Worst setup you've ever had

#31

saf

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http://networks.cs.ucr.edu/testbed/images/inspiron_dt_slim.jpg

[img]http://networks.cs.ucr.edu/testbed/images/inspiron_dt_slim.jpg[/img]

#32

downpour

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playing cs1.6 on a broken monitor with 20 fps at 150 ping
i thought 150 ping was GOOD back then #neveragainBell

#33

kanon

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i played tf2 for a year and a half on a laptop with vista running 20fps, only playing skial gravelpit pubs
good times

#34

ulmyxx

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I used to play wizard101 on a fucking 1998 dell laptop. rip.

#35

dflame

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I played tf2 on this laptop at one point : http://www.amazon.com/Compaq-Presario-CQ60-410US-15-6-Inch-Processor/dp/B0029ZA5M2

Holy fuck was it bad... do not recommend

Here's a video of what my tf2 looked like on that laptop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEeX1LdTR0U

I played tf2 on this laptop at one point : http://www.amazon.com/Compaq-Presario-CQ60-410US-15-6-Inch-Processor/dp/B0029ZA5M2?tag=teamfortresst-20

Holy fuck was it bad... do not recommend

Here's a video of what my tf2 looked like on that laptop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEeX1LdTR0U

#36

owl

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last summer i hadnt had internet for a while so i went to visit a friend and played tf2 on my shit toshiba laptop on a hotel internet connection. I was getting 8-12 fps on csgo (in smoke it was less than 1 fps) and in tf2 i was at like 35-40 peak. Add that to 85 ping with spikes every minute up to 800 and it was pretty miserable.

#37

Wholegrain

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when I first got into tf2 i had this oooold laptop

i used a wireless mouse that had these erratic periods where it wouldn't respond properly (would cause jerky movements across the screen)

half the keys were falling out

+ the screen was practically detached from the keyboard, had to prop it up with my SAT revision books

30 fps if I set it to the maximum

still I would rather have that than my current computer, which has crashed about 500 times since I got it last year (not even an exaggeration)

when I first got into tf2 i had this oooold laptop

i used a wireless mouse that had these erratic periods where it wouldn't respond properly (would cause jerky movements across the screen)

half the keys were falling out

+ the screen was practically detached from the keyboard, had to prop it up with my SAT revision books

30 fps if I set it to the maximum

still I would rather have that than my current computer, which has crashed about 500 times since I got it last year (not even an exaggeration)

#38

alec_

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i used to tape a piece of paper towel to my desk and use that as a mousepad so i could pub on 30fps with the mouse that came with my prebuilt computer

#39

Ragor

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#40

square-

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Only picture i have of it

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http://i.imgur.com/mEjFbvC.jpg

Virus ridden HP laptop that my sister gave me that could barely run tf2 at 30 fps. wireless logitech mouse, papasan chair, and the table was only 2ish ft tall, so my legs would press against the bottom of the desk unless i leaned back really far. the laptop also had to hang halfway off the edge of the table to avoid overheating, Used it for about a year or so before i got a real desk/pc

Only picture i have of it
[spoiler][img]http://i.imgur.com/mEjFbvC.jpg[/img][/spoiler]

Virus ridden HP laptop that my sister gave me that could barely run tf2 at 30 fps. wireless logitech mouse, papasan chair, and the table was only 2ish ft tall, so my legs would press against the bottom of the desk unless i leaned back really far. the laptop also had to hang halfway off the edge of the table to avoid overheating, Used it for about a year or so before i got a real desk/pc

#41

Casual

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I'm not going to post in sake of my dignity

#42

Fzero

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Mine isn't exactly a computer issue, but I once had to use one of those mini mice during an ESEA match. I don't think it was any bigger than my finger, and yes, that's what she said.

#43

tetromino

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Just in case you thought I was lying:

http://i.imgur.com/oj3Ew5c.jpg

Just in case you thought I was lying:

[img]http://i.imgur.com/oj3Ew5c.jpg[/img]

#44

Cocoa

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http://i.imgur.com/Qd6ALvk.jpg

basically what safrix posted.

Chrom3w0lfis that a printer bro

[img]http://i.imgur.com/Qd6ALvk.jpg[/img]
basically what safrix posted.
[quote=Chrom3w0lf]is that a printer bro[/quote]

#45

THEBILLDOZER

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http://i.imgur.com/Wrr8y5H.jpg

[img]http://i.imgur.com/Wrr8y5H.jpg[/img]

#46

yuki

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Had a LAN at a friends' house a few years ago - was sitting cross legged on the floor and had a match to play. Ended up getting annoying as hell cramps/numbness while playing =[

Doesn't really count as a permanent setup, but meh

Had a LAN at a friends' house a few years ago - was sitting cross legged on the floor and had a match to play. Ended up getting annoying as hell cramps/numbness while playing =[

Doesn't really count as a permanent setup, but meh

#47

Not_Matlock

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I've never had any terrible setups, but I remember my first computer. It was an old eMachine that I would try to play Need for Speed High Stakes on. I don't remember how badly it performed, but I do remember how much fun that game was.

There was one time when I was writing a paper for school using Word Perfect on it and I typed 3 letters too fast. 2 letters showed up, and then the whole computer shut down.

I've never had any terrible setups, but I remember my first computer. It was an old eMachine that I would try to play Need for Speed High Stakes on. I don't remember how badly it performed, but I do remember how much fun that game was.

There was one time when I was writing a paper for school using Word Perfect on it and I typed 3 letters too fast. 2 letters showed up, and then the whole computer shut down.

#48

nope

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So I had this appalling laptop that ran at 25 fps on pubs and around 10 whenever I caught a glimpse of pyro flame, with a broken keyboard. I only had this tiny table to put my usb keyboard and mouse on. I'd just bought my massive QCK+ mousepad and discovered the joys of a lower sens so to try to approach being able to turn around with a ~22 inch sens I ended up putting the mousepad directly behind the keyboard, so it was like this:

----laptop----
--mousepad--
--keyboard--

and I spent something like 3 months trying to play with my right hand angled awkwardly over the keyboard to hold the mouse properly. After two of those months I increased my sens in frustration. After the third month I realised that the fucking table had a foldout section that doubled its total size and I could have been playing normally all along.

So I had this appalling laptop that ran at 25 fps on pubs and around 10 whenever I caught a glimpse of pyro flame, with a broken keyboard. I only had this tiny table to put my usb keyboard and mouse on. I'd just bought my massive QCK+ mousepad and discovered the joys of a lower sens so to try to approach being able to turn around with a ~22 inch sens I ended up putting the mousepad directly behind the keyboard, so it was like this:

----laptop----
--mousepad--
--keyboard--

and I spent something like 3 months trying to play with my right hand angled awkwardly over the keyboard to hold the mouse properly. After two of those months I increased my sens in frustration. After the third month I realised that the fucking table had a foldout section that doubled its total size and I could have been playing normally all along.

#49

Iso

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I used to use this dinosaur of a machine:

http://www1.pcmag.com/media/images/14447-dell-dimension-8200.jpg

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,484752,00.asp

By Konstantinos Karagiannis

The Dimension 8200 ($3,058 direct) is a fast and robust system that provides impressive peripherals and a terrific three-year on-site warranty for parts and labor. While it's not the absolute best performer here, it delivers the right combination of speed, performance, and price, and merits the Editors' Choice.

Configured with 512MB of PC800 RDRAM memory and a still-hot 128MB nVidia GeForce4 Ti 4600, the Dell unit was surpassed only by the Falcon Northwest system on Content Creation Winstone 2002. The same was true in the 2X anti-aliasing test on MadOnion 3DMark 2001. But at these speeds, most power users will find the 8200 adequate.

We loved the 17-inch 1702FP digital/analog LCD monitor, which even in analog mode produced a better image than Gateway's 18.1-inch unit. And audiophiles will adore the THX-certified Altec Lansing ADA-995 5.1 speaker system, coupled with the THX-certified Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card.

There's a DVD+RW drive that's great for storage—or burning your own CDs or video DVDs—along with a 48X CD-ROM drive that might come in handy for directly copying discs. The one 120GB hard drive is fast (7,200 rpm, as are all the drives in this roundup) and capacious, although it might be time for Dell to investigate the performance gains possible from RAID Level 0 configurations. Besides Windows XP Home, the drive houses Office XP Small Business, CD and DVD recording apps, and Dell Movie Studio, rounding out a good offering.

It somehow got 50-60 fps consistently with Chris's maxframes config through some black magic. It took a solid 10 minutes to load into a map, though.

I used to use this dinosaur of a machine:

[img]http://www1.pcmag.com/media/images/14447-dell-dimension-8200.jpg[/img]

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,484752,00.asp
[quote]By Konstantinos Karagiannis

The Dimension 8200 ($3,058 direct) is a fast and robust system that provides impressive peripherals and a terrific three-year on-site warranty for parts and labor. While it's not the absolute best performer here, it delivers the right combination of speed, performance, and price, and merits the Editors' Choice.

Configured with 512MB of PC800 RDRAM memory and a still-hot 128MB nVidia GeForce4 Ti 4600, the Dell unit was surpassed only by the Falcon Northwest system on Content Creation Winstone 2002. The same was true in the 2X anti-aliasing test on MadOnion 3DMark 2001. But at these speeds, most power users will find the 8200 adequate.

We loved the 17-inch 1702FP digital/analog LCD monitor, which even in analog mode produced a better image than Gateway's 18.1-inch unit. And audiophiles will adore the THX-certified Altec Lansing ADA-995 5.1 speaker system, coupled with the THX-certified Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card.

There's a DVD+RW drive that's great for storage—or burning your own CDs or video DVDs—along with a 48X CD-ROM drive that might come in handy for directly copying discs. The one 120GB hard drive is fast (7,200 rpm, as are all the drives in this roundup) and capacious, although it might be time for Dell to investigate the performance gains possible from RAID Level 0 configurations. Besides Windows XP Home, the drive houses Office XP Small Business, CD and DVD recording apps, and Dell Movie Studio, rounding out a good offering. [/quote]

It somehow got 50-60 fps consistently with Chris's maxframes config through some black magic. It took a solid 10 minutes to load into a map, though.

#50

M4TT

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I once had an second hand emac that cant even play shitty facebook games with 30 fps, i also used an laptop which was so bad that my dad's 5 years old laptop with an celeron was faster

#51

Marxist

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I still have a coupon from Radio Shack for 100$ off 1mb of ram... I guess I'll never get to redeem it now :(

I've never really had a "bad" set up though, except for this short period where Voodoo cards were still being made and nobody knew what to do when they died - I of course got my ballin' outta' control Geforce 2, 32mbs of RAW graphical beastery. There was also all of college where I had my whole thing set up on a dinner table, but it didn't really affect me very much.

I still have a coupon from Radio Shack for 100$ off 1mb of ram... I guess I'll never get to redeem it now :(

I've never really had a "bad" set up though, except for this short period where Voodoo cards were still being made and nobody knew what to do when they died - I of course got my ballin' outta' control Geforce 2, 32mbs of RAW graphical beastery. There was also all of college where I had my whole thing set up on a dinner table, but it didn't really affect me very much.

#52

BELL

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https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14444750/thebest.png

I miss playing competitive dustbowl with awful configs.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14444750/thebest.png

I miss playing competitive dustbowl with awful configs.

#53

Comanglia

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The worst build for the time I ever had was a Compaq pre-build with a single AMD core @1.8GHz(back when dual cores had already been main stream) 256MB of RAM an 80GB HDD and 32MB of onboard GPU VRAM. I would regularly play Medieval II and Civilization IV on this machine and play at 1024x768 and this PC was below the minimum specs for BOTH of those games. It was so bad that Civilization IV didn't display City Names correctly it just looked like very awkward blobs. (around 2007 I was using this)

Also had an internet speed of about 128Kb

Minimum requirements for Civ IV
Operating System: Windows® 2000/XP/Vista
Processor: 1.2 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon processor or equivalent
Memory: 512 MB RAM (Windows XP)
Hard Disk Space: 1.7 GB Free
Video: DirectX 9.0c-compatible 64 MB video card with Hardware T&L support ( GeForce 2/Radeon 7500 or better)

Worst machine in playing comp tf2?
I had to play on a "gaming" laptop with a cooling pad that would still constantly overheated and cause horrifying amounts of stutter like I was basically playing at 30fps anyway.

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from memory I did play a couple times on that compaq for CSS and DODS and got sub 20fps on the ingame lowest settings.

The worst build for the time I ever had was a Compaq pre-build with a single AMD core @1.8GHz(back when dual cores had already been main stream) 256MB of RAM an 80GB HDD and 32MB of onboard GPU VRAM. I would regularly play Medieval II and Civilization IV on this machine and play at 1024x768 and this PC was below the minimum specs for BOTH of those games. It was so bad that Civilization IV didn't display City Names correctly it just looked like very awkward blobs. (around 2007 I was using this)

Also had an internet speed of about 128Kb

Minimum requirements for Civ IV
Operating System: Windows® 2000/XP/Vista
Processor: 1.2 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon processor or equivalent
Memory: 512 MB RAM (Windows XP)
Hard Disk Space: 1.7 GB Free
Video: DirectX 9.0c-compatible 64 MB video card with Hardware T&L support ( GeForce 2/Radeon 7500 or better)

Worst machine in playing comp tf2?
I had to play on a "gaming" laptop with a cooling pad that would still constantly overheated and cause horrifying amounts of stutter like I was basically playing at 30fps anyway.

-edit-
from memory I did play a couple times on that compaq for CSS and DODS and got sub 20fps on the ingame lowest settings.

#54

CornishGamerHen

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my trusty (not trusty very unreliable) craptop. Playing tf2 on it for over 10 mins will result in the whole thing being hot

sezco used it at gxl with maxframes and lowest res and it was hilarious

my trusty (not trusty very unreliable) craptop. Playing tf2 on it for over 10 mins will result in the whole thing being hot

sezco used it at gxl with maxframes and lowest res and it was hilarious

#55

jumbofreak

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My first pc (some shitty Lenovo) can't run word.......literally