The death of a not so powerful GAMING PC
I got my first PC(read for gaming) after i passed my 12th standard. At that time it was the most powerful PC to me(it was a PIII) with a whooping clock speed of 933MHz and 128MB of SDRAM,20GB of Hard Disk space,a CD-ROM and a combination of multimedia speakers,keyboard and mouse.
It was able to play those good looking games for me at perfectly normal settings(read no AA,AF,HDR etc etc..those words were too alien for me at that time)and i was pretty happy with those sluggish frame-rates(read below 60 fps).Little did i knew that time that frame rates mattered sooo much and good visual graphics at the highest possible setting is what people call eye-candy.
I had seen a E3 preview back then of Max Payne in an issue of Computer Gaming World(Indian Ed.). I was so impressed by the teaser video(this term being mainly and widely used now-a-days) that to me playing Max Payne would be like attaining nirvana. So my hunt began and after searching a lot i got hold of a copy of Max Payne. Completing it made me so ecstatic that every friend of mine how-so-ever interested in gaming would be hearing bout Max Payne from me.
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