Man, you had a very nice Mom. Glad it worked for you, it was frustrating enough.
Comment on [Discussion] What was first Steam game you ever purchased?
jaycifer@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Supreme Commander 2.
I bought it from Target for like $15. I put it in my CD drive, had to install this Steam thing, watched it install, clicked play, and watched a black screen crash to desktop immediately. An entire weekend of research later I learned there’s this thing called a graphics card, the game requires DirectX 9 and pixel shader 3.0 support. Mom took me to Microcenter for the first time, bought me a $40 Zotac 9500GT, and the rest is history.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
kossa@feddit.org 1 week ago
That reminds me 😅. Dad bought me Settlers II for Macintosh back in the day (first game on CD-ROM, whoa).
It needed 16 MB of RAM, but I had only 8…but there was this thing in MacOS 7 called “virtual memory”, which is just swap.
I did not understand it, so obviously I was like “what is this shit? Why can I just have RAM, but need to activate it?” So of course I cranked it up to a whooping 32 MB, Hackerman that I was.
Game ran like shit, but it ran. There was a button to skip some time ahead, idk, like 30 seconds. Took longer than those 30 seconds to skip ahead with my shitty HDD RAM 😅. And I thought “what a shitty button, does not make sense at all, wtf is this?”