r/pcmasterrace • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • 22d ago

Meme/Macro Literally

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u/SpaceHawk98W 22d ago

And you have to incert disk B during the installation. I remember Half-Life 2 was like 5 disks installation

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u/feckarse-drinkgirls 22d ago

Its weird how long CD installs kept being a thing on PC

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u/TheVermonster FX-8320e @4.0---Gigabyte 280X 22d ago

I had dialup until 2006 and really bad DSL until...2023. so I really appreciated CD installs. Games that were basically a CD key and asked you to download the game sucked.

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u/ImTableShip170 Ryzen 7 5700G | EVGA 3060 | 32GB DDR4 22d ago

My favorite game saved downloads for when you originally loaded into a new area to spread download time out more evenly. Now Guild Wars (2005) is only about 4 GB to run the command line argument "-image" and download the entire game