Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20150904120435/@comment-1496755-20150929110019

Oh yeah, playing with the settings, trying to find the best balance between quality and speed. I have become quite adept at it over the years. Older games are easier in this regard - they have fewer settings and I can just pump them up to max... but newer stuff, e.g. Quake 3 engine and beyond, required some trickery. This is due to a combination of my old video card being slow, with little memory, and not supporting many modern features (shaders and such).

But no more... now I can just put everything on max and know that it will be fine :P

Heh, sometimes I get warnings from some games about choosing maximum quality too, but then, when I get into an actual level, there is no lag at all. Take that, game developers!

My current PC is fairly balanced - CPU, RAM and GPU are all new and powerful, of equal (or near equal) quality; not exactly "top of the line", but considerably above the average. And given my preference for older stuff, I don't expect to run into performance issues any time soon :)