I don't even remember what my first dedicated graphics card was... The oldest I can remember was the Matrox Millennium, which was touted as the first "graphics accelerator" card (not 3D accelerator - this was before the 3Dfx Voodoo add-on card, which later ran alongside my Millennium card), but I think the SVGA and VGA capabilities I had before that were on dedicated cards, too.
I've got a stack of parts on my table that I was hoping to build into a new computer THIS weekend... but the case got delayed in shipment, and instead of coming last Thursday, it's now coming Monday. :( I even had a four day weekend lined up (unfortunately Thu-Sun, not Sat-Tue). So pretty soon I'll have a GeForce 2070 Super running on a Ryzen 9 (3900X)... I'm not sure what game I'm gonna play on it first, either. The game I've been most hooked on lately is Hades, and it has absolutely no need for such a high-end system!
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Don't really remember it was 5 years ago when i did but i think it was GTA V Online
Upgraded from a GTX 460 to GTX 970 (Upgraded the whole PC tho)
Gonna upgrade again in a couple months tho to a GTX 1660 SUPER (Upgrading whole PC again then)
Probably gonna be Red Dead Redemption 2 then. It runs bad on what i have now
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Dishonored 2, Sleeping Dogs Definitive, and Prey. i could get all three to run at lowest resolution and lowest graphics settings on my Intel Integrated machine, but get myself an AMD Dedicated laptop and whoosh. suddenly i can play them and have fun!
Prey in particular was really bad on the Intel, the shadows didn't render properly so i'd constantly scare myself with the black blob of the socket wrench weapon and never saw a single enemy coming for me. so dumb >__>
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Got myself a rig with GTX 1060 6GB back in 2017 and I immediately bought Doom (2016). Playing it at 60 fps 1080p is damn freaking amazing for me
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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter.
I just had bought an R9 380x, upgrading from an HD6450 I used for years before that. I still have that R9, still quite a powerful card, even though it has some performance issues with some games (I blame the developers optimization of their games, though).
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Asus HD-6850 1GB > Radeon-HD-6950 2GB > EVGA-GTX 970 4GB > EVGA-GTX 1070 8GB
Always Skyrim, with ENB, more and more graphic overhaul mods, and now 4K / parallax mods.
Also Paragon...its the reason why I upgraded to a 970 in the first place.
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I very rarely upgraded just my PC graphic card, and the only 2 times I did, it was simply to add one more of the same GPU. Didn't play anything special then.
If you also count full PC changes, I'd say my most noticeable game after such an "upgrade" was Far Cry (which actually came with the graphic card... along with some other game I never played). I don't remember which GPU it was though...
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I upgraded to RX 480 in late 2016. Fun story, I won it on raffle during AMD twitch stream. Didn't have to pay any taxes, they paid everything. :)
It was long time ago but, if not the first then, one of the first was The Division. I played it on my old graphics with low settings at 20-30 fps. With new card I played medium-high settings at ~40 fps. Old processor was bottlenecking the system. Last year I upgraded to Ryzen proc and again installed The Division to test it. It was easy 60+ on highest settings.
Then I played Euro Truck Sim 2 for the next 3-4 months. :D
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The first time I built a gaming PC it was FEAR which came with the card and had just been released.
Most recent build was Diablo 3, which needed a new CPU since it's incredibly CPU intensive. Most recent GPU upgrade wasn't anything in particular, I just wanted a NVIDIA card to go with my new Gsync monitor.
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I switched in January from a Macintosh to a Windows and to see the capacities of it I tested Railway Empire (I love trains xD)
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The only thing I remember is playing The Vanishing of Ethan Carter in its full glory after finally assembling a new PC (GTX 1060, Ryzen 1600X). It's still the most beautiful game I've ever played.
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Don't remember for the last few cards. But I remember how I built my new PC in 2007 with a brandnew 8800 GTX. And of course the first thing I tested was Crysis in DX10. That was the second best card on the market (and the Ultra was barely better), and even overclocked the game still crushed it like it was nothing. ^^
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What's the first game you played to test your PC after a needed graphics upgrade? As I just received my first dedicated GPU a short while ago -- that being an RX 480, if I recall correctly -- I'm finally able to play something more graphically intensive than Pong on Low settings, and decided to finally give Overwatch, Apex Legends, and Rocket League a trial run (and I'm glad I did)!
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