Let me FUCKING PLAY YOU STUPID GAME.

Game hobbyists from my era didn't even bat an eye on spending $3000+ every three years on a new rig. Money was worth more back then too. Seems odd to me that this generation thinks that spending $1000 on a machine is too much.

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Shagsbeard wrote:

Game hobbyists from my era didn't even bat an eye on spending $3000+ every three years on a new rig. Money was worth more back then too. Seems odd to me that this generation thinks that spending $1000 on a machine is too much.

Because "this generation" works at McDonalds and is usually consisting of broke college students. I saved up the money for my own gaming PC with extreme effort and barely made it working a 10hr job every weekday. But we can't put blame on the gamers trying to enjoy the game -- we have to put the blame on the lack of optimization that was done on an extreme budget during 2008. That's why this game has so many issues, and why a new league is running an extreme performance risk for users and GGG.

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Valek27 wrote:

Most common solution from poe players, yeah guys just spend over $1000 on your pc and you will be fine, fuck all your other monetary responsibilities.

Game will not grow like this, it can't grow like this.

Pebcak - wherever I've seen someone complaining excessively about gaming performance, that's always been the case.


I built my current machine like 2-3 years ago for about 300. Spent around 100 for a video card pgrade. When my lockstep starts to stutter, its not the machine, but the shared bandwidth getting split by multiple users with heavy usage.

I run max native res 1440x900 (I bought the monitor years ago for a previous build) and with dynamic res it drops video quality as needed to help maintain framerates.

You don't need to spend a lot, but you do need to have reasonable expectations. In '94 or '96 I had a p2 400 build cost 3000 and that was with high end stuff for the time.

The only reason I ever bothered to learn PC hardware was for gaming - seems people these days are just too lazy.

P.S. If you think you need SSD, you really need to re-evaluate your bottlenecks. Not only are they actually pretty reasonable in price but they aren't miracle workers either. I can't even remember what Sata my 500gb is at and when I did run ide or eide hds - they weren't the issue.

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Shagsbeard wrote:

Game hobbyists from my era didn't even bat an eye on spending $3000+ every three years on a new rig. Money was worth more back then too. Seems odd to me that this generation thinks that spending $1000 on a machine is too much.

Game hobbyists. What. Old man has completely lost it.

Games were never made for those $3000+ riggers and they still aren't. Games were originally made for 10 - 16 year old brats who played on their parents dogshit work computers and they still are. If anything, the opposite has happened what you just claimed. No need to delude yourself and others.

My commputer cost me over $800 in my country and it's not like I can rationalise spending more then that on my hobby when I have other monetary responsibilities.

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Kiss_Me_Quick wrote:

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Shagsbeard wrote:

Game hobbyists from my era didn't even bat an eye on spending $3000+ every three years on a new rig. Money was worth more back then too. Seems odd to me that this generation thinks that spending $1000 on a machine is too much.

Game hobbyists. What. Old man has completely lost it.

Games were never made for those $3000+ riggers and they still aren't. Games were originally made for 10 - 16 year old brats who played on their parents dogshit work computers and they still are. If anything, the opposite has happened what you just claimed. No need to delude yourself and others.

no youre wrong. i played back then also and your average pc was like $2k, you needed $3k+ for a decent gaming rig. mine was a fuckin $5k dell back then. (USD) the kids youre talking about would play the $100-$300 consoles their parents bought for them.

I used to get that error on DirectX 9... UNTILL i changed it to DirectX 9Ex NO more errors!

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darciaz wrote:

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Shagsbeard wrote:

Game hobbyists from my era didn't even bat an eye on spending $3000+ every three years on a new rig. Money was worth more back then too. Seems odd to me that this generation thinks that spending $1000 on a machine is too much.

Because "this generation" works at McDonalds and is usually consisting of broke college students. I saved up the money for my own gaming PC with extreme effort and barely made it working a 10hr job every weekday. But we can't put blame on the gamers trying to enjoy the game -- we have to put the blame on the lack of optimization that was done on an extreme budget during 2008. That's why this game has so many issues, and why a new league is running an extreme performance risk for users and GGG.

lol wow I hope you have to work at mcdonalds someday.

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awave wrote:

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Kiss_Me_Quick wrote:

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Shagsbeard wrote:

Game hobbyists from my era didn't even bat an eye on spending $3000+ every three years on a new rig. Money was worth more back then too. Seems odd to me that this generation thinks that spending $1000 on a machine is too much.

Game hobbyists. What. Old man has completely lost it.

Games were never made for those $3000+ riggers and they still aren't. Games were originally made for 10 - 16 year old brats who played on their parents dogshit work computers and they still are. If anything, the opposite has happened what you just claimed. No need to delude yourself and others.

no youre wrong. i played back then also and your average pc was like $2k, you needed $3k+ for a decent gaming rig. mine was a fuckin $5k dell back then. (USD) the kids youre talking about would play the $100-$300 consoles their parents bought for them.

Okay, cool.
But not in this dimension. Unless you got scammed.

Regarding the hardware required: does your system meet the requirements set for PoE by GGG? If so, you should be able to play the game bug free. Some lag and long loading times should be acceptable, but not crashes.


Here's what it says on steam:
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OS: Windows XP SP3/Vista/Windows 7/8
Processor: x86-compatible 1.4GHz or faster processor
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® 7800 GT or ATI Radeon™ X1950 Pro or better
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 5 GB available space



People who find this game on steam will look at this. If this is not accurate, it should be changed.