Gather around kiddies for a tale of the bad old days. You see, once upon a time, PC gaming wasn’t as unified as it is now. Graphics card vendors (and even individual graphics cards) had their own proprietary APIs, and sometimes games shipped as special versions for a given graphics card, complete with custom assets and wildly varying visual
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