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TURNING THE SETTINGS UP TOO HIGH

For almost as long as I can remember I’ve tried to push games past the limits of my PC. These days that means trying to run them at 4K on a graphics card that’s not up to it. It means bringing framerates to a stumbling halt whenever anything interesting happens, never lowering detail levels beyond ‘medium’.

It’s a compulsion that goes back a long way. I was one of the lucky kids who got to use the

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