked that card and it was really good for that even on the stock cooler but I do vaguely remember it struggling with HL2. I can’t remember what CPU I had so that could have been the bottleneck.

  • @MIDItheKID
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    129 months ago

    I remember the Voodoo brand cards, so not only do my back and knees hurt, but I should probably start getting my prostate checked.

  • @Crashumbc
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    119 months ago

    FUCK YOU, also yes :(

  • @TunaLobster
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    119 months ago

    FFS. My first GPU was an ATI 9250. My knees are fine thank you!

  • @[email protected]
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    109 months ago

    Mid 40s and the two weeks my buddy lent me his voodoo 2, which was CPU-INDEPENDENT, were some of the best times I had playing FF7 on my DX4. I should have my prostate checked.