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I know this is going to sound like copium, but I love having to fiddle with settings to get original Oblivion running on my 2019 X1 Carbon. It gives me this nostalgia feeling of where I first ran oblivion on PC on my Dell E310 with a Pentium 4 single core and GeForce 6200LE I pencil modded. I’m having to run out at 720p and 4x AF, but it feels like Xbox 360 to me and I love

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[–] farcaster@lemmy.world 29 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Running on underpowered hardware somehow reminds me of the good (or bad) old days of PC gaming where individual settings could make a huge difference.

Shadows off: Smooth

Shadows on: Unplayable

[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Now it is almost always unplayable, but the settings on don't really make a difference